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Don't apologise. We all knew what you meant. Just that Mr Attention Seeker over there didn't and got pissy about being rejected by a straight man.

I am straight and would shag @Tommy.

I don't think there's anything not homophobic about being straight and not wanting to fuck another man I'm also not homophobic and don't fancy shagging him on account of not being gay. Sorry to burst any bubbles @UNIQUE

Honestly, I just don´t see how Israel can have a normal relationship with its non-jewish population. The idea of a jewish state in itself is in contradiction with a liberal, non-confessional and multiethnic state. There are good reasons, obviously, that led to its foundation, I´m not going to deny it. But the concept of Israel in my opinion is always going to involve a degree of "jewish supremacy" in its internal borders. The basic problem since its territorial expansion in 1967 remains: they need that territorial expansion in order to avoid being pushed to the sea by a second Nasser, but at the same time they treat the native population of these territories as colonized not as citizens. This, on its turn, estimulates the anti-israeli feelings in the region and we end up falling in a non-ending circle of hostility. I wish there was an easy fix and the two-state solution came into fruition, but I doubt it´ll happen in my lifetime.

With the be Agree. Media was probably even worse in the past. What we have though is the benefit of the hindsight and the work of historians, who work to fill the gaps and find the lies. I mean, in the 1890s New York media barons such as Pulitzer and Hearst published a barrage of lies in their newspapers regarding Cuba in order to push US involvement in the Spanish-Cuban war and increase the sale of newspapers.

You'd be wrong, I think. Taking a look at some papers from the 1920s and 1930s and it's full of misinformation that was deliberately made to not give people accurate news. Whereas nowadays we live in in an era where literally all of the information in the world (and all of the disinformation in the world) is available at our fingertips. If something sounds bullshit to you, you can go look into whether it is bullshit. The worst thing you can do with getting news nowadays is just "picking one" source of information. One source is more likely to misinform and have you believing in something that is total bullshit. The second worst thing you can do is automatically not trust anything you hear because "you can't trust anything." If you want accurate news, you've just got to go out and get it. But I think getting good news has never been particularly easy. Granted, it was easier to trust mainstream news when the BBC was still funded decently and before Tories decided they'd be better off if our state media was absolute rubbish. I remember when Al Jazeera started taking all of the BBC's good journalists. Now I'm not even sure the BBC has good journalists anymore - well done Tories, sending British jobs to Qatar

Unless you are in the Crimean war leading the charge of the Light Brigade I can't think of any fucking reason to draw swords on each other in the middle of the day...

It reminds me of Kristallnacht.

They'll probably have to make a booster jab for this variant... and the next variant that comes around that we don't have an answer for. I think eventually society will rebound from this. But chances are COVID strains are something we'll probably be dealing with for the rest of our lives. It's just so contagious and viruses can mutate pretty quick. But I do think we're passed the worst of it - because it's no longer a novel virus and we've got actual vaccines out for coronaviruses.

I panic whenever I saw one of your trainwrecks of a post. But then I remember all the smart and good members we have on here, and I am calm again.

Even if I was gay, I'd have better options.

I think @Tommy's gutted tbh

This just looks like an arsehole thing to do.

Cheers, Einstein.

Because, A) I could infect others who might not be young and fit. B) Who knows if I have any underlying health issues that I don't even know about? C) There have been many young fit people who had severe courses of a Covid infection.

Here is the trailer for it...

Yeah, I stopped after Episode 1... Nah, no thread, we only talked about it briefly here, I think.

News has always been biased and been written to push a particular slant - that has never been new. It's written by people, after all People need to get better at thinking critically about the news they see, read, and hear... because as there's been a greater access to information/disinformation, people have stopped thinking about the sources of information they get. And that's how you end up with people getting their "news" from idiots just making shit up on YouTube.

ive said this in other threads. its not news anymore its propaganda.

I agree with you that neither of them are good guys for what they're doing to innocent people. But I do think it's a bit fucked up when the side that's got access to the most advanced military tech in the world blows up things like schools and residential buildings in Gaza, they hide behind "well they're launching missiles from civilian areas." Yeah, no shit they're launching missiles from civilian areas. It's Gaza. There are a lot of people living in a very small area (360 square kilometres, for 1.1 million people to live in). They don't have non-civilian areas to mount operations on and from the perspective of the Palestinian refugees living there - they've been civilians that have been deemed fair targets by Israel for so many years. I think it was stupid of Hamas to fire missiles at a time where Western media has probably been the most sympathetic to the Palestinians it's ever been in my lifetime. I think them doing launching rockets, which might be understandable for typical Middle Eastern relations, does not do much to spread their message of: "End Israel's Apartheid!" Because it's hard to get people to back you when you seem to not give a shit about whether or not civilians get killed (unless you buy weapons from the US, UK and EU - then the West will usually turn a blind eye to your civilian killing). It's fucked up to say this, but I think in order for Palestinians to get justice... they have to market themselves to the mainstream western media consumer, in a way that makes them look sympathetic and not scary. Because seeing bearded men praising Allah firing rockets into residential neighborhoods isn't sympathetic to the cause of them ending the shitty treatment they get on a daily basis from Israel. At the end of the day, non-bigots - both Arab and Jew in Israel/Palestine (and Christian, Palestinian Christians are often forgotten, and face discrimination from BOTH sides as well - but can also be guilty of discrimination themselves; the Middle East is truly wonderful in terms of how many different people can abuse each other) are the biggest victims of all this.

Good stuff. Bloody cracking it was. I was hooked.

Yea... @nudge watched it as well.... Excellent stuff, really enjoyed it

I don't suppose anyone watched The Terror did they? I smashed it on BBC iPlayer. A strong 9/10 for me. I loved the atmospheric location of the Arctic, the unknown of what was out there. It evoked strong Game of Thrones vibes actually with beyond the wall and the White Walkers. What a brilliant, well acted series, fantastic at building tension and a great ending too.

Well that's one way to get @MUFC excited.

The only way to achieve world peace is by massaging women's feet.

Israel has gone too far-right. Breaking every agreement of it's legally prescribed borders, forcing occupation. That's the real problem. Read from any source that how that region has never been exclusive to only one group, maintaining peace through out periods of history than the fuck up we have now. The American far-right religious zealotry who's wet dream is to have a doomsday scenario in the region, to fulfill their 'prophecies' is also a fuck up.

Joker - 9/10 Watched it a 2nd time and I now disagree with many who merely think Phoenix made the film. The plot itself is Oscar worthy. President Reagan repealing the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, which led to most mental hospitals not receiving any funding. Arthur succumbing to his illness, dealing with his inner demons only worsening when society itself drives Arthur mad. I think its a brilliant piece of film and the critics can fuck themselves. The film accurately reflects that mental illness is not well understood and can represent something unpredictable.

They have diverted the attention from the forced occupation of houses & police brutality that started this all, but they certainly didn't see these communal tensions across the country coming. Also their use of overt brutal force, quick military build-up on Gaza was pre-planned.

Nethanyahu and co miscalculated all this.

Unfortunately he got attacked by a Unicorn tonight and did not make it. Hospital ruled it as a covid death though. TYPICAL.

I think we've now firmly arrived in territory.

I saw another one the other day where a couple of youths got into an argument on the top deck of the bus and ended up fighting in the street, one of them had a knife and just attacked him with it right inside a shop where people were.. he was laying on the floor after being stabbed a couple of times... Just crazy times

Maybe a 9.2 even?