The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCVYzlzMn4

Five sentenced to death for hacking up Kashoggi at the Saudi consulate on Bin Salman's orders.  Thanks Bin Salman!

How in the world did they find five guys willing to take the fall?  Did they tell the actual guys who did the hit to take one for the team?  Did they round up five random dudes sitting in prison?

This has got to be one of the weirdest PR stunts ever.

[mongers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InCVYzlzMn4

Five sentenced to death for hacking up Kashoggi at the Saudi consulate on Bin Salman's orders.  Thanks Bin Salman!

How in the world did they find five guys willing to take the fall?  Did they tell the actual guys who did the hit to take one for the team?  Did they round up five random dudes sitting in prison?

This has got to be one of the weirdest PR stunts ever.

They were useful to the state, doing it's bidding and murdering.
Then the political situation changed and they became useful in a different way, as scapegoats.

Not PR, much more like a straight 'play' out of the totalitarian dictator's playbook.

[DGuller]

You'd think the prosecutors could've gotten at least one of them to flip on Bin Salman in exchange for a lesser sentence. 

[Admiral Yi]

he he

[PDH]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/23/home-office-gives-man-asylum-after-accepting-people-can-be-gay-and-single
Single gay man granted asylum

Also I feel quite attacked by this line by Mr Sam on his singleness: "And anyway, I am 67 and I am short and fat and too old."

This is one of a few examples of the Home Office making awful decisions denying gay men asylum because, I shit you not, they didn't have a "gay demeanour" or "look around the room in an effeminate manner" so their lives wouldn't actually be in danger

This indicates the courts/Home Office are learning slowly.

Good on them.

[garbon]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/23/home-office-gives-man-asylum-after-accepting-people-can-be-gay-and-single
Single gay man granted asylum

Also I feel quite attacked by this line by Mr Sam on his singleness: "And anyway, I am 67 and I am short and fat and too old."

This is one of a few examples of the Home Office making awful decisions denying gay men asylum because, I shit you not, they didn't have a "gay demeanour" or "look around the room in an effeminate manner" so their lives wouldn't actually be in danger

This indicates the courts/Home Office are learning slowly.

To me it seems like yet another example where the Home Office makes a decision unfavourable and then relents after significant attention is brought to the case by charity groups and the left leaning media outlets.

[Tamas]

I guess in their own way this makes sense because anyone can claim to be gay and they don't want to let anyone in.


And yes, garbon, makes one think how many such things must happen where people don't manage to make sufficient noise.

[Tamas]

Merry Christmas everyone, by the way in properly Christian countries tonight is Christmas :p

[Eddie Teach]

Says the avowed atheist.

[Josquius]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/23/home-office-gives-man-asylum-after-accepting-people-can-be-gay-and-single
Single gay man granted asylum

Also I feel quite attacked by this line by Mr Sam on his singleness: "And anyway, I am 67 and I am short and fat and too old."

This is one of a few examples of the Home Office making awful decisions denying gay men asylum because, I shit you not, they didn't have a "gay demeanour" or "look around the room in an effeminate manner" so their lives wouldn't actually be in danger

This indicates the courts/Home Office are learning slowly.

To me it seems like yet another example where the Home Office makes a decision unfavourable and then relents after significant attention is brought to the case by charity groups and the left leaning media outlets.

Yes. Sadly would have to agree there. May ultimately do more harm than good, as lovely as it is for the man in question.
Nice in this article they have him saying he's fat and old. The one I read had a friend saying it to which I was just "dude...."

[Sheilbh]

To me it seems like yet another example where the Home Office makes a decision unfavourable and then relents after significant attention is brought to the case by charity groups and the left leaning media outlets.

Can't we have some hope this Christmas!?

[garbon]

Sure, we can reconvene after Boxing Day.

[mongers]

Sure, we can reconvene after Boxing Day.

Pugilistic response. 

[Admiral Yi]

Fun little site I found while googling the quebecois for boner.  Type in a word you don't know and get answers from native speakers.

Woops, no link.

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/boner-erect-penis.1142629/

[Syt]