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Greenmile

On average it IS more likely to be black though if red has been out 9 times. Logically maybe not. But statistically and on average it is. In fact even logically it is. It isn't, trust me. I get into a lot of debates on this message board but this one isn't a matter of opinion, or even science, but ...

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What wouldnt be a law of averages is expecting us to win at Anfield last week just because Liverpool have won the last god knows how many. But with red and black law of averages DOES come into it as both have an equal chance of coming out. So if red has come out 10 times, statistically and on avera...

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On a serious note never had an issue with them. I bet on the football. I have bet in casinos too. Just don't enjoy 'virtual' gambling as it seems even less likely to win to me. Two times I have cocked up are like Quickenthetempo says. Once won 500 dollars on my first ever spin of a roulette table i...

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NRC - that may be true but when I say 'terrorist' i mean someone who has been proven to be a terrorist; ie. someone who has commited a terrorist atrocity. i'm not talking about potential terrorists in that instance. So convicted terrorists shouldn't be allowed to travel freely into the USA? Should ...

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Fair play. Can't say I agree with all your arguments, but thanks for responding to my reminder.

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ClaretMoffitt wrote:I want to but my effort levels honestly won't allow me to do it. I'm sat in bed, blissfully watching planet earth reruns. I'll have a do in the morning or mid-afternoon tomorrow.

Still waiting for this.

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I don't go around preaching that other people should do it you ******* melt. I've no interest in taking in thousands of people, she does. She just doesn't want to take any responsibility or use any of her massive resources to do so. I don't have 16 unoccupied bedrooms, a net worth in the billions a...

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Oh I know, its already in it's early phase, it just needs to go mainstream among it's target audience now. These phrases tend to start out life with political public figures with big social media followings, then get abused by the press, then picked up by politicians and lastly go mainstream with a...

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Love is much like respect. I don't respect everyone because some people are goons and seriously irritate me. I don't love everyone either. I imagine that would happen in a world of candy floss and pink fluffy motorbikes. Do you live in a world like that? I'd like to - not the candy floss and motorb...

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You are criticising him on a Burnley FC football messageboard. Good god man no matter how much you hate the guy, and you lefties are accusing Trump of encouraging hate, your criticism on here won't change things. I rather doubt Donald Trump ever frequents this message board! I don't think you are "...

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Healeywoodclaret wrote:I see that we have the usual lefty tree hugging let's spread the love goons on here.

What's wrong with spreading the love?

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However, I will state some very broad truths: Being arrogant, brash, rude, having orange skin and stupid hair doesn't make somebody a 'fascist'. Insisting on border controls does not make somebody a 'fascist'. Having a nationalist agenda does not make somebody a 'fascist'. You can scream and wail a...

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Because it's your tedious MO on here.

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Sweden is a perfect example of immigration done right, absolutely no problems going on over there what so ever. The country has been massively enriched in recent years with its new arrivals and is a much better place for it. Anyone who says other wise is a bigoted Trumper who is uneducated and raci...

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Sadly, real life isn't like a BBC children's drama and people don't often publicly declare everything they think, announce what emotions they are feeling or give a running commentary on their thoughts. It makes me feel sad to think that anyone would do that. You normally come across as an intellige...

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They see no irony in describing Burnley in this manner, when London itself can often be likened to an open sewer. What a revolting and putrid dump it is, not my idea of a capital city, This post reminded me of this.... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh-9NNyBipk" onclick="window.open(this.href);retur...

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That was referring to economic benefits, which you should have been able to ascertain by the language in the rest of the sentece, namely "expenses" and "income". Not too tricky. I did ascertain it, and even said as much (I used the word "inferred" granted), so I'm not sure why you seem to be taking...

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... 4. Net "benefit" to the economy is nil - the expenses weight out the same as the income... This is the one I'm struggling with. You seem to be stating this as a fact rather than opinion, and if you mean overall "benefit" rather than economic, it could only be an opinion - there are those of us ...

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Many sources. Mainly personal experience and lots and lots of articles, surveys etc read over many years and stored inside my head. As such, can't provide a single source for the information but there'll be plenty to back it up. There will also be -in this Post Truth world- some facts which appear ...

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The net benefit to economy of immigration is very likely nil. Immigrants from the western EU countries and other "Anglo-sphere" countries tend to contribute more in taxes than they receive from the taxpayer. Immigrants from eastern European countries tend to be (and these are obviously crude and sw...

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Have you ever seen the comments on the Jeremy Corbyn Facebook page what anything brexit related is mentioned? All you see is "xenophobic" "daily mail readers" "uneducated" "bigoted". It's a buzzword bonanza. Have you ever seen the comments below any Daily Mail article about immigration? All you see...

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I get into work on the dot and leave on the dot. If I have a smoke break I'll take it off my lunch. I'll work whilst I'm getting paid. Why should my employer get an extra 10 minutes for free from me every morning? The one that winds me up is when a someone on maternity leave brings their child in an...

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Or you can have puppet politician who is controlled by the people with money who does what he is told and says what he is paid to say. At least Trump is not being controlled by others. Putin? Anyone else he owes vast sums of money to? Wait - we don't know who that is as he still hasn't released his...

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Lowbankclaret wrote:Normally the people who have all the money control the power, do they care about the minions, absolutely not as long as they toe the line and dont cause too much trouble they dont give a sh1t about.

Is this not just a description of Trump, that leaves out all the really bad bits?

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Rowls wrote:I'm only matching the tone of your sarcastic response here Greenmile.

So you don't know what sarcasm is either?

