Rayvin

It's about sovereignty mate. You wouldn't understand.

That's essentially how they pushed Farage to the fore. They've long established this precedent. We have to accept that being 'impartial' apparently means impartiality with respect of opinions, not facts.

I really think the BBC are just trying to avoid being smashed under the directive of Grand Overseer Cummings. As I've said previously though, they made their bed in the election and now they can fucking lie in it.

And they say cheaters never prosper. Not that we'll ever know for sure I guess.

Inevitably

If he has been doping, what happens? Will he be stripped of his medals? Presumably sponsorship too.

I'll be disappointed if Farah has been doping. It seems that the period of British overachievement in sport was all a lie tbh.

We have several mackems masquerading as NUFC fans on here so don't worry too much. It took us about a decade (seriously) to conclude that essembee wasn't one, and was in fact just a Newcastle fan who loves to hate Sunderland more than he hates to love Newcastle. Which, when the teams are reversed, would put him in good company in Sunderland - hence our confusion. So anyway, welcome to the board. For the sake of my sanity, please note that Linton isn't Joelinton's last name. His first name is Joelinton and that's just what everyone calls him. And he's genuinely a poor player. We don't understand why exactly but we gave him a decent chance on here for some time. Bruce has played him in every possible game he could have, and he's just horrific. It's sad, we don't know what happened to the lad but he's just shite. Maybe in the next game you can point out some of the useful stuff he does cos I'm struggling to see it myself.

So is this the point where, as it becomes increasingly clear that Bruce is not actually doing as well as Rafa, those who malign the latter start finding a new route to apportion blame away from Bruce (since the "he has more points than Rafa did" argument appears to be a bust). We're therefore left with "Rafa left him a shit bunch of players". Bruce is an absolute waste of space. That's not his fault, most of humanity are in that boat with him - but let's not pretend that he's in any way comparable to Rafa Benitez.

I believe in their rights, but they're not the only ones, or indeed the biggest group, under attack. Nor is the nature of the attack particularly devastating. Pragmatism. Stop being an ideological purist

This is a good point. Trans rights seems to be one of the most toxic and divisive discussions in play. It's such a tiny fucking niche area that any Labour leader should just go with the majority view on it and leave it there. Yes to trans people, no to bathroom sharing. I don't agree with that personally but this is not a battle we can afford. We couldn't even win the immigration battle ffs, let alone trans rights.

I think we have to acknowledge that for the BBC, impartiality now means presenting all views as equal. It does not mean presenting facts or truth over and above opinion. As such, they're not journalists - they're opinion peddlers.

This is why it's all pointless, in a nutshell. These people don't care. They aren't remotely interested in the truth. They only care about the fact that they've been given license to spout their unrelenting bullshit across the country, and they're not going to give that up.

We didn't either - we outsourced HR to a separate company (which might be worth a look for you guys tbh - it wasn't expensive and they kept us right in terms of the correct processes etc). But if someone is threatening violence, that's gross misconduct. No arguments there.

Jokes aside, that is absolutely a sackable offence - report him to HR or threaten to raise a legal complaint with the company over work safety and he's gone. I once sacked a lad who responded by threatening to punch me and hammering his fist into his open palm like some kind of comic book bully. I had him escorted off the premises with a threat of police action. Daft bastard. Still, emotions run high at times like that so I guess it's forgivable. We had a separate lad who used to mutter about knifing people under his breath and I let him go as well, albeit for a few different reasons (the muttering itself was fairly constant, and without provocation or interaction with anyone else - needless to say it was alarming colleagues). I got one of the other managers to sit in on that sacking with me Tbf he took it better than the other lad, was no trouble at all.

Aye it is. At what point do we get to say that this is just standard for the BBC? This is how state owned broadcasters the world over operate, why should ours be any different?

I reckon Bloomberg could run him close too. Fight fire with fire, etc. I just think, unfortunately, that Bloomberg is an asshat.

Warren was meant to win NH. She failed and came third. It's hard to see how she comes back really unless Bernie actually pulls out or the centrists rally around her in desperation. But frankly, they'd pick one of their own for that.

How was that a deflection? I answered what you said directly with about as much detail as I felt it warranted - 'he doesn't look it'. If you want to go on to explain to me how the American public are ok with Trump being a borderline dementia patient but yet would be up in arms about Sanders having a heart attack then go for it, but personally I don't think it's a hugely relevant argument. They are going to lose no matter who gets it because the left and the centre will destroy each other in the same way they did under Corbyn. As such, I'm just going to enjoy watching the fireworks.

Ignore her. People like her think that drug addicts were once happy and fulfilled people who just woke up one day and decided to start a heroine addiction. And moreover, apparently she thinks they should just starve to death. We'd be better off entirely if people like her starved instead.

Well, he didn't look it. And let's be fair, Bloomberg is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. He actually was a Republican during the Bush era. He's also apparently homophobic, sexist, racist and all the other usual things, so quite how many of the young and woke are going to vote for him even if he does get the nomination is really not as clear to me as it is to others. All he has is money.

So this isn't going so well for Bloomberg he was destroyed in the Nevada debates. The only thing he has going for him is money. And yeah maybe that's enough but he's so devoid of substance that I really hope it's not. Sanders does not look 78. Or ill.

If any of those can be gained by acts of disruption against the government then tbh, that's a win-win.

In all seriousness I probably have to give that some actual consideration. And I guess maybe conclude that it just won't work out. I'm not sure yet anyway. I'll complain profusely if i have to, dont worry.