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You can consider the game secular, not be a fan of Islam and still not object to a short break in play.
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I just don't see the big deal with a small break in play to allow people to eat and drink something because they haven't done so due to their religion. I don't even really agree with the or the silly rules of the religion but it's obviously going to affect a fair amount of them so from a health and safety point of view it seems like a sensible thing to do to minimise further risk. It's not like they are postponing the game. In an ideal world no one would do it but we don't live on an ideal world.
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To some degree but it's not like they just randomly decided to do it. They obviously feel compelled to do so due to their religion.
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I'll be honest I don't know loads about it. All a bit silly really but if they're in a position where they haven't eaten or drunk anything then I can see why they want a break so they can.
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Not sure why. It's purely a health and safety thing surely and doesn't really change things much. I played football in the evening once in the middle of summer with a bloke who hadnt eaten or drunk anything all day. I thought he was mental.
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As always when this stupid argument is brought up by people who hsould know better, if it was miles cheaper to employ women then all employers would be doing it as a quick way to get their costs down. It isn't of course because like you say, it's not actually.Comparing the same jobs against each other, not accounting for hours worked.
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One of the stupidest articles I've ever had the misfortune of reading.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
In a sea of oddball comments thats about the weirdest. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
And people have voted to lower immigration for years now, governments have come to power promising to tackle it and it rockets up every time. -
What did Lewis goddall on lbc say about it? I noted you mentioned the talking pou t about bits living in Spain yesterday straight after he had said it on his radio show.
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Actually pathetic. I read this a few days ago and was appaled and sickened. Why he thinks anyone would be anything other than that because this piece of shit has white skin just shows what a twat he is.
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Because if you are portraying a period of time, it is sometimes important to portray things in a somewhat factually accurate manner. My movie posters above highlight that point quite well.
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Pretty unsurprising given how polarising Farage is. If you were spinning it you could say "Nigel Farage has the highest percentage of those polled who view him as very favourable." Not sure it's that accurate anyway as I'm sure many in the general public wouldn't know who Ed Davey or Polanski even are whereas everyone knows Farage and Starmer.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Seriously? How insane. -
Agreed. It's just artistic representations. We can all be grown up enough to suspend out disbelief. Well pointed out soggy.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Whilst it's not colonisation and I don't think that's a good term to use, I am concerned by the rise of Islamic independent MPs in Parliament and what they represent. I can't imagine they will go away any time soon and are likely to grow in number. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
It's not just immigration obviously, like Jim said it's a welfare Bill that is horrendously high as a result of expectations that the government have to look after and do everything for everyone. A bit like the SEND stuff which has ballooned in recent years to a ridiculous level when really it should be a targeted level of support for those who are at the greatest need. Reducing the welfare bill and resetting expectations of what we expect from government should really be the absolutely priority for government before we talk about things like growth. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
I'm 100% in favour of Spain making a fuss and bringing in tougher laws to protect their native population from ex pats. It's their country and they would be completely within their rights to do so. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Cool that's pretty non controversial. His language wasn't great and possibly stupid - though I'd argue it doesn't provide evidence that he hates Brown people - but his underlying point was correct. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Where has he said he hates brown people? His underlying point was the same as the one I agreed with. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Can you have concerns about the rate of demographic change and about a large influx of foreigners without being accused of not liking brown people? I have concerns about the rate of change over the last twenty years but the idea that I hate brown people is clearly a nonsense. -
The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
hypochondriac replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Ratcliffe got his figures very wrong which undermines his point and makes him look a bit silly. The underlying observation - that Britain has changed dramatically, that some places look nothing like they did a generation ago and that the rate of change has been drastic - is real enough. -
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If you went to Nigeria and you saw that white faces were massively over represented in adverts, at the very least you'd consider it rather odd and worthy of comment.
