OrangeKhrush

very underwhelming

Arsenal must be licking their lips at playing Yanited this weekend

Hoping the Palace boys help us out and beat Yanited.

We control our own destiny now and we need to be looking to winning out the season.  It was incredible to see Pope and Joelinton back which is big for us in the run in.

I'm not sure why Lewis hall was not played more, he has been very good, I'm not sure on the reason why we waited so long to play him.

13 hours ago, 6666 said:

Hopefully one day countries that claim to be good aren't palling up with horror show leaders of countries like that of Saudi Arabia & Israel. Maybe those countries that claim to be good could start off by not having horror show leaders themselves and by no longer arming these psychos in their wars... Those dickhead leaders in Saudi are also trying to clamp down on criticism of Israel. Evil protecting evil.

And your last sentence applies to every religion when just judging by the book. Doing a whole "this religion doesn't, but the ones I identify with does" isn't the logic that works with anyone that isn't trying to feed their bigotry.

People, regardless of being religious or not, regardless of which religion they follow, can be progressive/conservative based more on how they've been brought, what they've learnt and who they've interacted with in their life. This is something that humans with at least an ounce of awareness know.

Also funny that you suddenly care about being progressive... Obviously you're not just playing that up to justify your bigotry. Hopefully you do care about unfair punishment of activists though and are against the mistreatment of the activists against Israel's genocide.

Iraq has just made homosexuality and transgenderism illegal and punishable by imprisonment.   We keep seeing flagrant human rights abuses in a region that simply care about western liberties.   

In 2020 turkey aided Al Bashir kill Kurdish opposition to Al Bashir, because Istanbul branded the Syrian Democratic Movement a terrorist group, this is while turkey actively supports ethnic cleansing of Armenians.   

Of course human rights abuses only become an issue when Israel is involved and the reason the power nations dont challenge each other is because if one goes down they will open the dirty laundry of others.   If israel is persecuted the so must russia, the US, UK, Iran, Saudi, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Yemen, Palestine, iraq, syria, china, north Korea,  Myanmar, ukraine and France.

Not to sound cliche but war never changes and will never change no matter how much you try make rules.

The symptoms of the turmoil seen to be the only thing people attach virtue to without looking at causes and solutions.  Ariel Sheron ceded Gaza to the PA under the intention of sustainable peace, since then attacks on israel have gone from decades apart to yearly, in that time has there ever been any semblance of fundamental human rights in palastine? The answer is no, so if they treat their own badly then what prospect is their for peace unless there is a fundamental shift in ideology of Palastinians.

Arsenal need to win out and hope city drop points, which is not looking great and between man united or Spurs, relying on either team is not a good way to hedge bets, man united are more capable of stunting arsenal than Spurs are of City, this is not the Conte first season Spurs that were resilient, this spurs team is more open than a porn star.

17 minutes ago, Danny said:

Dull game, 0-0. End of season stuff.

Saw the breakdown of teams with the most injured player time out,  you were behind us in second,   Brentford have had a torrid time this season with players missing. 

Anthony Taylor is an absolute prized chop,  in the end a dominant 1-4 win setting up a good run in.  Spurs have two tough games to come,  we have Man United soon so 5th is possible. 

Flipping between Fallout 4 modded to New Vegas style and using the series mods to add Vault 33 gear,  the tranquiliser gun and all the NV weapons instead of FO4. 

I have also finished Cyber Punk 2077

It is an interesting move,  a premier league proven player at a good age. 

0-3 up at Turfmoor playing some silky football.  Goals from Wilson, Longstaff and Bruno G

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-fitness-instructor-sentenced-11-years-prison-choice-clothing-and-activism

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is saying "Iran hold my beer" and sentencing women's rights activists to death or imprisonment, I dont see any protests in America about human rights but they sure as hell twerk for islam even though islam is completely incompatible with "progressivism".

On reading the Bill it doesn't make criticizing israel illegal, it clearly sets the parameter for what is construed as hate speech and what is free speech.  Referring to Jews as Zionists in the political version that has come up in the later 2010's so as to incite violence against Jews is pretty much a no no, frankly dehumanizing, demeaning and derogatory terms towards any group is hate speech not free speech. 

