Rayvin
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5 minutes ago, ShorehamSeagull said:
We do and certainly don't want to see him leave. He's been great this season (his 3rd) and has improved year on year. A really top defender who gives no quarter and is excellent on the ball. We've just bought 2 new defenders one of which I suspect will be a starter from the get-go.
As an aside I reckon most Albion fans won't mind you taking Joao Pedro. I certainly won't.
Is that because of the training ground incident or just in general? Thanks for stopping by with the views btw.
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4 hours ago, PaddockLad said:
There are issues to be addressed tbh. There is a definitive line in the sand on all this; the time before Nazir Afzal was appointed chief of the CPS for the NW and the time before that. At that point there were no pending prosecutions despite large scale investigations during the preceding decade where police, social services and councillors all prevaricated, obstructed and lied about the crimes being committed. The victims were largely from care homes and literally no one was listening to them. Afzal reopened the investigations and the prosecutions started.
There has been a statute of limitations in place for these individuals up till now so they've got away with it but this is going to be a statutory enquiry so they are going to be compelled to give evidence should they be called. Not sure if prosecutions will result, that will probably depend on evidence.
The fact that this has had to be dragged out of any government by a howling mob on social media is a fucking disgrace iyam
If they want to go after the people complicit in negligence around this then fair enough, though that's not what I've interpreted the purpose of this to be. The recommendations it has cited for improving the situation are the same ones we've had the past 3 times, and it's deeply frustrating to see all these right wingers now running around as if they've scored some sort of huge victory here by compelling the government to look at collecting ethnicity data and consider cultural factors. We had that 'victory' a decade ago in the 2015 one.
Having said that, if the point of all of this is to go after people who were previously being protected, then fair enough - I've not seen that written anywhere except in your post so forgive my ignorance on it. If that is the big difference between this one and the others, then fine.
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1 hour ago, Blastronaut said:
My childhood was basically that film "Stand By Me". A mostly quiet and isolated wee ex-mining village where everyone knew everyone, we all kicked about together and went on daft escapades to the woods, local quarry, or played hide and seek grounds of the chipboard factory. Pissed off all the local farmers by moving all the hay-bails around and building what were probably incredibly unsafe structures from them. We would nick ropes and nets from the factory use them to make hammocks and zip-lines deep in the woods, or "absaile" down the cliffs at the quarry. Half the time there would be some random stray dog along for the adventure with us, we'd know the dogs name and roughly what house it lived at, but nobody knew fuck all about it's owners.
Suburban childhood bliss until we stumbled on the body of a body of woman in one of those fields. Turned out she'd had a drunken arguement with her partner, he'd stabbed her 19 times and moved her body to the field in a wheelie bin. We were 10.
Wish I could say I was joking. It was probably a year or so after that our neighbour introduced me to SLF and gave me a copy of some dodgy Guns N Roses bootleg. Absolute hero.
That was childhood. The teenage years were a different thing entirely.
I am sincerely sorry you experienced this. Sounds like it must have been devastating to see as a child... not sure I could have handled it personally.
You've got to wonder at the shit people go through sometimes.
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On 14/06/2025 at 18:38, Rayvin said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7872pngj2qo
We are now going to have yet another inquiry into grooming gangs...
This audit they've just done has stipulated that we need a new inquiry to address a few different things that, with the exception of one around the definition of rape, were already in the previous inquiries. Even the one 10 years ago - and yes, including the ethnicity tracking stuff and whatever. If we need an inquiry into anything, it's why the Tories did fuck all about this for the entire time they were in power.
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Tosin is on 120k a week at Chelsea. I think stuff like that is probably a factor too tbh.
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55 minutes ago, Andrew said:
I think it's brilliant! Part timers from NZ get to play Bayern, benfica and boca juniors.
Fair tbh, I kinda feel bad for them but I suppose they enjoyed it.
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What a statement this is from FIFA, well worth everyone's time so far...
