Skip to main content

In The News

pecan said:
I think this is a little sad, Scots in the US aren't allowed to eat traditional haggis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21128089
Click to expand...

My dad was Scottish, born in Glasgow so Haggis was an occasional food in our house when I was a child. I am not a huge meat eater but I loved Haggis. However I haven't had it for about 40 years and am not sure I could stomach it now.

The US really have some strange ideas, from Pecan's link:

As it stands, however, lungs are "considered an inedible item" in the US, says a spokesman for the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Click to expand...

Considering some of the disgusting fat laden mega portions of dead animals they consume I find it very odd that they have chosen a lung as an inedible item.
 
mutleyp said:
OMG Bob Katter and the Australia Party....
Click to expand...

This woman isn't the first person associated with the party to make homophobic comments is she, I have vague memories of someone else in the party doing it too.
-------------------------------
And on the breastfeeding issue , I was just looking for some techy info at Whirlpool and foolishly went into the "breastfeeding thread" why do I do it to myself, it just enrages me.

Angry-Emoticon.gif


Someone pointed out how awful it was that while most shopping centres had breastfeeding areas in most parenting rooms they were right by the toilets and why should babies have to consume their food by the toilet. Some f*ckhead replied:

Oh come on that's a load of crap.

The parenting room has walls separating it from the toilet it's not like the two share the same space.
Click to expand...

That was one of just many comments that made me feel like I'd stepped back to 1950, I really honestly thought we had moved further than that on both of these issues, obviously I was wrong.
 
eliza said:
This woman isn't the first person associated with the party to make homophobic comments is she, I have vague memories of someone else in the party doing it too.
-------------------------------
And on the breastfeeding issue , I was just looking for some techy info at Whirlpool and foolishly went into the "breastfeeding thread" why do I do it to myself, it just enrages me.

Angry-Emoticon.gif


Someone pointed out how awful it was that while most shopping centres had breastfeeding areas in most parenting rooms they were right by the toilets and why should babies have to consume their food by the toilet. Some f*ckhead replied:



That was one of just many comments that made me feel like I'd stepped back to 1950, I really honestly thought we had moved further than that on both of these issues, obviously I was wrong.
Click to expand...



That thread got closed didn't it?

There was a whole lot of strange in there
 
eliza said:
This woman isn't the first person associated with the party to make homophobic comments is she, I have vague memories of someone else in the party doing it too.

Bob himself during the QLD elections released homophobic ad, his own half brother who is a gay man publicly distanced himself from him
watch
Click to expand...

eliza said:
And on the breastfeeding issue , I was just looking for some techy info at Whirlpool and foolishly went into the "breastfeeding thread" why do I do it to myself, it just enrages me.

Angry-Emoticon.gif


Someone pointed out how awful it was that while most shopping centres had breastfeeding areas in most parenting rooms they were right by the toilets and why should babies have to consume their food by the toilet. Some f*ckhead replied:



That was one of just many comments that made me feel like I'd stepped back to 1950, I really honestly thought we had moved further than that on both of these issues, obviously I was wrong.
Click to expand...

I know I still cant believe its 2013 and these issues are ACTUAL issues? WTF is wrong with the world honestly, we should be so past this!
 
mutleyp said:
OMG Bob Katter and the Australia Party....
Click to expand...

But just to play devil's advocate don't we live in a democracy? Are they not allowed their opinions? Or do we live in Orwell's 1984 where you have thought police?

However distasteful I'd rather people have the right to say what they feel.... If not this society is nothing but a sham.
 
Mud Cake said:
But just to play devil's advocate don't we live in a democracy? Are they not allowed their opinions? Or do we live in Orwell's 1984 where you have thought police?

However distasteful I'd rather people have the right to say what they feel.... If not this society is nothing but a sham.
Click to expand...

They have a right to say it, I have a right to be outraged about it. But let me just say, you were born a certain way (believe me, being gay is not a choice) and compared you to a criminal they shouldn't be held accountable for making such a statement and Bob Katter as the leader of that party should be question if he was in agreement of that statement or this was a party line?

Should I be allowed to say everyone with brown eyes are comparable to murders? and not be held accountable for that statement?
 
Last edited:
Mud Cake said:
That thread got closed didn't it?

