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Rolta

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  1. I think he's overthinking this prime minister thing. I know plenty of Tories love to live in a fantasy WW2/11 vision of the past, but this guy is going even further back. But then who doesn't love a bit of English Civil War—back when the country was great and all the classes of people had all the freedom to enjoy the country's riches.
  2. Why out of interest? I only ever hear the term warm weather training camp in relation to international teams who are about to play summer tournaments in really hot climates (Brazil, South Africa spring to mind) in order to acclimatise. If it's too hot you can barely do anything in my Madrid summer experience. Sure they need to be used to the UK weather in August, but they'll be training in that weather for a good while before the first game.
  3. My word I missed this! That's insane! EDIT: Isn't that comment in the tweet beforehand referring to things she's already torn away from us?
  4. Looking at the posts above I feel compelled to say that Illegal immigration and freedom of movement are not the same thing, but I think we all know that! Although now I'm thinking about it I can imagine a few Tories willfully conflating the two.
  5. He does that at the start then says I think I found your brother mid bants, so it's clearly his go to bants!
  6. He basically said the same joke to Coutinho too. Debatable bants!
  7. To be fair plenty of other wingers have the kind of pace that allow them to go past defenders in exactly the way Bailey hasn't ever shown. By observation one time he ran fast in a Villa shirt he was in loads of space and he injured himself at the end of it. Since he came back from a long injury break he's only looked average paced at best. It's hardly encouraging.
  8. For his goal he didn't have to outpace anyone. As Delphinho said, he was put through in loads of space. The closest player was Godfrey who reacts really slowly. Having said that, it's true that he doesn't look slow in that moment, but for me that was about the last time I saw him run quickly. In every other game, he looked actually slow—that's a worry at least. Hopefully he's over the injuries and you're proved right.
  9. The only time I saw anything resembling pace was in the exact moment when he injured himself. The worry is that, like Owen, he might not actually be able to run to his max without causing himself problems. Every other time he played he looked pretty slow/averagely paced and did not stand out as quick at all. I was really surprised myself.
  10. He was talking to an English guy at Bodymoor. I'm talking about his welcome interview btw. https://video.avfc.co.uk/video/dm9kJTdDMF92NTlwZmVvdyU3QyUyRnNlY3Rpb24lM0ZzbHVnJTNEaG9tZSU3Q2hvbWUlMkZoZXJvX2Nhcm91c2Vs?lang=en
  11. Interestingly (or not), he did his interview in Spanish not Portuguese. No entiendo.
  12. She can too. If she's the best of a bad bunch that says a lot.
  13. Ha all good. I can't imagine you did!
  14. I thought this too. To be fair, I think those leaks didn't have chevrons down the front!
  15. You mention this in both your posts, but I don't think you know that. As Johnny mentioned once the adrenaline wears off your body is in a very different state the next day.
  16. Rolta

