RANT CORNER

[Derek27]

I'm all for equal rights for women but the cliche "if this happened to men..." is getting well worn out.

[greenmark]

power outage from 6pm to 7:30pm here. And according to nationalgrid form Skegness to Wales though Birmingham. Some are still down, but no explanation as to why. Have I woken up in Enron's California?

[Derek27]

It's just as well I don't use OneDrive to store porn or explicit images of myself because otherwise, when I'm showing a visitor the latest pictures of my cat, Microsoft would choose its own pics at will to display on my screen!!

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[Derek27]

Feeble opinions compared to the GOAT of tennis. What is your gripe? Seriously. What is your reasoned objection to Djokavic?

I've explained that in my last sentence. I realise I'm judging him without a trial but there was strong evidence that he fiddled the dates of his Covid certificate and it seems brushed under the carpet. Still, at least he was held in squalled conditions before being kicked out of Australia.

I respect you Desser but someimtes you overstep sanity. The GOAT in tennis should be held in squalid conditions? Should we celebrate anyone being held squalid conditions? Anyhow, you have your best denouement. The king is dead, long live the king.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you achieved, if you break the law or break the rules you should be treated like anyone else.

He may possibly have been in the country illegally. If he came over here for Wimbledon with false Covid documents he could be the first to be sent to Rwanda.

[greenmark]

Learned a new phrase today "iPhone collectors". WTF!!!!! And one has sold for 190k. This world is just totally nuts.

[ShaunWhite]

Well, I'm glad you have that metabolism..

Inside Health this week was... How hot is too hot for human health?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n ... are-mobile

Apparently your heart pumps about 6L a min. That's over 8,500L a day! Nearly 1,900 gallons.

To save you listening it's
36deg at 65% relative humidity.
42deg at 50%
50deg at 12%

Issue is that the planet is warming and becoming more humid so critical temp is getting lower.

[Derek27]

Halftime bettors in Romania!

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[firlandsfarm]

Halftime bettors in Romania!


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Have they found another angle on Betfair's rounding rules?!

[Derek27]

Halftime bettors in Romania!


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Have they found another angle on Betfair's rounding rules?!

At 1.2 it's layers that benefit from rounding. On this occasion they had nothing to gain or I had nothing to lose, but it's still annoying. Why people do it will probably forever remain a mystery.

[ShaunWhite]

Why people do it will probably forever remain a mystery.

You assume it's deliberate. With nothing to gain or lose it looks like someone's playing with Guardian. .

[ShaunWhite]

Another day, another reason to be ashamed and embarrassed to be British...

A government amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill appears to give the government 'legislative sanction' to breach international law obligations,

The message for us all is that If you don't like a law then just ignore it. . These aren't Tories they're anarchists.

[Derek27]

Another day, another reason to be ashamed and embarrassed to be British...

A government amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill appears to give the government 'legislative sanction' to breach international law obligations,

The message for us all is that If you don't like a law then just ignore it. . These aren't Tories they're anarchists.

That's why it's called the Illegal Migration Bill. Tories only break the law "in a limited and specific way", just like rapists and paedophiles.

[firlandsfarm]

Another day, another reason to be ashamed and embarrassed to be British...

A government amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill appears to give the government 'legislative sanction' to breach international law obligations,

The message for us all is that If you don't like a law then just ignore it. . These aren't Tories they're anarchists.

That's why it's called the Illegal Migration Bill. Tories only break the law "in a limited and specific way", just like rapists and paedophiles.

Yeah, I guess in a similar way that "appears" means 100% guaranteed banged to rights, guilty as charged M'Lord and similarly the way the illegal immigrants are presumably claiming France, Italy, Greece etc. are not safe countries!

My shame and embarrassment is that we don't have the balls to deal with them appropriately.

[greenmark]

Another day, another reason to be ashamed and embarrassed to be British...

A government amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill appears to give the government 'legislative sanction' to breach international law obligations,

The message for us all is that If you don't like a law then just ignore it. . These aren't Tories they're anarchists.

That's why it's called the Illegal Migration Bill. Tories only break the law "in a limited and specific way", just like rapists and paedophiles.

Yeah, I guess in a similar way that "appears" means 100% guaranteed banged to rights, guilty as charged M'Lord and similarly the way the illegal immigrants are presumably claiming France, Italy, Greece etc. are not safe countries!

My shame and embarrassment is that we don't have the balls to deal with them appropriately.

My view is the reason these poor people pass through France to here is that France is flooded. The French solution is to leave the migrants to fend for themselves.
Their status is "sans-papiers". They are non-citizens. Why would you stay in a country like that? It creates a black-market for humans. It creates huge opportunity to exploit people already on the edge of the abyss. Crossing the channel in a rickety boat must seem a decent risk/reward.

[ShaunWhite]

M'Lord and similarly the way the illegal immigrants are presumably claiming France, Italy, Greece etc. are not safe countries!
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Being on French Italian or Greek soil doesn't make them legally there anymore than standing on the beach at Dover does. Safe yes but unable to obtain work visas and join normal society. There's no reason to stay and every reason to try and leave. You'd probably do exactly the same thing.

There's no dispute that the situation has to be dealt with but they're just people found inelligable to gain access, they aren't inherently criminals who deserve to be treated like cattle. We've only got this problem because Johnson failed to renegotiate the Dublin Agreement.