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mikerob wrote: The newsagent may have ordered the mag but that doesn't mean they'll get it... There's a French bookshop in London and they stock Charlie Hebdo every week and even they say they don't know how many, if any, copies they'll get this week such is the demand in France.
Yeah. They were going to print 3 million copies but it seems demand is so high now they are going to do 5 million.
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I see that after a ever so brief period of "mourning" the mentalists are beginning to strike a few blows.

The Papa attempted comedy, quite appropriate in many ways, to basically say "if you go around offending people you get a dig in the jaw", well Frankie, actually it was not a slap on the jaw but a burst of bullets to one's mortal coil.

I also saw a French lady of North Africa extraction, on Andrew Brillo Pad Neill's Thursday night political laugh in, not quite but more or less saying "they were asking for it", much to Choo Choo Portaloo' s chagrin, and that this week's cover is also highly offensive.

I would simply suggest to all mentalists that yes, you have every right to feel offended, note I say "right" not reason, and that's it, make any protests you like within the law, even take a legal case if there are grounds, but that dear mentalists is where your rights begin and end.

Note to mentalists: just because you think your faith is not a matter for debate doesn't make it so, sacred cows are so last millennium.

I'd find it most amusing if the Pope was done for common assault, less do if he shoots someone in the face. Incidentally, I am greatly amused that the current Pope is seen as a great man of the people and so progressive. Popes don't become Popes without a conservative doctrinal streak a mile wide. This dude just has a slightly more human side to him and good PR, but rest assured there will be no sweeping reforms, no cohorts of paedophiles turn over to the courts. Mother Church above all other considerations.

Now I do hope nobody is offended, it's not as if I'm marching past the Ardoyne Shaps. :roll:
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I see that after a ever so brief period of "mourning" the mentalists are beginning to strike a few blows.

The Papa attempted comedy, quite appropriate in many ways, to basically say "if you go around offending people you get a dig in the jaw", well Frankie, actually it was not a slap on the jaw but a burst of bullets to one's mortal coil.

I also saw a French lady of North Africa extraction, on Andrew Brillo Pad Neill's Thursday night political laugh in, not quite but more or less saying "they were asking for it", much to Choo Choo Portaloo' s chagrin, and that this week's cover is also highly offensive.

I would simply suggest to all mentalists that yes, you have every right to feel offended, note I say "right" not reason, and that's it, make any protests you like within the law, even take a legal case if there are grounds, but that dear mentalists is where your rights begin and end.

Note to mentalists: just because you think your faith is not a matter for debate doesn't make it so, sacred cows are so last millennium.

I'd find it most amusing if the Pope was done for common assault, less do if he shoots someone in the face. Incidentally, I am greatly amused that the current Pope is seen as a great man of the people and so progressive. Popes don't become Popes without a conservative doctrinal streak a mile wide. This dude just has a slightly more human side to him and good PR, but rest assured there will be no sweeping reforms, no cohorts of paedophiles turn over to the courts. Mother Church above all other considerations.

Now I do hope nobody is offended, it's not as if I'm marching past the Ardoyne Shaps. :roll:
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Is Baggy making up for lost time, or has he come out of retirement and working for the (un)Civil Service and printing everything in quadruplicate?
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I just think he got a wee bit excited ...
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Cornerfleg wrote:I just think he got a wee bit excited ...
El Papa does that to him.
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I find the reaction to the Paris massacre unbelievable at times. Nobody knows what freedom of speech is. Even on this thread some have said you can't silence the Charlie Hebdo haters and that is true, but since no one has the power or inclination to do so it remains an idea in ones head. This week everyone has an opinion on Charlie Hebdo. The week before no one had ever heard of it. I find it galling that people decide to critique Charlie Hebdo in the aftermath of their staff members being gunned down. Why not speak up 6 months ago if it is now such an issue? We are dealing with extremism here. There is not an rational thought in their heads. What about the death toll in Syria? Or Boko Horam's murder spree? Or the Saudis giving the death sentence for sorcery? No forget that... Charlie Hebdo shouldn't be drawing pictures. How about mainstream news showing footage leading up to the murder of a police man and the aftermath, depicting his lifeless body. Or least leading to the assumption that that may have happened. Seemingly we rely on others to tell us what is wrong/right in the world.
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Dave wrote:Seemingly we rely on others to tell us what is wrong/right in the world.
You are right - thanks for telling me.
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Alister Scott wrote:
Dave wrote:Seemingly we rely on others to tell us what is wrong/right in the world.
You are right - thanks for telling me.
Don't thank me, thank the mainstream news.
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Alister Scott wrote:
Cornerfleg wrote:I just think he got a wee bit excited ...
El Papa does that to him.
I'll have you know I hold all collared barsteds in exactly the same esteem - none for their position, potentially a fair bit according to their words & deeds, sadly far too many times that is also none and the same huge disappointment.

