General News Discussion

[LondonTom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910

While also awful... It does demonstrate what I was saying earlier about knives vs guns...

[TheGayTent]

Some people. Honestly.

[The Nal]

Whilst many of the comments are thoughtless and moronic, I think I agree with the general point.

There's a million and one TV channels, why does a president's speech have to be broadcast on all of them?

Sport for many people is an escape. If viewers want to read, see, watch etc, news about the terrible tragedy, there's lots of means to do so. If you've had your fill of the news, or wish to catch up at another time, why shouldn't you be able to watch sport at a time when sport is scheduled on that particular channel?

[philipsteak]

For me though... The USA constitution is badly out of date and out of reality.

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[Ed209]

Some people. Honestly.

[The Nal]

Interesting that all 31 pro gun US senators declined an open invitation to speak on "Meet the Press". Joe Manchin being the only pro gun senator to speak out.

Also, good to see Michael Bloomberg throwing the first punch: "He's the president of the United States and if he does nothing during his second term, something like 48,000 Americans will be killed with illegal guns. That's is roughly the number of Americans killed during the whole Vietnam war"

[philipsteak]

Gun Sales are going to go through the roof

[The Nal]

Gun Sales are going to go through the roof

[eFestivals]

No hope is there.

not when some of the gun nutters are saying those 6 year olds only died because they weren't armed with guns, nope.

[The Nal]

A few bananas responses from some senior morons.

Larry Pratt - "Gun control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands".

Mike Huckabee - Blaming abortion pills, gays and iphones.

Congressman Louie Gohmert - "I wish to God the principal had an M4 in her office."

[Ed209]

Westboro Baptist are planning to picket the funerals. The KKK are planning to stop them

Seriously, america. Sort your shit out

[The Nal]

Westboro Baptist are planning to picket the funerals. The KKK are planning to stop them

Seriously, america. Sort your shit out

[The Nal]

Thomas Jefferson. July 12th 1816.

[5co77ie]

Mencap oust Geoffrey Clark from UKIP:

http://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/mencap-disgusted-and-horrified-ukip-candidate

latest on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/UKIP

[Guest]

Mencap oust Geoffrey Clark from UKIP:

http://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/mencap-disgusted-and-horrified-ukip-candidate

latest on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/UKIP

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Mencap oust Geoffrey Clark from UKIP:

http://www.mencap.org.uk/news/article/mencap-disgusted-and-horrified-ukip-candidate

latest on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/UKIP

[eFestivals]

Shit storm brewing: http://news.sky.com/story/1027265/plebgate-cctv-casts-doubt-on-police-account

I'd love to be as fly on the wall as all these politicians get to discover that the police lie.

No shit sherlock, some of us have known that for years because the police have lied (and not merely in an email to a politician about whether someone said 'pleb' or not) about us too.

Will this bring about a revision in attitudes towards the police? Not a chance. Just think back a few months to when people were being locked up for saying things like "the only good copper is a dead one" - because that's the truth beyond all doubt*.

(* no one is 'good' 100% of the time, so there are no good coppers just as there's no good citizens).

[pink_triangle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20779665

Another celebrity implicated in child sex scandal

[5co77ie]

I'd love to be as fly on the wall as all these politicians get to discover that the police lie.

No shit sherlock, some of us have known that for years because the police have lied (and not merely in an email to a politician about whether someone said 'pleb' or not) about us too.

Will this bring about a revision in attitudes towards the police? Not a chance. Just think back a few months to when people were being locked up for saying things like "the only good copper is a dead one" - because that's the truth beyond all doubt*.

(* no one is 'good' 100% of the time, so there are no good coppers just as there's no good citizens).

[5co77ie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20779665

Another celebrity implicated in child sex scandal

Edited December 19, 2012 by 5co77ie

[5co77ie]

....and here comes the Justice and Security bill:

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=20523

[eFestivals]

Terribly negative way of look at people that...

Yeah we all fuck up and act the twat sometimes... Doesn't mean we get view people as being good if the vast majority of what they have done is / was good.

the point i'm getting at is that coppers are just people, no different to anyone else. And that gets to mean that they're no less likely to lie as anyone else.

There's an idea within the criminal justice system that the old bill are the ones to always believe when there's differing versions of any event, and yet the reality is that they've got more of a reason to lie than a truly independent witness of the same event might have, because their job reputation is based around their success rate .... and so the likelihood of them (at the very least) stretching the truth to their advantage is much higher than is standardly thought.

[hot_ice]

so that's why i didn't get my Olympic tickets!

http://www1.skysports.com/olympics/news/12040/8342741/LOCOG-reveal-alarming-Olympic-ticket-allocations-with-only-three-per-cent-available-to-the-public-for-Novak-Djokovic-s-first-round-game

Edited December 19, 2012 by hot_ice

[hot_ice]

i knew it was going to be slim pickings but i assumed it be closer to the usual allocations for sporting events (30% to general public), o well least lord coe got his lifetime award!

[Rufus Gwertigan]

the point i'm getting at is that coppers are just people, no different to anyone else. And that gets to mean that they're no less likely to lie as anyone else.

There's an idea within the criminal justice system that the old bill are the ones to always believe when there's differing versions of any event, and yet the reality is that they've got more of a reason to lie than a truly independent witness of the same event might have, because their job reputation is based around their success rate .... and so the likelihood of them (at the very least) stretching the truth to their advantage is much higher than is standardly thought.