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[[image:angus_6_pack.jpg:Burgerking Angus 6 Pack:left:0]]The Daily Mail:

The 6-Pack is comprised of six “mini-burgers” each containing an individual Aberdeen Angus beef patty.

The six buns are joined together in the centre, so forming a large single burger.

Two of the burger sections are topped with ketchup, two with cheese and two with bacon and cheese. It is priced £4.49 on its own or £5.69 as part of a meal

It does look good in the picture. After all, it’s had a lot of care and attention that burger, more than the one you’ll receive. And it is fucking huge. You could even say it’s chock full of stuff, including:

917 calories (the recommended daily calorie intake for men is around 2,500 and women 2,000) and 18g of saturated fat (the recommended daily amount for men is 30g and women 20g).

Apparently, it’s for sharing. Burgerking have, after years of exploiting the way society has turned to eating on the move, suddenly decided to help social cohension and by getting people to eat together again.

David Kisilevsky, vice president of marketing, said: “Burger King is proud, once again, to set the standard for quick serve restaurants in the UK with a product that is unique, both in its format and quality.

“The 6 Pack is one of our most innovative Angus variations and is a new menu item that groups of friends or families can enjoy together.”

The quality I’m not so sure will be unique, but yes, the format is.

But I think the sharing, caring side of this meal is just for marketing. Afterall. it’s a meal for, several people, but with only one drink.
One pack of fries, fair enough. Make it a big pack, tear it open and wolf down as much as you can to make sure you get your fair share (the whole thing reminds me of cave men sitting around tearing lumps off an animal, gobbling up as much as they can as quick as they can so they don’t go hungry. Reducing the meal time from a nice civil affair with chatting being social to a purely functional refuelling).
But sharing a drink with friends? How many friends share drinks? I’m not being overly fussy, am I?

A sip of a mates unusual beer to see what it takes like or share a can of pop of that’s all we can afford with the coins we’ve scrapped together, yes. But not specifically buy a meal with one drink.
You wouldn’t go to a restaraunt and order a meal for two but share a glass of wine. You might go to the pub and buy a pitcher, but you wouldn’t all drink from the same glass.
Burgerking have just made a massive burger and given it ‘tear here’ lines to make it more manageable.

But then, what do you expect from a caring sharing company like Burgerking?

Via

Gordon Brown:

we have given people new rights to protest outside Parliament

It’s a bit early for revising history, isn’t it?
We’re all doomed. When the PM has the balls to make a claim like that, and he wouldn’t if he didn’t think he was going to get a way with it, we’re all fucked.
Unless there is a monumental fuck up, and Gordon hasn’t had an easy ride so far so it would have to be immense, we’re stuck with him for two more years.

But what happens then? More of the same but possibly blue rather than red. Why can’t these fuckers just play it straight? Is it all about their careers now? They lie, they embezzle, they defraud, they pander to which ever cunt has the most money. And what do we get out of it? Fucked if I know. But what ever it is, it ain’t good enough.

But if there is a way of not repeating this fucking cycle of excitement at a new and promising government only to be let down by them being just as shite as the previous lot ad nauseum, then please, I’m all ears.

I tried posting some pictures I took whilst on a secret mission at the weekend.

Due to technical issues, it’s all gone wrong and I can’t be arsed now. Maybe later.

But thanx to Tim, D-Notice and Davide for a good afternoon. Most enjoyable.

Proper posts about it from Tim, and Davide.

Guardian:

A further batch of secret government files have been found on a train, it was reported tonight.

The Independent on Sunday newspaper said that the papers, which were handed in to it, covered the UK’s policies on fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering.

The paper said that they were discovered on a train bound for London’s Waterloo station on Wednesday.

*throws hands up in disbelief*

Watch this video of Israeli settlers beating up a Palestinain woman for shepherding her sheep too near to a settlement and thereby implicitly refusing to concede her land to them.

Colonialism at it’s best, eh?

