BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Rusty Nails]

I took Macklemore's comments to be humanitarian not political.

The problem is both humanitarian  and political, and will require a political solution.

I felt that Macklemore's were very measured and reasonable, but then again they were made in the US which is a mad place these days.

 

[Psamathe]

I felt that Macklemore's were very measured and reasonable,

And also raising many other parts of the world other than Palestine.

 

[briantrumpet]

The problem is both humanitarian  and political, and will require a political solution.

Not least as the current Israeli government, with help from Hamas, have (deliberately) made a purely humanitarian solution impossible.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Time and a place - hijacking Sheeran's concerts were neither.

 

[Pinno718]

Hopefully because of his song Gallway Girl.
I feel a bit sorry for Sheeran.
He has been caught in the crosshairs here.

He's big enough and famous enough not to conform/bend the knee.

 

[farfromtheland]

I don’t find it comfortable listening to music on a high horse.
I know that Groupthink will triumph in the end and Sheeran will have to grovel a bit, admit he was wrong, and everyone can return to normal, and Palestinians/ Gazans will still be slaughtered.

You have good points here.

 

[AndyRM]

Time and a place - hijacking Sheeran's concerts were neither.

He'd still have performed Hind's Hall, which is far more inflammatory than what he actually said.

I'm starting to think that Sheeran has played a bit of a blinder here to be honest. He can maintain his "non political" stance and play his tunes, while the conversation goes on in the background.

 

[C R]

Mahmood finally turns on the black shorts
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...bana-mahmood-far-right-extremism-asylum-sites
though still holds on to the legitimate concerns excuse.

 

[briantrumpet]

Mahmood finally turns on the black shorts
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...bana-mahmood-far-right-extremism-asylum-sites
though still holds on to the legitimate concerns excuse.

They are making the word 'legitimate' into a nonsense word with no meaning, or one that makes people squirm, like 'moist'.

 

[AndyRM]

They are making the word 'legitimate' into a nonsense word with no meaning, or one that makes people squirm, like 'moist'.

You want to make "moist" worse?

Moister than an oyster.

 

[Pblakeney]

I have just two question. Why? And what's it to do with them?

The UK's "dismal" record in selecting songs and acts for Eurovision is to be scrutinised by MPs.

Edit:- I see this has already been addressed in the music thread, which I rarely look at.

 

[briantrumpet]

Ex Labour MP and (arguably) one-time good guy (speaking up for the underdog?) Tom Watson has taken a job with Palantir. And they wonder why we've lost our trust in politicians... at least there are a few (e.g. Gordon Brown) who stick to their principles and use their profile to argue for the same things that they did when they were in parliament needing our votes.

 

[C R]

Ex Labour MP and (arguably) one-time good guy (speaking up for the underdog?) Tom Watson has taken a job with Palantir. And they wonder why we've lost our trust in politicians... at least there are a few (e.g. Gordon Brown) who stick to their principles and use their profile to argue for the same things that they did when they were in parliament needing our votes.

I saw that. We really are fücked, aren't we?

 

[First Aspect]

You want to make "moist" worse?

Moister than an oyster.

Only "phlegm" comes close.

Tangentially, phonetically similar place names must push down property prices.

In the Trossschs (itself somewhat problematically sounding) there is a signpost to somewhere called Drumloist.

Drumloist trossachs. Sounds like it might need ointment.

Near here, there is a village called Botus Fleming.

In the middle ages, if you were botus fleming it was almost certainly fatal, so village elders would nail your front door shut and mark it with a big X.

 

[briantrumpet]

Not good. Not good at all.

At least the elections are done on successive rounds, so those rejecting xenophobia can coalesce around a not-le-Pen candidate, but that so many people think that le Pen is suitable to be President suggests that French politics is barely any better than UK politics.