Rayvin
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Living standards are falling again: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/apr/12/living-standards-fall-first-time-since-2014-uk-inflation-pay-growth
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Generic small time football blather thread 2015/16
Rayvin replied to The Fish's topic in Newcastle Forum
I mean, you can see why on that evidence. -
Aye, who knows what this place would be like without Brexit and Trump tbf.
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Generic small time football blather thread 2015/16
Rayvin replied to The Fish's topic in Newcastle Forum
Did he play the full game?? -
Aye, looking at it now we were all unified in rage at that point
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That's the one. I have mixed feelings on it since looking at it now since it obviously bothered CT, but as I recall he was being incredibly irritating
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Aye, this is the truth of it. I posted loads over the summer of last year but have dropped off a bit more recently, out of fear of becoming the new 'lead wanker' on the board with respect of controversial political opinions I'm leaving it just open enough that Parky draws a similar amount of ire You're the last person I can think of who joined and stuck with it. But I reckon you were pulled in by arguing with that Makom guy as that happened fairly early on in you being here iirc.
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It was something to do with the EU I think. MF set up a caricature of a young CT and how he ended up being someone who votes Tory etc. It was really well done but it was also pretty brutal. CT never responded to it directly but made a couple of further posts and then yeah, gone.
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It was definitely that (brilliant) post from MF about his past employment history. It was the day after that when he went.
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Newcastle V Leeds // Friday 14th April // 7.45 KO
Rayvin replied to Anorthernsoul's topic in Newcastle Forum
In fairness, the older thread was created bizarrely early -
We get people try us out for a handful of posts and then don't seem to stick with it. In fairness, I think you need a commitment to the General Chat section to really get into the place (and in there, you're either cracking on with people you've known for years or arguing about politics and current events). Is it a clique though? I think there's a core group of us who post but I don't think we'd be at all exclusionary of any newcomers. That said, I've noticed that since CT left, MF and even Gemmill are posting less.
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Signed in last week apparently. I find it interesting that so many people check this place without posting.
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I guess for Sunderland, Henderson was something more than a bang average and entirely unremarkable midfielder.
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Fair enough - I don't suppose we're ever going to hear the truth of this, frankly.
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And your analysis of that photo is...?
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I bet that's actually one of the underlying subtle causes of brexit.
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Thanks for sharing that parky, was an interesting insight.
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Fish will be bringing that up on RTG at some point in the next couple of days if he hasn't already. It'll be couched in a 500 word essay of some sort, but it'll be there.
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Generic small time football blather thread 2015/16
Rayvin replied to The Fish's topic in Newcastle Forum
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In order to educate myself, I just looked into the respective nuclear capabilities of the two. Russia apparently has the doomsday weapons; the US response, while assuring destruction, are designed to cause much less significant damage. Russian nukes sound horrifying, the US ones sound tactical. As such, I'm not entirely convinced we'd all die. But again, I don't think it's even remotely likely that this is going to happen, as no one is talking about invasions of either country, and I genuinely don't think either Trump or Putin is about to go nuclear over fucking Syria. EDIT - this isn't the cold war. It isn't a battle of ideologies. It's two countries trying to make their way in the world.
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Well yes but this is kind of what I mean about this problem lasting for much longer than Trump. To be honest you've been right on the money through this, it seems that irrespective of the administration, the US has a constant stance of provocation towards Russia.
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Why? Why would they think at all that they're going to be under threat of a nuclear strike? The only way I see nukes coming into it is if the US have literally invaded Russia and are about to take the Kremlin. I mean, are you guys all tapped into Russian high command or something If Russia goes nuclear, the only thing it guarantees is it's own annihilation. The US can shoot down something like 60% of their missiles in mid-air, so they'd literally have to fire everything they've got. And you are suggesting that they might do this based on a conflict in a totally different country?
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Why? Given the 'mutually assured destruction' component here, why would Putin decide to tank his entire country just because he lost a ground conflict in Syria?
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Great read that, really interesting. The stones on the guy to go back in the end though...