Them: sick of people photographing them and their house

Also them: invite the paper round to take pictures of them and their house

(07-30-2019, 12:51 PM)Craig-Stupett Wrote: Them: sick of people photographing them and their house

Also them: invite the paper round to take pictures of them and their house

I'm sure the japanese tourists will be avid readers of the edinburgh evening news.

https://10engines.blogspot.com/2010/08/m...nQQrnLsBxw

Walked up from the end of upper Victoria Terrace onto Johnston Terrace this afternoon. As we're approaching the roundabout at the bottom of Castlehill at the Lawnmarket there's a fair amount of red&white barriers and obviously tonnes o folks milling around. Surrounding the mini-roundabout are four students with Hi-Viz bibs saying Street Safety or some pish like that. At least two of them when I went past were literally screaming 'Please get off the road' time and time again, and especially on the very narrow north section of the castlehill pavement.

Have CEC actually paid these half-wits to abuse tourists, or are they just ignorant eedjits?

(07-30-2019, 02:54 PM)pondlife Wrote: Walked up from the end of upper Victoria Terrace onto Johnston Terrace this afternoon.  As we're approaching the roundabout at the bottom of Castlehill at the Lawnmarket there's a fair amount of red&white barriers and obviously tonnes o folks milling around.  Surrounding the mini-roundabout are four students with Hi-Viz bibs saying Street Safety or some pish like that.  At least two of them when I went past were literally screaming 'Please get off the road' time and time again, and especially on the very narrow north section of the castlehill pavement.  

Have CEC actually paid these half-wits to abuse tourists, or are they just ignorant eedjits?  

Yes

They think they're polis but folk have just been ignoring them. Just there to turn the buses at the roundabout.

"Abuse tourists" = Stop them get mown down by buses :

(07-30-2019, 02:57 PM)Arthur Morphan Wrote: Yes

They think they're polis but folk have just been ignoring them.  Just there to turn the buses at the roundabout.

Ahh, that explains it as I couldn't for the life of me understand the attitude. Our arrival at the roundabout coincided with that of a wee CEC van so perhaps I thought they're just brown-nosing and justifying their existence but right enough, about 100 yards behind was a big luxury coach. Fucking animals they are!

(07-30-2019, 02:59 PM)Charlie Kelly Wrote: "Abuse tourists" = Stop them get mown down by buses :

tbf if I couldn't work out what was going on then I hardly think Mr Harimoto for Japan will be able to fathom out why some plookie scotsman covered in shite sleeve tats is yelling some nonsense at him when apparently there is absolutely no danger anywhere in sight.

(07-30-2019, 02:59 PM)Charlie Kelly Wrote: "Abuse tourists" = Stop them get mown down by buses :

Nah they are on a power trip tbf, should see the state they're getting themselves into when someone tries to cross the road

https://stv.tv/news/east-central/1439652...tial-home/

Fucking hell

vile

https://twitter.com/sffakenews/status/11...22979?s=21

Really think we could do with a proper definition of what 'fake news' actually means - the Canary is partisan and a fair amount of its output is garbage, but I can't remember seeing them posting much that was actually 'fake'.

Would agree with Mak there.

At the risk of being accused of being a cultist, it's very centrist to want to shut down partisan sites like the canary, and a quick look at the naff tweets offering congratulations in reply to that one above are fairly illustrative of what I mean.

“Well done, here is a hedgehog. *insert hedgehog gif”

(08-03-2019, 01:31 PM)Marquee Signing Wrote: “Well done, here is a hedgehog. *insert hedgehog gif”

'Fake news' has essentially become shorthand for 'news I don't like' - which, ironically, is in itself fake news. For as long as they aren't deliberately misrepresenting facts, sites like The Canary or Guido Fawkes aren't 'fake'. Liberal politicians and politicians have played a blinder in finding a way to use outspoken support of democratic values (in this case a free and independent press) to shut down dissent.

(08-03-2019, 01:31 PM)Marquee Signing Wrote: Would agree with Mak there.

At the risk of being accused of being a cultist, it's very centrist to want to shut down partisan sites like the canary, and a quick look at the naff tweets offering congratulations in reply to that one above are fairly illustrative of what I mean.

“Well done, here is a hedgehog. *insert hedgehog gif”

(08-03-2019, 02:42 PM)Makween Wrote:

'Fake news' has essentially become shorthand for 'news I don't like' - which, ironically, is in itself fake news. For as long as they aren't deliberately misrepresenting facts, sites like The Canary or Guido Fawkes aren't 'fake'. Liberal politicians and politicians have played a blinder in finding a way to use outspoken support of democratic values (in this case a free and independent press) to shut down dissent.

^^^ a pair of Slytherins, no doubt.

(08-03-2019, 02:51 PM)Acey-12 Wrote: ^^^ a pair of Slytherins, no doubt.

^^^ spunkturtle

Another big shooting in America, this time in El Paso.

Multiple fatalities after a boy ran amock in a Walmart.

Shooter was a right wing Trump follower.

https://twitter.com/mjfree/status/115781...78432?s=19