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But, but, they were boat people from Iran.

Re highlighted parts. I'd hazard a guess that none of the 64,000 babies and children killed or injured are combatants. "urban warfare" is absolute nonsense. Gaza was completely smashed up, mostly from the air. Official Israeli figures are that over 40,000 targets have been bombed. You've never uttered one word of condemnation for Israel, but maybe just respect that most people have a wee bit of an issue with the sheer scale of their retaliation for the 7 October attacks. Anyways, this has morphed into a lounge subject.

Yep, the prawn ring comment was below the belt, so to speak.

The haribo rings make a sweet alternative, and you can make the dippy kids voices like in the adverts. Apparently.

Fucking traitors, monitoring dinghies and not stopping them. That's NATO done for sure.

There has been no illegal immigration discussion today. None. What we've had is a link to news of an attempted bombing at an RAF base. What you've done is convinced yourself that it's linked to illegal immigration. When there's a credible link (not some random on X or Reddit) to illegal immigration, there's a discussion to be had, but until then it's just nonsense.

Not the Hula Hoops that don't even contain potato, these ones.

It's understandable that Iran would attempt to head off attacks before they start, any nation would if they could. The illegal immigrant link, however, is people feeding their narrative.

Eh? I'm avoiding the discussion! It's been done to death, and goes around in more circles than a hula hoop.

Fair enough, but there's something to be said for speaking up...saying and doing nowt does nowt.

Opposing what's happened and is happening isn't 6th form. It's normal. Whelk has said in the lounge that he feels that people who take a stance against Israel have "inbuilt prejudice". I prefer Baz's position to that.

Unless you're comfortable with what's happening in Gaza/West Bank, why take issue with a person taking a public stand against what's happening.

More destruction and expansionist threats from the apparently non expansionist Israeli regime.

You avoid a question, but pose all sorts of vaguely related (at best) questions, then demand your questions are answered whilst claiming you've answered the initial question.

They'd stay up every single season, and probably scrape a lesser European place also. That's not a proper punishment.

Moses Sesay, who's on loan at Colchester scored two great goals yesterday. Lovely comments from their manager too: "He's going to be some player, that kid."

League 2 for me, but there's an argument for lower. Points just puts them out of the PL for a season, and that's no punishment for what they've done.

Yep. Superb game of football. Best I've watched in a long time.

Not as expansionist as the uber expansionist Israel, does not mean not expansionist. People failing to recognise Israel and it's ambitions for what they are, whilst lecturing others, is a massive irony.

The answer, of course is that we want Ukraine to survive. In supporting them, however, the risk to their supporters increases. I think it's a risk we must take btw, but it's a risk that cannot be ignored. Regardless, this deviates from the subject of the thread, and my point lighthouse. My point that got him heated was that I see Israel as more expansionist than Russia, and a greater threat to peace. We then went down a rabbit hole.

Not just us. There are 16 teams in the championship who have been in the PL with City during the period of their cheating. City shouldn't be able to deprive any if them of a promotion spot. They should be dumped in league 2 and made to fight their way back.

Galloway's take is that NATO triggered the war using Ukraine as it's proxy. That's just nuts. Where he has a point is that NATO gear being used to kill Russian civilians increases the risk to NATO states and their civilians. I'm not sure how that's disputable.

The Aldi SM team are brilliant. They don't give a monkeys.

Should Israel be banned from international sport?

Separate the invasion from the aftermath. Russian invasion was ridiculous and sparked this. No question. Since then, drones striking its beaches, it's oil and civillian infrastructure, etc, is intended to press it's buttons. That's being done with NATO (British) drones. The reaction to that is being felt by Ukraine only, but there's a risk beyond that. Re the rest, no disrespect, but you have a very narrow and blinkered view. The NATO supply of weapons has killed civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure. Nobody should support that, or not understand the potential risk beyond the Ukrainian borders.