Keith Houchen

42 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Well yeah I was trying to find out about the Holocaust thing specifically as that sounded pretty extreme.

And then what I found was a journalist publicly apologising for calling her a Holocaust denier and some sites saying it was all a load of bollocks and others saying she was the new Hitler but I couldn't really get a clear picture.

I'm not going to lie and say I put loads of work in, nor am I asking you guys to spoonfeed me..  But it was more the point that if it's that unclear, people with be unlikely to be motivated to change their behaviours and I can't really blame them.

It revolves around two specific tweets. The first was in reply to someone who said “The Nazis burned books on trans healthcare and research. Why are you so desperate to uphold their ideology around gender”. Rowling replied “I just…how? How did you type this out and press send without thinking I might have to check my source for this as it might be a fever dream”. 
 

So this could be taken as Rowling saying that the Hirschfeld and Gohrbrandt studies and research weren’t destroyed by Nazis (they were, and they photographed themselves doing so) and it’s a fever dream to say they were, or that it’s a fever dream to say Rowling is desperate to uphold the Nazis ideology on gender, which means she wants to exterminate all people not conforming to the Nazis view on gender. 
 

The second tweet was in regards to a reply to the above. Someone said that trans people were the first people targeted by the Nazis (they weren’t, the disabled were) and telling her about it wasn’t a fever dream. She replied with something about the bible had a bit about puberty blockers but Leviticus made them take it out”

The holocaust denial bit is because a German court ruled that denying any book burning is an act of holocaust denial. I’m sure that Rowlings many lawyers would argue the case that she meant the fever dream referred to her wanting to exterminate gay and trans people, hence the retraction. The court also ruled there isn’t the evidence to say trans people were targeted because they were trans. The trans people executed in the holocaust were  executed because they were homosexual, Jewish, disabled, and/or prostitutes. 

1 hour ago, The Reverend said:

Sounds like something may be coming.

Hopefully prison or a terminal illness. Preferably a terminal illness whilst in prison. 

40 minutes ago, Nexus said:

Fantastic fun, and it goes for quite a long time. However, I did then drop it when I finished the questline. 

I hope you didn’t damage it. 

Watched Top Gun - Maverick for the first time last night. I was grinning from ear to ear from start to finish. Absolutely marvellous fayre!

1 minute ago, FLips said:

It’s fine for the Road to The Show, and March-October modes I think, but the story modes and Dynasty both auto-set the difficulty. The one on Jeter’s where you have to make base 4 times drove me up the wall.

In Dynasty, I get the option of playing easy when having a solo game in conquest and against the cpu, I’ve noticed there aren’t any rookie challenges this year though! I’ve found on veteran that drawing a walk is far more frequent than last year, and I’ve been hit by a pitch loads! 
 

That Jeter challenge sounds like a right bastard though!

2 hours ago, FLips said:

I play on the easy difficulties and that's how I enjoy the game, but unfortunately the main modes all lock you out of doing that

I play on easy and haven’t had this issue. I did have an issue with different settings for different modes but in the menu you can set your preferences as default. It’s a bit hidden away though!

The challenges have always been of varying difficulty but I ain’t touching those Xtreme things or whatever they’re called!

1 minute ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

He is South Korean and so must eat dogs then

Sir, can I interest you in our UKFF off topic gold section? I recommend the Phishing scams thread. 

54 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

That's a pretty lazy racist joke isn't it?

Ji-Sung Park walked so I could stroll. 

Started watching the vid neil posted and think I’ll try the big three, but I was worried about the schnauzer, had he eaten something hot as he was just licking air the whole time. Or maybe he knew he was going to be an accompaniment to the rice and sauces. 

22 minutes ago, King Coconut said:

I love it! I look forward to seeing it a further 6,000 times until all remnants of humour have long since been thrashed out of it.

I’ll do it in 10. 

How on earth could anyone who has posted here for years think our Rashers (I miss Le Branque) was being serious about stealing a parcel from a neighbour? Jimmy fucking Corkhill. 

10 minutes ago, Loki said:

Bad week for the conspiracy nuts as it turns out the Princess of Wales has cancer and has been receiving chemotherapy.  

Au contraire, isn’t it a coinkydink that two senior royals have both recently developed cancer? And they’ve both had Covid vaccinations? Makes U Think

(I’ve actually seen this being said and not for comedic purposes)

Does this help? 

I’m about 15 years older than Harry Cole but he looks 20 years older than me. And of course, he was Johnson’s biggest cheerleader and then his girlfriend left him for Johnson!

Some interesting points raised here, makes you think. 

As if you couldn’t guess, (Chest is excused) the following is from Joey Barton  

3 hours ago, Jazzy G said:

Starmer's is very much trying to court every vote he can

That’s kind of how it works in politics. 

5 minutes ago, LCJ said:

Noticed Owen Jones has withdrawn his Labour Party membership. The reasons he gave (basically carrying on with the same Tory policies) were valid in fairness.

And a lot of the people who were telling him (and everyone with similar views) to fuck off out of the party if he didn’t like where they were gong are not happy that he has now fucked off. 

On 3/19/2024 at 3:12 PM, Keith Houchen said:

Happy MLB The Show 24 Day to all who celebrate. 

Really loving this, the pitching against CPU teams has improved hugely, they throw a lot more out and around the edges of the strike zone so you really have some great battles at the plate. Being me, I was absolutely delighted in drawing 4 (four) walks in a single game!

Biggest drawback is the music plays during a game in the background and I haven’t sussed out how to turn the fucker off yet!

On 3/6/2024 at 2:04 PM, Keith Houchen said:

Started Mr Mercedes last night. Really good first episode. Nice to see Brendan Gleeson playing a disgruntled miserable bastard for a change

Really good first season, was expecting worse because it’s a Stephen King thing. An excellent cat and mouse type thriller. However, it’s gone all Stephen King in the second series because. 
 

Jesus fucking Christ, as Gleeson would say. 

2 hours ago, Carbomb said:

There was also a guy called The Arsenal

I bet his offence was really good to watch but he couldn’t defend for shit. 

Just now, Devon Malcolm said:

Bolton fan so she's probably still using telegrams.

And when it comes to social media, Bolton fans use Telegram. 

17 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

I'm glad to see a guy called "Amissah" is not a striker.

Sounds like Mark E Smith being asked for his daughter’s pronouns. 

47 minutes ago, Loki said:

3 - The Great Escape (Spectrum)
One of the few games I played, and completed with my Dad.  Also one of the best film adaptations ever, let's be honest.

Oh wow, well done on completing it! I never did, but what a game!

23 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Could be worse. His first name could be Justin or Alex.

Like Alex Hiscock at our school, who was only referred to for the duration of school as Al-licks His-cock. Great days.

Someone I knew went to school with a Rich De Barr, which became Shit Stabbar. As you say, great days. 

That first name is what we say as an instruction and say it at birth.