| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… 06:11 - Jun 24 with 4738 views | Matt_Netherlands |
Hope the guy is ok, whatever this summer brings. Sounds like a troubled young man in this post…
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:56 - Jun 24 with 798 views | baxterbasics |
Looking at some replies to his social posts he seems to be getting a lot of sh!t from 'fans' with the Iraqi flag in their profile. For the heinous crime of being harshly sent off. |  |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 10:18 - Jun 24 with 725 views | Guthrum |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 08:25 - Jun 24 by Matt_Netherlands |
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. |
Comes across more oddly because it's presented as poetry, something people in the West have stopped really doing (we write songs instead). |  |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 10:23 - Jun 24 with 713 views | Cotty |
| 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.... [Post edited 24 Jun 9:10]
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2s not the worst hand! Still 11.8% to get a set on the flop |  | | |
| Well said Herbers on 10:24 - Jun 24 with 712 views | Dyland |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:30 - Jun 24 by Herbivore |
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.
Ah well, what can you do? [Post edited 24 Jun 10:04]
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A case in point being the UK gov currently pushing through law change with no safeguards or regulation for the benefit of massive US tech corps, and to the detriment of the only reason these islands have any semblance of soft power left in the world, our creative industries. Peter Kyle was a shining example once upon a time but nowadays is not much more than a shill, and a lying one to boot.
In "developing nations" our media calls it corruption. |  |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 10:41 - Jun 24 with 667 views | Guthrum |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 09:30 - Jun 24 by Herbivore |
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.
Ah well, what can you do? [Post edited 24 Jun 10:04]
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Altho the last century has been more the exception than the rule.
Government has almost always been in the favour of rich and powerful interests. It was only when working people became organised and thus powerful in their own right in the 19th century that things began to change. Then the First and Second World Wars (with the Great Depression in between) shocked Europe into seeking better social care for their citizens - backed by the cheap oil economic prosperity of the 1960s.
Is this the last hurrah of the old guard, or a reversion to the norm? Too soon to tell, but the economic pressures of fuel prices, inflation (including of wages to cope with it), migration, climate change, resistence to tax rises, international instability and so on look to be giving ever-less room for maneuver when it comes to spending money on social programmes. The cultural individualism of the last 40 years also militates against working together as a society on these issues. People have been taught it's more important to spend money on themselves than to contribute. | |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 11:44 - Jun 24 with 572 views | Denny32 |
He should go out and get a job like the rest of us ..take his mind off such things!!! Lol |  | | |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 11:45 - Jun 24 with 571 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Is it about himself of a social commentary?
The line about filling the void with clothes, cars and jewellery is odd. |  |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 11:57 - Jun 24 with 540 views | LeightonBuzzardBlue |
This sets off my alarm bells a little bit.
Clearly struggling with something - I hope someone from the club has reached out (I'm sure they will / already have).
Don't have X myself but if anyone on here does I implore them to show him some support in response. |  | | |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 12:04 - Jun 24 with 513 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Seems like everyone has missed this line: "My favourite Kobe tweet." |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 12:09 - Jun 24 with 484 views | SE1blue |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 12:04 - Jun 24 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Seems like everyone has missed this line: "My favourite Kobe tweet." |
There’s a few people that’ll have a beef with that. |  |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 12:10 - Jun 24 with 480 views | NedPlimpton |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 12:09 - Jun 24 by SE1blue |
There’s a few people that’ll have a beef with that. |
I just assumed he was still talking about enjoying the finer things in life and had misspelled Kobe Beef? |  | | |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 13:19 - Jun 24 with 354 views | Bugs |
| 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. |
"Money can't buy you happiness" is of course b0llock$. Anyone that has had the stress of if you have enough money to feed your family knows this.
I believe there is a study that says this is of course BS. Basically, if you're wealthy enough not to worry about paying the bills, you're more likely to be happy. Does money guarantee happiness? Of course not, but it certainly helps.
But also, more money doesn't tend to buy you more happiness, once you have enough not to stress about it. So in that respect it is more accurate. |  | | |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 13:37 - Jun 24 with 299 views | WD19 |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 07:44 - Jun 24 by EssexBloo |
Filling the void with clothes, cars and jewellery.
He’s won me over with that. |
The rest of his time he just squandered…. |  | | |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 14:29 - Jun 24 with 225 views | baxterbasics |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 13:19 - Jun 24 by Bugs |
"Money can't buy you happiness" is of course b0llock$. Anyone that has had the stress of if you have enough money to feed your family knows this.
I believe there is a study that says this is of course BS. Basically, if you're wealthy enough not to worry about paying the bills, you're more likely to be happy. Does money guarantee happiness? Of course not, but it certainly helps.
But also, more money doesn't tend to buy you more happiness, once you have enough not to stress about it. So in that respect it is more accurate. |
It doesn't buy happiness but it definitely helps you avoid misery. | |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 16:20 - Jun 24 with 112 views | BlueBadger |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 14:29 - Jun 24 by baxterbasics |
It doesn't buy happiness but it definitely helps you avoid misery. |
Worst case scenario, in the words of Sir Terry Pratchett, it'll buy you a better class of misery. |  |
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| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 16:24 - Jun 24 with 104 views | HighgateBlue |
| 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. |
He's tried material things and he still finds there's an emptiness.
It sounds like he's already been reading Marx. |  | | |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 16:43 - Jun 24 with 57 views | mellowblue |
| Ali sounds like he’s having a bit of a difficult summer… on 13:19 - Jun 24 by Bugs |
"Money can't buy you happiness" is of course b0llock$. Anyone that has had the stress of if you have enough money to feed your family knows this.
I believe there is a study that says this is of course BS. Basically, if you're wealthy enough not to worry about paying the bills, you're more likely to be happy. Does money guarantee happiness? Of course not, but it certainly helps.
But also, more money doesn't tend to buy you more happiness, once you have enough not to stress about it. So in that respect it is more accurate. |
I think you correct, but also think people are baffled when they are rich with the lifestyle and spending opportunities yet are unhappy. Hence they think money doesn't buy happiness. | | | |
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