hypochondriac

The fluke against City?

It's just so nice to know that some players still possess that ability. Romeu for example has been superb since the restart (if we ignore the challenge from today). He hasn't performed consistently well for ages.

Agreed. I'm so used to the lethargic, boring dirge we've served up for a couple of years now. It's strange to see us playing it around with purpose and showing so much fight.

Cb, cm and rb and we will do well next year. Loving the fight.

Nah. We need a rb, so cb and cm replacement for hojbjerg. All the other positions are ones that would be nice to have.

I spoke to directly to the council about the issue two weeks ago and they confirmed that getting caravans removed from public land is not an immediate thing.

Steady on! I just don't think anyone should be allowed to move caravans onto public land and then trash the place. I don't think you should discriminate against a race of people, it should be illegal regardless of who the people are. It's not discriminating against them if the law applies equally to everyone. Living in a caravan and trashing public spaces isn't a immutable characteristic of the traveller race. The travellers who the OP speaks about rocked up next to goals in Millbrook, stayed there for two weeks and trashed the place. They had lit fires, emptied their toilets into the bushes, left rubbish everywhere and broken bottles which is a major problem as that field is often used by dog walkers. The council then had to go and clean it all up at considerable expense and inconvenience and they will probably do it again eventually. Imo there should be consequences to that sort of thing. They already have laws in place that can move them on, it's just that the legal process currently takes much too long to sort out. No reason at all why they can't tighten up laws to ensure that they can move them on much quicker which would prevent a lot of the mess and antisocial behaviour or at least reduce it somewhat.

TBF that's not all travellers is it but I do agree that they should pass appropriate laws to prevent some of the antisocial behaviour. Like I said earlier, I'm not sure why they haven't put more in place to prevent them from just rocking up somewhere, pitching up illegally and then dumping rubbish and all manner of other things. You think they'd be able to move them on immediately rather than it taking weeks.

Don't want to bring that topic onto this one, but I expect you'd find that anyone making a flippant comment about the traveller community wouldn't have any sort of issue with their race and probably woild have nothing to say if they didn't have personal experience of some travellers being a public nuisance and a health hazard. You'd have to check with the people involved though but that was my reading of it. Imo not really in the same league as open racist abuse on social media.

You're a laugh a minute. Go on, do the one about the black mate again. Oh how we guffawed.

What a bizarre thing to say. Don't think you'll find anyone on here that wouldn't condemn a comment like that and hope that the perpetrator is found and dealt with. The fact you don't think that frankly speaks volumes for your mindset.

Someone already made a variation of that 'joke' a few days ago and it wasn't funny then. Get some new material.

Are there biological differences between different races?

So are there biological differences between men and women?

I'd quite like them to stay up. Certainly over someone like West ham. Either they beat us and take a big step towards staying up and probably relegate Watford or West ham or we send them down. Win win.

If they win this it almost certainly means we can relegate them.

It has. The term is differently abled.

Obviously. That's my point.

Poor white people are excluded as well.

You normally have stinking rich parents.

Great Post. Agree completely.

There's all sorts of reasons for one particular race being underrepresented in a profession, just as there's differing levels of representation across a host of jobs for men, women, straight people, gay people, Jewish people etc etc. I don't think it's particularly helpful to talk about unconscious bias being the problem just because a section of society is underrepresented in a particular profession. Do you not think there are other factors that could mean that a race is underrepresented that have nothing to do with so called unconscious bias? What do you mean by jobs of this kind? It seems like you're ranking the jobs market based solely on pay rates and then claiming unconscious bias because black people are underrepresented in higher paid jobs. I'm not sure how useful it is to lump all sorts of disparate jobs together purely based on pay level. There's a ton of lower paid jobs where lots of groups including black people are underrepresented. So is that due to unconscious bias as well or is there something else at play? It sounds like you don't really have any answers with regards to unconscious bias either than. So if there's a debate about its existence and certainly whether it improves things to actually 'discover' it then why are people expending so much energy trying to find it? Surely those energies would be better used elsewhere doing things that would actually make a tangible positive impact on the black community? Improving education would be a good idea as would dealing with the crisis of high levels of fatherlessness and the glamourosation of black culture. Dealing with those things just a little bit would do loads more to improve outcomes for black people than any amount of unconscious bias training ever could. In my opinion and from experience, the biggest problems affecting long term outcomes is apathy from parents and a lack of proper guidance and abdication of parental responsibility. If we improve education for those who are lower class, tackle fatherlessnes and start to emphasise parental responsibility in the lives of children for all races then you're going to raise outcomes for all children but in particular children from black households. If we put all our energy into that then I'm confident that there would be greater levels of BAME representation but it's not going to happen and it's a better sticking plaster from a companies point of view to employ a quick fix and stick a few token black people onto their board, apologise for their unconscious racism that they didn't even know they had until five minutes ago and tick the diversity box. Be honest, what's easier? For society to collectively recognise the part we all have to play in bringing up young people properly and taking the proper steps to actually do that? Or for every company to mandate that their employees take unconscious bias training to identify their hidden original sin and learn about how they were always racist all along they just didn't know it yet? Thank you for replying in a civil manner.

I don't doubt he's got ability. The problem is when he has a bit of adversity he seems to really go off the boil.

Ah unconscious bias. The implicit association test is terribly flawed. For a start it's not repeatable and gives different results if the same subject repeats the test. Secondly there's no evidence whatsoever that pointing out so called unconscious bias (if that's actually what it is) has a demonstrably positive impact on behaviour and some evidence that it actually makes things worse. So for those who believe in unconscious racism, firstly how do we identify it? How can we say for certain that a 'bias' a test has identified is actually a bias? How do we prove that this bias affects the behaviour of the individual (bearing in mind there's some evidence to suggest there's not a correlation) and how do we measure to what extent a group being underrepresented in a profession is as a result of unconscious bias and not other factors such as different choices or a difference in competence among candidates? How come it's only the prestigious jobs that anyone seems to care about as well? You don't see anyone all over the media bemoaning for example the lack of female rubbish collectors or the proportionally lower number of black park keepers or male childcare workers. Presumably these disparities are also due to unconscious bias so why isn't there a more mainstream push to counter problems like that?

Hard to argue with that. Like many wingers he's maddeningly inconsistent and I don't know how strong he is mentally. I'd like to see us bring in another winger if we can offload some of our other players to maybe compete with him.