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I'm gonna post this everytime England will lose at the WC next year

I fully expect her to resurface in weeks or months, and read a "personal statement" publicly, citing her poor mental health and apologising to the former vice PM and the whole community for her "false accusations".

Regarding Ivermectin: repurposed drugs are nothing new, and there were quite a few studies that suggested Ivermectin can be beneficial in both treatment and prophylaxis. Oxford University is currently running a huge trial called PRINCIPLE that includes ivermectin as one of the repurposed drugs for Covid treatment. Another big one called ACTIV-6 is being carried out in the US currently. So it's not just a baseless claim; it could be potentially useful, but it's definitely unwise to self-medicate with it at home and it's completely insane to use the animal version of it

I don't understand how this is still happening. Like anywhere. First off, there's Ivermectin that's meant for human consumption. So why take horse dewormer if there's a human version? Second, it's an anti-parasite medication. It's really effective against parasites... but COVID is a virus, not a parasite. Third, the manufacturer has said: "don't take Ivermectin for COVID-19." Forth, even if you disregard all of that... there's no evidence Ivermectin does anything to help with COVID, while the vaccine has plenty of evidence that it can reduce chances of getting infected and minimise the effects post-infection. The high profile people who've taken Ivermectin and had speedy and successful recoveries simultaneously took those antibody cocktails - which are meant to be fairly effective at treating COVID... and that's because you're pumping yourself with COVID antibodies. It has fuck all to do with taking an anti-parasite medication. Fifth, apparently gobbling down that horse dewormer ivermectin makes lots of people uncontrollably shit themselves. Is being afraid of needles, or whatever fucking reason people have for not getting vaccinated, really worse than spending days sat on a toilet? It's mental, tbh. Being so anti-vaccine that you're willing to take something which at best won't do anything and at worst... probably isn't good for you because constant diarrhea isn't good for you

Examples from the past you say……..

Why wait the entire international break to sack him?

Mate. Yellow card is literally a reporting site for ‘suspected’ links. It isn’t hard fact. They even state this in their introduction. @RandoEFCis spot on. You can’t have your cake and eat it.

I agree with you that keeping national/ethnic identity alive is important and often times ethno-nationalism seems like the only option. I suppose it's a bit different in places like Armenia/Azerbaijan because they were once areas that were not so ethnically homogenous & are now... very ethnically homogenous. I think there's a thin little tightrope people/countries have to walk on with ethnic/nationalistic/both of those things mixed. Preservation of cultural identity is definitely something I think is important and it's something people and countries should value. But I do think it's very easy to push ethno-nationalistic views into some really evil things, not just things like ethnic cleansing either - in the Middle East and Caucasus there's now widespread misinformation campaigns and attempts to re-write history and erase some groups culture. And in some of those cases... I think it's just to create the pretext for land grabs and ethnic cleansing in the future. But I see what you mean regarding Lithuanian resistance to the Russian empire, Nazis & Soviets and feeling the importance of the Lithuanian ethnic and national identity and relating to people like the Ossetians. I'm also glad to hear there's no ethnic tensions between Samogitians & Lithuanians - and that's the way it should be for countries that have different ethnic groups that call the land home. Usually when you see a national identity isn't fractured along ethnic lines... I feel that those people who are nationalistic are a lot less hateful and negative (I dunno if that's the best word) with their nationalism. Whereas I feel many places that push ethnonationalism push their nationalism in a way that's divisive and hateful.

Caucasus is a huge mess, in general. Georgia and Abhkazia, Georgia and Ossetia, Ossetia and Ingushetia, Russia and Chechnya, Russia and Dagestan; those are from the top of the head I'm sure there are more. And yes, Soviet occupation definitely had a lot to do with fueling those tensions, which then turned into territorial disputes and fully blown ethnic conflicts after Soviet Union collapsed.

The greatest conversation to take place (Deadwood clip, warning for language and offensive to snowflakes)

What a great series this was....

Lovely weekend visit and overnight stay here with the 2 grandsons, youngest and second oldest, wee Kaiden playing Super Mario with the wife and Alexander on his switch thing then Alexander showboating with his new Adidas X Speedo Flo football boots on and reminding me they are the same type that Mo Salah wears, I said "WHAT...BLOODY PINK?" He never told our son who bought him the boots that he had a pair of Man United football socks on under his trackie bottoms...I loved that one.

The last panel got me.

"For money we will (sports-) wash anything" rather effective message im thinking.

You said that and I immediately thought of this movie

Bayern using delay tactics to avoid canceling Qatar sponsoring.