Milkshake rule

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196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 466 points – 3 weeks ago

Reuters: UK right-winger Farage doused with drink at election campaign launch

Culprit:

Apparently not even the first time it’s happened to him:

It was a setup. The woman is the girlfriend of a reform party member. Farage has form for this sort of publicity stunt.

Edit

https://ibb.co/wsygrdp

Farage is all anyone is talking about at the moment, the stunt seems to have worked.

Edit

According to the BBC a woman’s been charged, so it seems like the initial skepticism was misplaced.

This appears to be false.

Could be. I’ve no trust in The Express though. It’s a right wing rag.

I've seen other british tabloids reporting the same thing

tabloids

lol

She looks exactly like every other British girl that age. This proves nothing, you're chatting pure shit

I’m not chatting anything you biff, I shared what I saw. You can make your own mind up.

I didn't say you're chatting shit, I'm just commenting on what I saw.

while i’m inclined to believe you, some sort of source or even the woman’s name would help a lot….

Of course, you’re right. I’ve edited my post to include what I read earlier.

thank you 🎩👌

Thanks for sharing, would suggest another edit here:

Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, 2 July charged with assault by beating and criminal damage, Essex Police said.

BBC: Woman charged after milkshake thrown over Farage

Thanks. 👍🏻

And thanks for the update!

Unless he's getting off on it, I'm just glad he's milkshaked.

Staged to get into the media spotlight by any means necessary. The security guy is wearing that jacket zipped for a reason; is looking right at her; is not reacting in any way to stop her. Looking at the reaction of the crowd, it looks like the work of a sophist; the true hallmark of the Right.

This will be most people's first heads up that Farage is back in the game

If it is staged, we should all be pouring milkshake on the guy everywhere he goes until he stops.

No one man has done more harm to the UK in recent years than Farage.

He is just a vulture flying on top of the destruction caused by David Cameron's political incompetence

He fucking caused Cameron's incompetence.

farage stoking the fires of Brexit existed long before Cameron's idiocy. Ukip

Her milkshake would bring me (a boy) to her yard.

Her yard of course being her onlyfans

People saying is fake, but you can't fake the smile of the red shirt guy.

That is a dark purple shirt for the people who aren't colorblind.

Nuh uh, it's maroon.

Also more commonly known as black for us simple folk.

Just because the main two were in on it doesn't mean the bystanders have to be

No such thing as bad publicity so might as well have an acquaintance's life-size barbie embarrass you with a milkshake.

an acquaintance's life-size barbie embarrass you with a milkshake.

Because women are property in the mind of @ghyste@sh.itjust.works

Whatever you say, bub.

Whooosh

Of course the horribly sexist comment was intended as a joke. A sexist joke is sexist.

Calling someone a life sized Barbie is a sexist comment, but writing the comment makes the commenter sexist in the same way that playing the T-1000 makes Arnold Schwarzenegger an android from the future.

I had more of a problem with the ownership words than the description of the woman as looking Barbie-like

Still, you're not getting it. The commenter is speaking from the perspective of the type of person who would do this. They are doing so to mock that type of person. If you give the commenter the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they are not on the side of the rightwing psychopaths they are explicitly criticizing, then it makes sense.