Renton
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Hey everyone, look at Dave, look at how middle class he's become! Surely though the M6 to the Penrith one would have been quicker, also give you the chance to bookend the trip with a vist to the Lakes? You're turning into a right southern ponce.
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No usually, it's applause to celebrate someones life rather than dwell on the sadness of death. IIRC we applauded Bradley Lowery when he died (the Sunderland lad with terminal cancer)? I doubt anyone would have spoiled that!
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Silence inflation. Was always 1 minute, but has crept up to 2 minutes lately for some occassions. Hell, maybe Queenie should have 3 minutes. Another thing, often now when someone has died in non-tragic situations (which would include this one as she died naturally at 96 years ffs!) often we have a minutes applause to celebrate their life. This would have also drowned out any dissenting voices. So it's okay to cheer the average pleb when they die, but when the Queen dies YOU MUST BE SAD.
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I hadn't thought of that! Also it implicitly puts the Queen's death as more tragic/important than all the other 1 and 2 minute silences we've had including terrorist atoricites and the annual poppy shagging ceremony. Bottom line is though football fans are different and have to be treated like children.
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Henry Winter on R5 there just confirmed the football was cancelled for fear of bad behaviour during the two minutes silence etc. Well, well, this confirms a few things: Freedom of speech is not allowed in football stadiums. Football fans are a lower class of people ("scum") than their cricket, rugby, and horse racing counterparts. No real surprise here but pretty shocking for it to be said out loud (obviously unchallenged by R5 interviewer). The premiership are more bothered about international appearances than the enjoyment of the match paying fans (both at games and watching on TV). Or the welfare of their players. Children who play football at grassroots also can't be trusted as they are the scum of the future.
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Leave those tanks alone!
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I'd give you a Gemmilltastic double like to you if I could. Wish to fuck I could get an Irish passport and I need a new blue/black one now. I'll lose the EU reference and the reference to the queen, but have old jug ears on it instead ffs. My brother was doing the GNR today and he said there was virtually no references to the queen passing. Hardly any black arm bands etc. It feels like the BBC is actively involved in gaslighting us. There has been nothing on BBC1 except this for FOUR days now. There is no way on Earth that can be considered proportionate, especially with the events unfolding in Ukraine.
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It's weird. Probably just his instinct and muscle memory coming out there. It's less than 3 years since the Maitlis interview and of course the Queen's role in defending him has been completely air brushed.
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The bravery of the Ukrainian people is truly inspirational. If, when hopefully, they win this war that is a nation that has earned its future.
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It really does look like Putin is fucked. 😁
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Doesn't Turkey, a NATO member, control the Bosphorus straits?
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Why's she going via Aberdeen? If she's doing a tour of Scotland, I think she should also visit the Eastend of Glasgow.
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But read what @Rayvin said. By invading Ukraine, he brings the border closer. How does that make sense? Plus Ukaraine was never a NATO candidate anyway, the predictable consequence of this is now Finland and Sweden are. NATO was just an excuse. He didn't want the Ukraine to become a democratic part if the EU. Once again, watch that film about the start of these troubles. No leap required, the reason are documented and recorded.
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Aye leave it to the far left, and the far right. Occam's razor, who is invading who? One clear answer to that.
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Might add, Russia has huge resources of fossil fuels, which in 2 years he now can't sell to Europe.
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You're underthinking it imo. Ukraine has none of these resources. It has a lot of agriculture. Do you think that is worth it? He's empire building, trying to bring back the USSR. Trying to deny Ukraine's right to autonomy. Its that simple.
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1Anybody watching House of Dragon? Lots of tits, arses and gore in the opening episode, promising start. I was trying to work out the Targaryen family tree but as this is set 180 years before dragon tits and Jon guess there is no real connection? So just treating it as a separate programme.
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NATO is a defence mechanism and was no threat to anyone. Putin's shown it was needed. Russia and Putin had a choice. They could have developed close ties with the west and become a functioning democracy. In time they would have been exceptionally rich and powerful in that framework with their resources and population. Instead they have become an authoritarian fascist state intent on empire building and allying themselves with China. Fuck them. Having said that, the West should have been much more welcoming when the soviet union fell. Bush repeated the mistakes of WW1 and punished Russia, leaving it to its own devices whilst it transitioned and opening the door to the oligarchs. Things could have been very different early on, but there was always an inevitability once Putin took charge.
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Why did we start training their soldiers and supplying arms after Russia INVADED and annexed the Crimea, and de facto did this on the Eastern border? I mean, haven't you answered your own question. As for Putin's other incursions, of course the west is going to react differently to a nation being invaded when that nation borders central Europe, NATO countries, and the EU. What did you want the west to do about Russia's involvement in Syria and Georgia? It was condemned at the time, but I can't see how we could intervene without worsening things. There is one aggressor here, Putin, simple as that. Again I couldn't recommend that Netflix documentary highly enough. If you watch it, you'll see its an independent assessment of the EUs and Russias roles in the war. Also I'd recommend Arthur Snell's Doomsday podcast where he gets lots of experts on. It's very measured. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doomsday-watch-with-arthur-snell/id1593634121
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This is mainly horse shit. I highly recommend watching Winter on Fire on Netflix which explains the origin of the war and is extremely moving. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4908644/ The war arose because Ukraine's democratic right to join the EU was blocked by its authoritarian leadership. Nowt to do with the US, who at the time were fairly ambivalent to the EU, and hostile to it a bit later under Trump. Nowt to do with NATO. I'd make an educated guess your mate is a Brexiter. Regardless, justifying Putins actions like this, and that's what it is, is canny appalling. Ukraine's fault, victim blaming.
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Aye, a bigger piece of a smaller pie. Also obviously less money for everything else.
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Tactical nuke time?
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And don't forget the Bong!
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Does seem apt. If we were so wonderful, why did all the colonies want independence? As for taught history, I find the number of people who are completely ignorant about Ireland absolutely staggering. And therefore don't understand the Brexit issues. Remember Karen Bradley who just had no clue on the sectarian nature of NI? But I can't remember being taught anything about it either, you have to proactively look this stuff up yourself.
