I think this demonstrates the risk of Scotland not having control of its own borders due to British Union laws. We are powerless to stop foreign lunatics engaging in acts of terrorism.

My employers never named their competitors although the products were never sensibly compared on price

I think price comparisons to unnamed competitors are worthless (as a consumer). I mean, I could be right at least FIVE TIMES MORE than other posters but unless I told you who it was…

There are quite a few people that cover the webcams in tablets phones etc

The FBI paod them $15,000 (retainer only perhaps) which wouod suggest it wasn’t that hard to do.

Or it was a nominal sum for the bragging/influence/plausible deniability.

lso we don’t need to spend the money its usual to sell the rights to extract to an oil company who bears those risks.

Well, yeah, but the higher the extraction cost, the lower the amount the state gets – otherwise there’s no point in oil companies extracting it.

It’s not really “income tax avoidance” if you just piss off and live somewhere else…

Having said that, it’s the BBC report and not Sturgeon that suggested top rate employees will move (to England?)

@ernie domestic violence is something every society has to deal with, we will sadly never eradicate it. I feel quite differently about terrorism. Someone isn’t going to blow me and dozens of others up on the bus to work because they don’t get on with their wife.

You are far, far more likely to be killed by your partner or ex-partner than a terrorist. A female homicide ictim is more than six times more likely to have been killed by a partner or ex-partner than a male murder victim. Perhaps you feel quite differently about terrorism because you perceive yourself to be at greater risk from it than domestic violence?

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171776_394478.pdf

Is shipping volume globally still very low? Meaning – won’t there be billions of containers lying around empty at the moment? Or has it picked up in the last few years?

President Nicos Anastasiades told reporters that the hijacking is “not something to do with terrorism.” When a reporter asked if it had something to do with a woman, he replied, “Always, there is a woman.”

President Anastasiades, yesterday.

Great, but provide the per 100,000 rates of spousal homicide within communities of different religious persuasions, then control for it, and then finally…we can talk.

Why don’t you do it? You obviously think it’s significant.

how abysmally crap and intrusive the ad experience is here

There are orphans dressed in tatters weeping at your plight

…or maybe it’s not Nazis but oil and gas.

The Telegraoh didn’t make it up – it was all off the wires (“from our foreign staff”). The Telegraph is barely a newspaper any more – it’s just a clickbait house with a good brand

always the first to get all hysterical

Who’s hysterical?

And in the same vein – if enough people all walk to their local shop. Then sooner or later one of them will trip over the kerb and seriously hurt themselves.
Accidents happen unfortunately.

A shopper tripping on a kerb is an accident. A mountain biker falling off their bike is an accident. A boxer being punched in the head is the purpose of a boxing match.

Accidents do happen – but some are more likely to lead to injury than others, and some are a risk worth taking.

Does that mean stumpy’s about to be flooded with messages to his profile email? ;)

Its a fluke accident

It’s not really, though, is it? It’s fairly predictable that if you have x number of boxing matches in a year and y number of punches in the head, then sooner or later someone’s going to get seriously hurt. Same as if you have x thousand mountain bikers riding a trail in a year etc etc.

Teachers only need to be able to teach to a-level standard.

Hold on – in that case let’s just get 19 year olds who did well in physics to teach 16 year olds. Bish bash bosh – recruitment problem gone.

not describing the wife as a sweaty bint on public forums

Literal lol over here! Rest of train carriage wondering what’s so funny

I’ve never heard of Jewish people not acknowledging Christmas. I’ve heard of them not celebrating it, though.

(And I wonder whether that term of the lease would be enforceable at law).

Karadzic wasn’t well-hidden. He swanned around Republika Srpska for years quite openly before he moved to Belgrade. There was a lack of political will to capture him.

As an aside, if the murdered killed the guy because he was insufficiently pious (in the murderer’s opinion), I don’t think that qualifies as a sectarian murder. Surely a sectarian murder is one where someone is killed because they’re a member of another sect?

If Catholic A kills Catholic B for advocating for birth control, that’s religiously motivated but not sectarian. But if Catholic A murders Protestant B for being a Protestant, then that is sectarian.

Also, wasn’t there an imam killed in a playpark at night in Bradford or something last month? Was that not religiously motivated then? And a Syrian lay preacher type guy killed outside a mosque in west London?

