This n that

[Odinson]

Pedos...



Groomers...

They should be incarcerated with no chance of parole evah!!!

I was talking about you two wild cougars.  

[Shen Li]

They should be incarcerated with no chance of parole evah!!!

I was talking about you two wild cougars.  

 

[Odinson]

I was talking about you two wild cougars.  

 

You should be ashamed of yourself!  ac_biggrin

[Shen Li]

 

You should be ashamed of yourself!  ac_biggrin

I should, but I'm not. :001_tongue:

[Herman]

Here are some famous Western companies that are now Chinese owned.



Harvey Nichols: bought for $101.9 million (£53.6m)

Founded in 1831, Harvey Nichols is one of London's most upscale department stores. There are currently 15 different Harvey Nichols stores around the world, including three in Hong Kong. The chain was bought by Hong Kong-based company Dickson Concepts in 1991 for $101.9 million (£53.6m).



Dirt Devil, as part of Royal Appliances Manufacturing Company: bought for $105.5 million (£74.2m)

Dirt Devil, the US manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, was originally founded in 1905. In 2002, its parent company Royal Appliances Manufacturing Company was bought by the Hong Kong company Techtronic Industries for $105.5 million (£74.2m).



Hoover USA: bought for $107 million (£54.5m)

Dirt Devil isn't the only vacuum brand that's been sucked up Techtronic Industries. The Whirlpool Corporation sold the US division of Hoover to Techtronic Industries in 2007 for $107 million (£54.5m) in cash. The international arm of the Hoover brand was originally owned by Italian appliance maker Candy, but that was taken over by Chinese consumer electronics firm Haier in 2019. That means the entire Hoover brand is now under Chinese control.



MG Rover: bought for $96.1 million (£50m)

In 2005, UK-based automotive brand MG Rover was bailed out by China's oldest vehicle manufacturer, Nanjing Automobile, for $96.1 million (£70.2m). Two years later, Nanjing was bought by Shanghai-based SAIC Motor. The company ceased all production at MG's Longbridge plant near Birmingham, England in 2016 and moved all operations to China.



Rio Tinto: bought for $12.8 billion (£6.5bn)

Chinalco, one of the world's biggest aluminium producers, is owned by the Chinese government. In February 2008, the company bought a minority stake in British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto for a whopping $12.8 billion (£6.5bn). By 2019, Chinalco owned a 14.51% stake in the company, making it Rio Tinto's biggest shareholder. Chinalco's share cannot exceed 15% though as a result of foreign ownership restrictions imposed by Australian regulators back in 2008.



OZ Minerals: bought for $1.4 billion (£989m)

OZ Minerals is a modern mining company in South Australia that focuses on copper mines across Australia and in Brazil. The company was drowning in debt in 2009 when it was acquired by Chinese mineral and metals trading firm Minmetals, which now goes by the name of MMG. The deal came in at $1.4 billion (£989m).



Volvo: bought for $1.8 billion (£1.3bn)

Renowned for its safe and reliable cars, the vehicles arm of much-loved Swedish automotive company Volvo was sold by Ford to China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group for $1.8 billion (£1.3bn) in 2010. In July 2021, Volvo signed a deal with its parent company to take over Geely's stake in its joint ventures in China, making it the first non-Chinese carmaker to have full control over its operations in the People's Republic. China accounted for 25% of Volvo's total car sales in 2020, followed by the United States (17%), Sweden (8%) and Germany (7%).



Club Med: bought for more than $1.1 billion (£803m)

In 2010, Chinese investment company Fosun International bought a 7.1% stake in the French all-inclusive vacation brand Club Med. Five years later, and following a two-year bidding war, the conglomerate went the whole hog and raised its stake to 98% at a cost of $1.1 billion (£803m).



Cerruti: bought for up to $71.7 million (£48.1m)

Presitigious Italian fashion brand Cerruti was snapped up by Chinese investors in 2010. Famed for its luxurious men's suits and classic 1881 fragrance, the brand was bought by Hong Kong-based Trinity for up to $71.7 million (£52.3m). The acquisition came as part of the company's ambitious expansion programme in the UK and China.



