Res Ipsa Loquitur

@JohnCleese And such a shock

Well, that didn't take long

@JohnCleese An example of divided loyalties? Not really. Surely it's plain where her loyalty lies?

Soldiers should not be able to chose which enemy they are prepared to fight against It would be like a platoon taking a vote before they agreed to obey and order War doesn't work like that

@wallacemick As a British citizen I hang my head in shame.

A symbol of British Empire meets a tool of Western Imperialism + Zionist Settler Colonial Project Al-Qaeda's Jolani. They should get on grand...

@jemmm85517813 It's almost as if the intent was to propagandise a particular view about climate change.

What a crazy way to run a Met Office!

@AndreaCalk31326 @saniyafatma1278 Yes, we should never forget to look on the bright side

@StuartLond23794 @saniyafatma1278 At least there's a Teddy bear in the picture. He's there to supervise.

If you walked into your friend’s place and their kitchen looked like this, what would you do?

@Psychgirl211 @maggiemellon Well put

@maggiemellon He's a creepy bloke doing Womanface minstrely

He not She. And it is a tsunami of Truth not Hate. Men do not have endometriosis. Men dont have periods.

@GinaCoxc @russellquirk Although I was right about the terminally dire state of the Conservative Party. Any fool can see that.

@StuartLond23794 @russellquirk Idiots on here that are gullible

Breaking: Essex County Council Conservatives voted this morning to ban the Union flag from flying anywhere in the county including road bridges, lampposts and public buildings. It ‘causes offence to minorities’ said a Tory spokesperson.

@apineorbeenga @EmilySm43 Quite so. Maybe bring out my pet mongoose?

@StuartLond23794 @EmilySm43 I wouldn't do that, dogs don't survive a snake attack

As the man of the house, what’s your next move?

@TheOtherSideRu @Alex_Oloyede2 I'm not sure what is more worrying, that she actually believes what she is saying, or that she doesn't believe it but thinks its justified to say it anyway, or that she thought we would believe anything she said no matter how often we have been lied to in the past.

🇪🇺🇷🇺 "Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries. And I am not counting African countries. Some of them it attacked 3 or 4 times. And not one of these countries has ever attacked Russia" — EU’s Kaja Kallas Someone definitely failed history…

I have in fact read both the BBC article and the Spiked commentary on it. I am also a longtime consumer of BBC news and current affairs output. Regarding the BBC article itself, there is little if anything in it with which I would disagree. What did trouble me was the timing of it and its underlying message. The article emerged at a time when some vocal adherents of Islam have sought increasingly stringent restrictions on the contexts in which dogs may be permitted to be present, and despite the fact that the Quran itself contains absolutely no admonition that dogs are unclean. This has understandably become a controversial issue. The BBC seems to think it is part of its role not simply to report on such controversies, but to actually seek to defuse them. In this case, the underlying message of the article appears to be that it's not unreasonable to object to the presence of dogs, lots of people do, so by implication why criticise those adherents of Islam who feel a similar antipathy? You may disagree with that interpretation, which you are perfectly entitled to do, but to many people including me, it doesn't seem that far fetched, partly because we have noted similar behaviour by the BBC before. In this case, the lie by omission in the article seems to be the omission of the very context I have described above. More generally, my remarks refer to the increasingly obvious tendency of the BBC to omit vital context, essential to forming a balanced judgement on contentious matters, even when reporting the most serious of national and international events. I am sorry that you chose to make your point in a somewhat chiding and judgemental manner. Perhaps it is not me who engaged in rage baiting.

@StuartLond23794 @sharrond62 You haven't read the article, have you. Like so many of your idiotic kind, you've made up a story in your head to rage at, and come on social media to confirm that rage. Here is a wild idea. Read the article. Share a view once you've actually read it, instead of rage reacting.

Wow. So is the bbc saying we have too many dogs in the countryside? What has the bbc become? Every day they just get worse.

@elonmusk How long can we continue permitting the judicial tail to wag the political dog?

Crazy

We used to eat naughty children in those days, so they tended to be quiet and well behaved. Actually, the tradition of eating naughty children was comonplace across the Roman Empire, until Santa Monica, struggling to cope with her unruly son Augustine, introduced the more enlightened approach of praying for his redemption. A strategy that eventually worked, when he converted to Christianity and subsequently became revered as St Augustine. Eating children was subsequently banned by the Emperor Constantine after his own conversion to Christianity in 313 AD on the eve of the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. It remained banned until the fall of the Western Roman Empire before becoming popular again following growing incursions by pagan Germanic confederations from the East. Both the Vandals and the Visigoths explicitly authorised the practice in harsh legal codes governing parenting practices. The practice was again banned, on economic grounds, by Charlemagne in around 800 AD, after he assumed the title of Emperor of the Romans. It remained banned thereafter throughout all of Western Europe, with the exception of Glasgow. Shortly after becoming Prince Consort in 1840, Prince Albert persuaded Queen Victoria to revive the practice, on the grounds that it was an ancient Germanic custom which helped to build character and promote social order. Under the 1902 Education Act the practice was included within the Domestic Science syllabus, and was only finally removed from it by the 1972 Education Act, which introduced a Comprehensive System of Education whose liberal values were seen as inimical to all forms of cannibalism. Consequently, children of tbe immediate postwar generation saw the practice as entirely normal, and behaved accordingly. It is only in supposedly more enlightened times that children became disrespectful of their parents and began to behave so badly.

@glenn_tunes Say what?

WHO'S GOING TO TELL HIM 🙄

In principle, I absolutely don't think it appropriate to offer unsolicited comments on personal matters such as this. However, if asked for an opinion, I might try to turn the question around and say, for example "Are you comfortable with your present appearance?" and, if the respose is negative " That sounds difficult for you. What is it about your appearance that you would most like to change?", followed perhaps by "Maybe what you really need to do is to change the way you think about the way you look?" Failing that, I might move to a safe distance and chant " Suumo, Suumo". It seems effective at soccer matches, although I would advise against this strategy in clinical contexts. Am I going to hell?

How do you politely tell someone they’re overweight?

@Matt_Pinner All joy in life

Boiled Chicken, Greek Yogurt & White Rice. What’s missing here? 🍗🍚

@Sargon_of_Akkad Ooo errrr

This is a great idea. Luckily for me, I'm in my Trajan phase.

@thecataura Cat

Name her whatever you last ate 😭

BCG vaccination. Along with better nutrition and more sanitary household conditions, it helped eradicate the scourge of tuberculosis. "Between 1851 and 1910, nearly 4 million people died from TB in England and Wales alone, with about three-quarters of those deaths from pulmonary (lung) tuberculosis. More than one-third of victims were aged 15–34, and half of those aged 20–24, giving it the nickname "the robber of youth." " quoted summary courtesy of Grok.

Today’s #retro #memory ! Who can remember having this done and has still got the scar to prove it? Is it even a thing nowadays ? #smallpox I think ??