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are you telling me LORD pickles is inoculated from any consequences of his actions? i am shocked-pikachu

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[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

England is not a real country

(Sorry to my Scottish and Gaelic comrades)

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

All good, but let’s just say Wales and Cornwall got slapped onto Ireland (which gets moved closer to Denmark) and Scotland is a quaint peninsula nation latched onto Norway.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lord Pickles is just such an unserious name

[–] shath@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago (1 children)

and yet he had an extremely important government position where him specifically making extremely dubious decisions based on profit motive directly lead to the violent and painful deaths of 72 people

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is what "freedom" in the West™ looks like. Working class people dying for no reason other than to line the pockets of Lord Pickle's business friends.

[–] shath@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago

and when they get caught, it takes near enough 2 decades for them to be prosecuted, with most just leaving the country or straight up dying of old age before they face any form of justice

good stuff. good stuff.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 15 points 10 months ago

mhm tasty landlord pickles

[–] CleverOleg@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If the Grenfell Tower disaster happened in China, this man would have been executed by the state within a year of it happening.

(And the clarify to any lemmy libs wandering in here… I 100%, unironically think Lord Pickles should have been executed by the state for all this)

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

Literal, actual death upon landlords

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Death to Lord Pickles is a very silly thing to say but it is 100% correct to say it

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

Really a missed opportunity, Lord Pickles would be a plausible name for a British cat, and that cat could ride on that guy's hat and pilot him like Cait Sith from FF VII.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

LORD PIC- who came up with Britain, Charles Dickens? Who's handling the case, Magistrate Puddlebottom?

[–] shath@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

no-one as they barely care about prosecuting their friends and colleagues

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Puddlebottom-Upon-Cock, a very british town name or something, idk

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Any time you want to know “how the hell is burgerland fucked up?” Look at The UKKK, might as well be called Burger Island.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wasn't one of the people who resigned following the Grenfell disaster a self-trepaner who wrote a book about putting a new hole in his head?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a self-trepaner who wrote a book about putting a new hole in his head?

God damn it, if the McElroy boys have taught me anything over the last decade, it's DO NOT DRILL A HOLE IN YOUR HEAD.

F'in b-holes. (burr holes)

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

That guy in particular definitely should do it again though. Ideally using a shotgun

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

waow-based he 100% agrees with the hexbear party line wall-flipped

[–] shath@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

damn i should try that

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Britain desperately in need of some Romanov'ing.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

So weird how we (albeit rightfully so) see child neglect as an evil done by the parents, but a landlord’s neglectful inactions leading to the Grenfell tower?

porky-scared-flipped: “Noo, I should not be held responsible! I just made a big oopsie-daisy! Besides, who cares if poors get hurt? MY PROPERTY was damaged! I’m the real victim here!”

Gotta love neo-feudalism, where the rich are both infallible gods we must obey and also poor babies that are never at fault for anything. Oh, porky “didn’t mean it”? Yeah thanks, that totally brings 70 people back to life.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's also worth considering that the people who do support child abuse (and there are sadly too many of them) tend to see children as the private property of the parents.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh yeah, one of the most chilling things I learned growing up is that so many people do not believe in children’s right to anything.

It wasn’t even a political thing, even my conservative grandpa lamented that I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn, and that he learned so much independence in such an environment (unfortunately he was priced out to Ohio lol.)

But seriously, I wish that school did legit teach more to high schoolers that they are going to be adults soon and what that entails.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't this guy have a wife named DeeDee and an evil niece

[–] shath@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Deedee pickles fuck off

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

DeeDee you EEEEdiot!

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Lord Pickles, Count Meatbrine, Sir Milkgravy, and Duke Porkingham walk into a bar.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Richard Scarry presents Death at Grenfeld