Comments by "Louie Berg" (@louieberg2942) on "LBC" channel.

  1. Props to Lewis Goodall to just let John's call play out. No intervention needed, just offering room to have John tell his story.
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  2. As James O'Brien frequently points out: learn from it, don't get down on yourself over it. You were conned, along with many others.
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  3. 0:16 Come on... You haven't really bought into it until it started to hit closer to home? Is this a one off event or can we agree you're catching onto a pattern here that's been there for quite a bit longer than the past week?
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  4. Explain, please. Use direct quotes if possible. What about the content of his words leads you to this conclusion? And don't you do the "well, it should be obvious. If you cannot see it, then it's no use explaining" nonsense. Walk me through your thinking.
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  5. An invited speaker commented on that by saying something along the lines of "as if the markets are only just becoming aware of Keir Starmer's prescence. The Tories blame the first 10 years on the previous Labour government and the last 2 on the coming Labour government".
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  6. The joy you could hear, briefly, when he spoke about his daughter being a bundle of joy and other memories. That really broke me, given where we are now.
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  7.  john lewis  Yes, it is. I insinuated that BoJo gets flustered by not just Angela Rayner, but also by Keir Starmer and the rest of the opposition, given his performance in Parliament.
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  8. The (likely misattributed) Stalin quote "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic" is in full force here. It's like a kind of selfcare not to think too long on what it means that so many people have perished.
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  9. Isn't the point with the Rwanda plan that we don't know whether or not they would be rejected before they're sent off to Rwanda? They're processed AFTER being sent away, right?
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  10. It is him. The irony is off the freaking charts.
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  11. Yeah, that puzzled me as well. I wonder what else she'll justify, given our supposed limited agency and self-control.
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  12. Certains foods surely must be categorised as addictive. The conversation with Seamus was very easy to identify with. I show addict behaviours, such as getting stuck in a loop of increasing consumption once I "fall off the wagon" again. During the times I deliberately did not purchase any snack food, especially when recently starting another attempt to kick the habit, I turn the house upside down looking for ANYthing to snack on. I've made nasty creations (like cucumber with mayonnaise) just to... snack on something. I did not enjoy the eating, but at least I was eating and it sated that urge. The addiction manifests itself in the weirdest sensation: it dominates the mind. I can barely think of something else. There are moments of clarity at which I feel quite bad about my behaviour, and I straighten the jaw thinking that I'm really gonna lose weight and get healthy this time around. And then comes that all-consuming urge again and you start sneaking snacks here and there, building up to more and more eating. I'm lucky that I am not morbidly obese, but I am not at all at a healthy weight. James' response to Seamus has made me think I perhaps should look outside for some help. The call with Chrissy was devastating.
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  13.  @lochnessamonster1912  Huh? Wha?
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  14.  @stephen393  Woah there, buddy. You moved from "Our universe did not just pop into existence" to "The Bible is (mostly) true". What are the steps in between? I assume you read Genesis as some kind of metaphor and not as an actual description of how it happened. I also assume you believe the Bible tells other stories in a smilar way, as metaphors rather than actual historic accounts. If so, we can at least establish that the Bible is often not literally true. It tells a story, with meanings, which leaves room for interpretation. It is from this that I start to wonder why people are inclined to take interpretations that hurt people, casts them aside, devalues them. On the other hand, if you actually think the Earth was created in 6+1 days, what drugs are you on?
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  15.  @DrJams  Wow...
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  16.  @daveross-lq5nv What do you mean when you say those words? In what ways will the country change if the process of taking the country back is optimally completed?
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  17. Are you a real person? This post looks like an AI ate some rags and crapped out a comment.
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  18. Ugh, I don't want some plebeian enjoying the same things I do. I worked hard to make sure of that, you know? -Maximillian de Beaufort-Luxembourg-Snobbington
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  19. I assume it was leftovers from a lunch that happened at most an hour or so prior, so no such risk. Even if the cleaner was the wealthiest cleaner on the planet, why would one prefer tossing sandwiches over someone else enjoying this sandwich?
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  20.  @purenexus6208  Just a nice way to show how absolutely divorced from reality they are. As if that is a mere pittance.
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  21. Look up the Lee Anderson behind a flag stuff mentioned by Natasha Clark. It's really quite a funny sight. It's funny without context, but the fact he actually addressed a room like that is even better.
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  22. Just having Miles Jupp on the show makes the show funnier. He just needs to be there and laugh and the show gets a boost. He's also genuinely very funny, so all the more reason to get him on the show.
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  23. Constructive criticism isn't necessarily nice, but should definitely be said. Being rude for the sake of being rude is indeed... silly.
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  24. I'm with you. I'm always on the side that has as its primary focus to prevent recidivism. I understand the desire to want perpetrators to be punished, the retribution... but I think we should also at the very least ensure that people released from prison do not ever reoffend. In The Netherlands we have " terbeschikkingstelling", whereby a person who was deemed to be something similar to criminally insane must undergo and finish psychiatric treatment. Ideally each convit remains in jail until some arbiter deems them to be fit to return to society. For some people this means lifelong incarceration, for others this means treatment and rehabilitation.
