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Just now, Renton said:
You'd think. But if you bring it up, the end result will be people bringing dogs will stop coming in and yeah, I'd be ostracised probably. Maybe I'm a coward but I don't want the awkwardness. I dunno, my point was more about when this became a normal thing. I can see it being okay in some work places with segregated areas, but this is a modern open plan multi-storey office, we have dogs running up and down it, sniffing out your sarnies etc. It wouldn't be allowed anywhere else I've worked.
I'm sorry like but the rest of my colleagues could just fuck off on this one, especially if I was allergic to the damn things It is callous of them to inflict that upon you, not the other way around.
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23 minutes ago, Renton said:
So, I know like in society in general we have a lot of dog lovers on the board, but how do we feel about bringing them into the office? Cos that's what happens here. Colleague's dog has just pissed all over the carpet near my desk and it hasn't even been cleared up, just left. It stinks and for the first time in months I'm needing my salbutamol inhaler. It shits too but they do sort of clean that up. I find it bizarre this is allowed and our office company actively encourages it. Surely you should just wfh if you have a dog? You wouldn't bring a kid in.
I think you'd be within your rights to raise a concern around it truth be told. I feel like at absolute minimum the dog should be housetrained if it's going to be in a working environment. If you're allergic then I would imagine they also have to prevent dogs being on the property out of a duty of care, surely...?
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15 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:
did you watch the Jeremy Bowen report?
does it suggest to you that there is pro-Israel bias in the BBC’s coverage of the conflict?
I think I’m going to have to bow out if this conversation if so.
I didn't tbh, I replied as I was reading through earlier posts. I will do. I'm also just going to leave this for now anyway, it's not the time.
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1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:
nah man, that’s just journalism 101 - you don’t use the same verb twice in quick successionThey used "launch" twice in quick succession...
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38 minutes ago, Renton said:
He does, and I understand the frustration, but @Rayvin, this is not the way to go. Hope you get a suspended mate.
Apparently the guy was a PR agitator so it could well have been me!
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1 hour ago, aimaad22 said:
What have we done as outsiders? I said this years before when we've discussed this 'conflict' here, that what I find unique about this situation is that the world has funded, armed and rallied behind a brutal, invading, occupying force. Contrast that to most other recent wars. Any idiot versed in basic history can tell you that a desperate, extreme and terrible insurgency is a likely outcome in this scenario, so one can only assume the world in general is okay with this result because we aren't doing anything to try and change it. Just repeating more of the same mistakes.
Desperately hope Gloomy's family and all innocent folk out there can stay safe from this horrible, depressing situation. For the ones in Israel at least there is some hope. What to say for the 3 million, half of them kids, stuck in a 100km strip of land with no where to escape to and now cut off from power and food, I just don't know.
I don't disagree with any of that really. And the UK in particular should hang its head in shame over this complete fiasco it had a significant hand in creating.
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2 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:
i'm afraid you're right. it's absolutely devastating for all the normal people on both sides who just want peace.
I would say the race to the bottom on hatred has now been reached in this conflict, but then the human capacity for inflicting suffering is seemingly boundless. Heads are going to roll in the Israeli intelligence setup though, seems that this caught them completely off guard.
I wonder what we'd do in the shoes of either side. You'd like to think we'd somehow be 'better' and 'more compassionate', but I doubt it.
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1 minute ago, Dazzler said:
the Welsh opera lass who isn't Charlotte Church as well?
Am struggling to imagine how pissed I'd be if I was some sort of talented performer and yet this was how I was known.
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I reckon it comes down to precision - Hollywood passes were (IMO) meant to have an clearly observed intended target who was making a run in anticipation of it. Allardyce just had his defenders skying the thing to no one in particular in the hope that the big guy up front could get himself under it and then 'hold up play'.
Mind you, this is me being devil's advocate, I can see the point you're making.
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I really don't think we should obsess too much on this one. Our team is riven by injury, we've got many of the same players now playing a game every 4 days. We went away from home to a form team, played poorly but almost won anyway.
Loads to be positive about in this. Yes it hurts to lose the 3 points but honestly the team has to make mistakes in order to learn from them. I appreciate that what I'm saying is largely the sentiment in here anyway, I'm just adding my voice to it too.
