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Reply | This place is fooking awful at the moment
at 11:40 17 Sep 2025
Indeed. Plus there is so much information/news/propaganda out there, it is impossible to sort through. Much easier to just consume what arrives in your personal feed, often from "trusted" sources (who are themselves influenced by the same methods).
Clickbait exists to get people using those platforms, generating revenue from advertising and so on. It is in the social media outlets' interest to get users het up about stuff and thus more involved. |
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Reply | Why did the media and police lie so readily
at 11:31 17 Sep 2025
Lets have a look at this scientifically. Take a view like this one, of Stamford St and the roundabout on Waterloo Rd.
https://na.cx/i/v0QYceS.webp
The roundabout is approx 75m by 100m, less the 45m square for the thing in the middle. The bit of Stamford St in shot is 20m wide by about 400m long. That gives a total of 13,500 square metres, more or less.
You could fit a maximum of 6 people in a square metre (shoulder to shoulder, hard up against the person in front. Beyond that, you're into suffocation levels. Most likely to be half that figure, or fewer, given they needed room to walk, wave flags and so on.
So at absolute tops, there would be 81,000 people in that shot. More likely 30 or 40 thousand.
I'd guess whoever took that picture wanted to get most of the crowd in. If it stretched much further they'd have moved the angle a bit to get more of them.
Anyway, assuming there were a few thousand people coming along the road out of shot and an equal number marching on the northern route, then it would give an estimated range for total crowd size of 100k to 200k. There would need to have been five to ten times as many other people hiding somewhere to have got close to one million, let alone three.
This shot shows a very similar area, thus about the same number of people.
https://img.inform.kz/kazinform-photobank/media/2025-09-14/60266956-d278-4dce-a2
In conclusion, the police estimate of 110k is fairly likely to be correct, but there may have been up to double that taking part. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham watch ....
at 17:13 16 Sep 2025
But that is a function of the time aspect. People aren't prepared to wait five or ten years for a careful plan to bear fruit. They're shouting if change hasn't happened in mere months. Politicians know that, so they go for badly-thought-out quick fixes, which rarely fix anything (or create a raft of other issues). |
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Reply | The terrorist genocidal Israeli State. It's official.
at 16:56 16 Sep 2025
I doubt it. Hamas have now got many thousands more "martyrs" they can use to boost recruitment and fundraising.
Most of them innocent people caught in the fighting. But to the Hamas leadership (sitting in Doha, Tehran or somewhere else other than Gaza) their cause and hold on power are obviously much more important then the lives of Palestinians. No better than Netanyahu and his crew. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham watch ....
at 09:56 16 Sep 2025
Because it's not possible to do that first bit, without a lot more money, upsetting a load of people and is a process which will take years, if not decades. None of those are attractive to politicians who live in fear of the next set of poll results. And who have to get such a manifesto of discomfort, hard work and patience elected in the first place, by voters who have been indoctrinated to expect promises of flowing milk and honey only just around the corner. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham watch ....
at 09:48 16 Sep 2025
The optics of doing that would be terrible, tho. Make Starmer look terribly weak and determined to bend every rule to ensure his personal survival in power. Belie all rhetoric about Labour being a "broad church". Provide ammunition for other parties.
The biggest risk might be of Manchester ending up with a Reform mayor (who would bale out after a few weeks, leaving his teenage assistant in charge of one of the UK's most important cities). |
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Reply | If you are buying a RBL poppy this year
at 09:29 16 Sep 2025
Me too. Have has the same physical poppy for about 5 years (keep it in the car as would quickly be destroyed by wearing it at work). |
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Reply | McKenna reported to be in boardroom at West Ham yesterday
at 13:01 15 Sep 2025
Not sure whether McKenna would be too up for another relegation battle (with no transfer window to tweak the squad), when he's just got everything nicely set up and starting to come together at Ipswich, having a more than decent chance of being a Prem Manager next season anyway. |
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Reply | Chris Wilder
at 12:55 15 Sep 2025
Probably not as pertaining to an individual's contract? Confidentiality and all that. |
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Reply | Ryanair toilet paper.
at 10:29 15 Sep 2025
Yes, they do - fortunately. Tho charge extra for the privilege (of course). |
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Reply | Chris Wilder
at 10:19 15 Sep 2025
Indeed, some managers have almost made a career out of their reputation for saving teams from relegation. |
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Reply | Two things I’d change about football immediately…
at 09:47 15 Sep 2025
In rugby, they have accelerometers in the mouth-guards, to detect potential head injuries in real time, even if not spotted by the officials. Some similar system could be used to assess the real force of any collision. Like the snickometer in cricket. [Post edited 15 Sep 9:48]
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Reply | Freddie Ladapo joined Mutual Consent FC from Hudds a few days ago….
at 09:39 15 Sep 2025
Or if he was actually released (in terms of contract registration with the EFL), before the window closed but only announced now. Which would be rather odd.
Looking at news reports, there is some suggestion he has been struggling with overall fitness (rather than a specific injury). |
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Reply | January window
at 10:00 14 Sep 2025
Having changed - and spent - a lot over the summer and assuming the team is functioning smoothly, with success, there is no absolute need to hire any new players at all in January. It could be a source of distuption (as they integrate), rather than a boost. Would also neccessitate more departures to fit the 25-man squad, unless they were both permanent signings and young enough.
That having been said, the suggestions so far are logical and sensible. |
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