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  1. 4 hours ago, Palfy said:

    If true I wish they would make themselves known, it’s like a game of hiding seek for the fans without clue who we are looking for 🤷‍♂️

    No credible suitor will negotiate in public. They'd dot the i's and cross the t's before anything is announced or leaked. I'm still hoping for one of the dynastic families in India to take over.

  2. Shame on the UN for passing this vote. Imagine if the UN had demanded a ceasefire when the Allies were striving to defeat the Nazis. What was needed then was for the Nazi powers to surrender. What's needed now is for Hamas to surrender and an immediate release of all hostages. Until that happens, Israel should strive to defeat them. Yes, the suffering of those living in Gaza is tragic, but don't blame Israel: responsibility lies wholly with Hamas.
     
    Incidentally, Hamas is under a Fatwa from the Arab League. Among the many stated reasons is their cynical use of misinformation. In other words, you can't believe anything put out by Hamas. I'm sure the number killed in Gaza numbers in the thousands, just as many died when the Allies strove to defeat the Nazis, but Hamas is inflating numbers and even staging some videos. We shouldn't believe a single word that emanates from Hamas. All numbers need independent confirmation.
     
    And antisemitism around the world really must stop.
  3. 5 hours ago, Hafnia said:

    Maybe it's a minority/inferiority/militant thing.  

    Maybe years ago people in England didn't feel the need to show that they are English and proud because it was there.... when people feel that their cultures and traditions are being challenged then they will show their colours so to speak. 
     

    2012 olympics, Stella mccartneys designs didn't create a kick off no.... pretty much fir reasons stated above I'm guessing. 
     

    in the past few years it feels as though our traditions are being challenged and changed.  The M&S Christmas, Iceland with Hot cross buns changes.  Respected statues being climbed on with other flags put on them.  People are starting to say enough is enough. 
     

    I'm not right wing at all but it seems some of my views nowadays are being labelled right wing by those who proudly claim to be left.   It's a game - I subscribe to the political party of common sense, humanity and decency.  I don't know if such exists. 

    You made a very sensible point. For the flag of St. George, I really don't see a problem. It's a flag, the English have rightly become proud of it in recent years,  many aspects of the country's traditions and heritage are admirable, and there's no harm in waving it or associating with it.

    There is a similar but different situation in the US with the confederate flag. Decades ago, here in the American South, you'd see it flying all the time. People here associated with the South, there being a healthy rivalry with the North, and the confederate flag made that point. For most people, I would say, it was similar to the English or the Welsh or the Scottish flying their flag.

    But, in recent years, there's much greater sensitivity to the extreme cruelty of slavery, and the confederate flag came about as a symbol of the South (and of slavery) as it fought a civil war. Over the last three decades, say, flying the confederate flag has became associated more and more with white supremacy, and there's some justification for this. To every African American, especially to the descendants of slaves, the confederate flag is now a graphic reminder of that awful age when their ancestors were treated as less than human.

    Since the confederate flag is not a national flag, and not a state flag, but more an idea and association from the past, what is the harm in removing it from society? It was removed from the Georgia state flag, for example, and I see very few confederate flags flying today. Some people do fly it as an act of rebellion: As you wrote, "when people feel that their cultures and traditions are being challenged then they will show their colours so to speak." In this case, though, the flag carries too much baggage, and personally I would prefer that it be consigned to the history books. Why choose to deliberately upset millions of friends and neighbours in society just to make a point? (Yes, the extreme right claim that my opinion is "woke", but we should be aware of the feelings of others and not deliberately ride roughshod over them.)

    Just to reiterate: I'm not at all implying the same is true of the flag of St. George. What matters is our attitude and the reasons we have for supporting a flag.

  4. 5 hours ago, Palfy said:

    You said fuelled by the right so if I’m fuelling it I can’t possibly be left or centre of the left, in your few I must be right wing, because my concern for the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 emblem that’s been worn since 1348, and has now been made a mockery of, by people who have know emotional connection to England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and what it’s like to be patriotic to the English culture and values. 

    So where exactly does the flag of St. George come from? The crusaders who rampaged Europe, killing rather indiscriminately. Have you ever read a history of the crusades, the divisions they caused in society, the heartless acts, and how they bankrupted the country? Hmm - maybe that's the link to today's extreme right!