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  25. There will be people, exactly for the reason that they think they see a "posh school" man tear into someone who (possibly) didn't attend one... while being happy to vote for Jacob Rees-Mogg and BoJo.
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  26. I sure as heck have never said something akin to Hester's words. Not even jokingly, while I can appreciate dark humour.
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  27. Was it peace mire? Like a garden of rememberance, but a little stinky?
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  28. I don't want other men to tell women what to wear. That right lies with me and my fellow "normal" people.
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  29.  @rustynail1194 Oh, you're gonna scramble their tiny mind now.
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  30.  @Muahaha34  No, it's just that Keir Starmer and the entire opposition have a similar effect. Boris is just a very loving guy.
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  31. The man is the posterboy for opportunism. He's bad at it, because his opportunism is so very very blatant.
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  32. I do wonder about the overlap between the currently protesting farmers and the farmers who voted Remain. Imagine being such a farmer and tuning in. You're told to deal with the result "you farmers" brought about, while actually protesting the changes that you saw coming when voting Remain. I can't really find precise numbers on how farmers voted, as they range from 53% to 60% for leave, but in any scenario at least 40% of farmers are kinda shoved aside by the central claim of "you voted for it, now deal with it".
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  33. I hope Hunt is gonna pull a Sunak/Javid and have as his first order of business the sacking of Truss.
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  34. Tories have been in power for 12 years, but Truss is going to change the status quo by staying the course! That speech was so vapid, so superficial, so hollow... it was just a speechwriter exercise in throwing around buzzwords.
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  35.  @Stevies_Precog_Gym_n_Spa420  That was the joke. I'm sure the commenter was being a stereotypical "old person". I'm sure bill calls all computers Nintendos or GameBoys.
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  36. I understand people saying "they're public servants, so it's okay". However, the rest of the people living in the same space (or their neighbours) are not public servants. There is a collateral, in their personal space.
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  37. The irony of this post is stunning. You've left 5 separate comments in the span of 16 minutes, buddy.
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  38. I think it's one part anger at his own surprise, one part Tories being mealy-mouthed and one part anger that the remarks were made in the first place. The various parts will have different volumes/weights.
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  39.  @almazblanco6676  Makes claim about someone else being off-topic. Is themselves off-topic. Gotta love irony.
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  40. 1:13:52 Did I misunderstand or was JOB being unfair here? He locked in on his suspicion and appeared to stop listening. The caller outlined that the sister differs in that she has "no choice" or, perhaps better put, fewer options because of her financial situation. For some reason JOB chose to interpret this as her being disabled (?). The caller wasn't saying that her sister has it better on all fronts, because while she may receive some benefits here and there to help out in a pinch, she is bereft of choice. She offered a nuanced take. People in the caller's bracket need to lose more money in order to become eligible for support, perhaps that should change. A charitable reading of the caller's words would lead you in that direction. It sounded to me JOB was very eager to make the point about kicking down. The caller even says "I don't know where to go with this" because she was put on a track she wasn't on at all, and found herself defending a postion that was assigned to her.
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  41. He doesn't, but he knows saying such things can hurt Biden. Trump is already going round saying "see, Putin wants Biden, not me. I'm the better option to stand against Putin. Nothing would've happened if I were president".
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  42. Well, you're an awful presenter?* Or are you telling LBC to put James in a well (thereby "welling" him)?
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  43.  @crillhouse8770 Probably the same. The EU lost 1 country to which they could send their exports without much of a hassle. UK, in turn, lost all EU countries. It should be obvious that UK loses out in this equation.
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  44.  @richardgallagher4880  I just hope you acknowledge Trump is just as bad at talking. There's hours of compilations with Trump just... mispronouncing everything. They're both old and not all there. Find things to harp on that actually matter and don't apply to both.
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  45. ... Apart from challenging the man in charge you can say what you want. AND! We have cheap gas. A true utopia.
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  46.  @Ajs_1988  They are, much like this caller, too extreme in their views. We need to appreciate the grey, the middle, the sane centre. Too often in the discussions below videos like these the outliers start to appear to be the common folk. Few people are truly that extreme in all of their opinions. Those who aren't need to find each other again.
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  47. And that's why the people protesting call for rules that are more akin to those of the EU. But do explain your logic.
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  48. finger snaps
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  49. There is a difference between racism and discrimination. Racism really is linked to prejudice or bigotry, discrimination can be a neutral thing in which you simply make a distinction.
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  50. The constant scoffing from the caller... He was so indignant and so sure he was right.
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  51. The long text that was sent in by the investigator does offer some nuance. It does not take away, however, Wragg's serious lapse in judgement that precipitated all of this.
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  52.  @nutcracker2916  He does and he has, but not with as much confidence. He's much more knowledgeable on the bible, as he has read it plenty. If he were to start a scripture quoting battle with a muslim or a jew, he'd be out of his depth.
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  53. Oh no... he goes one show without covering either of the wars... so neglectful...
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  54.  @robyn-ky1dz No, but... you're missing the point. Why talk about ranting when you're the one being a fountain of random non sequiturs that sound vaguely angry and defensive? It's like an angry man shouting at the clouds.
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  55. It truly is that simple. People who pretend it's an effort confuse me.
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  56. They are. I do not know what that caller was going on about.
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  57. Which stance in particular?
