WaffenThinMint Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Imagine a politician who puts political imperatives ahead of electoral ones? What sort of society would that lead to? The sort of society which saw Britain taken into an illegal war with Iraq. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 This thread is going tits up now. I think they could maybe do away with page 3, so the paper would have page 1, page 2 then page 4, would that suit everyone? Sorted me thinks. Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaDundee Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 The unionists are seething because they are all perverts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos123sam Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I don't read it because it's shit so ban it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Tits in The Sun is a bit mad now we all have smart phones. I used to love it but it's now in the same camp as Bernard Manning, miners, snooker, or actually buying newspapers, in that it was big in the past but now it's had it's day. However, all the papers realise that having a tidy bird on the front sells papers. The Sun are just giving the reader more of what they want. Who is the reader, though? People who are too daft to work a smartphone? For those who want decent soft porn just go to Hottystop. Job done. Agreed that it's hardly a priority. It just looks like the SNP trying too hard to reach out to those women voters that shunned independence in the recent referendum. Would Patronising BT lady approve? Edited January 7, 2015 by Scary Bear 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Tits in The Sun is a bit mad now we all have smart phones. I used to love it but it's now in the same camp as Bernard Manning, miners, snooker, or actually buying newspapers, in that it was big in the past but now it's had it's day. However, all the papers realise that having a tidy bird on the front sells papers. The Sun are just giving the reader more of what they want. Who is the reader, though? People who are too daft to work a smartphone? For those who want decent soft porn just go to Hottystop. Job done. Agreed that it's hardly a priority. It just looks like the SNP trying too hard to reach out to those women voters that shunned independence in the recent referendum. Would Patronising BT lady approve? How low are they going to bring down the voting age? If the SNP are going for the girl guide vote? I don't think this would have happened under big Eck? Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 The sort of society which saw Britain taken into an illegal war with Iraq. Stupid comment. Britain going into an illegal war in Iraq had nothing to do with political objectives over electoral ones. Though it's a sad reality that so many folk supported the war at the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) This. I'd fears that the same old Nicola putting ideology over pragmatics would come out before the election to ruin matters, & once again she reverts to character. I don't disagree with her, but Holyrood's Hermione Grainger needs to sort her priorities. There's a crisis in the health service, people reliant on food banks to get by and freezing because they can't afford to heat their homes, people on "permanent temporary" contracts seeing their already minimum wages eroded in real terms, & she's wanting to talk about cheap titilation in the dying tabloids in the same way the more clueless Tories are demanding making the repeal of the foxhunting laws centre to their next manifesto or Heydrich Murphy going on about the "sectarianism" bill the police seldom bothered enforcing anyway. All she's doing is showing herself up as another out of touch professional mandarin who thinks in terms that what the "real people" want (those found hanging around quaint little West End cafes and "wine bars") or the Guardian supplements is more valid than the aspirations of those disgusting proles. And then her ilk wonder why they start voting UKIP just to piss them off or give up on voting altogether? I don't think this is a particularly helpful analysis. You write all that as though she/her party/government in general isn't also concentrating on all those other things. It's not an either/or situation, and suggesting it is is akin to those clowns that go "why aren't they curing cancer or something useful", when it's announced that money is being spent on CERN, etc. Edited January 7, 2015 by milton75 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 How low are they going to bring down the voting age? If the SNP are going for the girl guide vote? I don't think this would have happened under big Eck? Grimbo I haven't noticed any girl guides. The occasional naughty schoolgirl, secretary and the likes, but no girl guides. That sounds more like The Sun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Stupid comment. Britain going into an illegal war in Iraq had nothing to do with political objectives over electoral ones. Though it's a sad reality that so many folk supported the war at the time. Wrong again. It doesn't get any more political than regime change on ideological grounds ("spreading democracy"). http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,427343,00.html "President Bush wants skeptics at home and abroad to believe that a war to depose Saddam Hussein would spread democracy and peace in the troubled Middle East. In a speech Wednesday the President reiterated an optimistic view in which a post-Saddam Iraq serves as a beacon of secular liberalism for its authoritarian neighbors, even facilitating peace between Israel and the Palestinians by removing a source of encouragement to suicide bombers." The main reason given (whether the whole story or not - and it certainly was not) was getting rid of Saddam Hussain and insuring the installation of a pro-Western (read pro-American) government that would do as it was told. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I haven't noticed any girl guides. The occasional naughty schoolgirl, secretary and the likes, but no girl guides. That sounds more like The Sun. Might just be the online edition? Grimbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Genuinely worrying posts in this thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Might just be the online edition? Grimbo Www.hottystop.com Not sure what dodgy site you're on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Genuinely worrying posts in this thread. Surely the Pars are more of a worry at the moment. You're nearly at the East Fife level of bad. We are the kings of Fife, as per. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaldo Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Page 3 is utterly cringeworthy primarily because of the tacked-on "News in Briefs" feature. Having some dumb burd with her chebs out talking about how bad the war in Syria is doesn't really do it for me tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhoy who invented weetabix Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Page 3 is utterly cringeworthy primarily because of the tacked-on "News in Briefs" feature. Having some dumb burd with her chebs out talking about how bad the war in Syria is doesn't really do it for me tbh. Do you understand the meaning of the word SATIRE? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamaldo Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Do you understand the meaning of the word SATIRE? Where did I say I believed it was serious? It's still pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiemunster Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 I'd bang Sturgeon and her lego hair then wipe my boaby on the curtains. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 TV shows and films come with ratings though - and there's a watershed for TV purposes. A daily newspaper is a different thing altogether. Sex scenes can also be seen as part of a story and so arguably relevant - but again not in a newspaper. I fully agree with you about the fashion magazines btw - but I don't see how that justifies the p3 issue. So is your daughter likely to go into the newsagents and buy the Sun? I blame the parenting.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 How low are they going to bring down the voting age? If the SNP are going for the girl guide vote? I don't think this would have happened under big Eck? Grimbo I think you're reading things backwards. The guides are campaigning to get the support of politicians as opposed to the other way round. Salmond would most likely have given a similarly vague statement of support that stopped short of actually committing to do anything just as Sturgeon and Milliband have. Salmond wouldn't get quite so much criticism as Sturgeon though as he's got a willy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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