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So we should be happy that we've got a POTUS who could be a disaster on a global scale, as long as we're at the front of the queue for some questionable trade deal in the future? Wouldn't you say that's more than a little bit short sighted, Rowls? As for being swept up in the domestic politics of a...

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Well, this thread was fun for a giggle. Hampstead has summed up Obama's presidency very well. He appears to have a very nice and likeable family. He also didn't do anything -very little indeed- that could ever be deemed controversial. A remarkable achievement for a man who spent 8 years as President.

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There is no way you can honestly think that Donald Trump being President of the United States is a good idea. I notice that some of these Trump defenders are the same posters who were the most vociferous when it came to arguing the 'Leave' case in the EU referendum. Which explains a lot. The two ar...

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They should embrace traditional East End things like pie & mash, jellied eels and statues of Michael Jackson.

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~700 looks about right

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Imploding Turtle wrote:it's Obama who's the aggressor.

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Croydon Claret wrote:Top flight football? They're going to make everybody sit in the top tier of each stand...

That supposes a crowd of at least 3 but at current rates they'll be getting below that very shortly.

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Sausage wrote:Cheers Rowls. Does this mean I have to give you the £1 back?

Most definitely.

But I'd prefer two Euros if you please.

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Diamond Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lWAcY9IXE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; FUN FACT: Bowie recorded this in a studio but wanted it to sound 'live'. The sound of the audience at the start is in fact from a Rod Stewart concert and -if you listen carefully- you can just ma...

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1000 copies? I dream of those figures now! That said, issue 130 is out on Saturday, and we have been going for 17 years, which isn't bad?! Fantastic that we still have a well-written, well-edited and well-supported fanzine going. It's well appreciated. By the way, if you're also chucking out any Bo...

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Pffft.

I nearly earn £615 every other week.

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Obviously, want to beat Sunderland first.

We could draw the Green Martians away in the cup and it wouldn't even be a new ground unless we beat Sunderland first.

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BleedingClaret wrote:Thats a bit of an issue if they don't go up!

Owen Coyle believes they still have the quality to make the play offs.

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Crunch time coming up for Rovers. Years in the wilderness beckon.

Great times.

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USC wrote:See - not too many similarities

Listing the differences does not make the similarities disappear.

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If our situation (as an independent, sovereign nation and a member of the European Union) was in any way comparable to pre-revolutionary France or America as a British colony, I'd understand the need for drastic action. But I don't think that's the case. I think our situation in the EU was comparab...

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Apologies.

I realise now that ImplodingCharlie posted his guff in his drinking hours.

Had I known this, I would not have replied.

Good night.

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This is the most galling thing about it. The people who voted for this are either going to be dead or retired when it happens, or are the people who will lose what are among the most important protections they get from the EU once the tories are allowed to run amok - that's their workers' rights. T...

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Is there any evidence that the number of Aston Martin cars that are sold is restricted because of our current membership of the EU? Plenty of evidence that we do not trade freely with large portions of the world. "Evidence" is not really needed. The trade restrictions are there, if you understand w...

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At the same time, Nigel Farage doesn't have a better grasp of the financial realities for the UK outside of the EU than anyone else. He's as guilty as everyone else of making it up as he goes along. Nigel, for all his bombast and other faults, has never fallen into the trap of declaring predictions...

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...I dare say Cameron, had he thought he could get away with it, would have produced a calculator that told people what their salary would be in 5 years' time with Brexit or without; but even he couldn't swing those figures and make them real. It's essentially what George Osborne pretended his depa...

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quoonbeatz wrote:i've seen cleverley have some brilliant games and then others where he's been an absolute bag of daz.

quoonbeatz takes us the doorstep original insult challenge. It'll never catch on.

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The Bleacher report disseminated our Nationalist Railways.

Mrs Malaprop was scything about the damage it caused our mural communities.

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Top ten isn't entirely bonkers but neither is predicting relegation either.

From 8th downwards it's all to play for essentially.

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3 steel towers collapsed in one day, first time that's happened, yet they found a few of the terrorists passports, which survived despite being made out of paper. They needed another event on a Pearl Harbour scale and got it. I don't believe for one second that the powers that be care about peoples...

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Should be noted that we were a Division 3 side on the day and they were in the top flight.

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fidelcastro wrote:Who?

Manuel knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiThRIHwQDE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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We can easily afford this guy but that is no longer the question.

