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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