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Reply | Duff back to Barnsley?
at 16:32 25 Apr 2024
It would be nice for Lincoln to get promoted... If we are no longer in the Championship. Never want to play them again! |
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Reply | We're all going to have to make some selfless sacrifices to get this country
at 13:25 25 Apr 2024
"Always wonder how this meme about "the highest levels of taxation since the war" spread so rapidly? It's obviously an incredibly counter-intuitive thing to believe, given that high taxes in the 1960s and 1970s is a bit of a national legend (90% top rate of income tax!). None of the most relevant tax categories (income tax, sales tax, corporation tax) are at historically very high levels."
Interesting... I've never looked at it. My initial thoughts was to assume it was correct when you don't adjust for inflation or population increases. [Post edited 25 Apr 13:31]
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Reply | We're all going to have to make some selfless sacrifices to get this country
at 13:18 25 Apr 2024
I'm simply not going to engage with the parts I agree with for a few reasons:
1. I agree with them.
2. They don't support the extrapolation I took issue with.
3. They aren't contrary to the points I made.
I'm pushing 40... I've only just saved enough to buy a house
Baffles me that you link declining population birth rates to people being taught to be activists, when your reality is no home by 40. You may be comfortable taking on a family with no home, but many aren't.
For all that you go on to say, you really fail to tie it back to declining population.
At that age you are post-Blair's education reform, you clearly aren't an activist, and you describe your experience as a struggle. So I can only assume you are eliminating yourself and your generation (which would include me) from this, and concentrating on a subset of people from the post-Blair education reforms.
If you are referring to the current crop of students coming out of university, then they aren't the one's showing in the current stats as not having 2.1 children. They still have time to make that decision.
I think you need to clarify who you are actually referring to.
You should exercise a bit of magnanimity for people in the older generations, much as you baulk at you or your generation being labelled activists or work shy.
Nah, I'm good, I'll stick with facts presented plainly. I will not use euphemisms to present myself more favourably to the older generations. I put in enough appropriate clauses for people of those generations to exclude themselves if the cap doesn't fit. What I said was factual, needs addressing, and members of those generations are welcome and capable of making changes. Many already have or are trying, hence the appropriate clauses.
I'm guessing that you don't have children from the what you have said. Having children makes you much less self-centered and gives you a better appreciation of older generations. People with children have a stake in the future so I care more about the future more than I did as a child or young adult.
You guess incorrectly, I have a newborn. I'm writing this on the nightshift feed.
I would have liked to have 2 children by now. I was mentally ready 5 years ago, but didn't have a home.
I really don't see the correlation between how self-centred someone is and having children. If anything, having a child has made me more self-centred. I now own a car for the first time in my life, I take more self-serving economic decisions, and so on.
But, this is all a distraction from my original point. A paragraph (intentionally or not) that only serves to devalue the position I speak from, rather than what I say.
The problem is that there seems to be a direct correlation between an increase in public spending and a decrease in the competence of the people running the country.
An irrelevance to my post and factually incorrect. I don't understand why you've gone to such lengths to present so many subjective arguments like this that have no bearing on the point I made.
The reason why the definition of a woman is such a key issue is because it is very basic and underpins your entire concept of reality and how facts work
Yes, yes, I've heard the sound bites. I'm very impressed you can regurgitate them to me. One word being correctly or incorrectly defined does not change my concept of reality because I actually have a brain and use it.
I couldn't care less about this issue itself. It is largely pushed by right wing media to control political discourse. Grown men owning the most illiterate students they can find because debating a fully functional adult on real issues would show them for the frauds they are.
You going into the next election, genuinely convinced it is a real equivalent issue, demonstrates their propaganda works. |
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Reply | We're all going to have to make some selfless sacrifices to get this country
at 12:54 24 Apr 2024
There are less babies being born so that damages the whole economic model and means that we have a demographic time bomb. Now we have a whole generation of young adults who are highly educated and are taught to be activists despite never really living a day in the real world.
