Dr. Gonzo

I don’t think it’s the fans fault Roma have been financially mismanaged & that the Serie A has really struggled to bring money back to their league, though? It certainly wasn’t the fans who sacked Mourinho after he’d taken them to multiple European finals, or who sacked De Rossi after 4 matches. I will say I think the Roma fans I know personally are a bit mental and a little over the top and probably some of their criticism of their owners is over the top. But they certainly feel a disconnect between the fans and the club’s owners. Although in 2024… probably most fans of top flight clubs can say something similar.

Mate if tapping someone on the face counts as that, throwing anything at the back of someone’s head should also count as the same thing. I’ve got no dog in this fight other than I hate Haaland and City, but I’m pretty sure if you copy paste the laws of football into ChatGPT and then ask if what Haaland did would get a red card, the computer would say yeah it’s probably a red.

It’s worse than calling referees stupid tbf. Players have been sent off for headbutts that don’t have any real contact and tapping players on the face ffs

Some good news though!

Yeah now Israel's moving away from discriminated targeting back to indiscriminate bombing campaigns. Guess old habits die hard.

Wait, why not? Surely throwing anything at an opponents head, particularly the back of their head, is excessively violent conduct?

I know some Roma fans who absolutely hate their current owners. Biggest complaint I’ve heard has been: they think they know football better than the people with football experience they’ve hired. I think they’re mostly just hated for how they shunned Totti though.

Mate don’t ever expect the refs to retroactively do anything against the UAE’s tourism project club. They’re not gonna want to restrict their opportunities for getting a payday.

Man City complaining about this shit is the funniest thing ever. Pep’s really built a team in his image - 0 self awareness.

These are the ones who own AS Roma right?

Hey look, it’s just like 1989 - South Yorkshire Police are absolutely useless and still stealing a living.

How's it indiscriminate though? Pagers and radios ordered by Hezbollah for Hezbollah leaders seems pretty discriminate. Two children getting killed as collateral damage is obviously sad because they're just children - but it seems miles and miles better than the way Israel's been fighting in Gaza. Pagers and radios also ordered by sepah (IRGC) also are pretty discriminate. Again though we're seeing an Israel that is willing to do what it can to limit how it goes after Iran and Iran's proxy Israel, without actually pulling Lebanon and Iran into a full blown war. I do think it's interesting the way Israel acts to counter Iran's direct interests of sepah & hezbollah compared to the way they seem to treat the people of Gaza - where they've not really demonstrated the same interest in being relatively restrained in their attacks and where schools, hospitals, refugee camps, etc. are all considered fair game. It actually blows my mind because technically Israel and Syria are still at war - yet they did much more to limit casualties of Syrians in all their attacks in Syria than they've ever demonstrated in Gaza. It's a violation of international law, sure. But this is a conflict where all the parties involved don't give a shit about international law at all, tbh... and if Israel's going to commit war crimes like this, it's 1000% better than committing war crimes by bombing refugee camps or opening fire on people waiting for food aid after a blockade. Honestly, I don't think anything changes for the Palestinians unless the Arab world actually unites around the Palestinian people, rather than relying on Qatar as the sole Arab government in the region that does anything for them and largely relying on the "power" of Iran, a country crippled economically with a host of domestic issues, as the protectors of the Palestinian people. And because the Arab states are largely western friendly dictator client states... it's not in the financial interests of the ruling class in most Arab countries, even Qatar, to actively have a unified regional movement in support of Palestinian human rights. When you've got most of the power players in the region sitting on the sidelines watching Palestinians slaughtered and they're unwilling to lift a finger because it might impact their bank balances... I don't think it's too surprising that nothing is really done about Israel's atrocities. The west doesn't care about human rights violations that aren't going to stop business and cash flowing to them - Israel's proven that, the Saudis have proven that, Qatar's proven that. Perhaps once the shackles of dictatorship are thrown from Arab countries we can see a better world. Or they'll go from one style of dictatorship to a different style of dictatorship lol and nothing changes for the better.

I assumed that was just a MI5 operation to make sure the most opinionated loonies could meet up in one place so it would be easy to monitor them

Over 1,000 bottles of baby oil found in his house when his house was raided.

Yeah, this. I don't think people being opinionated is very new. But people being able to type up their opinion, click a button, and have their views out for millions of people around the world to see is relatively new. I do think a lot of people have the idea that their opinions are so important that they must be shared with the world - and I'm not sure if that's new or not tbh.

I like the melee combat in it too tbh. A lot of fun, but yeah a lot less tactical than Gears games. Although the Gears single player was always a hell of a lot more tactical than the multiplayer where the meta is getting really good with your shotgun.