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  58. Person from Telford (13:41), here's your answer: 1:11 14 years of Tory rule. Supposedly the toughest knife laws in the world. And YET, you persist in your fantasy that being even tougher is going to make the slightest bit of difference.
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  59. Who did? The American person who attempted to take out former American president and American presidential candidate Trump? Please tell me you don't actually think that.
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  60. How is he trustworthy though? He got Brexit through by telling flat out lies. I'm genuinely puzzled by this statement.
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  61. I am genuinely interested to learn what you mean by men having their masculinity taken away. I'm a man and I cannot relate to this feeling, so I wonder what it is that apparently people are keen to take away from me. I also wonder by what means this is taken away from men. If you meant to talk about domestic abuse also affecting men, then it was a weird way to phrase it.
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  62.  @wonderlocs7758  Could you give me examples of this misandry? Again, this is genuinely news to me. At no point have I felt seriously discriminated against because I am a man. I may have been lucky, so I wonder which experiences I have managed to dodge all my life.
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  63. That really gets to me everytime it happens. People parrying by saying "well, it's my opinion" when debating matters of fact.
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  64. It shouldn't surprise you so much. It is a massive part of his life and, but this is armchair psychology stuff, a link to his father. I think he feels embarrassed when he admits to sometimes turning to religion, but I'm sure some voice nags at him when he says he DOESN'T believe most of the time. Of course, being raised in a religious household does not have to have this effect, but I can understand where JOB comes from. I share your puzzlement of feeling anything positive when people discuss acting on the basis of faith, mind you, but that is very much because religion has never been a part of my life. I feel like a blind person who is having people explain to him what the colour blue is.
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  65. To be tin-eared is to be tone-deaf. From what I can gather, the tin-earedness refers to the ear trumpet made of tin. People relying on these were literally hard of hearing, so they needed ear trumpets to enhance their hearing..
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  66. This is what you get, Anna. You made clear to her that you think Sangita is a 2nd class citizen who should "shut up" because she was born elsewhere. You say the same about Marcus Rashford, because his grandmother was born in St. Kitts. People living lives here with friends and family, working their jobs, paying their taxes, caring for their fellow citizens... and you would deny them a say in how the country is being run. Why? Because of something over which they have zero control. Change is scary, sure. You clearly did not have it easy, sure. Why would you let those things move you to denigrate others, rather than embrace them and help them. You know life's hard, why add to it?
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  67. What? Even as a rich person you can imagine what it would be like, which then leads to empathy. He can talk to people who are poor and explain their situation, further contributing to feeling sympathy.
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  68.  @sipjedekat8525  Barnes gave him an out in order to help Andrew accept the central point but also mitigate personal culpability. Andrew wouldn't have it.
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  69. But but but, mommyyyyy... what about them! Oh, why of curse son, now you're off the hook. You pointed to someone else and that magically makes you a saint.
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  70. No. In one case she gained something and in the other she stands to lose something. It's only immoral when she's disadvantaged.
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  71. I'm guessing they will show up soon enough, after fully digesting this insane new policy.
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  72.  @ZombieNation-bo3pu  Nice bait
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  73. Well... it is and it isnt. It's increasingly clear that Sunak just cannot relate to people and it's not unlikely that his wealth is a factor in this.
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  74.  @___Rick___  In before "they weren't given an honest chance to realise their plans waaaah" nonsense.
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  75. WOuld you call it... a Bittersweet Symphony?
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  76. I'm sure you're making a larger point, but I agree: people should not receive death threats. Death threats for hosting a lesson are very bad, indeed. Death threats for saying... ANYthing is a bad thing. It either crosses a judicial/legal line and should be taken up by the authorities or it should be discussed in the market place of ideas.
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  77. It's interesting to see JOB as he discusses transgender topics. I think it's one of the few topics on which he genuinely has very conflicting and fluid ideas. On many other topics he discusses, he has a clear view for himself. It can change, but he has some collection of robust arguments which lands him in one positon or other. It appears that on this transgender topic, he has no robust arguments and that makes him feel like a fish out of water. He has something to hold on to and that is that he is disgusted by the bile spewed in the direction of people who are just genuinely trans people. That is why he frequently circles back to that position, only to sound confused again when leaving that island of safety.
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  78. It is when that PM carries the name Boris Johnson. No hindsight required for that, either.
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  79.  @Toupret  You must understand yours is a weird question to ask. It is frances who is making the assertion. If frances puts forward cases in which women are significantly impacted, we can see the elements that might be in need of mitigation. Or perhaps one/the sum of these cases are sufficient reason to indeed stop altogether. Conversely, people listing all the ways in which women are NOT affected is going to give you an enormous list of irrelevant cases in which women are not affected.
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  80. 24:16 You can rest assured. As an obese person, I am first and foremost aware every day that it would be better to lose weight. To see or hear people go through life not even having to think about the kind of food they eat is astonishing. And to see them enjoy (or even *need*) their daily exercise is strange to me too. It's a daily part of life, I need no reminder that I ought to lose weight. I'm sure it's similar for other people in my position.
