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Trav Le Bleu

Also In The News - part 3

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RumbleFox

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Is there a reason there’s so little chat on here about Israel? Not even a thread. Is it deemed too sensitive a topic? What’s happening is absolutely horrific. The images from Rafah are hell on earth. 

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Lionator

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6 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

Is there a reason there’s so little chat on here about Israel? Not even a thread. Is it deemed too sensitive a topic? What’s happening is absolutely horrific. The images from Rafah are hell on earth. 

Because what else is there to say at this point? 

RumbleFox

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8 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Because what else is there to say at this point? 

It just doesn’t seem to have as big a presence on the forum as, for example, Ukraine did. It’s abhorrent and yes, I don’t particularly want to talk about it but I’m just surprised that’s all. We seem to find 10000s of things to carry on talking about with regards to a silly game where people kick a ball about. I suppose once you’ve seen a few dead babies you’ve seen them all? I just wondered if I’d missed most the chat, it just seemed odd. 

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Zear0

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6 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

It just doesn’t seem to have as big a presence on the forum as, for example, Ukraine did. It’s abhorrent and yes, I don’t particularly want to talk about it but I’m just surprised that’s all. I wondered if I’d missed most the chat it just seemed odd. 

It was discussed... 

The thread got deleted as people didn't play nice... 

The discussion moved into the news thread... 

The posts got deleted as people didn't play nice... 

 

It's not a banned topic as far as I'm aware, it's just one of those subjects that tends to be divisive and just ends in fights and bans. 

 

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RumbleFox

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5 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

It was discussed... 

The thread got deleted as people didn't play nice... 

The discussion moved into the news thread... 

The posts got deleted as people didn't play nice... 

 

It's not a banned topic as far as I'm aware, it's just one of those subjects that tends to be divisive and just ends in fights and bans. 

 

That makes sense. Thank you. 

st albans fox

st albans fox

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35 minutes ago, Zear0 said:

It was discussed... 

The thread got deleted as people didn't play nice... 

The discussion moved into the news thread... 

The posts got deleted as people didn't play nice... 

 

It's not a banned topic as far as I'm aware, it's just one of those subjects that tends to be divisive and just ends in fights and bans. 

 

It’s an incredibly emotional topic (understandably)

from time to time there is a fairly dispassionate discussion on the politics and strategy of the region.  If you can remove yourself from the grimness of the war then there is stuff to talk about but I get that it’s tough to do that. 

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MPH

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2 hours ago, RumbleFox said:

It just doesn’t seem to have as big a presence on the forum as, for example, Ukraine did. It’s abhorrent and yes, I don’t particularly want to talk about it but I’m just surprised that’s all. We seem to find 10000s of things to carry on talking about with regards to a silly game where people kick a ball about. I suppose once you’ve seen a few dead babies you’ve seen them all? I just wondered if I’d missed most the chat, it just seemed odd. 


 

there used to be a separate thread about the conflict but it got deleted..

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grth2004

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I’m trying to get my head round all these protesters marching against tourists yesterday in Majorca and a few other places , 15,000 so no small gathering and they are promising more. 
it seems an impossible problem to solve but I do understand if the local people can’t afford to live where they grew up although if you take tourism out then surely most of the jobs would disappear. 
 

im guessing it’s all the big holiday companies buying all the homes up and Airbnb’s that’s the problem. 

Dunge

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I think there can be a big disparity regarding how people feel about it as well in terms of scale - for some it’s a gigantic, passionately felt issue, to others it’s “just another conflict”. In fact even saying that I reckon the former could feel anger rising with even the concept of the latter.

 

And I say that as someone who’s really part of the latter. Which is why I generally try not to comment (I sometimes fail) because I know anything I say on it could be deeply upsetting to others.

 

But I think that’s why, out of everything, it’s possibly the thorniest of issues out there. I remember the Covid thread was great for information. The Ukraine thread is generally civil because at least there’s agreement on the level of importance involved. I can only see an Israel/Palestine thread ending in upset and anger.

Daggers

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I’ll freely share my opinions about football (Pearson is God), religion (he doesn’t exist), or politics (**** the Tories). I wouldn’t dream of venturing my opinion on trans issues or Israel. The former because I will simply call people *****, the latter because everyone will call everyone *****.

MPH

MPH

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12 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Unfortunate as sure an announcement could have been made but would you not let the airline know before the dangers to your daughter health and maybe check it’s safe to travel  ?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkzzy8eqjo.amp

 

The family could have handled that much better.
 

You can’t just turn up to a flight and make the announcement there and then for no peanuts to be consumed… and I understand the airlines position on this… what if that’s the only snack people brought with them?  How could the air.ine enforces this. Search the personal belongings of every passenger on the plane? Confiscate peanuts? What would have happened if the airline had made that announcement  and then a passenger eats peanuts and the kid goes anaphylactic? They would have sued the airline, that’s what. 

 

Give the airline plenty of warning, the airline can  warn all passengers ahead of time, further instructions could have been given at the gate and everyone could have  had a safe trouble free flight.

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Daggers

Daggers

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1 hour ago, Super_horns said:

Unfortunate as sure an announcement could have been made but would you not let the airline know before the dangers to your daughter health and maybe check it’s safe to travel  ?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkzzy8eqjo.amp

I’m allergic to *OPCs. 
 

I wish airlines would take this more seriously. If they implemented a complete ban it’d make me the happiest traveller. 

*other people’s children

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Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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13 hours ago, Daggers said:

I’ll freely share my opinions about football (Pearson is God), religion (he doesn’t exist), or politics (**** the Tories). I wouldn’t dream of venturing my opinion on trans issues or Israel. The former because I will simply call people *****, the latter because everyone will call everyone *****.

I keep telling everyone.

 

Transformers are NOT people!

 

When will anyone listen?!

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Daggers

Daggers

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2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said:

Hey-Ive-seen-this-one-meme-8.jpg

 

Sending a billionaire a week to his live streamed crushing ought to be a compulsory activity. 
 

Two or three for bonus ball weeks. 
 

That or sending them up in the Boeing space flight. 

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So just to be clear, that's now 16-18 year olds added to the list of people the standing government currently hates, so that list currently (allegedly) stands at:

 

16-18 year olds,, junior doctors,  nurses, anyone who works on the trains, civil servants, anyone who works in the public sector, highly educated international Masters and PhD students who have spouses or children, teachers, judges, lawyers, British people with non-British spouses, British citizens with even a claim of another citizenship, anyone who works from home, the RNLI, asylum seekers, anyone who thinks asylum seekers shouldn't be flown to Rwanda, anyone who claims disability benefits, anyone with mental health problems, trans people, anyone who thinks trans people should be able to live and exist as the gender they identify with, anyone who thinks human beings should be able to move from another part of the earth to the part of the earth between some imaginary set of lines we call the United Kingdom, anyone who ever signed off sick from work, anyone who believes they should have the right to protest against the government, anyone who thinks climate change is a fairly pressing issue and anyone who doesn't think sewage and shit should be poured into the sea,.

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Sampson

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3 minutes ago, RumbleFox said:

The attack on Rafah is truly abhorrent. Fvck. There’s probably no hope for us as a species. 

Definitely think it’s time to give the chimpanzees a go at running Earth. Humans clearly ****ed up our opportunity.

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