That's fucking stupid

Quote of the day

Sensibly Common — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:28:34 +0000

[Would you look at that? A year without writing and two come along at once. Miracles do happen.] US Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, on the current progress of allowing gays to serve openly in the military: I think people have been mildly and pleasantly surprised at the lack of pushback in the training. I fucking love you, Bob.

Russell Crowe: a bit of a dick?

Sensibly Common — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:19:15 +0000

[Oof! It's been a while since yours truly, Sensibly Common, has been angry enough about the fucking stupidity of the general public to warrant a good old-fashioned temper tantrum, so here goes.] Yet another celeb shafted by Twitter Russell Crowe has suggested in a comment to a close friend that circumcision is barbaric. Of course, when private [...]

Ken Clarke has a point – Why shorter sentences for rape can actually be good

Commonly Lardy — Wed, 18 May 2011 22:03:28 +0000

There’s been a lot of moaning about Ken Clarke’s recent comments regarding rape and the Green Paper being drafted. Now there are in my opinion to issues arising from this. Firstly, what he actually said, and what he meant. Secondly some of the commentary and remarks being made regarding rape and its [...]

Call troll and unleash the dogs of #fail.

Commonly Sensible — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:00:22 +0000

Here at TFS we’re unashamed trolls; we like to start arguments with stupid people and we’re even bigger fans when stupid people like to start arguments with us. We don’t always believe or fully support the angle of the argument that we’re taking because, let’s face it, we like a good argument and we like [...]

Churnalism

Commonly Sensible — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:22:23 +0000

Here at TFS we are unashamed fans of @justgiving, the largest charity payment processor in the UK. Their engagement with the fundraising community has been fabulous and their contribution immense. Sure, they’re a ‘for profit’ company unlike the marketing arm of Virgin Money Virgin Money Giving but they have so far invested all their profits [...]

Did someone #savebullyinguk?

Commonly Sensible — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:43:14 +0000

Nope. But it may not have needed saving after all. We are a day away from the deadline which BullyingUK set as their forced closure date if donations totalling £50,000 were not forthcoming. Donations were not forthcoming even though the 500,000 people that Bullying UK claims to have helped only needed to donate 10p each. I’ve been [...]

RTFM

Sensibly Common — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:21:47 +0000

“Drugs deaths up by 67% in Wales in three years” screams the BBC, ensuring that the buzzword “alarming” is thrown in*. If you the copy/paster journalist had read the report, they’d realise that the researchers have improved their data gathering techniques this year (27 unrecorded cases in Wales in last year’s report), so the “67%” may [...]

One in one hundred and ten

Commonly Sensible — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:24:16 +0000

Why we may not want to #savebullyinguk

Commonly Sensible — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:44:24 +0000

I have to be very careful with this because the founder and CEO of BullyingUK has already made some quite substantial threats to both me and a friend who is not associated with this site but who works in the third sector. Below is one of the (redacted because I like to retain some illusion of [...]

Nice one, Barbara

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:33:10 +0000

I wonder how many people outside the geekeratti know about the Streisand Effect? I only wonder because I thought it would be common sense that if you see something embarrassing on the internet the last thing you want to do is draw attention to it; the internet is a big place and stuff gets lost very quickly [...]

500,000 people helped

Commonly Sensible — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:05:56 +0000

I don’t want to be accused of being a bully but I have noticed that BullyingUK is currently begging for more money to keep their operation going, I can only guess because the founder and CEO & only staff member, John Carnell, has just had a large bill for his iPhone. The bit that I am [...]

Quote of the day

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:25:45 +0000

First there was this wikibaiting comic on XKCD: Of course everyone went to wickedpedophile and checked to see if the page was really there, of course someone created it and subsequently the upper echelon of the wickedpedophiles deleted it because they can. So starts the Talk page! Favourite quote so far: XKCD fans seriously need to get a life A [...]

Oh happy days

Sensibly Common — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:54:03 +0000

Jacqui Smith is finally out of the House of Commons. Yes! Edit: Brown too. Let us finally rejoice!

Quote of the day

Commonly Sensible — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:38:32 +0000

In this lovely article where Brown was overheard to call a bigoted woman a bigot, the soon to be former Chancellor said about the current former Chancellor and soon to be former PM: “I hope people will judge him in the round. The fact we are coming out of this recession is down to him in no small [...]

Quote of the Day

Commonly Sensible — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:54:04 +0000

From the Torygraph: A “puerile” Foreign Office memo which has thrown the Pope’s state visit to Britain into doubt was circulated by a 23-year-old Oxford graduate who once included “drinking a lot” among his hobbies. That would be a normal young graduate then.

Face it

Commonly Sensible — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:01:00 +0000

The calm measured response from Facebook to the pleading from pointless Daily Mail inspired quango Ceop has continued to frustrate the self serving cock monkey Jim Gamble who runs Ceop. It seems that Jim has not got a shred of dignity because he’s not content to take the great big “fcuk you” that Facebook dealt him [...]

I love the smell of eugenics in the morning (thanks, @bengoldacre, for the tip).

Commonly Sensible — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:11:33 +0000

Those damn nazis gave the concept of eugenics such a bad name yet before the war and for a surprisingly long time afterwards the idea of sterilising people who had undesirable traits was considered routine and normal throughout the western world, particularly in the US. It comes as no surprise then that Project Prevention comes [...]

A letter to the Vatican

Sensibly Common — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:40:35 +0000

Dear Child-Fuckers, Thousands of newspaper articles about countless documented cases around the world of child rape, instigated by your members and systematically covered up by your leadership, are not “petty gossip.” Yours lack-of-faithfully, TFS

Quote of the Day

Sensibly Common — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:16:20 +0000

That person who leads that marginal British political party of alleged racist bigots: All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims and as for gays, not all gays are militant and want to shove it down everyone’s throats. This quote is like a gift from the gods. Seriously. It’s just… beautiful. Thank you, Nick. Thank you [...]

Culo-kissers

Sensibly Common — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:32:00 +0000

Mass Rome rally shows support for Silvio Berlusconi Seeing this headline, my first thought was: “who paid them?”