Live Video: Rebekah Brooks Testifies
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive for Rupert Murdoch’s News International, is now testifying in Parliament — here’s live video from Britain’s Channel 4:
Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive for Rupert Murdoch’s News International, is now testifying in Parliament — here’s live video from Britain’s Channel 4:
1 | Olsonist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:17:50am |
With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?
2 | makeitstop Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:18:54am |
re: #1 Olsonist
With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?
Rupert denied direct responsibility. He essentially blamed the help.
3 | Alexzander Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:22:13am |
re: #1 Olsonist
With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?
In Canada we have a legal provision that specifically allows you to apologize without incriminating yourself.
All in all, the Brooks testimony is kinda dull. I've been watching it on and off for the past hour.
Obama is apparently giving a speech in I think 10 minutes about the debt situation though.
4 | Olsonist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:22:21am |
re: #2 makeitstop
I hate to natter, but he actually profusely apologized first and then denied responsibility for both himself and his executives even though Tom Perkins said the settlements had been discussed at the board level.
5 | Charles Johnson Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:22:34am |
Didn't realize they were that close to adjourning -- video's done.
6 | jamesfirecat Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:26:31am |
re: #5 Charles
Didn't realize they were that close to adjourning -- video's done.
So it was over before people even thought it was properly started... fitting considering I've known Fox Series like that like...
(ONLY 13 EPISODES OF FIREFLY? DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!)
7 | makeitstop Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:26:57am |
re: #5 Charles
Didn't realize they were that close to adjourning -- video's done.
I thought they were just taking a break. That was anti-climactic.
8 | Obdicut Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:37:53am |
Here's BBC post-mortem:
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
9 | Alexzander Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:50:07am |
Will someone post if they see that the white house (OBama) press briefing has begun?
10 | Stanghazi Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:53:34am |
re: #9 Alexzander
Will someone post if they see that the white house (OBama) press briefing has begun?
From Pam's House Blend - the transcript on her FB page
I think it already happened?
11 | Alexzander Tue, Jul 19, 2011 11:55:58am |
re: #10 Stanley Sea
I guess you are right.
Cantor is speaking on the house floor right now..
[Link: cspan.org...]
13 | Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00:25pm |
I'm sitting here thinking about the wizarding government. Has any government ever been so bullying, yet so utterly ineffective?
A real threat faced their world, and they were regulating the width of cauldron bottoms.
I wouldn't actually be talking about anything in the real world, of course.
14 | Obdicut Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00:31pm |
re: #12 Alexzander
Warning Republicans that they were elected precisely to be economic idiots.
15 | Interesting Times Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:00:56pm |
re: #12 Alexzander
Cantor is getting all angry - yelling etc.
Every time I see video or pictures of him, my mind instinctively inserts the caption "Douchebag"
16 | Alexzander Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:01:32pm |
Hilarious discussion here on RedState concerning Cain's comment that "communities" should be able to ban the construction of mosques.
Some rightfully raise a variety of constitutional and ethical concerns.
Some actually stand by the claim that mosques are outposts to destroy the American government. WTF.
17 | Alexzander Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:01:46pm |
Oops - forgot the link;
[Link: www.redstate.com...]
18 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:09:36pm |
re: #1 Olsonist
With respect to the Murdoch testimony, how can you abjectly apologize and deny responsibility at the same time?
I had no idea what was going on. I'm terribly sorry my staff did this without my knowledge.
19 | b_sharp Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:10:18pm |
re: #16 Alexzander
Hilarious discussion here on RedState concerning Cain's comment that "communities" should be able to ban the construction of mosques.
Some rightfully raise a variety of constitutional and ethical concerns.
Some actually stand by the claim that mosques are outposts to destroy the American government. WTF.
I think they need to be more afraid of the FSM than mosques.
20 | b_sharp Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:10:42pm |
re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist
I had no idea what was going on. I'm terribly sorry my staff did this without my knowledge.
They shall be sacked.
21 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:11:30pm |
re: #20 b_sharp
They shall be sacked.
If it turns out that a mistake was made, those who sacked them will also be sacked.
22 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:11:47pm |
They GOP wants amend the constitution so that any action which would increase the ratio of revenue to spending requires a simple majority, while any action which would decrease it requires a 2/3 majority.
Yeah. That's not a ridiculous trap or anything. What could possibly go wrong?
