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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3. Oh no... he goes one show without covering either of the wars... so neglectful...
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  4.  @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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  5. It truly is that simple. People who pretend it's an effort confuse me.
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  6. They are. I do not know what that caller was going on about.
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  7. Which stance in particular?
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. I'm guessing they will show up soon enough, after fully digesting this insane new policy.
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  22.  @ZombieNation-bo3pu  Nice bait
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  23. 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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  24.  @___Rick___  In before "they weren't given an honest chance to realise their plans waaaah" nonsense.
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  25. WOuld you call it... a Bittersweet Symphony?
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. It is when that PM carries the name Boris Johnson. No hindsight required for that, either.
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  29.  @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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33.  @nemosays6337  Huh? You take issue with an Anne Widdicombe dis? You may be one of a total of ten people.
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  34. 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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  35. Why? He's a radio presenter.
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  36. Who?
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  37.  @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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  38. Woof, the disdain for Matt Hancock was palpable, haha.
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. That question is too easy: Kim Jong Un.
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  42. You feel seen 😅 Sunak the common man.
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  43. Correct, that must've been because of avoiding YouTube striking a video down.
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48. You first. Provide proof.
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  49. 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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  50.  @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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