  5. 13 hours ago, Palfy said:

    Because it isn’t British 🇬🇧 it’s English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. So as we all know you are a person who likes to ridicule anything that is English, so much so that now it’s not acceptable for the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to be proud of their own flag, but acceptable that the Scottish and Welsh are. 

    Did I write that it's not acceptable for the English to be proud of their own flag? No, I didn't. In fact, I compared it to the Scottish and the Welsh doing the came, just as you wrote. We're saying the same thing.

  6. 5 hours ago, Palfy said:

    Firstly I am not part of any right movement and do not hold any right beliefs. 
    The flag of St George is what distinguishes us from the rest of the Union and should remain untouched in its current form, it holds so much for so many people. Do you think the Scots would be happy if their flag was put on their shirts with a pink and red cross or the Welsh dragon was violet, no they wouldn’t they would be up in arms, and I wouldn’t call the Scots or the Welsh part of the right.

     

    Honestly, I don't ever remember seeing a flag of St. George when I lived in Britain - never. Seeing it flying now is a modern thing, although I have no problem with it. As others have said, the Welsh and Scottish proudly fly their flags - and more and more flags of St. Piran fly in Cornwall.

    What's the big whoop about designing a motif using different colours? I interpreted it as a statement that Britain is proudly multicultural, which is a positive thing.

  7. The commentator at the BBC website is being way too polite: England were dreadful. He writes that England are slated to play France in the Euros semifinals. Play like that, and making it that far might be wishful thinking. Why is Maguire still playing? Why was an 18-year-old nobody from United playing ahead of better players? Southgate sticks to the wrong favorites and is bowing to pressure to use players from the big six teams. If I was an England supporter, I'd be rather depressed right now.

  8. On 19/03/2024 at 10:02, Formby said:

    If we have pleaded guilty and get the two brownie points back that Forest received, and the commission find we have already been punished for the first charge and there's no case to answer for the second, do we still get the two brownie points back? So +2?

     

    Two judges find themselves in traffic court for speeding. The first judge takes to the bench and the second judge is brought in to face the music. "You were traveling at 55mph in a 35mph zone. That's a £200 fine and 3 penalty points." Next, the second judge takes to the bench and the first judge appears before him. "You were traveling at 50mph in a 40mph zone. That's a £500 fine and 6 penalty points." The first judge objects: "But I gave you a smaller fine and applied fewer penalty points despite yours being a worse case of speeding." The second judge explains his reasoning: "But this is the second case of speeding brought before this court today. It's time to stamp it out!"

    We are not going to face a smaller points penalty. If I had to guess, it will be another 6 points, at which point all hell breaks loose.

  9. 3 hours ago, Matt said:

    I don't understand why there's such a vocal body of people who seem desperate for renewable energy schemes to fail. You see it in some people's comments to that article, but it's become something of an obsession among conservatives in the US. Why would we not want to pursue such options? Why would we not want to reduce smog, limit the rise of sea level, prevent extreme weather patterns, and generally be good stewards of the earth?

  10. 42 minutes ago, dunlopp9987 said:

    Just getting in here before everyone screams about his brace and how we shouldn't have let him go. His first goal was a real stinker, his second a tap-in header from 3 yards out. 

    He missed an absolute sitter in the first half.

    They all count, and he's scored ten goals in his last eight appearances.

  11. 21 hours ago, Palfy said:

    Yeah, we argue less when we talk about pizza. 

    The other give-away to the British abroad is squashing peas on the back of the fork instead of just scooping them up on the front of the fork. Where do such national habits originate?

    Another is holding a knife in the right hand for an entire meal that just requires a fork. Why not do what the rest of the world does and hold the fork in the right hand? Or am I being unfair to sinistrals?

  12. 3 hours ago, RuffRob said:

    so are you counting the FA cup draw (against Palace) but not the FA cup win against them in your 12 games? or including EFL cup?

    otherwise ifs just league games then it's 11 games and not 12 since last win againt Burnley just less that 3months ago. 

    just numbers (months and number of league games) you are saying originally are both incorrect. 

    the numbers are bad enough without need to over embellishing.  

    Are you denying we haven’t won in 53 games and 18 months?

    Palfy: raise you 10 games and 2 months. 

  13. On 12/03/2024 at 10:32, Matt said:

    The dickheads taken them on a jolly apparently 

     

     

    That's such a stereotypical picture of the English abroad: black socks with shorts. :) You can tell the English holidaying in America by that dressing habit alone - along with eating pizza with a knife and fork. All that's missing is the knotted hankie on his head.

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