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After watching the Gloucester goal, we really need to cut out the stupid passes, having said that I’ve been saying it all season. (And every season for more years than I care to remember.)

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The thing is that Premiership clubs,or even Championship clubs, rarely put out strong sides until the later stages of the FA cup. What’s their gripe?

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sufctickets offline at the moment, hope it’s sorted by next week.

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I have, my town, my team.

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Ironfan wrote:

I didnt know they’d had a man sent off until I got home! Anyone know what it was for?

No players sent off, just both assistant managers, handbags in the dugout.

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Then we get a mealy mouthed response from Avi Hyman, but then we should be used to getting an abdication of responsibility from the current government.
The trouble is that some people will use it as a license to act on their antisemitism.

Israel has a responsibility for Jews around the world, to act responsibly. As do we, the Americans, Russians, Arabs and all others with their own diaspora.

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For those grumbling, take a look at the 1982 England kit.

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Puritans, our very own Taliban.

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And for all you pensioners, who have contributed to NI for 40 years and now don’t need to, this is the future.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/07/income-tax-likely-to-go-up-if-national-insurance-scapped-hunt-suggests

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Now here’s a thing, Hunt has pinched Labour’s idea of using money from the abolished non dom tax status and is to allocate it, not on Labour’s plan, but elsewhere. Who loses out?
The Tories will lose the next general election but are now embarking on a scorched earth policy to scupper any Labour plans.
Return of the “nasty party”.
(Or did they never go away.)

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Didn’t pick his nose or scratch his armpits.

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They’re not on their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/netanyahu-rejects-gaza-ceasefire-deal-and-says-victory-is-within-reach-israel

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Just Iron wrote:

Maybe you’re on the path to proving yourself to be the ‘right’ kind of Christian Iron Age … one that doesn’t rattle Gurney’s cage too much. Not like those of us ‘deplorables’ who have differing views to him and, in so doing, have failed to recognise the profound level of self awareness he consistently manifests and the total lack of any self delusion. He asks us all ‘What would Jesus say?’ I suspect he thinks that it would be something like : ‘ You committed the unforgiveable sin. You failed to recognise the profound depth of Commissar Gurney’s wisdom, insight and love for all. Kneel before him, repent and await your instructions.’

Are you my judge?

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I have to admit that I don’t understand some of the comments by so called Christians on here, I have, in the past, invited them to research the thoughts of the Christian communities in Jerusalem and Palestine but no response.
The truth is that most Christians there are Palestinians and they are treated no better than the rest, even those that declare themselves as atheists.
As for the free market, we can only look at the Irish potato famine and the opium wars to see how that worked.

How about that coming from a Christian?

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Truss lacks any sense of the ridiculous. She and those like her are full of their own sense of entitlement, and seek constant admiration to bolster their egos. They have 0% self-awareness, but 100% self-confidence and 100% self-delusion, so they just blunder on arrogantly.

There are lots in public life, Trump, Johnson, Farage… and to some extent it has got them where they are today.

But another thing is the way the religious extremists on here align themselves with the far-right. This is odd, but digging into it, it’s quite logical.

For them, social divisions are part of a wider battle for Britain; one of Christianity v Islamism.

You can see the fear of Islam in their posts. Remember all the Brexit propaganda from Les and the jonnies about an impending Turkish invasion? And the links to far-right websites? JI telling us ‘we’re at war’, as well as the lunacy of BPG’s videos.

For the extremists on here and elsewhere, their religion is a symbol of identity, allegiance, and insurance for an imaginary afterlife. It’s a passcard to paradise. It’s an intense, cultish subscription which is almost impossible to drop or change. They didn’t choose it, it chose them, and giving up would be like giving up football for tiddlywinks, or worse, like an Iron fan becoming a Mariner!

Despite the ridiculousness of all this, rational argument, evidence and facts have no effect, so all the political extremism of the far-right seems justified in order to ‘save’ Christianity.

