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    On 15/04/2024 at 12:21, Google Bot said:

    I've had a soft spot for Man Utd since the days of Beckham/Scholes/Ronaldo/Giggs and through watching Keane and Viera battling it out on the pitch, it's hard to watch those matches without some kind of bias forming and I think it's just stuck with me.  Fergie just delivered on entertainment and success.

    The way you know if there's a team you like is if you'll always seek to watch or listen on the radio when they're playing, and United are like that for me.  But that's as far as it goes really. 

    That said, i've watched Ipswich a lot this season, so maybe my logic is flawed!  😳

    Do you live in Yarmouth?

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    1 hour ago, Capt. Pants said:

    Were in the play-offs but against who?

    Don't really care, if Rowe and Sarge are fully fit by then and no new injuries/suspensions, we can take on any team in the division.

     

    OTBC never mind the dangers 😎🔰🤛👍👏

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    9 minutes ago, cambridgeshire canary said:

    For those who have not seen it and for those who have beacause it's a thing of beauty. First you get the Preston defender behind him deciding to do his best superman impression, then Sara sends another defender to sleep before just pinging the ball right into the side of the net.

    Lovely stuff

     

    Stick this one straight in the "sub zero" section!

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  12. Posted · Edited by mrD66M

    It's a very unfair comparison, this season vs '19. We were spoiled with Farkeball. At the moment there are a lot of things in flux and not defined in the club, SD, ownership, but overall it's the inconsistency, the poor communication from the management, the lack of character, the streaky patterns of good results/performances turning to mush like last Wednesday.

    Can't really blame paying fans who do their best to support the club at a really tough time financially for many, yet feel they're not getting the connection - that isn't built just on results, it's putting the fans at the heart of everything the club does. 

    Wagner ain't Farke, Knapper ain't Webber, Sainz ain't Emi but we ain't no mugs. We want desire, ambition, vision, intent, so NCFC needs to either s#it or get off the pot.

    The club needs to value the fans, bring them on board to press forward in whatever direction is chosen by the powers that be, then clearly communicate coherence of intent in every action.

     

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    17 hours ago, Mr.Carrow said:

    Politics is downstream of culture, right?

    That depends on how skilled, efficient and competent an individual politician / political party / system is.

    For politicians that are not very good at what they are meant to do, like the current govt iteration, they will focus on the "wedge" issues, not with a view to improve society for everyone, but to radicalise their base, appealing, by their rhetoric, to some of their worst instincts. 

    A political party that is competent and forward-looking will focus instead on the best instincts and values of its citizens to forge a positive path forward. 

    Why should a leader, erm, follow its followers' ?

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    2 hours ago, Fen Canary said:

    For what it’s worth I’ve worked and lived in more countries than Lineker has, so in your eyes would that make my opinions worry listening to? Or are they to be dismissed out of hand because they’re the wrong ones?

    Where did you live, and what did you learn that broadened or narrowed your perspective? Where were your assumptions challenged, and confirmed? What do you carry with you to this day? Pros and cons of each country? Where did you integrate better, and why?

    If you went and lived abroad, were you expected to integrate into the culture, speak the language etc?  If not, then how can you demand that people who move to the UK do that - unless for you it's merely about following the laws of the country?

    If you lived in 10 countries yet talked the bare minimum with locals, didn't participant in the local customs/culture, etc, what did you learn? It is possible to live in different places and still be very insular... it takes a degree of openness and courage, a willingness to contribute (more than in just material terms ie work, taxes, etc), to integrate successfully. 

    Opinions aren't inherently wrong - until we start lumping ours on other people and refuse to allow our opinions to be challenged, refuse to think we are above logical flaws / rationalisation / getting emotionally tangled up. 

    Since this debate is on immigration... 

    No country can support a massive and sustained increase in population - logically correct 

    Where this increase is from migration, controlling migration by lawful and humane means is not only desirable but essential - logically correct 

    Asylum seeking is illegal - logically incorrect

    Rwanda is humane - logically incorrect 

     

     

  25. Posted · Edited by mrD66M

    5 hours ago, Fen Canary said:

    Was Labour under Corbyn an explicit antisemitic party for example because a few of their supporters at time happened to be, or were they simply bad individuals who supported a party? 

    Fish rots from the head. Leader sets the tone, not only by what he says, moreso by what he does but also by what he condones. IMO it was antisemitic - just ambiguous enough to shrug off most accusations until the EHRC report. When any party purges its most moderate members, without a very strong, valid reason but instead mostly on purely ideological terms, it will easily spiral into some form of extremism. Corbyn did it in 2017, Johnson did it 2 years later. Only difference is that the latter became PM and trashed any semblance of standards or accountability in government. 

     

    2 hours ago, Fen Canary said:

    Why also would I listen to Gary Lineker? He was a great footballer, but why does that mean his political views carry more weight than those of my postman or a bricklayer?

    I did not say Lineker's words carry more weight, but they will carry further. Why you should listen, no idea. I'll tell you why I do..

    Not because he's wealthy. Not because he's a football legend.

    But because he's travelled to many places, experienced other cultures, talked/worked with people from many different cultures and backgrounds. Because he is from a different era, where people did things differently/treated each other differently - for good and bad. These are the kinds of people that I learn from. These are the things that add dimension and an overall more rounded perspective in life generally... and yes, it's still possible to do the above and remain a narrow minded a&&#ole. Just less likely.

    Someone who for example never travelled abroad, who worked/studied with mostly people from the same background may have learned about other cultures, other viewpoints in school etc, whilst valid, it is a fairly restricted perspective.

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