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17 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

You’ve still got 7 hours of yesterdays football to go yet. 

Such a backwards country, America

Maybe my quickest ever

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7 minutes ago, Jaspa said:

They aren't football stadiums though. There are huge voids at each goalend stands, the distance in-between sidelines and stands is too short in some of the stadiums like Dallas, and most of the stands sit too high from pitch level, there's a needless raised wall from pitch level.

 

EURO 2028 will be great spectacle. Smaller travel distances, more playable weather, purpose built infrastructure. Oh and you'll be able to walk to the stadiums.

Agreed, though I'm not sure you'd want to walk through Tottenham.

11 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

BBC's coverage of this world cup in terms of punditry has been atrocious. May as well have Claire Balding on. 

Claire Balding is a great presenter. Will not have Balding slander.

1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

Is the UK genuinely prepared for a potential nuclear attack?..

We can't build a railway so I'm going to out on a limb and guess a nuclear attack might be a little tricky to deal with 

2 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Best I can do is Eyres Monsell 

 

Not from Leicester and don't know all these neighbourhoods that get mentioned (thankfully) but you have a place named after Patrick Leigh Fermour's wife?!

5 minutes ago, kenny said:

I love your posts. I would understand them better if they were written in Mandarin I think.

leicsmac is a Chinese agent. His English is too good, there is no other explanation.

Saltwater by Charles Simmons. Very good short novel. 

13 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

But I think you're conflating a few things there that maybe shouldn't be. 

 

I'm not suggesting Farage is an administrative genius that could run the country and I'm not suggesting Boris was a brilliant statesman.

 

But both of them understood (albeit with assistance from Rupert and Friends) how to actually play to the public. 

 

Critical thinking as well as political and economic literacy is really poor in this country and partly by design (though we're not quite as bad as disband the Department of Education Americans) - it makes for a mob that you need to appeal to emotionally to get in to power, not really reason with. 

 

This brings me full circle back to my complaints about Labour. I'm fed up of watching British and American right wing parties dispose of old school decorum and notions of ministerial conduct to perform to the public whilst their left wing counter parts dodder around stuck in the past trying to be nice. 

 

I want to see a leading British politician make like Gavin Newsom and throw some of their own shit back at them. Play to the mob, it works.

 

Do I long for a more intelligent world? Yes. But we're living in the Idiocracy and the good guys need to catch up a bit and start actually playing that game. 

 

Yeah I'm probably making a different point to you but I think Farage appeals to people not necessarily because he knows how to play the crowd but because his world view chimes with theirs, and how they want things to be. I don't think he's leading them on, he just genuinely thinks what he says is true. But maybe I'm naive. 

Americans at least have the excuse of living in a vast country that is economically and culturally more powerful than maybe any other polity in history. 

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

I don't really think you give him enough credit tbh. We didn't give Boris enough credit and he "lol it's just funny Boris" his way in to power and caused significant damage to the country. 

 

Farage is a privately educated lifelong fascist that's made a living for fifty odd years as both a career politician and trader. 

 

He's a malignant, self serving scumbag but he's not a doddering fool. 

 

Not that it would matter if he was. Donald Trump has never been academically gifted and exposes he doesn't know his arse from his elbow every time he speaks. But some pretty ****ing smart people puppet him and will actively look to king-make Farage. 

 

Underestimating in either instance doesn't help anyone. 

 

I totally disagree but understand why you think that. 

Johnson is another one whose damage was a lot to do with him not being very bright politically. Sure he speaks well and has a certain intellect but is totally clueless about the world and the UK's place in it. He had absolutely no idea of the actual details of leaving the European Union for example, this is pretty much established. Britain's decline imo is more to do with this lack of understanding and our hubris than evil capitalists plotting to make the working class vote against their interests. 

Farage should be very easy to dismiss with some of his previous comments about e.g. Truss' budget and immigration from commonwealth countries. And he would have been dismissed in other countries but with our naval gazing media class and much of our electorate lacking a basic understanding of cause and effect, that's not been possible. 

