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keith1879

Some very well argued and thoughtful posts on this thread in my opinion.

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I am 66 and when I was around 7 or 8, we were known as the Turfites. Would this have been in the press of the time? And did the fans use the term? (Our family lived in Castleford near Leeds so only got to the town on match days or visiting my Aunt). On the other hand my Dad was from the area and wa...

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I think Royalites goes back to either Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's son) watching a game at the Turf when he came to open Victoria Hospital. Turfites - always known as that when I first started watching, no one ever then referred to us as Clarets. I started in the early 60s and we were the Claret...

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I see where you are coming from Keith, however IMO if we had made this offer when he had 18 months left on his contract (long before Newcastle would’ve registered him as a potential Bosman rule signing) then he would’ve likely accepted reduced terms as there would’ve been much less interest in his ...

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How do you know that Hendrick wasn't offered a bumper signing on fee to join Newcastle as a free agent? The truth is you don't, and nor does anyone else. So you can't claim with any credibility that the club were careless to let Hendrick's contract run down, when it appears that they tried wholehea...

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How else would you put it? It would not have cost Burnley over 50k a week to secure a long-term contract for JH, a hard-working player who fits into the Dyche system very well. If the club are using COVID-19 as an excuse for the non-renewal, Dyche told them to do so 18 months previously, so they ca...

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Hi CK, In the article, I have clarified that I don't have a problem with the club for not having the same amounts of money to spend as other clubs. The issue for me is more the fact that we have our cash reserves tucked away having made profit for the last 5 seasons and haven't used it to strengthe...

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Can this really be compared to Cummings ? Who should have been sacked without a doubt .However we’re talking travelling on public transport knowingly with Covid which is reckless and dangerous . Cummings was being a selfish idiotic bellend but hardly ( theoretically ) endangering life ,even with hi...

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Cummings went back in to work after being with his wife suffering from Covid symptoms. He then drove the length of the country with an infected family. You can defend all the crappy excuses all you want but you are just proving my point how people will treat the two differently. Both put MPs at ris...

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mkmel wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 29, 2020 2:40 pm
Yes but apart from all of those things what else have Johnson and his colleagues done wrong?

Sometimes just pressing "Like" isn't enough.

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The decision for Orient to forfeit the game was part of the competition rules. It would have been a disgrace if the agreed rules weren't enforced. The protection provided by FA/EFL is to enforce the rules - and help ensure that professional football can continue to be played during these covid time...

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Ah, sorry i hadn't read the whole thread, and as nobody had been quoted I just assumed it was a statement. Yeah my grandad worked down the mines and I fully agree with you on that point. I just can't think of anyone standing for votes that fits that description More is the pity. Edward Heath drove ...

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The one I keep getting is the phone call from Amazon Prime offering me the chance to cancel my renewal. I must have paid that £80 ten times now and they still don't get the message.

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A rare login from me as I have become utterly fed up of the rubbish spouted on political threads but...........Your statement cannot go unchallenged. Not all racists and sociopaths are craven, simple-minded bootlickers. There are a hell of a lot of racist sociopaths posting on here and I felt it ne...

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It's never a good idea to make sweeping generalisations, but here goes: the only people still fooled or enamoured by Johnson are craven, simple-minded bootlickers. A rare login from me as I have become utterly fed up of the rubbish spouted on political threads but...........Your statement cannot go...

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What are you going on about? Trump isn’t a facist or doing facist things. He’s playing up to his supporter base like all politicians do. He hasn’t oppressed anyone or dictated anything. In fact if you looked a little harder he’s actually done quite well harbouring peace with hostile nations/leaders...

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Much less complex than narcissism but very true......the old adage that "You cannot argue with someone who knows that they are right". I get the feeling with narcissists (why do I always find that tricky to spell?) that they don't always know that they are right......but they want to believe that th...

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tim_noone wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:29 am
That would be with females....I'm guessing

The worst narcissists I have encountered are/were male. Not sure what that says about them or me.

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to be fair Inchy if we were all to do a self analysis would we believe anyone on this whole site who says, I have none of those traits? I think I do have empathy, I can be sensitive to criticism but depending upon how it's delivered, I do get frustrated easily when others can not see what I believe...

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KateR wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:06 pm
well, I think Keith lit the blue touchpaper and just walked off lol

One should always retire to a safe distance.... I was interested by the article though as it seemed to set out and explain much of what frustrates me about modern day debate.

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I suppose that I believed most of this already intuitively....but it's useful to have it all set out in a sensible form. I'm sure that we will all nod sagely in agreement with some of the points made here. (Although I also think that several of us will fail to realise that they are the subjects of t...

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scouseclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 20, 2020 10:52 am
Don’t expect the Brexiteer, anti-immigrant right to let the truth spoil good, hard-wired prejudice.

I don't..... But moderately expressed factual posts may help to influence the sensible people... The ones who matter.

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To my knowledge immigrants ARE supposed to be dealt with at point of entry. In any case. Why should we take them when they have been through several countries with equal/better economy and/or weather? I am pretty sure your link is not correct. As said. It's irrelevant. They're escaping brutality or...

