littleyellowbirdie
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1 hour ago, Herman said:Any recommendations for the Peak District? Anybody had a holiday there and is it worth it?
Best to go in the peak season.
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6 hours ago, S_81 said:Ok, perhaps I’ve been a bit overly expressive, but I don’t think he deserves the boot. They’ve certainly not spent a fortune. And 15th last season (I think) to narrowly 7th this year. He’d have built on that next year, I’d suggest.
Just to be clear, you're hell bent on us sacking our manager who has taken us forwards over the course of the season, while branding Hull sacking a manager who took his club backwards over the course of the season in spite of a big spend in January as 'insane'?
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Just now, S_81 said:We haven’t reached the Premier League yet. And if Wagner thinks trying to play defensively with that crop of abject centre backs will work in the Prem then he’ll fast find out what’s been evident largely when he’s done so in the Champs. Either way next season we need new centre backs. I’m not saying the notion is wrong - but the personnel certainly are for that tactic.
Indeed, however, if a team has been built on bad habits that don't work in the Premier League then we're going to go down the same way we did the last two times, which defeats the object of getting there in the first place.
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2 hours ago, cambridgeshire canary said:Why are you here?
1 hour ago, ricardo said:Try Googling it.
The closest I could find was a wikipedia entry about an anime series called 'why the hell are you here, teacher?!', so here's a copy and paste of the first paragraph.
QuoteWhy the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!? (Japanese: なんでここに先生が!?, Hepburn: Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?), also abbreviated as NanKoko (なんここ),[3] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Soborou. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine since April 2017, and has been collected in eleven tankōbon volumes as of November 2020. Each volume features different pairs of female teachers and their male students as they inevitably end up in awkward, embarrassing situations as they gradually become couples. An anime television series adaptation by Tear Studio aired from April to June 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_Hell_are_You_Here,_Teacher!%3F
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On 06/05/2024 at 12:35, S_81 said:He still has not learnt that attack is our best form of defence. Nor has Southgate.
Attack is our worst form of defence at Premier League level. As such, developing a philosophy built around attack as the best form of defence at Championship level will result in us coming badly unstuck at Premier League level, as happened twice with Daniel Farke.
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36 minutes ago, Aggy said:You really aren’t very good at this.
No fuss was made about any of them. Merely questioned why some posters (one of whom had recently posted numerous times about wanting to put forward a balanced view) were getting worked up over this guy, but were refusing outright to criticise two guys who were kicked out of their party for being racist towards Muslims and black people.
Refusing to do so because it wasn’t in a separate thread was an especially peculiar, some may say telling, response. (Most people who weren’t racist would just have said “yeah they’re racist 5cum as well”.)
Anyhoo, as we seem to be stuck in a cycle of certain posters pretending not to be racist, trying desperately to avoid having to criticise anyone who is racist, and then trying but failing to make a half decent point about, well, anything, I may leave you both to it. It’s been fun.
P.S. If you manage to decide if you are racist or not, do let me know.
Like I said, just go and create your thread on the subject and I'll be happy to comment in the appropriate place. But seeing as we're on the thread about Mothin Ali who we know led a harrassment campaign against the Leeds university Jewish chaplain that led to the chap being inundated with death threats, and we know he also made statements in support of Hamas' crimes against humanity, the fact that you have gone out of your way not to criticise his behaviour on the relevant thread while seemingly desperate to talk about anything else tells us all we need to know about you i.e. you're fine with people speaking out in support of crimes against humanity and you're fine with people targeting individuals in the UK for abusive hate campaigns. Apparently those things worry you less than whether you qualify as an islamophobe in the eyes of a guy who openly supports Hamas.
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On 06/05/2024 at 20:38, Aggy said:Quite right too - I’m still the only person on the thread who has said the Greens should investigate and take necessary action.
And this statement turns out you were acting like you deserved a medal for saying what turns out to be nothing at all.
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18 minutes ago, Aggy said:As to Mothin Ali, fairly sure all I’ve said is that the Green Party should investigate and take appropriate action.
Really interesting to hear you say that after the fuss you made about claiming people refused to make criticisms of Reform on the thread on the subject that you refused to create in the first place after you criticised CC for not creating a thread on the subject.
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Just now, Naturalcynic said:He’s (and I’m pretty sure it’s a he) is simply a rather juvenile attention-seeking troll who spends his time deflecting and is probably best ignored.
I was half wondering if it's canarydan; I haven't seen him in a while and the MO's very similar.