23 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:13:57pm |
re: #21 SanFranciscoZionist
Eh. The møøse don't care.
24 | Killgore Trout Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:14:16pm |
This is going to go on for years. We're going to learn a lot about Murdoch's infiltration of governments, police, bribery, hacking, coverups, payoffs, etc. The GOP is eventually going to have to answer questions.
25 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:15:42pm |
re: #24 Killgore Trout
This is going to go on for years. We're going to learn a lot about Murdoch's infiltration of governments, police, bribery, hacking, coverups, payoffs, etc. The GOP is eventually going to have to answer questions.
Someone's going to come along in a minute to claim that Soros does all of this and more, but are we complaining about that?
26 | allegro Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:17:52pm |
re: #22 Fozzie Bear
They GOP wants amend the constitution so that any action which would increase the ratio of revenue to spending requires a simple majority, while any action which would decrease it requires a 2/3 majority.
Yeah. That's not a ridiculous trap or anything. What could possibly go wrong?
Ask California.
27 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:18:16pm |
28 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:18:51pm |
Rep Ribble (R-Wisconsin) is actually blaming the fact that bond rating agencies are threatening to drop our bond rating from AAA on the size of the debt.
Um. No, douchebag. The bond rating might be downgraded because the risk of a default due to failing to raise the debt ceiling. Moody's has explicitly said this.
It's amazing. If you are a Republican, you can literally just make shit up, and NONE of your colleagues will call you on it. Nobody.
Fuck facts. Facts are for fags, or something. I guess.
30 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:20:29pm |
re: #28 Fozzie Bear
It's amazing. If you are a Republican, you can literally just make shit up, and NONE of your colleagues will call you on it. Nobody.
Fuck facts. Facts are for fags, or something. I guess.
Facts are very French.
31 | WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:20:45pm |
32 | BishopX Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:21:24pm |
re: #29 Ericus58
I think that Fozzie's statement is an accurate statement of republican lawmakers sentiments.
33 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:21:36pm |
For your entertainment, here is a long thread where fundies discuss whether oral sex is a sin. Best phrase:
First, oral sex is not natural. It is contrary to natural law. If oral sex is OK, then are anal sex or nasal sex also OK?
[Link: wessner.ca...]
34 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:21:39pm |
I'd like a constitutional amendment that says that if you say the word "Obamacare" on the floor of the legislature, you have to spend 20 minutes explaining what medicare part D is, and how much it costs, using figures from the GAO. Also, you have to say which party enacted it, and who voted for it. Furthermore, you have to explain why it's a good idea to legally prohibit Medicare from negotiating for lower drug costs.
Then you have to eat your own shoes.
That would be my constitutional amendment.
35 | Ericus58 Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:22:58pm |
re: #32 BishopX
I think that Fozzie's statement is an accurate statement of republican lawmakers sentiments.
I hold the flippant use of that word in the same regards as any slur - I wouldn't let it go unchallenged.
36 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:24:29pm |
re: #33 Sergey Romanov
For your entertainment, here is a long thread where fundies discuss whether oral sex is a sin. Best phrase:
[Link: wessner.ca...]
"Oral and anal sex are sins except when I force my wife to do it."
--Dumb Bigot
37 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:24:55pm |
re: #33 Sergey Romanov
For your entertainment, here is a long thread where fundies discuss whether oral sex is a sin. Best phrase:
[Link: wessner.ca...]
I have some...questions...about nasal sex, but if people are enjoying themselves, who am I to worry about it?
As for God, I can only assume that she realized a long time ago that there wasn't much we wouldn't try, even if that wasn't the original blueprint.
38 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:24:57pm |
re: #35 Ericus58
I hold the flippant use of that word in the same regards as any slur - I wouldn't let it go unchallenged.
I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.
39 | WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:26:50pm |
re: #38 Fozzie Bear
I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.
HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE totally
40 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:27:47pm |
Read the following phrases, and close your eyes and try to picture the persons speaking.
1. Bob is a homosexual.
2. Bob is gay.
Am I the only one that sees:
1. Raging fundie.
2. Any non-fundie.
?
41 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:27:53pm |
re: #38 Fozzie Bear
I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.
Maybe you should have said "sodomite".
42 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:28:28pm |
re: #37 SanFranciscoZionist
And of course the Urban dictionary explains the nasal sex.
