Friday Debate

daviesee

Remember when we had these?

Used to be a great way to while away the time until finishing for the weekend. :P

I will try and get this started with:-

Amanda Hutton - The worst murderer ever?

Sure, there have been more victims and there have been more brutal, but how could a mother be so callous as to watch her son starve to death? And then look at the body for 2 years. :shock:

As they say, discuss.

rjsterry

Bit grim for a Friday debate, no?

rolf_f

rjsterry wrote:

Bit grim for a Friday debate, no?

Yeah, I think everyone would feel more comfortable with something along the lines of "Custard Creams or Bourbon biscuits"?

greg66_tri_v2.0

Yeah - my thoughts too - bit bleak!

Also suspect you're not going to get many takers for the other side of the argument ("well, you say that, but sometimes starvation is the only way to get results").

Not wishing to derail or anything (as if - but if this gets to 10 pages Sharktopus is coming out to play), but how about: Is it time to regulate the excesses of the tabloid press (Moribund v the Daily Fail etc)?

greg66_tri_v2.0

Rolf F wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Bit grim for a Friday debate, no?

Yeah, I think everyone would feel more comfortable with something along the lines of "Custard Creams or Bourbon biscuits"?

Bourbons. No contest. Are you fecking mental or summint?

simonhead

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

Also suspect you're not going to get many takers for the other side of the argument ("well, you say that, but sometimes starvation is the only way to get results").

Surely that isn't the other side of the argument, it would be that another murder would have been more brutal such as the Holly and Jessica murders.

Kieran_Burns

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Bit grim for a Friday debate, no?

Yeah, I think everyone would feel more comfortable with something along the lines of "Custard Creams or Bourbon biscuits"?

Bourbons. No contest. Are you ******* mental or summint?

It's far more important to know whether you split apart the said creams or bourbons and lick the inside or chew 'em whole.

I deliberately avoided having the word "swallow" in that sentence 'cos you lot would be all over it like a horny chihuahua on your trouser leg.

arran77

Don't think I can argue against the fact that it was very callous, it certainly was.

As for looking the body for two years maybe this is explained when you look at people who carry out horrifically brutal murders and then take some part of the body with them, in their mind it probably justifies what happened,

Maybe it's something similar here?

rjsterry

Who cares? They're all biscuits and should be wolfed down with abandon! Why waste time splitting your biscuits (that HAS to be a euphemism for something)?

DonDaddyD

Trying too hard.

Too bleak.

Custard Creams.

What the Daily Fail did to Miliband was awful.

/Thread.

Phil_D

Custard creams in my opinion.

I like to dunk them in tea til the biscuit is soft, then suck the biscuit off until there is only the inside, then eat the inside.

Lovely.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Kieran_Burns wrote:

It's far more important to know whether you split apart the said creams or bourbons and lick the inside or chew 'em whole.

I deliberately avoided having the word "swallow" in that sentence 'cos you lot would be all over it like a horny chihuahua on your trouser leg.

Amateur.

You take two Bourbons. Split them both. Discard the manky biscuit only pieces. Press the two cream faces together. Omm nom nom.

Or just buy double stuffed Oreos and save yourself the wasted calories it takes to assemble the double stuffed Bourbon.

veronese68

Worst murderer ever? I doubt it, but it's very difficult to judge that sort of thing because I don't think what's going on in the head of a murderer can be judged by normal standards. To have got to that point something must be wrong with the internal wiring. Utterly appalling without a shadow of a doubt.
Milliband and the Fail. Yes, that's wrong without a shadow of doubt. Discovering the Fail is a rather vile piece of work with low standards and using dirty tactics is hardly a surprise. Is it really awful? Not compared to killing a child. I know you're not comparing the two, I don't think that for a minute. But I think words like awful, tragedy, disaster and their like are overused thus diluting the meaning.
Bourbons without a shadow of doubt. This is the place to look about biscuits.

rubertoe

The digestive is the king of biscuits, but only when its covered in dark chocolate. All others pale into nothing before it. I know, I ate 17 of the little delights yesterday.

as for the murder, of course its callous but many would argue that alcoholism is a mental illness, so there may be mitigating circumstance. Just my thought.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Veronese68 wrote:

Milliband and the Fail. Yes, that's wrong without a shadow of doubt.

Yes. But what would you do about it (if anything)? Press regulation? My own view is that the Fail did this in order to flush out Moribund's position on press regulation; possibly to push him to come down in favour of it.

simonhead

I have written to McVities requesting a dark chocolate hobnob - ginger nut hybrid but had no response. Now that would be the king of biscuits.

rolf_f

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

Or just buy double stuffed Oreos and save yourself the wasted calories it takes to assemble the double stuffed Bourbon.