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I was on it for a while for anxiety but the side effects were intolerable. I'm not sure if I thought it helped or not, maybe it did. It's really hard to say with some of these sorts of things. I just use Beta Blockers now for days when I'm particularly bad and beyond that call it quits.
Hope you're well anyway Andrew, but sounds like the right decision to get off them given the side effects. I'm told different drugs can have wildly varying responses from different people, another type may be better for you.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7872pngj2qo
We are now going to have yet another inquiry into grooming gangs...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43902372
Just worth remembering whose fault this ultimately is. Trump binned the previous deal with Iran because:
1 - Obama had agreed it.
2 - He wanted to buddy up to Netanyahu who didn't like the Obama deal.
3 - He was listening to hawks in his cabinet who never would have been in office in any respectable administration.
Had we not binned that, maybe now we wouldn't be here.
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You know, this looks like it might be a proper war. Israel seems very committed to this.
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Israel has just announced an order to close all their embassies worldwide, and told Jewish communities to be vigilant and remove anything that would identify them as Jewish. How has what they have done made any Jewish people safer, I will never understand this. At every single turn, they've made them more at risk.
As for Trump - this chaos is directly on him IMO, it's the direct cost of the US pulling itself back from the global stage. Israel don't seem to give a fuck what he thinks, in fact it sounds almost like he's been steamrollered here and is just catching up after the fact to save face. The cost of having weak fucking leaders man...
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5 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:
I dunno if more nukes make the world safer, particularly with a regime such as Iran which has been fighting proxy wars in the region for yearsI would once have agreed with you but what the era of Trump is showing us is that the only way a sovereign state can guarantee its safety is ownership of nukes. Ukraine is the other example. Even India and Pakistan de-escalated pretty quickly out of fear of where that whole thing could lead.
There is no chance Iran would ever use a nuke, even via a proxy, without fully expecting to get nuked back - it would never happen. And indeed I would argue that they look quite cautious in a lot of their responses most of the time.
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How much do we reckon he's actually worth of that figure?
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6 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:
trump apparently didn't even know about the strikes in advance. he's been trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with iran so bibi has fucked him, the war-monger cunt
Maybe so but I think we can also backdate some of this to Trump's first term and the scuppering of whatever nuclear arrangement was in place back then. I honestly do wonder if the whole region is safer if everyone has nukes.
The only positive here I suppose is that Iran can do fuck all about this really, hard to see how they escalate.
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If I was the Iranian government, I'd be doing everything I could to get hold of nukes.
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42 minutes ago, NJS said:
Just before my time but I had the impression that Billy Hughes was just a dirty bastard,
This is definitely considered a skill in Sunderland. The most iconic moment of their last spell in the prem seems to be Cattermole taking out Colback. They have avatars dedicated to it, T shirts, coffee mugs...
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6 minutes ago, Alex said:
Have we signed anyone in this version of the space time continuum?
This killed me
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And yet the site rollback has left us with this absolute pearl of an opening post. We truly are blessed.
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If that's talking about 24-25 then it would be more relevant for the season just gone than it will be for next year, I would have thought. So I would say that's talking about why we were limited last summer.
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29 minutes ago, RobinRobin said:
Speaking of which
I'm sorry but.. what does this even mean
What is the implication he's taken from 'sleeping areas' that suggests the women would be under threat..? I mean maybe he's right but I'm struggling to find my way to his conclusion at the moment, at least one that would support saying "there are laws!"
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I'm not sure any of us have a clue on likely 'ins', we thought we would be in for Mbuemo. With that dead all I've seen in here is snatches of rumours, nothing concrete.
Likely outs seem to be the supporting cast of the midfield positions. Longstaff, Willock potentially. Hopefully we're about to shift at least a couple of hundred goalkeepers.
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Do that many nuclear subs really give us a significant strategic advantage over the 3 we already had? It can't all be aimed at Russia, they must be anticipating more of a global presence..
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Sorry does that mean Trident goes from 3 to 15?
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Why on earth are the US getting involved in this... I thought they were meant to be all about non intervention now ffs.