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Barnet Odeon - a venue which I suspect our very own Mr. Whittingham is also quite familiar with. No idea what my first film would have been, but it would have been 1971, and I distinctly remember the Wurlitzer organ being raised up from the bowels of the place during the interval, with the area's closest equivalent to Liberace giving it his utmost.
No nerves from this corner of the universe, as we once again have a manager who has his feet planted firmly on the ground at the same time as having his eyes firmly set on the upper reaches of this slogfest we lovingly call the Championship.
Everything feels fully and firmly under control, which gives me a cheap excuse for linking to this little ditty once again:
That one's an interesting case, and I would say the following, largely because I can't remember if it was proven to be an act of terrorism, or influenced by mental illness.
If it was clearly the former, and there are no presenting signs of paranoid schizophrenia or any similar mental illness which would cause someone to effectively lose control over themselves, then yes, I would personally have argued for the death penalty for Adebowale.
For me, where a mental illness is clearly and obviously influencing one's stability - and most importantly one's capacity to clearly distinguish between committing a proactive act of aggression towards someone, and what one perceives to be an act of self-defence - then that person should then be committed to a psychiatric ward with support to improve their condition, where possible, or indefinitely, if not.
No, you might be surprised to hear that I'm actually a big supporter of capital punishment for cases where it is beyond any reasonable doubt that someone is guilty of cold-blooded murder and clearly aware of the consequences of their actions - Ian Brady, Fred West and Harold Shipman being three of the most blindingly obvious cases where I personally would have advocated for the death penalty.
I like the Executioner's prayer: "May God have mercy on your soul". People often confuse mercy and judgement. They are not mutually exclusive, in my understanding.
But that wasn't the point of my question, and it also does not absolve you, me or anybody else on this forum from doing whatever we can to show love, kindness and respect for everyone in our community, regardless of who they are, or who we think they might possibly be. That is the only way change happens.
OK - so you tell me you understand, whilst at the same time throwing in what happened to those poor girls and using it as justification to stay entrenched in a hardline position.
..And if the situation had been the other way around, with Muslim girls having been the victims, and the perpetrators having been white British guys, how would you have responded then..? Or are you asserting that this would somehow never happen (as equally a dangerous assumption to make, as asserting that it is somehow "bound to happen" the other way round, I would suggest..)
So if you believe you see the problems so clearly, has it never occurred to you to proactively become part of the solution instead?
Have you tried actively going in to the Muslim community where you live and befriending, for example, a couple of similar age to yourself and your partner, who maybe have kids of similar age to yourself and have exactly the same hopes, aspirations and fears for the future as you do?
if you're looking for integration not alienation, the one person who you have power over to change is yourself. I think you'd be surprised by what you could achieve, if you tried..
I'm not denying your. or anyone elses's right to have genuine concerns in relation to the spread of Islamic extremism, but I would respectfully suggest that you're going slightly overboard in terms of the impact you seem to be allowing it to have on your everyday wellbeing.
What you seem to be forgetting is that the vast majority of Muslims who live in this country - particularly the British-born contingent - are ordinary peaceful folk who are as abhorred and distressed by what they've seen happening around them over the last few weeks as everyone else is. I wouldn't underestimate the power of the moderate majority to isolate the extremists and to ensure that they are identified and treated as such, in the exact same way that the majority of us feel that the EDL should be rounded up and despatched to an island in the middle of nowhere with no hope of return so that they can live out their pathetic Lord of The Flies fantasy amongst themselves, whilst the rest of us with at least half a brain and a modicum of decency go about doing our best to leave in peace and harmony with each other, regardless of their skin colur, ethnic origin, preferred religion and sexual orientation.
You say that your "church is full of Muslims pretending to convert to support their asylum appeal". How do you know this is true? Have you taken the time to communicate with them and find out what's really going on with them?
Maybe your church has convicted them to genuinely convert to Christianity. It has been known to happen..
Should any of them openly admit to you that this is true (which sound somewhat unlikely), then you have a confession of fraud which you can submit to the necessary authorities.
"It takes 1 rejection and who knows what happens". Isn't that a tad melodramatic?
"Do you think I should keep taking my children to Church on Sunday?", I would suggest that depends on how much you trust your church leadership to be in charge of what goes on inside your church. If they're decent leaders, I'm sure that they're well aware of any ongoing issues and are taking the requisite steps to ensure that everyone can worship and commune in peace and love.
"Last night I'm being sent videos of "Muslim Defence League" rioters marching around Sheffield with weapons looking for people to attack, while the media is busy pretending everything is fine and normal. How am I supposed to ignore it?" - So in your view, the Muslim Defence League are obviously more dangerous than the far right mostly white British EDL and sympathisers, who pulled a family of innocent bystanders in Hull out of their car and chased them down their street uttering all manner of threats, simply becuase they didn't like the colour of their skin?
Yeah, I felt the same - at least going forwards, as his tenacious assist for one of the goals at home v Stoke showed.
You have to feel, though, its a case of being loaned out to Dundee with a view to sell, rather than with a view to developing, otherwise what was the point of us picking him up last season after he'd done a year out at Barnsley?
As disappointing as it is, I can see that it makes obvious sense from Nourry's perspective.
Lining it up with the way that Chair's situation has been handled by the club for example, its clear that Nourry wants to tighten up on the messaging and ensure as far as possible that evceryone is singing from the same officially sanctioned hymnsheet. He would no doubt argue that sanctioning interviews with Marti alone puts Cifuentes in a difficult situation where he might reveal more - Chair himself being one obvious example - than the club would be comfortable with.
Let's be honest, though, you are definitely a "glass is half empty" kind of fella, aren't you, with a tendency to look for hidden agendas and conspiracies where there aren't any.
I agree with the majority that you are reading a tad too much into this.
As he generally does, I thought Cifuentes summed up the match perfectly and gave a very balanced view both of where we are and where we'll need to be in two weeks' time. I certainly didn;t get the impression of someone who was in denial of where we're currrently short, and in fact here's a link to a West London Sport piece from earlier today which confirms that: https://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/qpr-need-more-attacking-signings-cifuentes
I don't read it as lip service at all, and I strongly suspect that both Nourry and Hoos were fully apoplectic when this came to light.
Not a good luck for a club that is really working overtime to get its house in order and show itself as a model for how to move forwards progressively, especially given the high profile of its star player.
Whatever the sternest disciplinary measure they have stopping short of ripping up his contract is what I expect them to have metered out to him, and I would expect him to take it in good grace and be thankful that he's till earning a decent living here.
I get that its early days, Brian, but these are truly seismic shifts in the whole DNA of the club being undertaken with swift and surgical precision.
I'm struggling to think of a time in the club's entire history where there's been such clear and tangible evidence of a clear and structured roadmap. I don't think even the halcyon days of the mid-70s or 80's compare to this, as, although we had a great playing stuff with visionary managers like Sexton and Venables, the supporting infrastructure wasn't particularly finely tuned, as we subsequently found out to our cost.
You can tell it must be real, as even I'm starting to sound like Nourry now!
it really feels like we have well and truly turned a corner in a highly significant way, and that we are absolutely destined for success, whatever "success" might end up looking like for us.
Can anyone truly comprehend just how radically the feel, character and - to use the buzzword of the moment - the "culture" of this club has changed in just 12 months?
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