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Reply | Skate Scum
at 13:22 21 Apr 2024
Moderate your language son. Not everyone on here is as immature as you. |
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Reply | R. I. P Chris Nicholl
at 19:31 27 Feb 2024
RIP Chris Nicholl - and how good to hear "When the Saints" sung properly and not this ridiculous slow funereal dirge that seems to have been copied from somewhere. Does anyone really think singing it at less than half half pace is actually inspiring? |
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Reply | France v South Africa
at 11:17 16 Oct 2023
Whereas Rugby Leagee consists of falling over 6 times then kicking the ball into touch and then just handing it to the opposition to do the same I suppose.
Well you started it! |
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Reply | Sunaks Speech
at 07:51 5 Oct 2023
That's a bloody stupid remark on what had been a reasonable post. If you don't know about a subject keep your mouth shut. Every contract was scrutinised and ridicuously over-audited by so many civil servants in so many different groups from the ORR to the NAO it led to some of the delays that contributed to the cost overruns. |
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Reply | Sunaks Speech
at 13:56 4 Oct 2023
SUnak has reannounced for the third or even fourth time something that was already pledged previously. Remember Northern Powerhouse? The East West infrastruture improvements for the north announced previously by George Osborne and Boris Johnson that have still not even started and which he has reannounced all over again? As for the £36bn "saved" from HS2 much of that money was included within the HS2 budget to build / rebuild stations at places like Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds that will now have to be funded out of that £36bn because we don't have the station capacity or the line capacity to actually run any extra trains between those cities. So the result of his great announcement is firstly to turn HS2 into a 150 mile version of the Waterloo and City Line, and secondly to spend a lot of the money on things that were going to be spent on anyway - only they'll be built with all the expensive 350kph track and signalling standards of the 21st century but with the slow train speeds no faster than when Jimmy Saville sat on an Inter City 125. What a great result. And to think Sunak bragged about long term infrastructure being safe in their hands, when he's just cancelled a project that Civil Engineering and construction companies have invested their own long term plans in and spend a fortune ordering equipment now no longer needed. Ask McAlpine and Balfour Beattie what they think about that and ask the young graduate engineers whose jobs have now shifted to places where High Speed Rail project are going full speed to completion - Saudi Arabia for example. |
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Reply | The hypocrisy of Liverpool fans
at 18:16 8 May 2023
No President could ever do one tenth of what the Prince's Trust has done for thousands of young people in this country, to name just one thing, and if you aren't proud of that it's because you are too stupid to have thought about it . As for the usual unsubstantiated think-of-a-number cost bullsh1t the only real cost in the end was the overtime paid to police and local authority workers who will have been glad of the extra money or are you adding up the costs of all the food at all the street parties as well? By the way you are a citizen irrespective of being a subject or not. For all this hangup about being a "subject" - has the Royal Family forced you to show obeisance to them as a civilian? I was in the Armed Forces and proud to salute them in uniform, and if there had been a president there instead I would still have had to salute some here today gone tomorrow failed politician in a suit. Why you think that is somehow better is a mystery. The Monarch hasn't had any autocratic power since 1688, but to hear berks like you whinge about being a "subject" as though a concept that tailed off in Cromwell's time has cost you one second of inconvenience in your entire lifetime is as ridiculous as it is uninformed. |
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Reply | What do the typical footballing fans make of this?
at 17:44 8 May 2023
1) Yes. Don't let a red card be a badge of honour.
2) No. The losers will feel patronised, the winners angry, so it doesn't help control the teams
3) Not without a warning or two first. Giving it on 6 seconds dead with no warning is the sort of thing that arch berk Clive Thomas would have done.
4) Yes, caution them. Goal celebrations are parthetic intimidatory bits of gamesmanship. Do anything to break up the party.
