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Not sure what parking on the footpaths and bin collection days have to do with another country's stupid animal cruelty traditions.

parking on the footpaths

They should be ashamed.

If I ran this place they wouldn't have time to be ashamed. They'd already be drugged and put in a ring with some angry bulls. Bulls with guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

Kinda messed up that you’d put some innocent and already agitated bulls in a ring and give them weapons, like Roman gladiators.

I don't think Roman Gladiators ever armed innocent and agitated bulls, they used the weapons themselves.

In the Camargue, bull fighting is banned. Instead you can go and watch a bull jumping over a clown in a paddling pool. I didn’t.

I know two unrelated people who were made to feel very uncomfortable by him at parties in his penthouse, on separate occasions. Nothing happened, they both managed to leave the situations, but were physically blocked from attempting to leave after they both became aware they had been targeted. This was at least 15yrs ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/27/british-gas-record-profit-price-cap-increase

1bn in first half... Insane.

Enjoyed that whole exchange.

My friend’s 8 year old and his friends use “brexit” as a verb in English meaning “to fuck up” - eg in playground football “he really brexited that shot”. I’m using it to mean something similar but better aligned to its roots - trying to do something you think will be good and specifically fucking it up for yourself.

Alison Rose really brexited that interview.

Etc

I think it was Evan Davis on PM the other day who pointed out that he'd stood for election seven times and lost seven times, he didn't like that much. I think IIRC he accused him of taking a condescending tone, he's such a cunt (Farrage obvs, not Davis who seems like a nice chap).

There is a very real question about why the fuck rhymes with garage was the lead on the BBC website yesterday with all the real news going on in the world. He may be adept at making everything about him but the Beeb facilitates that unfortunately.

Right, so in this case user Hippy wouldn’t be a Roman gladiator but more a Roman emperor, or perhaps the provincial governor of a small single horse chariot obsessed backwater somewhere.

Standing up for bullfighting in the 21st century. Weird choice of hill to die on.

Quite. I definitely haven't led a blameless life but last time I checked I haven't abused any animals either. And I will continue to condemn animal abuse when I see it, even if some people see that as self-righteous finger pointing. Don't @ me.

Nigel Farage is a fucking cunt. And bullfighting is disgusting, but keep your north firmly closed if you’ve ever parked on the pavement.

Is that right?

Cost of Living Crisis? Nope, we're in a cost of service privatisation crisis.

Only the bulls that had specifically asked or expressed an interest would be involved in Emperor Hippy's live action show, obviously.

Throw a few softened-up Christians in for good measure, some politicians, anyone with a Range Rover... perfect evening entertainment.

north

Are there not also suburbs full of entitled parking wankers up north?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/25/unilever-marmite-dove-maker-profits-price-rises

The FTSE 100 company said its underlying sales rose by 9.1% in the first half of the year compared with a year earlier, in a statement to the stock market on Tuesday. Price rises accounted for the entirety of the growth, with the volume of goods sold globally dropping by 0.2%.

North and south. To answer both questions!

The NatWest story is one thing, and whether or not Farage is still relevant is another, but Farage would have been elected, and UKIP would have had a lot of MPs, if we had a fair electoral system. I'm pretty sure there's a large overlap between people who hate Farage and people who want PR so it's odd when they fall back on the 'he was never elected' argument. Farage was one of the most successful politicians of the post war years. Without him and UKIP, and in truth he was UKIP, we would almost certainly still be in the EU. You can't be for electoral reform and say Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time so much.

We don't have PR though so why do we still have to put up with the toad?

He's basically just around for "celebrity" and nothing to do with politics.

If we had a fair electoral system, the Greens would have had a load of MPs, and Caroline Lucas was never on the BBC more than Gary Lineker and Huw Edwards put together.

You can't be for electoral reform and say Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time so much.

There are plenty of other political parties that enjoy a lot of popular support but suffer from FPTP yet don't get invited on to QT.

There are plenty of other political parties that enjoy a lot of popular support but suffer from FPTP yet don't get invited on to QT.

This. So much this.

Rep for that

Indeed.

He was even on there when he did not represent any party.