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oh i've no issue with upgrading positions if an upgrade becomes available...it's just a LOT of money for a CB considering how good mings and konsa have been. i know we're looking to have a big summer but this surely will take a sizable chunk of our budget when we need a new RB, a new back up keeper, and at least 1 but preferably 2 new forward players too. i wonder if emery has been less than impressed with carlos in training? based on how few opportunities he's had since he's been fit i guess as things stand with no solid links to wingers i'm still dreading the prospect of bailey/traore starting PL games next season

astounded by the figures being chucked about for a player in his final year of his contract. i know he's a big 'name' but is he worth it? bearing in mind CB is one position where we're already in good shape.

this argument always winds me up, similar to those defending that old royal family member who was asking the black british woman "where are you really from?" 'old' people have seen a lot of social change through the decades that they've been around and frankly should no better...it's never an argument he was being deliberately racist...it was the perception of all arabs being terrorists

Just gonna chuck this one out there too: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2402041/amp/Celebrity-Big-Brother-2013-Ron-Atkinson-warned-race-row-house.html

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went to the gig at spurs ground last year and his voice was absolutely **** that being said, i'm still going to see them on friday. i grew up on them and at this point i go for the riffs rather than his voice

thing is most racists don't actually think theres anything wrong with their behaviour, so it could be argued that they are not intending to offend. the standard daily mail comment section response is something like "leftie snowflakes are just offended by everything these days" which is usually in response to an article about something that most would deem to be quite offensive someone telling racist or homophobic jokes for example probably doesn't intend to offend...but that would quite understandably be offensive to a black or gay person. it's not that they're 'finding it necessary to be offended'. that being said, context is important. i'm a large fellow, and i joke about my weight with family and close friends. if a stranger made a jibe about it to me, i wouldn't take kindly to it at all...i guess that's the only remotely similar scenario i can personally relate to as someone said above, racism is probably best discussed on a case by case basis. in the case of monchi, it seems to me reading his and this thread is that most on here seem to have given him the benefit of the doubt on that one.

modern journalism is all about views and clicks. danny murphy saying something like "fair play to west ham holding out for their price" would get bugger all social media interactions. danny murphy saying rice should go on strike would get everyone riled up, not just west ham fans. gets clicks. gets interactions on socials. gets views on youtube. he's a prick, but he's just doing his job, which is to be as controversial as possible. the best thing to do is not click or interact on the socials when you see these headlines pop up

'equally' is a big stretch IMO. buendia has had criticism but i don't think he's been anywhere near as disappointing as bailey. there were times last season we won games in spite of bailey, as it was like playing with 10 men. but i was massively critical of luiz for the first 3 seasons he was with us. and he ended up winning me over. i hope the same happens with bailey i agree with you, 1 more season, give emery a chance to work some magic on him.

i think he'll still be in the squad but i can see him getting a lot of conference league minutes. if he's starting PL games next season something has gone wrong this summer

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he's apparently proud of a group of people steaming into something incredibly risky despite numerous experts saying what a bad idea it is, several warnings, at least 1 person that didn't want to do it in the first place, and the guy in charge totally lacking the ability to pull it off safely and sucessfully i had to scroll back up to double check he was talking about the titanic sub and not brexit

at what point does the thread get renamed to "Russia and its “Special Operation” in Russia" ?

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all reasonable theories say they'd have known absolutely nothing about it. so quick it would've been like someone flicked off the light switch.

so sorry mate it's the worst thing of all. i hope the vet had a good bedside manner with you because ours was **** terrible and made a horrible experience so much worse. we've moved vets as a result...no way we could've gone back there. our polly lost her battle with cancer a few weeks ago. she was only 8...bless her she didn't half fight (was told in june of last year she had just a few weeks left) thoughts with you bud...people that don't have pets just don't get it. i tried to confide in one mate shortly after polly's diagnosis and i believe his exact words were "it's just a **** cat"

you won't like the sound of some of the ones i've seen on twitter! one i've just seen is all about how he doesn't want to leave!

the problem is that this gathered such public interest due to the abnormal nature of it. it got clicks and views of the news articles...it's (for lack of a better word) exciting. 5 people in a sub, with the oxygen level counting down...it made for a good story, a real life suspense movie. that being said, if the navy released that little nugget of info about hearing the bloody thing implode at the very same time that the signal was lost, no one would've bothered looking. i just hope no lives were lost due to resources being deployed for this lost cause

that very thing happened to the leicester owner, and i didn't see many on here saying "why did he get a helicopter?". they're regulated by the same strict safety rules that govern the planes we get on to go on holiday. similar with sky diving, bungee jumping, or fairground rides. the key difference with this, is that the regulations for this sort of thing are full of holes apparently, one of which being that this takes place in international waters where you can basically do what you like. but it is hindsight...did the folks on board know that these letters had been written to this company saying their sub was unsafe? did they know of the staff being sacked from the company for raising concerns? probably not and probably wouldn't have set foot inside it had they have known. it's the typical stuff that comes out after the event

all sorts of stuff coming out about how many corners this company cut, how there were various warnings, people getting sacked when questioning the methods of the company waiver or not, i hope someone gets compensated

nice couple of winners there...i got rescued yet again by my non-ascot picks, so not bothering tomorrow unless someone gives me a hot tip

i can't find it anymore but i saw a chart about what happens to things at certain depths. for example at a couple of hundred feet a champagne cork would be forced inside the bottle. at about 1000ft a skuba tank would implode. so imagine what happens at 4000 ft...you're dead within a second i know people theorised about dying from lack of oxygen being a peaceful experience, but this would've been quicker than a bullet to the head IMO

what else is wrong with BK8? i saw there was some mysoginistic advert a while back but i read that was down to some marketing company employed by that firm whom they swiftly ditched after that ad came out

so what was all that banging then if they died straight away?

not gonna make much of a movie then. can imagine scripts being chucked in the bin as we speak but RIP...at least it was probably quick