In the news thread

Vice piece but worth a read

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They always get in somewhere ā€˜Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’ like with Gary Glitter (real name Paul Francis Gadd). I wonder if it’s a requirement, or if it’s just a passing fact they always include, or if they only do it for people who use a pseudonym and are bell ends, or some other reason.

Makes the person who changed their name sound kind of withering, I’m backing it.

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I wonder if he’s changed it legally?

I was driving yesterday and on the radio they referred to him as ā€œStephen Yaxley Lennon, who calls himself Tommy Robinsonā€

It’s like when they refer to ISIS as ā€œthe so called Islamic stateā€

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Because if they had to call him by what he actually is only the news at ten could use it.

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Didn’t we, the UK, recently say that we were not going to involve ourselves with following the US with this tension with Iran?

I suppose in part that’s true as we seem to be the agitators and not the followers.

NASS festival sounds so shit:

People do it with Blondey when he’s doing some questionable stuff too.

Woah yeah I remember him! He used to skate for Palace.

No, I’m talking about the artist.

The media certainly don’t do it for Boris Johnson (real name Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson).

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de pfeffel? fuck that’s hilarious. I wonder who has the most pretentious name that they’re attempting to hide…

Maybe this is the default response we should be giving trump anytime he criticises the UK.

In other news:

A lot of people are going to be shot, if they’re stupid enough.

Everybody knows Area 51 is only there to divert attention from Area 52.

The idea of flying saucers was put about to throw people off the scent of the stealth bomber that was in development. Associating this shape with a disk rather than a wing. Also to shit the enemy up that they had alien tech

I’d agree that 99.99999% of ā€˜sightings’ are just various types of military aircraft, there are some genuinely mysterious cases though of things that have been seen by pilots etc that just don’t add up. I wouldn’t even suggest they’re aliens, just odd.

UFO sightings have been going on way before radar, so before the stealth bomber could of even been a concept. I believe there has been a lot of disinformation too, to keep people looking in the wrong direction. If you think it is hard to fool entire populations, just look at religion. Usually based around one very vague book, with very little really known about it, the people or a lot of it provable (places, times, dates, etc), look at all the different religions that contradict each other, yet they are followed by billions (based on Earths population being 7.53 billion).
UFOs could be time travellers or Lizard overlords for all we know. There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Human knowledge is still very limited, future generations will look back at us, as living in the dark ages now. I also believe there has been a massive step taken in technology over the past century that seems to have come from nowhere at times.

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And then there’s the Fermi paradox - if the universe is so large, why haven’t we discovered extra terrestrial life yet? My guess is we’re probably just not interesting or intelligent enough - as a civilsation, we’re not even at 1 on the Kardeshev scale and there’s definitely a couple of filters to get through, like ecological or military self-destruction. Useful infographic here…

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I personally don’t think aliens have been here or ever will and it’s basically all bollocks, wishful thinking etc. And I used to cane the X Files.

I’d like to believe it though. Would be cool if they intervened and saved us.