5) Yes good idea first time. In rugby officials are addressed as "Sir". Wouldn't go amiss as a reminder that respect of officials is not negotiable. |
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Reply | VAR has failed - time for post match reviews
at 15:44 27 Apr 2023
You could say that VAR works in cricket and rugby because those sports are not populated by cheats who set out to deliberately con the referee, where Premiership players will spend as much training time practising how to dive as they do for their dumb little celebration antics when they do manage to score. The second reason it works in cricket and rugby is that players in those sports respect the referee/umpire and regardless of what they might think will not abuse or threaten the officials and if they do they will be immediately dismissed and then subject to a huge disciplinary penalty afterwards. Football Authorities have tolerated ever more abuse of officials on the pitch and once again the reason for that tolerance (as with VAR) is that it adds to the "theatre" of the moment. Perhaps the third reason is the behaviour of the supporters. In rugby, "Respect the Kicker" is often observed to the letter, in cricket, most fans will applaud a century even by an opposition player. In football you get moronic partisan bawling from stubble covered slapheads with replica shirts stretched over bellies sponsored by Uber Eats. [Post edited 27 Apr 2023 15:54]
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Reply | French showing the way
at 11:30 25 Mar 2023
I'm always amazed at the amnesia people have today over anything more than two years ago. In cas you've forgotten the Government did not want to leave the EU and the vast majority of the Cabinet including the PM and the Chancellor campaigned to stay in. It was a plebiscite with nearly 40 million members of the electorate who decided it . By the way if you want to go back to the last referendum in 1972 it was the Labour Tribune group led by Tony Benn Eric Heffer and the TUC who campaigned to leave citing "loss of Sovereignty" - and they lost. stop trying to mould History to suit your own prejudice. |
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Reply | Watching Portsmouth
at 09:45 25 Mar 2023
I've watched all the Hampshire teams in my time - Southampton, Pompey, Bournemouth and Aldershot. I've got friends who support each of them and always had a good time watching them, before and after the games. I've never done the hatred thing - quite frankly it's pathetic coming out of the mouths of adults. |
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Reply | Football players cheating
at 08:21 22 Mar 2023
I agree, but sadly when you pay to watch it you are tacitly condoning it. WHen I watched Southampton football was still a sport. Now it is "Theatre" and despite all the words from the FA and the PL, nothing will be done because all the play acting is seen from a distance as just so much drama. It would be easy for the PL to analyse a game afterwards and retrospectively award disciplinary points for all examples of cheating, diving, gamesmanship etc. but so many players would be suspended that no team would be able to field a full side and that would affect the PL revenue stream and ultimately its business model. It was the Manics who said, If you tolerate this, your children will be next. Well we tolerated it, and now we're stuck with it for ever. |
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Reply | 5 Things About Manchester United
at 10:19 14 Mar 2023
Leigh does look a bit unfortunate in Public Transport terms - but you must be about a third the way to Liverpool which is so far out from Manchester Centre that if a Tram extension was built it would take about 90 minutes anyway. Shame the old heavy rail link to Victoria has gone. Northern Powerhouse eh? |
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Reply | Lineker to be hosting MOTD no longer…
at 08:31 14 Mar 2023
But is itsn't "reminscent of language used in Germany in the 1930s" Can we stop saying that? There are enough books on the rise of Fascism and its causes in German to know what was being said by the German Leaders and it is obvous that Lineker hasn't read any of them, or possibly even any other book so can you stop focussing on that as though the inference hinges on his choice of words? And be clear on another thing. It escaped his notice (and possibly yours as well) that the "Asylum Seekers" as we are supposed to call them all are trying to come to Britain. The Jews and other "Non Aryans" were desperately trying to find a way to leave Germany to save their lives so why is Lineker trying to draw some kind of parallel? |
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Reply | Lineker to be hosting MOTD no longer…
at 22:49 10 Mar 2023
