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Two maps of Germany.
at 04:07 25 Feb 2025

1: Before reunification.

2: Election map 35 years later.

The UFD's seats in the Reichstag are exclusively from the former East Germany.

[Post edited 25 Feb 4:09]

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Ice Hockey: Canada vs USA.
at 10:56 17 Feb 2025

Lots of love in the crowd and between opposing players. Canada becoming the 51st State is inevitable after this show of unity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/ice-hockey/videos/c0lz3dy6d10o

[Post edited 17 Feb 10:57]

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In whatever I do my offence has always been great and defence abysmal.
at 11:36 27 Jan 2025

Be it amateur boxing, debating etc. It seems to include playing FC 25 on world class difficulty as well.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fin-whatever-i-d

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When we were a bang average League One side.
at 03:04 26 Jan 2025

Remember when we would have qualified for The Champions League if it were the same format that it is now 6 out of 7 years and the one year we did not we won the FA Cup? We also won the won The UEFA Cup at the end of that run. A counter argument to how we were beating League One teams by a large margin who just a few years before had been non league clubs in a division we should never have been in the first place.

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Lock up violent criminals for a very long time and execute major drug dealers.
at 06:30 22 Jan 2025

It's a start I suppose. It seems he pardoned Ulbricht because the same "scum" prosecutors were the ones that convicted him. No other reason.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4vjvlgxpo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o

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Pickford.
at 06:43 20 Jan 2025

He is a class goalie despite his critics. Everton's goals against is relatively good compared to the other relegation threatened sides. They also have Moyes who again despite his critics is a very good manager. I think they will stay up. Ramsdale who we really should have gone in for is a good goalie but Soton are a shambles. IMO it's 2 from us, Leicester and Wolves.

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Halaand signs a 9 1/2 year contract extension.
at 09:20 17 Jan 2025

Could there be more to it? Like in insurance policy if City have the book thrown at them. With that length of contract it would take perhaps £1/4 billion to buy him.

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Starmer: Follow suit.
at 17:15 8 Jan 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg9gvg3452o

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War with The USA.
at 02:35 5 Jan 2025

It is unlikely to happen but is is possible. Trump is stepping up his veiled threats against Greenland for the sake of "Security and Freedom.". To put this into a historical context Russia took Crimea for the same reason and even more seriously Germany took The Sudetenland then part of Czechoslovakia for "Security and Freedom." and that ultimately cost the lives of 70 million people. Greenland is not part of The EU but it is part of NATO and if The USA attempts to take it against the will of Greenland and Denmark then Article 4 will be triggered and we be obliged to defend it. All for "Freedom."
There are many words that I would use to describe Trump that would get me banned from this forum so I will bite my tongue and just say that he is bad man.

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Russian gamers move into the 1990s
at 15:19 3 Jan 2025

With The Putindo 64. It looks like a copy of The SNES which was launched in Japan in 1990 but it could be a copy of The N64 which was launched in 1996. If that is so at least they will be able to play The Ocarina of Time. Great game.

https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/russia-is-mocked-over-plans-to-launch-putin

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Two 17 year old sporting prodigies.
at 10:46 3 Jan 2025

The first looks about 10 years older than the second not 7 months.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/8864/live/1b605200-c7b5-11ef

https://www.barlamantoday.com/wp-content/smush-webp/2024/09/BC392EEA-2124-41FE-8

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If guns are banned so must cars.
at 01:39 2 Jan 2025

After all cars have been used in two recent deadly terrorist attacks. I want to make it clear this is not my view but the views of a number of American gun nuts who have posted on various forums in the last 24 hours with "Our prayers go out to them" BS included.

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Tory hypocrisy strikes again.
at 00:38 1 Jan 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj7n5l376o
I am not saying that Sadiq Khan deserves the award but they made Rees-Mog and Priti Patel Life Peers. This week they also blamed Labour for the state of illegal immigration. That would be like Wayne Rooney blaming Plymouth's next manger if they are not mid-table come February. Nothing changes.
Happy New Year.

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Should Jorgensen have been sent off?
at 06:39 31 Dec 2024

It was not a bad foul but it did look to me as it was a denial of a clear goal-scoring opportunity which I thought was an automatic red card.

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4-2-3-1
at 17:36 21 Dec 2024

I do not think this system works well when it is played by weaker teams which we are, it results in being over-ran in midfield. I would say it is time to dump it but we do not have a natural number 8 so there seems to be little option. Sadly Chappers falls a little short of being a Prem level AM. For me we need to look at bringing in a good number 8 in January.

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Any striker loan options? (n/t)
at 17:12 21 Dec 2024

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Trump the puppet?
at 17:41 20 Dec 2024

It seems he does whatever Elon Musk tells him to. The crisis in The House of Representatives that could result in a government shutdown seems to be his doing and Trump fell into line. There have been other incidents going on behind the scenes that seem to be Musk's doing such as proposing cuts to social security. IMO he is worse than Trump as he is intelligent and knows what he is doing whilst being just as bad as him ethically and morally. A very dangerous man.

[Post edited 20 Dec 2024 21:03]

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Letby.
at 17:54 16 Dec 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv3jlzme90o
I am not saying she is innocent but the longer this case goes on the more I think she could be a scape-goat for terrible management and procedures at the hospital she worked at. If the main prosecution witness has changed his mind over three of the deaths then the others must be in doubt. This would not be the first time this happened. Far from it. In another current case(s) not so serious in terms of crimes but just as serious in terms of the outcome hundreds of postal workers were convicted because of terrible management, procedures and cover ups.

[Post edited 16 Dec 2024 17:55]

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Video on how Sir Alf and Ipswich becoming champions.
at 14:22 19 Nov 2024

I have not yet watched it but it looks interesting.

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Thought on Mbeumo.
at 01:23 27 Oct 2024

I think he is a terrific player and has been incrementally improving over the last few seasons under the radar. His cross goal today was terrible though from our perspective.

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