However mentalists, just continue to believe this:
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Europe on alert as threats continue. The IS angle is an interesting one. How long before the US decides to ask its masters in Riyadh some questions. The Saudis have been growing in influence and confidence as they know there is not a force on the planet interested in stopping them and their desire to spread their evil, masquerading as Islam. It's starting to look like it may be time to end the rule of the House of Saud and if necessary blow the country off the map. There's plenty of oil elsewhere. There's reports that there's fecking trillions of gallons of it off the coast of Brazil if they just go and fecking drill it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-1 ... -says.html

Meanwhile in Pakistan they are protesting about cartoons published in France. Seems they haven't enough to be troubling them in Pakistan these days so they decide to invent some outrage about a minor matter thousands of kilometres away.
The fallout from the Charlie Hebdo shootings continued in Karachi today, where an AFP photographer was shot and injured as Pakistani police dispersed demonstrators who were protesting against the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the magazine’s latest issue.
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Shan wrote:
Meanwhile in Pakistan they are protesting about cartoons published in France. Seems they haven't enough to be troubling them in Pakistan these days so they decide to invent some outrage about a minor matter thousands of kilometres away.
The fallout from the Charlie Hebdo shootings continued in Karachi today, where an AFP photographer was shot and injured as Pakistani police dispersed demonstrators who were protesting against the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the magazine’s latest issue.
The Pakistani mountain region with the border with Afghanistan is probably the biggest hotbed of Islamic fundamentalists anywhere in the world who make the Isis lot look like a bunch of kids playing.
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Shan wrote:Europe on alert as threats continue. The IS angle is an interesting one. How long before the US decides to ask its masters in Riyadh some questions. The Saudis have been growing in influence and confidence as they know there is not a force on the planet interested in stopping them and their desire to spread their evil, masquerading as Islam. It's starting to look like it may be time to end the rule of the House of Saud and if necessary blow the country off the map. There's plenty of oil elsewhere. There's reports that there's fecking trillions of gallons of it off the coast of Brazil if they just go and fecking drill it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-1 ... -says.html

Meanwhile in Pakistan they are protesting about cartoons published in France. Seems they haven't enough to be troubling them in Pakistan these days so they decide to invent some outrage about a minor matter thousands of kilometres away.
The fallout from the Charlie Hebdo shootings continued in Karachi today, where an AFP photographer was shot and injured as Pakistani police dispersed demonstrators who were protesting against the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the magazine’s latest issue.
Pakistan should know who their real enemy is after the school massacre.
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Rooster wrote:
Shan wrote:
Meanwhile in Pakistan they are protesting about cartoons published in France. Seems they haven't enough to be troubling them in Pakistan these days so they decide to invent some outrage about a minor matter thousands of kilometres away.
The fallout from the Charlie Hebdo shootings continued in Karachi today, where an AFP photographer was shot and injured as Pakistani police dispersed demonstrators who were protesting against the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the magazine’s latest issue.
The Pakistani mountain region with the border with Afghanistan is probably the biggest hotbed of Islamic fundamentalists anywhere in the world who make the Isis lot look like a bunch of kids playing.
I think Boko Haram would give them a run for their money. Too many bodies to count in their latest massacre, according to amnesty international.
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