The Mews

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Nov 25, 2024 8:42 pm

What the hell is this crap?

https://news.sky.com/story/starmer-rule ... s-13260436

"Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out an early general election after a petition calling for a second vote reached two million signatures.

The petition was launched over the weekend and says there should be another vote, just four months after Labour won a landslide, because they have "gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election".

By Monday mid-morning, it had reached two million signatures and was climbing fast."

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And the petition is being promoted by the Tories and Reform?

What an absolute waste of time! Jeez!

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Nov 29, 2024 2:36 am

Only Loyd Grossman can save us (MasterChef) now...

Post by **endar** » Fri Nov 29, 2024 5:12 am

hands up if you're shocked by Greggggg Wallace news

Post by **dng** » Fri Nov 29, 2024 11:22 am

I genuinely thought he'd already been sacked for being some sort of sex pest

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Nov 29, 2024 6:40 pm

Aye, so did I.

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Nov 30, 2024 2:11 am

blombluss wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:30 pm $6.2 million gets you...

CheapAtTwiceThePrice.jpg

The chap who bought that banana artwork then ate it.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/29/nx-s1-52 ... al%20media.

I did a similar thing after purchasing The Laughing Cavalier painting and putting it in a stew.

Post by **dng** » Sat Nov 30, 2024 11:06 am

I would gladly pay 6.2 million pounds to not eat a banana

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Nov 30, 2024 8:35 pm

For me, it'd be mince pies. I hatt mince pies.

Post by **dng** » Sat Nov 30, 2024 8:52 pm

No ones ever taped a mince pie to a wall

Post by **dng** » Sat Nov 30, 2024 8:52 pm

and never will

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Dec 01, 2024 1:09 am

And quite rightly, too.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:21 pm

Nothing to worry about, I'm sure, but South Korea has just enacted martial law.

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:30 pm

I was going to take a picture of th eguardian's excellent fornt page, where that news was all tiny and to the side, while GREGGG WALLACE was all huge and to the centre because that's what's impirtant these days

but they've changed it now so its not as funny

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:31 pm

also today half the images on the guardian site are showing like this for me

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which is kind of wonderful

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:31 pm

i wish all news looked like that

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:30 pm

blombluss wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:21 pm Nothing to worry about, I'm sure, but South Korea has just enacted martial law.

And possibly the shortest period of martial law evarr!

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:31 pm

dng wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:31 pm also today half the images on the guardian site are showing like this for me

guardian001s.png

which is kind of wonderful

Indeed it is!

It's probably better for your soul and mental health, images like that.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Dec 08, 2024 3:56 pm

The Syria situation is very... odd... and probably awful, as was the previous regime.

Post by **endar** » Sun Dec 08, 2024 5:59 pm

If they're anti-Russian i'm sure they'll be hailed, just like "The brave Taliban fighters" at the end of Rambo III

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Dec 08, 2024 8:53 pm

Ha, yes!

Post by **dng** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:49 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rnglkv2n7o

the amazing rishi sunak picture here

Post by **dng** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:49 am

with his judge dredd chin

Post by **endar** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 3:50 pm

Excellent

time well spent

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 4:35 pm

I'd take the world record off him due to previous chin wrongness.

Post by **Pual** » Mon Dec 09, 2024 5:52 pm

dng wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:49 am with his judge dredd chin

I would have gone with desperate Dan.

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Dec 12, 2024 9:05 pm

Kemi Badenoch: 'I will not touch bread if it is moist'

SHE. IS. A. MONSTAH!

Post by **dng** » Thu Dec 12, 2024 10:41 pm

she only eats croutons

Post by **Pual** » Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:38 am

https://www.theguardian.com/science/20 ... e-research

Mirror bacteria apocalypse imminent. Hooray.

Post by **endar** » Fri Dec 13, 2024 1:05 pm

Sounds fun

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Dec 14, 2024 4:24 pm

I'd never even heard of it before reading that story.

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:43 am

endar wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:01 pm
vom wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:30 pm no but legitimate enough to vote for neither. which is almost the same thing in their system admittedly
Yeah I was going to say similar.

Insane system, insane country, insane result

Yeah, I've kind of given up at every level above state. Preserve a broken system that hurts people, or smash it to pieces and hurt them even more?

Maybe the best i can do is helping those around me.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:22 pm

blombluss wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 4:24 pm I'd never even heard of it before reading that story.

I read this when I was in my mid-twenties and it scared me for a bit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:08 am

An Unicorn wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:43 am
endar wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:01 pm
vom wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 12:30 pm no but legitimate enough to vote for neither. which is almost the same thing in their system admittedly
Yeah I was going to say similar.

Insane system, insane country, insane result
Yeah, I've kind of given up at every level above state. Preserve a broken system that hurts people, or smash it to pieces and hurt them even more?

Maybe the best i can do is helping those around me.

I reckon that's all you can do, tbh.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:11 am

richschnauzer wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:22 pm
blombluss wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 4:24 pm I'd never even heard of it before reading that story.
I read this when I was in my mid-twenties and it scared me for a bit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Error

I'm an old man, and the summary weirded me out a bit, Rich!

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:09 pm

How long will it be before Zelenskyy falls out of a window from on high?

I give it two weeks.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:31 pm

More 'no shit Sherlock' *goodness* from The Guardian to-day:

"Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn"

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 ... tists-warn

Post by **dng** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:04 pm

Fuck off trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ne-aid-war

Fuck off america

Post by **vom** » Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:39 pm

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Mar 02, 2025 3:17 pm

If we (Europe) don't stick together, we're fucked. And Britain will fuck it up with it's halfway house "clever" politics.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 05, 2025 4:10 pm

MAMMOTH MOUSE!
https://news.sky.com/story/scientists-t ... e-13321512

I wish MM was just a Disney cartoon knockoff rather than a real animal.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 05, 2025 8:55 pm

Man shot dead in Wolverhampton was 'victim of targeted attack'

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/202 ... ed-attack/

Two streets away from me, this.

Great stuff.

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 20, 2025 9:35 pm

I wonder if Britain has it's own Luigi Mangione?

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Apr 01, 2025 8:09 pm

"Outlets seek fresh strategies as UK poll shows ‘news avoidance’ on the rise"
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/ ... n-the-rise

How much news do you imbibe onna daily basis?

I look at the Guardian front page in the morning, and that's it for the day. It's too much of a downer, otherwise.

Post by **endar** » Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:30 pm

the blanket coverage of everything the orange cunt has said and done in the last 10 years or so hasn't helped, I think

just give it a fucking rest, man

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:15 pm

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 01, 2025 11:17 pm

Also just how absolute half arsed and terrible bbc news is these days, since whenever it was they finally cut all its budget and reduced it to basically a series of slide shows and qr codes

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Apr 09, 2025 1:39 pm

Is it wrang to want China to seriously fuck over Turmp?

Post by **endar** » Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:30 pm

also, the rest of the world

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:17 pm

I guess the Canadian election result counts as good news?

Post by **dng** » Mon May 05, 2025 10:25 pm

dng wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:31 pm also today half the images on the guardian site are showing like this for me

guardian001s.png

which is kind of wonderful

it still does this quite often. also sometimes it gets all the pictures jumbled up. like this:

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