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Reply | Christie signs
at 22:27 1 Nov 2024
We can only hope that the stories about other people looking into part/full ownership of the Club comes about. Because with this lot the only way is down. |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 22:21 27 Oct 2024
Yes, I would. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 18:19 27 Oct 2024
I don't normally look at the highlights when we lose but I did today to try and work out what happened. The first 75 mins was for the most part dreadful. Slow, boring, paint dry stuff. The last fifteen they came to life. I don't know if it was Ollie coming on (whether Franco should have been the one going off is another question) but things immediately became more positive.
They went at it and there were a lot of chances. The highlights showed the scrambles at both posts, Key's chance straight at the keeper and the double save/block by the keeper. It didn't show the two free headers in the six yard box - Darling and ??? (can't remember). Darlings went over the top and the other header went wide of the right hand post. That one was completely free and didn't even hit the target.
Back to the first 75 mins. Incredibly frustrating and Grimes was guilty a lot of the time for slowing things down but I also lost count of the number of times I said to my mate no one is moving. Grimes had Darling and Cabango either side of him meaning there were seven players in front of him and not one of them was moving to create space for a pass (not all the time obviously).
Is that a coaching problem ? Do you need to be told that you need to make space ? The answers no.
Then back to the last fifteen minutes. All those chances not scored from. Some of it was good goalkeeping but if so many chances are created is it the coaches fault that none of them were taken ? |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 17:58 27 Oct 2024
Why don't we wait and find out the details before jumping to conclusions. |
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Reply | Don’t mention Gyökeres
at 22:23 24 Oct 2024
You're right, he wasn't. The fact that he did eventually develop into a very good player is just something that happens. |
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Thread | Slavery reparation
at 18:38 24 Oct 2024
It's all the rage at the moment so I have a thought.
The idea would be that the UK government would fund this in whatever way it was agreed whether that be simply loads of money or development investment in those countries or whatever.
It's fair to say that very few people in the UK benefited from the slave trade when it existed. A small number of families made absolute fortunes while the vast bulk of the population got nothing out of it.
But then the government agreed to provide compensation to those slave owners to make up for their 'loss of earnings' from the vile trade when it was abolished.
So they borrowed £20 million to provide that compo and we have been paying back that debt for the last 200 years (until 2015). That £20 million, allowing for inflation, would now equate to £16/17 billion.
So rather than saying we should all pay reparation why not make those families pay it all back. Let's say £50 billion. Sounds a nice number to me.
And if it was argued that in some small way we all benefited from the trade then it could be said that we've already paid our dues because the £16/17 billion came out of ordinary peoples taxes. |
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Reply | US election interference
at 18:25 24 Oct 2024
Even Farage, who would jump at the chance to dump on the Labour Government, admits that if Labour did not fund the trip by these people then there's nothing to see. Perhaps he's just being extra careful in not pointing fingers after his freebie trip on a private jet to see his buddy Donald.
It appears that these 100 or so people just love political campaigning and have funded their trip themselves.
If that is shown to be the case then ignore it. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 18:38 22 Oct 2024
Can anyone explain this to me please ?
So many people ask why should our children pay inheritance tax on the house that we leave them when we die as we've paid taxes already on the money used to buy that home.
These are rough numbers just to make the point. We bought our house in 1985 with a mortgage of about £30,000 and we paid that off over 25 years as do most people. The actual amount we paid was around three times the mortgage amount due to interest so we actually paid about £90,000.
So we paid £90,000 that we had earned and we paid tax on that earned money. The house is worth roughly £300,000. If it was sold there would be £210,000 'profit' that we hadn't paid tax on.
So why shouldn't we pay tax on that money ? I wouldn't want my son to have to pay that tax but I certainly didn't pay it. |
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Thread | MUSK
at 09:43 21 Oct 2024
What do you all think of this ?
'20 October 2024
Updated 6 hours ago
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said he will give away $1m (£766,000) a day to a registered voter in key swing states until the US presidential election on 5 November.
The winner will be chosen at random from those who sign a pro-US Constitution petition by Mr Musk’s campaign group AmericaPAC, which he set up to support Republican nominee Donald Trump's bid to return to the White House.
The first lottery-style cheque was given away to a surprised attendee at a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Saturday night. Another cheque was handed out on Sunday.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who supports Kamala Harris, called Mr Musk's strategy "deeply concerning." |
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Reply | Plaid Cymru on Israel
at 18:12 20 Oct 2024
Jeremy Bowen has been a news correspondent in many war zone situations for decades and is someone I believe to be truthful in what he says.
When there were reports a couple of weeks ago about numbers killed in a different attack he said that in his experience figures produced by Hamas were generally (his word) accurate. |
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Reply | Transferring ownership of your house to your son
at 18:04 20 Oct 2024
Many thanks for all the replies everyone.
I have been reading them all. I'm making other inquiries as well and will keep an eye on the thread for any more advice. |
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Thread | Alex Salmond
at 18:41 12 Oct 2024
He has died aged just 69.
RIP. |
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Reply | Tory leadership
at 18:30 9 Oct 2024
All of them are irrelevant to be now so I switch off when they speak. And they will hopefully be in the wilderness for at least two terms.
Happy days. |
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Reply | Fuel
at 17:46 8 Oct 2024
Filled up today. |
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