Miss Sixty: bought for an undisclosed amount

The popular Italian womenswear brand was snapped up by Guangzhou's Trendy International Group in 2012. The parent company controls a range of fashion brands, which includes Energie, Murphy & Nye and Killah. Miss Sixty's owner announced in 2016 that the brand could go public in the upcoming year, but no IPO has happened yet. The business was estimated to be worth $5 billion (£3.6bn) at the time.



AMC Theaters: bought for $2.6 billion (£1.9bn)

AMC Theaters, the American cinema chain that became a so-called meme stock in January 2022 when people began investing in their droves after discussions on social network Reddit, was bought by the Dalian Wanda Group for $2.6 billion (£1.9bn) in 2012. Although other global companies have subsequently invested in the firm, Wanda Group still has majority control over the chain.

[DKG]

Rocker Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame has issued a statement declaring his support for those who identify as transgender, while also expressing his view that children have not matured enough mentally to pursue gender transitions.



Snider recently earned the ire of San Francisco Pride after he expressed agreement with what the organization claimed was a "transphobic statement" put out by Paul Stanley of Kiss.



Stanley had appeared to argue that adults should not encourage kids to identify as the opposite sex. Snider agreed, tweeting, "You know what? There was a time where I 'felt pretty' too. Glad my parents didn't jump to any rash conclusions! Well said, @PaulStanleyLive."



San Francisco Pride announced that plans to have Snider perform had been scrapped, writing, "[W]hen we were notified about the tweet in which Dee expressed support for Kiss's Paul Stanley's transphobic statement, we were heartbroken and angry. The message perpetuated by that tweet casts doubt on young trans people's ability to self-identify their gender." The organization declared, "We have mutually agreed to part ways, but appreciate Dee seeing this as a teachable moment and a reminder that even allies need to be educated to ensure that they are not casually promoting transphobia."

[Lokmar]

Rocker Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame has issued a statement declaring his support for those who identify as transgender, while also expressing his view that children have not matured enough mentally to pursue gender transitions.



Snider recently earned the ire of San Francisco Pride after he expressed agreement with what the organization claimed was a "transphobic statement" put out by Paul Stanley of Kiss.



Stanley had appeared to argue that adults should not encourage kids to identify as the opposite sex. Snider agreed, tweeting, "You know what? There was a time where I 'felt pretty' too. Glad my parents didn't jump to any rash conclusions! Well said, @PaulStanleyLive."



San Francisco Pride announced that plans to have Snider perform had been scrapped, writing, "[W]hen we were notified about the tweet in which Dee expressed support for Kiss's Paul Stanley's transphobic statement, we were heartbroken and angry. The message perpetuated by that tweet casts doubt on young trans people's ability to self-identify their gender." The organization declared, "We have mutually agreed to part ways, but appreciate Dee seeing this as a teachable moment and a reminder that even allies need to be educated to ensure that they are not casually promoting transphobia."

LOL! My wife told me that faggits are now boycotting bud light because they are reaching out to curtail the backlash against em! BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!



Fuck Dee Snyder BTW.

[Herman]

A new study published in Nature Metabolism (pdf) has revealed that the basal metabolic rate (BMR) in people in the United States and Europe has decreased over the past three decades, potentially contributing to the growing obesity epidemic in both regions.



Basal metabolic rate, or basal energy expenditure, refers to the energy required per unit of time for the body to maintain vital functions such as breathing, blood circulation, and maintaining body temperature. Put simply, BMR is the number of calories the body burns while at rest. BMR is one component in the body's total energy expenditure. The other is activity expenditure, the number of calories burned during physical activity, such as running or walking.