43 | General Nimrod Bodfish Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:28:30pm |
re: #33 Sergey Romanov
First, oral sex is not natural. It is contrary to natural law. If oral sex is OK, then are anal sex or nasal sex also OK?
Don't look in his Internet History. It probably won't be pretty. Or arousing.
44 | WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:29:15pm |
45 | Interesting Times Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:29:56pm |
re: #38 Fozzie Bear
I think it's an apt summary of the GOP's rabid hatred of gays. Seriously, the only people who use the word "homosexual" on a regular basis are people who don't like said group. It's almost like a measurement of homophobia.
[Link: revealingerrors.com...]
46 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:30:29pm |
re: #40 Fozzie Bear
I think it is used in academic context.
47 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:34:05pm |
JPost says someone threw a plate of 'white foam' on Murdoch during the Parliament hearing?
48 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:34:07pm |
re: #46 Sergey Romanov
I think it is used in academic context.
True. Lets try an expanded version of the picture-the-speaker game.
1. Bob is a homosexual.
2. Bob is gay.
3. Bob is queer.
4. Bob is a fag.
I picture:
1. Either an academic in the context of a research paper, or a raging fundie.
2. Indeterminate. Any non-fundie.
3. The speaker is either gay, or supportive of the LGBT community.
4. The speaker is either gay, or a homophobe who thinks he is speaking to a like-minded audience.
Am I alone in this impression? There's coded meaning within the word choice, I think.
49 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:34:55pm |
re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist
Yeah, and his wifey tried to beat the attacker :)
50 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:35:52pm |
re: #48 Fozzie Bear
Isn't queer still used in a derogatory manner (among other uses)?
51 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:35:59pm |
re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist
JPost says someone threw a plate of 'white foam' on Murdoch during the Parliament hearing?
Yes, indeed. Some nutbar in a plaid shirt attempted to throw a simulated pie in Rupert Murdoch's face, and recieved an epic bitch-clap from Murdoch's wife instan-fucking-taneously, before he could even fully complete the act of pie-ing Murdoch's face.
He was promptly hauled off, and is in deep shit.
52 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:36:43pm |
re: #50 Sergey Romanov
Isn't queer still used in a derogatory manner (among other uses)?
I don't know about in other areas, but in areas I have lived, it's generally been co-opted by the LGBT community.
53 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:36:50pm |
re: #50 Sergey Romanov
Isn't queer still used in a derogatory manner (among other uses)?
Yep. It's also a self-identification.
54 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:37:56pm |
re: #52 Fozzie Bear
That' doesn't exclude derogatory use. And if you're aiming for a full list, where are "homo", "fairy" and the like?
55 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:12pm |
re: #53 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
"among other uses"
56 | wrenchwench Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:24pm |
re: #47 SanFranciscoZionist
JPost says someone threw a plate of 'white foam' on Murdoch during the Parliament hearing?
Footage:
58 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:38:51pm |
59 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:41:17pm |
re: #55 Sergey Romanov
"among other uses"
Just making it clear. It's part of the alphabet soup. (None of the gay f words are in there.)
60 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:42:10pm |
re: #49 Sergey Romanov
Yeah, and his wifey tried to beat the attacker :)
Good for her. These people with the pies and the glitter never seem to realize that YOU CAN'T TELL they're not carrying a real weapon when they start to move, and that they are in fact committing assault and battery.
61 | BishopX Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:42:20pm |
re: #35 Ericus58
I hold the flippant use of that word in the same regards as any slur - I wouldn't let it go unchallenged.
I think that we're running into the a case of internet tone deafness here. There are two ways of interpretting his statement. You can read it has fozzie himself saying that "facts are for fags" or you can read it as fozzie imitating a bigoted republican lawmaker expressing disdain for facts. One of these is acceptable, the other is a flippant use of a slur. IRL the difference is a matter of facial expression and tone of voice. I read it as the latter, you seem to have read it as the former.
62 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:42:53pm |
Yeah I'm sure an exhaustive list of commonly used terms would be huge. I just picked a handful of the more common ones to illustrate the point.
63 | sagehen Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:43:09pm |
re: #24 Killgore Trout
This is going to go on for years. We're going to learn a lot about Murdoch's infiltration of governments, police, bribery, hacking, coverups, payoffs, etc. The GOP is eventually going to have to answer questions.