Via Lenin

Luke Akehurst:

Maybe instead of Labour fielding a candidate in Haltemprice & Howden we should find a Martin Bell type candidate – preferably a recently retired senior police officer, or a survivor or relative of a victim of a terrorist attack, to run under the following 5 word candidate description: “Independent – for detaining terrorism suspects”.

mmm. nuff said in the comments really.
Rachel North:

I expect terrorists to attack our freedoms and our democracy by using fear and terror to hurt us. I was right there, seven feet away from a 19 year old suicide bomber in my carriage on 7/7 and lucky to escape with my life when he killed 26 fellow passengers.

I object vehemently to your assumption that victims of terrorism can be waved about to us as a bloodied figleaf to cover up a naked desire to be seen to be tough on terror for entirely politcal purposes, I object to being used as a political football, and if ‘for the victims’ is going to be invoked for this kind of liberty-trashing fearmongering, then this ‘victim’ (hate that word)is going to shout right back that those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.

It is what I said in the Sunday Times and the Guardian when it was 50+ days being mooted

and I will go on saying it.

Please don’t assume being blown up makes everyone agree with the Sun.

To which Luke replies:

I think Rachel’s position just goes to show that experiencing something first hand doesn’t necessarily lead you to come to the right conclusions about how to deal with it.

I disagree with her stance but at least it’s more sincerely held than that of most Tory MPs who just saw this issue as a cheap chance to inflict a defeat on Gordon Brown.

I simply do not understand why the “civil liberties” of people suspected of terrorism would be considered of more value than the civil liberty of the rest of us to go about our lives safely.

Luke, the key word here, and is what most people forget, is ‘suspected’. You are probably not going to be affected by this extention to precharge detention, either by being (not) blown up or by being hauled into a cell and kept in the dark for six weeks while your life goes down the shitter, but plenty of innocent people will be.

I guess they’ll just be collatoral damage in another war.

Via Justin, again.

The Guardian:

[Kelvin] MacKenzie [former Sun editor] told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that there were two reasons he could run. “One is that the Sun is very, very hostile to David Davis because of his 28-day stand, and the Sun has always been up for 42 days, or perhaps even 420 days, frankly. And secondly this is a bizarre cost to the taxpayer.”

Holy Fuck!

He said that if he stood it would be with the backing of Rupert Murdoch, the head of News International, which publishes the Sun, and Rebekah Wade, the paper’s editor, who both felt “that democracy would not be best served by a walkover”

No, democracy would be best served by doing what Mr Murdoch wants. Wouldn’t it Mr Murdoch?

Update:
Just seen this report on the BBC site:

Mr Mackenzie, who backs Labour on 42 days, said he wanted to stand against Mr Davis on behalf of the Sun and had the backing of the newspaper’s proprietor Rupert Murdoch

Anyone who votes for this fucker, if he stands, is just as much a cunt as Mackenzie is.
Mackenzie, in the few brief reports I’ve read, is basically for a police state. Not only that, he would not only be standing with the backing of Rupert Murdoch, but on behalf of one of his ‘newspapers’.
He will be standing for election because The Scum can’t. He would be doing, or trying to do what The Scum would do. That is a scary thought.

If he does stand, don’t be cunt, don’t vote for Mackenzie The Scum.

Via LC

Ynet

IDF, police, Shin Bet forces launch massive search for two settlers who reported their own kidnapping. After being found, settlers change story to say a third friend was abducted. Only 90 minutes later did they confess to lying.
…
IDF troops carrying out an arrest operating in Nablus were dispatched to the neighboring village and located the two settlers, though they were found to be unrestrained.

When confronted by the soldiers, the settlers fabricated yet another story – they reported that there had been a third member of their party and that he had been abducted by the Palestinians. At this point reinforcement troops were summoned. An hour and a half into the search, the two finally confessed to have made up the claims.

Obviously hoping to get a few Palestinians heads kicked. There’ll be a slap on the wrist at the most.

I may not be man enough to square up to Mrs -O, but I can still be subversive in my own little way.
So in a not-ripped-off-from-Sunny-at-all way, I give you LOL-Bush!

It’s, er, just the one at the moment, I’ll update if I do some more, or you let me know of yours.

And another mention for Stop The War, 15 June.