Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! VOL 2

[Frank7]

Mr Whippy said:

Paris looks like an Apache Attack Helicopter to me.

I was about to say, "Well, she can land in my back yard if she likes", but,
discretion being the part of valour, I checked on Wikipedia, so no thanks.

[Cobnapint]

Frank7 said:

Mr Whippy said:

Paris looks like an Apache Attack Helicopter to me.

I was about to say, "Well, she can land in my back yard if she likes", but,
discretion being the part of valour, I checked on Wikipedia, so no thanks.

That could have been nasty.....

[irocfan]

98elise said:

Bonefish Blues said:

NDA said:

Bonefish Blues said:

Russian economy smaller than Italy's. School day.

I haven't checked that - but is that true?

Nor me, but nobody challenged it on the prog.

ETA
Significantly so, seemingly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by...

I thought that was common knowledge? Given the size of their population it's pretty crap.

IIRC the issue is not so much the size of their population - more the size of their country. It's twice as big as the US (indeed it's only half the size of Africa) and that size, despite the abundance of raw materials, is a big hinderance

[mikal83]

techiedave said:

Question Time Thursday 22nd March

That sweaty looks like the guy from Guinness Book of records on A league of their own

[Halb]

BlackLabel said:

Towards the end of the Cold War Russia had an economy half the size of the USA. Now it's roughly a tenth the size of the US. Russia is pretty poor and they are only heading one way relative to the major economies of the world.

Russia or the USSR?

[Wiccan of Darkness]

Cobnapint said:

Frank7 said:

Mr Whippy said:

Paris looks like an Apache Attack Helicopter to me.

I was about to say, "Well, she can land in my back yard if she likes", but,
discretion being the part of valour, I checked on Wikipedia, so no thanks.

That could have been nasty.....

How come, she seems quite nice. Is she some rabid loony leftie who only ever bangs on about social inequality to the point you sever your arteries? I have to be honest, I've never heard of her.

Shami does my swede in but does occasionally come out with some seriously good stuff.

[Andy 308GTB]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

Cobnapint said:

Frank7 said:

Mr Whippy said:

Paris looks like an Apache Attack Helicopter to me.

I was about to say, "Well, she can land in my back yard if she likes", but,
discretion being the part of valour, I checked on Wikipedia, so no thanks.

That could have been nasty.....

How come, she seems quite nice. Is she some rabid loony leftie who only ever bangs on about social inequality to the point you sever your arteries? I have to be honest, I've never heard of her.

Shami does my swede in but does occasionally come out with some seriously good stuff.

Paris Lees is an English journalist, presenter, and transgender rights activist...

[Patrick Bateman]

The thing about Hitchens is, even if you totally disagree with him, he means what he says and doesn't pander to the audience with sanctimonious twaddle the likes of which Chakrabarti spew.

[jsc15]

Wiccan of Darkness said:

How come, she seems quite nice. Is she some rabid loony leftie who only ever bangs on about social inequality to the point you sever your arteries? I have to be honest, I've never heard of her.

Shami does my swede in but does occasionally come out with some seriously good stuff.

Her? Gender assumption!!!!
Go to internet jail. Do not pass Go

It/They/ZShe

or something

[Halb]

Patrick Bateman said:

The thing about Hitchens is, even if you totally disagree with him, he means what he says and doesn't pander to the audience with sanctimonious twaddle the likes of which Chakrabarti spew.

He doesn't pander, but he is sanctimonious. His diatribes and proselytising on drugs are Victorian dad.

[BlackLabel]

Some people are acting as if Facebook are a public service. Ffs if you don’t like it then leave and use something else.

[dandarez]

'Big' Anne Hegarty and 'Boy' Paris Lees clash was big news this week!
Well, big news for some.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/awkward-chases...

[bomb]

Can we move along please. Facebook....... pah.

[Halb]

THis fb thing is a bit silly, but then this is an under 30s audience and it's the way the western world is going

[Halb]

The stuff the SNP bloke is saying, I guess that can go for Scotland leaving the UK too.

[The Dangerous Elk]

Nice long legs !

[Halb]

Funny zinger on the tory by the Lesser Hitchens there

[skahigh]

How refreshing to hear panelists say they don't want to talk about brexit!

[MDMetal]

dandarez said:

'Big' Anne Hegarty and 'Boy' Paris Lees clash was big news this week!
Well, big news for some.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/awkward-chases...

Is it wrong to say she used to be a boy if she was? Perhaps the tone wasn't great but that's a fact. It would be like pointing out a politician switched parties? Might be awkward but it's true. Similarly while I think you do have some right to be forgotten it's perhaps a bit of a self imagined luxury that you should be able to delete all your indescretions

[Digger]

skahigh said:

How refreshing to hear panelists say they don't want to talk about brexit!

Pandering to the youthful audience...maybe.