Political Banter and Debate Thread

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:03

MaliA wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

That Eye clipping image is wrong in basically every way. Bad white balance, too big, rotated, bad lighting... It is the Donald Trump presidency of quote tags.

There's a very good reason we're found at different ends of the camera.

Hello, 911? I've just witnessed a fucking murder.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

That Eye clipping image is wrong in basically every way. Bad white balance, too big, rotated, bad lighting... It is the Donald Trump presidency of quote tags.

There's a very good reason we're found at different ends of the camera.

rekt

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:19

SING
HAM

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:19

Giphy "singham":
http://media.giphy.com/media/EykpFRrlhJB4I/giphy-loop.mp4

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:20

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:24

Giphy "my singham is better than your singham":
http://media.giphy.com/media/BplJPlncEkhO/giphy-loop.mp4

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:25

Apparently, My Singham isn't even Singham. Disappoint.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

FLOOD THE THREAD WITH SINGHAM GIFS FOR NO REASON

Always my favourite though:

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

That flipping 4x4 stunt is as good as anything in any '80s Hollywood action movie. FIGHT ME.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:31

Not enough Belt.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:54

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

That flipping 4x4 stunt is as good as anything in any '80s Hollywood action movie. FIGHT ME.

It's the greatest stunt in movie history

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:55

Lonewolves wrote:

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

That flipping 4x4 stunt is as good as anything in any '80s Hollywood action movie. FIGHT ME.

It's the greatest stunt in movie history

Yrs.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Not sure I'd call it a stunt, it's a great sequence but the actual stunts are perfectly ordinary. So many better actual stunts.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:59

markg wrote:

Not sure I'd call it a stunt, it's a great sequence but the actual stunts are perfectly ordinary. So many better actual stunts.

Repent

myp · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:00

markg wrote:

Not sure I'd call it a stunt, it's a great sequence but the actual stunts are perfectly ordinary. So many better actual stunts.

HE CASUALLY STEPS OUT OF A SPINNING CAR

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:06

In the sequel he does almost the same thing, but kicks someone rather than just stepping out.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:10

SINGHAM!

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

markg wrote:

Not sure I'd call it a stunt, it's a great sequence but the actual stunts are perfectly ordinary. So many better actual stunts.

SEE YOU IN COURT

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:17

Trousers wrote:

markg wrote:

Not sure I'd call it a stunt, it's a great sequence but the actual stunts are perfectly ordinary. So many better actual stunts.

SEE YOU IN COURT

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:19

Curiosity wrote:

Trousers wrote:

markg wrote:

Not sure I'd call it a stunt, it's a great sequence but the actual stunts are perfectly ordinary. So many better actual stunts.

SEE YOU IN COURT

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

WTF is a Singham?

Banhammer · **Joined:** 19th Aug, 2010 **Posts:** 35

MrChris wrote:

WTF is a Singham?

what

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:23

Bro, do you even Singham?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Real stunt work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnYev52T8YM

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:24

MrChris wrote:

WTF is a Singham?

I believe it's a lion or a Tiger or some such.

And the best film ever made by human hands.

myp · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:26

markg wrote:

Real stunt work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnYev52T8YM

You're a real stunt

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38467

I've not seen it, but I reckon you'd need to be somewhat inebriated to enjoy to the full.

Those politics, eh?

myp · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:39

DavPaz wrote:

I've not seen it, but I reckon you'd need to be somewhat inebriated to enjoy to the full.

Those politics, eh?

Lolitics more like

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4672

Every time I've seen you lot talk about Singham I've thought 'holy shit that sounds awesome, my kind of film' and then never get round to watching it.

Is it, as someone asked earlier, better watched after a few bevvies when friends are round?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:59

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:22

Though we all watched it hungover on a Sunday afternoon

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:32

Indeed. But would it be better drunk and with friends than sober and alone?

Like literally everything else in the world - yes.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:33

Curiosity wrote:

Though we all watched it hungover on a Sunday afternoon

Sundays at the cottage are a superposition of both the classical states of drunk and hungover. It's only when they're observed that it becomes one or the other (depending on whether you subscribe to the Copenhagen interpretation or the Many-Worlds theory).

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:33

HMG's response to the Trump petition, due for debate in Westminster Hall next week:

Quote:

HM Government believes the President of the United States should be extended the full courtesy of a State Visit. We look forward to welcoming President Trump once dates and arrangements are finalised.

HM Government recognises the strong views expressed by the many signatories of this petition, but does not support this petition.

During her visit to the United States on 27 January 2017, the Prime Minister, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, invited President Trump for a State Visit to the UK later this year. The invitation was accepted. This invitation reflects the importance of the relationship between the United States of America and the United Kingdom. At this stage, final dates have not yet been agreed for the State Visit.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The TL;DR was: we really need to appease this man's ego because otherwise we're going to be even more f-cked on the world stage.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Pretty sure any further "special relationship" with the US will make us even more fucked on the world stage but there you go.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:37

I appreciate that international relations means having to be nice and throw out the bling to some ghastly people for the country's interest, and, let's be honest, Mr Trump is nowhere as bad as some of the people we get the bling out for. But I still think Mrs May was far too hasty to offer one so early. It smacked of desperation.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:38

markg wrote:

Pretty sure any "special relationship" with the US will make us even more fucked on the world stage but there you go.

A better power to cosy up to than some of the alternatives.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Kern wrote:

But I still think Mrs May was far too hasty to offer one so early. It smacked of desperation.

Fortunately Trump's not the kind of guy to exploit that.

Oh.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:45

If I were foreign secretary, I'd hold it in Edinburgh, just to annoy the SNP.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Kern wrote:

I appreciate that international relations means having to be nice and throw out the bling to some ghastly people for the country's interest, and, let's be honest, Mr Trump is nowhere as bad as some of the people we get the bling out for.

I keep hearing this about other countries being worse but it's utterly facile. For a variety of reasons we hold different countries to different standards all the time.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:57

I'm wondering if they had started to make plans for Mrs Clinton, and had already paid the deposit when she lost.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:01

markg wrote:

Kern wrote:

I appreciate that international relations means having to be nice and throw out the bling to some ghastly people for the country's interest, and, let's be honest, Mr Trump is nowhere as bad as some of the people we get the bling out for.

I keep hearing this about other countries being worse but it's utterly facile. For a variety of reasons we hold different countries to different standards all the time.

Oh aye. Not doubting that it's complicated, or that I am not very well-versed in international relations.. The government probably took the measure of Mr Trump and realised that showing him round a village pub was probably not the way to impress him. A strong president and/or a strong prime minister, well aware of the deep links between our two countries, probably wouldn't need such flattery.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:28

By all accounts the Royal Family dislike him, so it should be fun. Maybe William can ask him about the tweets Trump did leering over the topless pictures of Kate.

Also, I see the Trump administration has lost its first member to a corruption scandal. Probably won't be the last.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:30

Curiosity wrote:

topless pictures of Kate

The whatnow?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:30

Grim... wrote:

Curiosity wrote:

topless pictures of Kate

The whatnow?

Blurry zoom lens pap-shots of her sunbathing, a few years back I think.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:32

Yeah, they were ok.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:32

Prince Charles will probably see Mr Trump as proof that you can become head of state at 70.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:33

Oh yeah, on the boat.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:33

Curiosity wrote:

Also, I see the Trump administration has lost its first member to a corruption scandal. Probably won't be the last.

Are you implying that other members of his administration are close to the Russians?

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Feb 14, 2017 10:34

I thought it was on a sunlounger by a pool, taken from above.

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