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It is a football forum, not a MENSA forum. I am surprised that you with you many hours of flying time and super sized intellect bother to waste your time with us mere mortals. I am sure that there are many conspiracy theory sites that would be better suited for you and your special insights. Perhaps you should spend more time here? https://mensa.org.uk/membership/

Good to hear. It is just a shame that they haven’t been so outspoken against Putin too.

The old adage is that winning becomes a habit. So does losing. As a kid I remember playing in a poor side who used to get hammered every week. I remember every game as being a trial and feeling like I was running in treacle. It is tough as a team when you are not getting results no matter how fit you are. I think it is pretty clear that moral is non existent and that we lost our way a long time ago. Judic inherited a poison chalice and hasn’t been able to turn things around for whatever reason. Everything we do and every decision that is made from now on must be with the aim of making things 100% better for next season.

Are we sure nic isn’t a hypochondriac alter ego to make him look reasonable and intelligent by comparison?

This might upset a few Lounge regulars. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/06/reform-mp-says-nigel-farage-must-change-messianic-leadership-style

Certainly not in the Gulf.

I hadn’t realised that the phrase that Starmer uses, “the coalition of the willing”, was originally used by George Bush when trying to drum up international support for the Iraq war. I wonder if the significance is lost on Trump?

More ill treatment of Ukrainians by their supposed ally. https://kyivindependent.com/trump-admin-to-revoke-legal-status-of-240-000-ukrainian-refugees-reuters-reports/

It’s not the haircut that you need to worry about, it is what the person underneath it thinks, says and does. If you are worried about haircuts, then those sported by Trump and Boris Johnson should have you scurrying over the the tranquilliser cabinet.

Go Claude! https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-elon-musk-34807016.amp

If he isn’t staying next season there seems little point in keeping him here now. Out of the two I would back Rusk to scrape a few more points together rather than Juric. The emphasis now (apart from getting more points than Derby) should be on working on who the next coach will be and next season’s squad. Who is staying, who is going and who do we need to bring in. If Juric isn’t going to be around to be part of that metric going forward just give him gardening leave. I have plenty of weeds that need to be dug up.

Which is exactly why we elect MPs. Is is there job to look at and understand the issues of the day so that they can make informed decisions on our behalf. Whether we left the EU or not was always going to be a highly complex issue and went way beyond slogans on the sides of buses or dodgy politicians weaponising immigration. Only it didn’t and sadly too many people fell for the sunlit uplands bollocks and we have reaped the downside of that decision ever since. The fact that Farage has now weedled his way into Parliament is an indication of how many of our country folk still are not paying attention.

More proof, if any were needed, the Boris Johnson is a useless, deluded chump. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/ukraine/69334/boris-johnson-has-become-a-trump-apologist-on-ukraine

It takes a particularly bad case of myopia to blame Labour for Brexit.

Please don’t compare me with nutty nic egg. Back to mad Donny. According to the Kremlin Trump has made zero demands of Russia in advance of any peace meetings whereas he has clearly given Zelensky no option but to follow his lead. As for New Zealand. I thought they had more integrity.

Yet again you completely misunderstand what is being said and why. This is a very clear example of how the mind of a conspiracy theorist works (or doesn’t work as is the case). If I could be bothered to go back and count all of the laughing emojis we have both used since you joined this forum I am willing to bet my mortgage that you have used a great deal more than I on posts that aren’t actually funny.

European leaders are meeting in Brussels today to discuss what has been described as a turning point in history but the UK will not be at the table. Why not? Because we left the EU. Think about it. A meeting that effects the way Europe deals with the greatest threat it has faced since the end of WW2 and Germany will be there but the UK will not. So much for Project Fear eh Nigel?

Starmer could well be. You can see him getting more support from Badenoch and Farage than his back benchers. I heard a commentator say today that Reeves need to relax her fiscal rules. If you are going to row back on election promises, for Labour it is arguably better to do this than to hit those who are already struggling. You don’t expect the Tories or Reform to call for the rich to take more of the hit, but it is a strange world when Labour prioritise the rich over the needy.

Genuine question east-stand-nic. Why do you think that the above post warrants a laughing emoji?

Russian modus operandi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompromat

Bank Holiday Monday 5th May. On that day we celebrate the 80 year anniversary of Victory in Europe. I wonder what those who fought against dictators and tyrant would think of the current President of the US selling an ally down to river to a dictatorial aggressor while his VP makes snarky comments about counties that suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany for 6 years. For Trump and his henchmen it is all about the $. He sees this as a business opportunity. He, Vance and Musk have made it perfectly clear they don’t care about Ukraine, Ukrainians and what they have gone through and are still going through. He doesn’t give a stuff about Europe. Just over 40 days in to his second term and he is already turning the West on its head. God knows where we will be in 4 years’ time.

1. Women who have been sexually assaulted might disagree with you, especially those who have been drugged and incapacitated. 2. There are some people on here, as if you haven’t noticed, who only get worked up by sex offenders who are Muslims. Hence my point. Retard? Not really. Just making a point about the resident Islamophobes. Rapists are rapists be they Muslim, Chinese, British, whatever and should all be treated the same. Would you agree?

1. I have never said that I don’t use emojis on here. What is your point? 2. You rarely post “ evidence” just normally laughing emojis. Where you do post conspiracy theories I don’t recall many “facts” being involved. 3. Despite his strange and bizarre behaviour you do not call him out and when others do you respond with a laughing emoji which, to me, implies that you think that the poster is talking nonsense (that is your general approach). Trump believes in conspiracy theories as do you. Why wouldn’t you support him (same with Musk)? 4. The forum or a thread, either way you do not keep your promise. I really can’t be bothered to go look but funny that other people mention it too. 5. I have never said that I do not call other people things (what is the problem with calling people right wing If they openly support right wing policies. Same with far right policies)? 6. No I won’t leave the forum. Given the way you behave you probably weren’t even born when I started to get pile ons because I am, apparently, a lefty woke snowflake pinko. You will have to go back years on these threads. Good luck with that chum. 7. All half intelligent people will see that the only thing buried here is you and your batshit crazy theories and posts. 8. I missed this one. You are either Dune or you aren’t. Either way you are a prize WUM and, probably, the biggest twat currently posting on here. No conspiracy theory about it. I appreciate that English is probably not your first language which is probably why you struggle to make any coherent arguments. I shall just round up my response so there is no confusion. I use emojis. I call people names and started doing so many years ago when I was on the end of several kickings. You use laughing emojis as either implicit support for someone who has been criticised by inferring their posts are not to be taken seriously or you use them in place of responding to a direct criticism which you can’t answer and want to duck. You get upset when people call you names yet you are happy to call them names too. Despite the fact that you have posted in support of various conspiracies on here, you claim that you are not a conspiracy theorist. Ok? Buried.

Do we know if he has realised that his “life changing” book, ‘The Art of the Deal’ wasn’t actually written by Trump yet?

We need them as our DoF.