WhatAboutTheFinish

26 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

 

Neil Coyle, Labour MP for Bermondsey.

Bang out of order! I can’t just sit back and let JRM be abused like that. I mean, most of the adjectives I can roll with...but fat?!!

7 minutes ago, magnkarl said:

I take issue with fairly clear tropes being excused with median statistics on income in a relatively small sample size. The fact that the now ex-leader of our second largest party is said to have used this to tune is moral compass is embarrassing. 

Just for the sake of clarity. The median is what the man in the middle of the group earns, not an average (or mean). Therefore, how much the top few billionaires earn is (largely) irrelevant.

56 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

Also this:

Surely this applies to any accepted mainstream piece of knowledge as equally as a conspiracy theory? I think, if anything, this type attitude is grist to a conspiracy theorist's mill. After all, how many of the facts that any of us (think we) know, have we "researched"?

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

Is there evidence of that?

I’d be interested to see it, I really don’t know many Jewish people. The few I do know appear to rely on their community to basically muddle through. But I do appreciate a sample of two people isn’t really going to be very representative.

 

Stats from the ONS.

2 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Carl Lewis - got to be one of the greatest Olympians ever.

Ah the good old days, when drug cheats and cover ups meant Olympic heroism. I’m sure the today’s Russians must be totally confused after diligently following the US template for sporting greatness! 
 

*(But yeah...he was great to watch at the time)

Or the old man has discovered xhamster?! 

Every match should start with the players listening to a rap about mental health. No better way to pump everyone up for the game! 

3 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

There you go then. There's not that much difference between buying a black face mask because you think it looks nicer than buying  adesigner one because you think it looks nicer

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On 27/07/2020 at 12:59, StefanAVFC said:

I really like the RR Evoque so will probably look there too.

If you’re thinking about a family...don’t bother, I’ve got sock drawers with more space than the boot of an evoque! 

56 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

Do you think they’re allowed the freedom of choice not to advertise loan companies or betting shops?

Of course there is precedent for refusing to wear other symbols that the PL deem to be worthy causes though.

Dublin, Benteke, Carew and then play hoofball 2.0 

10 million for Trezeguet!

2 hours ago, Xann said:

 

Nice little tee-up there in preparation for his next crowd fleecing campaign. He must be running low on baseball bats! 

22 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Now I am concerned that Arms of Mary might have passed you people, yeah, you people by. 
Its a fantastic chunk of soft rock. 

I knew the song...and I couldn't have named the artist in a million years, so your theory could be sound. It is also one of the songs where nobody really know the words, so singing it in the car consists of "uh uuh uh uuuuh uh uh uh, uh huh uh uuuuuh uh uh uh, uh uh uuh uh uh in the arms of Mary" 

12 hours ago, Seat68 said:

I once sat in a seat with a number. 

I've always read your name as in the car manufacturer and assumed you were some sort of enthusiast! 

Wouldn't make the team at any other Premier League club, which I think says it all.

2 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

People driving a bike on sidewalks (or pavement - guess sidewalks is americanese). It really shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but it's really really one of my pet peeves. 

Couple this with people who ring their bell expecting to you to move is a complete trigger for me. If you choose to ride on the pavement and I happen to be walking in front of you and I don't hear you coming, a simple "excuse me" or a "could I get past please"...I can roll with. But just ring your bell at me then don't be surprised if one day I snap, boot you off your bike and shove your bell where the sun don't shine! 

8 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

Am I right in thinking that the spinning is largely influenced by other factors (tilt of the surface, flow of water, etc), and the spinning of the earth is a very minor effect?

Exactly! You should be able to produce the effect with a large enough (scientific) set up however. Even though the earth is traveling in one direction, it is travelling faster at the equator than at the poles. The way I was taught was to imagine that if you were stood at the North Pole and me at the South facing each other with a stick on the equator. If we both could throw a ball straight at the stick (theoretically obvs), because the earth is traveling faster at the equator, by the time the ball got there we would both miss, your ball curving to the right hand side as you look at it, me on my left...hence the start of the respective clockwise (you) anticlockwise (me) movements.

3 minutes ago, andym said:

Because it's not really on the same level, it's a dumb shit film that takes the piss out of the dumb blonde stereotype.

Blackface is 100+ years of a lot more than just joking and comedic stereotypes - it was used to dehumanise and portray black people as inferior in every way. And obviously black people were still actually being treated like that, beyond the portrayals on stage/film etc.

This just highlights the absurdity of it all. You think that the ‘dumb blonde’ stereotype hasn’t been around for 100+ years? You think women haven’t been dehumanised (I’ll be checking your pornhub history to check ) You think women haven’t been treated as inferior in every way to men, bought, sold and treated as property?

So why is it on a different level again? 

History has been pretty shit to most people for most of the time. We shouldn’t be trying to give one group the monopoly on historical suffering. 

53 minutes ago, peterw said:

Another one - water in the southern hemisphere gurgling down the plug hole in the opposite direction to the northern hemisphere? Again, false. The spinning of the water reflects the spinning of the earth - as north and south spin in the same direction, so does the water going down the plughole.

You may have reached the correct conclusion regarding plug holes in the house, but the science behind your reasoning is more than questionable.

Coriolis would be spinning (clockwise) in his grave just reading it! 

29 minutes ago, Sam-AVFC said:

Looks like his hat says - Aston "Villa"

Thought it was a bit weird at first. After a minute's thought it I'm on board and I think we should bring back that way of writing it.

I think Aston Villa “Football” Club, definitely works! 

2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

This, for a start:

And this

Thanks. The first post is interesting, although I hope they flesh out what they are going to replace the police department with before they dismantle it! It would be nice to see some ideas framed in a positive way instead of basing everything on revenge and destruction. No doubt this will put me in the VT pariah group but I don’t really like the second story so much! The AG shouldn’t be basing his charges on people protesting but on the law and the evidence in front of him, imo of course.