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  1. The use of shadow in that painting is absolutely amazing. I remember seeing it a while ago and thinking how real it looked.
    4 points
  2. Week 32 Results Man City Women 3-1 Man Utd Women Republic of Ireland 0-0 Belgium Stockport 5-0 MK Dons England 0-1 Brazil France 0-2 Germany Charlotte FC 2-0 Columbus Crew Costa Rica 3-1 Honduras Everton Women 0-0 Liverpool Women San Marino 0-0 St Kitts & Nevis Italy 2-0 Ecuador Round-up Mixture of internationals and domestic fixtures sprung up some interesting results. And with that said, lots of praise for @Rucksackfranzose for getting 18 points which propels him up into the chasing pack, and into 5th place. And not only that, he was also the only one to predict the goalless draw in the Women's Merseyside derby. Next best were myself and @Tommy with 13 points. The latter capitalising on Nawoo not predicting and closing the gap to 2 points. @Viva la FCB closed the gap on @CaaC (John) to just 3 points.
    4 points
  3. @Rucksackfranzose @Stan @Michael @Viva la FCB @Coma @Bluewolf @nawoo @londonerlilie Your weekly reminder.
    3 points
  4. @Rucksackfranzose @Stan @Viva la FCB @6666 @Bluewolf @Coma @nawoo @Michael Your weekly reminder!
    3 points
  5. Light and shadows were definitely things that made Vermeer stand out.
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  6. At the bolded part: You're neither an Israeli nor living in Israel, so nobody asks you to do anything like this you mentioned.Know you're Jewish, yet while there are Jews like you, who aren't Israeli exist, there are also Muslim and Christian Israelis. Stop that equating the state of Israel with the Jewish community, it's outright wrong.
    3 points
  7. I don't care what they've done to be honest mate. Every day now is PSR, PSR, PSR. Almost daily reminders that this is the new football. Accountants, lawyers, yawn, yawn, yawn. I think the Premier League have shown beyond all doubt this season that they're in no position whatsoever to be pretending they can implement these financial rules. I can see where this is going now. Nobody likes VAR but it gives everyone something to talk about and, most importantly of all, it gets clicks. The more VAR drama, the better, because it gets people on social media shouting about "the worst decision they've ever seen" and more people are talking about the Premier League. It's going to be the same with PSR. Let's find another way we can introduce financial charges to a club so everyone can keep talking about points deductions and appeals and how stupid the rules are because the only thing worse than people slating the Premier League is people not talking about the Premier League at all. I'm sure Leicester have a case to answer just like Everton and Forest did but you can see how the coverage has changed since Everton initially got the 10 point deduction. Things that would have been dealt with behind closed doors are now a spectacle that has to be played out in public over the course of several months, several meetings, and rounded off with a few journalists leaking the result before it's published accompanied by a bunch of emojis. I'm convinced it's all deliberate. All this "Forest are expecting a decision on Monday or Tuesday at the latest and maybe Sunday" is deliberately designed to get people spending three days refreshing their social media pages and searching for information. It's telling now that the national journalists have increasingly started tweeting out minor updates that would have been a footnote in an obscure article in the past. It's all about the buzz. Football is so fucked, man. If the Premier League want to be viewed as a credible enforcer of these rules then they'll start making a dent in Man City's 115 charges instead of going after a team that's already been relegated from their league. Low-hanging fruit. Of course 115 charges are more complicated but that's all the more reason to get started ffs.
    3 points
  8. Results - Australian Grand Prix A broad mixture of scores this week, starting off with a 0 for @Whiskey who didn't make any predictions. Qualifying was more or less business as usual, with @MUFC the only person to gamble on someone other than Max Verstappen for pole position. Leclerc sadly blew his last qualifying effort leaving him empty-handed, with everyone else bagging 5 points for the usual VER pole. Also resolved on Saturday was this week's bonus question. Not helped by Ricciardo's deleted lap-time seeing him knocked out in Q1, nobody predicted a gap between him and Piastri of anything like the 1.5 seconds that Piastri had out-stripped his compatriot by come the end of Q3, so 2 consolation points go to @OrangeKhrush who predicted the largest margin of anyone. Onto the race, and wouldn't you know that it took until just the second race after we started predicting "top three without Verstappen" that this ends up being the actual top three in the race. The change in this prediction achieved what we wanted anyway, with a variety of Perez, Norris, Ferrari and Mercedes picks yielding a nice mixture of scores. Nobody predicted Sainz in 1st place, but 2 points each go to @RandoEFC, @Tommy, @Coma and @DeadLinesman for putting him elsewhere in their top three. Everyone predicted a top three finish for Charles Leclerc, with @RandoEFC, @Stan, @Tommy, @nudge, @The Palace Fan and @DeadLinesman all bagging 5 points for putting him in P2, everyone else picking up 2 - the only points of the weekend in @MUFC's case. @Stan, @nudge and @OrangeKhrush all distinguished themselves by rounding off their podium predictions with Lando Norris in 3rd, collecting them another 5 points each. The presence of Perez in everyone's top three prevented anyone from bagging the 20 points for a perfect podium. Finally, this week's random driver was Oscar Piastri at his home race. Nobody was bold enough to predict a finish as high as 4th for him, but @RandoEFC was closest with 6th place here so picks up an extra 2 points. Here's what it does for the standings: Three races in, defending champion @RandoEFC sneaks to the top of the standings with a 1 point lead ahead of previous leader @Tommy. @MUFC's poor weekend and @Whiskey's no-show this weekend see them propping up the standings. In the Constructors', a mediocre week for Mercedes sees them drop from 1st to 4th. Red Bull raked in the highest points tally this week but it's McLaren who sneak into the top spot in a close battle between them, Red Bull and Aston Martin. I'm going away tomorrow so I'll be posting the predictions for next weekend's Japanese Grand Prix this afternoon.