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Why is an ‘honest’ discussion needed? What will it change? The fact no others have ever been used as a weapon shows that the lesson was learned. Revisionism is not the way forward; they were dropped, people were killed, the war ended now move on. Sure, remember the victims, and ALL of the victims o...

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I just think it is a big leap to say that in certain circumstances targeting civilians is a justifiable means of waging war. Of course, where military targets are located close to civilian areas, non-combatants will be killed. That is one thing, but to drop atom bombs with the deliberate intention ...

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Unfortunately Andrew, no we can not get IPlayer here, certainly even a decade ago I was, shall we say skeptical around Global Warming as an issue in my lifetime, however over the last few years I have slowly changed my mind. I don't think it will radically effect me however I certainly believe it w...

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I hope that I don't need to add a smiley face to my last post.

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It can never have been this warm back when the dinosaurs were around. Think about it. When was the last time you saw a drawing or interpretation of a dinosaur wearing sunglasses? They'd have evolved differently if it was. T'Rex would never have been able to put those sunglasses on with his tiny arm...

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Unfortunately Andrew, no we can get IPlayer here, certainly even a decade ago I was, shall we say skeptical around Global Warming as an issue in my lifetime, however over the last few years I have slowly changed my mind. I don't think it will radically effect me however I certainly believe it will ...

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Ringo who?

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The phrase "I am not a racist".....always spoken by racists.

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I totally agree with FF. But....here's a bit of food for thought.... I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the oln...

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This one cracked me up, And Philip May, husband of former Prime Minister Theresa May, gets a knighthood for "political service". What political service? they are turning the HOL into even more of a farce than you can imagine. I don't always agree with the SNP, but this is an open goal for them, and...

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Surely the correct answer to the question is "Yes......most sane people are capable of doing so". The problem with Boris is that he has been proved to be a liar so often that nobody would know if he did tell the truth.

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I think most politicians have said things that were not factually true. Am I defending him - No but because there are plenty of names we could probably come up with where MPs from different sides of the house who have been guilty of this. Child poverty should not be an issue in today's world so aga...

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Sweden trend. Zero lockdown. I have seen more than one source (sample shown) that suggests that not only did Sweden have a poorer outturn than expected in terms of deaths but that its economy has done no better either. The worst of all worlds in fact. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/swe...

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:07 pm
On what basis?

Any idea how many other countries have done daily televised briefings?

Probably none....which makes them all better informed than us because we have basically had lies spouted on a daily basis,

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Felt quite emotional reading that. He really was a legend .....I did see him play but don't really remember because like all kids I was watching the forwards. I must have attended most of the games when he was manager....a draining experience at times!

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I'm by no means convinced that the models used in the UK, which said that if we act like Sweden we will get far worse results than they had, are right. Sweden are having a very different shape of epidemic and it looks as if their infections (or at least their detected infections) are still on the r...

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Pstotto wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 07, 2020 3:49 pm
... When you cross a village green in Kent and there's a kid in an Arsenal top pretending to be Burnley and Ashley Barnes.

That's what I saw and heard today!

It's good to know that he was "on the grass".

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Not directly perhaps. But he's certainly made it easier (rightly or wrongly) for people to justify it to themselves by attending, when he blatantly allows some to break the rules with impunity. Absolutely.....it's all unravelling rather. Having said that I'm not convinced that there will be a secon...

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He was a phenomenal header-and from memory not particularly tall. Have only ever seen a few players do it (Denis Law was one) but he could stay in the air a fraction longer, so technically he would climb before the defender and as a result he would get the ball. From goal kicks he would win the maj...

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Surprised no-one's mentioned the Telford 3-0 FA Cup debacle, that day really brought home who low we'd sunk. Burton in the LC still rankles, we'd been given a bye to the 3rd rd, due to our European campaign,and threw away a 1-0 HT lead, the night Heats had a shocker, what made it worse was they got...

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If this is true, which I find hard to believe and perhaps convenient heading in to tourist season, it makes it all the more unbelievable they’re willing to put this success in jeopardy by reopening their borders. Spain's figures have been very strange for the last 6 days and it looks inevitable tha...

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Well it's fairly obvious that Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty have refused to support Cummings.

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cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑
Wed May 27, 2020 6:55 pm

Hopefuly they arent taking the virus to space!

The basis of a good conspiracy theory there I think.

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Ugh...just seeing that yellow cover gives me the shivers.

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Anyone watching Boris in front of the committee? He really doesn't convince does he? (Not just talking about the Cummings thing).

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As the thread got overwhelmed by Cummings mania yesterday i didn't get the chance to post good news,i'd definitely class this as good news from yesterday. Coronavirus: No new deaths in Republic of Ireland There were no new Covid-19 linked deaths in the Republic of Ireland in the last 24 hours.(this...

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Still dont understand why this was suddenly a problem because of the illness. Sounds like an excuse to me but if true and it was that serious then Im sure he's reported it to the police who give a reference every time a report of this nature. Until we say some evidence beyond it being just his say ...

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