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Iran, I'm sorry to inform you that your father is dad.
https://x.com/frstint/status/1792332946399277328
Yeah he turned to dust when the helicopter exploded.
Ninja edit: franz ferdinand come to mind, anyone? oops.
Ninja edit 2: tweet deleted? he's still dust though.
Yeah, Osint's desperate to get confirmation. I think we may need to roll it back to 'prayer for him' but not quite officially mourning the butchers death.
There's also so excellent footage going around of what impenetrable fog that you definitely shouldn't fly within looks like from above from search planes.
He's 100% dust.
What, Take me out? Lol
We gotta send you back to school bro
shitty soviet helicopter hitting the deck with this playing
Here's some ragebait about Cambridge balls
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/cambridge-has-banned-fun/
Good. Let them go bust.
Academia Delenda Est
I had a woman in my lounge earlier. After she paid me she commented that my decor was a bit ‘gay looking’.
I’m not really seeing it? What can I do to make it more manly?
https://imgur.com/a/gXRnrxm
Put on a more manly band, like Erasure
You truly are an enigma.
I hope you showed her the dance routine.
lighting makes it look like a brothel
The massive TV playing music videos doesn't help either 🤣
PS5
But I have an Xbox? Is that gay?
I know it has a red ring when it’s fucked, that’s a bit gay I guess.
must be a PS5 enjoyer.
Going ALDIS tomorrow for the first time in years, what's good there? Used to like the ham and they had pease puddun too. They have a range of Scottish stuff that isn't in the stores here, would have bought some square sausage and maybe some pies if it was, bastards
german discounters explained:
prosecco hun x
Their protein puds are good. Only 159 calories too. Which is a good job as I had five yesterday.
https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-brooklea-chocolate-flavour-protein-pudding-200g/4088600496658
The exit is quite nice.
They do nice knock off Swedish ciders but have different flavours (good ones) so it doesn't offend my sensibilities to buy them.
Also remember to take a pound coin for the trolley, I've had to use a house key every time I go there.
Brandy
https://www.cognac-expert.com/vs-cognac/chevalier-vs-cognac
That's got to be worth a try even, to leave in cupboards I paid four quid for an animator when I made sauce for some nice steak we had.
As Eurovision was so popular here I thought I'd share something interesting from the ArrEurope sub.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/eurovision-2024
I haven't clicked it so don't blame me if you get a virus. The original post has the images so I'd just go there.
The TL;DR is that pornhub has a drop in traffic each year during Eurovision and ranks it by country.
The UK is at the bottom of the list for the traffic drop.
It was the same the year before.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/eurovision-2023#more-21439
The British wanker will make time for the footie and a coronation, though.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2023-champions-league#more-21557
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/coronation#more-21327
It's hard to draw much from so little data, but you can speculate a little on the average British male's priorities from it.
This is only more good news to me.
British people don't wank to cringe Eurovision stuff & choose to not wank if they have the option of football or a coronation.
A thought. Pornography is one of the few things these days, at least to my knowledge, that doesn't try to sell THE MESSAGE or that the straight, white male needs to make way, though I'm sure it exists.
they do try to sell the bbc in a big way dont they, like the bbc sell the bbc
Ex-Ministers have warned UK Universities will go bust without raising tuition fees or funding
What are they even spending all the money on? Do-nothing admin staff? Something else?
Why is this our problem, exactly?
3) good.
there are as many great professors now as there were 50 years ago. and ten times more shit ones.
It's fucking weird to me that no one is even saying anything about cutting costs. It's all "WE'LL GO BUST!"
Administrators tend not to be willing to cut administrative bloat because that means cutting them.
If it's the same guy this was his quote from earlier in the week on Radio 4:
Time we stopped relying on foreigners to prop the joint up.
GIVE US MOAR INDIAN AND CHINESE STUDENTS PLS
We need more Indian and Chinese students learning Gay Bomalian Theory so we don't look like a joke of a country.
Pensions?
It's total bullshit.
Just check the revenues and increase in students of all the top universities in the country over the past decade and be gobsmacked. Up 40-50% in undergraduate numbers, revenue up approaching 100%.
The only ones that are worried are the shit ones.
Being landlords. It was so blatant that's where their money is made when during Covid they insisted that classes would all be in person only to reverse that once students were stuck on year-long leases.
"Student accommodation" has become such a meme in Glasgow even normies reflexively say it when they see any construction, and they're usually not wrong.
Time to let the bubble burst.
Lobbying, apparently
I agree there's a huge hole in the expenditure that I've never understood.
On just UK students you can easily have a course that uses like 6 lecturers for around 120 students each giving £9k a year.
( It can be far worse those numbers could be multiplied as you could have 6 lecturers with class sizes of more than 20 or far lower amounts of lecture time).
120 students would be giving 1,080,000 in funding.
Somehow the average lecturer is only on around £35k a year so the example is going to be far less than 1/3 of the cost.
There's nothing that could explain the remaining 2/3s short of some very yellow walls or something underhanded.
