I honestly don’t know where to post this.

JohnInCarolina

@CPFC1905 @Eoin and @Stormbringer - can we get a ruling on this assessment?

CPFC1905

Ah splendid.

I was enjoying the Cheeto Indicated (sic) thread then it got all political and the fun went out of it.

Our BoJo has to be seen through the prism of a Greatest Hits album.  He was either born with, acquired or was rolled in all of the optimal glitter that a Tory PM needs.  Naturally none of these are erudition, compassion or humility. He was artful in the extreme, a zeitgeist hoover and populist notion fabricator par excellence - and that's how you win an election, right? 

Seems to me that winning an election is problematic in the way kidnap is.  The idea is great, the conduct of it can be relatively straightforward too - but then you're stuck with a new problem of care, responsibility and codependence.  As any sensible military commander will tell you,  what's the exit strategy?  
And that's sensible as in unlikely to be promoted or achieve VP in the post-carer military-industrial complex.

He's easy to joke about, laugh at, hold in contempt - but here's the thing; he's not the worst PM we've had.  Not even in the last year! 

Side note, re kidnap.  Obviously don't do it.  it's bad and wrong.  But I was twice turned down for 'Hostage Negotiator' selection.  My feedback was 'you're too honest'.  I think they meant that I would not spin people along until they caved, fell asleep, or got overwhelmingly hungry for pizza (the basic tactics) and instead would very soon say 'look, he's you're problem; you want the money then you need to keep him captive and alive a very long time without dropping your guard, or, you kill him and then you don't get the money and we storm the place'   I'll give you a minute to decide, then call you back.  Thanks. Bye.

Where's the glory & overtime in that?  I was just not one of them. 

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 - Excellent Friday post right there.  Many thanks.

nolaegghead

If you shoot the hostage (pro tip - try to use something non-lethal or at least smaller caliber) that can speed up those boring negotiations.

CPFC1905

nolaegghead said:

If you shoot the hostage (pro tip - try to use something non-lethal or at least smaller caliber) that can speed up those boring negotiations.

I’m liking the batsh*t crazy approach. It’s a Lethal Weapon type strategy. 

Also, the Community Briefings by US PD’s on YouTube are my new hobby. 

Over here the police discharge firearms less than ten times per year across all England and Wales. Often less than five per year. 

nolaegghead

I guess Americans, per capita, are simply orders of magnitudes more violent. 

Or maybe having orders of magnitude more guns is the problem….hmmm

….or yet, Americans are deluded into believing NRA idioms like “guns don’t kill people, people kill people (uuuuhhh…duuuhhhh)”

that make sense to you Brits?

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1641645374732484610?s=20

HeavyG

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1642235709946830850

I quit watching 60 Minutes back in the 1980's after watching Ed Bradlee's fraudulent report on the Audi 5000. Haven't seen an episode since. Haven't really ever had a desire to resume watching the show but this kind of story has revalidated why I did quit watching what used to be (or so I used to think) a valuable show of community importance/interest.

JohnInCarolina

@HeavyG - saw that.  Pretty gross.

dmchicago

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/PastorAlexLove/status/1642564576125284353?s=20

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1643023806678671363?s=20

dmchicago

Another example of words I wish I’d have written. 

JohnInCarolina

Did he make some comment about roofing tiles?

http://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1646108583690395648?s=20

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina

JohnInCarolina said:

Did he make some comment about roofing tiles?

http://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1646108583690395648?s=20

@CPFC1905 can we get a ruling on this?

CPFC1905

Oh my days the press are piling in on this over here. 

To be fair to your lad has be fairly inconspicuous as far as we’re concerned since he took over from the last chap, whose name escapes me but he was a confident sort. 

This is the first time we’ve actually seen him trying to move, interact and speak. I would say in the flesh but I am suspecting some kind of vulcanised rubber. 

Pity he didn’t pop over when the Trussinator was briefly at the helm. That would have been a genuine waxworks formed in the dark situation. 

However the NORAD enthusiast might find his go to leprechaun shtick doesn’t play so well here. 

I doubt he’ll mind or realise.  When’s the last bloke having another go, from the yard? 

fishlessman

JohnInCarolina said:

Did he make some comment about roofing tiles?

http://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1646108583690395648?s=20

could someone put some damn whiskey in this foolish tea.....

