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Post by Danno on Oct 11, 2024 23:33:17 GMT
I'd imagine it's a combination of Tim Davie demanding that they have a conservative presence, and Hislop thinking "Well if we have to, then get me someone on who's clearly too thick to be put in charge of the opening of an automatic door without notifying every emergency service, including the coast guard, who will guarantee me the opportunity to give them a verbal shoe-ing." It's still Hat Trick that makes the show iirc, so the Beeb should have limited influence on the guests regardless of Davie/Gibb throwing their tory bollocks about |
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Post by Dougs on Oct 12, 2024 7:51:10 GMT
Haven't seen last night's, but the savagery has dipped considerably over the last 10+ years imo. It's still funny but always feels like their hands are tied. Whether that's the BBC or Legal concerns, who knows.
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Post by nexus6 on Oct 12, 2024 16:32:45 GMT
Alex Salmond has died apparently...
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 12, 2024 16:34:25 GMT
Oh fuck.
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Post by peekconfusion on Oct 12, 2024 16:42:38 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 12, 2024 18:42:31 GMT
He died as he lived. With me reading his name as ‘Alex Salmon’
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Post by uiruki on Oct 12, 2024 18:57:18 GMT
I supposed this means that disgraced ex-games journalist Stuart Campbell can just spend all of his time hating trans people now.
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Post by Dgzter on Oct 12, 2024 19:25:37 GMT
I supposed this means that disgraced ex-games journalist Stuart Campbell can just spend all of his time hating trans people now. Haha, probably a bit of an obscure reference for those that don't follow Scottish politics outside the MSM, but yes definitely. An odious individual, been completely off the deep end for years now. Utter cretin. |
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Post by Danno on Oct 12, 2024 23:33:27 GMT
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Post by simple on Oct 12, 2024 23:34:23 GMT
'Scuse the double post, but Ian Hislop telling Andrea Jenkyns she was talking bollocks on HIGNFY tonight was fun.
The sense of a) entitlement and b) out of touchness that radiates when they come on is astounding sometimes. I wouldn’t be surprised if Schapps doesn’t regularly try to get himself booked thinking it’ll be jolly fun and that he can hold his own with Hislop and Merton. That said she did manage to seem more game on Friday than they usually do. She didn’t start sulking the moment the ribs were aimed at her. Until that audience comment anyway. Come on lass, read the room. |
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Post by Reviewer on Oct 13, 2024 10:13:09 GMT
I think she was getting annoyed by them then she snapped. She was very quiet after that comment.
Still she’s an awful person and absolutely the wrong sort of person to be an MP.
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Post by simple on Oct 13, 2024 10:36:25 GMT
Hislop’s face when she accused Badenoch of being One Nation
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Oct 13, 2024 11:13:42 GMT
The only joke she seemed to laugh at was a monkey being electrocuted. Probably says it all really.
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Post by cubby on Oct 13, 2024 11:18:38 GMT
Hislop’s face when she accused Badenoch of being One Nation Yeah that was astounding, Hislop couldn't believe just how right wing she was. |
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Post by simple on Oct 13, 2024 13:12:47 GMT
I think she was playing it for laughs with her words while her eyes screamed “but seriously”
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Post by Blue_Mike on Oct 13, 2024 17:13:20 GMT
Watching the extended edition now, and there's a lot more "Boris is a liar"
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 14, 2024 9:10:59 GMT
"It is a positive thing our society is now more open around mental health. However, the socialisation of mental health, whereby mental health moved from something that people worked on for their own benefit, to something where everyone had to treat you differently, has both created costs and failed to improve people’s mental health outcomes ….
A change in the perception of harm helps explains why people who had suffered events once seen as non-traumatic now feel entitled to support. This increases demand for psychologists and therapists, required to help people previously seen as able to cope. As will be set out in the forthcoming book [based on the essay] across the psychological and psychotherapy professions, numbers have risen from 102,000 in 200240 to 223,700 in 2023.
Being diagnosed as neuro-diverse was once seen as helpful as it meant you could understand your own brain, and so help you to deal with the world. It was an individual focused change. But now it also offers economic advantages and protections. If you have a neurodiversity diagnosis (e.g. anxiety, autism), then that is usually seen as a disability, a category similar to race or biological sex in terms of discrimination law and general attitudes.
If you are a child, you may well get better treatment or equipment at school – even transport to and from home. If you are in the workforce, you are protected in employment terms from day 1, you can more easily claim for unfair dismissal, and under disability rules you can also require your employer makes ‘reasonable adjustments’ to your job (and you can reveal your disability once you have been employed rather than before).
In short, whereas once psychological and mental health was seen as something that people should work on themselves as individuals, mental health has become something that society, schools and employers have to adapt around."
-The ever wonderful Kemi Badenoch
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 14, 2024 10:07:24 GMT
She should speak to a trained professional about her mental health issues.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 14, 2024 10:15:06 GMT
She'll just say if you got severe depression you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
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Post by apollo on Oct 14, 2024 10:42:37 GMT
the tories do love finding people worse than the last piece of crap that was running the party
Tories have hit rock bottom a few years ago and started to dig
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Post by Danno on Oct 14, 2024 10:53:15 GMT
Her ignorance is only matched by her arrogance and her belligerence. She disgusts me to my core almost more than Johnson, because at least you could tell he didn't believe what he was saying and it was purely self serving. She believes it but only understands the words in dictionary terms.
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Post by pizzacrunch on Oct 14, 2024 13:24:25 GMT
She'll just say if you got severe depression you need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. More like if you're poor and depressed you should pull yourself up by your boot laces. |
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Post by drakeypoos on Oct 14, 2024 13:27:51 GMT
I’m pretty sure anxiety isn’t on the neurodiversity spectrum.
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Post by Vandelay on Oct 14, 2024 13:39:28 GMT
She is clearly someone who will pick a fight with her shadow about anything and she spouts a load of nonsense regularly to appeal to the right wingers. Then again, she also resisted calls to have a bonfire of EU regulations, recognising that it would be madness and pissing off a lot on the right of the party. She is also not going down the abandoning the ECHR road, which Jenrick is happy to motor along.
I think there is more unknown about what she would actually be like as leader than many suggest. I have a feeling she will know which fights to pick and which ones to avoid in order to win over a lot of the public and I don't think her leadership is something that people should be complacent about, if they don't want the rightwing to swoop into power in 5 years time.
I'm probably just depressed at seeing all of the incredibly negative polling at the moment though.
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Post by simple on Oct 15, 2024 6:56:02 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 15, 2024 7:15:50 GMT
It’s a bit of a weaselly headline. What he said isn’t really that outrageous, I don’t think. We offer people help stopping smoking to prevent illness later so helping out fat guys wouldn’t be the worst thing for health and the economy.
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Post by X201 on Oct 15, 2024 8:57:37 GMT
We've had years of Tory backbenchers yelling "Nanny State! Nanny State!" and demonising and killing any bit of legislation that was designed to give people help or a leg up.
Perhaps we can make some headway in the next 5 years.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 15, 2024 9:06:18 GMT
The last paragraph of that article is interesting. A former Tory Health minister conceding they got it wrong and people do want and need a bit of nanny state. Its a shame these Tories only ever receive these revelations when they leave office.
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Post by Whizzo on Oct 15, 2024 9:08:59 GMT
Once their snout is out of the trough they can actual see a bit clearer perhaps?
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Oct 15, 2024 9:14:57 GMT
Maybe. I'm looking forward to him appearing on every show on TV, looking absolutely bewildered while chanting 'I can't believe the party I willingly joined and was a member of for 30 years didn't have peoples best interests at heart......'
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