Oreos? Are you on crack? Vilest chocolate product ever. "American" and "chocolate" should never appear in the same sentence (same applies for "American" and "cheese").

Anyway, to add an element of anarchy - what about those things that look like bourbons but have a white cream filling? I'm not sure if they are great or the work of the devil.

greg66_tri_v2.0

Rolf F wrote:

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

Or just buy double stuffed Oreos and save yourself the wasted calories it takes to assemble the double stuffed Bourbon.

Oreos? Are you on crack? Vilest chocolate product ever. "American" and "chocolate" should never appear in the same sentence (same applies for "American" and "cheese").

Not crack, Oreos. You don't eat Oreos because of the flavour. You eat them because of some highly addictive flavouring that's in them.

Rolf F wrote:

Anyway, to add an element of anarchy - what about those things that look like bourbons but have a white cream filling? I'm not sure if they are great or the work of the devil.

Oh yeah - I know the ones, round biscuits, aren't they? Made in America, I think.

Ore-...

Oh, wait.

veronese68

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Milliband and the Fail. Yes, that's wrong without a shadow of doubt.

Yes. But what would you do about it (if anything)? Press regulation? My own view is that the Fail did this in order to flush out Moribund's position on press regulation; possibly to push him to come down in favour of it.

Now that's a very tricky one. He contacted the owners himself as he said there was no point in going to the regulators. So you'd think he's in favour of stronger regulation. But, a free press is vitally important, but they should be relied upon to uphold certain standards.
I certainly don't know what the answer is. I'm certainly not a fan of the popular press. sensationalism and celebrity culture seems to be all they are interested in as that seems to be what sells. They don't seem to care about news, all rather sad.

Kieran_Burns

Veronese68 wrote:

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I certainly don't know what the answer is. I'm certainly not a fan of the popular press. sensationalism and celebrity culture seems to be all they are interested in as that seems to be what sells. They don't seem to care about news, all rather sad.

I've been quoted several times in the past saying that there are very few journalists left; the press is made up of 'reporters' who simply regurgitate the Reuters / whatever feed.

arran77

This place ain't so different from BB is it!!

A discussion on murder turns into a debate on biscuits

greg66_tri_v2.0

arran77 wrote:

This place ain't so different from BB is it!!

A discussion on murder turns into a debate on biscuits

The penny drops!

It's not overtly sexualised. That's the main difference.

Kieran_Burns

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

arran77 wrote:

This place ain't so different from BB is it!!

A discussion on murder turns into a debate on biscuits

The penny drops!

It's not overtly sexualised. That's the main difference.

More crumbs though

Mind you the

then suck the biscuit off until there is only the inside, then eat the inside.

could've gone either way

daviesee

Fair enough. I was just going for topical.

Playing along - custard creams.

greg66_tri_v2.0

See if you can find a youtube clip if the graham norton show, with dannii minogue and a penguin biscuit.

ETA: Natalie Imbruglia, not Dannii.

daviesee

Fair enough. I was just going for topical.

Playing along - custard creams.

arran77

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

arran77 wrote:

This place ain't so different from BB is it!!

A discussion on murder turns into a debate on biscuits

The penny drops!

It's not overtly sexualised. That's the main difference.

But is it going to drop for you

veronese68

daviesee wrote:

Fair enough. I was just going for topical.

Playing along - custard creams.

I knew you were a wrong un.

I haven't put a winking smiley thing as I would hope it's obvious to all I'm only joking.

DrLex

Veronese68 wrote:

[...]He contacted the owners himself as he said there was no point in going to the regulators[...]

Worked for an old colleague of mine; DM wrote something mean about him in the gossip pages, so his wife rang her friend, who was the then-owner's son. Call was made to the editor; no more mention of the chap.

Oh, choc. Bath Olivers FTW!

walkingbootweather

More to the point to dunk or not to dunk?

rolf_f

Greg66 Tri v2.0 wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Anyway, to add an element of anarchy - what about those things that look like bourbons but have a white cream filling? I'm not sure if they are great or the work of the devil.

Oh yeah - I know the ones, round biscuits, aren't they? Made in America, I think.

Ore-...

Oh, wait.

The things that look like Bourbons but aren't are brown and rectangular, like Bourbons. If they were round, they wouldn't look like Bourbons. Also, if they tasted like Oreos, the question as to whether or not they were the work of the devil wouldn't need to be asked as it would be obvious that they were!