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  1. oakey

    End of Woke News?

    If that's accurate it's interesting that more people watch morning news than evening news. What exactly do they imagine has happened during the night? Perhaps they are more interested in overseas stories? Is this why morning news discussion points are dominated by opinions and what's in the papers?
  2. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    The gas lighting is now endemic. Nothing to see here. We are delivering on the priorities of the British people, Brexit, Vaccines, world beating yada yada, jibber jabber. Labour would be worse. Look over there - dinghies, illegals, woke, statues being attacked. So depressing.
  3. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    If a married tory minister was caught dogging with a woman who was in government employ and it emerged that he was giving lucrative contracts to her brother? I'm guessing he'd only be in trouble if he was parked on a double yellow line. That's how far standards in public life have sunk.
  4. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Don't forget Cleopatra. Didn't do her reputation any harm. If Hancock was a woman he'd be gone. A cheat is a cheat. It does affect their public role. If you'd cheat on your wife and kids you would cheat in other ways too. However, those of us with a moral compass are seemingly now in a...
  5. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    I see no reason for him to resign or be sacked. He has been a perfect embodiment of the Tory brand which had a stonking majority only 18 months ago ... so it's what the great British public want. There is no point him going unless they all go and that's not happening thus nothing can be gained...
  6. oakey

    21/22 Summer transfer mega-thread

    Fuss made over phones, cars etc. It either works well or it doesn't. Don't blind me with science. Looked at a new laptop in John Lewis. I might just be the stereotypical girlie and select by colour. It seems as good a method as any. Life's too short for all the BS.
  7. oakey

    European championships 2020 thread

    Once Scotland's number 2 got booked for fouling Grealish the priority should have been for G to receive the ball on the edge of their box and run at him.
  8. oakey

    European championships 2020 thread

    I think Southgate calculated that a high intensity game was too unpredictable. He feared a bad injury, sending off or soft penalty against. You could say he bottled it. You could say he took the low road to getting out of the group unscathed.
  9. oakey

    European championships 2020 thread

    No intensity or real attempt to win the game. Too cautious and timid. Southgate was happy to take a point and instilled a negative mindset in his players. He wants to progress by low risk approaches to games.
  10. oakey

    Build back in a gender neutral more feminine way

    Tory women only get to the top by not challenging patriarchal attitudes. The 2 PMs + Patel believed that the system is meritocratic so do nothing to help other women. If any of them behaved like BoJo they wouldn't have even got a candidacy for MP. Can you imagine Thatcher or May - sacked for...
  11. oakey

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Heard an interview with someone who had worked with Johnson before he was even London mayor. This person said Johnson hates making decisions and his modus operandi is to wait as long as possible until his options are reduced to 2 or 3 then he jumps. He is also hard to read as colleagues believe...
  12. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    This will negate the 'child born out of wedlock' slur forever won't it? Age of consent is 16 so if a girl legally has sex, aged 16/17, and conceives, she cannot marry until 18. Thus rendering the child 'illegitimate'. Have they thought this through or does none of it matter any more?
  13. oakey

    New supporters club near town?

    Age related voting in action. Club's finest years (with teams which rarely feared relegation) were 60s and 70s but most fans think it was 80s and 90s. Although our 87 cup win was the greatest attainment it was an aberration, after 3 close escapes from relegation, in a period of slow but...
  14. oakey

    Club Legends

    Carr, Mortimer, Yorath, Hutch. All class above. Others are sentimental picks IMO
  15. oakey

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    The BBC news announce those stats literally every day.
  16. oakey

    Things that annoy you

    It ruins your sheets but well worth it.
  17. oakey

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    https://news.sky.com/story/uk-growth-forecast-upgraded-but-pandemic-economic-scar-will-be-worst-of-all-g7-nations-says-oecd-12321253
  18. oakey

    Things that annoy you

    Shedule, until Generation X started watching Friends on a loop. Other examples Autopsy when they mean post mortem. Cookie when they mean biscuit. C section when they mean Caesarean.
  19. oakey

    Things that annoy you

    It's the same with 'skyrocketed'. Didn't 'rocketed' suffice? How does adding Sky improve the meaning? Another stupid Americanism, no doubt. Don't get me started on normalcy creeping in instead of normality and schedule being pronounced the American 'skedule' instead of British 'shedule'
  20. oakey

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I'm feeling giddy on this just levelled playing field, dazzled by the aura of the recently extinguished light at the end of the tunnel, teetering on the end of this bridge.
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