There was a whole lot of strange in there
Click to expand...

Yes it did and yes there was a whole lot of strange, including comments that were the same as some from here :cool:

OMG just before I forced myself to leave the thread some f*ckhead going on about if women expect to be able to breastfeed in public they should think it okay for people to randomly photograph them breastfeeding without being offended WTH.

mutleyp said:
They have a right to say it, I have a right to be outraged about it. But let me just say, you were born a certain way (believe me, being gay is not a choice) and compared you to a criminal they shouldn't be held accountable for making such a statement and Bob Katter as the leader of that party should be question if he was in agreement of that statement or this was a party line?

Should I be allowed to say everyone with brown eyes are comparable to murders? and not be held accountable for that statement?
Click to expand...

Or everyone with red hair needs a refuge :D

[youtubevid]F_DVHUEjnuU[/youtubevid]
 
mutleyp said:
They have a right to say it, I have a right to be outraged about it. But let me just say, you were born a certain way (believe me, being gay is not a choice) and compared you to a criminal they shouldn't be held accountable for making such a statement and Bob Katter as the leader of that party should be question if he was in agreement of that statement or this was a party line?

Should I be allowed to say everyone with brown eyes are comparable to murders? and not be held accountable for that statement?
Click to expand...

Oh, honey. Idiots will always be idiots. Katter and his cronies are treated with the contempt they deserve by the people who you want to know. xx
 
eliza said:
Yes it did and yes there was a whole lot of strange, including comments that were the same as some from here :cool:

OMG just before I forced myself to leave the thread some f*ckhead going on about if women expect to be able to breastfeed in public they should think it okay for people to randomly photograph them breastfeeding without being offended WTH.
Click to expand...


I read that one. Why would you want to take photos of breastfeeding mums unless you had some strange fetish about it? EEEWWWWWWW

The only logical reason I'd think for that is if you were hired by the mum to take a photo for herself and her baby. Other then that it's just sick.
 
From here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/26/newsbytes-global-warming-downgraded-james-lovelock-recants/

I am James Lovelock, scientist and author, known as the originator of Gaia theory, a view of the Earth that sees it as a self-regulating entity that keeps the surface environment always fit for life… I am an environmentalist and founder member of the Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood and misapplied.

We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs.

We need take care that the spinning windmills do not become like the statues on Easter Island, monuments of a failed civilisation. – Bishop Hill, James Lovelock, 12 December 2012 (in a letter noted by Phillip Bratby)
Click to expand...

"Too little, too late", mind you.

regarDS
 
Hokay, time for something more low brow and thus more likely to be read :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...anal-texting-boyfriend.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Moment distracted female newsreader plunged into freezing canal while texting her boyfriend.. before passer-by plucked her to safety
Footage shows Laura Safe walking straight into the icy water of the canal

Newsreader was looking down at her phone instead of paying attention
'Embarrassed' Miss Safe was helped from the water by a passer-by
Click to expand...

Sounds like she got off easy when compared to the engrossed ipoder who wandered past me and through the middle of red light stopped traffic on a major highway the other year and who ended up using her pretty face to smash the windscreen of a car turning right at a green arrow.

Anyhoo, I'm sure none of you SMS while walking in public, let alone run or walk with both ears stopped up with ear speakers being fed mind distracting rhythms from your phones or whatever ... and that you also dutifully nag your own children live up to your own good example in that regard, yes ?

regarDS
 
derspatz said:
Hokay, time for something more low brow and thus more likely to be read :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...anal-texting-boyfriend.html?ito=feeds-newsxml



Sounds like she got off easy when compared to the engrossed ipoder who wandered past me and through the middle of red light stopped traffic on a major highway the other year and who ended up using her pretty face to smash the windscreen of a car turning right at a green arrow.

Anyhoo, I'm sure none of you SMS while walking in public, let alone run or walk with both ears stopped up with ear speakers being fed mind distracting rhythms from your phones or whatever ... and that you also dutifully nag your own children live up to your own good example in that regard, yes ?

regarDS
Click to expand...


LOL at her name "Laura Safe"

Not so safe
 
Because we all want to see a cavity search video :cool: (not)

I don't want to even begin to imagine what some of the misogynistic morons at Whirlpool where saying.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top