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@Viva la FCB do you or any other Bayern Munich fans you know have any thoughts/feelings on 2 former Bayern players becoming leading voices for the protests in Iran (Ali Daei & Ali Karimi - especially Karimi, because he's not in Iran right now so he's not under house arrest and internet restrictions like Ali Daei is). I always liked them as players (I mean, Ali Daei's basically a god in human form for Iranians ) but I've got such respect for them for this. Daei's basically lost his freedom (probably only in house arrest because of who he is and the reaction to news that he's being tortured in Evin or killed would likely make things worse for the government) and Karimi's basically had all his assets in Iran confiscated.

Nice to know that terrible UK tabloid humour extends into America.

Not something I know much about so I cant really say much but good on them if thats the case. It takes alot of people to stand up.

This is arguably one of the best things to come out of the whole Musk's Twitter verification fail:

https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/zdfzeit/zdfzeit-geheimsache-katar-100.html Finally watched the documentary, some pretty outrageous revelations. Not as much about Qatar as such (nothing new in that aspect), but rather about the high ranking people in German (and European) football. Bad look for Rummenigge and Bayern, above all.

Speaking of economic, cultural and geographical factors in cuisine most of the popular subcontinent dishes worldwide were actually the food of the Mughal aristocracy suited for a life of soldering. That's why South Asians have high rates of diabetes and heart diseases, modern life isn't suited for that diet.

and meanwhile, on the home front, a certain Banana Bobbie loves shoes

Nonsense. Despite the fact taste is subjective, this doesn’t take into account economic, geographical, and culture factors. Not to mention they also like to eat cheese infested with maggots to break down proteins in the same country as pizza.

Getting lectured by anyone is annoying as fuck. I really don't care about the monetary value of a person as long as they pursue social equality and worker's rights. I have significantly more money that someone that is in absolute poverty but that doesn't discredit or change my desire for them to be pulled up out of poverty and to taken care of instead of forgotten and exploited.

I must admit it's something that annoys me quite a bit in general and is also the reason why I can't take any of this kind of activism seriously - it's all just loud words and sometimes some meaningless symbolic gestures in vocal support of some cause, but no action - when it actually matters, they all bury their heads in the sand. Putting on a t-shirt, making loud public statements, posting trending hashtags, taking a knee or using catchy slogans is easy and comes at no cost compared to actually taking a hard stance against something in a way that may have personal consequences to you. Normally, I wouldn't care and I also absolutely don't expect everyone to be opposing every issue on the planet personally (I know I'm not), but I can't stand virtue signaling and empty platitudes, then disregarding it completely and bending over for whoever waves a wad of cash or better career prospects at them. Hypocrites, the lot of them.

Niclas Füllkrug posted a video where he watched the Squad announcement in Bremen's locker room. When Adeyemi was announced you could hear someone say "Are you kidding me?", and when Brand was announced, someone said "Why him?" He already deleted the video.

Had to live 52 years to experience that, believe it or not the "German Council of economic wise men and women" actually endorsed the higher federal budget and indeed recommended either a solidarity surcharge for everyone, or, and that'a unheard of from them, raising the maximum income tax. Honestly, this panel in favour of anything else than austerity and tax cut is absolutely surprising.

"An owl decided to steal a kids stick horse and 'rides' it around the local neighborhood."