No, he's the witless victim of a big orange demented racist propaganda machine
I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,969
There are plenty of Russian apologists here - some even in our own parliament.
Oh you mean the British patriots
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 16th April 2025, 8:56 AMThe UK Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on how a woman should be defined in law.
That verdict has now been delivered.
Has anyone done a welfare check on India Willoughby?
Quote: Billy Bunter @ 6th February 2025, 5:26 PMSteve Coogan has again avoided a driving ban after being caught doing 97mph on the M6 near Telford on 29 July last year. He pleaded with the judge that it would adversely impact upon his upcoming TV show - something he has successfully argued before. He already had six points on his licence so a further six would have resulted in disqualification.
But in a letter -he couldn't even be bothered to turn up - to Birmingham Magistrates Court, he stressed that a ban would result in the next series of The Trip being "severely impacted", writing: "I am due to appear in a well-established TV series called The Trip (with Rob Brydon) which as the title suggests requires me to drive," He added that other "important" film commitments this year also require him to drive. He implored the judge to impose five points instead of six, which was eventually agreed upon. He was also fined £2,500 and given a £1,000 surcharge with £90 costs.
He wrote a similar letter in 2019 after he was caught speeding, telling the judge that the new series of Alan Partridge would be disrupted if he was disqualified and was consequently banned for only two months instead of the usual six - meaning the show could go ahead.
He was previously banned for 28 days in 2016 for driving almost twice the 30mph speed limit in Brighton.
Now football commentator, Jonathan Pearce, is at it too...
Not fair.
If he knew losing his license would impact on his career, he shouldn't have risked it.
Quote: Lazzard @ 16th April 2025, 7:05 PMNot fair.
If he knew losing his license would impact on his career, he shouldn't have risked it.
For going 25 MPH in a 20 MPH zone? No cop in the States would waste their time pulling someone over for a minor infraction like that. There's always an assumed/implied 5 MPH cushion for speed limits - at least that's what my cop friends have always told me.
But I hope the rich and famous have set a precedent for average citizens who face the same charges.
If a motorist hits someone, that extra 5 mph could mean the person is killed instead of badly injured
Quote: lofthouse @ 16th April 2025, 7:46 PMIf a motorist hits someone, that extra 5 mph could mean the person is killed instead of badly injured
Then I've figured out how to prevent 99.999% of automobile deaths: a maximum speed limit of 0.5 MPH on all roads. You'll still have the book thrown at you if you're going 0.6 MPH, of course.
Quote: Lazzard @ 16th April 2025, 9:10 AMAnd a lot of people who the issue doesn't and will never affect - apart from making them cross over their cornflakes - will be happy.
The world won't change one jot for them, but will be irrevocably the worse for the transgender community.
That's a fairly dismissive take though on how the vast majority of people want life to carry on, without it being affected by the wishes of a very small minority (who make a lot of noise). The decision really does affect a vast number of people and institutions and pretty much ensures the fabric of society is not torn apart just to accommodate this group.
Sport, gambling, privacy, welfare, law, policing, employment, working place arrangements, not to mention public infrastructure and the cost of changing it was all being threatened if Britain put the definition they wanted enshrined in law like the Scottish govt. attempted. It's way bigger than 'conservative types whinging at breakfast time over lefties'.
Having said that it does of course have the added bonus of embarrassing our shower of a government who bullied their own MPs out of the party over the matter. 👍🏻
Did it affect you?
Did you know anyone it affected?
Did you know anyone who knew anyone it affected?
The situation was ambiguous, I grant you - and I don't pretend to understand all aspects of it.
But we were muddling along OK, finding our way through the problem in a thoroughly British way.
Sports bodies were dealing with it on a case by case basis.
But this will lead to bullying and more upset.
You only have to wade through twitter to see people who feel they have been given carte blanche to misgender people on purpose.
Nasty little shits.
But as you point out, the was more political than anything else.
The only positive is maybe it'll bring Lineham back from the brink of insanity and we'll get another Father Ted.
But I doubt it will achieve even that.
So just a Bullies Charter, then.
57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
F**k Brexit
F**k trump
I see you have included the epitaph for your gravestone again.
Quote: Lazzard @ 17th April 2025, 9:32 AMDid it affect you?
Did you know anyone it affected?
Did you know anyone who knew anyone it affected?
The situation was ambiguous, I grant you - and I don't pretend to understand all aspects of it.
But we were muddling along OK, finding our way through the problem in a thoroughly British way.
Sports bodies were dealing with it on a case by case basis.
But this will lead to bullying and more upset.
You only have to wade through twitter to see people who feel they have been given carte blanche to misgender people on purpose.
Nasty little shits.
But as you point out, the was more political than anything else.
The only positive is maybe it'll bring Lineham back from the brink of insanity and we'll get another Father Ted.
But I doubt it will achieve even that.
So just a Bullies Charter, then.
Nothing like it, as the judge emphasised the laws protecting the rights of trans people, so I expect a big upturn on the number of people getting visited by a dozen police officers for saying hurty things about them in an online comment.
As for sport and many other matters, it wasn't being dealt with fairly at all, it was a complete mess with some bodies accepting them and others not, no universality at all, but now we have it. Now hopefully, we won't see another man beating the crap out of a woman in a boxing ring and walking off with the trophy.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 17th April 2025, 10:52 AMNothing like it, as the judge emphasised the laws protecting the rights of trans people, so I expect a big upturn on the number of people getting visited by a dozen police officers for saying hurty things about them in an online comment.
Undoubtedly.
And an escalation of antagonistic behaviour will result.