Dr. Gonzo

Tbf Kane is obviously not the problem with Bayern Munich this season. But fuck me, it's hilarious he went there and then their streak of winning titles dries up.

Did you ever play Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator back in the day? It was like their regular flight sim games, but WW2 in Europe. I fucking loved that game - I'd love something modern day that's similar to that.

Yeah there's no equating the two at all. And I say this as someone who fucking absolutely hates everything about Man Utd & Ferguson. United got lucky in that the time where Ferguson took them to the top was when TV money really changed the game. And the top 20 sides in the country at the time deciding to break off from the football league to form the premier league to really whore out clubs for that TV money are more to blame for United's period of dominance and the wealth they built by being successful at that time. It's unfortunate it was Man Utd who were that club that got to experience that "right place, right time" moment - but that is absolutely nothing like the UAE turning Manchester City into a tourism and business investment advertisement for themselves while breaking every financial rule they could to dope up the club's finances like Pep Guardiola playing in the Serie A.

Action-adventure with diplomacy and politics would either be really cool... or really boring depending on how they implement politics.

I'm pretty sure I was just 17

It's a strategy game... and it's Paradox games so it's a "grand strategy" game - but you should check out Stellaris, might be something you enjoy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellaris_(video_game)

A game where you hunt down Pep Guardiola and other bald cunts (referees/PMGOL workers) from English football. Capture them and train them to fight each other, like Pokemon. Bald Cunt Fighting Club is what we can call it.

Special place in hell for you mate

Nunez, Diaz and Gakpo… don’t give a shit if we keep them or sell them. But if we keep them, they should be squad players coming off the bench. Doesn’t really matter though because next year it’s basically nailed on we’ll struggle big time. Whether or not we’ve got those 3 expensive attackers Ward signed when we needed midfielders. Truly a wonderful director of football lol. It’s part of why I’m so gutted how this seasons ended. It was a good run to unexpectedly be in a title race… but I do think that it’s a bit of “now or never” in that I think we’re going to struggle for a bit in the coming years. But shit, no wonder Klopp’s running out of energy watching finishing like that.

We would not score 5 on another day… have you seen the state of our attack? We need about 40 chances to get a goal.

Bottled our season in a week. I guess I should just be happy we were better than I thought we’d be this season, but I’m gutted. It’s the hope that kills you. Ah well, a lot less pressure for the rest of the season. I think maybe Danns and some of our other kids should be getting on the pitch with the form our attackers are in. But I guess we’d want to keep the value of some of these duds as high as possible before the summer window.

@Rick are all of the signings of the Julian Ward era flops?

Pretty sure this season is just part of a grand conspiracy to get me to hate football.

A landmark 1997 study by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Northeastern University found that animal abusers are in fact five times as likely to also harm other humans. But Mr. Foreskin here says it’s alright for people to kick cats, Zouma did nothing wrong. Dunno why I’m surprised you took “people who hurt animals should be treated seriously because they can turn out to hurt people” into such a ridiculous thing but… lol yeah I’m not surprised. I dunno how you simply can’t accept that Hamas are also oppressors of the Palestinian people. When was the last time they allowed an election? What do they do to people who disagree with them in Gaza? Who does Hamas take orders from? Hamas aren’t absolved of all agency just because Israel oppresses Palestinians too. Their human rights abuses towards both Israelis and Palestinians aren’t suddenly wiped clean because Israel retaliated. If it’s like a slave revolt, it’s a slave revolt where the slaves allowed to live in the master’s house kicked things off, only for the slaves who toil in the fields to feel the brunt of the response. Now if you want to blame Israel for Hamas’s stranglehold on Gaza… sure I am with you 100% on that. Netanyahu pulling an America and funding a terrorist group to torpedo any idea of a two state solution has really backfired for Israel. He ultimately created a proxy for Qatar and Iran to exploit. But atrocities should be blamed on the people who commit them. Kids in Israel, Gaza, or the West Bank… or anywhere in the world… don’t deserve to get slaughtered for any reason. Israel bombing refugee camps, mowing people down when they’re receiving food after weeks of being starved (by the IDF)…Hamas kidnapping and raping civilians… they’re all atrocities. Rather than try to justify or minimise any human rights violation, just condemn it. Don’t pretend Hamas have done Palestine any favours by bringing more death to Gaza’s doorstep. Don’t pretend that this war expanding to include other countries leads to anything but more suffering spreading. Look at those Filipinos Iran captured yesterday… what is the justification for taking them off that ship and not letting them go? Because they work for a guy who was born in Israel? Is that also justifiable - these guys just wanted to make money to send back to their families. Now they find themselves prisoners in a war that they aren’t really a part of. I think it shouldn’t be so difficult to condemn things that are easy to condemn And you know how Israel fights. You know I know how Israel fights. I’m pretty sure we both suggested on Oct 7th that the way Israel would respond would mean Gaza as it was known to the Gazans living there would be destroyed to the point of nearly being unrecognisable. We were both right on that count. So surely you can see how this war hasn’t really done much to ease the suffering and oppression of Palestinians. And the way Israel fights, I’m not sure spreading war does anything more than spreading death and suffering. And when all of this is over, I hope Israel pays to rebuild the Gaza they’ve destroyed and don’t see this as an opportunity to turn Gaza into West Bank 2.0. I think Israel’s absolutely going to use this war as their opportunity to occupy Gaza though when all the dust settles though.