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  81. In the Netherlands we have after-school tutoring, quite a lot of it. I dislike it for two reasons: 1. It does give this advantage to rich families, similar to what is described here for private schools. 2. A large portion of the children who are tutored here, would be better off studying at a different kind of education. (E.g. for Dutch cases not VWO, but HAVO). They are, however, pushed by their parents into an education that is not entirely suitable. That is done for reasons James has shared (you ought to get your kid the best education), but it is actually harmful as these children are constantly struggling and stressed. We need to move away from this idea we must funnel all of our children into university. The market and society need to reward education differently.
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  82. I'm very much looking forward to the full interview with the Archbishop. I hope to hear him say things I haven't heard before, but I genuinely worry they will be variations of the standard spiel. I hope to be surprised.
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  83.  @nemosays6337  Huh? You take issue with an Anne Widdicombe dis? You may be one of a total of ten people.
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  84. Let this be a starting gun then. They goofed and put a journalist through this, so it's certain they'd do it in other cases as well.
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  85. Why? He's a radio presenter.
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  86. Who?
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  87.  @xl3nx  "Haha, you didn't know the thing I thought was common knowledge. Haha, now I am superior" No use engaging with people who take themselves to be the standard. Whatever george knows is common knowledge, the rest is not. He is the benchmark.
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  88. Woof, the disdain for Matt Hancock was palpable, haha.
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  89. She actually said something nice about Keir. It might be construed as slightly underhanded, but at least it wasn't as tribal as Mordaunt's answer.
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  90. Same. There are different ways of getting what religion offers you, but it doesn't commit you to all sorts of claims that are pretty tough to defend.
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  91. That question is too easy: Kim Jong Un.
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  92. You feel seen 😅 Sunak the common man.
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  93. Correct, that must've been because of avoiding YouTube striking a video down.
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  94. At the least a politician must be able to show the concrete argumentation underpinning their policies. With facts, figures and so on. Sometimes, things just do not pan out or an aspect was understandably missed... but underhanded, self-serving, or obviously defective policies should be actionable. Lies like those on the Brexit bus should not be left unpunished.
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  95. As a non-UK citizen myself, this is not a question to cast doubt on your comment, but rather to dive into it: Which parts in particular would you specify as terrible flaws?
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  96. As an obese person myself, I do think it is up to me first and foremost. It's a higher hurdle for me to not be obese, due to psychology, nature, nurture and all that: I do believe I need to do more conscious "work" to not be obese than many other people. Think of my addictive behaviour surrounding food and the fact that exercise does not at all feel rewarding or pleasant. Heck, I remember being surprised people felt better during and after exercising and could not live a happy life without working out. It wasn't a chore to them, it was pleasure. It's still up to me, though. Feeling sorry for myself and lamenting the fact that it's probably harder for me not to be obese isn't gonna make the weight go away.
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  97.  @elss8717  I agree the Rwanda plan is fundamentally nasty. However, sending immigrants who have been ruled to be illegal (and who would not be given a chance to live in the UK under anu circumstance) elsewhere is something different than doing so prejudicially. It's shades of nasty.
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  98. You first. Provide proof.
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  99. That is a myth. Whether you are inside the EU or outside of it, you do not act in a vaccum. All countries are always beholden to some degree to external demands. You can see this happen with the sad trade deals that have been made so far. UK is still being squeezed, because without the EU their postion for negotiation is (even) worse. There is no increase in freedom, there is no increase in sovereignty: the UK still cannot just do as their electorate pleases. The difference now, is that they have NO electoral power in one of the bodies that is now exerting some kind of control over them (the EU). UK has actually LOST sovereignty.
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  100.  @rustynail1194  No such claim was made, she just explained it is a saying in Australia and explained to all who might not be familiar.
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  101. Wha?
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  102. Huh... a Lord ánd a contortionist. Such talent.
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  103. No need to swing to the other side and turn Luddite, just actively teach responsible use. Responsible use and self-worth.
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  104. Sincerely doubt you were ever an actual liberal.
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  105. I'm not even sure what this comment is supposed to argue.
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  106. The Rwanda policy has only one certain outcome: where ever the asylum seekers may end up... it's definitely NOT going to be the UK, ever. Why? Well... because... ehr... oh yeah! Because they don't want to return home someday like the Ukrainians do. Yes, that's what I'll tell myself. Gosh, having a conscience is hard work.
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  107. WHAT? EVERYBODY CALM DOWN, I CAN BARELY HEAR Y'ALL!
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  108. What is the context for the comment?
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  109. People can protest for different reasons... The farmers in the UK are almost explicitly protesting the situation that is a direct result of the Brexit. If there were no Brexit, the farmers may have joined the protests for reasons similar to those of the EU farmers. In the end there are indeed protests, but the substance is relevantly different.
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  110. You try to sound deep and even empathetic, but it actually quite the opposite. You do not need to do ANYthing, that is kind of the point. Just leave them be. At most you follow their directions for the preferred pronouns... so you either remember to call someone a she, he or they. It's almost the smallest ask someone can make of you.
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  111.  @stephenmurray2851  It's true! I'm Dutch and I am literally dying! It's a disaster zone here! Where is my lord and saviour Farage?! Help!
