Sweet

That’s football nowadays, trying their best for fouls and getting the opposition sent off. It should be another level again with England vs Argentina, the latter completely loathes England.

I don’t think cubs is saying illegal immigration is driving up housing prices, but legal isn’t. He’s saying the number renting drives demand and illegals are a large part of the surge. In the U.K. we had 10 million immigrants (legal / illegal / asylum) in the last 10 or so years, bumping our population from 60 million to 70 million, and our moron politicians can’t figure out why house prices and rent are going up, or are pretending not to know.

Yeh some dudes have lost their mind, but need to remember that Trump is a vaccine for woke. It wasn’t too long ago that men were women, you were a bigot for not agreeing so, kids should be injected with hormones, white privilege means you can’t have an opinion, can’t talk about immigration without being a racist, discrimination in college admissions…. Pretty long list. And I’d say that many of the aforementioned ills haven’t really gone away either, Trump is great in some ways but terrible in others too.

Decent list, though in fairness the quote should really be attributed to Buffett.

I’m of the same opinion. Anxiety has become a big thing, there are huge numbers of people in the U.K. claiming they are incapable of working and getting a government cheque to sit at home because they got a medical note saying their anxiety was so crippling it prevents them from working. Think the number is well north of half a million. When I was entering the workforce this was unheard of but it’s directly downstream of broadening out categories of ill health and disability. On my son. We got some suggestions from the state speech therapist. It’s flash cards on a page and basically he’s to come and point at what he wants. I get this is supposed to help communication but part of me wonders if it takes away the need to talk too. I mean the little fella is lazy, he would happily sit there and let me spoon fed him his food so he could continue playing with his toys - I refuse to do it anymore. So part of the help also feels like enabling.

Don’t trust Wikipedia Charlie. See the talk section on that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Democratic_backsliding_in_the_United_States Wikipedia cannot be neutral which their editors are biased. I used to contribute to some articles on Wikipedia but stopped because the editors wouldn’t allow some facts they didn’t like to be included in the article.

I think don’t think this is true Charlie. Case in point above law by the EU.

Any word on this @Loss Horizon? Crap like this is why I voted Leave in 2016.

I rarely watch it anymore either. In part because of the dramatics.

Dunno Greg. I know loads of sports guys that don’t give a crap about beating their best opponent, and want any little advantage they can get so they can win. I can also tell you don’t watch much football, because the ease at which football players regularly fall over looking for a free kick, or a penalty, for even the lightest of touches, is embarrassing, and is a direct counter to the point you are making.

I’m afraid the usual suspect injected politics into it again.

lol , I know, and all those policies have been bad for Europe and good for everyone else.

they need to apply tariffs to protect their industry

Democracy is an exercise in populism. I keep seeing populism being framed universally bad. It isn’t. I’m from Europe, and anybody who doesn’t think there are issues with free speech in our continent aren’t seeing straight. You should be allowed to criticise politicans, policies, cultures, immigration, whatever. Everyone agrees there is a line somewhere but we haven’t got it right. In my life time there has certainly been a rolling back of free speech.

May have been posted already: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0gp88q4l4o Poland’s prime minister has said the country is preparing for “various” scenarios and that the coming months could be “critical” concerning the threat from Russia. Donald Tusk was responding to media reports that Moscow was planning an armed "provocation" in Poland to test Nato's resolve, citing US intelligence. "I don't mean to scare anyone but the coming months may truly be critical, also due to the changing nature of the war. These concerns are particularly palpable in the Baltic states," Tusk told reporters on Friday. Polish news outlet Onet reported that sources close to President Karol Nawrocki had said the US had issued several warnings to Warsaw about a plot to attack the country. The White House and US State Department did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment. Under the purported plans, also published by the Telegraph in the UK on Friday, Polish infrastructure could be targeted by missiles or drones, or soldiers could be sent into the Nato state.”