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The SC five is a 'We won WW2' club. Germany can economically surpass China and military Russia but never will be given a permanent seat. The original candidate for the fifth member was Brazil but Russia China objected it being close to US and possibly be influenced by it. So they agreed to have a fifth member which mostly will be silent and gets along with really no one so they picked France. That's why you occasionally see France taking a different stance to US. Not joining Iraq war, recently clashing with them over submarines to Australia etc The question is, is it genuine or an act given to them ?

Viva's Köln 0-0 Mainz forecast was the only perfect score predicted this matchday. Matchday 14 1) Viva la FCB 7 points 2) Tommy 6 points 3) Coma 5 points 3) nawoo 5 points 5) Bluewolf 4 points 5) Michael 4 points 5) Rucksackfranzose 4 points 5) Stan 4 points 9) 6666 2 points 9) CaaC(John) 2 points Two more players jopin the 100 points club. Table after 14 matchdays 1) @Tommy 113 points 2) @Stan 101 points 2) @Viva la FCB 101 points 4) @Coma 96 points 5) @Michael 95 points 6) @6666 89 points 7) @Bluewolf 84 points 8- @CaaC (John) 82 points 9) @nawoo 79 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 77 points

The shared matchday winners soring 4 points each, and over half of the participants even scoring 0 points. This has been a downgrade compared to our former worst matchday. Matchday 16 1) Stan 4 points 1) Viva la FCB 4 points 3) Rucksackfranzose 2 points 4) CaaC(John) 1 point 5) Bluewolf 0 points 5) Coma 0 points 5) Michael 0 points 5) Tommy 0 points 5) nawoo 0 points No changes wort mentioning. Table after 16 matchdays 1) @Viva la FCB 104 points 2) @CaaC (John) 94 points 3) @Michael 86 points 3) Rucksackfranzose 86 points 3) @Stan 86 points 6) @Bluewolf 84 points 7) @Tommy 82 points 8- @Coma 81 points 9) @nawoo 73 points 10) @londonerlilie 48 points

I heard Z4dane

That's excellent . Ignore Stan, he's constantly on his period these days.

Here is a gift for the 20 years of this community. Blast from the past for everyone here. Enjoy lads, beers for more. @Stan @Tommy @Cicero @nudge @Rab @Spike @SirBalon @Honey Honey @Dan @Batard @Dr. Gonzo @Whiskey @DeadLinesman

Yeah I have to admit, the UN might well do something useful if there's a fracas between a couple of smaller countries in Africa, but when it comes to bigger conflicts it seems to be in a worse state of gridlock than the US Congress, and that's saying something

The more you find out about the UN security council, the more you find out how ridiculously it's set up. The 5 members with veto power are UK, USA, France, Russia, and China. UK & France rarely veto as they only want to secretly be cunts. The other 3 can't stop vetoing. Their interests aren't aligned and they don't necessarily care about people dying in order to protect those interests and that seems to always get in the way of their peace keeping. 5 countries who don't have the best history in international politics either so of course they want to be viewed as the judges of international politics. Best way to get away with everything. It also says a lot about how bad guys are the only ones that can keep other bad guys in check in international politics. These countries being experienced war criminals is why they were able to beat Nazi & friends.

One winner for the latest round of matches... Game 77 had a 27th-minute first goal: 2 points While Game 78 had an earlier first goal, 7th minute: 3 points! Table after Game 78: @Bluewolf remains in 3rd but is now level on 16 points with @6666; whilst @Dr. Gonzo goes up two places to join 3 other players on 11 points.

40% of UK Muslims wanting Sharia Law in the UK is still fucking disturbing and shocking. I’m the son of someone who was sent running from living under an Islamic theocracy. Iran wasn’t a free country, but it was a hell of a lot more free than it would become after 1979. A lot of people’s lives changed for the worst, a lot of people got arrested, tortured, and/or killed just for political views. They made pop music illegal! They even had to control what kind of entertainment people could enjoy! A lot of families from Muslim countries that fled the places where extremists pushing their insane views. For 40% of them to want that same kind of shit brought to the UK is nothing short of insanity. There’s nothing wrong with the sample size either. If there’s 3.9m Muslims in the UK roughly (that’s what Google told me so it could be wrong I just went with the first # I could find quickly to save time), if you want a survey with a 95% confidence interval - you’d only need a sample size of about 395 for a population of 4m. Obviously that doesn’t mean there aren’t other flaws in the methodology for the survey. But sample size isn’t one of them.