Rayvin
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I don't think anyone can argue convincingly that that wasn't a sending off tbh. He was the last defender and he cleaned the lad out. If it was at the other end, everyone would genuinely think it was an alright decision. Coloccini wants his arse kicking for that.
You could convincingly argue that Elliot basically had the ball by the time it happened but I agree that Coloccini had no business getting involved. Fletcher would never have gotten there.
At the end of the day, Sunderland are fucking rubbish. I think this current side is the worst iteration of their team that I've seen in the past 5 years. If jammy penalties are all they have to hope for then they're doomed.
It's patently obvious that we're a far better team.
The only annoying thing if we go on to lose this, for me at least, is that it'll be 3 points thrown away.
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We are now going to see the mother of all buses being parked by Fat Sam.
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No chance was Fletcher going to get to that before Eliot, although fucking moronic from Coloccini. No need for him to make that move.
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These two games are pretty much the only thing we have to get excited about in a season.
You didn't enjoy last week's game?
I just like to see us play well.
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Won't matter a bit if they win.
It will to me to be honest. I'm only mildly enthused by this rivalry at the best of times
Sunderland are a nobody of a team and about the same as a city. -
Whatever happens today, we're a much better team than Sunderland. They're utterly shite.
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Sissoko seems to have decided that he wants to score this week, which is actually not doing us any favours... He needs to go back to assists.
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Every game, I make a post stating that Tiote is a total liability and shouldn't be playing. Every fucking game.
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So Sunderland are basically going to try to kick the shit out of everyone. That seems to be the gameplan.
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Some fucking timid waving from Sunderland players there
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True, but Sherwood had it coming for being an utter bell end in general. Remember all that bollocks about his win percentage?
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That's Sherwood gone...
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Maybe the hope with Tiote is that he provides some muscle for the first half, gets booked, and then is withdrawn again at half time.
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Capitalism has managed to co-opt pretty much every social movement that tried to exist outside of it's sphere.
But it's worth remembering that the menu is not the meal.
A fair counter argument to be honest - it's more likely, I concede, that capitalism piggybacked on such movements rather than actually created them (although I'd say that the latter is feasible for the globalisation angle).
Either way the outcome is that both movements have pulled wages down and maximised profits. I'd say this was the single most important reason that either movement succeeded.
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Feminism was invented cause the globalists realized they weren't taxing women. /Lock it.
I actually have some sympathy with this line of thought - not that feminism hasn't done wonders for women's rights, but like globalisation, it's been developed to make the rich richer.
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Before having a bairn I couldn't understand those parents who let their 5 year old boy dress as a girl. Always thought they shouldn't be indulged.
But me and the wife often marvel that it's amazing to watch a boy do boy things unprompted from the earliest age. Just liking trucks and making toys smash and hurt each other rather than liking princesses and hoovering.
If kids can be born hermaphrodites and with all sorts of physical ambiguities I see no reason they shouldn't be born with mental mismatches to their physical appearance that should be handled every bit as sensitively.
That's interesting - still though, even for things like trucks, they've been 'gendered' have they not? So the kid has picked them up not because they're a male toy, but because he likes the wheels, and that they move etc. We've then given a truck a label as a boy's play item, which has meant that you've decided your lad is a 'boy' in his mindset.
My little sister has lego, loads of toy cars, and a toy castle, pirate ship; she enjoys dressing up as a knight (and had a birthday party in which she all the kids came round as princesses or knights, and she insisted on being the latter). She even has a toy crossbow.
I'm pretty sure she isn't going to grow up wanting to be a man though. She just likes the toys and has been protected from forced 'gendering'.
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I've always tried to have an open mind on this but I tend towards Greer's position - there's something about this "born in the wrong body" thing which strikes me as unscientific.
Not saying it shouldn't be a choice and that anyone who does it should be treated badly or anything but I don't think chromosone/gentitalia assignment done by nature is that fallible.
Of course the willingness of modern students to supress free speech on this and especially "Islamaphobia" is another matter they should be shot with shit for.
I kind of agree with this - I personally feel like trans people are socialised into it somehow, but I'm very open to a counter opinion that notes some kind of genetic marker or something. I also fully empathise with those who feel like they have to do this, as no matter why they're doing it, the desire is real.
Also enjoying watching modern feminism attack itself - was always inevitable at some point, once they ran out of actual issues to address.
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The point is though, that by working with Saudi, our governments support what they do to their citizens.
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Back to more pressing matters. Our record in the past 5 games against these jokers is nothing short of horrific. Their team's have been dreadful but the numbers don't lie.
Lost 5
Conceded 10
Scored 1
That has to change this weekend.
We should win this. The record above is a Pardew era catastrophe and while much of this is the same team, much of it isn't. The only concern is the defence, but honestly, if our shakiness at the back encourages our forward players to take control of the game as with Norwich, then I'm more than happy to concede a couple.
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And Christmas Tree...
As a forum, Ayatollah Hermione aside, we fucking suck at usernames.
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Or some of the other creative and thoughtful usernames we have on here, like The Fish...
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Probably not worse, but Saudi is at least theoretically contained within a sovereign state. ISIS are most likely their expeditionary force...
For clarity, I meant worse than the status quo in various middle eastern countries, not worse than Saudi - i.e. we go in to a country and either support what's there or replace it with something horrifying.
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I'd prefer the UK to have as little as possible with the Saudi state personally. Still, to suggest moral equivalence of the UK and Saudi on the basis we had capital punishment (largely for murder) is beyond pathetic in my eyes.
Christianity is based on a moral code I can support, and since the reformation and enlightenment religion by and large is separated from the state so it doesn't impact much on my life. Of course, I'd prefer the country to become truly secular which it will in time. But the UK has never really been a theocracy, has it?
Do you think Islam will have its own enlightenment too? Or, as the evidence of recent years suggest, are muslims more happy to submit themselves to theocratic rule? Islam does mean submission after all.
Why would Jesus spit in my face? I must have missed this part of the new testament.
Would you accept that the UK government, through it's continuous arms dealings with Saudi, actually has a hand in supporting this medieval barbaric power? So, granted we point the finger and wring our hands about human rights abuses, but we're basically enabling them at the same time. That makes us utter hypocrites at the very least, and entirely unconcerned, beyond meaningless rhetoric, about human rights abuses at the worst.
We like to say we're enlightened and 'not medieval' but we've invested a lot of fucking time in the Middle East and none of it has been about bringing in democracy. We've tried to either maintain the status quo or bring about something worse (ISIS).
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Colback got himself booked for protesting at half time as well...