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Werder Bremen's new shirt is designed like Denmark's 1986 World Cup shirt, a tribute to their Danish supplier Hummel 100th anniversary.

@Tommy Please unpin the old thread and pin this one.

So you didn't have time to read the sources provided by @nudge. Otherwise you'd know there were no regulations to be bypassed.

These are nice shirts. Well done to both clubs.

Doesn't look that great, but it tasted great. Peppers stuffed with bulgur and feta. Additonal Bergkäse (mountain cheese) on top.

Fortuna Düsseldorf Away. I can live with that. Simple, but at least no eyesore experiments.

The thing is what he's talked about in his last 2 posts aren't really partisan at all! I don't think it's a sign he's too far gone when he's talking about things that are issues for everyone in America. It's a far cry from getting hung up on culture war bullshit! He has that post about the drug issue in the US - and it's a serious issue. And maybe, despite me shitting on him earlier in this thread, maybe it's a good thing there's a person like Russell Brand has started targeting right wing people as his audience - even though I think some of the shit he promotes is just absolute bullshit. Because one political point Brand's sort of retained as he's made his pivot to friend-of-the-far right is his views on how to deal with homelessness and addiction. I think Brand still spews a lot of shit but if he's getting people on the right to think more like he does regarding the problems of the most vulnerable in western society... then Brand's doing something positive despite his weird political pivot. It's hard to get a nation where individualism is so engrained in the culture to care about actual ways to deal with issues like drug addiction and homelessness (which are very related in the US, at least that's my view here in California) - but the first way America is going to meaningfully address this is by acknowledging the drug war policies have failed miserably. And that treating non-violent drug offenders the same as any other criminal is not really a solution to the problem. Currently the way the US is dealing with the situation is by letting it fester and letting people die in the streets, it's not humane. And it's not sanitary. And the 4 points he listed as what he'd want in an ideal candidate are... very reasonable. Alright, I tore apart that decentralised government thing because... the US is very decentralised (sometimes to it's detriment, imo) - and one of the things he listed as an ideal is sort of just an example of how the US government acts as an "arbiter of truth." But wanting corporate money out of politics? That's pretty far from a far-right view. Regulating corporations & labour regulations? That's pretty far from a far-right view, as well, especially in the US. Granted, he didn't really explain what sort of regulation reforms he'd want - but I think just by saying that he's probably in favour of shit that protects people over corporations (particularly if he wants corporate money out of politics). And the no war or conflicts - I think that's an ideal that every person around the world wants. I don't think it's particularly realistic considering there's the 2 global powers that firmly believe in economic imperialism, and then you've got shitheads like Putin who just want to go back to the olden days of plain old imperialism. I'm sure there's shitloads he and I disagree on politically because... well, we've seen each others posting histories on politics. But I don't think he's "that far gone" - I think his last 2 posts demonstrate a fair bit of common ground despite us having many wildly different political views. If we have that much common ground on these actual important issues... I think that really just highlights what I've said about the culture wars the media props up as being huge distraction issues. He's seen it himself and said it himself, corporate interests do not align with the interests of ordinary people. It looks like we can both identify the same problems and have pretty similar thoughts on these problems - and these are actual issues that impact most people, rather than the culture war bullshit that is used to divide people politically. I think it's a good thing to try to talk politics with people you don't agree with always. There's a reason I went through what he's looking for in a candidate, gave some of my own thoughts, and asked some questions (that I very much do hope you answer @OrangeKhrush) - especially when he's talking about things where I can see that even if I have political differences... I think he's found issues where we both have agreement, but maybe have different ideas (and maybe we don't have different ideas and are just in complete agreement). I might learn something from him, he might learn something from me. I don't think we want to live in a world where there's no room for political discussion. It's certainly a hell of a lot better than reading someone's political views and thinking "what the fuck?" At least here, even if we disagree, we're not just reading from two completely different pages. It's just policy differences on how to solve the same problems. If we were US politicians that would put us in the rare position of being able to make compromises that can actually get a law passed through both the senate and house that actually does something meaningful for most people in the country. And in that hypothetical scenario, that would make us better than 99% of the current politicians in the US senate and congress.

Our daughter told me to grow my beard long for Christmas so her and wee Kaiden can dress me up as Santa

Fuck Israel. Their government and their military will never stop being scum.