Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. Putin’s one of these guys that looks more sinister when they try to smile. He’s like a Russian Gordon Brown in that respect.
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  2. You have to be very careful with glue. Last Christmas, because I foolishly wrapped the presents in the dark during a power-cut, I accidentally gave my wife a glue stick instead of ChapStick. She hasn’t spoken to me since. 💄
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  3.  @nosmallfeat311 You’re missing the point. An increasingly substantial proportion of Europeans are fed up with mass immigration. Period. The ‘uncontrolled’ bit is actually irrelevant here. It’s the importation (controlled and uncontrolled) of very large numbers of immigrants they don’t like. The ‘legality’ or ‘documented-status’ of these migrants is neither here nor there for these people.
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  4. Well, of Corsa this is bad news for the car manufacturers and they won’t be having a Fiesta and they may have to consider Minimising production. Could be that with the current economy, folks just can’t afFord cars at the moment. But on the bright side, the workers will have a little more free-time for a round of Golf!
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  5.  @campbella2796 Totally disagree. Pornography fosters aggression by normalizing and depicting verbal and physical violence as enjoyable. In a study of 271 battered women, it was found that 30% of the abusers reportedly used pornography. The study concluded that the majority of women (58%) whose abusers used pornography acknowledged that the pornography had affected their abuse. I’m not saying it’s the only cause; I’m just saying it feeds into the average man-on-woman domestic violence scenario.
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  6. Cringe.
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  7. @lifesbutastumble I live in Scotland. Legislation has just been introduced that if someone at a comedy club is ‘offended’ by something and they make a formal complaint, the police may investigate. Wake up! We live in a culture where a small minority want to cancel the rest of us. Nice try. 👍
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  8. Yeah, but let’s be fair, Trump would tell his wife he loves her.
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  9. ABBA? ‘Forgettable’?! ‘Talentless’?! ‘Hacks’?! How very dare you! 😡
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  10. The first thing that strikes anyone without skin in the game of this conflict, is how easy it is to solve. The essential point is a simple one. Two peoples of roughly equal size have a claim to the same land. The solution is, obviously, to create two states side by side. However, those who do have a tendentious, non-objective point of view, namely the rabid rabbis and the mad mullahs and the pervervid priests, have served to scupper any chances of solution, obvious to everyone else. But the exclusive claims to god-given authority, made by hysterical clerics on both sides and further stoked by Armageddon-minded wacko Christians who hope to bring on the Apocalypse tout de suite (preceded by the death or conversion of all Jews), have made the situation insufferable, literally and metaphorically, and put the whole of humanity in the position of hostage to a squabble that now features the threat of nuclear conflagration. The moral of this sad, sorry tale, full of sound and fury, is that organised religion has so much to answer for, we may be here until the seas run dry and rocks melt in the hot middle-eastern sun, before it can claim any kind of alibi.
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  11.  @GTA5Player1  Uh huh. And you never have tribal (some might say, ‘racist’) thoughts. K.👍
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  12.  @Decision_Justice  Get real. We’re dealing with humans here. What’s happened these past 3 months will be a traumatic collective Palestinian memory for decades, and has just sown the karmic seeds down the line.
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  13. 750,000 at last count for the year. That’s 1% of the total UK population in a year. And all legal. Add to that the tens of thousands of illegal economic migrants seeking to stay and you clearly have unsustainable levels of immigration. I say all this as someone pro-legal immigration, but not pro-legal immigration when it runs at 750,000 per year.
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  14.  @Anon-lz1qy  That’s fine. You can disagree. That’s called freedom of speech. I stand by my OP. The other thing here that seems odd is 1. Why are you taking your dairy-allergic 13 year old to a place where dairy is omnipresent? 2. Where was the EpiPen? Either the poor girl herself was taking her allergy lightly or the mother was. Or both. I’m not necessarily blaming the mother here, as at 13, I had a good bit of volition, but she was a child in the care of her mother… 🤔
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  15. This is heartbreaking. Hope Odesa doesn’t get completely mashed. One of the tragedies of war, aside from the obvious human cost, is the loss of beautiful old cities and towns, which once gone, are never to return and are invariably replaced with horrendous modern architectural monstrosities (eg. Marseille, Le Havre, Hamburg, Portsmouth, Rotterdam, Berlin, etc.). Odesa is one of Ukraine’s gems. Please let the war gods spare it.
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  16. Wow! Are you really doing this Kurt? A white South African guy? 🤦‍♂️
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  17. As they would say in Scotland: this Government appears to care hee-haw about the nee-naws. 🚑
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  18. Dude’s hands are so big, when he waves he causes a solar eclipse.
