deanb Posted July 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 Reminds me of the first (and only) time we ever had parental filter on our net. Couldn't do homework about Romans, and couldn't get directions to scunthorpe. Just his whole thing of "put the big brains to it" on how to actually solve the problem of specifically filtering these things from the web just reminds me of..well this bit of IT Crowd: Also it means there's going to a pretty big list somewhere with everyone in the UK who has opted in to watch porn, which is why the whole opt-in is what ISPs wanted, then it's only a list of who don't want porn is leaked. And I've a feeling a FOI request won't reveal which companies are supplying the filtering list, or which sites are being filtered (kinda like the torrent blocks too). UK Politics for you eh? Put Tim Berners-Lee in the olympic ceremony, and then go and lop bits of the web off. Ah well, if you're not allowed to look at tits and cunts anymore it's going to be hard to look at Tory MP webpages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 As much as we love pr0n, there is more important UK news. Baby is popping his/her head out! http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/22/us-britain-royal-idUSBRE96L05320130722 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 The porn would be the "in other news" part to the royal baby news. Funny an American is interjecting with news about royal baby mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 I've been checking the news every day to see the progression. Having a baby is exciting news. And, this being the royal family makes it much more interesting. Plus, I have some damn fixation about the history of royals. The whole ordeal of re-burying Richard III has had me all worked up. So, some good royal news is always fun to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 I've been checking the news every day to see the progression. Having a baby is exciting news. And, this being the royal family makes it much more interesting. Plus, I have some damn fixation about the history of royals. The whole ordeal of re-burying Richard III has had me all worked up. So, some good royal news is always fun to hear. I don't mean to boast (......) but i can walk to his recently found burial site in about an hour. Go me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted July 22, 2013 Report Share Posted July 22, 2013 'Tis a boy! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10155483/Kate-Middleton-birth-pregnancy-baby.html Still waiting to hear the name, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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deanb Posted July 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 And to make the above video even more relevant. He's Prince George! "We hail Prince George, we hail Prince George" "We hate Prince George. We hate Prince George" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 He has the same first name as King George III, which is, by American custom, a lesser king, as told by the songs we sang in elementary school.* *might not be actual opinion, but I sure did love to sing songs in elementary school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 Georgy Porgy pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry? He's supposedly named after his great grandad. Albert. William and Kate didn't fully think this one through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 Prince Albert! That's the name I've been trying to think of for the last two days but couldn't. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 All this baby talk is distracting you brits from the real crisis your country is facing. You're about to get all your porn blocked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 They will never block the porn! Wherever they try to block it, more will pop up. "If you build it, they will cum." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 You and Revan managed to get blind spot to different sides of my above post. As time passes it's looking less likely this porn block is going to go through, especially when the MP sponsoring the change has shown herself to be pretty inept at how the interwebs works. Also Cameron's double sided stance that tits on the web is bad, but tits on page three of his BFF4EVAs newspaper is perfectly fine is making him look like a bit of a hypocrite too. Unfortunately Freedom of Information act doesn't apply to the PM's private flat so we'd never find out if he'd disabled it should it be fully implemented. Many folks are also pointing out it won't stop CP and there's plenty of fine ways to block kids from accessing porn, and it turns out 60% of parents already have some kind of web filter in place anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted July 24, 2013 Report Share Posted July 24, 2013 On the other topic, the songs were much more sung in the spirit of detest of King George. Fun stuff when looking back at the American social perspective. But, wouldn't be right to share with you ladies and gents. I'm not even sure they would allow such songs in the modern elementary school system, as people are way more sensitive these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 25, 2013 Report Share Posted July 25, 2013 I have no idea what songs you're even talking about, and I too came through the American public school system. Are you secretly like 200 years old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted July 25, 2013 Report Share Posted July 25, 2013 No, but we sang Jimmy Cracked Corn and songs about Dixie. Of course, that town didn't really want people of a Hispanic persuasion moving in. Lots of old Germans in that town didn't take to kindly to my kind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23518587 In event of World War III. Break Glass. Read Speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2013 http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/defrauding-young-britain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2013 What Scottish Independence would mean for rest of the UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25035427 I guess the EU thing would be interesting to see. Hadn't realised that Salmond had threatened to walk away from their debt if we didn't give them access to £. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-25793358 UKIP councillor says recent spate of flooding in UK is the biblical punishment of the passing of our same sex marriage laws. He'd apparently already warned CAmeron what would happen. UKIP originally defended his "opinion"/"religious views", but have since suspended him. I guess they realised that while they are courting the disenfranchised tory voters and members (many of which did vote against the same-sex marriage laws, including this councillor) they would still need other folks to vote for them to stand a bit of a chance. It has resulted in this https://twitter.com/UkipWeather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 24, 2014 Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 UK porn filter is blocking a LoL update because of 2 files: XerathMageChainsExtended.luaobj VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2014 Yeah it's pretty fucking retarded, thing is unless I'm missing a gap in my memory this went from "this we might do" suggestion to suddenly being a thing that's being implemented. I can only think of it being there to score points in the Tory camp to gain the back benchers they pissed off by proposing same-sex marriage law. Hopefully it gets scrapped soon, it's terribly implemented idea. But hey, it's the Tories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-26166794 So this throws a big spanner in Independent Scotland. Kinda need money to run a country. It's shit on both sides mind, Independent Scotland should never have assumed they'd get to use the Pound and Osborne is just been a nob and playing politics in saying it'd be an instant no on our front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted February 13, 2014 Report Share Posted February 13, 2014 One thing I have noticed is that political opposition within countries are bigger douches than with foreign countries. Here we have dumbass liberals and dumbfuck conservatives, both leaning so far away from the middle that neither is fully capable of making an educated, rational decision that is best for the people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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