According to the study, which analyzed data from the present day back to the late 1980s from nearly 4,800 adults in Europe and the United States, the adjusted total daily energy expenditure has decreased significantly since the 1990s. The data indicated a decline of approximately 7.7 percent in men and 5.6 percent in women. In terms of adjusted basal energy expenditure, men experienced a drop of 14.7 percent over time, while women's decline was 2 percent and not deemed significant. However, the authors noted that a larger dataset of BMR measurements of nearly 10,000 adults across 163 studies going back 100 years confirms the decline in both men and women.



"The surprising conclusion is we spend less energy when resting now than individuals did 30-40 years ago!" John Speakman, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenzhen, China, and a lead author of the study, wrote on Twitter. "The magnitude of the effect is sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic."

[DKG]

Joy Reid has just invented a new term to describe women in red states, and it's offensive to say the least. She went on MSNBC to call them "womb slaves" as she referenced the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

[DKG]

Bud Light is now facing boycotts from both sides of the political spectrum after teaming up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.



Conservative beer drinkers blasted Bud Light for partnering with Mulvaney – the transgender TikTok star and creator of the "Days of Girlhood" series. Now, gay bars in Illinois are boycotting Bud Light for not supporting Mulvaney enough.



The 2Bears Tavern Group owns four "LGBTQIA+ establishments" in Chicago. The LGBTQ group proclaimed on Friday, "All 2Bears Tavern Group bars are discontinuing Anheuser-Busch InBev products as a result of the brewer's anti-transgender actions and statements."



"In view of Anheuser-Busch InBev's abandonment of its support of transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, the subsequent reprehensible and divisive comments by its CEO ... 2Bears Tavern Group is discontinuing all Anheuser-Busch InBev products including Busch Light, Bud Light, and Goose Island 312," the 2Bears Tavern Group said in a statement.

[Herman]

An Ohio man was charged earlier this year for exposing himself to multiple women, in one instance with little girls present.



While the presiding judge in 31-year-old Darren Glines' case determined there was "no question that Glines was in the women's locker room," he ultimately let the transvestite off the hook because of the YMCA's gender identification policy and the transvestite's giant gut.



The YMCA of Greater Dayton refused to bar the male patron from the once female-only space.



"Under no circumstance will we investigate an individual's birth identity and then assign individuals to locker rooms. That would be counter to the law, counter to respect for all people and it is not who or what we are as an organization," the organization said in a statement.



Glines' activist attorneys Lauren and Keara Dever argued that in addition to having the permission to parade around naked in the women's locker room, it is "fair to say that the whole genital area was covered by body fat."

[DKG]

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[Herman]

Trump found liable for sexual abuse, defamation; E. Jean Carroll awarded $5 million.

[Herman]

I heard a rumour Tucker Carlson is starting a new show on Twitter.

[Herman]

Canada's new crown design places a snowflake at the top where a cross once stood, and critics are absolutely raking the move over the coals.



The National Post reported that the new design for the Canadian Royal Crown also replaces other religious symbols such as the fleur-de-lis — and other crosses — for maple leaves. The Catholic Church has viewed the fleur-de-lis as a symbol for the Virgin Mary, and its three "petals" have been used to represent the Holy Trinity.



How are folks reacting?

As you might expect, the new crown design is being blasted on Twitter — particularly because the term "snowflake" has in recent years come to represent young leftists. The bulldozing of religion also was noted.



"Makes sense, snowflakes while we're under a snowflake," one commenter wrote.

"More Cultural Marxism," another user said. "There's a war on Christianity around the world. And it's been foretold."

"Might as well just put 666 on it," another commenter suggested.

"Anyone who thinks our drama queen [prime minister] who professes a love for the murderous, tyrannical communist Chinese regime would do anything but try to destroy our traditions and heritage that made us great are deluded and deranged, if not mentally ill," another user said. "God save us."

"The snowflake is a perfect depiction of today's Canadian society!" another commenter declared.

"Roflmao. Canada has totally become the country of snowflakes. Oh my," another user noted.

"I am surprised Canada did not replace the cross with a homosexual flag or a black fist," another commenter wrote.