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Taiwan would need to commit an absolutely heinous terrorist crime on the Chinese mainland for this comparison to hold hold. The Russian comparison is fucking insulting mind. To be clear, I don't agree with collective punishment on this scale.

Wait what? I had forgot Rayvin was a mod! Better tread lightly from now on. Was gonna say Gloom, don't know of you listen to the News Agents, but today they are talking about what it feels like to be a diasporic jew at the current time. I haven't listened to it yet but it's normally spot on. I never even knew Soppell and Maitlis are Jewish. Started with the old Woody Allen joke. Are you a jew? No. I'm just Jewish.

And authoritarianism is alive and well on the SMB.

Looking at the photo, yes, you can.

Ages ago I was giving a seminar about academic literature searching, and I gave a demonstration about how Google auto fills suggestions. Much to my horror, and absolutely nothing to do with my personal history I might add (it was a float laptop with projector), I started typing "Can I.... " to which Google auto filled "... get pregnant from a dog?". That drew a few gasps from my work colleagues. Christ knows why that was Google's best guess from those words. Maybe it was localised to Sunderland queries, I dunno. Anyway, I was planning a post about this but then Google threw that at me, the result of "Can I get pregnant from a dog? "

This thread got me googling stuff and now I have seen stuff I can't unsee. You're welcome.

I'd be interested to know how productivity has been lost due to waiting for NUFC box office to answer. 1% of GDP?

Gloom's first post alluded to Iran backing of this whichlooks like it has been proved right. And Hezbollah are gettting involved on the Northern border. They are as thick as pigshit. They don't know that Yemen is a civil war, and that Saudi are the leaders of a large coalition against the Houthi rebels backed by Iran, and that we are de facto part of this coalition. They don't know the Houthi viscerally hate everything about the West. Since they like flags so much, maybe they should look at theirs: Translation: "God is the greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam". These are the people these morons are supporting by implication.

"All look the same to me mate". As has been said, the irony is these lot are absolute Tommy Robinson type knuckle draggers. They like to brag about football violence on the pure football board too.

Well, it started with them calling a perfectly reasonable tweet from James Reubens (a jewish businessman of course) hypocritical. It certainly wasn't in any normal definition of the word. And then somehow this has morphed into us whinging about hypocrisy? And regarding them notunderstanding anything about geopolitics, you have this brain donor who is repeatedly factually wrong in every hateful point he tries to make.

Sorry, I just have to keep flagging this thick cunt, because he is just about the thickest cunt on the internet. And he is a mod of the SMB.

Nice logic.

They're the only sentient beings that do.

They seem to like my crotch for some reason.

Well yeah, exactly. I've got the option to wfh, so fair enough. Just like to get out now and again.

You'd think. But if you bring it up, the end result will be people bringing dogs will stop coming in and yeah, I'd be ostracised probably. Maybe I'm a coward but I don't want the awkwardness. I dunno, my point was more about when this became a normal thing. I can see it being okay in some work places with segregated areas, but this is a modern open plan multi-storey office, we have dogs running up and down it, sniffing out your sarnies etc. It wouldn't be allowed anywhere else I've worked.

I'm not scared of dogs. I know people who are after being attacked by them though. Anyway, this has probably gone as expected, think I'll wfh from now, looking for a new job anyway.

I think this is a dimension to it, a true inter-city derby with geographical segregation adds to it, especially when one area is so inferior.

Not so much the piss, but the whole concept of dogs in the office when you have the ability to wfh? I don't get it. And there is just no concession for people with allergies of phobias. I find it absolutely bizarre but my line manager is one of the offeders, so not a lot I can do.

So, I know like in society in general we have a lot of dog lovers on the board, but how do we feel about bringing them into the office? Cos that's what happens here. Colleague's dog has just pissed all over the carpet near my desk and it hasn't even been cleared up, just left. It stinks and for the first time in months I'm needing my salbutamol inhaler. It shits too but they do sort of clean that up. I find it bizarre this is allowed and our office company actively encourages it. Surely you should just wfh if you have a dog? You wouldn't bring a kid in.

There was that lad Maja when they were in league 1 who couldn't wait to get off to France, didn't they have another striker Grabben or somethings that absolutely detested them, even when he played there, Loch Ness Drogba was off as soon as he could, then the was Darron Gibson who could only cope being there by becoming a raging alcoholic. Compare and contrast that with us, how many players have had a bad word about the city (Ashley maybe, a different matter). And the funniest thing is this just makes them hate all these players and the clubs they now represent, such as now they hate half the EPL and have invented friendships based on clubs they have never played against, like Feyenoord and Bilbao.

Favourite part of that song is "took a number three" btw.

Yeah, my colleague just did. Actually paiud money. Apparently they stripped of and a few grannies threw their bra and knickers on stage.

Feel exactly the same. What with this, Ukraine, and just the general decline of the UK and US (from a polltical perspective), it's depressing. Even before we consider the implications of climate change etc.

Work colleague has just introduced me to these. Fucking hell, I need to bleach my brain.