sheeponacid

To be honest, I think its a really dumb thing to tweet.
I have actually enjoyed listening to JHB throughout this pandemic. One of the few people that has felt like they are on the side of the every day working man.
Whether her viewpoint is right or wrong, she has regularly asked the questions that the opposition should have been asking (its no surprise to see that Starmer is backing the wrong horse again).
But back to the point, how can someone else wearing a mask make JHB feel uncomfortable? What if the person is vulnerable? Should they remove their mask just to make her feel better?
What does she want? The Government to mandate that people cant wear masks? 
Personally, I think the Government have finally got it right in making this about personal responsibility, that means making decisions to suit your own needs, what other people are doing should be irrelevant if you are managing your own risk correctly.

Tried making it but it came out all wrong. 

I find it strange how many people are just realising that wealth and status brings privilege. Like it's a new thing. 

That's what I'm thinking, otherwise why would you even start the topic? Fundamentally, the fewer people that buy season tickets, the less attractive the club is, the more money it is losing, the lower the standard of player we can acquire. It's some sort of doom mongering self fulfilling prophecy.
It's also the sign of the modern football 'fan', I do yearn for simply times - I started watching as a kid in the 80s, it was part of my life, my routine, that carried on even when I lived in Brighton (there's a club with modern fans!). It connected me with my home town, with my family, with my friends, that's what having a season ticket is all about.
All talk of investment, money, debt, that's a sideshow, for those 90 mins that's what matters, whatever crap is wearing the shirt.

It seems to me @Sheikh n Bake that you have almost moved away from a fair and reasonable opening question to a stage whereby you are challenging people when they declare their intention to continue to renew regardless (apart from for personal reasons). I don’t know if you’re a bit of a WUM, on some kind of evangelical mission or are simply trying to convince yourself. 
 
You may find it incredulous that some of us will always renew without much, if any, hesitation (and don’t really care much how the price of pies at PP compare with other grounds) but that’s just the way it is.

Football is a Saturday afternoon with your brother or mates.
Football is about arguing about the team, the tactics, the players, the manager and the oppostion.
Football is the banter, the sounds, the smells(!!), the andrenaline of walking to the ground - it's an emotion of highs and lows within just 90 minutes, and the next week, whatever the previous result may be, you go again.
Once you have committed to a club, it's yours for life, whatever division the team plays in.
I'm 69 years of age, and next Easter Monday 2022, will be the 60th anniversary of the first time I watched Derby County, when my dear father and uncle took me and my brother to the Baseball Ground.
I've stood on terraces, in all weathers, sat on hard seats, been treated to the hospitality suite, and even played on Pride Park in a charity game and football have given me despair at time, but also much enjoyment over the years.
I even bought a season ticket when I was working overseas and only saw 4 home games a season for 3 years, but I still supported Derby County from afar.
Whatever division The Rams find themselves in next season, I will shout at them, criticise them, moan until I'm blue in the face, but I'll support them because they are my club from my home town.
 

Football is more than watching a game. You can do that on TV. But it’s the match day experience for me. Many a time the game is incidental but sometimes it’s all consuming. Meet your mates or go with family it’s where memories are made and if you don’t by a ticket what have you got?
 What else are you going to do on a cold Tuesday night in February?

Ok… hear me out here… we are far from being connoisseurs, and very much eat to live, as opposed to live to eat. I wouldn’t know a Michelin star from one of their tyres!
…But… this was nowhere near as bad as it sounds… in fact, we both thoroughly enjoyed it, against the backdrop of a sea view, and thoroughly deserved after today’s 25mile (ish) mini cycle-a thon…
Take a tin of Ye Olde Oak Premium Ham (for the first time since the 1976 drought summer!). Slice it, and plate up cold. 
Take a tin of not so olde new potatoes, slice, and lob into a Ridgemonkey grill pan thing, set upon a single burner. Add a few sprays of sunflower oil cooking spray (Nope… me neither!) and toss away until golden brown (ish!)
Do exactly the same with some mushroom based stir fry thing for the lady, or a handful of Morrison’s pre-packed bistro leaves for the gentleman… along with a couple of sachets if HP sauce, found at the back of the camping food cupboard.
serve up on highly appropriate melamine plates (camping motifs and perfectly colour coordinated with our tent (Part of a full dining set for 4, won in a prize draw a few years ago!)  
… et… voila…
Served up 4 minutes apart… I couldn’t handle the pressure of it all leaving the kitchen at the same time!  ?

