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Reply | A minutes silence for the pope?
at 16:00 30 Apr 2025
But on the other hand, the Football Lads Alliance were VERY into flower arranging, bizarrely, which churches get right behind, too.
These things are always more complex than they first appear, aren't they? |
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Reply | Wardley fight off
at 15:56 30 Apr 2025
Not something to Google with Safe Search off. |
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Reply | If you con The Man, he gets really cross
at 15:35 30 Apr 2025
The simple solution is to offer him the chance to pay for the ticket in full.
Or fine him the equivalent amount.
Which would wipe the cocky smile off his face and ensure others didn't copy him.
What would be stupid would be for a "relatively victimless" crime (the seat was, ahem, sitting empty) to end up with the taxpayer paying several multiples of that amount to keep him in prison. |
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Reply | A minutes silence for the pope?
at 15:19 30 Apr 2025
No need. As soon as he dies he is reincarnated.
Maybe sing "The Circle of Life" for him instead? |
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Reply | Does this Citeh fan have a valid point?
at 11:54 29 Apr 2025
The real point is that it was a Semi Final.
And so shouldn't be held at Wembley.
And it was a Semi Final between a team from Manchester and one from Nottingham, and so it shouldn't have been in London.
He highlights both cost and time as factors. |
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Reply | The purge has started in Spain & Portugal
at 11:42 29 Apr 2025
And Putin promised "chaos and disruption" for all countries who assist Ukraine.
Nobody on TWTD has access to proof that this is the case, of course, but it is entirely rational to put it forward as a possible reason.
The counter-argument is that you don't need to attribute to malice what could be more easily explained by incompetence, but if there was a single point of failure that was readily accessible to a malicious actor, then that also qualifies as incompetence. |
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Reply | Coming to a street near YOU
at 11:33 29 Apr 2025
Your opposition to this policy was expressed in terms of 1) house prices being lowered and 2) that there is a shortage of affordable housing and people are on waiting lists.
I explained why there is a shortage of affordable housing and people are on waiting lists, and also why house prices being lower is a good thing for many.
As long as ordinary people keep getting encouraged to turn on each other, or anyone who is different to them, the gap between us and the billionaires will continue to grow.
Refugees aren't the reason for a shortage of affordable housing in the UK. |
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Reply | Coming to a street near YOU
at 19:56 28 Apr 2025
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher's Government passed a law that forced Councils to sell their housing stock to tenants at significantly below market value.
The law also stated that the revenue raised had to sit in a ring fenced account, and couldn't be spent by those Councils on new housing stock.
That is the root of the housing crisis today, why there aren't enough houses, and why house price inflation means young people can't get on the housing ladder.
40 years of Councils building houses, getting young individuals, couples and families decent housing, allowing them to buy it when they qualified, and then reinvesting the proceeds in more housing, would have created a very different Britain.
Your house would be worth a lot less than it is now, mind, so I guess, if that is your primary test for any Government policy, then you wouldn't approve. |
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Reply | The VAR intervention
at 16:29 26 Apr 2025
Yes, ok. Law 12 "If a defender starts holding an attacker outside the penalty area and continues holding inside the penalty area, the referee must award a penalty kick."
Back to whether it was a holding foul, and if so, why there aren't 40 penalties a match. |
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Thread | The VAR intervention
at 16:05 26 Apr 2025
Let's leave aside the fact that it is incredibly soft and not sufficient contact to bring him down (the current applicable test)...
VAR seem to believe that it was possibly sufficient contact. So then they should look at where the contact starts, as that is the point of the possible foul.
The initial contact was outside the box. The point of the foul was therefore not inside the area. Therefore it couldn't be a Penalty.
Therefore VAR HQ shouldn't have intervened at all.
It should have remained with the on field referee's original decision.
A complete failure to apply the rules fairly and impartially. |
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Reply | Anyone think the 9-0 might be in danger today?
at 14:40 26 Apr 2025
The foul by Leif on Saka disabused them of that notion, what with a Champions League Semi Final coming up. Be a shame to miss that because you took the pish out of Sammy Morsy. |
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Reply | Trump now having Judges arrested
at 14:08 26 Apr 2025
The other point to make on removing the term limit for Presidents is that if it is lifted then Barack Obama can come back and hand his flabby orange ass to him. |
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Reply | Trump now having Judges arrested
at 14:05 26 Apr 2025
The two-thirds majority required in both House and Senate, and ratification by three-quarters of States, present and obstacle he can't overcome without very large-scale and widespread imprisonment of elected Democrat politicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution
I don't think it is a starter, and also not necessary for him and his supporters. He just needs to pick an heir and big them up.
Republican State Legislatures will do a lot of the supporting work in terms of voter suppression. |
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Reply | Rupert Lowe is having a pop at us..
at 00:19 25 Apr 2025
If you want a young ethnic minority coach in a junior role to thrive it's a lot more likely that that will happen in a setting where there are other coaching staff from ethnic minorities. It might be precisely why Town's bid proposal for the funding for this role was successful.
Re Lowe's tweet:
Imagine being so desperate to build your profile that you are willing to sow division in society and fuel resentment against a young person being given a supportive one year training post, and implying that you are being discriminated against, even though Lowe himself is a wealthy man who has lived a privileged life.
Instead of seeing a scheme like this as being the source of all that is wrong in Britain, maybe we should look at Independent Boarding Schools like Radley College, which turn out entitled, privileged, divisive wannabe populists like Lowe. |
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Reply | How does KM approach these "dead rubber" matches?
at 12:18 23 Apr 2025
Play Delap. Hope he picks up an injury that keeps him out of action until early February.
Then play him to the end of the Championship season.
Get promoted.
Keep Delap.
Do better next time.
Keep Delap.
(The above only works in a multiverse where Chelsea don't just drop £30 million on an injured young player and put them in their live action Panini Album) |
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Reply | Pope dead.
at 16:25 21 Apr 2025
As a non-Catholic I didn't feel I could comment with a Father Ted quote, because this isn't an Ecumenical matter. |
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Reply | Pope dead.
at 10:26 21 Apr 2025
I gave that an uppie.
Why?
Cos. |
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