Lionator

Looks like Notts have won the bid for the east mids based womens team to the surprise of nobody. It’s a shame because they employ Joe Clarke and we put together a very good bid.

my bad, tobacco is far worse than cocaine 😬😉 in all seriousness though, this is why it’s all a bit weird, like if you’re a true libertarian you’d surely want both tobacco and cocaine to be legal? And likewise if you’re big on harm reduction you’d ban both. But like @Dunge has suggested, it’s a bit of a mish-mash which to me indicates not a lot of political strategy from anyone really.

The only real reason smoking is being banned is that the balance has tipped where the consequential costs of smoking outweigh what the tobacco industry can contribute to the economy.

Do you think it should be legal for people to use cocaine or not? Or MDMA? (Not with standing the fact that it’s not policies)

Saints fans hate him and don’t rate him at all

Christ Yamal is a joke for a 16 year old.

Fair analysis but leave Rylan (national treasure) out of this.

Our performance for 70 minutes v West Brom was one of our best of the season. We made them look very poor that day before we blew it (and then they blew it). Would like to think we could apply lots of pressure like the Norwich and Brum games, and will the ball in.

Yes on the basis of a squad rebuild. He won’t be able to do it with these. The scars are too deep, 4 collapses in 5 years. It’s bigger than Enzo. If they’re planning to use the majority of this squad then Enzo should leave.

Why on earth would you choose to relive the last few weeks again? Do you enjoy pain?

If Israel really want to hurt Iran, they should leave Gaza and sign a formal agreement with Saudi Arabia asap.

That ship has so obviously sailed. We MUST get promoted so that we don’t end up in league one/two in the next few years because we’d be starting from square one next season, with a points deduction. We have the financial resource to put a good squad together provided we get rid of our biggest earners but it’ll take time.

if we don’t get promoted then it’s our own stupid fault. Blaming refs would be the ultimate scapegoat

Godwin’s law. Rightly or wrongly, she knows she can win arguments but bringing up the idea that people wanted to destroy all Jews. And that’s a very powerful argument.

The constant 'WW3' press reports are honestly so dumb and click baity. Even if Israel and Iran go into a full shooting war (which is nearly impossible due to geography), how would that mean it is world war 3? Was Iraq v Iran WW3? Was Vietnam WW3? Was the Falklands WW3? Nobody is jumping to Iran's aid, Russia is in it's own war and would put its own interests first, China is simply not an ally of Iran either.

We just need to smash these next two games. Win them both and I think the last two could be meaningless given the other teams fixtures. Leeds especially are basically on last chance territory and all three of their games look solid.

In danger of sounding like some of the crackpots that posted in here a while back, but I think we do live in a very flawed democracy, especially in the uk and US, even compared to places like France and Germany. You’re basically always voting for two different flavours of post 1979 neoliberal parties whose policies have continually failed us. Let us also not forget that Iran basically has the same democratic model as us in terms of an unelected head of state then an elected government below, which shows us how flawed democracy can be given that our most important ME ally is an absolute monarchy. But anyway I do withdraw my original point to an extent about presidents. I think it’s a very interesting time in terms of power transitions, India is the real one to watch over the next 40 years imo.

Weather will probably save us given the absolute deluge which is happening right now. Leave them covers off lads.

Morally he’s a much better person, and I am a big Obama fan, but Libya was hardly a great moment was it? Although I give Obama credit to admit his mistakes something that Putin, or George W. Bush would never do. Psychopaths.

That’s also a good interpretation! Both sides need each other in that case

Not going to be popular on these pages but I think Morsy deserved to be in there.

It’s called strategic interests, you think these countries are just happy to roll over and let all of their allies and neighbours fall into the western sphere? I urge people to stop seeing these things through a good vs bad lens. Putin is a terrible man, but so is pretty much every US president post Kennedy.

I can’t help but think that all of this now is simply about power and manipulation. Israel have squandered EVERYTHING following October 7th. Mass, systematic killing of innocent civilians kinda looks bad and doesn’t take a genius to see through the propaganda. Israel had lost it all, they were even struggling with the American government. There was probably only one way that they could regain sympathy, to poke the bear (or in this case the paper tiger). The evil, scary Islamic republic of Iran. That is the way that Israel shifts the power from the oppressor to the oppressed. The wilting sympathy from Europe, is regained. We are once again talking about Israel as the victim, rather than the aggressor in spite of them making the first move in this case. Whether that is enough, will remain to be seen. If it isn’t enough, they will retaliate again and aim to provoke Iran into an even bigger barrage. Iran would be stupid to take this bait, but they’re idiots anyway. It’s not good v evil, this is evil vs evil, and I cannot even fathom taking a side between these two disgusting governments of Israel and Iran.

Arsenal have been terrible. Bottlers.

Yes absolutely