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Been critical of Semenyo in the past but he's been really bright today and a great threat. How can that ball flash across the goal with Martin, Weimann, and Wells on the pitch and not one of them is there?!

tafkarmlf = The Artist Formerly Known As Ralph Milne's Left Foot The one who went mad and GDPR'd the forum to permanently remove their posts from the forum when they ragequit a few months ago

Hardly another pasting at home if it's happened once this season. Thought you might have left this boring stuff behind with your old username

What a bunch of idiots who won't stop throwing things... pathetic behaviour

I think we've only lost a single game at home all year by more than one goal..?

Hudds third: https://streamja.com/740E1

Hudds second: https://streamja.com/wkB5L

Hudds goal: https://streamja.com/2zGKp

Some really sloppy passes from Atkinson this half.

I always knew O'Dowda was the problem

Yeah must admit I still half expected that pass to be travelling at chest height at around 70mph... perfectly placed and weighted though. All credit to him!

Penalty shout: https://streamja.com/307y6 Save by Bentley: https://streamja.com/bJPVB

City goal (Weimann): https://streamja.com/yN75o

I've decided not to go tomorrow as well. I've been pretty ill this week with some (non covid) cold/flu thing which people wouldn't appreciate anyway, it's a lot of hassle, and I don't want to risk catching it right before Christmas - especially as it's my first decent stretch of time off work with my partner and kid in months and months. I'll still watch it though (and probably clip the goals!) which is a nice backup.

"Oh dear" - oh dear indeed... You think the BoE cannot create money? So where did the £900 billion for QE the last few years come from? The money it used to buy the gilts? It created it. The government "borrowing" from the BoE is nothing like us borrowing money, at all. The BoE cannot say no to a government request for money for a start, and the goverment's overdraft is limitless. If you borrow money under those terms please tell me where from! If you're interested, give this a read: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf

The BoE, as you know - which has to create and give it as much money as it asks for, whenever it asks for it.

Wait, where do you think the government gets its money from? They literally do have a bottom-less pit filled with money they can dip into at will and never have to pay back. Of course it'd be mad to do so blindly for other reasons, but they (in theory) could do if they wanted to.

Isn't it a good think coaches are now more in tune with how to get the best out of players, rather than relying on a bloke in a tracksuit with a paunch screaming at them from the touchline while they try and run off their hangover? Is that going to war...? Makes total sense to me that some need a soft approach, some need a kick up the arse - they are human after all. I expect even the great managers from the past knew that as well. Oh, and no idea what coaching has to do with social justice now either, but hey ho!

A few do, out of the millions and millions that don't and are very quietly forgotten. I'm struggling to think of anything even approaching this scale though - that's the problem with a conspiracy. People are pretty useless! It's just like when you read the betting threads on here and everyone is up for the year, and the last few years too in fact. We've probably got about 100 forgotten conspiracy theories since covid started already!

But if you have no idea, the problem is you can and will point at anything and everything as some kind of step towards your undefined end state. I'm confused why all these countries would band together to do this, and why the companies/universities who make their money from healing sick people would want to reduce the number of people there are. Our government is pretty good at taking our rights away regardless if it wants to. Now if you said they have at times used this as a slight excuse to push other legislation they wanted through I might agree - but it's a one way process for me. They're not then making things seem worse to then get even more through. Again, if you think the above isn't a conspiracy theory, and you're not a conspiracy theorist, I suggest you look up the definition: "A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable" Check! "Conspiracy theories resist falsification and are reinforced by circular reasoning: both evidence against the conspiracy and an absence of evidence for it are re-interpreted as evidence of its truth,[8][12] whereby the conspiracy becomes a matter of faith rather than something that can be proven or disproven." Check! "Conspiracy theorists see themselves as having privileged access to socially persecuted knowledge or a stigmatized mode of thought that separates them from the masses who believe the official account" Check! It's word for word what you say. You need help - and I genuinely mean that. Don't fall down this rabbit hole too far as you'll never get out.

Main problem is imo that it's a lot easier to throw these claims out without a shred of evidence than it is to refute them, which takes time and in quite a few cases specialist knowledge. By the point you get there, they've moved on to the next thing anyway. Eventually they just land at some nebulous impossible to prove one way or the other point about "media fear" or "control" and think they've won. I have a real interest in reading about conspiracy theories and cults and how they form, and it's a super common theme. I think most people know few healthy under 60s are dying, but they also understand there's a bigger picture. I didn't bother responding as you admitted you had based your posts that the jabs would sterilize people off literally nothing. It's like me saying "I think the jab will at some point in the future turn everyone's index finger purple!". Totally meaningless. That's not free thinking. The irony of you posting that crap, which is incredibly emotive without a SHRED of evidence while whinging all the time about "the media" and "fearmongering" is staggering. What's the government agenda?

I'm a bit confused. Wasn't that just predicting that thanks to the jabs we'd hopefully be out of full lockdown by march which is basically what happened? The age groups were just from the first phase right as it says? Jabbing the rest was phase 2. I don't understand why posting almost a year old articles means anything. It'd be like blindly still starting a player every game now just because there were looking good in January. Things change as new info comes to light. You have to adapt. Picking one route and following it no matter what would be insanity, no? But the majority of the restrictions from when that article was posted (full national lockdown) were dropped for the last 9 months or so, so that's the opposite isn't it? Unless your point is that covid passes are now seen as more useful when the vast majority of the population can use them, compared to a few % back then.

It's futile, even thought it saves thousands of lives? Everything is a stall in life, that's just reality. I totally agree that the government need to get a handle on the obesity crisis in the country - but look at the fuss that was made around the sugar tax! What I'm saying is though we've needed something to have an impact now, which are the jabs. Maybe they do just buy us more time while we work out better, longer term solutions (OR decide we just don't bother any more!) Your point about being forced to eat a donut is interesting - literally no perhaps, but obesity does has a correlation with wealth. Due to lack of time, education, or willpower many people unfortunately choose the easiest route to get what they want - and it's incredibly difficult to change that. We all go through those periods in our lives There's a reason you see those people you mention gathered around spoons, and not around a fancy Clifton brasserie. It's an extremely complex issue!

Have the government already not collated a lot of statistics on who are most vulnerable, numbers per age group/race and so on? That informed the vaccine rollouts and so on I thought. I'm suspicious if they did produce it whether people would actually believe it personally. Just look at the arguments we have in here already.

I swear some people are being wilfully ignorant at this point. This has been explained so many times. But many people are scared of the flu. We put millions and millions into developing vaccines each year, which millions and millions take. In a particularly bad year it can have a huge impact on our health services as you're not doubt aware. Flu is also a lot less contagious, so is less likely to overwhelm our healthcare services. Flu is also a lot better understood, so is less of a concern. Maybe I'm missing your point? So you are against authoritarian measures like showing a smartphone app to enter a football match or wear a mask. But you would perhaps support the government deciding what we eat, exercise and so on? The problem is that you are talking about problems that will take years, decades to fix. They're totally ingrained in every part of our society - we need solutions NOW. So in amongst all your complaining about society - the sheep, the obese, the unhealthy, are you willing to add something to society or change your own situation by getting the jab or showing the vaccine passport?