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Does he not associate monkeys with racism, or did he just forget her African American descent? I had forgotten the latter too. Principally because I passionately do not care about the royal family or whom any of them are fucking. If he's in the same boat as me, I can see how he makes that mistake. If it's the former then he probably actually is a racist. Although at this point, no one should ever use monkeys for humour like this. It's not worth the risk.

The end of the era of Spanish dominance seems to be upon us. Back to the PL it would seem - the TV money talks after all. Was reading through some of the comments on a Barcelona forum and they were absolutely scathing about the team and manager. And in fairness, they're a shadow of what they were - and that shadow only exists at all because Messi is still there (as much as I think that he, like Ronaldo, might be a bit of a flat track bully). I'll be rooting for Ajax to win the whole thing, but if I have to choose between Liverpool and Spurs, it's Liverpool for me. Can't handle Spurs, a team who were measurably inferior to us not long ago, winning a CL.

That was probably the best corner I've ever seen mind

Ok so, I hate Liverpool as much as the next non Liverpool fan. But fucking hell. Hard not to like them after that. Sheer determination.

Would be surprised if the "strong woman" character wasn't eventually made queen, so I'm going to assume she kills Jon in the end and the final scene is Sansa raising the armies of the North to attack kings landing once again, thus starting the whole thing all over again.

Really? It looked pretty fucked to me.. what makes you think it is? I'm starting to think she'll lose all of them tbh. Glorious death though.

Vaguely recall the Tyne Bridge and Quayside being used by Sunderland Uni to attract people to go there, so they're hardly in a position to judge.

I'm not entirely sure about Fish's endgame play for the episode but i still think the battle was fucking stupidly written. I mean it occurred to me in a conversation with someone else that, had Melisandre not lit the swords of the dothraki, they would have charged into the night with literally no ability to see anything, putting them on par with the viewers at least And her doing that looked like it was unplanned as far as the battle strategists were concerned. I could accept the dothraki charging blindly into the night as an act of breaking ranks if there had been evidence through the rest of the show that they have no respect for Jorah or Dany. I could accept Dany flying off into the night pointlessly as an act of grief at watching her army die for no reason if there was evidence through the rest of the show that she was weak and easily rattled. But it still doesn't explain why a footsoldier army stood in front of the trench intended to slow the enemy down (an enemy that they knew had greater numbers and which they wouldn't be able to stand against conventionally, but which had no ranged weaponry), thus having to sacrifice a huge number of its own to retreat over it and then hide inside the castle walls which any sensible tactician would have had the majority of them inside to begin with. Am open to 'logic and tactical experts' pointing out why this was a winning concept though It's not a case of a good plan falling apart as soon as battle starts, its a case of a dumb plan going exactly as you would expect it would as soon as battle starts with the exception of Dany being afk for half of it which was the only bit that seemed to be unforseen. I feel better now

Why has Keir Starmer suddenly gone all quiet on this as well? He's part of that negotiation as I understood it. What on earth have they said to him to get him to back down?

Erm... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/03/rafael-benitez-close-signing-new-contract-newcastle-manager-liverpool Sounds positive..? And I mean it's from Rafa rather than Charnley.

Aye that'll be the case. But it also means, incredibly, that the Tories will be returned to power. It's staggering. They're going to get away with it.

I mean, the only silver lining here is that eventually, they are going to be punished. Labour will be crushed at the next GE and Corbyn will have to admit that it's because he was fucking stupid about Brexit.

Agree. Unbelievable that anyone can look at these results and choose to ignore the reality. Admittedly it's a tough position because the fuckheads would have to admit the country is now fully split on this and there isn't any coming back together. But you'd still expect the bravery to at least call it what it is. I guess onto the Euro Elections now where we will see a similar result for the main parties with a perhaps more obvious split, and watch as they continue to do fuck all in responding to it.

I mean I'm assuming it must be a considerable number of independents tbh. I think this is looking like a good result for Remain.

Who are the other beneficiaries that are hidden under 'Other'

The fuck are you still up for? I've no idea why i am, before you ask.

I mean yeah, that seems pretty damning. Doesn't necessarily make it true though.. has the reporter advised it was Williamson? Presumably he will have to testify in a criminal case, so we would know in the end.

Has he been stitched up, as he claims? I wonder. Not sure about swearing on his children's lives btw. Obviously a meaningless remark in this day and age but still.

Gosh you're salty today

What is an NSM? N Senior Minister? And damn, prison huh. Staggering incompetence once again.

I mean, think how lucky we are for this Netflix documentary Any other football team supporters in the land, if they were given the chance to watch behind the scenes coverage of the misery of a second consecutive relegation for their rival club, followed by an abject humbling in League One, they'd think all their Christmases had come at once The fact that it's bought and paid for by Sunderland fans is just.. all the more incredible. "We'll pay for you to watch us burn". The darkest days in the history of their club, broadcast to the world. Amazing.

What is the big deal about the Huawei leak?

Based on what I knew about Corbyn and the extent of antisemitism at the time, I felt there was sufficient doubt. The first thing I've seen that is unequivocable is that damn book. The rest of this, I was happy to go with benefit of the doubt. As were many people on here. In fact I recall Gloom himself frequently stating that Corbyn wasn't an antisemite.

Yeah, I can see that argument now. Believe it or not my friend, prior to getting immersed in ToonTastic's review of antisemitism in the Labour party, I wouldn't look at something like this and see Jews. And I didn't. I saw something that confirmed my own biases. Illuminati style, world running rich people keeping everyone else down. Not apologising for that either, I really have never spent any time, prior to talking on here, thinking about or discussing the possibility of a Jewish conspiracy running the world..!

I'd hit this point over Brexit alone, but anyone who believes that there is a 'Jewish conspiracy' keeping everyone down instead of structural problems perpetuated by an unfair system, is clearly not going to be capable of addressing the main problems. Honestly I can't believe that this is the standard of politician we seem to have. I mean I never really thought politicians were intelligent, but I'd credited them with at least some level of rational thought. The one thing Brexit has delivered in a positive sense is to hopelessly expose the crazies on all sides now. There are precious few competent politicians left.