I heard the news today, oh boy..

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

The first being The Weekly World News? :))

[mockney piers]

close, The Daily Mash !!

[Huguenot]

I laughed until I cried... check out the video footage from Confirmado

Cat Eating Festival

[Brendan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/oct/10/banking-creditcrunch

??In unusually aggressive terms last night, the prime minister said he was willing to use anti-terrorism legislation to freeze the assets of other Icelandic companies operating in Britain in an effort to recoup the lost money.?

Fuck me! Is all I can rightfully say to that.

Talk about setting a hugely worrying precedent for the abuse of "anti terrorism" legislation.

Edit: To belatedly add sarcastic quotation marks around anti terrorism.

[mockney piers]

Don't worry, if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear.

Of course, if you're an African immigrant taking our jobs on the other hand......the Guillotine!!!

[Brendan]

Careful Mockney, sarcasm suggests freedom of thought which can lead to terrorism in which case you have just given the government the excuse they need to steel all your assets and incarcerate you indefinitely without trial.

Edited: For your protection - HM police services.

[mockney piers]

Plus I'm a bit swarthy, don't shave very often and have beady eyes, basically I'm a shoe-in for 7 hollow points to the head if I even go near the tube or a labour party conference, heart heavy with heckles.

[Brendan]

Calm down and repeat after me:

Those in power know best, that?s why they?re in power

It?s for our protection

Kill the transgressors

Now if only we could all get together, perhaps once a week in a big hall or something and all repeat it together we would all feel so much more reassured.

[david_carnell]

Whilst I'm in agreement with the pair of you woolly pinkos over the worrying use of antiterror laws to have a pop at Iceland a pop needed to be had.

Those cheeky steam-bathing feckers decided to ignore international treaties and conventions and screw over a lot of public institutions. I think that deserves a response and a tough one to boot.

Now where are those ICBMs?

[Brendan]

I know but there is something buried in my racial memory that is saying, ?Don?t piss off a Viking.?

[mockney piers]

Is that your flemish and irish ancestry, bloody hell Brendan, you practically ARE a viking

[Ant]

In which case he should know.

I'm buying a helmet before it all kicks off.

[mightyroar]

that cat eating news is brilliant.

[mockney piers]

spot the difference

1: News

2: Satire

[Brendan]

I knew it. You read the Daily Mail showbiz section every morning.

[mockney piers]

Ha ha, I reverse engineered the story.

[BJL]

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[Brendan]

Ted Max pointed this out on another thread. I feel that as it is about beer it warrants proper exposure and discussion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/also_in_the_news/7688195.stm

Personally I would welcome the chance to be able to buy 2/3s of a pint of lager as lager has to be drunk cold and a pint gets warm at the end, especially as most pubs don?t serve it cold enough in the first place.

I will stick to pints of proper beer though.

[mockney piers]

unopened mussels in ok to eat shock!!

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/10/eat-mussels--a.html

[Brendan]

It's all AC/DC's fault: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/27/acdc-music-recession

[mockney piers]

Why on earth do you have to turn tto a music magazine for some decent journalism?

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23612315/how_we_lost_the_war_we_won/1

What next, Smash hits on the Bin Laden children's controversial love of Britney?

[Brendan]

How long before it's all pound shops, fried chicken take-aways and a job centre?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7700133.stm

[Huguenot]

Wasn't that an utterly talentless photographer?

[Izodia]

But damn it, I don't live in West London any more! And when I did, I was never short of somewhere to go shopping. Now over here in the south east...and don't tell me to go to Bromley!

[Brendan]

Shopping? You live in South East London now. Just rob things like the rest of us.