If the rules were reversed and Jews or supporters of Jewish rights said something about Palastinians or arabs they will be branded domestic terrorists and given 20 years.

I have said anti semetism transcends left wing and right wing, the left is self explanatory, but the right shows up religious nutjobs like Carlson, Knowles and the bible puncher brigade.

I have been talking about this for weeks now, there is a two tiered system, the reason why nobody goes after Russia after all their bullshit is because it will end up in dirty laundry becoming public, America, UK, France, Germany will all come under scrutiny so the idea here is to throw the little guy under the bus just to appease the mob.

It was 8 October and the world was running "if israel reacts it will be a genocide" line, it is made up, if israel wanted to kill every Palestinian they could but haven't,  Palestinians want to kill every Israeli but can't.   Genocide requires there to be a intention to eliminate a group entirely.  A UN former head of the ICC explained that the ICC did not state there was any proof of genocide only confirmed the risk in all out war.   

Have there been possible war crimes, it is very possible but there are war crimes on both sides, so palastine should be held responsible for their hand in it.

In the beginning of April a UN special council heard hundreds of mathematicians and statisticians provide issues with Hamas's numbers, it is important that Hamas lied about Al shifa bombing and the rape of woman so they have every benefit to lie, the data points used were found to be bogus, for instance every Male death is deemed on stats combatant deaths this is not true, palastine have over 3000 child soldiers(war crime), these are combatants not civilians,  Hamas cannot distinguish civilian from combatant deaths.  Needless to say that the deaths are high but it shows that there is a degree of control fighting an enemy that dresses like civilians (war crime) and fights inside a civilian populace (war crime).

I am very much for a free palastine but not one where extremists and there actions are normalized under this notion of resistance to jihad is bad.

Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3 AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS?

Leclerc

Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS?

1. Lecleec

2. Perez

3. Norris

Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Lando Norris.

4th

Bonus Question - Which driver will be the biggest UNDER-performer this weekend? (This will be judged by the driver who finishes the race below their championship position by the most places).

Stroll

12 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Tbh I think it's only common sense if a condition to the suspended sentence is he goes and gets into some kind of therapy treatment for gambling addiction. He's already serving a ban for gambling and he went ahead and... gambled again. I think he's very lucky to not be banned again. I understand addiction is tricky, but I'm not sure we'd see the same sort of leniency if it was a drugs issue he was struggling with and testing positive for cocaine multiple times a season... and drugs don't put the integrity of the sport into question.

He was cooperative in investigations which I think helped, he has gone through addiction treatment in the time he has been out.   

A suspended sentence is a sensible sanction 

Common sense prevailed

9 hours ago, Devil said:

Maintenance or not owning a property is an investment that can be profitable. I live locally to Manchester Airport so I've seen property prices nearly double over the last 6 years. I've sold two of my previous houses and made nearly 200k profit. I've also  converted my current houses double  garage into an extension giving me another room which I've converted into my living room. I had it valued last year five years after I bought it and it was valued over 100k more than what I bought it for. I haven't put it on the market to be fair but I could easily sell up now and move out of town and be completely mortgage free if I bought in an area house prices are more reasonable. 

All this will be left to my two children as well. 

So a little bit of maintenance shouldn't put people off.

That is true, we bought the home as an investment and not only in the sense of money but for the family, what will likely happen is my parents will take over the place when my fiancé and I move but it will remain within the family for hopefully kids, my sister has a 1 year old son and if they wish to move to the Cape to lay new roots there is a house for them.

I also stated above we exercised first option to buy the property which was well below market value and we have found out why, we have spent near 400k on renovations and painting since and there is still a lot we want to do but will have to plan it in steps before we immigrate next year. 

On 29/04/2024 at 12:39, Spike said:

Hahaha, that’s not even close to what I said. I can’t believe you would use Russia-Ukraine to downplay Israel-Palestine and even suggest that if one is a genocide so must be the other. Why not call them all genocides to make you feel better? 

I trust Norman Finkelstein’s analysis on both of these wars more than fucking Bill Maher or that neo-Nazi YouTuber you like to post.  
 

