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Wodehouse was interned with Ajax’s veteren English manager Jack Reynolds who pioneered Total football when he returned after the war. Whether Jack wiled away the hours discussing tactics with PG is unclear. Can’t recall where I learned this fact but astoundingly it wasn’t Danny Baker.

The Labour MP Graham Stringer (Blackley and Broughton) has told GB News that he is disturbed by what happened to Dominic Raab because he feels Raab was effectively sacked by civil servants.

A bit more about Stringer; believes dyslexia is made up by the education establishment to divert blame for illiteracy due to poor teachers; is a climate change denier; Eurosceptic

Stringer must be last man standing among Labour’s Leave rump. Hadn’t heard much brain farting on economics from John Mann and Caroline Flint lately.

Yeah, Paul. No evidence that anybody is going after trans people, gays, or women...

I think a bit of context is needed, for both the boy Jones’s assertion here, and for that of Embery.

Dylan Mulvaney, as I recall it, was the trans man featured in beer ads in the US, that led to 'not at all snowflake' right wingers to throw an absolute shitfit about their beer being tainted by association with a famous (I believe) trans person.

This, I suspect for Jones, ties into general anti-trans feeling in the States on the right, which is, irrespective of what you think of the matter, unhinged.

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:05 pm Dylan Mulvaney, as I recall it, was the trans man featured in beer ads in the US, that led to 'not at all snowflake' right wingers to throw an absolute shitfit about their beer being tainted by association with a famous (I believe) trans person.

Bud lite, this was being discussed by Bill Maher with Piers Morgan as a guest. Piers immediately loses the room by insulting US beer and then goes full Partridge to win his host back. Piers suggests Bill should join him for a proper pint of some bitter or other in a London pub.

Youngian wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 10:09 pm

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:05 pm Dylan Mulvaney, as I recall it, was the trans man featured in beer ads in the US, that led to 'not at all snowflake' right wingers to throw an absolute shitfit about their beer being tainted by association with a famous (I believe) trans person.

Bud lite, this was being discussed by Bill Maher with Piers Morgan as a guest. Piers immediately loses the room by insulting US beer and then goes full Partridge to win his host back. Piers suggests Bill should join him for a proper pint of some bitter or other in a London pub.

Although, to be fair, Bud Light is the beer for which the phrase "love in a canoe" was invented. On my visits to the Colonies I tended to avoid Bud Light, not because of any boycott, but because it's fucking awful beer.

As someone who hasn't drunk anything more alcoholic than a can of Bass Shandy, whom having a pin from the PTAA is close to the last solid living element of Catholicism that I have these days, even I'm aware of Bud Light's rep. And when I heard a couple of weeks back about Kid Rock firing bullets through several cases of Bud Light in a video he did, I thought "well, that's understandable" until I heard the real reason why he did it!

Safe to say that John Oliver isn't a fan of Bud Light either, or at least its lime variant. There's a clear grimace on his face just after he's necked a bottle of it down. (Video is NSFW due to language)

US piss water beer has its roots in prohibition and some archaic brewing restrictions that lasted into the 70s when a very vibrant microbrewing industry emerged. IIRC fans of decent US ale have Gerald Ford to thank.

And when I heard a couple of weeks back about Kid Rock firing bullets through several cases of Bud Light in a video

This is like a flimsy English attempt to keep culture war embers alight but with live ammo. Anyone on GBNews do paint balling.

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:05 pm Dylan Mulvaney, as I recall it, was the trans man featured in beer ads in the US, that led to 'not at all snowflake' right wingers to throw an absolute shitfit about their beer being tainted by association with a famous (I believe) trans person.

For the record, she's a trans woman (male to female transition), not a trans man. She/her.

The fact that she's a woman was winding up the broflakes as much as the fact that she's trans.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 3:34 pm

RedSparrows wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 7:05 pm Dylan Mulvaney, as I recall it, was the trans man featured in beer ads in the US, that led to 'not at all snowflake' right wingers to throw an absolute shitfit about their beer being tainted by association with a famous (I believe) trans person.

For the record, she's a trans woman (male to female transition), not a trans man. She/her.

The fact that she's a woman was winding up the broflakes as much as the fact that she's trans.

Oh sorry, I didn't realise! My bad.

So yes, a woman AND trans. Double trouble for the super secure.

Samanfur wrote:broflakes

Entirely.

I'm surprised to see that Bud Light is 4.2%, which is more than my favourite (when I liked drinking) London Pride.

White Star cider is 7.5% and every bit as classy as Bud Lite.

On a lite beer tangent, I like this old ad.

Love the way they solved the "why is John Madden going to drink this stuff?" problem. Just get John to say he has to because he's a massive boozer, that'll do it. Maybe loads of real life boozers switched to lite beer because they thought it would make massive boozing ok.

He looks like Joe Don Baker with plutonium bars, no thanks.

He got by on personality.

Populist Paul on interest rates, going for the Jake Berry line. As Ian pointed out there, the government's first act would be to do something tough and painful to reassure markets.