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I have exactly fulfilled the requirement profile. I am German and was the first to name a team. In this respect, you are now either a fan of Jeddeloh II or you can look for a new forum. It's as simple as that. Everything has already been discussed with Benson, @Stan, @nudgeand @CaaC (John). Stan has also agreed to help you find a forum without commission. Due to the difficult current Covid situation, however, it will probably not be a football forum.

Yes when the US said they were after Bin Laden the Taliban said show us the evidence and we will hand him over. That never happened instead the bombs and invasion. Mark Curtis did an interesting TV program about events before 9/11 and it included details of the Neocons hosting the Taliban elders in Texas about proposed oil piplines to be built and cross Afghanistan on their way to the richer markets of Pakistan and India. The Taliban refused this offer. If you look at the topography they would have crossed Helmand province where some of the heaviest fighting took place. Everyone officially denies it was about oil or gas pipelines instead it was about hunting a Saudi terrorist mastermind with advanced kidney disease. If the pipelines had been allowed to cross Afghanistan I guess Saudi Arabia would have been the loser as these fossil fuels were coming from Azerbaijan and crossing the Caspian sea and so avoiding any bottlenecks near Suez or the Persian Gulf. I find it interesting that we have staged some important matches in Baku as both Chelsea and Arsenal fans know.

Man i forget they did a remake of that one. It was really disappointing despite the strong cast. The original's great though

He was able to get on a flight back to the UK!

same. Thanks to @Tommy.

He was alright, I don't think it's a bad signing considering the price and with his potential as he is only 22. Not entirely sure he is what we need though, not sure he is enough of a goal threat especially as ESR and Saka will play a lot of football. Would've rather splashed the extra for Maddison personally.

That's £10 in as promised, paid it early save me doing it early tomorrow morning when I pay my other bills.

In Middle East yes but as many are suspecting now they'll focus on Far East and China

Already do buddy but it's the tables I produce which hold the fixtures that don't post so I have to type it all out again

Dropping that money from helicopters on the Afghan refugee camps will be a lot more happy ending.

The Magnificent Seven (2016) It was okay, I guess. Beautiful scenery, some great action and an impressive cast. Other than that though? Extremely flat characters. More like gimmicks rather than in-depth characters. So you really didn't even feel anything for them when something happened to them etc. Dialogue and logic were a bit meh too. 5.5/10

it's on his list now. Check your PMs when you can. He'll update you via there.

Yousuf scored 5 173 vs India - home 202 & 192 vs England - away 192 & 191 vs West Indies - home Root at 4 228 & 186 vs Sri Lanka - away 218 vs India - away 180 vs India - home

Saying women will be able to work "in the framework of Islam" can mean... a lot of different things. And this is one of the big issues of having zealots run a government. Will it be like Iran, where there's definitely systemic oppression of women in terms of: headscarf laws, inequity in terms of marriage (and divorce - though, I doubt the Taliban will allow for divorce, tbh) & inheritance... but women aren't really barred from education/schooling/property ownership/driving. Will it be more like Saudi Arabia, where there's far more restrictions on what women can/can't do - but they're not prohibited from everything? I think at some point, Zabihullah (or another representative) yesterday did an interview with an Afghan woman working for BBC - so I hope when they do take rights away from women (which, sadly, I think is inevitable under Taliban rule - you can already see it when little girls yesterday in Kabul went to school in full burkas)... they leave as much in tact, so that these women - while definitely living under religious oppression - can at least get an education and get work. It is especially hard to take the Taliban at face value, especially now when they are aware they've got the eyes of the world upon them and they've learned that having an effective PR team is really important, but if any of this is true... it's at least a step in the right direction compared to life under the Taliban in Afghanistan 20 years ago. It's still very far from ideal. But saying women can go to school and get jobs is a far cry from 20 years ago when women were basically forced to be kept in their homes - so I guess that's a better step than nothing. Also the claim that they want unity and inclusivity within the government - which I hope means an end to the persecution of Afghans based on religion or ethnicity. It's really hard to take them at face value though... because it's the taliban and we've seen their rule in Afghanistan before.

I don't know. I just come by this guys plaque almost every day, and it feels weird to walk past a place where someone was brutally murdered. I always wanted to share it with someone, but I don't know anyone who'd be interested in it. So sorry for troubling you guys. But now I got it off my chest.

Yea, I've played it a bit. It's pretty great. Played it on my old PC though, which was a potato, so it didn't run very well. It can get frustrating when you finally manage to build a big city, and the traffic clusters up like fuck. But I guess it's a realistic side of the game. Still annoyed me though. Then I stopped playing when I couldn't fix it. Might give it another go some time.

I reached out to my friend from uni yesterday, who was an Afghan refugee to Europe in the 90s right after the Taliban first took over... Today he's told me his dad is currently there - and there's no real clear timetable on when he'll be able to leave the country. He'd hoped to be able to get out yesterday, but it wasn't possible (I'm not sure why - but seeing some of that chaos at the Kabul airport yesterday is a good indication of why it wasn't possible). He's understandably distraught at the chaotic situation... and I don't know how the fuck I'd be feeling in his shoes. I hope he's able to say that his dad got out safely ASAP. Kinda scary times for many Afghans, but I think especially if you're not Pashtun you've got serious fears about the Taliban being back in power considering how the last time things played out. His dad is a brave man for going back to Afghanistan when it was always likely the Taliban would be back in charge - although I don't think he expected the situation to unfold the way it did.

Kind of easy to forget during this rapid collapse of the Western backed Afghan government & the Taliban's swift return to power in Afghanistan... but Lebanon is also going through what is possibly it's worst ecnomic crisis ever. Massive inflation (which has gutted it's middle class - that was one of the fastest growing middle classes in Lebanon), banks cutting off people's access to their money, food shortages, water shortages, medicine shortages, homelessness on the rise, a government claiming it has no money left, extremely long power outages, fuel shortages, etc... For many people, their lives in Lebanon have completely crumbled. It's very grim.

Free Guy - 9/10 Fantastic film. Doesn’t take itself too seriously and has some fantastic cameos.

This is maybe the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time

5m + 2m in bonuses, reportedly.