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I went on a ski holiday back in February with a bunch of mates, all of us triple jabbed. There's was supposed to be one more but he was one of those convinced that the government were never going to control his freedom with their experimental jab. Basically we spent a week packed into apres ski bars watching live music whilst he sat at home, alone, in Leeds with his 'freedom'. A well meaning bloke but the penny still hasn't dropped. I did meet a denier not too long ago who had actually gone full circle. His argument was basically, "have you noticed how so many people who oppose the government's control project keep dying." I actually agreed with him, I've noticed that too.

Sometimes I think the media actively want women’s football to be mocked. The fact that they can juxtapose that video with Wayne Rooney’s all time England record is quite the feat of imagination. Mind you, it wasn’t long ago they were talking about Alex Morgan overhauling Eusebio so there is precedent.

No, the problem is that people believe there is a ‘narrative’ when in reality it’s a common consensus, backed up by overwhelming evidence. "War crimes are being committed in Ukraine," is not some official piece of state propaganda that all MSM has been ordered to adhere to. It happened, beyond any reasonable doubt, we have the bodies, the eyewitness accounts and other evidence to prove it. The biggest fallacy that conspiracy theorists cling to is that their counter argument is equal and opposite to the ‘official narrative’. The idea that a professor in infectious disease, who has been doing actual research, in a laboratory, peer-reviewed and cross checked, day-in day-out for decades, is somehow equal to a guy on Facebook saying, "yeah but what if it isn’t," is truly contemptible. The fact that you can’t decide which of those to put your faith in is beyond absurdity.

Birds of a feather flock together. I’m sure many sane people, including myself, got fed up with his delusional rantings and unfollowed him. Likewise most conspiracy theorists are stuck in an ongoing circle-jerk of misinformation, all citing each other as sources. People with little interest in Saints or even football will follow Tiss because they want to believe what he posts.

I'm afraid my burden of proof is somewhat higher than a stranger on a football forum, saying he saw, "a pentagon guy" say it on, "a random Twitter account." Meanwhile a representative from the WHO has said as recently as today that they're making serious preparations in case of a chemical attack. https://www.reuters.com/world/who-says-making-contingency-plans-possible-chemical-assaults-ukraine-2022-04-07/

Do you have a source for that? I seem to have completely missed it in the news.

Rickie Lambert ‘stands with Le Tissier’, according to his Instagram. He stopped short of providing any context of what he actually meant, which is probably the most intelligent decision either of them have made in all of this.

Two hours of pounding and still nobody has climaxed.

This topic seems to have drifted somewhat, if anyone wants to discuss media in general a few posts have been moved here.

I can well believe it. I'll stop short of actually being sympathetic towards any Russian soldiers but it must be terrifying, going to war in a badly maintained, 50 year old tank, up against sophisticated western missiles which carve through them like a hot knife through fresh air.

I still think they'll scrape safety but haha, get in!

Unless I'm misreading that post, isn't it Russia's total military inventory worldwide, as opposed to their deployment in Ukraine? Furthermore, it's also just as list of produced units which may or may not be serviceable. Russia's defence budget is basically equal to our own. Officially it's a couple of billion more but a lot of that will disappear down the well of bureaucracy, bribery and wastage with Putin's cronies at the helm. Russia claims to have 1,400 aircraft but we can just about keep 1/3 of that up to date and airworthy on a similar budget. If they have lost 150 aircraft in a month, that's a pretty big deal, bearing in mind they have to keep enough in reserve to defend the largest airspace in the world, from the coasts of Japan and Alaska all the way to the NATO border.

The problem with that is it's a job predicated entirely on reputation and image. The likes of Tiss, Neville, Carra, Merson, Keane, Henry etc. are on there because they were reputable players at the top of their game. There are retired League 2 players who are just as knowledgeable, coherent and witty but they don't come with the same prestige and marketability. The problem is when you start sanding away at that reputation with tripe about COVID, massacres and Biden's laptop, kicking a football around 25 years ago is quickly forgotten about and your reputation becomes a liability, not a selling point.

The worst part about it is that I'm really not sure that he has, we got him because he wasn't wanted by 11th place Everton. For all the media guff about our boy coming home, he just wasn't that good.

How many angles are there to the raped corpses of defenseless women and children being dumped in piles in the street, with first hand accounts from survivors saying, "I watched drunk Russian soldiers come in and do this."? I feel rather bad that I haven't been open minded enough to see the positive side. Ah right, so I won't find one single mainstream media report questioning or criticising the actions of the Tories? If I look on the Indy, Guardian or BBC websites it's just wall to wall praise for glorious leader Boris?

Some people just need to be contrary, it's their identity and manifests in a lot of different way. There's no shortage of people claiming the likes of MLT were proven right about COVID, although the unfortunate problem with proving things is that it requires proof.

Good, get Pahars in instead. Just double check his views on 9/11 and the moon landings first.

Good, really wouldn't be upset if all three left. Redmond has been above average in occasional lumps but that really is about as kind as I can be about him. The other two are just non-entities and wage pits. Djenepo will probably go abroad somewhere, the other two will be seen as having valuable Prem experience by one of the promoted clubs. With 7 sub-standard (apart from Stu) players competing for those 2 places in the team, it's an area we really need to focus on. I'd try to shift those three and Moi and bring in only two.

Supposing you have a young child and I tell him/her that I believe sticking your fingers in an electric socket tickles and makes a silly noise. Should that opinion be allowed?

Actually I won’t, thank you Malfoy.

Some things in life are more important than football. A three year old girl being tied up, raped, murdered and dumped on a pile of other civilian bodies trumps a last minute equaliser at West Ham in my book. The bloke is an absolute sausage jockey of the highest level and I just can’t distinguish his footballing talents from his abject failings as a human being.

Chipping away? This is holocaust denial levels of sick and twisted. Is he still a club ambassador? I’d be rethinking that if I was in charge.

Honestly, I’ve got to the point where I can’t even enjoy his goals anymore because of how much of a c*nt he is. It would be like trying to enjoy an R Kelly or Lostprophets album. I try not to pay attention but his posts sometimes pop up at the top of my Twitter feed in the ‘people you follow also follow…’ bit. Innocent civilians being raped and butchered just for being there, at the hands of a foreign regime which claims they have no right to exist. Tiss’ take on it all… "wHaT abOuT hUNteR BIdEn’s LapToP?!" D*ckhead.

I'm aware of that but there are no prizes handed out for goals players would have scored if they'd been fit. In the last three seasons he's score 2, 11 and 1 goals in the League. Barely 5 per season on average, we can get that from Che Adams. Bale is going to be 33 in summer, he's not going to suddenly find another gear.

That was last season. This season he has one goal for Madrid, the same as Long.