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  112. Cleverly's joke is a thought that would not even form in my mind. However, even if it WERE to form, I'd recognise it as one of those weird thoughts you know to acknowledge and then just let fade away again. I'd be weirded out by the strange way the brain works and then continue on. If I WERE to share that thought with people, I'd share it as a "this weird thing happened to me" story. Then a close friend and I would muse on how our brains can be weird sometimes. If I WERE to share that thought with a large group of people in the form of a joke... I'd be either having a weird dream of cosplaying James Cleverly or I would find myself participating in a strange James Cleverly biopic. That is to say it would not ever happen. I like dark humour, but... dark humour still has some logic to it and it still needs to obey rules about timing and context. Dark humour is also not an obvious tool for a public servant.
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  113. That one doesn't really work, bucko.
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  114. Just to add a little to JOB's opening bit: Limitarianism is by Ingrid Robeyns, a Belgian/Dutch philosopher and currently Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht.
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  115. Because of one of the unhinged headlines.
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  116. Is the claim here that James himself makes use of tax loopholes to minimise the taxes he pays? Or is the claim he works for an employer who does so? Or have I fullly misread the comment and did you intend to make a different point altogether?
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  117. Sue showing her true colours and tribalism, by immediately assuming the defence James appears to elicit will come from Muslim Labour voters.
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  118. I can only hope that the Sunak mistake was genuine rather than... you know, something more cynical.
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  119. The fact that people still do is, in itself, very damning for Putin and his ilk.
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  120. 1:28:28 What on Earth was this? He calls in, admits right away that whatever happens he isn't wrong, he then asks James to prompt him because he rang in without know why(?)... and then is aggrieved that James calls him on not engaging with the prompt he was given. He's acting as though JO'B called HIM up and ambushed him with a question he didn't want to deal with.
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  121. Being concerned about 15 minute cities/walkable cities is so funny as a Dutch person. What kind of hellscape do these idiots think The Netherlands is?
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  122. I'm sorry to see that. It's crazy to learn how many people (generally women) have had an experience like this. From my immediate circle, I know of two cases.
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  123.  @twisteddancer7773 I'm sure he has a nice piece of candy with your name on it. Bend deeper, buddy.
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  124. It IS talk radio. So radio blah blah, indeed.
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  125. 40:58 Here's what I do not get... how does a rag like THAT retain a readership among working class people? Why aren't they sussed out? The same people who want to take more of your money in order to give it to rich people, are the same who advocate the fake choice between either poor people or immigrants being looked after by the government. The rich must be laughing themselves silly as they stay fully outside the fray and watch as unfortunate people are being encouraged to fight among themselves. On the topic of Andrew: does any kind of taxpayer money flow to him? If I were a taxpayer, I'd want to insist that he should be stripped off the priviledge of living on my dime. He does active harm, so why is he being reimbursed?
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  126. I know this is said jokingly, but I am sure some rag would be able to spin an article out of this about how we should hate young generations.
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  127. It's weird that he just will not acknowledge the privilege. From where comes this fear to be honest and genuine? How welcomed would a line be like: "I do not know what it is to go without essentials, or not having the certainty that these essentials were there on a daily basis. That is why I will go around the country and have you tell me. I know this is a blind spot for me, so in order to actually, comprehensively tackle this problem I will need to hear all about it from you who go through it." Would a politician be savaged over this? If so, how and why?
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  128. The caller's conclusion is fixed, the reasons he has for it change as is necessary. Such is the way of the bigot. At least the caller admits that he cannot and will not change their mind. Act accordingly.
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  129. Maybe they know people who cannot be for health reasons. Maybe they worry about mutations that can arise because the virus is not being stamped out. Maybe they care for people who die needless deaths because they avoided a vaccine over bogus reasons.
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  130.  @bobenglish5084 Yeah, via an MP who took his seat with him rather than winning it while standing for Reform. Lee Anderson was even in favour of making people stand for election in his particular circumstance, but when push comes to shove...
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  131.  @BrianMcGuirkBMG  Bingo
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  132.  @MrZadir-nu7bd  That is the wildest part of all to me. So-called small government, debt cutting republicans just looking on as Trump balloons the debt. As long as he keeps those pesky foreigners out, they're all golden with it. Nevermind what the clown has in store for USA's presence on the world stage and the climate.
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  133. I need to first ask you what you mean when you say "Enough of the state of Israel". I sense your comment is swinging the pendulum aaaallll the way to the other end. You're against the eradication of the Palestinian people in Gaza, so you're warming to the idea of the eradication of the people of Israel?
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  134.  @rubberyowen1469  Which page of the book of hymns is that one from?
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  135. It is very sad to see people advocating other people lose the things that they don't have, rather than advocating for getting the things other people have. Why race to the bottom? Why not unite and demand basic rights and protections for all and secure an absolute floor no money grubber can dip below?
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  136. It's something inherent to, I suspect at least, a divide between the practical and the ideal. Art has no clear use for which it was designed... so people who do not see or acknowledge the message of a particular piece of art will dismiss it as pure bogus. A can opener has a clear goal for which it was crafted, even if it is a poor can opener.
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  137. At the end of it all "I just don't like Labour or left ideas, because" is what we ended up with.
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  138. I'm so very sure people see you write "white Muslim" and have absolutely no idea who they might be. Even people who were alive during the Balkan/Yugoslav Wars.
