Rayvin

JK Rowling celebrates her victory over trans people on her 150m dollar super yacht, in the Bahamas, with champagne and a cigar. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14622149/JK-Rowling-parties-Bahamas-150m-superyacht-Supreme-Court-ruling-transgender-women.html?ico=authors_pagination_mobile Check the picture, she looks like a fucking Bond villain. This is what was wrong with this. Pieces of shit like her. Its not about her opinion or point of view, it's about crushing people to amuse herself and then taunting them with her unimaginable wealth. When we finally do get around to eating the rich, I hope she's one of the first.

We beat Forest.. and we beat Arsenal away in the LC.

If he wasn't born with money, there is absolutely no chance any of us would even know who he was. Until he hit the news as an incel serial killer.

Fish had a thread that sort of covered that i think but uhh.. y'know, it was a fish thread. Went the normal way.

Done. I feel like we're going to be answering these things for the next several years

I think part of the problem is people perceive it as some sort of criticism of the team, like we didn't deserve to win or something - I think in our case, because we do play a bit differently to other sides, we're just getting into positions and shooting scenarios that other sides don't. Or that their players don't have the quality to pull off.

I am really loathe to wade into this since I'm fairly sure it's more about winding Gemmill up than the actual detail, but I do think that Isak having an XG of 0.04 on that goal is a testament to how fucking sweetly he can hit the ball compared to most players. And I would also add that now he has scored it, the XG for future such goals will be slightly higher All XG is telling us is that out of all the other scenarios that matched that situation (to the limits XG tracks the details), 96 shots out of 100 didn't go in. I don't know why everyone argues about this so much honestly, if you're not into XG it's fine but I find it pretty interesting from time to time.

It is quite tempting, I'll have a look. I'm not one of the rowdy people on here anyway

Are you using simp as short for simpleton? Because it has a changed meaning these days, and it sounds like you're calling them out for subscribing to your only fans...

How many users are they up to? Just wondering what sort of community can get going there.

I do think if we ever lose this place we should gravitate to discord Different vibe completely but could be interesting. We could crash their group, I'm sure they'd love that.

The french have shared toilets anyway if I'm right? And I think they do rely on the cubicle thing, very firmly sealed doors etc. It does rather beg the question how often women are being assaulted in public toilets at all, by anyone - if it was a big problem, you'd think they would have ended it. https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/trans-self-id-since-2015-and-no-horror-stories-vzzfx6fvs This article references that Ireland has permitted people to self identify on bathrooms since 2015, and to date there have been precisely zero accounts of any attacks. We can't let fear dictate policy, that's what the right wing attempt to do with everything in their political landscape, and we would call it out in all other senses. If the evidence is there, it would be really easy to make a decision on this, but fear itself isn't enough.

I think we have to agree to disagree on this in terms of the main thrust of it, which is fine. I would suggest that trans people being attacked and killed for being trans would indicate that it's not one sided though. Beyond that point I will say that I can well understand how confusing your own experience of this was, especially as a younger man who presumably looked up to his elder brother. I think such relationships are actually really important for young men so I honestly and completely do understand and empathise with the difficulty that situation would cause you. Especially with her now being quite a public figure. I acknowledge this would be hard for you man.

I understand, but again I would just say that one side is arguing a philosophical position, the other side is having their world broken apart. The evidence isn't there to support the idea that men are doing this to get better access to women to abuse. If it was there, I would have a profoundly different view - but while it isn't, my own framework of principles forces me to conclude that even the debate around this issue is deeply hurtful and invalidating to many people - dehumanising even - and that I personally do not believe that to be worth people's happiness being crushed. I'm sorry to hear of what your sister goes through either way.

It's ok though, Trump is going to settle all of this for us by insisting we drop laws protecting trans people anyway. Either we do that or we don't get a trade deal. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-jd-vance-trade-deal-free-speech-b2733806.html

That's actually quite creative tbf, maybe we should look into it

Yep that's the line of questioning upon which this often falls down. I did look into it once and the attacks are vanishingly small. Smaller, importantly, than attacks by Cis men into those same spaces. The whole narrative seems to conveniently ignore that an aggressive man is going to walk into a women's bathroom either way, it's not like we have guards on the door. My very cynical take on this issue from what I have seen of TERF positions is that they have operated for years benefitting from the sort of victim hierarchy that intersectional feminism creates, and are appalled and indignant that anyone born male is able to insert themselves into their position on the hierarchy chain, or higher. I really do think it's that petty for a lot of them. These are the sorts of people who don't want to make the world better, they just want to have their rage validated by everyone else.

For me it's not so much my feelings that he hasn't scored, more his visible frustration at himself or his teammates. There's even been a couple of times when someone else has scored and he almost seems annoyed. Barnes in particular tbh. That's why I wanted him to score, not because I think he needs to but because he seems to think it.

I don't doubt this actually but I'd wager they're formed by a considerable amount of disgusting abuse themselves. And while for you and I this may be a disagreement on philosophical position, to them any disagreement invalidates their entire being, and they will get that invalidation every day of their lives. At some point I think it does make you hateful. I used to be somewhat skeptical around it myself as a younger man before extensive exposure to trans people as friends, and a conclusion that it simply wasn't my place to cause anyone as much pain as taking that position seemed to create. That's all I see now whenever this comes up tbh, people like JK Rowling fighting for their petty victories (that ultimately have no meaningful impact on anything in their own lives) while causing incredible amounts of pain.

It's this constant thing of how everyone needs to believe it's the money that transformed everything - I sort of get the mackems doing it tbh, but it's not just them. But the single most significant thing we've addressed since the takeover is putting Eddie Howe in charge of the club. The money helps, but it's not enough on its own. The difference between us and the rest is the manager. One day, maybe they'll see that.

Aye I guess so, but I'm convinced that in a family like that, he feels the love anyway. Even from Jacob. I doubt it's anything like being the brother of Jude

He is a lovely guy tbf. His mam gives out tickets to the games to people she goes to church with someones, one of my mates got some that way. I think she's clearly done a great job with the lad as a man, I'm sure she's really proud of him. Always happy for him when he does well.

Chelsea's final 4 games man No way they're getting CL.

Sometimes we are just insanely good. Great result and also glad Isak scored as I've been starting to get a bit concerned about his body language (could just be that he went 3 or 4 without a goal).

I fucking love this group of players.