So I've recently started playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. I never played the first one. I really don't know anything about Warhammer 40,000, other than the band Bolt Thrower (shout out to @Happy Blue, because death metal) fucking loves Warhammer. I went into it with no real expectations. My friend who gameshares with me on Xbox (so we trade off who buys games) already bought it and had been pressuring me to play with him... so I got on it with him and at first I thought "this seems like a weird Gears of War clone with more focus on melee combat." And I still think a lot of my initial thought runs true - it looks, and feels, a lot like a Gears of War game - the biggest differences being less focus on getting behind cover & the melee combat is a lot better. But also... this game is so much better than I could have imagined before I first started playing. It's such a fun game, it's probably my 2024 game of the year honestly. There's three game modes: the campaign (which you can play solo, or you can play it coop with 2 other people), a separate PvE coop mode (that they're going to be adding more free content for), and a regular PvP multiplayer mode. Each of the three game modes is so fun. I've not had fun like this online in a long time - it reminds me of games from... a long time ago when multiplayer gaming was more consistently fun. And there's no battlepass. There's no weird shitty loot boxes. They have cosmetic DLC... but any additional story/gameplay DLC will be added as free updates. There's nothing groundbreaking about the game. It's just a good looking game with good gameplay, 3 game modes for all kinds of different players, that doesn't feel bloated with a bunch of extra crap that's designed to make you spend more money. I really like that and I wish more developers (especially bigger developers) would take a page from this game and just make something that is modern... but fun and simple, with a good amount of content for players, at a decent price.

Yeah we can wait and see, but whatever details Mossad reveals... they're going to be limited. Like they revealed that the assassination of the Hamas leader in Tehran relied on a few Iranians on the inside helping them out, and those double agents were safely taken out of Iran after the attack. I think multiple parties had to be involved. You don't get an attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon and the revolutionary guard in Syria done in the exact same way without someone high up at the revolutionary guard either intercepting communications from people higher up than him... or it's someone ridiculously high up that's betraying Khamenei directly. Perhaps the decades of neglecting Iran's domestic interests in order to fight a proxy war with Israel are now catching up with Khamenei and the regime. Now they're in a situation where their most valued proxy and possibly the most menacing element of Iran's foreign policy now looks absolutely vulnerable... having already basically burned another of their valuable proxies in Hamas, demonstrating they can't even keep Hamas leadership safe in Tehran. Looks like neglecting Iran in order to prop up terror groups now has them in a position is domestically in a bad place while the terror groups they support look more weak than they've ever looked before. All they've really got is the fact they don't allow for human rights and have the boot on the neck of the Iranian public & as long as black markets exist the mullahs and sepahis will continue to make money while the rest of the country has to deal with things like bread prices doubling overnight. This is possibly the weakest Iran has looked since Iraq invaded in the 80s.

In all seriousness, the fella saying "Chris Wilder, fuck off" and "who the fucks he?" is absolutely right

Spring > Autumn > Winter > Summer

I'm pretty sure Mossad doesn't coordinate with anyone, even allied nations. When they did an assassination in the UAE using faked British passports - the UK government was furious. It's not like the UK government and Israel aren't close... I'm pretty sure that's bullshit. The pagers and radios that have reportedly exploded are reported to have been purchased around the same time. The videos of the pagers exploding look absolutely nothing like lithium battery fires. I think this is just now scare mongering against western products because they want to push the dystopian narrative that any western made product might be a secret bomb & that it's better to buy shit made in China - and that pushes a certain agenda for two parties who would be more than happy to have that agenda pushed. Like most Mossad operations of this scale, I think it just indicates that they've got double agents and/or their own spies implanted in groups like Hezbollah and the IRGC & they're demonstrating how precisely they can hit at them as a means of saying "do you really want to keep escalating." Things like the assassination of the nuclear scientist with that robotic machine gun, an explosive planted in a secured compound to assassinate the head of Hamas, and now these explosive devices planted I just don't think are possible for Israel to pull off without some help from the inside.

I’m fairly certain the manufacturer had no idea - I think there’s no indication that Mossad asked for permission. If I bake you cookies after you order 12 cookies from me. I then send Tommy to deliver them to you, and then Spike bribes Tommy/knocks him out/does something where he has the opportunity to poison them…. and then poisons them and you eat them and die. Is that my fault for baking you the cookies you ordered or is that Spike’s fault for poisoning you without me knowing you’d been poisoned?

Sounds like Mossad intercepted the supply chain of an order made to Hezbollah. Seems like a good way to avoid your devices potentially blowing you up is to avoid being a member of a terrorist group.

There's so many ex-Chelsea players in this AC Milan side