CPFC1905

Here you go @JohnInCarolina
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11968835/Joe-Biden-gushes-heart-Dublin-amid-unionist-anger.html

You might not be able to access the story,  which will be a blessing because it's in the Daily Mail that is the dog-whistle outlet for the passive aggressive, massively judgmental right wing masses.  Ah, bless them. 

Summary,  

• Uncle Joe pops over and has not said lovely things about England (not Britain, this is the Daily Mail, and England - specifically the bit around London is Britain)
• UJ accepts a shamrock from Irish rugby player who is theoretically  genetically linked to him, but UJ is cyborg right?
• UJ confuses 'All Blacks' the Kiwi all conquering rugby-ists with the Black & Tans.  Well, they are very very different my friend.
• UJ remarks upon beating the Black & Tans.
• The Black & Tans were a 'special' police unit deployed by the Brits to Ireland to quell the IRA insurrection a 100 years ago.  And hence much folklore and seething sentiment was launched.

Too much to unpack here about Ireland, but despite 25 years of 'peace' Northern Ireland remains combustible.  Bloody Brexit merely adding fuel. 

CPFC1905

dmchicago said:

You have Ladybird books too?
Absolute staple of childhoods for several generations.  Then iPads got invented an no one has the physical strength to turn pages anymore. 

There was brilliant set of adult, not in a NSFW sense, versions a while back. https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/LBGU/ladybirds-for-grown-ups

JohnInCarolina

CPFC1905 said:

Here you go @JohnInCarolina
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11968835/Joe-Biden-gushes-heart-Dublin-amid-unionist-anger.html

You might not be able to access the story,  which will be a blessing because it's in the Daily Mail that is the dog-whistle outlet for the passive aggressive, massively judgmental right wing masses.  Ah, bless them. 

Summary,  

• Uncle Joe pops over and has not said lovely things about England (not Britain, this is the Daily Mail, and England - specifically the bit around London is Britain)
• UJ accepts a shamrock from Irish rugby player who is theoretically  genetically linked to him, but UJ is cyborg right?
• UJ confuses 'All Blacks' the Kiwi all conquering rugby-ists with the Black & Tans.  Well, they are very very different my friend.
• UJ remarks upon beating the Black & Tans.
• The Black & Tans were a 'special' police unit deployed by the Brits to Ireland to quell the IRA insurrection a 100 years ago.  And hence much folklore and seething sentiment was launched.

Too much to unpack here about Ireland, but despite 25 years of 'peace' Northern Ireland remains combustible.  Bloody Brexit merely adding fuel. 

Incredible.  All things considered, that's a pretty good outing for a US President!

JohnInCarolina

I guess now we know what happened to LittlePeen56:

JohnInCarolina

CPFC1905 said:

Oh my days the press are piling in on this over here. 

To be fair to your lad has be fairly inconspicuous as far as we’re concerned since he took over from the last chap, whose name escapes me but he was a confident sort. 

This is the first time we’ve actually seen him trying to move, interact and speak. I would say in the flesh but I am suspecting some kind of vulcanised rubber. 

Pity he didn’t pop over when the Trussinator was briefly at the helm. That would have been a genuine waxworks formed in the dark situation. 

However the NORAD enthusiast might find his go to leprechaun shtick doesn’t play so well here. 

I doubt he’ll mind or realise.  When’s the last bloke having another go, from the yard? 

This is how it’s done, Ed!

http://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1646555887786508288?s=20

CPFC1905

That’s lovely. 

UJ must know what it feels like to be one of the Kim’s now.  Not the internet breaking type, the chubby boiler suit wearing type. 

Begorrah 

Canugghead

you mean rocket suit

caliking

In case you ever wondered what MAGAt tears taste like…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-activist-launches-ultra-right-beer-rival-bud-light-after-dylan-mulvaney-controversy.amp

JohnInCarolina

caliking said:

In case you ever wondered what MAGAt tears taste like…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-activist-launches-ultra-right-beer-rival-bud-light-after-dylan-mulvaney-controversy.amp

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1231738/the-crusade-against-woke-beer

caliking

JohnInCarolina said:

caliking said:

In case you ever wondered what MAGAt tears taste like…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-activist-launches-ultra-right-beer-rival-bud-light-after-dylan-mulvaney-controversy.amp

https://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1231738/the-crusade-against-woke-beer

oops... missed that. I need to get out more. 

JohnInCarolina

http://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1647970331447926785?s=20

lousubcap

How sweet it is!!