BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[First Aspect]

I simply don't understand Brexiteers. They want the freedom to do great deals with other territories, providing it's not the EU. If it's the EU they'd rather cut off the nose to spite the face.

Childish.

 

[icowden]

This feels like it's missing some context.

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A better lead would be "David Walliams, a comedian known for being fairly tasteless and vulgar (as well as writing terrible children's books) tried to be entertaining by waving his arm ending in a Nazi salute and sexual gesture which somewhat bombed with the audience and panel. Zeppotron confirmed that they do actually edit the programme after it has been recorded."

The salutes were made during a story being told by Walliams’s teammate, the Call the Midwife actress Helen George, who took part in the Strictly Come Dancing tour after competing in the BBC dance competition in 2015. George, 40, said that she had sprained her wrist “from waving too much during the Strictly tour”, before going on to try to convince the opposing team, led by David Mitchell, that her anecdote was true.

After demonstrating the wave, she was told that it was “too little” and was encouraged to make a grander gesture, at which point Walliams joined in with increasingly vigorous waves, culminating in him holding his arm out in a Nazi salute.
Rob Brydon, the host, reprimanded Walliams, reminding him that the show went out before the watershed. However, as the round continued with some light-hearted but lewd jokes about George’s experience on Strictly, Walliams, 53, made the gesture a second time, embellishing it with a sexual twist.

 

[icowden]

Anyway, normal Telegraph objectivity.

Indeed. The Eye reported that a ludicrous article about a couple with a household income of £325,000 who had been badly affected by the imposition of VAT on private school fees was in fact completely made up. The couple didn't exist and the photo was a stock photo. The Telegraph have since expunged it entirely from their website.

This illustrates why I keep repeating that it is no longer a trustworthy news source. It's just a clickbait generator.

 

[briantrumpet]

I simply don't understand Brexiteers. They want the freedom to do great deals with other territories, providing it's not the EU. If it's the EU they'd rather cut off the nose to spite the face.

Childish.

I fear that this utter obsession with hating the EU will only go when the generation is dead - the fantasy was that when the UK left the EU they'd suddenly stop obsessing about major world power and economy just 22 miles away.

The irony is that Cameron's referendum was supposed to save the Tory Party. Hahahahahahaha, with an extra hahaha.

 

[briantrumpet]

Indeed. The Eye reported that a ludicrous article about a couple with a household income of £325,000 who had been badly affected by the imposition of VAT on private school fees was in fact completely made up. The couple didn't exist and the photo was a stock photo. The Telegraph have since expunged it entirely from their website.

This illustrates why I keep repeating that it is no longer a trustworthy news source. It's just a clickbait generator.

I guess it's still for sale, and they'll use any means to drive up traffic.

 

[briantrumpet]

A better lead would be "David Walliams, a comedian known for being fairly tasteless and vulgar (as well as writing terrible children's books) tried to be entertaining by waving his arm ending in a Nazi salute and sexual gesture which somewhat bombed with the audience and panel. Zeppotron confirmed that they do actually edit the programme after it has been recorded."

Thanks. I had a feeling that it wasn't quite into the Musk territory.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Surrender or betrayal... just take your pick. Let's ignore the fact that it's what Gibraltar wants.

Anyway, normal Telegraph objectivity.

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I don’t generally read the papers except for the front pages that the BBC put on their website every day. There is an interesting construction to this article which from what I’ve seen is fairly typical of the DT. Headline and opening paragraphs designed to stoke up some outrage along with Tory/Farage soundbite comments, at this point I guess their readers have read enough and have gone on to some other outrage that will give them more indigestion. Anyone with the patience and resilience to keep reading might find some of the actual facts. So any comeback regarding bias/falsehood can be (faintly) rebutted with a reference to paragragh x ‘look there is the balance’.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Air India flight bound for Gatwick crashes after take off from Ahmedabad. 242 people on board.
Details

 

[briantrumpet]

Air India flight bound for Gatwick crashes after take off from Ahmedabad. 242 people on board.
Details

Grim. It's going to be interesting to find out why. Boeing will be hoping that it's not design-related, given recent history.

 

[First Aspect]

Lets just sit back and wait for the barrage of speculative uniformed tweets.

 

[icowden]

Grim. It's going to be interesting to find out why. Boeing will be hoping that it's not design-related, given recent history.

It's more likely to be Air India maintenance related. I think they have a pretty poor safety record. 10 fatal crashes - 8 if you remove the two terrorist related ones but a very long list of non fatal crashes.

 

[briantrumpet]

It's more likely to be Air India maintenance related. I think they have a pretty poor safety record. 10 fatal crashes - 8 if you remove the two terrorist related ones but a very long list of non fatal crashes.

Indeed, seems more likely, as this particular model seems to have a good record.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I fear that this utter obsession with hating the EU will only go when the generation is dead - the fantasy was that when the UK left the EU they'd suddenly stop obsessing about major world power and economy just 22 miles away.

The irony is that Cameron's referendum was supposed to save the Tory Party. Hahahahahahaha, with an extra hahaha.

The thing is, in the run up to the Referendum, I never actually got the feeling that there was this particular obsession or desire for it. The push to exit was, for years, the preserve of a few euro sceptic MP's, it never felt like a large chunk of the public were feverishly anti Europe. I may be wrong but it feels like the hardened obsession came post vote when those that voted leave became keen to justify their vote in the face of mounting evidence that the many desired promises by Vote Leave had not, and would never materialise.

 

[Pblakeney]

The thing is, in the run up to the Referendum, I never actually got the feeling that there was this particular obsession or desire for it. The push to exit was, for years, the preserve of a few euro sceptic MP's, it never felt like a large chunk of the public were feverishly anti Europe. I may be wrong but it feels like the hardened obsession came post vote when those that voted leave became keen to justify their vote in the face of mounting evidence that the many desired promises by Vote Leave had not, and would never materialise.

It must be remembered that, as Brian said, the sole reason for the Brexit referendum was to unite the tory party.
That went well, didn't it! 😂😂😂

 

[First Aspect]

It must be remembered that, as Brian said, the sole reason for the Brexit referendum was to unite the tory party.
That went well, didn't it! 😂😂😂

In fairness, the ones who are left seem to be pretty much as bad as each other now.