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Several months ago I was banned from the Climate Change Thread for locking horns with the misinformation posted by Blue Brett coinciding with Mark's discovery that members could be blocked access to specific threads. A unfortunate case of the wrong place, wrong time again. I was going to request reinstatement. Quite frankly, having the misfortune to have witnessed a series of jaw dropping posts this afternoon - this is probably currently for the best.

As well intentioned as this is, the irony is hilarious.

So sorry to hear that. Very frustrating.

Thierry Henry also regarded Claude Puel as one of the finest tactical minds in the modern game.

Again, not really talking about drug use in spite of the fact that artists have used them for inspiration from antiquity to the present day. The Beatles were no different to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood or Romantic poets in that respect - although after years of acid, Lennon was the only one that wound up on opiates which clearly had a detrimental effect on his judgement. Reminded of the likely apocryphal story of Coleridge conceiving Kubla-Khan and his visions of Xanadu during an opiate induced afternoon slumber in his Nether-Stowey cottage when he was disturbed by an unwanted visitor (possibly a butcher's boy from Porlock), which wrenched him out of his reverie. Anyway, I was referring to those that utilised their artistry as an agent of change.

Some did. There were some that were on a self-destructive mission such as Jim Morrison and Keith Moon and others like Brian Jones and Syd Barrett, that simply weren't predisposed to fame or able to deal with it. However, I'm referring to those that invested their currency of fame to challenge the ills of society, take a controversial stance and used their artistic voice as a genuinely transformational agent of change.

Huge respect for his courage and conviction, but a feckless and ill-conceived act nonetheless which has achieved very little. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4yd1e99jno Saying that, Rock n' Roll lost it's edgy confrontational polemic decades ago. Musicians used to be genuinely subversive and unafraid to flout the law or challenge ingrained societal conventions/cultural norms, ingrained prejudice, the establishment and even social taboo in the pursuit of artistic and/or moral integrity. (And I'm not referring to Bono or Sting ffs). Amusing that such an insipid band like the 1975 now takes up the mantle.

I think you may have replied to me by mistake. My post was in merely in response to Dagger's erroneous autocorrect (which I suspected had been the case so I really shouldn't have made it in the first place).

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Many years ago when I was at University, al-Muhajiroun were distributing leaflets on campus. At this time they were under the direction of Omar Bakri Mohammad who also founded Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK. I took one to the students union (where they had a stand) and pointed out that they were hosting an extremist organisation promoting terrorism, homophobia, misogyny and anti-semitism. They asked for my name and course - and reported me to faculty for racism.

Half? Were they?

I knew I hadn't imagined it and the name sounded familiar. I wondered whether it was simply the Mandela effect.

Take a look at the research methodology of John Bale from and his published work from the early 1990s on mapping the spatial externality fields of football stadiums.

Quite frankly, I don't care whether you do or not.

She's beautiful. How old?

What a strange and frankly unoriginal response. Oh well.

That is an observation backed by fact. No.

I don't. I simply observed that the violence was unnecessary, meanwhile, facts have a voice of their own. I didn't state an "opinion". The officer concerned has been suspended for the use of "excessive force" and will be summarily disciplined, whilst I think you'll agree with me that the internet is unfortunately replete with both. We live in a world that increasingly values opinions over fact.

And therein lies so much that is wrong with the internet and opinion based populism. Simply because every bar stool philosopher and village idiot now has a worldwide platform to share them where previously they would have been ignored, that doesn't mean that they are right. The police are not irreproachable. Such police brutality is indefensible. The use of force must be reasonable and warranted - and this was not.

Absolutely. Col may well have been harshly dealt with here. Oh, you meant the Manchester Airport incident.

Because alt-right conspiratorial horseshit generates hits and is far more lucrative. He didn't believe any of the crap on his YT channel - and now he's making even more on 'Rumble' and 'Odysee'. It also musters a huge gullible following that will unquestioningly back him when the allegations of sex offences can be explained as a deep state witch hunt.

This has already been done. The "all things considered" is nothing more than opinion.

I swear this forum gets more ridiculous by the day.