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I didn't write it to be popular, only to be truthful, as far I can see it. Thanks for your input.

This is difficult. Martyn Luther King said 'I have a dream that my four young children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character'. I think we can all agree on that. I hope so, anyway. He did not go on to say 'I believe that a black man should go off his medication, cause a ruckus in the local shop, push a deputy to the ground, punch the back of his head, and continue to resist arrest until he is stopped by force'. In that event he could expect dire and unforeseen consequences. Nothing riles the police more than having one of there own attacked, and with good reason. We all watch 'The Wire' and 'The Shield' for entertainment purposes, and not expect that real life will not include this particular scenario. Oprah Winfrey and the Rev Jesse Jackson might differ with that, but they are wrong. I wish that those who would quarrel with me on this would spend a year serving as a US deputy, and see if that changes their mind somewhat. I haven't, but I can imagine. There's no point in hoping for a change in US gun culture, when let's face it, the majority of US gun owners would, if pushed, say that the main reason for that is 'fear of black people'. This might be to some extent illusory, but when you contemplate being confronted with a prison-hardened black person the size of Patrick Vieira and all that protects you, your wife, and your children is a fruit knife it's really hard not to concede they have a point. Yes, there's due process in theory, but all that flies out the window in real life. I wish it wasn't that way, but unfortunately it is.

I don't know enough about the origins of homosexuality in Singapore before the British came, but I'm reasonably convinced that the Singapore government would have taken a dim view of it, rather than encourage the Singaporeans to promote themselves as a gay sex paradise. It's of it's time, like human sacrifice and Christianity and the burning of witches. I do note that we are advocated not to go down the Singaporean route as regards labour relations, and that appears to be all right. On a separate note, I don't think the Chinese would invade Taiwan. They don't need Taiwan to become a smoking ruin, which is what would inevitably happen. They are understandably concerned that the US don't poke their noses in it, much as the US would regard armed Chinese intervention in Mexico or Canada. I may be wrong, but that's my view.

According to the BBC, the colonial-era law banning gay sex in Singapore has now been repealed. Why do the BBC do this? Do they really hate Britain so much that everything is our fault? It's clearly nothing to do with the Singapore government, who are most remarkably liberal and would, had they noticed the statute remaining on their books, have instantly repealed it, along with the death penalty for drug offences and caning people for messing around with parking meters

Now we're all together - who wants coffee?

I want it before MOTD2 so the pundits can tell us we're all stupid morons.

Happy birthday, Nigel Please come back. I don't mind if we finish 17th four years running - it would be worth it, just to see how appalled the so-called football experts on Bentley's Roof would get

He's got a nice girlfriend, but basically he and his nice girlfriend can **** off. Not applauding Maddison's goal was the final straw for me. Rodgers can **** off too. I have been on the fence with him, if only because he'd cost too much to sack, but I don't care about that now. Absolute shitshow.

I had to look that up on Google. If it were virtually any other poster I'd have assumed that it would be a prediction error or that he or she was a bit pissed, or both, but you passed with flying colours

You're not allowed to say that. Otherwise you and your family will be taken hostage and tortured to death by watching endless videos about 'how we are right about everything'

It took him ten years to get home after the Trojan War. Do we really need a keeper that can go missing for that long? I would say not. His remarkable Cyclops-blinding skills would put the rest of our squad to shame, but it is difficult to see such an attribute being any use in the Premier League, especially now that we have VAR

Some of our support comes from Quetzaltenango, it's been going on since the 1980's. I regularly saw Mayans with colourful traditional clothing at Filbert Street. I stopped one once but he didn't really speak any English and my Spanish wasn't up to much, so I was unable to shed much light on what exactly was going on here. The person pulled from his pocket a picture of Alan Smith, and we both agreed (using sign language) that Alan Smith was good. We shook hands and he walked off presumably to catch the 19.45 from East Midlands Airport to Guatemala City. Nobody knows how the fortunes of Leicester City have made such a deep impression on recent Mayan culture, but we needed all the support we could get at that time, and the small marimba band added to the atmosphere. Since we won the league we have acquired a bunch of new supporters from Huehuentango and Cobán. They're generally looked down on by Quetzaltenangorians, who are still trying to raise money for a statue of Martin O'Neill in front of the Estadio Mario Camposeco

I used to like the way he said 'football matches' as often as possible for those who weren't actually sure what sport they were following. That shows class

Can we please never play on Sunday at 2, particularly when there's 4 other games in the Premier League. The streams are all ****ing ****.