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yeah but you're presumably intellectually and emotionally equipped to identify cuntosity at source - i suspect there's plenty of people out there who are flirting with the notion of fashery who may very easily be pushed over the edge into full blown punchomancy given the right nudge.

...presumably.

That is the best line I have read for quite a while.

The Tesco add debate started last year because they included a muslim family https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/tesco-defends-muslim-family-christmas-advert/
Obviously the racist trolls have been primed this year to make comments even though most of them are factually wrong (aka lying) about the content and mix of this years add.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46466031
Stephen Lawrence murderer pleads guilty to drugs charge

That makes sense if you don't believe everyone is a moron, but they are, there's a ton of grade A idiots out there who have no ability to think critically or question what they're being told.

Europe wide mobile outage caused by lapsed security certificate on some software.

This is how we're going to all die isn't it, some shitty software update will end up launching a nuclear war

My ex-colleague who now leads the Ericsson CEO’s PR team must be having a day to forget.

"Each Ericsson device at every location needs to be manually upgraded to latest release to get around certificate issue "

That's absolutely sickening.

Paul Nuttall resigns from ukip:

So even he thinks Yaxley Lennon is a cunt.

"That's enough of the Paul Nuttal pics thank you. Yes I know. Yes,
other people have pointed it out. Several times. I know. I'm bored."

@AdrianEdmondson- 5:11 PM - 1 Dec 2016

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Batten's been yelling islamophobic stuff for years and Paul wasn't bothered.

I really want to better understand how Gerrard Batten made the jump from BT phone line salesman of 28 years to UKIP leader. Apparently he has some pretty strong contacts with Russian businessman and politicians. How do you build those relationships cold calling people from an office in Bracknell?

So that would be part of understanding why people do things. Being able to think critically or question what you're being told isn't some innate thing that only people drawn to fixed gear bicycles have. The morons out there now might only be suitable for punching in the most part, but if you can pinpoint some of the failings that led to such moronity then hopefully you can avoid it from the start. I'm not convinced that doing so is particularly advantageous to most people in charge however so a lot of other people get left by the wayside so that power is maintained and far right ideals spreading because of this is seen as acceptable collateral damage.

Just following in Nigel's wake then, like usual.

the aforementioned Contrapoints on the aforementioned topic of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPa1wikTd5c

Trigger warning; at 20min 56 sec you see a nice steel frame bicycle looking quite damaged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euYtLs2LthQ

Batten lives in Forest Gate, a couple of streets up from me (fuck knows why you'd move to this part of East London if you're an islamophobe).

He's had bricks through the window a few times. I wouldn't condone that at all though.

PM me for his address.

He's very giving of his time, very approachable.

Another 'competitive' tendering success

'strategic partner'?

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/reports/kremlin-trojan-horses

https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/1070978229224267776

Probably in one of the brexit threads already but amused me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjp5OmoDYQM

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/11/olympian-jess-varnish-accuses-british-cycling-of-extreme-control-employment-tribunal
British Cycling chooses the Deliveroo defence