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    Someone is going to miss that.

    in order for 16.5 tons of cocaine (or any other powder) to be distributed among only seven containers, they need to be hi-cube containers and filled with virtually nothing else.

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      That's a LOT of charlie.

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        90 Percent Of Kids In LA County’s Juvenile Halls Have “Open Mental Health Cases

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          mArItImE lAw

          https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...rth-high-court

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            Sovereign citizens, man

            Somehow I doubt that he got to where he is but reading Alphaville.

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              There was a really interesting, and distressing, Radiolab episode about a US woman whose birth wasn't registered because of her family's weird religious beliefs, and when she escaped she found (and I think still finds) it extraordinarily difficult to do the most basic things. It's a bit reminiscent of the travails of dead people in India, except in her case there's no record she even exists.

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                It's a facebook site so I can't link to it but Cahir News revealed that Austin Gaelic Cowboys, defeated Dallas Fionn Mac Cumhaills to win the much coveted Texas senior football championship. There was one Cahir person playing for Austin, and three for Dallas.

                There are some linguistic difficulties involved when you take such a rural local sport, and then try to internationalize it. In Ireland the GAA headquarters sits at the top of the pyramid. Underneath that are the provincial boards, and below that then, at the level that deals with clubs, you have the County board. So when the time came to have a board to organize all the various Gaelic football teams throughout Asia, what do you think they called it?

                ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the Asian County Board.

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                  I heard about it yesterday and was going to post it on the other thread.

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                    I was torn

                    The racial element is screamingly obvious, of course

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                      Originally posted by Tactical Genius View Post
                      the gender they choose to identify with
                      This is a mealy-mouthed, dog whistle transphobic phrase that completely misrepresents what it is like to be trans. Please stop using it.

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                        I'm speechless.

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                          Originally posted by delicatemoth View Post

                          This is a mealy-mouthed, dog whistle transphobic phrase that completely misrepresents what it is like to be trans. Please stop using it.
                          Hi Delicatemouth, I am was using it to be descriptive and meant to be offensive to you or Trans people. If you could educate me with the correct term to use, i'll endevour to use it in the future. Apologies for any offence used.

                          Also if you point out the post i'll update it. I looked for it and couldn't find it (i'm not accusing you of making it up as you have clearly quoted me and it is a descriptive term i would use).
                          Last edited by Tactical Genius; 27-06-2019, 15:02.

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                            Thanks. "Because they are transgender" works perfectly well.

                            For anyone who doesn't get why the phrase I picked out annoys me (and others) so much, look at it again. "The gender they choose to identify with" is carefully phrased to indicate that being trans is something you happen to fancy doing, and that you could equally choose not to. As me and many other trans people repeatedly point out in various media, laying our life stories out for the cis voyeuristic gaze in an attempt to justify our right to exist, this is not true.

                            Think I'm in a bad mood? Well yes, I am as it happens. To get back to the premise of the thread, it ought to be a WTF when hate crimes against a small minority rise significantly due to TV, radio and newspaper editors/owners/senior staff being bigoted boots. Sadly, it was all too predictable.

                            https://twitter.com/shahmiruk/status/1144165504006938624
                            Last edited by delicatemoth; 27-06-2019, 16:35.

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                              I was speechless about the pregnant woman and the shooting story; there was a crossed post, I think.

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                                I'm very sorry Sporting, that was me being over sensitive and I've edited my post. I said I was in a bad mood.

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                                  No problems.

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                                    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ired-to-police



                                    A Spanish woman and her daughter have been arrested after going to a police station to complain that the man they hired to carry out a murder had swindled them out of the €7,000 (Ł6,300) they paid him.

                                    The investigation began earlier this month, when the pair told police in Madrid that the mother’s partner had cheated them out of a total of €60,000.

                                    It later emerged the daughter’s partner, who claimed to be a senior member of Spain’s secret services, had suggested they recover the lost money by killing the mother’s boyfriend.

                                    They paid him a €7,000 downpayment on the understanding he would arrange to have the mother’s boyfriend killed and sell the dead man’s organs to raise the €60,000.

                                    When the killing failed to take place, the mother and daughter felt defrauded and went to the police again.

                                    “Officers then proceeded to arrest the two women and set about tracing and arresting the male suspect,” Madrid police said in a statement. “They have not ruled out the possibility that he may have swindled other people.”

                                    They said the three suspects were waiting to appear before a judge and that the victim of the plot had been found “in perfect health”.

                                    The Spanish news agency Efe reported that the three suspects were all Spanish citizens, with no criminal records. They did not give their names, in line with Spanish police practice, but Efe reported that the mother was 52, the daughter 20 and the daughter’s boyfriend 29.

                                    Officers are looking into the background of the man and how he came to have false documents bearing the logo of the state intelligence agency, the National Intelligence Centre.

                                    They also found a document in which he had allegedly laid out how he planned to carry out the killing and sell the victim’s organs.

                                    According to Efe, the man had a fake CV, which claimed he was a lieutenant colonel, an expert marksman and a specialist in interrogation and “elimination”. It also said he spoke 22 languages, including Bengali and Hawaiian.

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                                      Originally posted by delicatemoth View Post
                                      Thanks. "Because they are transgender" works perfectly well.

                                      For anyone who doesn't get why the phrase I picked out annoys me (and others) so much, look at it again. "The gender they choose to identify with" is carefully phrased to indicate that being trans is something you happen to fancy doing, and that you could equally choose not to. As me and many other trans people repeatedly point out in various media, laying our life stories out for the cis voyeuristic gaze in an attempt to justify our right to exist, this is not true.

                                      Think I'm in a bad mood? Well yes, I am as it happens. To get back to the premise of the thread, it ought to be a WTF when hate crimes against a small minority rise significantly due to TV, radio and newspaper editors/owners/senior staff being bigoted boots. Sadly, it was all too predictable.

                                      https://twitter.com/shahmiruk/status/1144165504006938624
                                      Thanks for taking the time to explain to me. I can see how that comment would cause offence.


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                                        Irony alert:

                                        Daily Mail write article criticizing authorities for intending to deport grandmother for "being a burden on the health service"


                                        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...alth-dies.html

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                                          Deporting a 93 year old. That's beyond heartless.

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                                            Originally posted by Tactical Genius View Post
                                            Deporting a 93 year old. That's beyond heartless.
                                            Especially one (or anyone else for that matter) in ill-health.

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                                              I do make an exception for war criminals, but yes.

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                                                Sri Lanka - "just in case we need to kill somebody"


                                                https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26542991

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