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  1. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Are you offended by being called a racist, based on literally no evidence, by simply being present in a group of people? That's what you're doing here. Now be honest, you don't like it. It's a lot of writing because I'm trying to offer a considered, reasoned opinion rather than just chucking...
  2. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Anyways apologies to @Evo1883 , who I also think it's a decent poster most of the time, but is dead wrong here imho. Anyway, back to the issues, I watched an interview yesterday that made a very good point (again imho). The interviewee, might have been an NGO or UN type, said that the country...
  3. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Cool. You're a poster here, and at least one other poster has expressed a racist opinion at some point. Therefore I think you're a racist. I don't need any actual evidence of your racism, you're in the room, I know there must be some more racists here, and I think it's you. You don't mind do...
  4. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    That's purely your opinion based on a single person's statement. Where's your evidence? You're accusing thousands of people you've never met and don't know, of something pretty offensive. I could just as easily say that I think that there's a hate for Muslims that runs deep. And based on one...
  5. duffer

    Birmingham match moved to Friday night

    Maton promised there'd be a pub within my allocated 15 minutes, but it's 17 minutes away and I don't want to get arrested. I could run, I suppose, but then I get there all hot and sweaty. Feckin council.
  6. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I'd pay good money to see the Tory party split in half like that, but I'd also worry that there's enough people who'd vote for him as a leader that he might actually get elected! The Boris effect - bit of a larf, likes a pint, tiny bit racist but then who isn't, eh.
  7. duffer

    Rugby World Cup 2023

    Best hope might be for some hideous weather so that it turns into fifteen-a-side bog snorkelling. Our Leicestershire contingent at least have webbed feet to help them then. 😁 Joking aside, is there a roof on the stadium does anyone know?
  8. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Yep, that's probably the depressing truth. There's always the vague hope that one of the multiple lunatic fringes blows up and supports a vote of no confidence I suppose. It might be easier if the lazy bastards were obliged to turn up and do some actual work for a change. They can just suck on...
  9. duffer

    Wasps go to bottom of the pyramid

    Yes, because the shady fuckers running what's left of the club haven't given up on stitching up another team (Worcester ) yet. So it's interesting keeping track of it. Plus, as above, if people want to discuss it, who is anyone else to say it should be shut down?
  10. duffer

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    If so, that's a scandal... I wonder if the best chance of getting there earlier is some kind of giant catfight in the Tories as their impending doom becomes obvious.
  11. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    It seems broadly accepted that Israel were happy to see Hamas in control of Gaza because it undermined the two state solution that the more moderate Palestinian Authority were willing to negotiate over. Like Israel's current government, Hamas isn't prepared to accept a two state solution, they...
  12. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Good Lord man, find someone who hasn't called out the atrocities committed by Hamas (or other Islamic terrorists. You are despising something that exists entirely in your own head - you're literally making it up. What people are saying about Israel isn't that it doesn't have the right to defend...
  13. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Given it seems accepted that the hospital was warned a strike was coming by Israel, that it had been hit twice already by Israeli missiles, and that neither of those strikes seemed to have caused huge craters, I think it's a pretty big leap to assert that it definitely wasn't Israel...
  14. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Let's not get overambitious, eh. :)
  15. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    I think it's the top 10 countries combined, but even that might be a bit of a myth, especially when it comes to China. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/19/china-defense-budget-military-weapons-purchasing-power/
  16. duffer

    Wasps go to bottom of the pyramid

    Global fanbase my arse. Two expats in Australia, and a bored bloke in the US who watches a dodgy stream twice a season and thinks that the kit looks cool. Tops. Bless em, they don't half kid themselves...
  17. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    From the Guardian: Puts the lie to the IDF claim that they wouldn't target hospitals. The direct quotes are from Hosam Naoum, Anglican bishop of Jerusalem. The hospital is run by the Anglicans... “At that point in time [of the blast], we know there were thousands of people there,” he said...
  18. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    I think the Palestinians would say that this is about their simple right to exist. Israel would say the same of course, but the power imbalance here is obvious.
  19. duffer

    Israel - Palestinian Conflict

    Genocide in Gaza? That's what the legal scholars are saying... https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/
  20. duffer

    Anyone with Guinea-Bissauan ancestry?

    I'm just trying to get this scarf finished before Christmas...
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