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  139. When Labour's in chagre, it's Labour's fault. When Tories are in charge... it's probably still Labour's fault. Look at the stuff they were throwing at Sadiq Khan. If it isn't Labour fault, it's the fault of people with a skin colour other than a slight rosy hue.
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  140. There is a correlation, but it is a very complex one. One paper (The shifting income-obesity relationship: Conditioning effects from economic development and globalization, Zhou, 2021) even suggests that the correlation between income and obesity changes depending on other factors at play. So there's likely to be a correlation, but this can differ from country to country or culture to culture.
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  141. The other side will press it as soon as they are able to do so to the best of their ability: vote them in.
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  142.  @liamsloan5410  Yeah, for the claim of Hilary Cass to work, we'd need a mechanism that works one (safe) way in precocious puberty cases and another (unsafe) way in gender dysphoric cases. I am uninformed of the exact treatment regimen in these cases, so maybe there are relevant differences that would explain a potential risk for gender dysphoric cases that would not be present in precocious puberty cases.
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  143. Henceforth, I cannot be surprised anymore. People have actually made an issue out of the mother of all non-issues. People will just get mad, they will find a way. Even when they're stuck in the Hedonic Machine, these people will be able to beat it. In fact, it is probably what brings them pleasure... they're such miserable, sick, twisted people that without their anger and cynisism they cannot make sense of the world around them.
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  144. I'll say it. I was kind of offended by this woman, as a man. Am I so base, so uncivilized that I can't help but ogle a woman? I have no agency when it comes to that? I guess I'll go club people over the head and breathe through the mouth now.
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  145.  @gooner7331  I'm assuming it does depend on what precedes the sending of such images. Unsollicited images surely must be akin to flashing someone.
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  146. Wow, that UKIP man... the honesty is refreshing, but also terrifying.
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  147. Not gonna play your game. The premise you set up is ridiculous.
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  148. Yes, he admits in this very video. He uses that experience to explain his doubt about people who claim to never ever vote for party X or Y.
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  149. Wow... that character calling in about how Sadiq Khan would back Sharia law... That's the nonsense you're up against and it's so easily gobbled up because people WANT to. It's the guy moaning about too many brown faces all over again.
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  150. Maybe yes, maybe no. I would consider the countries who do the better kind of countries (if they have the ability/riches to do so). As a consequence, I think my country should do so, too.
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  151. Alexandria Occasional Cortex? Did I hear that right?
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  152.  @swisscottagecleanairaction Does that link up with the system of "first past the post"? What causes these safe seats? Being Dutch myself, it may help to briefly explain the system I know. We have 150 seats to assign. Say a total of 10 million votes are cast during the election, a political party would need 66.666 votes for each seat (10 million votes cast, divided by 150 seats). There will be "leftover" votes, which are then distributed through a slightly more complex system. Political parties assemble a list of (potential) MPs and fill the seats. Voters can cast preferential votes for a particular person within a party, which would then overrule the default listing offered by a political party.
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  153.  @protecttzu Serious about describing our electoral system in The Netherlands? Yes!
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  154.  @protecttzu I honestly have no idea. I'm genuinely just asking questions.
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  155.  @elss8717  I don't really understand what prompted this response. I said nothing of the sort, I just asked a question. I wanted to know when the immigrant is processed, before or after being sent away. I ask this because I was aware of the fact it is a one-way ticket.
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  156. Large portions of the Russian population are not particularly benefitting from being ruled by Putin and the kleptocrats. Any opposition they voice will be harshly stamped out, forcing them to live in rather poor conditions. Several cities know luxury and wealth. Go further east and things get... quite poor.
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  157. Then kick out China and Russia as well for their blockades in the Ukraine war.
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  158. @@thelwulf-gu2wdDunno. I just want the people to stop talking about it. Their point's been made by now, so we can stop now. Apparently any kind of clear result or resolution is not required in order to ask people to stop protesting.
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  159.  @Hdcrxycloid-o1y That's the thing. There isn't anything TO discuss.
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  160.  @greamespens1460  I think the issue is that Conservatives have become more populist on certain matters. Populist + right wing is termed far right these days and... that is a shame. It can make you miss the truly dangerous version of far right.
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  161. Talking point straight from Fox News. If "they" wanted hide it, they would not have suggested doing a debate
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  162. For...? Corbyn was investigated and kicked out. It's about the Tories at the moment.
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  163. Are you one of those folks who likes to claim women were happier being docile homemakers who were told what to think?
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  164. He... voted for Brexit to join the common market? That's not how it works. He left the call still not knowing that.
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  165. 1:02:15 This goes to show how harmful people like Tucker Carlson and Nigel Farage can be on an international scale. They are used to "prove" legitimacy. The points raised during this section also show why Putin was eager to call the Ukrainians Nazis: it's a historic representation of the threat from the west. He could also have labelled Ukrainians as Napoleonic, but that would probably be less punchy.
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  166.  @stephenlyon1358 That is a small, small section of the combatants. Putin called Ukraine a land governed by nazis.
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  167. How can you say this when the music business is ENORMOUS these days? Or will this be "countered" by the claim "Oh, what the kids listen to these days isn't real music". @scottblack7182: Nowadays? Remember Woodstock?