    2 points
  9. Tandoori chicken and leek pie. First time ever making a pie!
    2 points
  10. So our self proclaimed liberitarian shows their true colours. You're not a libertarian which would be unpleasant enough, you're indeed an authoritarian proto-fascist. Or is there a possibility to interprete that sentence in any other way than supporting oppression and withhold of liberty?
    2 points
  11. Jan Vermeer! The Girl with a Pearl Earring. I'm fascinated by it. It was painted almost 400 years ago, and she just looks like a girl next door you'd see at the bus stop any time.
    2 points
  12. Can't believe they kept Kovac on for so long. They have been awful for pretty much the entire season.
    2 points
  13. Start the thread mate, I don't want to re-write the words of @CaaC (John) - that's like going back and editting Shakespeare.
    2 points
  14. They were originally gonna use this flag:
    2 points
  15. I don't even like the royal family and I feel bad for her because she was clearly trying to retain some privacy, but a bunch of absolute morons online kept hounding her and making up ridiculous conspiracy theories so she had to come forward with the news.
    2 points
  16. Haha the gammons thinking they're the "silent majority" and being convinced that they've got a massive boycott on the go only for it to amount to about 20 people will never get old.
    2 points
  17. The global community wants to tear apart Israel? Since when? The so called Western states showed a lot of solidarity towards Israel, not only the US but also Canada,Australia ;Japan , and the EU. You were deluded, if you thought otherwise. If these countries would indeed do what they can to pull Israel apart, or had done so in that countrie's history Israel wouldn't exist anymore.
    2 points
  18. Everyone who gets upset about a fucking flag is a snowflake in my book.
    2 points
  19. I can't remember any outrage with the Team GB kits in the 2012 Olympics. Maybe it's those that moan about others being woke that are the woke ones here.
    2 points
  20. When I was a wee nipper if someone said "Its raining cats & dogs outside..." I would rush to the window looking out for cats & dogs bouncing off the pavement.
    2 points
  21. Has no experience as a manager, yet served as Freiburg's connection coach between youth and first team, whatever that job entails. Somebody, who played for Streich and was a long-time member of his coaching staff. Apparently Freiburg want to continue on their path. Wise decision, although Schuster will find it hard to follow in Streich's footsteps. Wish him all the best, would be great, if Freiburg carried on to be successful for a club with their history and financial means. Was tempted to say their size, but they've grown creditably in the last 10 years.
    2 points
  22. "DiSnEy WeNt WoKe NoW tHeY'lL gO bRoKe"
    2 points
  23. This would be hilarious. Radcliffe isn’t one of these “gotta be br’ish” types is he? They’ll end up with Steve Bruce at the helm.
    2 points
  24. They could, they don't have too, though. It's not like libertarian world of view would mean you are allowed to do what you want only, while everyone is allowed to do t what you want only. Regarding your third paragraph, you claim thhere equal blame in the past, yet you only expect the Palestinian side to accept it leads to war, when they vote how they please. How about expecting the Israelis to accept it will lead to terrorist attacks, if they go on, with illegal settlements and declaring whole Jerusalem their capital against International law? Asking because that is only applying the same logic to Israel you applied to the Palestinians, and it was you saying there's equal blame in the past? So it would only be fair to await the same concessions from both sides. Nothing about that from you so far. What you want isn't peace but totally submissing themselfes to Israel's arbitrariness.
    1 point
  25. Oh for sure. Iranian Kurds have been the amongst the most vocal and active in the human rights movement in Iran since Mahsa Amini's death (she was also a Kurd, weirdly). But yeah, the Kurds of Syria and Iraq (and probably many other parts of the Middle East) often find themselves ignored up until the West needs them for another misadventure in the Middle East... and then they are quickly betrayed and left to fend for themselves against groups that think they're subhuman and must be wiped off the planet. The strangest thing with me is the Kurdish groups that kill each other, even though they both want the same things but have different ideas of how to get it. So rather than work together and live with the difference of opinion, they do the work of those who hate the existence of Kurds and kill each other.
