Lighthouse

I’ll admit to not being the best person at picking up nuance and subtle hints, but if I came home from work and the GF had built a scud missile with, “die Lighthouse scumbag c**t!” Written on the side, I’d probably say, “you’re mad at me, aren’t you princess?”

So in summary… Iran: Death to Israel!!!! Me: I think they want death to Israel. You: You’re absolutely bonkers.

Watching the Leeds game on Sky, they’re 4-0 down after 13 minutes. Sadly it’s the rugby league.

I don’t know what to say to that, I genuinely can’t get my head around such an astonishing amount of denial. This is a country with the death penalty for gays, blasphemy and women who refuse to cover their hair and obey the commands of their masters. The state will willingly execute their own citizens for all manner of trivial misdemeanours. Fellow Muslims in their own country, who just aren’t quite Muslim enough and in the correct way. And you think it’s completely unfathomable that they’d want to wipe out the so called ‘sub-human scum, occupiers of god-given Arab land’?

Yep. Yep. Nope. They’re Islamist nutters. You’re doing the whole, "they must think like a western, liberal democracy," thing again. I don’t have a belief on this, other than the stated fact that this is a centuries old religious grievance, with two tribes fighting over the same land. I don’t support one any more than the other. Israel is winning because their military is really good and Hamas’ is crap. If it was the other way around life would be just as bad, if not worse, for the Israelis.

I can’t say I’ve seen any particular support for Israel, just people repeatedly trying to explain to you why the situation is the way it is, whilst you and others try and insist that things should be different. Israel already has enough people ten times over who want the entire nation wiped off the face of the earth, just for existing. Just for being a Jewish state which exists on what they see as Arab land. This already includes the Iranian government trying to build nuclear warheads and ICBMs with ‘death to Israel’ written on the side. Saying, "they’re just going to create more terrorists," is pretty much a moot point to them, it’s of no consequence. This whole angle of ‘it’s actually in Israel’s best interests to do the thing that I want them to do’ is not altogether that convincing.

Why does it have to be an absolute? Israel isn’t going to create a utopia here but they can go a long way towards protecting their own interests for many years to come.

Because they’re there and they’re refugees. There’s no point talking about ‘logical solutions’ which clearly aren’t actually happening.

Er… Hamas want as many innocent Palestinians killed as possible, almost to the extent that they want Israelis killed, you do realise this?

Good news, the staff were probably sat at home wondering...

They absolutely can and are.

Given the number of players who retire and fall into gambling, substance abuse, depression and financial problems I can fully support and understand this, if true. Everyone is different but I personally couldn’t have retired at 32, no matter how rich I was. I’d need some purpose to life, beyond holidays and golf.

Nah, some people turned a thread about Christmas greetings into a conversation about ducks raping each other, a few years back. That was pretty low.

I am by no means an expert on asbestos but I thought it was mainly used for it's fire and heat retardant properties. I thought the main risk from spores being released into the atmosphere came from it being sawn/machined or in other way broken up in a way which projected loose fibres. Obviously there is some risk of that from the roof collapsing but I don't think it's quite the health hazard that some fear.

Is this going to be like Chernobyl, where the authorities don’t evacuate the city for three days?

The club are apparently optimistic the game will go ahead.

I didn’t realise you could insure those.

We’re bringing in a specialist to help facilitate.

I’ve been wondering this for quite some time, it’s almost as if the Dems are trying to lose. Just get a straight, white male, aged 40-60 and tell him not to say anything bat sh*t. It’s not rocket salad.

We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the world’s been turning.

How many does the Silverlake hold these days?

You've got to laugh at this really. Bowling for Soup were right, highschool never ends.

I also looked at the Qashqai e-power put was put off for that reason. Even though it's direct electric drive it only does a not too inspiring 45mpg.

Cheers. 👍