Rayvin

Newcastle is one of the nicer cities in the UK, IMO. The architecture along the quayside and into town regularly surprises people who visit me. I'm biased of course though.

Why is a keeper such a priority for us? Dubravka has been fine and I don't see how we can keep two good keepers happy..?

One of them comes out with the 'on the beach, we'll smash these' at some point in the thread and another one of the posters keeps tagging him periodically through the game at moments when we're dominating or scoring with comments like "we'll be ok, <user> says they'll be on the beach". Maybe 10 to 15 variations of that I also loved the guy who came out with "Are we playing Bayern Munich?" midway through the first half

https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/pl-newcastle-2-0-arsenal-monday-16th-may-ko-20-00-bst-sky-sports.35471/page-5#posts Curiously the thread starts off with the more sensible posters who were dreading us, and then the numpties get onto it and you get people predicting that they're going to put 4 or 5 past us, and that "their team isn't going to lose to a defence with Dan Byrne (?) in defence and Joelinton up top". The spurs thread is worth a read too if anyone is interested - I only skimmed it but they were celebrating our goals almost as much as we were by the sounds of it https://thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/the-race-for-4th.43533/page-246

I loved this match, I love this club (feels like ours again at long fucking last), and I love this team. I don't care if we ever win anything, this is what I wanted us to be again and it's back already. Just reading through the Arsenal forum match thread and they're all sat there laughing about Joelinton being our biggest weakness, how they've got nothing to worry about etc. Then the shock hits as they can't get the fucking ball. "Newcastle won't keep up this intensity, the crowd will shout themselves out, we just need to survive this then professionally dispose of them". Then we scored and they were all talking about how we were going to park the bus More stunned silence follows as they still can't get anything going and we go on to get a second. We're not some lower league makeweight happy to even be at the same table as you, Arsenal fans, you condescending pricks. When you come up here we absolutely will be going for the win, and you're gonna have to dig a lot fucking deeper than you just did to walk way with anything at all. Or you're going to get battered up and down the pitch, as you just were. Beautiful stuff, I love it. Great way to sign off the season and a shot across the fucking bow for the rest of the league.

It was an Arsenal foul throw mind

I am delighted to be wrong tbh, I'm loving it

I'm not really arguing that it's fair, I do appreciate that in a free market it should be a matter of whatever anyone is willing to pay, I'm just saying that a cabal which employed the same logic into the Champions League could very easily decide to do so here.

I've mentioned it before but if I was them I would base it on a coefficient set up in the same way as the CL more or less. Previous 5 years revenue plus a percentage growth over the top, applied to every club in the league. I'm not saying this should happen just that I can think of ways they could do it.

To answer your original question, the Bible has been a founding part of our civilisational development for centuries and while it does contain considerable extreme positions, these are robustly challenged within society and in general we have a more mature understanding of it than we do of more modern issues. The issue isn't that we need to censor things we don't agree with, it's that we need to censor things that motivate stupid people to commit violent or damaging acts due to the fact that we have not equipped them with the tools to think critically. Although at least within America, maybe we should ban the Bible on that basis.

I read his manifesto and I don't think we can just call him a white supremacist nutjob and be done with it. It's fairly insane stuff, but it doesn't read as if it was written by a madman. Just someone whose entire perspective has been warped. He's acting out of a genuine fear he has, and the idea that he somehow needs to protect other white people. Honestly, he's pretty much an Islamic terrorist but for white people - but this has happened because of a total failure to control the information that is being consumed by people, alongside the dilution of the shared frame of reference that western society needs in order to function. This is part of the mess that the Le Tissiers and Farages and Cummings' create when they tell us not to trust our institutions or experts. He claims not to hate anyone, he's just convinced that his culture is being destroyed by stealth. I'll also add that he's another one of these deeply confused individuals who doesn't seem to believe in left and right. He's an anti-capitalist, pro-green, anti-free market, former communist, white supremacist, who believes globalisation is hurting his cause for the sake of profit. He says he's both left and right but predominantly a populist. Populism may soon cease to be something that we categorise as left or right, and become a problem entirely in its own right.

I don't know how you go about governing this sort of thing in a society that permits gun ownership, but I can think of one key alteration to their framework that would very quickly reduce the number of shootings.

He is at pains to describe himself as sane in his manifesto, and calls himself a terrorist. So if even the guy himself is doing that, it does rather amaze me that the media aren't. He's a believer in Tucker Carlson's White replacement theory anyway, seems to be his primary motivation.

Yep, interesting run in for sure. Everton have burned their Chelsea win with this result.

Isn't "appropriate to market value" the issue though? How does Golf Saudi get around that when sponsoring us?

I agree with every word of that, genuinely. I feel the regional prejudice too and I am fiercely proud of Newcastle and of being from here - moreso than I am of being British by far - and I argue and twist on with plenty of these people on various platforms, calling them out for the hypocrites they are. All I'm saying though is that Newcastle should not be, for me at least, an institution you can paint your colours over as plainly and overtly as this. We are not City, or PSG, or Man Utd. I find it offensive. I'm not making a grand statement, I'm not rejecting the owners, and I couldn't give a fuck about the empty opinions of the media and wider fanbases. It's just how I feel about this one thing. I fully appreciate it's what we signed up for and the modern reality - but my heart dropped when I saw it. That's all it is.

As much as I want to join the rejection of media sentiment on this, my stomach turned when I saw that strip. Yes we've been bought to sportswash, yes the journos and fans piling in on this don't actually give a fuck about the people they're claiming we all endorse the killing of, but I do. And while I can handle SA owning the club and basking in some reflected glory as an inevitability of the regime, I do not like that strip and what it says about the club.

I particularly like that the guy was called a 'bald cunt' but that being called a cunt didnt bother him anywhere near as much as being called bald I mean, fair enough to him for going to court over it I guess but they've drawn a direct equivalence between that and talking about a woman's tits which.. implies that the top of men's heads are as relevant, sexually speaking, as breasts?

Depressing but thanks for the awareness.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/calling-a-man-bald-is-sexual-harassment-employment-tribunal-rules Calling someone bald in the workplace is now sexual harassment Shelvey is going to be more minted than he is already.

I can't really bring myself to be pleased at deaths on any side of this but it sounds like a well worked and necessary operation.

He's just another one of these fuckwits who thinks that he and only he can see the absolute truth of everything, despite doing little to no reading on any given subject, and refusing to open his mind to competing possibilities and test his analysis against them. His wing of lunatics are so 'grouped' in their 'thinking' that they are now impervious to any and all forms of information that doesn't match their worldview - actively so in fact, because they're so fucking dull that being a "mainstream rejecting visionary" is literally 95% of their personality at this stage, with the other 5% entirely focused on orienting itself up Putin's arse.

I'm pretty happy with my takes ...results predictor notwithstanding (although even then, we're currently +/- 2 points against what I had us down for!)

There is surely no way that the government is going to sign off on yet more economic turbulence man

Yeah there's plenty of people loading up on the "I told you so" perspective for Luna. It's a really good lesson in actually taking the time to understand what you're investing in and how it works, because it very much was viewed as the industry darling in terms of stability. To be let down by an exploit like this is a real shame and will heap scrutiny on the other stablecoins and the industry in general. All because Do Kwon didn't take criticism properly.