Because our police like most other things in the country are useless. Nothing works. Including a sizeable chunk of the population who now apparently choose to live on benefits instead.

Quote from: dextrous63 on Today at 01:14:59 AMYou racist pig.

Klondy, ban this white honkeytonk immediately.

I love you too - you rascally knave!





Today at 11:34:56 AM
Some lovely answers here, thank you all, apart from Dex - and I'll deal with him later!

I grew up knowing the cards as Knaves from the old nursery rhyme - so I have always called them thus without ever thinking it incorrect or impolite.

It wrecked a good game of Gin Rummy anyway, which is sad because I was winning - hey ho !!

Personally, I'd be more worried about the word "trump" being used as an implication of superiority, given the somewhat obvious USA situation.

I'd also suggest that anyone who insisted that I solely used the term Jack and avoid the word Black card, ought to take themselves and their imbecilic puerility and shove it right up their red knaves'ies.😬

I suspect the confusion would more likely be caused by King starting with a K. I've heard both but Jack is now the norm. I fail to see anything non PC about using the word Knave. Problems with calling cards in the suits traditionally coloured black black cards suggests some form of mental illness to me.

Although I am quite aware of the optional name of 'Knave', I and everyone else I know have always used the word 'Jack'.

I don't know about 'PC', but I suppose the two names are interchangeable.  On the other hand, I feel that 'Knave' is rather more posh; the sort of word which Royalty would routinely use!

Quote from: klondike on Today at 10:55:27 AMApparently this was playing as he made that announcement.

Mr Brexit, Steve Bray was responsible for that apparently, he attached speakers to railings of Downing Street.  Not confirmed but if true,  why didn't the police arrest him or at least move him on. ?

What I found remarkable was his announcement that flights to Rwanda would commence after he was re-elected!
I understood that to mean quite clearly that he can't begin regular flights to Rwanda.
Like most politicians, he doesn't have a clue what to do, which explains the situation we are in now.

The consequence now, then, is that we can look forward to a Labour government in July, along with the further destruction of the United Kingdom.

Quote from: Alex on Today at 10:07:00 AMWhat a drip is right ! He looked a right plonker standing there getting soaked, what was wrong with the posh media room they have in number 10 ?
I just don't understand WHY July ?  Surely better to wait until the end of the year, or at least until the Rwanda flights started.

Perhaps this can be put back to end of year if 1922 Committee kicks Sunak out ? Although it's very unlikely 

Oh yes.  I'd forgotten about the hugely expensive media room in No 10.

IIRC, the card was originally called a knave, but changed to Jack through the generalised loss of the word Knave, coupled with the letter K and J not always being easily distinguished in the "fonts" of the time.

So, Tabby, you were correct to refer to him as a knave.

One can only wildly surmise that there was some concern that a black could also be viewed as a knave/rascal/crook too.

Apparently this was playing as he made that announcement.