Are people seriously moaning about a player putting in the hard yards in the summer, enjoying their football and showing a desire to be in the team?
No one is suggesting he's the only player doing it but Jesus surely we should be commending the lad for showing some bloody passion and desire to get back fit!!!
But no, we have to pull him down and say, well others will be, and his sessions aren't that hard, or he's got a seven year old keeper.... So what, he's practising a thing called technique....
FFS this forum.... 

This does not surprise me in the slightest, farmers have been dropping off at a faster and faster rate for years now.
My family are dairy farmers and the price supermarkets pay for milk is insanely low, it has gotten better in recent years but previously many farmers were producing it at a loss.
The EU funding is definitely flawed, and put far too much money into the hands of those who already had enough. I'm not sure what the UK Gov has planned, but hopefully something that helps to support smaller family run farms instead of large industrial enterprises.

Hawkwind for me

Have to agree. This whole Cancel Culture knows no left or right. It's a negative by-product of social media and it sickens me. 

Having looked at the history of some of the major backers of GB News I would be very surprised if the overall narrative does not push for further deregulation of financial markets, more privatisations of public services, pro-corporate agendas, anti trade union legislation, campaigns against tax dodging laws, corporate courts that overrule government decisions, Freeports/Charter Cities that are outside the jurisdiction of the host country.
The so called culture wars are nothing but a smokescreen. We'll fight against each other while the major players continue to destroy any semblance of a decent society in their relentless pursuit of power and profit.
 

GB news main backers are Sir Paul Marshall, a hedge fund manager with a personal net worth of £630m and Christopher Chandler a New Zealander who heads a multi-billion dollar investment fund and has a net worth of $1.7b.
Its a fair bet that it will not be a particularly anti-establishment organisation.

Why does society have to be defined its sources of news?
I remember 35 years ago being sat in a classroom with a teacher showing us different newspapers reporting the same story with their own elements of bias. So it's nothing new, and it will never go away - but it (the media) didn't divide society back then like it does now. You just knew that the tabloids were sensationalist, The Telegraph was Tory and The Guardian was Labour - and you just go on with your life
There are people now - friends of mine - who just spend their life online getting whipped into a frenzy of hatred for what they perceive of as the "other side". I really worry about them

"Controlled opposition"
A controlled opposition is a protest movement that is actually being led by government agents. Nearly all governments in history have employed this technique to trick and subdue their adversaries. Notably Vladimir Lenin who said ''"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."
Count Mirabeau was part of the controlled opposition, because although everyone thought he was supporting the revolution, in reality he supported the monarchy and was a personal friend of the king. He was a government agent.

And maybe the millions who's income has been a minimum of 20% down for most of the past year...

And those caged up in prisons who are months behind the outside in terms of everything. Not that most would care about the violence and self-harm apart from those who work in those environments. 
Another few crucial summer months lost for wedding venues, hospitality, nightclubs, pubs wanting a big football crowd in etc etc. The economy needs this summer. Then add in cinemas and theatres that are hanging on. 
I just haven't got the time for people who think people only moan because they want to go on holiday. 

So there we have it. The most effective inoculation against the Chinese flu is money.

Your lack of self awareness is totally astounding. 
People, that I assume voted Brexit/Conservative, have attacked the Governments handling of this pandemic on a regularly basis, only to be met with resistance from posters like you.
I'm completely unaware how you have actually managed to back Government policy on so many occasions yet at the same time tell everyone what an awful job they are doing.
I actually think you have a mindset of arguing against a pre judged list of posters rather than any of the actual points that they make.
 

Why the tear reaction riot ? Labour have sacrificed the majority of working class votes for a little nibble at some of the middle class vote??‍♂️,anybody who can’t see that is living in dreamland 

As a working man I know very few working class who see any satire in the Labour Party being hijacked and made irrelevant by those masquerading as working class or champions of them without the first clue ,, Jarvis cocker had it right , laugh along with the common people ??

I would reply on Starmer’s achievements since leading the opposition, but I think you might (once again) have slipped into political posturing my friend and I must not go the same way. I have nothing to say, not actually unlike Starmer.

Yea it’s so working class doing stuff for yourself ???

Yea the work from home forever supporters that want us locked out of our lives in the name of staying feeling nice and safe while the working classes deliver their orders , look after their kids , fix their roofs , build their extensions and the multitude of other wants ?????,