The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Eoin McLove]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-rodrigo-bentancur-ban-son-heung-min-b2646540.html

Back to the regular stuff here. My favourite part is how nobody was offended and both parties said so, but the show must go on regardless. I see the whole team is lined up for re-education as a result. Not to teach them to be better people or anything like that, just so they can learn not to say things at all, ever

Your honour, this is preposterous. I said they all COOK the same!

[John Kimble]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-rodrigo-bentancur-ban-son-heung-min-b2646540.html

Back to the regular stuff here. My favourite part is how nobody was offended and both parties said so, but the show must go on regardless. I see the whole team is lined up for re-education as a result. Not to teach them to be better people or anything like that, just so they can learn not to say things at all, ever

Not overly bothered with this tbh. It was a retarded thing to say on television and anyone with a modicum of cop-on would have known there would be an inevitable fallout. He's got a 7 game ban, during which presumably he'll still get his grossly inflated weekly wage (plus a fine which would equate to a mere drop in the ocean for most first-team footballers) so fuck him. Anyone else in the public or private sector would have faced a higher reprimand.
That said though, that should be the end of it and all parties move on.

[astfgyl]

I think if Son wasn't bothered then that would be enough of it. If Son was bothered then they could have it or themselves at training or whatever.

Anyway I'm sure he's very sorry for what he said and now believes he deserved his punishment or something

Your honour, this is preposterous. I said they all COOK the same!

I think even that is forbidden now. We must not describe things as we see them

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Going back to the Twitter exodus thing, here's an overview of perspectives from the neuroscience portion of the academia portion of it. Personally, I still don't have a Bluesky account, but it's seeming pretty clear that next time I have some new research finished that I want to promote/discuss among the community, it would be shooting myself in the foot not to do so over there too... and perhaps between now and then it may even have become a relative waste of time to do so (to any level of academic detail at least) on 'X'. The number of accounts I follow has dropped by a few dozen over the last month, and though I haven't checked, I can pretty much guarantee they're all academic accounts. Everyone has been sick of Musk's boosted blue tick army of absolute bad faith sycophants for a while now, and his electioneering seems to me to have merely been the straw that broke the patience of many.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/community/huge-influx-of-neuroscientists-migrates-to-bluesky/?swcfpc=1

[astfgyl]

Ah sure lookit if it's a better place to discuss that type of thing then sure it's no harm if it doesn't include a load of right wing leaning non academics calling everything out for the sake of it.

It's a pity politics got into academia at all for the most part

[The Heretic]

So now the song "Do they know it's Christmas" is in the firing line for not being representative of Africa today, well it was written 40 years ago and not today, didn't see them complaining then.

[astfgyl]

Is it actually

State of that

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Created a Bluesky account this morning to have a proper scope of things over there (and, primarily, to procrastinate). Used a Firefox plug-in to identify accounts I was following on Twitter which had accounts over there: a full third of them pinged, a lot more than I was expecting.

[astfgyl]

Uh oh, looks like nobody wants to taste Gregg Wallaces vegetables anymore!!

There has to be some decent puns to come out of this one surely. Saying that, I haven't seen any yet

[Kunt 4 Life]

Wallace suspended by BBC over inappropriate sexual conduct.


Gromit moves to new home in Battersea.

[Kunt 4 Life]

I once asked Gregg Wallace about his favourite entrées

"In her gob and up the shitter" ,  he said

[Eoin McLove]

https://youtu.be/A08itm4AFgQ?si=a9aj2mEpnywknoH_

Looks like Heston Blumenthal is a cabbage now, too. I shouldn't laugh, but herbaderbaderbaaa...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yet another chapter in 'Beware the Puritans':
2024: "Doctor and former Fine Gael councillor Bill Tormey has been before Dublin District Court, charged with a human trafficking offence and possession of child pornography images."
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/1213/1486350-bill-tormey-court/

2012: "[FG Councillor Bill Tormey] said marriage among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is "philosophically incorrect" due to its inability to produce children."
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/fury-over-fg-man-rant-on-gay-marriage/28016764.html

[astfgyl]

Yet another chapter in 'Beware the Puritans':
2024: "Doctor and former Fine Gael councillor Bill Tormey has been before Dublin District Court, charged with a human trafficking offence and possession of child pornography images."
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/1213/1486350-bill-tormey-court/

2012: "[FG Councillor Bill Tormey] said marriage among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is "philosophically incorrect" due to its inability to produce children."
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/fury-over-fg-man-rant-on-gay-marriage/28016764.html

That's fair scabby!! I actually know his brother would you believe

[Mithrandir]

Yet another chapter in 'Beware the Puritans':
2024: "Doctor and former Fine Gael councillor Bill Tormey has been before Dublin District Court, charged with a human trafficking offence and possession of child pornography images."
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/1213/1486350-bill-tormey-court/

2012: "[FG Councillor Bill Tormey] said marriage among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is "philosophically incorrect" due to its inability to produce children."
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/fury-over-fg-man-rant-on-gay-marriage/28016764.html

You can't make this shit up, how many times have we seen this same story play out. Scum.