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  168. What a sad day. How is it Zelensky that is treated this way? Why has this never happened with Putin, the aggressor, the tyrant, the despot?
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  169. Poor Archie... none of the pillars of his idea remained, but he still scoffs and chuckles and says that it's just "JOB's view" that something about Sunak has changed. He used to refuse the bet and now he takes it. If anything, it shows how desperate he is to project some kind of confidence or machismo, no matter how fake he looks doing it. As for the the idiotic PopCorns, what an absolute cavalcade of idiots. Pompy McPompface calling out other people's pompousness is just next level.
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  170. I'd respect the man so much more if he just said "people make a fuss about nothing, such as" and then probably mention a topic such as pronouns or the use of certain words. I'd rather have a person take a position, offer the arguments and have a discussion than this weak stuff. Have some conviction or change your mind and honestly say you haven't figured out where you stand yet. This dishonest wishy washy nonsense is just sad.
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  171. There's a reason LBC removed Nick's video of today, in which he pleads with people to stop "banging on about Brexit". It just looks so weird next to videos like these. Edit: oh, it's back up. How odd.
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  172.  @glasgirlinoz  Exactly. Bags of money aren't being flown there, rather mostly American products are being flown there. It's a cash injection into a part of the US market. It also helps an invaded people. Not to speak of long term effects from just having Putin run around and do as he pleases.
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  173. Even if it turns out they use inflated numbers, their position is much much closer to the truth than whatever is being told by nasty, selfish arseholes like Nigel.
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  174. "Sanita, Sanita, Sanita" said the caller, after which Sanita Levave pops into existence behind him.
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  175. 1:51:11 Quite a rude gesture there James. Asking us to like and subscribe while making that motion? Tsk tsk 😅
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  176. To be 100% fair to the caller, he doesnt want his taxes to support those who should not be supported. However... that is already the law. That caller didn't want any change, he wanted enforcement of the law. He was just not able to voice it that way, nor would he have been able to defend an argument that the Tories are the right party to ensure this enforcement (as they apparently haven't to a sufficient degree in the past 14 years)
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  177. Gotcha journalism! How dare you ambush me with truth?! First it was cakes, now it's the truth! Where is my safe space? Also, Labour people are snowflakes!
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  178. @abi123The claim that it is anti-semitic has to do with similar claims in the past, of Jewish people in power pulling the strings. Such stories were told in the past to build antipathy towards Jewish people with well-known results. These parallels make several people very uneasy. Conversely, one may argue that it is an overreaction and too sweeping to draw such parallels.
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  179.  @powderedtoastfacekillah734  It's the Alamo all over again 😶
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  180. It's a two and a half hour video. Which person do you mean?
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  181. That part did confuse me a little as well. It'd be similar to saying that Brits support the Rwanda Scheme, because the current Conservative government is doing it.
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  182. Indeed they're not. They're closer to animals than plants, even. Made me chuckle.
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  183. I think if you want to argue the sky isn't real, you won't get much funding either. Not every position has merit, not all positions that are being debated need to be debated, just look at religious people still trying to "debunk" evolution. Anthropogenic climate change is as real as evolution and gravity.
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  184. It's like the rightwingers were envious of the progessive/liberal activists' jargon and buzzword-laden rhetoric... so now they're shouting these rightwing words out without really knowing what they're even saying anymore.
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  185. My dad is in his 60s and suspects he has ADD (sans the H). From an outsider perspective, I'm fairly sure he does indeed have it. He is, however, reluctant to have it checked out because he is very much afraid of rocking the boat and facing the potential grieving process I've heard people describe here. He figures he's been living for all this time without a diagnosis or medication (or gireving), he'd rather not fully fce it.
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  186.  @WhatTehFlup  I think the point was rather than James had plenty of more tender moments as well. Instead a focus was placed on the conflict.
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  187. To be somewhat charitable to Tom... the Tories have changed quite a bit over the years. I've never been a Conservative, but I can recognise that Cameron is a different breed of Tory than Truss and Johnson. I do believe he served May, which makes his position a little more iffy, but even then... May is more akin to Cameron than to Johnson or Truss. May was also very unenthusiastic about the direction in which the Tory party was headed.
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  188.  @chips1889  I know what I am, but what are you.
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  189. Woof, James was making a a LOT of nasty mouthsounds right into the mic today.
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  190.  @anonomous8719  Have you listened to the show... at all? See above response for your answer.
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  191. This is indeed the fundamental issue.
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  192. I can imagine you feel ignored... It's a numbers thing, sadly. JOB even introduced it by referencing the costs obesity will bring. As much of a struggle people who cannot gain weight must have, it's smaller in scale and affecting fewer people.
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  193. @RosemaryBeeds That's a tough and complex question.
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  194. Try sorting by "newest" rather than "popular". They're there.
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  195.  @primeministerelec  Is this a comment in support or against Yella Dart? It's probably a literal whoutaboutism. Just ignoring the point being made and poitning elsewhere. The most you can gain with that strategy is the acknowledgement that other people were also wrong. That person, however, is neither the PM nor the one who made the rule that was subsequently broken. Nor was the person in the whataboutism as frequently involved in the breaking of the rules.
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  196.  @primeministerelec  You just won me a million! Thanks even more!
