Sharpy 🛸

combustion enthusiast
here for poor quizzing

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@daytippler @flamencobug @AvisJonathan87 @nowhereflan @David_Crayford @Melonhead999 @CommonWalkerSW @icrawford17 @realpip3 @eggforbread @PSully68 Dead fly biscuit

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Robert Jenrick absolutely bodybagged the BBC on its own radio show this morning.

When challenged over vetting, @RobertJenrick fired back:

“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile as a number have been in the recent past? No of course you can’t.”

The BBC has a history of deeply disturbing scandals involving its own presenters, yet has the audacity to lecture others about vetting.

An elite level takedown of a publicly funded broadcaster with some serious skeletons in its own cupboard.

[Did You See? @TvDidYouSee]

#OnThisDay 16 October 1987
The Great Storm of 1987 wipes out power across London, forcing TV-am to broadcast from the continuity desk at Thames, and Nicholas Witchell from the BBC's 'broom cupboard'.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wren's lovely singing

[Sartorial Thug 🍸 @SartorialThug]

Math?
Never heard of it, mate. Do you mean maths?
Shambles.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The stunning Ginkgo tree at Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds, England.

One of the oldest tree species on Earth, its leaves glow in autumn of a magnificent golden hue.

[Miranda Hart @mermhart]

Just me and my lover Joe Lycett carrying an enormous cock.

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@eggforbread @Melonhead999 @flamencobug @nowhereflan @realpip3 @David_Crayford @daytippler @CommonWalkerSW @icrawford17 @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 My nan had cheddar cheese on buttered fruit cake

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@Melonhead999 @flamencobug @nowhereflan @realpip3 @David_Crayford @daytippler @CommonWalkerSW @icrawford17 @eggforbread @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 Do you like coffee with coffee?

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@Melonhead999 @eggforbread @flamencobug @nowhereflan @realpip3 @David_Crayford @daytippler @CommonWalkerSW @icrawford17 @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 I like liquorice and aniseed balls, not everyone's favoueit. I'd imagine George to be into Worthers Originals

[Pipsqueak @realpip3]

@Sharpzilla @David_Crayford @Melonhead999 @daytippler @CommonWalkerSW @nowhereflan @icrawford17 @eggforbread @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 @flamencobug And I’ve already opened the big tubs of chocolates to save the ones I don’t like for Trick or Treaters.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

😡 Johnny Rotten EXPLODED at the @GMB hosts the second they brought up his old Sex Pistols bandmates.

The interview had barely started when Ranvir mentioned he’d called them a “karaoke band”. That was all it took. He tore into them immediately: “Bleeding right and all! Cheek of them! Going out without me. Singing the songs I wrote, the words I wrote and the presentation I created.”

Ranvir tried to calm it: “You should’ve joined them.”

Johnny wasn’t having it. “No mam. I worked enough with them in the first place. They’re deceitful, lying hyenas and I never want another thing to do with them.”

Still fuming, he shut it down: “So can we drop the karaoke band! They’re imitating me and that’s really kind of insulting.”

Unpredictable as ever. 😂 I bet the hosts wish they’d never mentioned it!

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@realpip3 @nowhereflan @David_Crayford @Melonhead999 @daytippler @CommonWalkerSW @icrawford17 @eggforbread @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 @flamencobug I like pama violets, our mom doesn't like them

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

Well, Bob Geldof certainly had the measure of Russell Brand.

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

I don't want you to panic but there's only two weeks left before Halloween if you haven't cleaned your bat yet.

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@David_Crayford @Melonhead999 @daytippler @CommonWalkerSW @nowhereflan @icrawford17 @realpip3 @eggforbread @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 @flamencobug I'm already 3 boxes of mince pies in

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@AvisJonathan87 @daytippler @Melonhead999 @CommonWalkerSW @nowhereflan @icrawford17 @realpip3 @eggforbread @David_Crayford @PSully68 @flamencobug I have a mattress and an old blanket

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@AvisJonathan87 @Melonhead999 @CommonWalkerSW @nowhereflan @icrawford17 @realpip3 @eggforbread @David_Crayford @daytippler @PSully68 @flamencobug You are all winners #blankquiz

[Fan Commentary: Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

🚨 NEW: Joe Rogan was in shock when historical storyteller Cody Tucker revealed that Mother Teresa was actually a horrible person who kept dying patients in horrible conditions while massive donations flowed to the Vatican:

TUCKER: “She's a scumbag. Mother Teresa never did anything good.”

CONTEXT: In 1994, a physician named Robin Fox visited Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying in Calcutta.

Fox wasn't some anonymous critic.

He was the editor of The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals.

And what he described was deeply troubling.

Medical care was inconsistent.

Some decisions were made by nuns and volunteers without formal medical training.

Basic diagnostic investigations were rarely available.

And the facility did not have strong painkillers in its medication supply.

Fox described a patient with a high fever who initially received paracetamol and an antibiotic before a visiting doctor suspected malaria and changed the treatment.

His central objection was that patients who might have treatable conditions weren't being reliably distinguished from people who were actually dying.

Think about that.

Someone could arrive believing they were receiving medical care when they might have needed a proper diagnosis, referral or treatment.

And this wasn't the only criticism.

In 2013, three Canadian academics published a critical review of Mother Teresa's life and work in the journal Studies in Religion.

They questioned her approach to caring for the sick, her political relationships and the management of the enormous donations her organization received.

One of their central concerns was whether a religious belief in the spiritual value of suffering had been allowed to influence the standard of care provided to vulnerable patients.

Mother Teresa believed suffering could have profound spiritual meaning.

But there's a difference between helping someone find meaning in unavoidable suffering...

AND FAILING TO RELIEVE SUFFERING THAT MEDICINE COULD PREVENT.

There is also an important complication.

During the 1990s, India had extraordinarily restrictive regulations governing access to morphine.

Human Rights Watch later documented that India's medical morphine consumption collapsed by approximately 97% between 1985 and 1997.

Even major hospitals struggled to obtain adequate pain medication.

So the absence of strong painkillers at Mother Teresa's facilities does not, by itself, prove she deliberately withheld them because she wanted patients to suffer.

And Fox acknowledged something critics often leave out:

The home he visited provided cleanliness, wound care and genuine kindness to desperately poor people.

The Missionaries of Charity also cared for people whom hospitals had turned away.

Mother Teresa saw her mission primarily as offering dignity, love and spiritual comfort to the abandoned, rather than operating conventional hospitals.

Critics have questioned the Missionaries of Charity's financial transparency for decades.

But Tucker's more specific allegation that Mother Teresa funneled donated money to the Vatican rather than caring for patients has not been established by the evidence reviewed here.

That distinction matters.

IMPORTANT NOTES: Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

The Catholic Church canonized her as a saint in 2016.

To millions of people, she remains one of the greatest symbols of compassion in modern history.

But the historical record also contains serious criticisms that deserve examination rather than automatic dismissal.

The most disturbing question isn't whether Mother Teresa personally believed suffering had spiritual value.

It's whether that belief, combined with the way her facilities operated, ever resulted in people enduring pain or illness that could have been treated.

Because there is a fundamental difference between helping someone die with dignity...

And allowing someone to suffer when they might not have needed to.

[Sharpy 🛸 @Sharpzilla]

@daytippler @Melonhead999 @CommonWalkerSW @nowhereflan @icrawford17 @realpip3 @eggforbread @David_Crayford @AvisJonathan87 @PSully68 @flamencobug Better than Paxman