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Rowls wrote:You're very limited in your thinking aren't you?

And you are unnecessarily insulting to those who point out you're wrong.

There's no need to distance yourself from a "quote" (that's how to use a scare-quote, by the way) which you're attributing to someone else.

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From your link - "Scare quotes, shudder quotes,[1][2] or sneer quotes[3][4][5] are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to signal that a term is being used in a non-standard, ironic, or otherwise special sense.[6] They may be used to imply that a particular expression is not necessarily ho...

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Hi Greenmile I suppose you might have thought the thread title was a direct quote but only if you think the person who said it was somebody called The New Statesman'. I'm not having that. In that context, a publication is the same as a writer. e.g. If you say The Sun says "x" (or "x" - The Sun) it'...

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Conroy92 wrote:Seems to me that a lot of people saying "the op's title is way over the top" are taking this, way over the top.

You're right. I am definitely this guy (sorry, embedded pictures are beyond my technical capabilities)

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1. Implying something very strongly is just as good as saying it. No it isn't, and you've already admitted the article is "not very explicit" (note the accurate use of quotation marks) 2. Quotation marks can be used provide indirect quotes. I thought an indirect quote is something like "Rowls said ...

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I meant typical of the dishonesty and twisting in this kind of debate; not typical of you. I see how it came across but, to be honest, I don't know your posts so could/would never have said that about you. Apologies it wasn't more clearly put. Thank you Tom - I understand how I have mis-read your i...

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2. You can call my thread title "sensationalist" if you want but given the word limit it was the best I could do. I happily accept that ""The Burnley Fans Who Booed Sterling are Racist" - The New Statesman" would more accurately summarize the point I am making but thread titles have a small word li...

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OK. Humour me, please. So, to summarise, you take from that paragraph that the attitude displayed towards Sterling is simply the same as towards other particpants, both English and foreign, after previous tournaments. That seems to me completely at odds with the rest of the article. How do you squa...

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Haven't got the time, but if you've read through again you'll have found there are one or two people on here who refuse to believe that there is any insinuation or implication from this article (which should be clear to anyone that it is a race baiting piece) that the Burnley fans picking on the bl...

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I think if we read through, we have a few people who refuse to see this article for what it obviously is, and are a little offended that the thread is a critique of a piece in a revered left leaning rag. I've read it through again and I can't see what you're talking about. Can you quote a couple of...

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I apologize for being rude but I think it's your ability to interpret the passage that's lacking; aided and abetted as I've said by the rather tortured and poor construction employed by the writer. The writer says the absolute opposite of what you've taken from it. "However people excuse themselves...

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I believe the unpackaging of this article by TomBenderson here is pretty accurate. I'm astounded, but not particularly surprised that some people here are pretending they do not actually see the not so subtle race baity social justice motive desperately screeching out at them from this tabloidy rag...

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Hi IT, the writer of the NS article (1) has racism in title; (2) contrasts treatment of (some) white footballers and manager(s) and (some) black footballers; (3) the writer says of Sterling " in the most recent round of Premier League games, fans of Burnley felt unable to let him be." But, I guess ...

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All right. Let's not argue about the semantics. Do we agree that the writer is saying that the treatment meted out to Sterling comes from a different motivation than that doled out to the #whiteprivilege other people he mentions? That's the only clarity I was trying to make sure was understood. How...

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I didn't say that's he meant to say anything other than what he said. That's a typically dishonest way you've twisted what I said. This what you said The writer would have made himself clearer by writing; "this attitude is not a consequence of poor summer performances, not simply a different manife...

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It says completely the opposite of that. The writer would have made himself clearer by writing; "this attitude is not a consequence of poor summer performances, not simply a different manifestation of the hounding suffered by others deemed responsible for England’s failures " because that's what he...

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bumba wrote:Risen himself out of that place according to who Andre Gray? Sean Dyche?

I'd certainly take their word for it over yours.

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I haven't had time to read the linked article yet, but weren't most of the economists' predictions based on Cameron's (broken) promise to trigger Article 50 the day after the result, if leave won?

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His first touch for the winner at Bolton last season was one of the best I have ever seen.

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The point is, you claim that everyone who voted to stay in 2016 would have been satisfied with the long-term effects of the vote. And yet at least half of the surviving Remain voters from 1975 have since changed their minds - they are clearly not happy with the effects of their vote. Even if the Br...

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I doubt that staying in would have satisfied all the remain voters. It didn't last time. Think about it. One of the Remainers whinges is that young people voted in while old people voted out. The best estimate of over 65's vote was that 61% voted to leave. But remember 1975? The majority of voters ...

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Regardless of which side you were on, one inescapable fact is it has been extremely divisive. Fifty-two percent to forty-eight percent - and I would say this were the result the other way around - is a result that leaves a lot of people unhappy. I also think that whatever "brexit" eventually looks ...

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dsr wrote:It wasn't an argument. Saying something negative about Clinton is not the same as saying "Vote for Trump".

I read your final sentence as implied praise for DT. Apologies if I misunderstood.

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There are a lot of people who consider that Hillary Clinton has proved that she does not know what she's doing. She was Secretary of State for long enough. Trump, on the other hand, hasn't (yet) proved that he doesn't know what he's doing in foreign affairs. . Another incredible argument. Voting fo...

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Okay, test it yourself. If you don't think many people have been brainwashed into believe he is a white supremacist without any knowledge, try this; * Speak to some college students, or other young people. * Ask them "what do you think of Donald Trump?" * When they inevitably respond with "hes a ra...

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