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Achooooo!!!

Good Omens - gets better every episode. Excellent stuff!

The BBC have found another unfunny comedy. King Gary. Not a laugh in site. Or perhaps I have just lost my sense of humour.

Ralph has been at the club long enough to know how the Board operates. He doesn’t seem the sort of manager who needs a massive transfer budget to work with but I guess we will find out soon enough where his head is at.

It made the national news earlier. It shared air time with a pandemic which has killed 600 people and is spreading across the planet. Good to see we have things in perspective.

Care to explain? I’ll say it again if you like. Terrorist activities are abhorrent and the people who commit them should be given life sentences. I really don’t think I can be clearer than that.

Ah, this old chestnut. Perhaps we can put it to bed once and for all? I have recently seen some stats that show 100% that Germany was a Christian country when we went to war. In 1933 approx 54% of Germans were Protestant, 40% Catholic and less than 1% Jewish. In 1939 after the annexation of Austria and when war broke out 67% were Protestant and 33% Catholic. You can’t be much more Christian than that.

Once again, where have I not condemned the actions of extremists, no matter where they are from or what religion they are from?

1 person out of how many millions? Whose mother doesn’t want to be proud of her son?

The circular arguments go on and on. The bottom line is that you are more likely to be murdered by someone who is not an Islamic extremist but there is less outrage about us killing each other than being killed by Muslims. There is less outrage about our clergy abusing children than there is about Muslims doing the same. There are a number of sick f***ers out there doing sick things and blaming one religious doctrine ignores the real problem - human beings always have and always will kill, maim and rape other human beings regardless of nationality or religion.

Did the article say that?

What has that got to do with it? You are not exactly on safe ground given Trump’s alleged sexual indiscretions. I know we have different political opinions, but when you defend Trump you really make yourself look foolish. There should have been a proper trial and if Donald was as innocent as he says he is, he could have cleared his name and taken the moral high ground. Even though he has not been found innocent and has been cleared thanks to the votes of his own partisan party, he still has the brass neck to pretend that he has been found innocent.

More than “lots” don’t kill their children thank goodness! Re your point about blood transfusions. I used to know a family of ex Jehovah’s Witnesses. Very nice people but they were adamant that they would refuse a blood transfusion even if it were a matter of life or death. Madness.

My wife’s first mother in law left her husband for another woman when she was in her 60’s. They were a travelling family and he is a proper “bloke.” He took it well though, considering it must be awful enough to lose your wife to another man yet alone a woman. Still, apparently he is with another woman now and doing well. My wife keeps in touch with her ex mother in law and she is still happy with her partner. All’s well that ends well I guess.

Maybe I have been unkind to him. If celebs coming out make it easier for others to accept their own sexuality then that’s a good thing. Looking forward to the day when people can be comfortable with their own sexuality without worrying how society will judge them.

As alluded to by Whelk, I don’t think it came as a major shock to the general public. I don’t understand why someone would feel the need to use their media platform to announce it to the world. The only people he needed to confide in are those close to him. If I was cynical I would think that he has done this now to deflect from the amount of negative press he has been getting recently over being an ar5e to work with. It’s a shame that we still haven’t moved on enough for him to feel that he has to make a public announcement about his sexuality. Or perhaps this says more about him and his ego than it does about society? We need to get a few gay footballers to come out and perhaps that will be the end of the issues and we can all go back to worrying about life after Brexit.

Don’t you think that they knew long before he announced it to the nation? Do you think that it is worthy of a TV announcement? It is a matter for him and his family and friends. Is it really a matter of national interest?

Celebrities making a big deal about coming out as gay. Nowadays who cares what Philip Schofield’s sexuality is? I don’t care what he has for breakfast. I don’t care if he fancies blokes. Just get on with your life and be true to your feelings. It is no big deal anymore unless you choose to make it a big deal.

Isn’t it better that they discuss business later rather than sooner? We want him 100% focussed on his game, not business matters. He isn’t going to decide to leave just because we haven’t discussed a new contract now. If he wants out he or we can’t do anything about it until close season anyway.

“Probably.” Why? Can you give other examples where they have sold players and divided up the money between them?

It is a massive generalisation and it is also not generally true. If people were getting “vast sums of money” perhaps it would solve many problems. The main issue is that once you have gone through a very convoluted process, you have to wait for 5 weeks before you get anything (if you get anything). In that time many people end up running up big debts which they have to pay off, leaving them short. Even when they get their payment many people still don’t have enough to live on, and not everybody goes off and buys expensive phones. If the system was ok there wouldn’t be such a fuss made over it since it’s launch. It is not ok. It does not work as it should. People who work there say that. Listen to the people who know and not the Daily Mail.

Spoken like a true Tory. The vast majority of people needing help are deserving cases. There will always be those who have caused there own problems but by focussing on them you are ignoring the real problem. How would you feel if you couldn’t feed your daughter and had to rely on foodbanks? You have never been through the process so if someone who has tells you that it is not fit for purpose, perhaps try and see it from their prospective rather than just pick holes just because some people have not managed themselves well.

Not once have I said that if we stopped interfering over there then it would stop, but it would be a start. The West have caused far too much negativity for it to stop overnight. Go and read up on anytime in history when more powerful nations impose themselves on weaker ones. There is always a reaction and often it is violent. You try and water this down by saying it is something that only I subscribe to. Many experts on Middle Eastern affairs will tell you the same. It seems that you just want to lay it at the door of everyone who believes in Islam.

As ever you try to turn a complex matter into a simplistic one. You don’t seem to understand the concept of cause and effect. Islam Isn’t the problem in itself. The problem comes from an element who interpret the teaching differently. If the West hadn’t caused a reaction to its intervention in the Middle East, why haven’t we had these attacks on our streets prior to the late 90’s? Surely if Muslims were so intent on bringing the infidels down this would have been going on on our streets for centuries? Blaming a religion is lazy and typical of those of a right wing persuasion. Islam is no more crazy than Christianity which is not surprising given that they have the same roots. Fortunately for us, the vast majority of its followers are just as peaceful as you and I. You are quite nationalistic yourself. How would you feel if far more powerful nations were coming over here and getting involved in our lives? Given that you wanted out of the EU I am guessing you would be extremely radical in your response.

I don’t think we would have gone on and won. They were carving us open at will after we scored and we seem to have run out of steam. There was only one team going to win this game in the last 15 minutes and it wasn’t us.