Lawrence O'Donnell brough up something interesting -- when the investigation is about NYC, the Police Commissioner all through the 90's and well into the 00's was Bernie Kerick. As crooked a cop as ever crooked, *very* close to Fox News, *very* close to the Post, formerly veryverycloser to Judith Regan.
When the FBI is ready to interview Bernie about these matters, he'll be easy to find -- he's currently serving a four year sentence in the federal pen. How good might his memory be, if its gets him a year or two or three off his sentence? Or if they tell him amnesia will add time to his sentence?
(please god let roger ailes be implicated amen)
64 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:43:50pm |
re: #61 BishopX
I should probably have used a sarc tag. Sometimes it fails to translate when typed.
65 | General Nimrod Bodfish Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:44:49pm |
re: #59 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Queer, IIRC, used to mean "strange" or "unusual", as I remembered seeing it used in "Red Badge of Honor" back in HS.
Wait...
HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PUSHED IN SKOOL!!11!
(/)
Back to seriousness, like every other word in the history of language, it's meaning has changed over time. Same with "gay", as it used to mean "happy" or "festive" (thus the "Dawn we now our gay apparel").
66 | BishopX Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:44:57pm |
re: #62 Fozzie Bear
For most of the terms you can get a quick judgment by tone of voice. "Homosexual" stands out as being almost entirely a red flag for certain brands of homophobia.
67 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:46:04pm |
re: #60 SanFranciscoZionist
Good for her. These people with the pies and the glitter never seem to realize that YOU CAN'T TELL they're not carrying a real weapon when they start to move, and that they are in fact committing assault and battery.
Yup. That guy is lucky he wasn't tazed, beaten, or shot. You don't jump up and assault people in a legislative body, unless you have a pressing urge to meet your maker.
68 | General Nimrod Bodfish Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:46:55pm |
re: #65 commadore183
Queer, IIRC, used to mean "strange" or "unusual", as I remembered seeing it used in "Red Badge of Honor" back in HS.
Wait...
HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PUSHED IN SKOOL!!11!
(/)Back to seriousness, like every other word in the history of language, it's meaning has changed over time. Same with "gay", as it used to mean "happy" or "festive" (thus the "
DawnDon we now our gay apparel").
(They sounded the same)
69 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:48:28pm |
re: #68 commadore183
(They sounded the same)
At least you caught it before somebody could say "deck the halls with bows of holly" or some other smartass remark.
70 | General Nimrod Bodfish Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:49:57pm |
re: #69 Fozzie Bear
And I would have deserved it LOL.
71 | wrenchwench Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:52:02pm |
A guy just came in here and said he wanted to look around because he's "bike-curious". That was cute, but he kinda reminded me of Arte Johnson, so it was simultaneously a little creepy.
72 | Killgore Trout Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:53:21pm |
U.S. stocks get early boost from earnings, then jump again on signs of progress in debt-ceiling and deficit-cutting debate in Washington.
Dow +200
73 | Killgore Trout Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:54:27pm |
re: #71 wrenchwench
A guy just came in here and said he wanted to look around because he's "bike-curious". That was cute, but he kinda reminded me of Arte Johnson, so it was simultaneously a little creepy.
How is Arte these days? I know he had an ugly suicide attempt a while back, Did he ever return?
74 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:56:25pm |
I was just informed that a friend of mine, who is Bulgarian, is having a friend come to visit him from home soon.
His friend's name:
Last name Balzack.
First name Svet (but his friends call him Sveti).
My inner four year old could not restrain the hysterical laughter. Even better, I had to take a moment to explain. My friend started giggling when I got halfway through the explanation. We spent like 3 minutes just giggling on the phone.
God help me, i'm a 36 year old man, and I still can't help myself sometimes.
75 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:57:10pm |
re: #74 Fozzie Bear
I mean, I'm sure I have made this name up in adolescence. What are the chances!
76 | wrenchwench Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:57:13pm |
re: #73 Killgore Trout
How is Arte these days? I know he had an ugly suicide attempt a while back, Did he ever return?
I had no idea. Wiki only says
Arte has performed some memorable audiobook readings, including Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan (2006) and more than 80 other books.In 2005, he appeared in an episode of Justice League Unlimited as the voice of Virman Vundabar. Today he lives in Southern California with his wife Gisela, and does voice tracks and recordings.
