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Tory wankers.

Theres the reason it's dropped

I don’t think lefty, righty or ambi wankers wanted it

Did someone say Damian Green...?

Everytime I reach climax.

Collection of videos from Barcelona:
https://catalanrepression.github.io/

That is just like HK pretty much every weekend. Eerily similar esp the under cover police dressed as protesters who could be anyone dragging people away.

And cops having a friendly chat with the far right/thugs before things get going.

https://twitter.com/CataloniaHelp2/status/1185275545807929345

Important update on the news that really matters
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/parenting/truth-boy-who-pulled-out-17098752

For far right put in pro Beijing / paid triads. Eerily the same

Millionth Cyclist on Manhattan Bridge I biked into the city on
Manhattan Bridge today, and as I approached the plaza with the bike
counter, a group of ~5 people kept screaming for me to stop.

I slowed down, and they said I was the millionth Cyclist and asked for
a picture. I only looked closely at 2 of them: one looked homeless and
the other didn't. So I rode right past them and didn't indulge.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/dk76kv/millionth_cyclist_on_manhattan_bridge/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

It seems like it was real. Here's a link to the tweet and photo from
the people who were disappointed you didn't stop for a photo lol.
https://twitter.com/pekochel/status/1185605871943983106?s=21

There was a bike counter installed there last summer so you were the
millionth biker since then when the counter ticked over apparently!

@hippy ?
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/09/21/beer-gut-mans-belly-brews-own-beer/

Maybe should be in epic win thread...

Saw that in the beer thread. Didn't actually read it but I'm sure I've heard of this kind of thing before. Oh, it's a 2009 case so maybe it's the same one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome

This seems a bit disingenuous after he approved the expansion of City Airport that the previous Mayor stopped.
Does he only define himself by doing the opposite of the Johnson? His track record on cycling infrastructure would suggest that.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/21/sadiq-khan-on-collision-course-with-government-over-environment

https://www.edie.net/news/6/Sadiq-Khan-s-pollution-pledges-called-into-question-with-City-Airport-expansion-approval/

Not to mention Silvertown.

Arcuri murkiness:

https://twitter.com/phill_kemp/status/1185158057262796800

Is 'Annie Tacker' a pun on ' a neat hacker'? :)

How much I wish I would find out one day that none of these people ever existed ......

More ghastliness from a little while ago at Sinister Tidybeard's house:

So in 2016 Boris Johnson - then Foreign Secretary - flies to Umbria to
a lavish party given by Evegny Lebdev the Russian owner of the Evening
Standard. He leaves his close protection officers behind.

At dinner Boris Johnson is sat next to Jordan aka Katie Price who's
been drinking vodka and champers since leaving London. She stands up
and makes a speech. She calls Lebedev “You Guv” shouts “champagne and
Pricey don’t mix,” turns to face Johnson and exposes her breasts.

This causes consternation among the guests. It could get into the red
tops, damage Boris Johnson - it's a real mood killer and Joan Collins
shouts "That's a hand grenade too far." At which point one of Lebdev's
bodyguards takes Pricey by the arm and leads her out of the party.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/revealed-boris-russian-oligarch-and-page-3-model/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-50115449

In between all the bad news: this midnight same sex marriage is legal in NI and abortion decriminalized.

Now legislation is not in place until next March, I don't see anyone reversing same sex marriage. Not even if Stormont returns. As there is a majority in favour.

On abortion, until the first one happens in NI with local legislation I guess I can't quite believe it yet, Stormont may return.

Either way good news! :)

Someone in an Ocado van went on a bit of a rampage through central London this morning and got stopped by armed police.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tino_05/status/1186911533680476160

https://mobile.twitter.com/dubtap/status/1186912820010639360

https://mobile.twitter.com/MisanthropeGirl/status/1186921515805229056

https://mobile.twitter.com/CabbyTez/status/1186938296586457089

https://mobile.twitter.com/CabbyTez/status/1186935309507977216

39 bodies in a lorry

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-50150070

Grim and strangely in the pron thread for reasons I know not.

Insurance scam on the Wirral, owner just got 20 years:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/23/shop-owner-jailed-insurance-claim-blast-pascal-blasio-wirral

I hope she can still work as a doctor somehow:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/i-saved-a-life-says-woman-crushed-by-man-jumping-from-top-floor-of-westfield-stratford-a4268561.html

Ms Green’s solicitor, Terrence Donovan, today revealed his client takes comfort in the fact that she saved Trawally’s life, and is now focusing on pursuing her medical career.

“She finds it very difficult to talk about him,” he said. “But she has an amazing view that even though she was injured she managed to save a life.

“Even though she was paralysed she accepts the greater good and she still has no bitterness towards him.

“She finds it very difficult to think about what motivated him to do this.”

What an appalling horror.