OrangeKhrush

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. 

Wood should have slotted that home

Spurs came back really well, it was a good game from what looked like a 5-0 was on the cards.

If you have tried Fallout 4 but it has automatically updated to the next gen update and you want a roll back,  use this mod

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/81630

The next gen update breaks F4SE and Baka, until it is updated and you want to play version 163 it is the only way to roll back and disable the auto update.

once they are updated then it will be fine to update to new gen which comes with some nice freebies but absolutely no performance gains on PC,  seen guys with 7800XD and 14900KS's with 4090's barely getting 70FPS maxed. 

Russia have lost 23 SU34's in a month, they can only make 15 a year,  they are absolutely humiliating themselves.

The west is hoping that Ukraine with more toys will blunt Russia until the end of the year which is when Russia will hit its apex for munitions and thereafter need to turn down operations again.  Dealing significant damage will likely force a ceasefire as Russia cannot sustain a long protracted war. 

Russia has however stepped up targeting cities and towns with the civilian death toll over 100 000 but no genocide or war crime here apparently. 

Bill Maher dropping truth bombs, these people are not helping palastinians at all by promoting radicalists, if hamas goes and the ideology there will be absolute peace.   

More on the Iran/Israel tit for tat, information coming out that the IRGC wanted to cover up the story on Israeli drones.   Israel do not operate with long range FPV drones and the drones used are to expensive to risk over protected regions.    

Saudi Arabia, UAE confirmed a flight of two F35's broke Iranian airspace undetected through the Persian Gulf.  The F35 has sensors that detect radar detection systems used by SAM batteries, the IAF struck a battery of S400 air defence units without Iran even knowing it. The F35 and F22 remain the only genuine stealth multi role fighters in the world and a testiment to western power. 

The Russian SU57, production issues have rendered it pretty unusable and J2 unproven have larger RCS's than the F16 and Saab Gripen E.  Turkeys KAAN or F22 copycat is nowhere near operational capacity and it's performance is largely unknown, it uses the same engines used in the F16 which is not a stealth engine, turkey have pulled a Russia and designed the cart before the horse as they are still working on an engine, basically the stupid way to design something. 

10 hours ago, Stan said:

Not always like that. 

This season has been great, pitty that Liverpool have stumbled a little though the fight for Europa goes down to 12th place mathematically are still in the Europa fight although if ourselves and Yanited win next time out it will only be West ham and Chelsea in it. 

The bottom is still a good fight going. 

The premier league is the best league by far,  it is the final run in and there are still battles at all places on the log,  this leads to compelling football.

4 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:

This Chelsea team are wild. 4+ goals in 11 of their last 12 league matches. Includes a 6-0 win and a 5-0 defeat in their last two. Absolutely dominated this match and yet it's 2-2 and I wouldn't be surprised if Villa just nicked it at the end. A decent manager turns Madueke and Jackson into really good players in my opinion. Mudryk, however, still looks hopeless.

Villa absolutely melted. 

I am a big fan of Connor Gallagher,  he just seems a perfect fit for us.

3 goals a game conceded is something we will not see for some time

1 minute ago, CaaC (John) said:

Off topic but why is that ?

No alcohol during Pasach

1 minute ago, CaaC (John) said:

Lay off the wine  

Its a nice evening thunderstorm here,  absolutely loving it.   That nice ocean smell during a storm.    4 more days until I can have wine. 

1 hour ago, Dan said:

I have to hold my hands up on Anthony Gordon. Was quite critical of that signing when compared to Barnes in the summer but he's been fantastic this season. I'd have him at the Euros over someone like Rashford.

Another assist today taking his premier league tally up to 10 goals / 9 assists for the season,  he should pass 20 goal contributions in the league this season.    

His directness is useful to have at the Euro's

51 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said:

You posted that above 3 times buddy ? 

appologies,  i have a very bad connection