So I don’t think Islam has much to teach protestants/Catholics about not murdering each other right now.

And vice versa. “We” only just got around to convicting one of the directors of a Christian fundamentalist genocide of Muslims in the heart of Europe. He killed 9,000 Muslims and roamed free for the next decade. Osama bin Laden killed 4,000 Americans and “we” invaded and destroyed the country he was living in (rather than the one that was funding him).

SportPursuit does not store our members credit or debit card details…some credit and debit card details were inadvertently stored.

Boils my piss. If you’re going to write an email clarifying what’s happened, don’t contradict yourself in it!

The point about SUV is that barring medical issues and off-road use, there’s really no point at all. An estate would pretty much do, and be 30%-50% better on fuel.

You are like someone eating a Quarter Pounder sneering at someone eating a Big Mac for eating unhealthily.

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@br I live in the UK, Mrs B is from Paris so we spend a lot of time here. We have property in both places. Brexit doesn’t mean any of that will change.

None of it will change for you. For UK citizens who don’t have the good fortune to be married to a French citizen, there is no certainty at all about what will happen.

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Media hype. Lots of people who share a belief/religion with their killers have been killed through the years. Story is just to sell papers and ad space, relies on the limited knowledge and racial stereotypes of the ones who fall for this guff.

Rubbish.

This is a new record: 10 posts in and apparently it’s Mossad that’s responsible for some scumbag murdering a shopkeeper.

If I hurled abuse at you and your family every time you left the house would you still be saying that?…And can people please stop with the straw man arguments

:mrgreen:

I think I stand on the side of not arresting children at school for saying offensive things.

Not convinced grum, sorry.

Oh, I see, you’re one of those loopy people that suspects Jews enjoy special privileges.

Would we being the same level of freedom o speech outrage if this had been offered at a different target? Say going up to a Jewish person and aggressively asking them to apologise for the actions of the Israeli government, then tweeting about it etc etc

Yes. HTH.

https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/free-speech-and-protest/speech-offences

Ah yes it is the MET being dicks, not the man who walked up to a women in the street and verbally abused her, then boasted about it on twitter

Being a dick is not a criminal offence (luckily for most forum posters).

As a society, we have to W/MTFU and stop trying to get people arrested for saying things that are stupid, insulting or offensive. Idiocy and rudeness are not legitimate police matters (as, apparently, the CPS just had to remind the Met).

Ah yes it is the MET being dicks, not the man who walked up to a women in the street and verbally abused her, then boasted about it on twitter

Being a dick is not a criminal offence (luckily for most forum posters).

As a society, we have to W/MTFU and stop trying to get people arrested for saying things that are insulting or offensive.

Clinton is reprehensible.

Cruz isn’t a Mormon. He claims to be a baptist, I think, although apparently he supports the church about as much as I do.

I think this might turn out to be a long game by Kasich or Rubio, who sweep back in at the convention because they’re neither loopy Trump or purportedly a shagger Cruz.

I’ve literally never seen or heard of one of those Renaults. Guessing you cherry-picked it as a particularly fuel-efficient example.

I picked it because it was advertised to me as I was using this site. :D

It does seem a bit weird that Reverend Lovejoy didn’t tap him on the shoulder and say “ffs Ted are your arms too short to reach your pockets?”

There is another story about Trump mistaking the tray carrying the communion host for the donations plate and chucking a bunch of money in it.

Neither of the front runners seems particularly religious. I almost feel sorry for the evangelical right, they must be spewing…

Less efficient? CO2 emissions on Ben’s Smart Forfour are 16% to 45% higher than those on the 1.5l diesel Renault Kadjar, a classic **** softroader suv.

http://gawker.com/national-enquirer-ted-cruz-has-had-at-least-5-extramar-1767002606

Things just got really dirty in the republican nomination contest

Edit: that’s not to say there’s anything true about the allegation. It just shows how aggressive and dirty the competition has become that the two camps are now pumping stories like this about their rivals

Boston Kickout. Terrible.

“Most SUVs”

Like, for instance, trying to park and drive something the size of a bus in a built-up area.

This is more cobblers. Most SUVs are the same length and width as “normal” cars, and only a few inches taller. They’re usually on the same platform. MPVs are even bigger.

Apparently the only people who think SUVs are large status symbols are the ones who hate them!