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Just now, Aggy said:Probably a wise tactic. Wait for the question where you can reel off a nice para from wiki and not have to risk engaging your brain again.
To engage my brain in responding to you, it requires that you say something worth thinking about.
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Just now, Aggy said:Should I take the quick change of subject to mean you’re not sure if you’re a racist then, or just that your last post wasn’t very well thought through and perhaps you’d be better off sticking to copying and pasting from the internet after all?
As to Mothin Ali, fairly sure all I’ve said is that the Green Party should investigate and take appropriate action.
Sorry, you're in major arrears for answering questions. You need to build up some credit on that score.
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5 minutes ago, Aggy said:So you’re saying you and NC aren’t sure if you’re racist or not?
On that subject, Mothin Ali has said that criticism of him has a strong whiff of Islamophobia, so as you criticised him on this thread, you're an Islamophobe. Sorry about that, but welcome to the club.
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56 minutes ago, Aggy said:I don’t recall any of the ‘left wing extremists’ or ‘uk-hating apologists for islamism’ getting so worked up when you and your best mate were throwing those terms around.
That's because they're so utterly certain of their own self-righteousness that the accusations just flow over them.. To be offended at the accusation, you have to have some degree of introspection and some concern about the accusation.
Like Israeli's worry about being branded war criminals, while Hamas just don't care.
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1 hour ago, Herman said:How is this relevant to the thread?
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2 minutes ago, Daz Sparks said:I could not care less what you think, in fact the above has reminded why discourse with you is a waste of time.
You don't need to tell me that. To be fair, your own original diatribe really showed that I'm probably wasting my own time as well, but maybe it's not for your benefit that it's worth responding to you.
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On 06/05/2024 at 11:38, Daz Sparks said:Any or all omissions from this post are entirely intentional. This thread, as far as I am concerned, is about Israel, Gaza and the Palestinians.
I missed this comment in your original anti-Israeli diatrible, or anti-Zionist if we go by yours and Iran's preferred term for Israelis. You seem to be openly admitting that you're not being remotely fair or reasonable in twisting everything to lay all blame at "the Zionists'" door.
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16 minutes ago, Daz Sparks said:There you again. Twisting what is written to suit your own agenda.
Let me ask you this.
1. Did they, or did they not, shoot and kill two Israelis that were being held hostage by Hamas, whilst they attempting to surrender after escaping their captors?
2. Where have I, or for that matter, anyone else but you stated that Hamas are the good guys?
Yes they did. 3 out more than two hundred taken hostage, several of whom have been executed by Hamas while hostages.
Your observation was deflecting responsibility for the welfare of Hamas hostages away from Hamas and putting it at the door of the IDF on the back of one incident. Hostages are always the responsibility of those who take them hostage; the taking of hostages in conflict is itself a war crime.
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2 hours ago, Daz Sparks said:The IDF had a hand in a couple of the hostages demise as well.
Oh well, that's alright then. Hamas must be the good guys after all!
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My main question is why the black car was stationary at the junction when it had right of way. Was he waiting for the mini? If so, he has created the accident by not driving according to normal priorities.
From the mini's perspective, no matter how carefully he looked I can't see how he could possibly have known the bike was there. If the black car had waved him through and he had simply waited anyway then the black car would have eventually given up and moved on, so I suppose the mini driver could be argued to be at fault for complying with being waved through against priorities, but that seems rather harsh.
I remember when these rules about the driver always being at fault came in and being worried that it would give cyclists a false sense of security. I think the incident here is a perfect case of that; if the cyclist had simply questioned himself as to why the cars next to him were stopped at an apparently clear junction he may well have slowed down and given himself a chance not to have hit the mini when it suddenly appeared out of nowhere from his point of view just as he appeared out of nowhere from the mini's point of view. The law might give him the luxury of it being practically impossible for him to be in the wrong in the event of an accident, but that's little comfort when you're badly injured, or worse still, dead.
It would be interesting to know what the police did.
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2 hours ago, ged in the onion bag said:East Anglian rivalry.... seems no one has had a problem with no rivalry for the past however many years. All of a sudden we want to have a competitive rivalry, interesting one.
A lot of great points in there. On this specific point, I think the derby rivalry has been missed more than realised. I think the absence of the derby for a number of years has contributed to the growing sense of dissatisfaction over being in limbo somewhere between the Championship and the Premier League; it's a good distraction from that problem.
