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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 15:58 3 Mar 2025
Sorry about your stroke connell, hopefully you're ok and you can sort out your anger issues so it doesn't affect you so much. I apologise for the bad grammar comment, it was uncalled for.
My understanding from a while back was that non-footballing threads like these were not welcomed by the forum admin, but some way along the line that changed again. Case in point: I asked the same question at the start of the mammoth Biden v Trump thread started by the same poster who on this very thread has demanded to be arbiter of who can and who can't post their thoughts on anything, and this was their response:
"I started this thread Orthodox
We have always had a varied list of topics debated on here.
Music, other sports and general affairs etc.
And general posts when someone famous passes away etc.
Yes there is one on our general election and when covid was at its height, and zero football happening, there was some very frank exchanges going ahead.
We all follow our team but there is life outside of QPR and some of it, from my perspective, I enjoy debating about all sorts of other issues.
If some people get out of hand with sometimes some inappropriate bashing of other forum members, I think that's when some of these discussions would be challenging.
If we all remain respectful of others when stating our own personal views, I feel it's all OK but if not, I stand corrected.."
My suggestion would be to either a) have a blanket ban on anything non-QPR related, or b) not get involved in a non-QPR related discussion in which you might read thoughts and views that differ from your own. Obviously any blatant nastiness (profanity, name-calling, racism, misogyny, etc) would be off the table as we're all adults here who should be able to control our emotions and have respectable chats with each other.
BTW, my favourite cheese is chaource, my favourite ever match was the Play-Off final, and I follow the Rs because I fell in love with them in 1987after being dragged to the 3-1 victory vs Coventry on Boxing Day by my dad's mate. [Post edited 3 Mar 16:07]
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Reply | Schools
at 18:53 2 Mar 2025
Miles Coverdale School. Shockingly, given how close the school is to HQ, I was the only one who followed the Rs in my class, the rest of the kids followed Liverpool or whoever was winning the FA Cup that year. This is standard practice with younger kids I know, but looking back I'm still shocked that not one other child was an Rs fan. And we used to get free tickets to go as well every now and again, happy days. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 18:40 2 Mar 2025
Another one resorting to name-calling.
I'm personally glad this isn't an echo chamber, and the majority of views have been presented in a respectful way. Accompanied by the perennial Downvote Brigade of course  |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 13:35 2 Mar 2025
Fair play. Here's hoping the Democrats get their house in order over the next 4 years and drop some of the nonsense that lost them this election so the American electorate gets a decent choice between the two parties for their next President. I'd argue the chaos that you refer to was caused as reaction to the previous four years of unparalleled weakness and poor leadership shown by America's then President and Vice-President. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 11:40 2 Mar 2025
No one in their right mind should trust Putin. Ever. Same way as no one should trust anything a politician ever says, including our PM. Anyone who thinks Trump/Vance "trust" Putin is suffering from an extreme case of TDS - behind closed doors you can guarantee the discussion is much different to what they say in front of the cameras.
Do you think Churchill and FDR trusted Stalin? Yet they sat down with him more than once and came to an agreement of how to defeat Hitlr, despite Stalin invading Poland at the start of the war. [Post edited 2 Mar 11:43]
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 11:37 2 Mar 2025
POTUS Trump is approx. 40 days into his second term of being democratically elected by the American people, which means you've got over 1400 days left.
Or by "the sooner he's gone the better" are you suggesting something else? |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 22:33 1 Mar 2025
Classy as always. I've missed our chats connell.
Back to the debate though - I'll just add this. Ukraine and its people deserve a dignified peace. Not surrender, not Putin gets whatever he wants. But another 100,000 dead people isn't going to move that line on a map. So Zelensky, or whoever replaces him, needs to negotiate what they can and end the fighting. |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 22:14 1 Mar 2025
"What Trump and Vance did was loathsome , especially I think to the British public who on the whole despise bullies!"
You literally typed the above a few hours ago. People in glass houses eh? |
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Reply | Trump v Zelensky
at 22:00 1 Mar 2025
Ah, I see the name calling has already begun, accompanied with quite shocking grammar.
A quote from the admin of this forum, Mr NorthernR, from a while ago:
"And I'll offer a little bit of 'advice' of my own at this point.
After some initial really interesting discussion from across the spectrum, both threads have now descended down through the bit where everybody who holds the opposite view is either Hitler or a Communist, into some really quite nasty, personal stuff.
