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Off Topic Thread 4.0

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[Deleted User]

prawnsambo wrote: »

Apparently 21 people have now been treated after the attack on Sergei Skripal. Frightening to think that innocent passers-by could be poisoned by a nerve agent like that. Also they are saying that it was a 'very rare' nerve agent which to me means that the perpetrators want it to be attributed to them.

If they ever manage to pin this on Russia, with evidence, surely that is an incredibly serious incident? It's almost an attack on the UK by a foreign actor at this point surely?

Zzippy

Interested Observer wrote: »

If they ever manage to pin this on Russia, with evidence, surely that is an incredibly serious incident? It's almost an attack on the UK by a foreign actor at this point surely?

Have you forgotten Litvinenko? No repercussions there. Putin doesn't give a f*ck anyway...

[Deleted User]

Zzippy wrote: »

Have you forgotten Litvinenko? No repercussions there. Putin doesn't give a f*ck anyway...

Of course I remember him but I don't remember a load of collateral damage along with him.

Zzippy

Interested Observer wrote: »

Of course I remember him but I don't remember a load of collateral damage along with him.

The investigation found traces of polonium everywhere Litvinenko had been after the poisoning, and everywhere the two assassins had been. His house was declared uninhabitable, a car he travelled in was unusable. They even found traces on the BA jet the Russians flew back to Moscow on. The difference is he ingested it whereas anyone else only came in contact with it.

[Deleted User]

Interested Observer wrote: »

If they ever manage to pin this on Russia, with evidence, surely that is an incredibly serious incident? It's almost an attack on the UK by a foreign actor at this point surely?

Have Russia not effectively pinned this on themselves through state media yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/russian-state-tv-warns-traitors-not-to-settle-in-england

Bazzo

The only viable stick anybody had to beat Putin with was trade sanctions and now he knows he has nothing to fear from the largest economy in the world.

prawnsambo

Deleted User wrote: »

Have Russia not effectively pinned this on themselves through state media yesterday:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/russian-state-tv-warns-traitors-not-to-settle-in-england

"People falling out of windows in industrial quantities."

Looks like another Brexit dividend.

Swan Curry

Interested Observer wrote: »

If they ever manage to pin this on Russia, with evidence, surely that is an incredibly serious incident? It's almost an attack on the UK by a foreign actor at this point surely?

The tories won't do a thing, when Theresa May was home secretary she personally intervened to have an investigation into Alexander Litvinenko's death delayed

prawnsambo

Swan Curry wrote: »

The tories won't do a thing, when Theresa May was home secretary she personally intervened to have an investigation into Alexander Litvinenko's death delayed

And that was before Brexit. Now they're even less likely to do anything more than tut tut.

ClanofLams

Wow. Tiger Woods looks like he's properly back. Didn't expect that to happen.

CatFromHue

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

Wowsers!!

cfuserkildare

Odd how Russia is Instantly Suspect Number One,
Which country was recently embroiled in a High Profile Nerve agent assassination?

prawnsambo

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Odd how Russia is Instantly Suspect Number One,
Which country was recently embroiled in a High Profile Nerve agent assassination?

It's not a bit odd. Russian spy who was convicted in Russia but released in a prisoner exchange, of whom the current President said would 'kick the bucket' and who's son died in unexplained circumstances in Russia.

There are legions of quacking ducks marching past in strict formation on this one.

Zzippy

cfuserkildare wrote: »

Odd how Russia is Instantly Suspect Number One,
Which country was recently embroiled in a High Profile Nerve agent assassination?

I dunno, which country?

prawnsambo

Zzippy wrote: »

I dunno, which country?

North Korea.

But that was almost clumsy enough to have been Russia again.

Zzippy

prawnsambo wrote: »

North Korea.

But that was almost clumsy enough to have been Russia again.

Ah, forgot that one. I guess NK would have a big motive to kill a Russian in England alright... :rolleyes:

Jack Kanoff

Football game in Greece halted at the weekend between PAOK and AEK Athens.... PAOK had a goal disallowed in the last minute and the PAOK owner led a pitch invasion from the bench
.....oh...and he had a handgun...I'd say the ref shat himself... think the Greek league has been suspended for the moment.

prawnsambo

Jack Kanoff wrote: »

Football game in Greece halted at the weekend between PAOK and AEK Athens.... PAOK had a goal disallowed in the last minute and the PAOK owner led a pitch invasion from the bench
.....oh...and he had a handgun...I'd say the ref shat himself... think the Greek league has been suspended for the moment.

He had bodyguards too. That's a proper pitch invasion.

Dave_The_Sheep

Oddly enough, apparently the arrest warrant that's out on him in Greece at the moment isn't for the gun or for (allegedly) threatening to kill the referee, it's for the pitch invasion. Bizarre.

Zzippy

Is it just me or is he wearing the gun backwards?

irishbucsfan

Zzippy wrote: »

Is it just me or is he wearing the gun backwards?

Maybe he is trying to protect himself from himself

pickarooney

He's gone full gangster.

stephen_n

prawnsambo wrote: »

North Korea.

But that was almost clumsy enough to have been Russia again.

A North Korean agent, pretending to be an Iranian spy, posing as a Russian agent. The perfect trifecta.

[Deleted User]

Anyone know how long it takes for something to go up on the RTE player from when it was broadvast live?

aloooof

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone know how long it takes for something to go up on the RTE player from when it was broadvast live?

I've seen things take 24 hours before appearing previously, but I don't know if there's any hard and fast rule.

[Deleted User]

aloooof wrote: »

I've seen things take 24 hours before appearing previously, but I don't know if there's any hard and fast rule.

I missed against the head. It was up in a few hours. Not sure exactly when.

Stheno

So in my new job there is no dress code at all

I initially thought this was deadly and I'd live in jeans and nice tops.

A couple of weeks later I'm sick to the back teeth of jeans and never want to see them again

prawnsambo

Stheno wrote: »

So in my new job there is no dress code at all

I initially thought this was deadly and I'd live in jeans and nice tops.

A couple of weeks later I'm sick to the back teeth of jeans and never want to see them again

#FirstWorldProblem :P

Stheno

prawnsambo wrote: »

#FirstWorldProblem :P

I'm gonna wear a nice frock tomorrow

Podge_irl

Stheno wrote: »

So in my new job there is no dress code at all

I initially thought this was deadly and I'd live in jeans and nice tops.

A couple of weeks later I'm sick to the back teeth of jeans and never want to see them again

My job is similar. I have progressed over the last few years from making an effort anyway to basically just wearing jeans and a tshirt every day. I wear proper clothes when meeting external people and stuff.

Just could not be arsed if there isn't a reason for it.