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What the sweet f*** :rofl:
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Not a Souness fan, but good on him:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-65664357

Hope he makes it - good luck.
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Plashet Grove Pete wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 9:38 am Not a Souness fan, but good on him:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-65664357

Hope he makes it - good luck.
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Watched the feature on this on BBC Breakfast this morning.
Moving stuff
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The story begins with some rather dubious decisions:

https://ukdaily.news/london/the-judge-p ... 20519.html

The plot thickens with a massive conflict of interest that apparently doesn't seem to matter:

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/about-us/ ... rt-stewart

Hopefully, she's one of the hundred:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... raffickers
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Ahhh man :cried: & :scarfer:
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WCpete wrote: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:44 pm From the grassy knoll then


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ntary.html

The Ipcress File 3 .
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last.caress wrote: Sun May 21, 2023 11:30 am

Police are said to be looking into a historical case involving a well known comedian and a once prominent politician [ who I once had the pleasure of meeting I might add but that's another story ] .

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Bloke shoots his roommate in a row over an eaten hot pocket

https://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/art ... hot-pocket
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Superhuman effort. Chapeau.

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Full Andrew Tate interview here if anyone's interested. I have to say, the BBC interviewer did pose some weak questions. He insisted on filming his own version so as it wouldn't be selectively edited ...

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I haven't watched the full interview GCRO, only the 8 minute clip from the BBC website. From what I saw Tate dug his own hole with very little prompting needed from the interviewer. Seems like a completely abrasive character who is happy to lie and deny anything thrown at him that he doesn't like.

I can only imagine the BBC chose a female interviewer deliberately. I'd be curious as to whether he would've been quite so condescending and dismissive towards a male interviewer (probably still yes though). I thought she did quite well in trying to remain professional and not get dragged into him continually contradicting himself.
Seems like a very dangerous individual though. I get proper Charles Manson vibes off him.
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'stone hammer wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:46 am I haven't watched the full interview GCRO, only the 8 minute clip from the BBC website. From what I saw Tate dug his own hole with very little prompting needed from the interviewer. Seems like a completely abrasive character who is happy to lie and deny anything thrown at him that he doesn't like.

I can only imagine the BBC chose a female interviewer deliberately. I'd be curious as to whether he would've been quite so condescending and dismissive towards a male interviewer (probably still yes though). I thought she did quite well in trying to remain professional and not get dragged into him continually contradicting himself.
Seems like a very dangerous individual though. I get proper Charles Manson vibes off him.
Definitely a strange one. I did think that the fact there was an upcoming trial limited the amount and depth of the questioning that was allowed. So far, I don't think he's been convicted of anything. The trial will be interesting to watch for sure to see what comes out.
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Greatest Cockney Rip Off wrote: Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:29 pm Definitely a strange one. I did think that the fact there was an upcoming trial limited the amount and depth of the questioning that was allowed. So far, I don't think he's been convicted of anything. The trial will be interesting to watch for sure to see what comes out.
From what I've read he hasn't been charged with anything...yet. The Romanian courts keep extending his detainment while investigations take place.

You've got to think/hope they've got something substantial after detaining him for nearly half a year.

After reading on the Andrew Tate thread that some poster's kids had been holding him up as some bastion of truth and taken in by his 'teachings', I'd be tempted to go as far to say I hope he's put away for a long time regardless of whether he's guilty or not. I can only imagine the damage he's done to some people's minds.
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He's teaching's seem to echo those of hard line Islam and gangsta rap, the negative virtues of both that generally get a stiff ignoring from the "progressive left" that have picked up on this dickhead......
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This feels almost biblical in its scale. Horrendous …

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... ash-horror
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DaveWHU1964 wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:30 am This feels almost biblical in its scale. Horrendous …

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... ash-horror
Terrible, terrible incident. The damage to those trains suggest a very high speed impact. So many dead. Simply awful. :pray:
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A sign that America is completely disappearing up it's own arse?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65794363
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Plashet Grove Pete wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 12:40 pm A sign that America is completely disappearing up it's own arse?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65794363
I don't know about disappearing up it's own arse, rather the two arses that represent American extremes.

Conservative Christian Americans have been changing the laws at local levels to ban books which talk about homosexuality or challenge the traditional white supremacy American view of history. Their argument is to 'protect children & the American family values'.

So now Progressives on the other side are using the same language, written in the laws, to ban bibles. The old testament is pretty gruesome (and contradictory but that's another story).

All very silly tit for tat but just another battle in the culture war that is America.
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It's getting weird when Utah makes a stand on religion, that's for sure.

What I'm attaching isn't news, and I'm not posting it to slag these people or the teflon l'orange off. It just made me chuckle. It's funny, especially the dog chewing on a beer can.

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