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Yeah you're going to fit in around here. The word to post ratio looks very promising.
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13 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:
Well chuffed with that team. Was expecting a few other changes after his presser. Just hope they can get themselves back up for the challenge after Wednesdays heroics. I know I’m still struggling
West Ham had a midweek European game too mind, and were away.
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1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said:
I can't even begin to imagine the shit show that is going to happen in the fan base when another 13k season tickets go on sale.
I'm going for that 100%.
Me and 100k other people
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4 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:
my cousin’s kid has been called up to fight. I they all seem quite calm but they’re used to living with the threat of Hamas rockets being fired in their direction. I guess they’re used to it. This is worrying escalation thoughI hope your family remain safe throughout, must be awful being caught up in all his hatred.
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Any insight into how they're overcoming the challenges?
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I think I've said it before, but I would very genuinely support mass arrests of Tory politicians for crimes that IMO amount to treason over the past 5-10 years.
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1 minute ago, wykikitoon said:
I think I'm in the same boat. IMO Moyes should have been given more time at Man Utd and I think he would have done a miles better job than those that have succeeded him.
Totally agree, no one they've had since has done anything remarkable. In fairness though I think that club is just completely unmanageable.
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5 minutes ago, Renton said:
Words cannot convey how much I hate these cunts.
Absolutely, 100%, right there with you.
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Have come to like West Ham somewhat due to a combination of actually finding myself happy for Moyes to have won something at last - and Wilson's podcast.
They look decent this year, I reckon it's going to be a tough game - but if we've got the legs for it we should win.
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19 minutes ago, Renton said:
Well that's true but either way they'll need to reinvent themselves and the only way of achieving power in the UK is to move to the centre, like Blair and Cameron. Difficult to see any mechanism for that. And as I said, demographics, Murdoch gone and the reach of the written press reducing every year. Previously the tories got new cohorts of people as younger people had families and got on the property ladder and became cunts. Not any more, it's just been a complete shit show for the older gen X and the millenials onwards. Honestly, it's looking very, very bad for them to me, but I don't really trust my own judgement on this, I admit.
Hope you're right on this, sincerely. I hope I live to see that party collapse to the point of not even being in opposition.
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Aye but they've been unable to avoid the consequences of that lie by being consistently in power. And also, arguably, Brexit removed the one great scapegoat the Tories always had.
When Labour win it immediately muddies the water.
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8 minutes ago, Toonpack said:
My thoughts exactly, it is beyond reprehensible.
He spelt Blyth with an "e"
I fucking knew I spelled that wrong - I even googled it afterwards cos it felt wrong. But then I think google returned the results for the word blythe and my inebriated brain just didn't sweat the details from that point
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I'm not apologising for the truth
I had indeed had a few when I wrote that though, and it disturbs me a bit that you could tell
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Am reading through the hidden thread to see their reactions and IMO it was more muted than usual (mostly because anyone who posted in the thread was roundly attacked by 5 or 6 other posters because Sunderland were playing too and no one should even be thinking of our game).
Came across this though:
I just want to take a moment to call this out for what it is. It's cowardice. Fear. Terror, even. The reality he is putting forward is that we have ceased to be a football club anymore, and are now something different, thus negating our rivalry with them. We are no longer Newcastle United.
He's right that the rivalry has died in terms of the true meaning of the word. We are now untouchable to them in a very real sense - after a certain point this will be cemented for all time IMO, not that we're quite there yet. He knows this, we know this. It is no longer a rivalry not because we are no longer Newcastle United, but because they are so comprehensively outclassed by every aspect of our club, that the word no longer has meaning. There aren't 3 clubs in the North East anymore, there is one + a few smaller outfits like Gateshead, Blyth and Sunderland.
He can try to reframe this however the damn hell he wants, but he is fucking terrified of the day he can't keep reality out anymore. The day we line up against and then absolutely obliterate them. Truthfully we are already doing this, we are obliterating them in relative terms every day of the week - but eventually it'll come through on the football pitch. This is why they don't want promotion. This is why they want to tell themselves that this is no longer a rivalry. This cowardly, weak, pathetic response from them dressed up in "humanitarian concerns" is transparent and obvious. Die on your fucking feet Sunderland fans, you lying, dismal, cringing excuse for a supporter base.
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Quite so!