The question is, 'Can we persuade him to come to us?' and 'Who is willing to pay more for him?'

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I rather stupidly found it funny to start a chant of "Pulis Out!" whilst walking back to the railway station in Stoke after an away win. Without any Claret on my person and baring a midlands accent, I imagined it would be hilarious. Unfortunately it worked too well. The Stoke neanderthals around us ...

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He might do due to his lack of being a politician, but will soon get brought round to the corrupt way. A man of his means could be incorruptible in terms of most politicians weakness - financial gain. That's not to say the thought of power isn't evidently intoxicating for the man but if I were advi...

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He will do exactly what his party wants through the two houses I expect. What, the party that did virtually nothing to support him during his self-funded campaign and did everything it could to have block him? Trump is a Republican in name only. He was a Democrat when it suited him back in the day.

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American politics is basically who will pay the most to have legalisation of policies in or not. Only have to look at the gun issues. The senators are backed by big business to get in and they vote accordingly. Oh boy are you in for good news Jeffbfc! One of Trump's keynote policies is a clampdown ...

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Yes. Zak Goldsmith is a well known racist.

Anyway, must dash - it's my first day off after 13 successive (successful) shifts.

I'm going out for a pint!

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Well, he made the promise to the electorate and was elected. You can call it "face saving" if you want. 'Keeping his electoral promise' also works. By-elections cost a pittance in terms of government budgets but I am glad to see people concerned about public expenditure. I hope to see further eviden...

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Well the constituents can take it up with, erm, their local MP.

At the ballot box.

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And disown his long-held economic beliefs and adopt a protectionist, anti-trade, quasi-socialism?

What sense would that make?

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If you know anything much about Zak Goldsmith you'll know how serious he is about his environmentalism.

He'll make an excellent independent.

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Looking at the ONS' data on NINO registrations, the top 5 EU nations far outweigh the top 5 non-EU nations for migration to the UK. The truth is - we don't actually have good enough figures. For the record, NINO allocation is shoddy, unprofessional and should not be used as a proxy for immigration ...

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Hopefully someone will reply with good info.

Who was scouting for us in Oceana when we secured O'Neill and Howieson? Are they still there and working for the club?

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On the subject of what helps, walks and other forms of exercise such as swimming, badminton. Social events, going out, attending an event, being in a crowd (if you can) although that can be extremely difficult for many. I couldn't attend a football game for two years and that was painful. Colouring...

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jdrobbo wrote:One thing about Burnley and one thing about another club in an around us...

My mistake - I've done it geographically.

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Burnley Some good signs, some worrying. If we adapt and get better like we did last time (avoiding a start as horrendous) we should have accrued enough nous by the end of the season to see us through.

Blackburn They're screwed.

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There are major doubts about the viability of the hyperloop transport system.

If we can't safely propel people to the speed of sound within a vacuum sealed tube for hundreds of miles then there's little hope for humanity.

I'm jacking it all in.

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Imploding Turtle wrote:Economist say that it can work an none of the trials for it has been a failure. But goalposts says it's all bullshit so that's it everyone. Never mind.

Proof that it won't work, if anyone needed it.

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Moses: Aren't these a bit restrictive?
Dyche: There is freedom within the framework.

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I think what you're saying is that a government should pick the best ideas from a range of ideas from a range of people, and implement them using the expertise and know how of as many people as possible. No. That's not my point. Once again. Even though it's spelled out. Even though you were trying ...

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My point was that politics isn't about simple problem solving: It's about making difficult judgment calls and having the skills needs to sell your vision to the public, implement it and explain what you're doing whilst retaining popularity, not taking your eye off the ball in case of other problems ...

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If you are all so intelligent, why don't you all start up a new political party and sort out the so called problems? Who's this aimed at? If intelligence was all you needed to run a political party then Michael Foot would have been elected. If politicals was a simple case of "sorting all the proble...

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This thread is as daft as the merchant of doom stories we had for two-and-a-half days after Brexit. Brexit in itself is neither good nor bad. It's what we make of it. We've left a bureaucratic disaster which is tied to the monstrous single currency of the Euro. We've also left a political club that ...

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If it be your will wrote:I think Rowls has won this, I'm afraid. He has achieved exactly what he set out to do - put an end to the discussion. I hope we all have things to take away and think about, ready for the real debate when it comes.

I managed to have a civilised debate with Dante.

But not Turtle.

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