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    #Barclays 23/24

    in Misc Other Fitba Chat

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    It looks like Moyes will leave West Ham at the end of the season.

    The fans hate him. They expect Moyes to challenge for #top4 and deliver trophies with Kurt Zouma and Tomas Soucek.

    There is no other set of supporters more delusion than #Barclays fans. They deserve to lose Paqueta and Kudus. 

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    #Barclays 23/24

    in Misc Other Fitba Chat

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    18 minutes ago, SH Panda said:

    Going to call it now, Curtis Jones will have a similar career to Jay Spearing.

    Also funny seeing the Liverpool fans leaving, and the commentators not daring to mention it. Shite fairweather fans.


    A marquee newly promoted Leicester player if I've ever seen one.
    The only good thing you can say about him is that he didn't cost £60 million like Szoboszlai.

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    What is the point of Labour ?

    in The Politics Forum

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    8 hours ago, Freedom Farter said:

    Are we sure that Effie Deans account is a she? It links to a blog which I looked at now and its a very suspicious background of Cambridge University PhDs and fancy global travel. If you were creating a profile to match a stupid person's idea of what a clever person is, you'd create that one. Regardless, we'll go with she/her.

    She explains in her latest blog entry that she's happy the Tories are facing a rout in the upcoming election because it'll snuff out the remaining one nation conservative strand in the party, leaving only the Thatcherites. She thinks Thatcherite economics are optimum. She's also happy Labour are going to win with Blairism because she thinks Blairism is the most leftwards the Overton window should ever be allowed to move. 

    Followers of hers should stop and think on that. A reminder of what Blairism was:

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    Only two months into his reign, Blair began the privatisation of the NHS, something his Tory forerunners hadn't managed. Blair could sneak that in early because Labour voters were too busy basking in the glow of Tory defeat to notice. Starmer could do similar, hopefully not but we'll see.

    I'm interested in how Wilma Brown got sucked into the Effie Deans orbit. A trade unionist and NHS nurse loving the tweets of a Thatcherite. I mentioned in a previous comment that many of the accusations against Yousaf by the Effie Deans account were also made against Corbyn, something Wilma Brown failed to notice. When being anti-SNP takes over all other considerations for these folk, it leads them to a very self-defeating place. They should realise that Effie Deans and those other accounts are anti-SNP, sure, but they're also anti-many-of-the-things-you-probably-like. Such as public services. Effie Deans also in that blog entry states her desire to see Holyrood abolished. Well it was Holyrood that protected us from the worst of Tory austerity in the 2010s. You can even accept this one while keeping your anti-SNP stance intact because I assume Scottish Labour would've adequately done that job too had they instead been in power at Holyrood.

    There's a degree of pick n' mix to politics. You can to some extent support the NHS but secretly enjoy reading the tweets of Effie Deans ripping into the trans, the Muslims, and the immigrants. That only goes so far, though, as politics is ultimately all interconnected. If Wilma Brown is representative of many Effie Deans fans then those folk are going to get an unexpected boot to the face when Effie Deans' ilk get the power to cut their public services.


    Is Effie Deans a woman?

    "I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?"

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    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    in US TV

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    JB Smoove becoming a main character was a huge indication of the decline in quality. His funnies as being a 60 year old sexual deviant were tiresome. 

    But as like a lot of things the coup de grace came for Curb Your Enthusiasm after it went woke.

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    The Strikers

    in Tartan Army Ramblings

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    34 minutes ago, Hendricks said:

     

    Are Scotland a better team, with more threat, with him up front over Lyndon Dykes? The answer is now, in March 2024, yes we are. That has f**k all to do with me supporting Hearts. Dykes does not look like scoring goals. Shankland does. It is that simple. That does not mean I am writing off Dykes's possible contribution just that for me starting him now in a major tournament reeks of pragmatism and frankly negativity. I appreciate you have a different view on it but the tide has definitely turned and you only need listen to the likes of Faddy and McCann who have been there and done that and know who provides the greater goal threat. Shanks should start in Munich. 

     

    No. They talk absolute shite.

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    Work colleagues

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    4 hours ago, GHF-23 said:

    The senior manager in my team in a meeting today raised the national insurance decrease out of nowhere and how delighted he was to get a few hundred quid in his pocket a year (he literally whooped) I said that yes I was thinking just the other day when listening to my wife talking about non-weatherproof buildings in the hospital she works in or my brother telling me about budgeting issues in the police service he works in that a cut to national insurance rates is just the thing the country needs. He told me to "stop taking the conversation off topic"

     

    You should have budgeted for full stops.

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    The Official Former President Trump thread

    in The Politics Forum

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    Biden now claims the support of just 63% of Black voters, a precipitous decline from the 87% he carried in 2020, according to the Roper Center. He trails among Hispanic voters by 5 percentage points, 39%-34%; in 2020 he had swamped Trump among that demographic group 2 to 1, 65%-32%.
    And among voters under 35, a generation largely at odds with the GOP on issues such as abortion access and climate change, Trump now leads 37%-33%. Younger voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in 2020.
    Biden has also recently lost the Muslim vote.

    The groups most effected by Biden's horrible policies.

    The "out of touch, middle class, middle aged, white people living in flyover country who believe MSNBC is real news" neoliberals are done for. 

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