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  19. Given Rochdale is 36% Muslim, it was inevitable Galloway would win. The real issue here is Islam. Galloway is a friend to Islam. 3:24 Look at the people surrounding him here. If you’re not a friend to Islam, and you make it public, this can cause you trouble. If I were a famous public figure and publicly slagged off Jesus, or Yaweh, or Krishna, or Buddha, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it’s very likely nothing would happen to me. If I publicly castigated Muhammad, it’s quite likely there’d be a backlash and I’d be watching my back for the rest of my life. That’s the difference. Just ask Salman Rushdie. For some reason, certain prevalent strands of Islam can’t take honest criticism, when it’s just a bunch of manmade ideas like all the rest.
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  20. Personally, I’ve been jabbed so much these past 2 years that I feel as if I’ve gone 12 rounds with Tyson Fury!
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  21. People will say this was a ‘mental health episode’ and it probably was. But let’s face it, anyone who is claiming an imaginary, unverified, unverifiable invisible sky daddy for one’s actions could also, arguably, be said to be having a ‘mental health episode’. RIP to the dead lad involved and condolences to his family.
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  22. It’s a bit of a mystery why Putin seems to want to put the ‘USSR’ back together when he can’t even seem to keep RUSSia warm in winter.
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  23. If they ever make a biopic of her life (they won’t), then Marion Cotillard is a shoo-in for the lead.
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  24.  @bigbang7897  It’s just about Islam, m8 (along with a little colour discrimination.) You need to come clean about this. It’s religion. If the Polish were Muslims you’d have an issue. Although, I’d add the caveat, that a good proportion of people have little tolerance of those who don’t look like them skin-wise, regardless of their religion. So, it’s complicated and everything is often predicated on accidents of birth no one has any say in. So, it’s all very primitive and tribal and inbred. But hey, that’s humans for ya! 👌 🤠
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  25. I feel sorry for folks losing their houses/belongings, naturally. But let’s face it, this is LA, hardly the most beautiful city in the world. Not even up there in American terms. It can be rebuilt and nothing particularly disastrous has been lost in aesthetic terms. This would’ve been catastrophic and culturally disastrous if say, Toledo, or Paris, or Venice, or Edinburgh had been burned down. That stuff is irreplaceable.
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  26. Whenever these barbaric events happen, I’m always instantly reminded of the wise words of Robert M Pirsig: You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Or, as Keats had it when he was writing about Shakespeare and attributed to him what he termed “negative capability” and the ability to accept ”uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
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  27. Scene: Meeting of the British Cabinet. Prime Minister: “Good afternoon. We face a grave issue. Defence Secretary, can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “I think so. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them.” Prime Minister: “Hmm … do you favour a no-fly zone?” Defence Secretary: “My trouser choice is none of your business, Prime Minister.” Prime Minister: “Indeed. Putin’s looking to install a puppet regime, isn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “He is. However, if he installs Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy we should be ok.” Prime Minister: “Yes, quite. Putin’s got us over a barrel, hasn’t he?” Defence Secretary: “I’d say. About 5 million barrels per day!”
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  28. What’s happening in France can be correlated with Brexit and Trump. Instead of looking at this in terms of traditional left versus right, David Goodheart’s thesis of two distinct ‘tribes’, the ‘anywheres’ and the ‘somewheres’, with irreconcilable differences may be applicable here. Brexiteers, Trumpeteers and Le Penistas fall into the ‘somewhere’ camp and they may be seen as rooted in geographical identity - the Scottish farmer; working-class Geordie; Cornish housewife - who find rapid changes to the modern world unsettling; are socially conservative; are likely to be older and less well educated and less mobile. This manifests in supporting anti-mass-immigration policies; strong support for the Armed Forces; suspicion of the EU, and more widely ‘other’ cultures; strong support for strict law enforcement (including the death penalty) and a general authoritarianism, with the notion that the primary job of Britain’s leaders is to put British interests first. ‘Anywheres’ are footloose; often urban; university educated; socially liberal; egalitarian and meritocratic in their attitudes to race, sexuality, and gender; are able to migrate and integrate comfortably into other places; are often strong supporters of the EU and globalisation; are lighter in their attachments to larger group identities, including national ones, valuing autonomy and self-realisation before stability, community and tradition. What’s happening in France may be seen as a battle between the Anywheres and the Somewheres just as Brexit and Trump’s election may be seen in these terms.
