News/Current Affairs thread

[Carbomb]

To counter the shit news of the previous post, I'd like to say that this jewel heist at the Louvre actually has me chuckling a bit. Feels like a good, old-fashioned crime of daring - feels like a change from the constant relentlessness of paedos, school shootings, racists, stabbings, rapes, and all other assorted horrendousness.

[Arch Stanton]

8 hours ago, Carbomb said:

To counter the shit news of the previous post, I'd like to say that this jewel heist at the Louvre actually has me chuckling a bit. Feels like a good, old-fashioned crime of daring - feels like a change from the constant relentlessness of paedos, school shootings, racists, stabbings, rapes, and all other assorted horrendousness.

Same here! I love an audacious heist! That story made me smile.

[Merzbow]

Might stick on some classic Lupin The Third in celebration, we need more master thiefs.

[Carbomb]

And let's face it: it's a bunch of imperialist regalia that was most likely made off the backs of the people. The world is full of this stuff; it's more likely to benefit more people being broken up, sold, and generating wealth to go into economic circulation than it did sat in a glass case being viewed by mostly people who'd never heard of them and had mainly come for the Mona Lisa. 

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying these guys are Robin Hoods. They're clearly out for themselves, and their buyers are most likely dodgy billionaires. But those items will probably benefit more people than they ever have by being nicked, broken up, and sold than they have for the entire previous two centuries of existence.

Edited October 21, 2025 by Carbomb
Roberto Donadoni

[Chest Rockwell]

Who do you think had the money to pay for items like this? I can't see how this could possibly somehow generate wealth that is circulating.

[Carbomb]

1 minute ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Who do you think had the money to pay for items like this? I can't see how this could possibly somehow generate wealth that is circulating.

Edited before you replied. The criminals in question aren't billionaires; they will most likely end up spending the money they managed to prise out of some oligarch or other, at some point.

[Just Some Guy]

15 hours ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

No further action for Graham Linehan

Not since his wife left him.

[Mr_Danger]

6 hours ago, Carbomb said:

Edited before you replied. The criminals in question aren't billionaires; they will most likely end up spending the money they managed to prise out of some oligarch or other, at some point.

If they’re anything like the shop lifters from round here they’ll just spend the money on super strength beer and drugs.

[gmoney]

Carbomb's a believer in trickle down thuganomics

[Scratch]

I think a lot of this type of thing is often used for leverage and ransome rather than to make immediate money. As has been said, who’d buy it, and for what purpose?

I totally agree though, it’s a nice return to the good old days of crime. I’ll give it 12 months before it’s a Netflix series.

[Carbomb]

13 hours ago, gmoney said:

Carbomb's a believer in trickle down thuganomics

Normally wouldn't be, but crime seems to be one of the few ways to get the 1% to part with any of their ill-gotten gains.

3 hours ago, Scratch said:

I think a lot of this type of thing is often used for leverage and ransome rather than to make immediate money. As has been said, who’d buy it, and for what purpose?

I totally agree though, it’s a nice return to the good old days of crime. I’ll give it 12 months before it’s a Netflix series.

One of the first things the news pieces emphasised was how the pieces wouldn't be fenceable as is, that they would have to be broken up and sold as individual gems and ingots of precious metal, and how the police were in a race against time to stop that happening.

Sure, no billionaire's wife is going to be wearing Josephine de Beauharnais' emerald necklace any time soon, but they might show up to some party wearing something with an emerald or two in it.

Edited October 22, 2025 by Carbomb
Dino Baggio

[LaGoosh]

23 hours ago, Carbomb said:

One of the first things the news pieces emphasised was how the pieces wouldn't be fenceable as is, that they would have to be broken up and sold as individual gems and ingots of precious metal, and how the police were in a race against time to stop that happening.

Sure, no billionaire's wife is going to be wearing Josephine de Beauharnais' emerald necklace any time soon, but they might show up to some party wearing something with an emerald or two in it.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some dodgy as fuck billionaire Arab or Russian oligarch types who wouldn't want the pieces just to hang them up in their own private collections.

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

https://news.sky.com/story/manhunt-for-epping-hotel-asylum-seeker-jailed-for-sexually-assaulting-girl-after-accidental-release-13456674

 

Couldn't make it up could you? Of all the people to incorrectly release it would be the chap from the Bell Hotel

[Tim Healys Chutney Spoon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g66nll48do

 

I know Messi is a brilliant footballer and that, but dont know why he is so popular in India! Riots in a stadium because the fans didnt get a clear view of him 

Edited December 13, 2025 by Tim Healys Chutney Spoon

[deathrey]

It's crazy that people (for many) a month's wages to just sit and watch him walk around a stadium. Not even talking or do anything, how do you justify charging people that much for doing nothing? Surely he doesn't need the money?!