Absolute nonsense. Clearly not of this generation you are talking about.
1. We can't save money to buy a house because houses are X times our salaries, and we pay X about in rent, which is X times higher than previous generations.
2. When we finally can afford the deposit we still can't get a house because the house is more than 4.5 times our salaries and banks think we are too risky compared to previous generations leveraging their existing properties to have another rental.
3. When we can finally afford a home it is a small apartment, not a house, so we don't have the room to fill it with children.
4. We are also unlikely to have pensions for later on in life, so we are balancing children against sorting out our own long-term future.
5. Many of us struggled to get decent jobs, because we entered employment during an economic crash and prolonged down turn. Many of my generation were also laid off and hit hard when there was a global pandemic.
In the meantime, it is our fault, because we were brazen enough to get an education. Previous generations are not the least but interested in looking introspectively, so we are labelled "activists" as if caring for the planet is a negative.
For my generation, it is pretty simple, our futures are screwed on multiple fronts, due to the selfishness of some of the generations before us - climate change denial and inaction, proliferation of multiple home ownership, decimation of public services, erosion of corporate benefits, and on and on.
And what do you care about going into the next election? Not rectifying these issues, it is over the definition of what a woman is. And you say we never lived a day in the real world... Time to wake up, mate! [Post edited 24 Apr 12:59]
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Reply | Yeah but you can't even be English these days
at 17:42 23 Apr 2024
Interesting point. To extrapolate it a little...
Those arguing we should conform to pseudo-nation-state bollox are eroding our English values and culture. |
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Reply | A blessing in disguise?
at 16:27 23 Apr 2024
[Is staying down] a blessing in disguise?
No it isn't.
We can more easily secure the club going forward. The money would allow us to pay for and attract targets that were financially out of reach.
We can bring forward off-pitch investments, which are setting the club and town up for future success
We stand a better chance off keeping our better players and manager
We can only ever have the potential to stay up upon promotion. [Post edited 23 Apr 16:42]
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Reply | Championship Opta predictions
at 13:09 22 Apr 2024
Incorrect, they are considerably worse than the average individual on a message board. They've been in the bottom 10% of predictors all season
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Reply | Threatened with arrest for being openly Jewish on the streets of London
at 14:30 21 Apr 2024
Since when have you thought those in positions of power (police) must be exercising their power appropriately, because they are in a position of power?
We should assume someone is acting inappropriately because they are an "openly Jewish man"?
Dressing your statement up with softeners like "may be fair", "might have been", and "might get" makes your statement worse, not better, as it suggests you know and are hiding the core judgement. |
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Reply | Leeds next 2 games
at 13:43 21 Apr 2024
Things have changed with Southampton losing and Leicester winning. I get we just need to do our part. But if Boro beat Leeds we need 5 points to go up rather than 8 (9). That would be huge - 1W and 2 Ds compared to 3Ws. The probability of us doing it would be greatly increased. I'm not going to be idle on Monday, I'll be hoping and willing Boro on. |
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Reply | The RUN-IN ver 8.0 - still in our hands, come on Boro
at 18:40 20 Apr 2024
Point of order - Huddersfield play Birmingham next weekend. If the lose, they are down. But if they win, they are out of the relegation zone with Birmingham taking their place. No guarantees, but it couldn't be more in their hands ahead of our game.
Boro is huge. A win for Boro means we only need 5 points. Cross all your fingers for a Boro win. [Post edited 20 Apr 18:44]
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Reply | John Lundstrum
at 12:59 19 Apr 2024
Presumably you got banned for calling him a football manager? That or you forgot to mention he played for Dortmund. |
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Reply | Least disliked team from each division
at 12:36 19 Apr 2024
Tottenham (Dad's team + Son)
Bristol City (Lived the for uni + a bit after
Leyton Orient (Great Grandads team - Used to love visiting him and hear tales of Shelton's hands being as big a difference between his and mine to Shilton and his.)
Wimbledon (I just couldn't believe what happened to them at the time. I hated MK for a long time). |
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