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  29. Must be tough for Pip. A major broadcaster dropping him like a stone after 20 years will be hard to take. On the bright side, there’ll be several “minor” Channels clamouring for his services. Hang in there, Phil: CBeebies and Disney Junior will be in touch. 👍
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  30. Yeah, but tbf, I’d rather have this than Iran or Afghanistan. The ‘religion of peace’ (pmsl) ain’t cutting it for me, sweetie.👍
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  31. If they ever have an Olympic queuing event, GB will come first, and for anyone to gainsay this is out of line.🤓
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  32.  @Ashleii  Really? Last time I checked one ‘gang’ was exclusively Hindu, while the other ‘gang’ was exclusively Muslim. Looks like there could be just a smidgen of religious motivation at work here.
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  33. It’s always amusing watching British weather. Whenever anything slightly out of the ordinary happens, it’s always exaggerated. Wind gusts of 100mph are treated like hurricanes where in actual hurricanes sustained winds are at 150mph. 3 consecutive days of over 25°C are classified as a ‘heatwave’ when other places on the planet have 30°C+ every single day of the year, and many places have summer temperatures topping 40°C for months on end! A ‘severe cold snap’ is a few days of about 0°C when proper ‘cold snaps’ are in places like Canada or Siberia where for weeks on end it can be -20°C and below. British weather is beige. Even when it’s ‘extreme’, it’s beige. Why? Latitude. Mainly. And sea. Oh, and Gulf Stream. For example, Calgary, Canada is at almost exactly the same latitude as London, England, yet London is a good 8-10°C warmer in the winter months!
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  34. He was 60, m8. Hardly a fossil ffs.
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  35. There’s nothing like watching a bunch of randoms earning £2,564 per hour, paid by me, doing absolutely f*ck-all.
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  36. Aww, diddums, Jimbo. Did the report on black people upset your feelings, sweetie? Der, der. Mummy will be along soon to kiss it better.😭
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  37. Fukuyama talked of the ‘end of history’ and the ‘last man’ 30 years ago; that is the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government, while the ‘last man’ referred to what could go wrong with liberal democracy in the future. If we look around the world we see democracy as a rather fragile thing, liable to crack at populist/nationalist fissure points, as demagoguery maintains or returns to the box-seat in many countries. Taking democracy for granted is highly risky. The ‘last man’ in our current days just sounds plain ominous; especially for Western Europeans who hadn’t really seen an aggressive invasion of a sovereign nation by another since WW2; and when the invading nation has nuclear weapons, then talk of ‘last men’ becomes rather sinister and bleak.
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  38. It means that you’re gonna be paying 50,000 lira for a turkey. 🦃
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  39. Ffs. Just have a country together. You seem to be able to live in Jerusalem together: just extend that to Gaza and the West Bank. 🤦‍♂️
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  40.  @Cloudy.419  Yeah, good old Mohammed; his future wife, Aisha was just six years old when she was betrothed to ole Mo, himself in his 50s, and only nine when the marriage was consummated. Lovely role model stuff there for us all to follow.👍
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  41. This episode goes right to the heart of free-speech and its limits. Personally, as a free-speech absolutist, I have no issue with what Clarkson said but recognise law prohibits speech which, for example, incites murder, violence or terrorism; stirs up racial hatred, or hatred to other groups; causes fear of violence, alarm or distress, constitutes harassment or is defamatory or malicious. Clarkson’s words are clearly an incitement to violence on another, notwithstanding the jokey, blokey Clarkson tone cloaking those words. The fact Clarkson himself appears to think he crossed a line suggests he probably did. However, when all is said and done here, as usual George Orwell hit the nail on the head when he said: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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  42. Oh Jesus. Don’t bring invisible sky daddies into this. These are a big part of the whole problem in the first place! When is humanity going to grow up and out of organised religion? We are better than this. Or should be, by now. 🤦‍♂️
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  43. Seethe, cope and learn to use full-stops. *.
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  44. A la Jeremy Clarkson, I almost have negative feelings about Paltrow ‘on a cellular level’ … but I’m f*cking glad she won this case against an absolute chancer! 💰
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  45. Source: ‘trust me, bro.’
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  46. It’s apt that NATO’s going to train 30,000 troops in the Arctic, as that’s going to be a lot of ‘nae toes’ by the end of the training!
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  47. Day 590 of Putin’s war. This has to be the longest 6-day Special Military Operation in history!
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  48. If you “stand for Russia” wtf are you doing in Jamaica then?
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  49.  @tiredgardener  Oh, stop it darling. You secretly love the drags; that’s why you are oh so publicly pushing them away.😉
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  50. You keep copying and pasting this. I’ve seen it 4 times tonight already. It’s Jefferson’s quote anyway so stop plagiarising and not attributing.
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