Fuck knows what they spend it on. My course only had 12 hours of lectures a week. The rest was ‘study time’ or ‘computer time’.
There was only one lecture on Friday. At 9am. There was no way I was getting out of bed for that so I only went twice, once to collect an assignment and once to hand it in. So it was 11 hours really.
P Diddy, my favourite rapper, has apologised for his behaviour and says he’s had rehab and asked God for forgiveness.
But has Diddy contacted God prematurely?
Who knows what to believe until BBC verify tell us what to believe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyrr61417ylo
Edit…I said P Diddy was my favourite rapper but according to the BBC, he’s dropped the P.
So he’s just my favourite raper now I guess.
Cassie, a black woman is disproportionately a victim of violent crime. Diddy, a black man is disproportionately a victim of being investigated for violent crime. You can see the bind the BBC is in right now.
There's rehab for being a pedophile?
Isn't sexual preference impossible to change?
I won't hold my breath on this logical inconsistency held by many as it would mean the death penalty for all pedophiles or the acceptance of conversion therapy for at least one condition.
Both outcomes being a win for me.
New Sans Beanstalk is here
That disgusting European custom of hotels charging a tourist tax on arrival has arrived on our shores.
Can we charge the rocket scientists?
Thread on arre UK on immigration causing rents to rise. They're finally noticing.
Honestly interesting thread. They identify that the Tories are just doing it for big business and don't give a fuck, but then identify labour won't fix it because it's seen as morally wrong etc.
Kier starmer is -20 approval, rishi -50 or something. How can this be our choices? There has to be another way.. and I don't really think it's reform.
If they're only now coming round to opposing immigration because of housing, these people are natural SDP voters.
When they realize that labour aren't going to fix anything people are going to start to come to baduk for more calm well though out reasonable moderate migration stances - to escape the extremism of ukuk..
ArrUK has already said far worse things than I've seen here.
Sharky Ward is dead.
https://x.com/RDPHistory/status/1791913352626614430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1791913352626614430%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
From the prospective of an also-ran this season, the funniest thing about this year's season is Spurs. A club let down catastrophically by it's pathetic, infantile fans. Had they beaten City midweek they'd be playing Champions League football, and Arsenal still might have cocked it up based on today's performance. Now they can enjoy their Thursday night football, but it's okay because Arsenal didn't win the league.
Yes.
Cope + seethe + dilate. It’s worth playing in the Europa League if it means Arsenal didn’t win the league. I’m sure their fans would agree if the shoe was on the other foot, all in good spirit.
Did you watch the match? Spurs clearly tried to win, they played well, and the game was tight throughout.
It's not about the players. It was obviously a tall feat, but their fans both there and online 100% did not show up for it, and actively wanted Spurs to lose 'City till July' and all that.
They got the lack of Champions League football their fans deserved.
Just beat man city, easy
Should be easy, ill set up a team of (quickly googles the size of a football team) 11 accountants.
Every (high level) football fan is infantile.
I used to like it more than most but then realised what an embarrassment it was. Rainbow laces. Qatar. BLM shirts. All teams foreign owned, foreign managed, foreign players. Women’s football forced down your throat. Atmosphere dead. Can’t even have a beer when watching a game.
Playing football is fun and watching non-league can be good, but anything premier league is very cringe
I'll admit to knowing a negative amount about football but i did find the video of the pitch invasion funny today.
Those players couldn't have got out of there any faster if you announced the inevitable aggravated rape trial which sits in most their futures.
Literally pegging it as fast as possible away from their own Pleb fans.
FATCHA'S BRITAIN
Just remembered that Arsenal FC refer to their fans as “gooners” and there are websites such as GoonerNews and groupings like Global Gooners.
I thought it was gunners
Gunners are the team. Fans are Gooners
For once I’ll defend them here. They’ve been called Gooners for ages - a bunch of American zoomers turning up with a new meaning for that word isn’t their fault or their problem.
I’m not saying it is, it’s just funny to read all the gooner-related phrases when you know the other meaning of the word
European Union activates satellite mapping service to help Iran search for president's helicopter
https://x.com/bnodesk/status/1792250217426763859?s=46&t=AfygPPVmbT-hFJR03pEcVg
If the landing was just an autorotation followed by a hard touch down, you would expect at least one of the crew members to be able to activate a radio and call for help which would allow them to triangulate the wreck. The fact that its been literal and metaphorical radio silence is making me think it was more catastrophic than that.
Will it get them lost?
I mean just leave the sob to fate
its night-time there as well as the weather being shite, GL with that.
The bloke’s dead. Heavy fog, night time, freezing cold and has crashed in a province that (according to a random I follow so could be bullshit) has a lot of wolves. He’s not making it out.
It's bizzare that he doesn't have an escort of any kind with him. The Americans have half an airwing following the president when he nips out to get a pint of milk
Fucking wolves … that’s the last thing anyone needs ….
Norfolk couple in their 20s live like it is the 1940s
They get a lovely write up, when I tell people I'm doing the same I get a visit from prevent
Scrolled down to the first photo and yup. Exactly what I expected.