Thanks. I’m optimistic as well but you never know with escalations in a conflict different to anything we’ve seen in the conflict before. I hope it doesn’t spill over into a full blown regional war.

Meanwhile, I now have to worry about if Israel’s response to this drone attack means my nan might have bombs drop on her. Thanks a lot Khamenei - you’ve got first hand evidence from your proxies on how Israel fights wars and you want to bring that to Iran’s doorstep? Absolute shithead, as if starving the country to funnel all that oil money on this stupid war was bad enough. Now he wants to risk a war with the US and Israel. Guess he’s really betting on a war being a distraction from people taking to the streets demanding basic human rights again.

Honestly mate why don’t you stick to what you’re best at and defend animal abuse instead of worry about things you don’t understand

He doesn’t view any Israeli as a civilian. Even babies are fair game in his eyes.

Depends how you define fire first. Iran and Israel have been in a Cold War for decades now. Hamas is a proxy of Iran & Qatar, but Hezbollah is a distinctly Iranian proxy that the IRGC basically has total control over. Like with Israel v Hamas, there’s no real “good guys” in a war with Iran & Israel. Just a lot of unwilling participants for a war that really only suits the 2 terrible leaders of the two countries.

The IRGC are oppressors of the Iranian, einstein. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out why an Iranian might like seeing less of them in the world. Also doesn’t take a genius to see why Iranians wouldn’t want to go to war for the people who took to the streets and celebrated when Saddam Hussein invaded them and used chemical weapons on Iranians. But genius you are not, so I can understand why you struggle to comprehend.

I like how I’m now suddenly super pro-Israel in this headcase’s eyes because I don’t think Iranians should die for his cause lol

Unlike you I’ve not taken a side between two bad actors. Unlike you, I’ve condemned both Israel and Palestinian leadership. Because you can only see the conflict in black and white you’ve just given a simplistic narrative to any viewpoint that doesn’t fit in with the bullshit worldview you’ve bought into. You on the other hand cannot bring yourself to criticise terror groups that call for globally wiping out all Jews. If that’s what you stand by, don’t get indignant when it’s called out. You can justify rape and kidnapping as legitimate resistance. There is no room for nuance with you. There is no critical thinking going on in the head behind those eyes. From the comfort of your home in the capital of the country that is most responsible for the state of the Middle East, you call for more bloodshed to whet your appetite. It’s absolutely vile.

https://apnews.com/article/33fcffde2d867380e98c89403776a8ac well looks like our resident warmonger will be pleased

It’s something that can be corrected but generational change isn’t something that even “strong leaders” can easily implement. For Israel it means at the very least getting back to a political sentiment the country really hasn’t had since the 90s - I think that’s pretty tough given the political climate since then. For Palestine that means having leadership that’s really unlike any leadership they’ve had since… maybe the Ottoman Empire(?) or maybe ever. Neither of those are all that realistic - especially when you consider what @Rucksackfranzosesaid. Most leaders that try to demonstrate strength are the exact type of leaders that think compromise is weakness. For this conflict to be settled, you need both sides to have leadership with a strong appetite for compromising towards reaching a lasting peace. There’s quite a lot of people in both communities that don’t view the other side as fully human. These aren’t easy things to try to work through. And hoping for generational change anytime soon with the current tactics used I think is mental. We’re already seeing the foundation for the conflict’s next generation of extremists.

You get the first half of the year & I get 3 vetos, then we switch seats for the second half of the year.