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Reads to me like he’s experiencing the usual ontological terror most young people endure these days.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 07:44 - Jun 24 by EssexBloo
Filling the void with clothes, cars and jewellery.
He’s won me over with that.
I'm not sure, but I think maybe that's supposed to be sarcastic, or at least a bit self aware. As chico says, a lot of young people are well aware of the threats of today's world and are suffering a lot of existential angst, poor sods.
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 06:36 - Jun 24 by Reuser_is_God
What a load of old sh1t
Whilst I don’t entirely disagree…. Your reply does also help explain why there’s a mental health crisis amongst men. Bit of a weird post yes, but if it’s a cry for help then it might be the only way he knows how or only way he feels comfortable doing. But yes, it is slightly odd. Hopefully he’s ok.
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Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:31 - Jun 24 with 2836 views
Just the classic case of realising money can't buy you happiness. Good that he's realised, at such a young age, lots of people go through life never understanding this.
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:31 - Jun 24 by hype313
Just the classic case of realising money can't buy you happiness. Good that he's realised, at such a young age, lots of people go through life never understanding this.
It feels, to me at least, as if it's also a bit of a struggle in reconciling typical footballer culture with his own Muslim faith, which must be incredibly difficult at times.
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:33 - Jun 24 by Zx1988
It feels, to me at least, as if it's also a bit of a struggle in reconciling typical footballer culture with his own Muslim faith, which must be incredibly difficult at times.
Perhaps a chat with Sam might be in order.
Hopefully someone (whether Sam or one of the other senior players/coaches) puts their arm around him and gives him space to talk once the players return to pre-season, rather than calling it a load of old sh1t and having a laugh at him.
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Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:44 - Jun 24 with 2709 views
He needs to read some Marx to help him understand why capitalism is ultimately not in the best interests of society and is responsible for the rampant individualism, rank inequality, and ever darkening malaise that has engulfed the western world.
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:44 - Jun 24 by Herbivore
He needs to read some Marx to help him understand why capitalism is ultimately not in the best interests of society and is responsible for the rampant individualism, rank inequality, and ever darkening malaise that has engulfed the western world.
And then, as Karl himself suggested, if one man should wish to go fishing while another works, and then in the evening the fisherman does his own work, so let it be.
It's a rough rendering, but it's near enough to get the romantic idyll.
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:44 - Jun 24 by Herbivore
He needs to read some Marx to help him understand why capitalism is ultimately not in the best interests of society and is responsible for the rampant individualism, rank inequality, and ever darkening malaise that has engulfed the western world.
Quite sobering and enlightening at the same time when you realise that from a young age we're all on this conveyer belt of just being a tax number. Our education curriculum is still adhering to the early 1900's, never changed despite an ever evolving world. It's absurd.
The whole system needs rebooting, but we're all so entwined to the status quo, I can't see how anything will change.
We change the Government every 5 years in the hope that better days will come, but they don't have a clue how to fix this broken society, and invariably things get worse and then we throw another doomed party with no philosophy or ideology and it's back to square one.
It's rinse and repeat.
Best thing we can do is to live our lives as best as possible with the cards we're all dealt with.
Problem there is, some get given a pair of Aces, some get given a pair of 2's.
Summer must be a strange time for a lot of footballers. For almost nine months a year, the sport probably consumes so much time of their life’s and that summer brings a massive gap.
Nothing wrong with having moments of self-reflection - far better than gambling.
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Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:17 - Jun 24 with 2356 views
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:09 - Jun 24 by Maccaisgod
Penalty misses do that to ya.
I'm sure you've written that in jest, but it's not exactly hard to see why a 23yr old might write "Too much pressure, Too much judgement" and feel a bit overwhelmed by it all
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Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:30 - Jun 24 with 2270 views
Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:09 - Jun 24 by hype313
Quite sobering and enlightening at the same time when you realise that from a young age we're all on this conveyer belt of just being a tax number. Our education curriculum is still adhering to the early 1900's, never changed despite an ever evolving world. It's absurd.
The whole system needs rebooting, but we're all so entwined to the status quo, I can't see how anything will change.
We change the Government every 5 years in the hope that better days will come, but they don't have a clue how to fix this broken society, and invariably things get worse and then we throw another doomed party with no philosophy or ideology and it's back to square one.
It's rinse and repeat.
Best thing we can do is to live our lives as best as possible with the cards we're all dealt with.
Problem there is, some get given a pair of Aces, some get given a pair of 2's.
On that positive note....
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Sadly, we've got to a point where governments can't really do anything to make things better. They are basically held to ransom by the super rich and large multinational corporations and if they look like they aren't going to carry on the tradition of governing in their narrow interests then they respond badly and chaos ensues. Successive governments have enabled a system where government is basically a prop to support big business and not much more, those big businesses continue to thrive and rinse as much out of people as they can, while scoffing at the idea they should pay more to maintain a basic level of public services within countries that provide them with significant amounts of revenue.
The global nature of commerce has made it even harder for individual nation states to do much about what is a effectively a cartel extorting most of the rest of society. And globally, the US is still the biggest superpower and they bloody love capitalism so we won't see any appetite from them to support more widespread changes to ensure greater fairness and equality in society.
It's all pretty depressing really. The current systems we have didn't pre-date mankind. We created them. If they aren't fit for purpose, we should be able to change or reinvent them. But we lack the imagination or the will, we've all been cowed in the west by a reasonable level of peace and comfort over the last 80 years and it has made people afraid of change. Couple that with the media being controlled by the same cabal that effectively control most governments as well, and you have people blaming people even worse off than them (immigrants, disabled people) for society's ills rather than seeing what should be bleeding obvious.
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