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I bought this Much prefer playing it on a handheld to sitting in front of my PC - can play it on the sofa or on my bed, etc. Will be great for air and train travel.

Aye I'm satisfied with the notion of them getting stuck in L1 for a while. I think the season after there's a chance they'll be put into administration though, since I don't know how they will prove to this third party that they can afford to pay back £90m or whatever it is.

I think the club will make enough money in the PL, and by being a tightly run ship in general by Ashley, that there should be enough for Rafa to spend going forward. It depends on what he thinks he needs, but it's hard to imagine him thinking that the club is going to (or indeed should be) spending £100m each season. We need to sort out a new contract for him this summer either way.

Holy fuck... Utterly pathetic stuff.

How do you know this...

A decent number of Arsenal fans think they should go for him. And also that they would have no trouble prizing him away.

#Trumpsavestheworld

Aye, we must be the team that boards across the country use as a barometer for absolute failure

Sigh

If the city of Douma was being successfully held by 43 rebels, then the Syrian army is a total irrelevance. I said "only 43" in the context of it not being a game changing number of rebel casualties, assuming indeed that any of them actually were.

And you guys thought chemweps was bad

I don't know the details on that to be honest, so maybe that would be why. Although I can only think they would be used as a morale breaker since they only killed 43 people.

Why would they even do it? They didn't need to use chemical weapons ffs, the whole West had already declared that they had won. That aside, if the processes are broken, we need to publically say so with the international backing of our partners. It is impossible for us to do that at the moment because we flout as many of these procedures as the 'rogue' states do.

I am aware that this happens, but it's no reason not to stick to formal procedure. What is the point in any of us even signing up to these conventions and treaties if literally no one is going to pay any attention to them? The Russians will just be able to turn around and say that we pay no more attention to these official bodies than they do. And they're right. What have those bombing raids even achieved? Have we crippled the Assad regime's ability to do it again? Or will they have moved everything they needed to another facility/arranged to buy them from Russia? If we're not going to bother with due process, what is even the point in us being in the UN?

I'm actually disappointed by how that went

It's interesting that she claims it to be offensive irrespective of whether a white person or a black person is using the word. Which I guess means Jay-Z will be arrested next time he enters the country...

Works for me, since it's a term they use to self describe

This is the culture the SJWs have pushed though. And for all people think they're harmless internet keyboard warriors, they do seem to be forcing their ideology into the institutional levels of our society. The Guardian ran an editorial recently about how the word is never acceptable in any situation, and this is, I suppose, the natural progression of that line of thinking. That said, I don't actually disagree with her if she found it offensive... I mean if the law is that taking offence makes it a hate crime, and she took offence, then that's the law...

Yeah it was the same with the nazi pug thing. No one reported that, it was just picked up by the police and brandished a hate crime. Maybe they really are going at this to boost their arrest numbers easily.

Ah, you favour national suicide. Also fine, as long as you still 'don't care' if we stay in or not.

Well, fair enough CT. As I said, as long as you and people like you are prepared to accept the single market against a backdrop of this 'conspiracy', I have no issue with it.

Maybe more about sending a message. The police are becoming increasingly obsessed with this stuff, which is bizarre at a time when knife crime is on the rise...

You bitch.

I don't know to be honest, if the lyric was the N word then I do feel that we shouldn't get to the point where white people are comfortable just throwing that around. Then again, it doesn't seem that there was any 'intent' to offend, so I'm not sure about it being a hate crime. Well, not under my assessment, but then that Nazi pug issue did get classified as one and the court stated that they are free to ignore context if they want, so there it is I suppose.

If all the Brexiters want to go around telling themselves that a shadowy cabal of political elites somehow thwarted this instead of acknowledging that they were woefully misinformed about the consequences of leaving (and in truth, I had no idea NI would scupper this either - all the more reason this should never have been a public vote), then I'm fine with it tbh. If that's what it takes for them to make peace with staying in the single market, let them have it I guess.