General News Thread

Worry that former Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. And to make matters worse it has spread to other parts of her body.

My thoughts are with her at these difficult times.

Think she told the other Girls Aloud members before she went public about it. Just hope all goes well for her.

Go Fund Me took down a page taking donations for a legal defence for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17 year old who shot two in self defence during recent riots and is charged with first degree murder within minutes of it going live.

It isn't self defence if you show up somewhere with an assualt rifle, so it's right the page got taken down. He went looking for a fight.
The American cops have fucked things up yet again, they kill an unarmed black man which causes the problem and then let a 17 year old walk around with an assault rifle, which they had chances to take off him, but instead gave him water and allowed him to cross police lines.

Who would have thought Police Academy was an accurate representation of Policing in America. It's scary.

The price of a plastic bag is doubling to 10p next year

So the government has worked out a way to get back all the money they have spent during furlong.

They just need to sell 40,000,000,000,000 bags.

I've just read on Ceefax that a record 409 migrants in 27 or more boats crossed the channel in one day. They were intercepted and that some were children too young to walk.
THe BBC reported that Johnson said that the UK had become the target for criminals who would exploit vulnerable people in this way.
The way he thinks that it's happening because of the criminals or the vulnerable people rather than being his fault.
This is happening because he's allowing the Border Force to intercept the boats and caring for the occupants here instead of returning them to some beach in France whence they came.

^wait, there's still a ceefax?

(03-09-2020 10:26 )terence Wrote:  ^wait, there's still a ceefax?

I thought it was finished

it ended in 2012

They've replaced it with the inspiringly named Red Button Service....I know you're impressed.
It's just the same and my go to for news, other than these pages of course.