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Didn't know about that! Will contact Saarbrücken MP to mention that in a parliament urgent motion to stop it.

When I was prepping for my trip I signed up for an international account with Wise so I could withdraw cash if necessary. I think @nudge recommended them.

Edinburgh, Tuesday.

What a bunch of assholes. I see it already made the news in Germany as well, so it should be spreading. But apparently it's not the first time they decide to make deals with assholes.

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And we're off again after around 4/5 years of absence, and we're back with a.. well, less a bang and more a clap, if even that in all honesty. @Stan delivers the only opening weekend winner, with the two shortest priced picks of the week proving to be the way forward this time. Sensible picks on the whole as Celtic were always likely to win and you could never trust a Rodgers side to keep the goals out. Dorking were probably the best team in the country for goals last season and they've started this season in the form of last season, with a 4-3 defeat at Chesterfield which actually sells the bet almost short in a way. I did the same thing last week for Hamburg v Schalke, I won on over 3.5 and it paid out with a 5-3 could've gone much higher. Coventry City have blood on their hands for the whole balance of the forum, as their collapse at Leicester cost @Storts a very big win (talk about killing two birds with one stone), and their failure to even hold onto a draw cost me too. But as I have stated I think three times now) I think I'm going to take the hypothetical money loss over dropping points to them at home in our opening game, so once Southampton had delivered, I was going to win in some form. Storts' pick of Ipswich to win at Sunderland is the weeks best selection - with just 4 out of the 13 in total winning, which is a slow start. @...Dan's teams were both beaten, Bordeaux thumped 3-0 at Pau tonight in a genuine surprise result, and KV Kortrijk couldn't back their decent showing at Genk with anything here after losing 0-1 to Sint-Truiden - a team who in my experience were the low scorers of a high scoring league. @Lucas matched this with another two comfortable losses. Wycombe going down 0-3 to Exeter, 2 of them coming in the first 4 minutes, and Oxford losing to a depleted Cambridge 2-0. @Pyfishdid at least manage to avoid defeat with one of his two picks, but his double whammy comes by the fact he picked both of his teams to win at home and neither managed it. We wrap up with @RandoEFC making what I believe was a schoolboy error to take Man City to win the Community Shield at a pretty low price. I annoyingly backed Arsenal to win in 90 minutes so I got the same outcome though ultimately. Rando picking the shortest priced team, and the odds of the selections picked is how I've ranked 2 to 7 if you noticed, although that can't really be stuck with as a sorting order and in truth, it's just 6 baldies fighting over a comb anyway. 1 winner out of 7 4 winning selections out of 13 The forum collectively loses £49.60 this week, it cannot be dressed up as anything other than a shocker. But well done to Stan. Week two begins tomorrow so get your selections in!

She is an excellent tennis player, I am glad to see her back playing professionally.

Love that butterfly! I can never get a decent picture of a butterfly because they always fly away.

I applied for membership at Stuttgart. I guess I'm committed to following one team now. Assuming they accept me.

Yeah, I agree with that. Granted I've not got a religious background at all - my dad's side of the family's probably squarely what would fit in the definition of agnostic & my mum's side of the family, as victims of religious extremism in their home country, are basically big on being anti-religious. My mum's side of the family definitely have shaped my belief that when you see people pushing these cultural values as cornerstones of political thought... it's a big red flag. It's sort of antithetical to having a free society, trying to control how society behaves and operates to fit a political ideology that's rooted in religious traditions. The religious right wing in every country, regardless of the religion and regardless of the country, are always the scariest group of people. They're almost all universally fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are not people that believe in compromise and they aren't tolerant of people who think differently to them. That sort of extremism isn't really compatible with the idea of a truly free democracy.

I root for him every time he candidates, and every time his own party throws him under the bus.

Well thinking aboutit,3 of the 5 value groups were: - christian/judeo moral value system - nuclear family - community of people Might be it's because I left the church after having been on a catholic school, but in my ears this combination has an unpleasantly fundamentalist sound.

He is the son of Joey Guðjónsson, who was an important player for Burnley, Leicester City, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers during the 2000's. He also played for Huddersfield Town during the 2010 to 2012 seasons. He retired as a player in 2017. His son Isak Bergmann Johannesson looks like a very promising player. Still only 20 years old, but is already an important player for top Danish side FC Copenhagen. Furthermore, he already has 19 international caps for Iceland and he has scored 3 goals for them, making his international debut at only 17 years old. Not a bad feat for the young midfielder. I can't say that I have seen him play much, but the fact that he is a regular for both FC Copenhagen and Iceland at only 20 years of age, suggests that he could be a very promising signing for Dusseldorf.

He's vital to Spurs, i don't blame Levy for not selling

Each week will run Tuesday to Monday due to football being the dominant pick and Monday night football being a thing here and Europe.

I always had that feeling that Kane would leave and then Spurs would come up trumps and win something, looks like Spurs won't win nowt this season if he stays.

Correct. It’s what I said all along. They will have known that too. Levy won’t be bullied on this one. If they want him that badly then they will need to just pay the fee. 5 days to go and then I think it’s all over one way or another

Shows the German efficiency that you never hear of German duds being found in Britain always the other way around.

No idea, still seem to remember to having read somewhen it was the 3rd most used airplane route from Saarbrücken Airport after the Berlin, and Hamburg ones. Can't get my head around so many people being that spoilt they prefer to travel this small distance by plane although the bus transfer is cheaper, more often daily and even faster, if you take the check-in and out time into account.

We do Saarbrücken-Ensheim, it's even an International airport since it seves regularly lines to Palma, Antalya, Vienna, and - wait for it- Luxembourg! The last one is ridiculous, since an car travel to Luxembourg City lasts about an hour, and even the bus line that serves this route about 10 times a day takes only 1 and a half hour.. So this connection is absolutely environmentally sensible!

@Tommy @Rucksackfranzose please do whatever small thing you can to voice your displeasure about this news to the German government, because it's a pretty foul thing for a big western corporation to be involved in.

He's not really in a political party though - he's officially an independent. He runs as a democrat when he runs for president because it's the only party that would take someone like him on a national level other than the green party, and the green party in the US isn't the same as it is in other parts of the world (promoting weird conspiracy theories, not really pushing environmental causes - it's kind of a scam tbh). And he caucuses with the democrats in the senate because the republicans are nutters. So it's not that surprising because most of the democratic party are just what the UK would consider tories - and his policies are pretty far left for what tories would find acceptable. He's a victim of there being no real left-leaning party in the US and the corporate media having so much power over the 2 political parties that actually have a chance.

Apologies for being awol for so long, I had to deal with a few health niggles and then I was completely blindsided by the news that my Father had been fighting pancreatic cancer for 8 months and hadn't told me. Two weeks after I was informed he died. Literally 36 hours after I saw him for the last time. So all in all 2023 has been a bit of a mixed bag. I'm hoping to be more active and even resurrect Mafia Wars.

Pfffftt