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Just now, Demitri_C said:

Because they loved it when we got relegated  and we were close to going under. I have no sympathy for them at all.

Your last sentence can be said about every club in the premier league not just villa fans.

So what? As a Villa "fan" I like to think I have some class. Perhaps I should revise my opinion.

1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

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Here's my take. There is enough negativity on this forum already. Why take joy in someone's plight? Villa fans at times wonder where they get their bad reputation.

13 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Cant we change the title of this thread to lets all laugh at west brom?

Let's not.

19 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

No if it was the other way roundI doubt many would have wanted Villa to play a youth side.

Exactly:

Being charitable: Sheffield United ... possibly. But then we would never hear the end of it from West Brom fans.
Being charitable to a direct competitor? No

These people are running businesses. Also what about Villa's immediate competitors, do they think we should get a bite at the three points.

This was a no win situation for Klopp and Liverpool.

Liverpool hammer the U19 ... Bullies
Have a reasonable win ... eg 1:4 best result for Liverpool
Draw ... disaster
Loss ... 

Having said that,  it looks like Villa acquitted themselves with valour. Sadly I only saw the last five minutes.

Beautiful goal though. If it would have been Grealish receiving the ball rather than Barry, Grealish would have been fouled, I think.

5 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

They’ll just be so concerned he sets up a tea party style movement that stands and votes separate to Republicanism. Cutting enough of a per cent age off their funding, volunteering and polling to do them serious damage.

Exactly .... and possibly more importantly split the vote. Essentially giving the democrats a free pass.

7 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I mean I thought I explained it pretty well. But I’ll try again. ...

Was this originally Shiva's interpretation?

1 minute ago, Stevo985 said:

He took it at face value where it appears to show votes being deducted from Trump.

Which is admittedly pretty alarming. But misrepresents the reality.

I wasn't trying to shit on Villianusa. Just trying to show him why the chart he has presented is incorrect

I know ... it was sort of a rhetorical question that I hope Villianusa would have a go at answering.

1 minute ago, villianusa said:

The Department of Defense

Partly true  Wiki ...

The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief for the District of Columbia National Guard. Command is exercised through the Secretary of Defense and the commanding general, Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ), District of Columbia National Guard.

2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

This is a fundamental error and is enough to discount any analysis based off it. The person collecting it has incorrectly reverse engineered the data to get to vote numbers which are totally false. 

The question I have is how did Villianusa  ...  get to the point where he thought it was evidence for his position?

1 minute ago, villianusa said:

I agree, the national guard were there for the Georgia run off, there should have been there today also. 

And who does the DC National Guard report to?

1 minute ago, sne said:

I know, but the party is absolutely torn apart after this. The right wing portion of that party has just attempted a coup d'etat. And Trump and his cohorts are not condemning it. How do you fix that?

I don't have a clue. Legalize marijuana in all the conservative states?

34 minutes ago, sne said:

So will we see a new 3rd party created after this? Those Republican politicians who have pinned their flags on Trump will be in a poor spot with most sane Republican voters. 

 

Won't happen ...  or if it does the Democrats will have a long run ....  Trump - Republican split of the conservative vote. This is why Republicans are knuckling under now.

Just now, bickster said:

Zuckerberg's $400mil donation was to fund election offices preparations under the pandemic. It wasn't to the democrats at all

The Zuckerberg's donation was because the Republicans refused to adequately fund the changes neccessary, they equalled the amount the federal government made.

The Zuckerbergs funded democracy not the Democrats, the democracy the Republicans were underfunding on purpose to boost their vote.

 

It's OK Villianusa agreed with this by posting a Briebart link which put a slightly different spin on it. Apparently it was an attempt to rent a government. 

Once a chemical pattern occurs in the brain it is really difficult to shake.

I have to admit ... I think this is the sort of thread that gives football fans a bad reputation.

2 minutes ago, villianusa said:

HERE Elections need to be fair across the board, by giving monies only to Democrats it's against the Act of 2002.

You said to the Party! ... this link does not agree.

5 minutes ago, villianusa said:

 Zuckerberg gave $400,000,000 to the democrat's party to by pass constitutional law. 

Do you have a reference for this? I can only find references to donations to the local government who happen to be Democrats.

1 minute ago, villianusa said:

From speaking to many republicans my opinion would be different. They just want to put Americans first 

The two are not mutually exclusive. I don't live in the UK ...  but Brexit in of itself does not make Britain stronger. One can see the Scots wanting to go their own way.

1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said:

It's almost like Cubans are terrified of socialism, for obvious reasons, and they've been poisoned to believe anything left of centre-right is socialism.

I can't speak for Cubans, but the impression of Republicans I get is, that anything mildly  right of centre is socialism. 

This second, 21st century schizoid man .... King Crimson

8 hours ago, Phil Silvers said:

33 penalties in the last 59 games apparently, I do love having a bit of fun chirping about conspiracy theories, obviously there couldn't be, surely they too much to lose.

However, “…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth…”

The simple metric of the number of penalties is not quite sufficient. In that someone will have more than others. Indeed if all clubs had exactly the same number that would be even more suspicious.

I can't help thinking something along the lines: penalties per attacking hour inside the 18 yard box would be better, though not perfect metric.

1 hour ago, kidlewis said:

... would struggle to score a goal like Alpinas today.... 

 

 

Will Alpinas struggle to score another goal like Alpinas did today?

4 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

We are a mish mash with imperial and metric. We measure liquids in ml and litres but sometimes will use pounds and sometimes kg. As for kilometres, can never see that being adopted. 

Yeah the good ol' Brexit spirit still lives.

Is a pint now 0.5 L?

1 hour ago, darrenm said:

Creeping Americanization (fnar) in common use of British English.

Lots of people now using 'skeptic' instead of the British 'sceptic' and 'adviser' instead of the British 'advisor'.

I know what you mean ...  I've been been in Canada for the last 34 years ...  British, Canadian and US English spellings start to get mixed up. Plus MS Word's spellchecker I can't seem to get rid of US version. But I have sympathy for skeptic; the problem with sceptic, it can seem awfully close to septic ... especially when one consider words like science, scene, scent and sceptre. (sceptre is showing up as a misspelt word).

But what pisses me off is people's reluctance to move to the metric system. When I go to the UK it seems to be going backwards.

2 minutes ago, Adam2003 said:

I do think he was stupid picking up the second yellow but he did nothing for the first and he WAS fouled for the second (but still - should have then let Zaha go).

Possibly, but it would have been a two on one with Mings chasing and Zaha with a full head of steam.

If Villa went into the dressing room at 1:1 the game would have unfolded differently. 

My point being in that situation what would you do? Your instinct seems to be let Zaha go and Mings' was hold on.