Even the example the give is puerile in its actualite as well as its intent. Yes they are illegal. Do you need to be told that there is a legal way to cross national borders and by extension illegal ones thaI avoid them? I am not sure why you try and draw some kind of obscene parallel with the Warsaw Ghetto as though words alone separate what happened there from Britain in 2023. It's an absurd attempt at a some kind of moral equivalence. |
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Reply | Lineker to be hosting MOTD no longer…
at 19:00 10 Mar 2023
I am surprised that you are so ignorant of what life was like in 1930s Germany - it's not like there isn't enough material available - perhaps you like Lineker can't be bothered to inform yourself properly of the sheer horror of life under the Nazis in 1930s Germany. The current Government may be unpopular and you may disagree fundamentally with what they do but that's the point. but if you had been caught saying those things in Berlin in 1935 you would have been beaten to a pulp by the SA and you may have been treated to watching your wife being raped before your house was burnt down. Lineker and you are free to post silly uninformed and ignorant little soundbites if that's what passes for cleverness in Football circles, but when you offend others by posting inflammatory inaccurate bullshit then expect to be held to account (and no it's not "spot on" - are you insane? ) . Lineker has been rewarded with a few weeks off on full pay. It's not even a punishment is it. |
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Reply | That Jones Clown
at 11:05 16 Feb 2023
I'm not inclined to applaud the outpourings of laconic smartarsed young journos conviced they know more about the real world than those who've had to make their way in it for some time. But having said that I'm always cheered up when I visit the Guardian website and ignore all its desperate pleas for money when I leave it, so thanks for that Koons. |
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Reply | Who do you think the best Prime Minister of the last 40 years has been?
at 13:42 7 Jan 2023
That's too simplistic and partisan. There had been underinvestment in Britain;s heavy industry for years, going back to the time when Britain was effectively broke in the fifties. It doesn't just start when a new Government comes in. Poor industrial relations going way back to the first miners strikes in the Seventies just compounded the problem. Remember the Winter of Discontent was under Callaghan not Thatcher. Nobody in the City because of that was willing to recapitalise heavy industry under the threat of Militant strikes. As for North Sea Oil, apart from the short lived BNOC the Government didn't "own" the oil, so the oil companies were and still are to this day free to export or import as they see fit for their own business needs subject to taxation. The Government under EEC laws couldn't just deny them the right to sell oil abroad and the Govt never owned the majority rights for any oil or gas field at any time even with BNOC (which was sold at a loss in 1984) . What The Tories didn't do in the Seventies is the same as most of our Governments haven't done which is to plan for the world beyond the next election. We should have built up Sovereign Wealth funds much as Norway has done, instead of just using the revenues to reduce taxes and buy votes at the next election. As for the Falkands I was too young in 1982 but I served with plenty who were there and the problem wasn't Thatcher - it was that nincompoop Lord Carrington - because he was played for a fool by Argentina and John Nott because he was busy shutting the Navy down even when while placing demands on it that it could barely fulfil. Where was Ark ROyal in 1982 when we needed it? Ask John Nott, not Margaret Thatcher. Heading for scrap was the answer. Thatcher had no knowledge or skill in warfare and leaned on these men until they let her down, then she realised most men in her cabinet were wet idiots, rolled her sleeves up and so did a better job herself . As for closing industry down, under EEC law (which was regularry broken by other EEC countries) we could not subsidise loss making businesses so they went because by the 1980s they were uncompetitive. What would you have done? If you want to know why France, Germany, Italy and Spain managed to hang on to their industries then perhaps we should have just cheated like France Germany Italy and Spain did. |
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Reply | Who do you think the best Prime Minister of the last 40 years has been?
at 09:56 21 Oct 2022
For me Margaret Thatcher, though I don't agree with everything she did. She was strong , resolute and determined, she ran her cabinet skilfully, and as a result they got things done. WIthout those qualities Government and Parliament as whole disintegrate, as we've seen. For the same reason Blair was a success, and was a very good delegator. If we went back fifty years I'd say Harold Wilson would vie with Thatcher for top spot. He was a clever, sly ,devious man, good qualities to run a Government. |
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