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4 hours ago, king canary said:The fact that Israel/Palestine grabs such a disproportionate amount of discourse in the western left does raise some uncomfortable questions. I very much doubt you'd get a candidate running in a major mayoral election almost entirely on a platform about the UK's lack of action to help Uyghur's in China.
Tough sometimes not to conclude that the lack of jewish folks involved might play a part.
Apparently, some of the descendants of holocaust survivors have started joining the marches endorsing the view that Israel is engaging in crimes against humanity. I'm kind of interested to see whether this results in those among the protestors actively calling for Israel's destruction being marginalised or whether it will simply be a fig leaf to excuse those in the protests with genocidal views against Israel as YF and Herman tend to do.
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7 hours ago, Aggy said:What are you expecting - they have both outright refused, even when specifically asked, to say anything negative about the two Reform candidates kicked out because of racist comments about black people and Muslims.
NC has never tried to hide his racist views in fairness (although never actually admits it) but LYB has let it slip a few times over a few different threads recently.
Who's refused? You still haven't started the thread about it.
I don't think it's racist to see a clear systemic problem of really virulent hatred within Islam, not only evidenced by this chap here, but also by the prevailing trend of marginalisation of minorities within Islamic nations.
If we're going to start banding about accusations of racism then the blatant hypocrsy of massive condemnation of Israel/Zionism on here pushed at every ellegation of a crime against humanity while you ignore so many crimes against humanity, including by Hamas recently against innocent Israeli civilians, around the world shows you, Herman and friends to be racist AF to a far more extreme level.
Lastly, Herman can say what about Tommy Robinson all he likes, but Mothin Ali, the guy we're talking about on this thread has been actively endorsed by his local community as the person they want representing them based on the hatred and support for genocide he's spouting. Anyone who doesn't think that should be a cause for concern needs their head examining. If Robinson's right to peacefully express his views and demonstrate hadn't been so viciously undermined by people like yourself then maybe we wouldn't have so many Muslims in the UK emboldened to act like Mothin Ali does with the wide support of the Islamic community in his area.
And we haven't even started on what it says about the Green party that an extremist like this was allowed to get so far in the Green Party in the first place without anyone in the Green Party questioning it.
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Netanyahu is making a mistake in terms of his own chances of political survival by continuing to pander to the ultranationalists. Getting the remaining hostages home alive is clearly more important to most Israelis.
Biden has been great so far, but continuing to unreservedly support Israel will ultimately put him more at risk in the US election.
If Netanyahu makes a deal that gets all the remaining hostages back, it's going to boost his popularity overall and give him a fighting chance in an election; if he just carries on like this, sooner or later he's going to run out of road.
@Yellow fever, in retrospect you were right with regard to my comments over Karim Khan. It was out of order, made even clearer when I stumbled across his little-reported comments over Hamas.Khan said in a written statement issued after his visit that he witnessed “scenes of calculated cruelty” at locations of the Oct. 7 attacks. During the visit, he spoke to family members of Israeli victims and called for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages taken by Hamas and other militants.
“The attacks against innocent Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 represent some of the most serious international crimes that shock the conscience of humanity, crimes which the ICC was established to address,” Khan said in his written statement, adding that he and his prosecutors are working “to hold those responsible to account.”It underlines the extreme bias in the media though that there has been so much talk about war crimes charges against Israel, but virtually none regarding the Hamas military leadership.I look forward to hearing more about what the ICC intends regarding the Hamas military leadership that was responsible for the events he was talking about. For its part, the media would do well to take a less partial approach to how it reports what the ICC is doing. -
18 hours ago, dylanisabaddog said:Yes, I would like to discuss Moyes leaving. I would prefer to discuss the situation with someone who doesn't end a sentence with a preposition and understands the correct grammatical use of a hyphen.
15 hours ago, Nuff Said said:The grammar argument is pretty spicy already. What’s next? The Oxford comma?
I think this business about prepositions needs revisiting. Who would say 'For what did you do that?' instead of 'What did you do that for?'
Edit: Thinking about it, 'why did you do that' is better again, and you've got the preposition off the end. Hmmmm...
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It does feel like Starmer has done such a good job of driving the extremists out of Labour that they've all embraced the Green Party as the best alternative vehicle. Given that the Greens have tended to be quite aggressively secular, I have to say I'm surprised they've gone down this road. I guess they looked at what George Galloway did in the byelection and decided there was an opportunity; the ends justify the means and all that. Populism of a left-wing flavour.