    Transgenderism

    Much like your comments on Obi Wan, which you hadn't seen, it's possible that a lot of this stuff is only happening in your imagination!
  17. It was an interesting watch but it didn't reveal any of what you said. Macron comes across as trying to open dialogues and to de-escalate things.
  18. The statements in this sentence don't fit together. They've been rammed together. There have been inclusive and well written 'SJW' films and TV shows and books throughout history. Their number are abundant and they span maybe over a hundred years—Dickens, Star Trek, even Gremlins springs to mind. That's three off the cuff examples, but the truth is a huge proportion of stories produced over time could be upsettingly called 'SJ' whatever if you willingly want to frame them that way. The problem is that now being inclusive has been politicised as a wedge issue and some people watch too much YouTube and get upset too easily. But yes, I do agree that Rey is a Mary Sue, and I also think that JJ Abrams ruined both Star Trek and Star Wars. But I've also seen JJ Abrams' other shit films when he wasn't confirming some of the biases you bring up, and they were just as bad. So it's just as easy to blame him for Rey becuase he is a crap filmmaker. I also saw Rhian Johnson's not shit films where sometimes he goes as far as to (presumingly upsettingly) cast non-white people as the main sympathetic character and a load of white people as non-sympathetic characters, and it (Knives Out) was really well written and actually good. Edit: I wanted to add I think there is another huge Mary Sue equivalent in a JJ Abrams film...Tom Cruise in MI3 (gah maybe I'm misremembering, maybe it was 4, so it would be Brad Bird). In whichever film as I remember he recalls a billion digit number perfectly that he memorised in moments. Anyway, bad writing is everywhere.
  19. The only word I assigned to you was 'upset' and you seem upset tbh. You've written at length about a character you've not even seen. You seem to be going off on one about a character in Obi Wan you haven't seen. And you seem to have a problem specifically because she's a black woman. It's weird because if you watched the show you'd realise there's nothing actually wrong with her character with regards to her race or gender—it's fine that she's a black woman in the context of the story, just as there was nothing wrong with Finn being black or Rey being a woman. The problem with Rey and Finn was that they were shitly written characters with no development whatsoever created by a moron in JJ Abrams. A better writer could have done them well. You seem upset (sorry, but the word seems accurate) that there are other characters than Obi Wan in the Obi Wan show. You seem upset that nothing really changed for Obi Wan or Leia or Darth Vader. I watched Obi Wan (really not a very good show) and have to say that it's not very compelling watching these mid-story stories where we already know half the cast survive. The only thing the writers can do in these situations is to add other characters. There were other characters in the same situation in the clone wars. Reva is actually an interesting setup for a character, but she along with the rest of the show was half-baked. She's also not the only new character in the show. But she's a black woman, so it's totally suspect that she's the one you're writing about! Do you realise that she's nowhere near the 'main' character? She's a secondary character completely. She does have an actual (badly written) arc though. Maybe you don't like it when black women have character arcs? Obi Wan has one too btw. And Darth Vader in a way. You seem compelled down the getting 'upset' at SJWs rabbit hole—I thought the terminology had moved on a bit? Shouldn't you be upset at woke people?—I admit, I've moaned myself how in Boba Fett every single village on Tatooine has a perfect blend of inclusive races. It was so distracting because it was obviously Disney. The realism suffered for sure in those moments for me. Honestly, I **** hate Disney Star Wars, but I'm not surprised that Disney, a mega company with a global audience leans towards inclusivity. What do you expect? Why are you so upset? Do you think people should be excluded? From a creative standpoint, for many different reasons Star Wars died when Disney bought it—but it isn't because the show cast a black character. Star Wars should be able to have more than one black character without people getting upset—but unfortunately the abysmal writing has left the door wide open for YouTube videos to seemingly confirm a few more biases and push some buttons even more (not saying that happened to you). Tbh, I'm sure Kathleen Kennedy and Rhian Johnson and JJ Abrams are lame people and I am sure they pushed Star Wars in the Disney-obvious direction. They're also three idiots who were in way over their heads. And just like there are idiots who are 'woke' there are idiots who get upset at 'woke' things too. Ultimately the Disney Star Wars sequel trilogy didn't even try to tell a story because the creative people were over-promoted dicks. There is so much to complain about without obsessing over a global company being inclusive. The thing that surprises me about your posts though is how Reva is actually a legitimate character in the show. She's miles away from Rey. She's not a bad idea at all. But as I say, the show is badly written on the most part so it doesn't matter. And having seen the show there is 0% she is getting a spin off.
  20. So you're upset they have a black female character? Your words. For me the first problem with Disney star wars is the awful writing. You can probably lay all the blame on Kathleen Kennedy really as she failed with Star Wars where Feige succeeded with Marvel. And also Abrams. They did push some unnecessary ideas incongruous with the world (veggie Chewie in TLJ). Rey is an awful character. As with most people in that trilogy nothing was developed properly. But I think you're willfully connecting dots if you think they weakened Luke to make her seem even more 'great'. That was just Rhian Johnson being a clearing in the woods. The underdevelopment is the fault of all the shitty team of chancers who put those lame films together. I hate to point out but the original Star Wars has a very overt anti fascist/imperialist agenda. They were well written on the most part though!
  21. The yellow and white outlines together are really busy. One or the other.
  22. Is it though? If Rangers had won the Europa League would that have tipped the balance a little in favour of the SPL? Of the last five Champions League Finals the finalists have been: England (6—and four different teams in that 6), Spain (2—both Real), France (1—obviously PSG), Germany (1—obviously Bayern). Of the last five Europa League Finals the finalists have been: England (3—all different), Spain (3—all different), Italy, Germany, France and Scotland 1 each. I'm not really saying anything other than what you said doesn't make sense. There's more money in the prem than anywhere else, and that makes a difference. Otherwise we wouldn't be seeing these mega rich clubs dominating everything. The lesser teams throw a lot of money around in England too. And as mentioned, there are a lot of English semi finalists in these competitions too.
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