What are you even trying to say you dumbass? That Ukraine is a genocide, or are you just throwing a fit that people are calling Palestine a genocide? You don’t even know what you statements are, you literally just accidentally admitted that Israel is genocide Palestine.

You said its not genocide/war crimes  because Russia think Ukrainians are Russians.    You can carry out Genocide against your own,  Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che, Maduro, Assad just a few that have killed their own.    Putin is not afraid to kill others,  he has invaded Chechnya twice and carried out war crimes if not genocide.   He has also carried out the ethnic cleansing in nagorno karabakh in the end what is happening in Ukraine is war crimes but it is not even spoken about.   

Wouldn't stopping both conflicts be equally important. 

30 minutes ago, Spike said:

I know you can’t see anything, you’ve proved time after time that you’re walking blind through life.

You’ve literally called Palestinians ‘savages’ in this thread. Maybe you should start checking your own hate speech.

 

 

That was a reference to Hamas,  which they are,  they have killed their own,  they have killed Jews and they have killed Lebenese,  there preoccupation is Jihad. 

The biggest thing with ownership is not owning but the maintenance. 

City, Yanited, villa voted against with Chelsea abstaining, 16/20 clubs is enough to get it passed for the 2025/2026 season.    They are still determining anchoring rules. 

Currently 103m is the lowest commercial revenue, the current figure is 4.5x that. 

3 hours ago, Stan said:

Yeah it's one thing being debated - the top clubs will be able to spend freely like they have been. Can see it leading to more US and Saudi owners... 

FFP was preventing any owners wanting to buy due to the handcuffing it places on owners while ensuring the status quo remains,  this kind of forces big clubs to reduce their overheads to spend more,  it will stop talent going to one or two clubs and being spread around.   I think the EPL has some potential to turn mid tier clubs into contestants.   I can't see Everton having the finances to go all out on that 320 million but they could feasibly spend 200 million and build a team to take them back up the table. 

3 hours ago, The Palace Fan said:

Based on Kieran Maguire's projections on what a club can spend in comparison to last season you can see why the Manchester clubs and Chelsea voted against.

I am fine with it,  those clubs have had financial dominance for to long to feel sorry for them. 

I can't see anything wrong with Bill Maher calling out people that espouse hate speech.  Not all instances are but media has caught rampant hate speech on camera and it is inexcusable.  Calling them out is not moral high ground and given that bill Maher is a Democrat for life anti Trump I would say he is the most critical liberal of the bullshit on his side of the aisle. 

Yesterday a student leader for Columbia called for killing of "zionist" which is a call to kill jews, there are intefada chants, burn down tel Aviv, river to sea, preventing jews from entering campus, these are all latent cases of hate speech so good on Maher for not tolerating it

8 hours ago, Spike said:

Russia literally thinks Russia and Ukraine is one and the same people, how the fuck is it a genocide? I can't believe the shit people think up.

Jews are linked to palastinians, they are essentially cousins so does that make it fine? One could also say the entire region is eretz yisrael so therefore you can't carry out war crimes against your own. 

Keep plugging away Ivan. 

12 hours ago, RandoEFC said:

Oh I don't think anyone disputes that what Russia is doing falls into both of those categories. That's why nobody is talking about it, because it's an out and out imperialist invasion with no justification.

People have a range of opinions on Israel and Palestine which is why you hear more people accusing Israel of genocide and war crimes (I'm assuming this is what you're referring to). People mention this more because it's part of a debate.

It's a war crime and should be addressed and if people know and do nothing that is complicity.  

It is good to see the BBC finally come out and scrutinize the death toll in Gaza following the UN finding irregularity in the data in a sitting early April.  We see conflicts not painted by the same brush

5 minutes ago, Danny said:

Andoni Iraola achieves Bournemouth's best ever league position in the Premier League his first season, beating Eddie Howe and Gary O'Neil. On top of that he may well finish above Wolves this season.

Such a smart decision made by Bournemouth, will be interesting to see how his Bournemouth team develop next season, they play an entertaining brand of football.

Gary O'Neil would have done well if he wasn't forced out and backed.   He took over a wolves team that was in crisis after selling their best players and their manager leaving the post 3 days before the season started.