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  197. We want a one-size-fits-all approach as often as possible, because it's cheaper (on the face of it). Sadly, the world does not allow for that. This creates the tension seen in the discussion about the increase in diagnoses. It leads people to sigh and say "ugh, do we have to cater to everyone with a bit different about them? Are we sure they're not just lazy and have parents who want to ignore that?" It's easier and (on the short term) cheaper to call children lazy and parents delusional, than accept that tailor-made approaches are sometimes necessary.
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  198.  @powerline301  TheLucanicLord felt it was necessary to make a point of michael misspelling the word "prohibition" as "proabition".
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  199. The caller spewed her bile, left the call and then proceeded to send texts. What a sad, hateful coward clown
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  200. Because, at that point in the call, JOB would not be equipped with facts and figures to properly take on the discussion. It's a dicey topic, so you cannot approach it half-assed and let a mix of real arguments and fake arguments fly through the air.
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  201. ​ @steven161183 you understand I can say the same about your love for Trump, right? Go buy more products from Alex Jones/InfoWars...oh wait
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  202. I have no desire to become a parent, however that is not even the thing that I would point to as the thing that might penalise me in some way. On the whole my life is perfectly fine and comfortable. However, I do think that my desire not to be in a relationship has a bigger impact. I do not get any of the benefits provided by the state to people who cohabitate. In The Netherlands, there are regulations and benefits for people who bundle their resources. Aside from that, if you thought the assumption of people wanting to be a parent was prevalent... you should hear the responses I get when I say I have no desire for a relationship. I'm either lying to myself, or I simply haven't met "the one" yet, but in no way is my desire (or lack thereof) genuine; it's circumstantial. I was pitied for a long time by the people closest to me for never having been in a relationship (or even intimate) with another person, even though I personally experienced no loss or emptiness. My friends, siblings, parents and other family are enough for me.
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  203. Netanyahu has been suppressing the Palestinian Authority, a participant that one COULD get to a table to talk to. Meanwhile, Israel has clearly been unable to sufficiently suppress Hamas. Netanyahu hoped to keep Palestine unstable, so that they remained powerless to do anything. Instead, something else happened. What has happened is vile and the full weight of its awfulness lies with Hamas. Everyone KNOWS Hamas is a bunch of hateful people, so by taking away and undermining any potential counter from within Palestine, Netanyahu has effectively enabled Hamas. Hamas then did the awful things that they've been threatening to do all this time.
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  204. I'm not British, so I do not know how involved the process is. In The Netherlands, the nearest polling station is 5 minutes away by bike and there are no queues. It took me at most 15 minutes to vote for the EU election.
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  205. I wonder how true it is that young people will vote Left. Here in The Netherlands, we tend to do a mock election under younger people who cannot vote. Especially men are shifting to the right to the detriment of traditional parties. I see some comments say that the younger people see no difference between Labour and Conservative. I worry that this may be a chicken and egg story. Old people vote, so they get to influence the parties more, so they are more motivated to vote. Meanwhile, that feedback loop is not there (or much less so), for the younger voters. Younger people don't vote, so political parties don't want to risk losing older voters by placating the non-voting young people, which further demotivates the younger voters.
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  206.  @eddeduck From memory? He has teleprompters. The original post was nitpicky, but these speeches aren't done from memory.
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  207.  @eddeduck Probably not. Didn't make that particular point either. Just challenged the "from memory" part.
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  208. ​ @twisteddancer7773 no, it's highly specific: spewers of hateful, false bilge
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  209. I listen to JOB plenty and enjoy it for the most part, but what you are describing is an element of his broadcasts that can send me up the freaking wall. I do not understand why he does it, why apparently no one points it out to him, or why his microphone is apparently calibrated so poorly.
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  210. It's been a while since Brexit was in full swing that we had such a call.
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  211. Do tell! If you would.
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  212. What the frick is even happening in this thread.
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  213.  @equaliser2265  Pointless pedantry AND it is wrong pedantry. A hydrophobic substance does not experience fear of water, it is rather repelled by it. As for the original poster: JOB is obviously not in the slightest bit against trans people and their rights. Stop making enemies of your allies over a single accidental misspeak.
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  214. I heard it was because of the Remainers, or wait, no... it was because the markets pre-emptively soil themselves in anticipation of a Starmer government. No, no, no wait, it's because people just like bashing the Tories. The coincidence of Kwarteng and Truss releasing their moronic plans and the various responses that followed, go beyond mere chance.
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  215. Real banner week for Sunak. Betting on the lives of refugees and keeping up his transphobic attacks in the presence of parents of a trans person. He shouldn't do it in ANY case, but the fact he cannot even put a lid on it under these circumstances shows how desparate he is to keep blowing his dogwhistles.
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  216. Why are supposed setups and consipiracies against people like Farage always to seemingly transparent? An actor (registered as such, but with rather minor roles), using his own name, doing a bit to shame ReformUK? Come on... But when other politicians make gaffes, they're real, they've done so intentionally and they ARE proof that the other parties are wrongies. If even GBNews isn't on your side (reported by Charlie Peters), you gotta do better. But hey, I'm in a charitable mood. I'll spot you your Andrew Parker conspiracy... now explain the other loonies in your party. Andrew Parker isn't an isolated incident.
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