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Reply | News blackout
at 15:55 15 Nov 2024
I actually get my news here. I figure if something worth caring about is happening, you lot will be talking about it already. Advantage being I also get a wide range of viewpoints on the topic at hand at the same time |
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Reply | News blackout
at 15:53 15 Nov 2024
Isn't this what they've done with Managers in the premier league? |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 16:48 12 Nov 2024
The right to protect free speech (within reason) is an important one IMO, but I do believe we need to look at it in a different way than we did 20 years ago. "Offline" freedom of speech is linked with consequences - call someone a cnt, you may well get punched in the face, so there's always that system of checks and balances.
The concern with this being online is that those consequences don't exist in the same way and don't exist at all if you're taking the idea of maintaining free speech to an absolute position where there should be no restrictions. We SHOULD police this as a society but we don't.
Basically, act decently and respectfully towards others and you should be allowed to hold and express any opinion you want. But I'd argue we are moving further and further away from that as a society.
I offer no solutions, it just makes me sad that this is the direction we are all going. |
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Reply | Ownership of QPR
at 23:12 11 Nov 2024
Right, new plan. Instead of forcing these owners OUT, we force new owners IN. Good ones, with ideas about long term sustainability and stuff.
Thats my part done, someone else can figure out how to find these unicorns and then make them fall in love with QPR. Can't let them actually watch the games though that would put them right off. |
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Reply | Biggest Club in the World vs QPR Match Thread
at 16:13 9 Nov 2024
Jimmy's passes are always, always just half a yard too short, too long or too slow. Its a small thing but its frustrating. His target always has to break stride, or pause, its never just in the flow and it delays our counterattack (when we have one). Its little things like that which can make a difference |
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Reply | Parental Control
at 22:04 8 Nov 2024
What manners? Nobody said you shouldn't teach kids manners. You're not even talking about whether an action is right or wrong. You're talking about teaching them that the same action (holding onto the ball) is right in some circumstances but wrong in others.
I don't know if you have kids and if so how old they are. I have a 6 year old. At that age they are learning the concept of right and wrong and things which are good and bad to do, but nuance isnt exactly a strong suit.
Trying to convey that holding onto the ball from the opposition keeper is:
Good, but only when we're winning
Bad, but only when we're losing
Maybe good or bad if we're drawing, depending on the strength of the opposition, and whether we think a point would be a good result.
It's just not possible to teach a 6 year old that. And expecting them to have to stay home as a result is nuts.
Now I have no idea how old these kids were, if they're teenagers then they are different and should be capable of processing that. |
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Reply | Villa
at 17:51 8 Nov 2024
Only thing I can think is that he thought the ball had been thrown back by the crowd and rolled past Martinez? |
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Reply | Parental Control
at 17:46 8 Nov 2024
Parents, would also recommend teaching your kids not to grow up and be the kind of person that goes around calling young kids "idiots", and also please encourage them that they absolutely should come to the games, even if their behavior at a young age isn't approved of by fully grown men posting on message boards.
I get that it's frustrating and it doesn't help the cause. And I don't attend the games anymore so perhaps you think that means I don't have the right to comment. But they are KIDS. And I can't believe you are actually saying that we should be encouraging young future Rs not to go to the game unless they follow a set of protocols that they may not understand.
If we have now reached the point where the reason we are losing games is because a couple of young fans don't quickly return the ball to the opposition keeper then we really have hit rock bottom. |
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Reply | MC has got to go
at 06:18 7 Nov 2024
Nobody at any point has suggested Marti is Pep.
Based on what he did last year, the evidence suggests that he's an above average championship manager.
Evidence this year so far goes against that, but while the degree to which you can hold the failures of this year against him are debatable, giving him credit for last year is not.
What makes you think that this board, with the evidence of what's been happening in the last few months, will not only be able to appoint another above average championship manager, but a BETTER one than what we have now? |
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Reply | Bonfire of the vanities – Report
at 06:05 7 Nov 2024
Weirdly, Steve Cook's inability to correctly execute (which makes sense given the rest of the game) his attempt to take out Lath for that third goal might have been the best thing that happened for us in the whole game |
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Reply | Moving to the USA?
at 22:06 5 Nov 2024
Unless you feel strongly enough to propose, get married, then wait a couple of years before moving out, it's tough. Best guess as some others have suggested is through a work visa. Not sure of your line of work and whether that's an option.
I was lucky enough that my company had a UK HQ but also had an office in the US and they sponsored me.
Alternatively (check the math with a lawyer) you can do something like 180 days per year on a tourist visa. Can't recall if that needs to be split into two visits or not. You wouldn't be able to work over here during that time though. |
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Reply | And The Unbeaten Run Continues...
at 15:40 3 Nov 2024
Ai is getting smarter but not enough to figure out that kevin10 would be more appropriate at this club than kevin9... |
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Reply | Clapping
at 15:36 3 Nov 2024
Not sure if this happens everywhere but I've had that happen to me during the national anthem in the US. They stopped people going up and down the concourses. |
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Reply | Clapping
at 15:34 3 Nov 2024
To be clear I completely agree with this, I don't understand why people are incapable of showing respect for a couple of minutes, not difficult and the very least we can/should do IMO.
But if you're in a situation where that's the case, I understand why clapping (another way of showing appreciation albeit one less fitting for the tone of the occasion) is the solution |
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Reply | Music that makes you cry.
at 12:33 3 Nov 2024
Boys don't cry by The Cure
I don't like being told what i can and can't do |
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Reply | Clapping
at 12:31 3 Nov 2024
When you have 15,000 people in the crowds you are going to get some absolute weapons among that who don't have the level of respect they should and think interrupting is funny. If everyone is clapping it doesn't give them the oxygen and attention they crave. |
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Reply | Varane
at 17:46 2 Nov 2024
Superb first half in particular, best performance for us so far by a mile. More like that please |
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Reply | No disrespect but... Sunderland match threað
at 17:45 2 Nov 2024
Quite the variance in opinions after that! Thought we more than held our own first half against a side better and considerably more on form than we were. Little disappointing that we couldn't create and put away chances when they went down to 10 but that feels very on brand for us.
We'd have taken a point I think before the game started so can't be too down about it |
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