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Wee-Bey

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  1. That's not how it works m9. Failing to get promoted to the Premiership doesn't automatically mean relegation to League one. They'll still be in the Championship. Unlike yourself.
  2. I see my girl won the 800m in Doha tonight. Lindsey Sharpe was 9th.
  3. Sadly no. Robinson must be defeated in the marketplace of ideas.
  4. A cup of tea/Czechoslovakia. Same thing really.
  5. Spot on here m9. If history has taught us anything, it's that the best way to deal with fascists is to sit them down with a cup of tea and have a chat about their feelings.
  6. They're not really addressing the issue though are they ? All they are doing is effectively banning one particular athlete from their prefered events by saying her testosterone levels are too high for these distances. It's just muddying the waters even more. Is the eligibility for those distances now not based on binary gender but on T levels ? Will female athletes with low T now boost themselves to the accepted limit ? If I get my T levels low enough can I give the 800m a bash ? Semenya was born and raised a woman. A woman with higher testosterone levels than usual. This gives her an advantage, we don't know how much of an advantage though. The world of sport is full of competitors who have been blessed with genetic endowments(no jokes please) and huge physical advantages that are unfair. I get the concerns about trans athletes, I really do. There certainly needs to be a discussion around that issue. But I'm not buying into the trans panic stuff that has burly 18 stone guys calling themselves Julie and sweeping up all the records and medals from the 100m to the synchronised swimming. The majority of that stuff is just bigotry. There's a solution and a compromise there, it's just going to take time. Incidentally, the Semenya case, which was ostensibly settled by her gender test 10 years ago, only really reared up again after her win in Rio and the tears and snotters from the 6th placed Sharpe and the racist Polish lassie. Perhaps one for the conspiracy theorists, but I'm pretty sure that Sharpe's dad is quite good pals with a guy named Seb Coe ...
  7. Surely the biggest troll would be a massive build up in the next two weeks before Cersei stepping down voluntarily and the whole of the last episode is just Tyrion and Varys chairing a council meeting where they politely discuss the allocating of resources to rebuild Westeros and the minutiae of a trade deal with the free cities of Essos.
  8. This is all very well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that her gender was tested 10 years ago and she was cleared to compete as a woman. The situation now is, she is able to compete as a woman in distances 0-200m and 1500m+. But would have to compete as a male in 400 - 1500m events unless she takes performance reducing drugs. It is of course sheer coincidence that those are her distances and in no way means that she's been discriminated against or thrown under the bus in some sort of opening shot in a forthcoming trans war.
  9. There's a good chance either of those happens. Probably Dany cooking half of Kings Landing forcing Jon to bring her down. No way Cersei survives. This ends with one of the 'good guys' on the throne to rebuild Westeros.
  10. I'd have thought it was obvious by now that the ending of the show won't be nearly as bad as the 'if you think it'll be a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention' crowd have been making out.
  11. I don't think you're far off here. They've made a total c**t of it and potentially ruined a woman's career into the bargain.
  12. She had her gender tested in 2010, the results were never made public but the IAAF cleared her to compete in women's events. Are the authorities now saying she's not 'woman' enough to compete without taking performance reducing drugs ?
  13. Heads gone from the reddit lad imo.
  14. Moby confirmed as a rugby playing private school attendee.
  15. Scotland is unique in being the only country in the world where every currency option it has is very bad. Keep what we currently use ? Bad. Join the Euro ? Bad. Pegged to another currency? Bad. Have our own currency ? Very bad, I mean lol what would you even call it ? The only thing available in the shops would be bread and this bread would cost £83.74 a loaf. This is what Sturgeon wants !!1!
  16. A couple of years ago that episode would have annoyed me a bit. I used to be one of those dicks that unfavourably compared the show to the books and moaned about the stuff that they were doing 'wrong'. I've learned to let that go. There's certainly stuff to nitpick about and there probably should have been a few more main character deaths but, that was a fantastic hour and a half of tv. 10/10 would see a little girl stab an undead giant in the eye again.
  17. I see Graham Linehan has joined p & b.
  18. Maybe not. Ramsey wasn't the type.
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