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Classics 80s drama Boys from the Blackstuff triple bill on BBC4 tonight, well worth a watch.

27 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Who is he, is he a billionaire? How did he acquire his wealth?

Through hard work. Other's people's hard work of course, not his own.

2 hours ago, RedRooster said:

Ah come on, the "Tony Sniff" nickname doesn't exactly make me snort

Rather appropriate choice of verb there...

Fans of older music might be familiar with the Lonnie Donegan or Woody Guthrie versions, amongst many others.

Never mind, already posted.

4 hours ago, Love-Wilcox said:

Right. I’m clearly wording it terribly. What do we do about cases that never even make it to court or sometimes aren’t even reported to the police? Do we treat these accused the same way we’d treat someone with a guilty verdict? Why and to what degree? 
I’m not trying to prove a point, I genuinely want to know.

It largely depends how you choose to define "we". If you mean it in a broad sense meaning society in general, then unfortunately I don't have an answer for that. In this country, and no doubt others too, the difficulties in getting rape and sexual assault cases to court and successfully prosecuted are well documented. A "he said" versus "she said" case is unlikely to get to court to start with, that's even assuming someone would even get charged. If you mean it in a narrower sense as in say us here on this forum, a good starting point would be to believe victims when they come forward and not ask for corroborating evidence for their allegations.

4 hours ago, Love-Wilcox said:

If someone is found guilty in court then I’m all for a harsh sentence befitting the severity of the crime but otherwise, what’s to be done when there’s no clear objective truth?

When it comes to the criminal justice system, in any country, there's no such thing as the "clear objective truth". An awful lot hinges on the quality of defence and prosecution barristers, the attitude of the judge, and more often than not who's on the jury. To illustrate the latter point, at trial Delroy Grant (aka the Night Stalker) advanced a theory that his ex-wife had stored his semen for over a decade and had conspired with a male accomplice to plant the semen at multiple crime scenes in order to frame Grant. Now, if the "clear objective truth" did in fact exist all twelve jurors would have said Grant was guilty, since as defences go that's an atrociously bad one. However he was actually found guilty only on a 10-2 majority, despite his DNA being present at multiple crime scenes. Investigating officer Colin Sutton deals with the verdict in his book on the case, and says he ran into one of the jurors on the case and was told "that the two reluctant jurors had said, from the very start of the trial, before a word of evidence had been heard, that their mistrust of the police and the establishment was such that they would as a matter of principle, never convict anyone of anything". One jury of twelve might come to one conclusion, another jury of twelve might come to a different conclusion. Neither one should be classed as the "clear objective truth".

1 hour ago, Love-Wilcox said:

When someone is accused with little to no supporting evidence

Exactly what "supporting evidence" do you expect when dealing with crimes that aren't immediately reported? I must have missed all the forensic evidence in the R Kelly trial, yet he was found guilty.

1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Is hugging someone being a twat? 

If they are Japanese, then quite possibly (depending on the nature of the relationship with said Japanese person).

People that need to constantly express their feelings. Last week I was on a boat trip and go to see dolphins, seals, white-tailed sea eagles and various other things. Unforunately sat behind me were some gobshite and her boyfriend, the former constantly said "on my god this is amazing" every five seconds like a broken record while watching the dolphins. It is possible to be amazed in relative silence, or at least not constantly repeat yourself since you're not adding anything by doing so. Her incessant wittering put a real downer on the trip.

About 10 years ago I had a bottom tooth at the back extracted, and things went spectacularly wrong. The extraction itself went ok, but things got infected and over the course of the next couple of weeks my jaw became more and more swollen I could open my mouth less and less each day despite repeated trips back to the dentist. It even reached the point where I couldn't even eat a cheese sandwich in the conventional way, I had to eat the bread and cheese separately as I coul;dn't open my mouth wide enough to fit the sandwich in. The dentist told me if the swelling got and worse it had the potential to causes me breathing difficulties due to it closing off my windpipe, and to be ready to call 999 as soon as I had any breathing problems at all. I went back to the dentist the next day with a bag packed ready to go to hospital, having decided that if they weren't prepared to send me I'd simply call an ambulance from outside. They agreed it'd be best for me to go to hospital, the cheeky fuckers even tried to make me pay for the taxi! Naturally I wasn't having that.

So I arrive at hospital, and a few minutes after arriving vomit due to the amount of pain I was in (first time I've ever done that). They were going to operate straight away, but some bloody queue jumper turned up who'd cut off several of his finger due to an accident with a saw, so I had to wait until morning. I was supposed to be discharged later the same day, but ended up staying for four days. On the morning of the fourth day, I was woken at 5am by the noise made by the 99 year old man in the bed opposite me being given an enema. That's an experience I never want to have again...

Good afternoon from Headingley. Been a glorious morning of cricket so far.

Just seen World's Strongest Man 2021 winner Tom Stoltman in a shopping centre in Inverness. He's fucking huge!

On the Quiraing walk on the Isle of Skye.

Those pesky Europeans interfering over human rights mean this is relevant again, although this clusterfuck Brexit by a shitshow of a government will probably make it permanently relevant...

So Paul Robinson's parent gets a say in whether he's allowed to wrestle or not? They are clearly a neutral arbiter free of any bias whatsoever...

3 hours ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Genuine question, what is the point of turning up to vote if you know you can't over turn a result due to an 80 seat majority? 

That's a theoretical 80 seat majority. As The Guardian point out, there's a very real possibility Johnson's government is paralysed and can't pass any legislation due to Tory rebels continuing to oppose him. If your argument was followed through to its logicial conclusion, unless it was a rare "free vote" there would be no point in the opposition turning up to vote at all,  which of course would be absurd.

White fluffballs that infest outdoors in spring and summer. Do I need to install netting across my nose to stop it hoovering them up?

But the thing is, why's Pimblett even quote tweeting Tommy Coyle in the first place? Isn't he capable of providing his own opinions on the so-called royal family without slagging off Tommy Coyle? You don't see Richard Dawkins quote tweeting people saying they've been to church on a Sunday with commentary like this attached do you?
 

On 5/17/2022 at 1:57 AM, simonworden said:

I'm not surprised Conrad is promoting this. He probably couldn't give a toss about Ric's health over making a few dollars on the side. He's probably got Ric mortgaged up to the eyeballs too.

Flair's long, long history of legal troubles (including substantial debts) pre-date Conrad meeting Flair in the first place. If history teaches us anything, it's more likely Flair's tried to fleece Conrad for everything he can.

6 minutes ago, Rossman said:

Blue passports and all that.

I've got a new passport, and it's not even blue (although officials claim it is).



 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/61621893

So we're getting a review of the use of imperial measurements, despite the fact traders have never been prevented from using them anyway. To test whether people are prepared for the return of just imperial measurements last night I asked to buy 0.035274 ounces of speed, and the guy just looked at me blankly. I was tempted to ask in drachmas instead of ounces, but I think that might have ended in violence.

Never let it be said that the Tories don't like to answer difficult questions.

53 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

To be honest, I put "in terms of individual titles" because the most obvious answers would probably be the numerous remakes of the works of Shakespeare, Conan-Doyle, and Dickens

Makes sense now, I thought you were referring more to the likes of Dracula or Frankenstein where there's many adaptations of a single work.