hypochondriac

It appears that even those highly critical of the Israelis are recoiling in horror at the content of his latest posts.

I assume you now accept then that China are essentially doing nothing and that really negates anything we decide to do? We are all poorer and more miserable for a number of reasons but net zero is certainly contributing. Our energy bills are horrendously high and will only get worse as we outsource our energy need and import loads of it from abroad, we will soon be mandating costly heat pumps in houses that are inefficient and incredibly expensive, anti car measures continue to be brought in by councils which are at best an irritant and at worse dangerous (look at the ridiculous 20mph limits around Shirley and Hill Lane as just one example that has recently been criticised by councillors.) Or ULEZ expansion which hits the hardest on the poorest in society who can least afford it. I predict in a few years there will be restrictions on flights abroad and possibly on the amount of cars. Non electric is being banned anyway and the infrastructure is just not there to cope with electricity demand so there's a very real risk in the future of blackouts or power cuts as we try to rely on renewables when the wind doesn't blow and the sun isn't shining. Oh and you may laugh but M&S have transitioned to all paper bags which had the unfortunate effect of the bags now being inadequate for their purpose. Same with my daughters Capri Sun which now comes with a paper straw that cannot pierce the plastic. Those last two absolutely tiny annoyances of course and largely don't matter. All added together though with possibly some other impositions on our lives chasing the impossible net zero that I have forgotten, they add up to something rather more substantial. No doubt this makes us poorer and more unhappy as a nation.

China is opening loads more coal powered power stations at a rate faster than any other country in the world. You're right that's not doing nothing, it's doing the opposite. "leading the way" by making everyone in the UK poorer, more miserable, less prosperous and their lives harder all in the name of combating something they have zero control over abd which will make no difference to the outcome. I'd laugh baiut it except its serious because it's having a detrimental impact on my family's life.

Even if we were to agree with the idea that in the confusion and the general horror that Israeli forces killed some of their own people, how do you jump from that to saying they had no problem with firing on their own people? I'm sure they wrre doing their best to kill the enemy in appaling circumstances but you're making out like the IDF took it as a good opportunity to slay some of their own. The reality is soggy is just desperate to minimise the actions of Hamas on that day and by equating the actions on that same day he's trying to remove some responsibility from Hamas. Let's be very clear - Hamas is responsible for the death that occurred in Israel on that day. Some Israeli forces may have accidentally killed some of their own people but it was the actions of Hamas that caused the to do so. We all know why you are trying to downplay it. I now await the obligatory one sentence "condemnation" of Hamas followed by a 500 word essay on the evils of the Jews and links to Jewish conspiracy sites. But you're not antisemitic.

Absolutely and that's coming from you who I'm sure you would agree is not pro Israel.

Your info is out of date. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-22/india-plans-to-keep-adding-coal-power-capacity-as-demand-surges https://www.power-technology.com/news/india-increases-coal-power-output-as-dry-hot-weather-continues/?cf-view

The thing is though, China and India are doing nothing about their emissions and it's a virtually impossible task to make them which makes it basically irrelevant what we do. I can have no meaningful effect on the planet so it's not worth working myself up about just like I won't be worrying about the prospect of being nuked- nothing I can do to change it. I just wish politicians wouldn't be working to actively make the average brit colder, poorer and more uncomfortable. Possibly for the first time in 150 years quality of life is going down because of this stupidity.

The canary and skwawkbox have to be in there somewhere along with Novara media.

Indeed I would have thought that was obvious but not to him. See how he writes hundreds of words and devotes about three of them referring to the actions of Hamas and even then it's some cursory condemnation designed to allow him to get back to the Jewish conspiracy theories as quickly as possible. Little Owen Jones does exactly the same as far as I can see. Soggy should love him given that he's gay and loves the guardian.

He's no irreplaceable and we do have quite a lot of options on the wing. I'd certainly like to see Amo Ameyew get more of a chance.

I'm not sure why Hamas have such a bad reputation. I mean they did take their hostages to a hospital so they aren't all bad. The ones they didn't rape and murder anyway.

" If you are one of the hostages you have probably got more chance now of being killed by the IDF than Hamas." Thank goodness those Hamas fellows took these people under their wing to keep them safe from the IDF. Held hostage for their own protection!

Who woild have thought a thread on Israel would have given me such a laugh on a Sunday night. Some absolute gold on here lads. Thanks for that.

I thought you had me on ignore? You mentioned it multiple times for over a year yet you keep looking at what I've posted. Bizarre behaviour.

Good point. Mods could we have the wanking emoji back please?

I watched us play in Milan and Prague and get extremely close to winning a meaningful cup. It's absolutely worth it.

