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What's also shocking about this story is the fact the pub is in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide and the display is described in it thus: "an extensive collection of old-fashioned soft toys is displayed on the historic bar-back". I mean, who the fuck wrote that about golliwogs decorating the place and which grade-a bellend signed off on it?

CAMRA is full of dinosaurs. You've seen these guys ordering whatever pondwater is on handpull.

It is, but the writers and editors of the GBG should and in fact do know better. That display should mean the pub doesn't make it anywhere near the guide.

do know better

they obviously don't.

Looks like they've acted swiftly in response to the backlash, but quite how it ended up in the guide given there have been "guidelines in place since 2018 that no pub should be considered for an award if it displays offensive or discriminatory material" is anyone's guess.

Good. And fair enough.

But yeh, how!

But yeh, how!

I may be cynical, but I'm going to guess that 90% of their guide is ctrl+v and no one has actually checked since whichever disgruntled employee left leaving that review as a fuck you Easter Egg.

Meanwhile, in Florida, two drivers get into a road rage duel, shoot at each other while driving, wound each other's daughters (one 5, one 14).

How's that well-regulated militia going?

But what other options are there if someone's driving annoys you?

What they really needed was a good guy with a gun to sort the whole thing out.

Why weren't the kids armed?

What they really needed was a good guy with a gun, on a horse, to sort the whole thing out.

ftfy

Political correctness init

Why weren't the kids cars armed?

Washington Post report on the source of the US intel leak is genuinely jaw dropping.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents TW is a smartypants looser

Short version; racist christian gun-enthusiast military intelligence analyst got pissed his gamer friends weren't interested in his write ups and commentary of classified intel he'd seen, so just started taking photos of it instead.

Short version

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/12/discord-leaked-documents/

US has 1.25 million civilians with access to top secret docs, and not much competent due diligence. Who'd have thought something like this might happen?

Not to get all armchair psychologist about it but it seems like a really obvious patern doesn't it?

Man who is plausibly a relatively low level employee has a community where he is seen as a father figure. He then divulges classified information to improve his standing in his group.

Also I'm not really sure "pig & bear" is an unpartizan group name.

:) and also "wow!"

Committing "light treason" for likes

Like the fact the leaker is more news worthy in the UK than the leak we have troops on the ground in Ukraine

If the US experience in the Middle East is anything to go by, they’re there in a training capacity, and armed security is provided by private military companies.

Special forces are on record as having been in Eastern Ukraine since 2021; it's probably not a secret if it's in the Daily Mirror.

Also supposed to be a load of ex-SAS who are there 'independently' and not just training or advising.