Rayvin

As the junior member of the modding team, this one is above my paygrade Suggest you drop MF a line about it

Guilty, although less so these days. Not a 1v1 player really, mostly stick to 3s. What's your rank?

I always think of this webcomic when people talk about debate and so on - explains why people are so resistant to changing their minds: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe For my two cents on it, I think everyone knows everyone else's positions now anyway. I wouldn't go on Grimes' show either, but if I did, I'm fairly sure the entire structure of the discussion would be set up in such a way that I would not be able to get any sort of point across and that my data and evidence based arguments would be dismissed. He's not intelligent enough to have an honest debate with, certainly not a public one. It'd be like that saying "never argue with idiots, they'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience". I would further add, never argue with anyone who isn't prepared to change their mind.

Which industry are you in, out of interest?

Aye, sorry about that.

Fair comment but I reckon it's in part down to the fact that half the time most of the league barely remembers they're even in it.

It's really encouraging indeed - plus a full week for any new signings to get up to speed with the team and tactics (to an extent at least), we should see them all play against Everton. If we get 3 points there and another 3 against Villa, we won't see the relegation zone again this season.

In my defence, I'm overtired and not paying a huge amount of attention to anything being said. I just saw it and thought to myself that it seemed a lot like what you read in the Daily Mail and then that was that.

Aye, I saw and edited

What the actual fuck... who are those absolute bellends? I think you could quite comfortably show this to anyone who thinks 'political correctness has gone too far' as evidence that it was necessary tbh. EDIT - sorry, meant to click the politics thread and ended up in here Thought it was real. Was gonna say, don't remember it ever being that bad...!

Thanks for all your efforts and hard work on this place over the years Ant. Please pop in from time to time, it'd be nice to see you - totally understand the decision though. Stay well and take care of yourself.

I'd be fuckin furious if another player did this to our keeper You need to be a special kind of shameless to actually do shit like that.

That was a fun watch tbh, the Leeds crowd seem alright to me

As bad as we've been, if we had not thrown points away against Norwich, Palace, Watford and maybe even Brentford, we'd have 23 points and be 15th. The ability to get out of this is there if we can just get some solidity.

On the contrary, I appreciate the effort. Thanks!

Just what we needed, thank fuck.

Thanks for this, will give it a look. Rough time for the market atm so I hope he planned for that. It's cool though, fair play to him.

I quite miss HF but I doubt we'll ever see him again on here now. Hope he's safe and well.

Apologies for ignorance, what does that mean in layman terms? Sorry, to clarify further - I assume we're talking about taking CO2 out of the atmosphere, but how? And what about the project is a trial? Cost or effectiveness?

Aye, if it's any consolation to idk, anyone on the 'right wing' side of the argument who lurks in here - I got shot down plenty for being on the left of the same group and am now universally recognised as the forum communist despite being fairly pro-capitalist Have had some good debates on here though which is why I enjoy it. Plenty of times I've learned something here and had the opportunity to adjust my view.

I don't understand this from the Tories at all. They must know by now that Johnson is a total liability, surely this is the perfect moment to bin him. The fact that the aren't doing that can only possibly mean that they're entirely devoid of any wider ideas, strategy, or vision. What is it about him that inspires so much loyalty?

Truthfully I read the Guardian mostly because it has the least offensive website of all the non-paywalled media sites. The independent is just ghastly to open up. I do have an FT subscription though so I suppose I could read more of that.

In fairness, the same site has the Telegraph as mixed too, so maybe they just have very high standards? If the Telegraph is on the same level then I think I can support the idea. It is definitely selective at times, and the notion here seems to be that not covering things counts in their assessment too.

Hard disagree on the Guardian being as bad as the Mail. The Guardian's nonsense all comes through their editorials and they are poor there, I agree, but the day to day factual reporting looks solid to me. Dorries literally said what the Guardian reported. Your article is 10 hours old so clearly there's been a change in the narrative since the one I posted. I note the FT also posted that she suggested abolishing it a few days earlier, so really the distinction here is that the Guardian has taken her words as agreed cabinet policy (which I also did on reading it) and No. 10 has then dialled it back. Can't believe I've just defended the Guardian but to compare it to the Mail is just not reasonable. It's more akin to the Telegraph. The Left wing equivalent to the Mail would be Buzzfeed or some student union newspapers. As for the political point about sticking to parties - I mean I agree, I fully intended to vote Green in this election due to their EU stance. But in the end, if we get into a situation where Labour is going to protect the BBC and the Tories are going to kill it, that's another manifesto issue that I have strong feelings on, and is likely sufficient for me to back Labour. That said, the decision for me is more around editorial control. I don't watch terrestrial TV, I only use subscription services like Netflix and Prime, so I haven't paid for a license in years. Thus, maybe it's not my place to even get involved in this one..! I don't care so much about the license fee as I do about the BBC becoming a vehicle for Murdoch style "reporting".

Fair enough but the Guardian seems to think they've said they'll abolish it? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/16/bbc-licence-fee-to-be-abolished-in-2027-and-funding-frozen