Lighthouse

I think, judging by most of the questions, this quiz was written more for an American audience. Only the most hardline conservatives in Britain are anti abortion and gay rights and hardly anyone wants religious values instilled in schools. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a version of this which showed Obama as being further northeast than David Cameron, a few years ago.

Yes but I’m a Rastafarian Eskimo and we’re pretty f**king awesome.

Very sad news, RIP to the poor chap.

Wasn't expecting that. Go Corbyn, or something.

It'll keep going on so long as there is religious ideology and two sides, neither of whom accept the others right to exist on that land. There really isn't much difference between the two of them, people just feel sorry for the Palestinians because their military is crap. If the armed forces were the other way around we'd be seeing far worse attrocities in Israel.

I’d say being dead was a fairly good reason.

I would say that without that, there’s no incentive for Hamas to negotiate anything and the hostages would be in more danger.

You do realise you’re comparing stuff which may happen over the next 10,000 years being brought forward to being a problem within the next 50 years? You don’t think there’s any point in trying create a sustainable planet for people who have literally already been born now, because it’s probably going to go to sh*t in the year 12,100 anyway? I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

Looks a decent signing on the face of it; a decent, three format batter who can open in the County games. I wonder if he'll open the Blast with McD or just replace Whiteley in the middle order.

Knowing us, the team would probably fly there.

This game has improved massively in the last couple of minutes. Not because of the goal, because we've lost Dublin's commentary.

You're watching Gareth Southgate send out Jordan Henderson, to take on Malta. If you're looking for meaning in life, you wont find it here.

I would agree that, even at the age of 37, the greatest footballer of all time could probably do a job against Blackburn Rovers. Maya Yoshida on the other hand is a different matter.

I’d have used a five iron for that shot.

I wouldn’t give up the day job for a career in alternative comedy.

With Darren Powell running the club shop and Chris Makin mucking out the monkey enclosure at the petting zoo.

He’s here, as the club made quite clear on Twitter, because it’s the MLS off season and he’s training to maintain fitness, at a club and city he is familiar with. Sadly, once you start getting to that age, it is the speed and muscle reflex that start to wane. Beckham said he knew it was time to retire when Messi got the ball and took it past him before his legs could even think about turning around and going after him.

If, “mate, I swear on me nan’s grave!” Was an actual person…

I’m almost certain it’s a guaranteed transfer if we go up, which is going to be almost as painful as actually missing out on promotion, when we lose in the playoffs. 😬

A very good squad player in his day, with a decent attitude but he’s 35 now and we’ve got four decent options at CB. A romantic idea but not one with any practical outcome.

BDD and homosexuality are completely different, I’ve no idea why people keep trying to argue this idea that because gays were once mistreated, these gender identities must be believed in. It’s a complete non-sequitur. I’m not trying to deny anyone any right to dress however they like, however I can’t accept that as a decent, rational argument. You’ve set yourself a moral trap there, let’s say your friend and Gav the 19 stone hairy bricklayer go to a gymnasium and ask to use the ladies changing room. Do you: a) Let neither of them in. Problem - you’ve just invalidated your own argument. b) let both of them in. Problem - you’ve now eradicated any concept of segregated female spaces. c) Only let in your friend and not Gav. Problem - you are now defining women based on your own personal threshold of prettiness. I’ll cut to the point, your answer is almost certainly c, and you’re going to say it’s a ridiculous, nonsense example. Clearly it is, the whole point is somewhere between your friend and Gav, you’ve drawn a line of prettiness and called that a definition of gender. I can’t accept that, it’s not a morally decent argument. I’ve tried to be polite and reasonable, clearly we have a massively different idea of what constitutes a mental health problem. I fundamentally believe that the idea of being ‘stuck in the wrong body’ is a mental health problem, you don’t. I guess we both have to live with that. Do all those things you’ve mentioned lead to problems, yes no doubt. Do they alone account for such a massive attempted suicide rate, compared to other problems in society? No, I don’t accept that. You’ve clearly exceeded the point of being polite and reasonable, as your last paragraph proves. You’re getting personal and it’s just nonsense, at no point have I tried to silence you or anyone else who disagrees with me on this thread (or any other). You know this perfectly well if you’re being honest, so stop trying to play the victim of something which isn’t happening. I have no prejudice at all on this subject, I simply haven’t seen anything close to the burden of proof for what you want me to believe. If your definition of prejudice is not believing what I’m told by someone who feels like it’s true, we clearly disagree on that too. Just be glad I didn’t do that when they came at me with a bible in school. Anyway, between you repeatedly calling me ignorant, prejudice and a fool and aintforever calling me a c*nt I think I’ve had enough lessons on tolerance and acceptance for one day. I bid you all a pleasant evening and leave with a simple point; I’m not trying to deny anyone their right to dress, sleep with or behave in a manner they see fit. Just don’t tell me or anyone else we have to believe or deny anything that we do/don’t believe.

As I’ve already said, no amount of bullying and harassment can explain 40% attempted suicide, there is clearly more to it than that and SOGs posts clearly contradicts what you’ve said, with an example of someone clearly already suffering before anyone could have guessed they’re trans. Kindness and respect means being honest with people and giving the help they need, not just telling people everything they perceive is true, lest you upset them. Is it kind to tell a paranoid schizophrenic there really are voices in the walls? Or an anorexic girl that she really is too fat? 1- Transgender. They’re completely different things, you need to go and educate yourself. 2- The only information you’ve supplied there is that someone became a woman because they got breast implants and presumably a nice hair do and make up. You can either tell women that’s the definition of a woman, or accept that it’s simply a personal style choice and not relevant. In other words, "you need to be more tolerant, you c*nt." Wonderful.

I don’t know how else to interpret whatever it is you’re trying to say. I am genuinely trying to understand what it is that people want me to believe but it’s frustrating, bordering on impossible, because nobody is willing to say what anything is. Everything you’ve said is just what something isn’t, I have zero information to go on here. You’ve claimed that BDD is not a mental illness but people with it have mental triggers which lead to a massive risk of suicide. Those two points are mutually exclusive, I can’t hold both those opinions.

Clearly you believe the statement, "I'm going to kill myself unless all of society accepts my beliefs," is perfectly rational and not indicative of a mental health problem. We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Even if I agree with you, what's the end game here? Gender identities are: Nothing to do with mental health Nothing to do with biological sex Nothing to do with sexual attraction So great, we've established everything they're not. So what are they? What is left that you require me to believe, that you consider it reasonable to end your own life for if I don't? I'll even give you the word woman, it means.... whatever you want it to mean. I'll just come up with a couple of new words to refer to people born with penises and vaginas - which will still exist no matter how much that upsets anyone - and we're right back in our default positions. In your best case scenario, where I concede litterally every point you can possibly put forward, you're just left holding a bunch of meaningless words like 'woman' and 'gender', trying to deal with a lot of angry feminists.

I have no idea what you’re on about.