I reckon it's an act. I think he's retired and lonely and likes a bit of jousting on here. It's why he moans about being bullied and putting everyone on ignore but keeps responding to people who disagree with him.

You make great posts Weston. Keep it up, don't let the forum bullies try to hound you off the forum with their insults.

Expect we could get a reasonable RB and CB in. Maybe Shea Charles will step up more for Downes. To be fair we are in a reasonable position as the likes of Edozie, Bree, Adam Armstrong, amo-ameyew, ross stewart and Jack Stephens are all decent championship players and we should be confident in keeping most if not all of them should we fail to get promoted. SLight chance we could keep Alcaraz for a season too which would be superb. Could line up as Bazunu Bree Bednarek Stephens Manning Charles Smallbone Amo-Ameyew/Fraser Edozie Alcaraz? Armstrong/Stewart Which isn't a half bad Championship team (probably need something more in midfield and maybe an Alcaraz replacement but we'd probably make a signing or two.)

Expect we will be relying on some of the youth more next year if we don't go up.

Ok then. Like you say, there's usually some underlying issues that this person is dealing with that causes them to develop these conditions. I will accept your idea that gender dysphoria is not the mental illness but the symptom of other mental illnesses that the person is suffering from (although I still don't think that we'd have such reluctance to call the other syndromes I outlined mental illnesses.) What we could say instead is that there are underlying mental conditions/illnesses that cause someone to develop gender dysphoria but that is semantics really as they're still mentally unwell. The underlying causes of the distress are what should be treated and therapy to allow people to accept themselves and see the value in who they are rather than operating on them.

I accept that some people are born believing they are the wrong sex (sex and gender are not the same thing) and that that causes them distress (although there are some studies that show that events in childhood can have significant parts to play in a gender dysphoria diagnosis) just like some are born attracted to someone of the same sex to themselves. I don't agree that the best treatment for that is to do unnecessary medical procedures that involve removing genitals, pumping hormones into their bodies with all manner of horrendous side effects and then to participate in a delusion that this person is actually a woman (assuming it's a biological male) and has actually changed sex. If the same procedures were required by some in order for the to be a homosexual then I'd have the same objections. But they aren't.

Genuinely I'm not trying to catch you out or anything, what do you think the big differences are between those wanting to remove their penis to relieve distress and those wanting to remove some other appendage for the same reasons? Because to me they are exactly the same thing and I don't understand why some people would treat one condition by preventing them from causing themselves harm and would treat the other by performing an operation and turning them into lifelong medical patients. Why would we not treat the man who wants to cut his arm off the same and operate to remove it at his request if it relieves his distress? Like you say, there's usually some underlying issues that this person is dealing with that causes them to develop these conditions. That's what I believe for gender dysphoria too which is why the underlying causes of the distress are what should be treated and therapy to allow people to accept themselves and see the value in who they are rather than operating on them.

I don't think it's particularly controversial to say that if you want to have your fully functioning penis removed and have all the associated medical problems that will inevitably cause then you're mentally unwell. I accept that not everyone with gender dysphoria wants to do that but for the ones who do, I'd say it's tough to argue otherwise. It could be argued that even taking cross sex hormones for non medical reasons is a sign of mental illness given the horrendous side effects that many of them cause (cancer, premature aging, brittle bones, etc.) I'd say you'd almost need a different term for these people as they seem to me to be quite different from some men who just want to wear a dress for their own comfort (or indeed some individuals who are autogynophiles and presenting as a woman is a sexual fetish.) although I suspect there is some overlap between the groups. I have less of a hard time with those who accept that they will always be biologically male or female but understand that they have a disorder which means that they want to present as the opposite sex to help them to feel less distressed. I have more of an issue with some people who just want to wear a dress and get into women's spaces such as prisons or toilets and I certainly have a problem with the high number of adolescents who claim they are transgender (particularly of concern are the proportionally high numbers who are autistic.) There's been some relevant literature in social contagion and I'd say that's definitely a factor in a significant number of cases.

I've never argued that. Being a man sexually attracted to a man is in no way the same thing as feeling the need to remove your penis to relieve feelings of distress. You may view it as progress, the point I was making is that saying if the WHO say something that that is infallible and cannot be questioned is quite clearly nonsense as demonstrated by this very issue. It's as valid as someone saying that gender dysphoria is not a mental illness in 2018 and my response being that it can't be discussed because the WHO says it is so that's the end of the matter. Like I said though, even if we accept that it isn't a mental illness, it raises some questions about these other disorders and how they differ from gender dysphoria to the extent that they are considered mental illnesses and gender dysphoria isn't. Egg says there are key differences and I'd genuinely be interested in hearing what they are.