10 minutes ago, Amin said:

I've always thought ITV had the best World Cup intros since I started watching in 1998, with the 1998 one being my personal favourite.

ITV 98 being better than BBC 98 has to be an exceptionally unpopular opinion

Farage is just a confused boomer and like a lot of confused boomers he doesn't really understand the world and the UK's role in it, and is still wedded to a kind of post Thatcher/Reagan 'conservativism' which gives rise to the exact stuff he doesn't like. He is useful for e.g. Russia but unwillingly so. 

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33 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Low effort, generative AI memes. 

 

Yes, you told chatgpt to put Russell Martin in a funny outfit. You're hilarious. 

 

So were the five hundred people that did it before you. 

 

It's going to be the new fish puns isn't it? And yeah, someone's going to post one in response to this because that's peak humour too. 

 

And I swear every time you make one of these the cost of replacing the RAM in my machine is going up a few pence. 

 

It's like that A.I. photo of Brendan Rodgers as a Saudi sheikh I've seen a million times now.

Oh, wait...

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I wish Labour would engage Farage on this front, to be honest. 

 

It's useless making passive aggressive digs at him or subtly implying he's racist or just challenging him on policy. His base won't care about any of that. 

 

Really attack him in language that will get an emotional response out of Reform supporters. Call him what he is, a traitor. 

 

His supporters like to think of themselves as patriotic Brits, point out how much Russia is the biggest most immediate threat to the UK and then point out how many times he's been on Russian state television, given speeches defending Putin and taken Russian money. He's been on the same TV channels that have threatened to nuke London, talking about how the UK should be friendlier to Moscow. 

 

Go on the offensive and crucify the judas ****. I don't care if you want to vote anti immigrant, I don't care if you want to vote conservative or right wing. Just don't vote for a ****ing traitor that'd happily work against this country for the benefit of Russia, Putin and anyone else that'll pay him. That's the message. 

 

All this has been pointed out and discussed a not insignificant amount. The damage that Farage's policies have done to Britain are out in the open and he is still popular among great swathes of the population. He could win the election, crash the economy, increase immigration back to Boris era levels, then disband reform and start a new party complaining about those things and people would still vote for him. There isn't really much you can do at this point.

So I now need to upload my personal data to use youtube when I'm in the UK? Wonderful.

4 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

Anyone heading out to Boston? I’m going to be going to the game on Friday. Atmosphere has looked class, hopefully being English won’t piss off too many 

Yeah good luck on the 250th anniversary. You'll probably be told "we kicked out the English!" by a man called Alex Smith from a town called Ipswich.

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What a run of world cup opening titles BBC had from 1990-1998 by the way. 

20 minutes ago, fox_up_north said:

This is the first proper game I've watched live and they're so blatantly just there for more adverts. Absolute joke.

 

Even BBC ran an article trashing them.

 

Keep the yanks out of football 

Too late

Don't like to police threads but I think this one should be reserved for actual ****s, not evil people I try very hard to avoid reading about for my own mental wellbeing. 

4 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I'm assuming the pub didn't put them there in fairness. 

 

That much cheese I assumed it was a communal sandwich that got passed around the group. 

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

 

It's funny actually, quite a popular meme photo that gets trolled on a lot and has popped up a few times on reddit as "let's all laugh at British food" is from a pub in Leicester. I think it might be the Blue Boar? 

 

And it's a cheese and onion cob, actually really quite a good looking one. It's got a generous slab of cheese in, either red Leicester or cheddar and it looks like a really decent quality crusty cob. 

 

I think the idea to them that the bread and the cheese might actually both be genuinely nice in their own right as well as fresh and not just plastic nonsense is really alien to them. 

 

Plus, I mean guys, it's a ****ing bar snack. 

 

I have to admit I found that one a bit much. Think it was the teeth marks in the cheese. 

Americans are obsessed with adding "seasoning" and sauce because they don't realize raw ingredients can have their own instrinsic flavour.