It's exactly why I used to just delete these threads and say go elsewhere for that. I've relaxed it this summer on trust, and initially it's produced some really interesting stuff which I've enjoyed reading, but I'm not having the direction both these threads are going now.
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Everybody here is a QPR fan. We support the same club, we sit in the same stadium, we drink in the same pubs. We think differently about a whole range of issues, and that's okay - people are entitled to hold different views.
The rhetoric gets dialed down now.
We treat each other with respect whether we agree or not.
We remember we're all QPR here together.
Otherwise I'm going to start deleting and locking threads, banning accounts, and if I end up here by myself, well after 20 years I don't give a toss."
Stay classy connell. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 09:28 11 Feb 2025
Another recommendation for American Primeval, truly top notch all round. If you like your westerns uncompromising and meticulously faithful to the feel of the times it's a must watch - every step in those days was a potential threat of (insert bad thing) happening, and the show does a great job of showing this.
Also started S2 of Lioness on Paramount + and it's potentially better than S1 so far. |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 12:06 17 Dec 2024
Landman on Paramount + is superb. Another Taylor Sheridan project (Yellowstone, Special Ops: Lioness, Tulsa King) and it's been fantastic so far. Worth watching just for Billy Bob Thornton chewing up scenes as he continuously puts out fires in his day job running an oil company for a billionaire played by Jon Hamm. Superb cast - Ali Larter looks great as Billy's ex-wife - and the hook in the first episode is one of the best I've ever seen. Hopefully it continues to be this good throughout. |
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Reply | Moving to the USA?
at 11:48 17 Dec 2024
Delighted for you Thame - hope it all goes well! Do keep us updated on your quest to become a bonafide 'Murican - it's a really exciting time for the country and all who are privileged to live there. |
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Reply | random
at 10:41 4 Dec 2024
Yes please. |
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Reply | Gladiator 2
at 21:24 16 Nov 2024
Should've gotten James Cameron to do a sequel to Ridley Scott's Gladiator and call it Gladiators. Missed a trick there. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 12:38 16 Nov 2024
As the exodus of echo chamberlains continues in their droves over to BlueSky, something tells me that X will be fine as the virtuous big spenders look set to renew their advertising there post Trump's landslide victory:
https://www.ft.com/content/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13
https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/
I sincerely hope the boost to BS gives it a foothold in the social media hierarchy as healthy competition generally improves the consumer's experience, and it's never a good thing for just a few to have a monopoly in any sector. However, judging by the performance with Threads and Mastodon the last time there was 'mass' attempt to abandon X I wouldn't hold my breath. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 14:13 13 Nov 2024
"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."
Wow. Might as well just write what they're really thinking:
"We liked X/Twitter back in the old days when it was an echo chamber of like minded leftist zealots focused on identity politics and intersectional fourth wave feminism, used by the elites in power to control information by labelling anything they regard as damaging to their narrative as disinformation or malinformation. We miss the mass perma-banning of all dissenting voices, whether they were the incumbent President of the United States, opponents to mandated vaccines, laptop conspiracy theory nutjobs or just some random who accidently dead named Caitlyn Jenner. We loved that back then the legacy mainstream media was able to use its influence to shape political discourse, and hoped to do so indefinitely. Despite professing to being an impartial journalistic publication, we were praying our preferred candidate Kamala Harris would win the US election so we could revel in her/our victory by mocking Elon, RFK Jr and Orange Man. However, seeing she has somehow lost spectacularly, despite her campaign spending millions on securing endorsements from Beyonce and Cardi B, we will now throw a hissy fit and announce our plans to leave X/Twitter, blaming it all on the far-right and racism because that'll make us look virtuous. Please join us; if you don't leave X/Twitter too you're basically Hit ler." |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 10:50 12 Nov 2024
The finale of The Penguin was sensational. I can't remember a show that's stuck the landing so brilliantly. |
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Reply | Moving to the USA?
at 11:46 7 Nov 2024
As many quite rightly pointed out at the time, that debate escalated into the polarised mess that it was because it was the close season - now that the season is well and truly underway (unfortunately so in our case) people are much more focused on what's going on with the Rs. No need to resurrect it; although if Harris had miraculously won I'm pretty certain there'd be a wave of schadenfreude from certain elements of the crowd. It's over, he won, we move on - and it would be unfair to derail the original post of how to move to the US. I'm genuinely interested in how it's done too. |
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