    1 point
  26. Can understand your feelings baring in mind you've got Iranian ancestry. Yet, I know what I write now is hardly a consolation, just imagine how betrayed by the global West the Kurds must feel, to name the first persons fitting in this thread that come to my mind when thinking about an ethnic group, blatantly forgotten by that part of the International community that can't stop to talk about human rights and the right of self-determination of peoples, whenever it fits their agenda.
    1 point
  27. Couple caveats, I dont heal the same and hangovers suck (maybe related)
    1 point
  28. @Pyfish @Rucksackfranzose @Bluebird Hewitt @Viva la FCB @Tommy @nawoo @CaaC (John)
    1 point
  29. Being anti-Jewish is okay and is freedom of speech. Being anti-Israel isn't okay and is antisemitic. That seems to be how conservative political coverage works in America. Along with how Republican politicians also think (or are bought to think).
    1 point
  30. Sticking it in here because there's most definitely an undertone of racism about it...
    1 point
  31. Could you miss every race and just watch the highlights?
    1 point
  32. All I've managed to glean is that the big, strong, beer-breathed flag shaggers who are known for saying things like "we could do with a good war to toughen up this snowflake generation" as if they speak with some authority despite the last world war ending 20 years before they were born, have seen the pink and purple bits and been reminded of the rainbows that have them waking up at night in cold sweats. Remember though it's the "woke brigade" that are snowflakes, offended by everything and need to be toughened up.
    1 point
  33. How many times do I have to explain what woke is on this forum? It blows my mind how many people misuse the word, and blows my mind even more that conservative types use it to dismiss things in the media that cause a cognitive dissonance with their own prejudices. How the fuck is a colour change woke? How? How is this incident indicative of systems of bias inherent in the American system against black people? Anyone calling this woke is ignorant, and anyone offended by it needs to get a grip on reality. Also go fuck yourselves, you’ve been defacing the flag since 98 anyway, grow up https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/england-played-no-st-george-cross-2969798
    1 point
  34. They've been very impressive today, we knew the talent was always there and now it seems like the team are functioning excellently as a unit. I know it's a friendly, but still they've been better than France so far and the 2-0 score-line is fully justified.
    1 point
  35. I remember being told that adding salt to water makes it boil faster... but I'm pretty sure that's not true.
    1 point
  36. Thanks. Had to change Sargent. Fucking Albon.
    1 point
  37. Rookie numbers. £10 returns £910. Have some of that!
    1 point
  38. So Alex Albon destroyed his car in Practice, leaving the chassis un-raceable. They don't have a spare chassis so they've withdrawn Sargeant from the weekend to give Albon his car. Obviously no right-thinking team would do anything different but that's some kick in the teeth for Logan.
    1 point
  39. This is where I'm at. I love football and I can't stop following Everton, but I'm not just throwing a tantrum when I say that the Premier League has now completely jumped the shark in my eyes. People can argue about whether it's corrupt, I think it is to be honest, because the governing body should be placing sporting integrity above all else and they clearly have too many conflicts of interest to do so. If anyone doesn't think it's corrupt then they at least have to admit that it's uncompetitive, and the way this PSR era of the Premier League is playing out, it's becoming clear that it's uncompetitive by design. I'm done with the Premier League but unfortunately I'm one of millions of fans who is held hostage by what a train-wreck modern elite football has become because my football club happens to play in this league. It's why I said above that I could find many reasons to be grateful if I ended up supporting a Championship club. At least it's still vaguely "real" at that level.
    1 point
  40. @Dr. Gonzo and @Spikeevery time there is a new post from OrangeKhrush
    1 point
  41. If we are talking about the true meaning of 'Nazi', then yes, it is absurd to call a Jew a Nazi. However, if we are talking about acts of evil, then the State of Israel is up there with other brutal regimes of the past. They have killed 30,000 Gazans in the space of 5 months, most of whom are innocent women and children. Hamas are equally evil with the barbaric acts that they have committed, but even they haven't killed 10% of the number of people Israel has killed in recent months. The biggest problem with the Israel-Palestine issue is that there are too many extremists on both sides. These particular people fully believe that their hate for the other is justified and it's their own religious beliefs that cements this notion in their minds.
    1 point
  42. Just finished up True Detective: Night Country (season 4) I really liked this one. A very different feel then the other seasons. Somewhat reminiscent of season 1 with the sort of supernatural feel, kind of like local superstitions going on. Jodie Foster was immense, her and her partner Kali Reis where both excellent. I highly recommend checking it out, it was only 6 episodes this time around. I dont know where I would rank it in the hierarchy of True Detective but Season 1 is still the gold standard probably and I dont think this was too far behind much like season 3.
    1 point
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