It’s reinforced and made worse by right-wing politicians and news sources which play up division and lay it on thick in the cosplay of culture wars, to distract the public from calamitous state of everything at present. It worked with Brexit, just, but it won’t again, as the next election will show.

But the oddest thing seems to be the tendency now to talk about Europe v Islam, when a few years back we were being told about the ‘evil empire’, and how those nasty foreigners were responsible for all our ills! Now it seems the great nations of Europe are our allies! Rank hypocrisy or what? What would Jesus say?

Change a few words here and there and this could quite easily be classed as an antisemitic or islamaphobian rant, or even racist.
Your views are your own and you are entitled to them.
But don’t put all Christians into the right wing group, there are plenty of us that aren’t. Not all Christians belong to the evangelical right wing fundamentalists.
Fundamentalism comes in many packages, Christians, Jews, Moslems, politics and yes atheists.
It’s the belief that one is absolutely right and everyone that disagrees is absolutely wrong.
If you think that Christians are completely against Islam or the Palestinians just look at the churches in Jerusalem, Roman, Anglican, Orthodox and Armenian and see what they are saying, it might surprise you.
The trouble with the right wing evangelical Christian fundamentalists of America is that they don’t represent the wider Christian world.

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The Mail? GB news?
Don’t be led by those imposters.
Add to them with The Telegraph and Express.
These are campaigning “news outlets”.

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It’s not completely out of the question.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/06/yitzhak-rabin-assassinated-at-peace-rally-israel-1995

Also the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi Arabia, our great ally, quickly forgotten.

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Would that be St Peter?

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I’m not actually getting at you siderite, it’s just a general observation. As soon as anyone makes a negative comment about the powers that be in Israel they are accused of antisemitism, Netanyahu is very adept at using this.
Without adding to any conspiracy theories I actually do think the people in southern Israel were not served well, and from what I’ve seen, many of them think so too.

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64 wrote:

I think the Herod in the bible is just an antiseptic trope, bearing in mind he was written after the supposed death of the Christ character.

“Antiseptic trope”. I liked that one.

Herod the Great, son of Antipater who was an ally of Julius Ceaser, friend of the Romans. Not a popular leader to his people.

My point still stands, is it antisemitic to criticise anyone in power in Israel?

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64 wrote:

Round em up then kill them,very efficient,where have we seen that before?.Notice how the right wing press again begin to call critics,”antisemites”?

Would it be antisemitic to criticise Herod the Great for the slaughter of the innocents?

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You need to change your YouTube settings.

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I do wish he’d stop picking his nose though.

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Oops.

https://www.scunthorpe-united.co.uk/news/2024/january/update-on-scarborough-athletic-away-clash/

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It’s gonna be a tough match and I would go so far as to say, if Tamworth win this I think they’ll go on to be league champs. They just keep winning and with that record, would be deserving of the title too.

Reminds me of *that* game against Oldham in 2007. We were neck & neck with them going into the game and that late Oldham equaliser, against our 9 men, with all the injustice of that match, really felt like a huge blow for our promotion hopes.

Yet fast forward to the end of the season and it was Oldham who never really recovered. They only got another 27 points in the final 20 games of the season, meaning we finished 16 points above them.

It just goes to show that, important as tonight is, nothing is decided in January.

Cleveland sent off, for goodness sake, hardly a dirty b******

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THE OFFICIALS

“The referee will be Melissa Burgin, while his assistants are Stephen Birkett and Sam Bayley.”

Gender recognition?

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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye.

Fifth of the Millennium series which started with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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Agree, my back lawn is unplayable.

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Awaywego

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I’m afraid we set a very bad example with our bombing in Iraq an Afghanistan trying to create a “new world order”.
It doesn’t work, it has never worked, and now everyone is at it.
We live in dangerous times. The world needs peace.
I noticed that Netanyahu is enthusiastic about a Trump presidency.

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