77 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 12:57:24pm |
re: #74 Fozzie Bear
Had to think for 10 seconds there. ;)
78 | uncah91 Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:00:00pm |
re: #64 Fozzie Bear
I should probably have used a sarc tag. Sometimes it fails to translate when typed.
I don't know, there are some words that are "beyond sarc". The N-word for example. I don't think you would have attempted to use that word sarcastically. I think there is a move to make that word just as unacceptable.
Not a judgement, more of a conversation of semantics and the ever changing social etiquette.
79 | makeitstop Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:00:18pm |
re: #65 commadore183
Queer, IIRC, used to mean "strange" or "unusual", as I remembered seeing it used in "Red Badge of Honor" back in HS.
Wouldn't that be 'Red Badge Of Courage?'
80 | OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:00:57pm |
re: #64 Fozzie Bear
I should probably have used a sarc tag. Sometimes it fails to translate when typed.
Or just blot out the letters? That way, no harm/foul.
81 | General Nimrod Bodfish Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:02:00pm |
re: #79 makeitstop
Wouldn't that be 'Red Badge Of Courage?'
Ah, that would be it. Ugh, I really should have looked that up. Been too long since I've read the book.
82 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:02:30pm |
re: #80 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin
Or just blot out the letters? That way, no harm/foul.
I tried that, but then when I scroll down, the letters reappear. ///
83 | Fozzie Bear Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:04:30pm |
Imagine traveling to another country to discover that your name means "perspiring scrotum". Just imagine it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
84 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:05:43pm |
re: #83 Fozzie Bear
There are lots (lots!) of Chinese who have a names that in Russian is an obscene word for "dick".
85 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:11:09pm |
re: #67 Fozzie Bear
Yup. That guy is lucky he wasn't tazed, beaten, or shot. You don't jump up and assault people in a legislative body, unless you have a pressing urge to meet your maker.
And if a guard shoots you, there's much moaning about police brutality, whereas if the victim's WIFE clobbers you, really, who can say she shouldn't have.
86 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:12:28pm |
re: #74 Fozzie Bear
I was just informed that a friend of mine, who is Bulgarian, is having a friend come to visit him from home soon.
His friend's name:
Last name Balzack.
First name Svet (but his friends call him Sveti).My inner four year old could not restrain the hysterical laughter. Even better, I had to take a moment to explain. My friend started giggling when I got halfway through the explanation. We spent like 3 minutes just giggling on the phone.
God help me, i'm a 36 year old man, and I still can't help myself sometimes.
I once sat down with friends to play a game in which you could earn something called "PP points". I do not recall what it stood for. I do recall that I could not stop laughing. I was over thirty at the time. Every time someone said "PP points", I lost it again.
87 | SanFranciscoZionist Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:13:45pm |
re: #83 Fozzie Bear
Imagine traveling to another country to discover that your name means "perspiring scrotum". Just imagine it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I think I would adopt a name in their language, just to avoid being mocked relentlessly.
Maybe Svet would like to be called Steve while he's here.
88 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:14:57pm |
re: #87 SanFranciscoZionist
If pronounced correctly, "Balzak" isn't actually offensive I think.
89 | andres Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:16:25pm |
re: #13 EmmmieG
I'm sitting here thinking about the wizarding government. Has any government ever been so bullying, yet so utterly ineffective?
A real threat faced their world, and they were regulating the width of cauldron bottoms.
I wouldn't actually be talking about anything in the real world, of course.
Nice HP reference. I just finished reading that book. :)
90 | wrenchwench Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:19:23pm |
re: #88 Sergey Romanov
If pronounced correctly, "Balzak" isn't actually offensive I think.
You mean there's a way to pronounce it other than they way they do in The Music Man?
[52 seconds in]
91 | Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:22:14pm |
92 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:39:55pm |
re: #83 Fozzie Bear
Imagine traveling to another country to discover that your name means "perspiring scrotum". Just imagine it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I never met the person, but there used to be someone in the corporate email directory whose name was either Ding Dong or Dong Ding.
93 | Funky_Gibbon Tue, Jul 19, 2011 1:57:50pm |
You didn't miss that much by putting the video up late, it was the weakest inquisition (apart from MP Tom Watson) I've ever seen. Half the MPs there had to state before they spoke that they had some kind of link to News International.
One of them is even a Facebook friend of a Murdoch...
Certain politicians are neatly sweeping it under the carpet and hoping it goes away.