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Stive Pesley reacted to AndyinLiverpool in The Ukraine War
A new pipeline was being built that would have bypassed Ukraine. That's been put on hold (at best) by the war.
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from ariotofmyown in The Ukraine War
https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/33363582/former-heavyweight-champion-vitali-klitschko-plans-fight-ukraine-brother
Stuff like this makes you realise how real it all is
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from i-Ram in The Ukraine War
I'm sure he had some successful excursions into her Donbas area
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from Zag zig in The Administration Thread
Just seen that there are calls for Abramovich to be sanctioned - problem is that the Chelsea owes him an unfathomable £2b - which he would call in if sanctioned (ie put the club into administration)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2022/02/24/roman-abramovich-has-sanction-insurance-a-2-billion-loan-to-chelsea-fc/?sh=7be529491be7
If that happened - our problems would look minor in comparison (and we would think ourselves lucky that MM doesn't want his loans back)!
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Stive Pesley reacted to PistoldPete in The Ukraine War
I think you are wrong, military action is not an option, but sanctions can work provided they are intensified, far more than anything we have ever known, more than South africa in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Stive Pesley reacted to i-Ram in The Ukraine War
I hope he has a gentle side. Looks like he has the potential to annexe her.
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Stive Pesley reacted to PistoldPete in The Ukraine War
Wasn't he married to the indestructible lady from Heroes? I don't think she was for real though.
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from r_wilcockson in The Administration Thread
Just seen that there are calls for Abramovich to be sanctioned - problem is that the Chelsea owes him an unfathomable £2b - which he would call in if sanctioned (ie put the club into administration)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2022/02/24/roman-abramovich-has-sanction-insurance-a-2-billion-loan-to-chelsea-fc/?sh=7be529491be7
If that happened - our problems would look minor in comparison (and we would think ourselves lucky that MM doesn't want his loans back)!
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Stive Pesley reacted to cosmic in The Administration Thread
AFC Derby County and Chelsea United to form a new English breakaway league in 2023.
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from Ramarena in The Administration Thread
Just seen that there are calls for Abramovich to be sanctioned - problem is that the Chelsea owes him an unfathomable £2b - which he would call in if sanctioned (ie put the club into administration)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2022/02/24/roman-abramovich-has-sanction-insurance-a-2-billion-loan-to-chelsea-fc/?sh=7be529491be7
If that happened - our problems would look minor in comparison (and we would think ourselves lucky that MM doesn't want his loans back)!
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from cosmic in The Administration Thread
Just seen that there are calls for Abramovich to be sanctioned - problem is that the Chelsea owes him an unfathomable £2b - which he would call in if sanctioned (ie put the club into administration)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2022/02/24/roman-abramovich-has-sanction-insurance-a-2-billion-loan-to-chelsea-fc/?sh=7be529491be7
If that happened - our problems would look minor in comparison (and we would think ourselves lucky that MM doesn't want his loans back)!
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from Eddie in The Administration Thread
Just seen that there are calls for Abramovich to be sanctioned - problem is that the Chelsea owes him an unfathomable £2b - which he would call in if sanctioned (ie put the club into administration)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2022/02/24/roman-abramovich-has-sanction-insurance-a-2-billion-loan-to-chelsea-fc/?sh=7be529491be7
If that happened - our problems would look minor in comparison (and we would think ourselves lucky that MM doesn't want his loans back)!
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Stive Pesley reacted to TigerTedd in Life is politics, life is complicated
It’s so weird / depressing. The average Russian doesn’t care whether Russia gets an extra few miles of territory. The average Ukrainian doesn’t care (other than the fact that they’re the ones being invaded). We don’t really care about it over here in Britain, or America or Australia or anywhere else.
I don’t really get what the issue is in eastern Ukraine, and I’m sure it’s probably just a pretext for some other insecurity that vlad has, and I’m sure there are some people who care greatly about it. But no more so than people in Northern Ireland, or Catalonia, or a bunch of other disputed areas of the world where people grumble about wanting to be recognised as an independent state.
So why does anyone suddenly care about eastern Ukraine? I honestly couldn’t care less about it, so why is it suddenly ruining my day?
most average plebs (ie not the top 2%) just care about having food in their bellies and a roof over their heads. What Ukraine and Russia get up to in the privacy of their own part of Europe is there business. But it’s always all those ordinary plebs, you me and everyone else, that ends uk paying some sort of price.
christ, putin’s talking about consequences the likes of which the world has never seen if the west intervenes. Are we seriously talking about a world where our children have to live under the threat of a mushroom cloud?
the world sucks right now.
And this why threads like this are important, because it allows me to ask questions like this, in the hope that someone more sensible than I might answer them with something reassuring.
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from jimtastic56 in We'll Fight 'Til The End.
I've always found that catchphrase to be rather inelegant - given the amount of in-breeding that goes in in certain areas of Derbyshire
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Stive Pesley reacted to ariotofmyown in The Administration Thread
Loyal fanbase, apart from when they were doing bad in the 80s and got 16k.
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Stive Pesley reacted to NottmRAM in The Administration Thread
I lived in Newcastle during the Keegan years (Owner was Sir John Hall back then). There was a five year waiting list for season tickets (before they extended the capacity). I love Geordies, but their expectations of their football club have never been realistic. They want the moon on a stick and they want it now. They will be protesting outside St James' in the summer if they haven't spent £300m.
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from Bob The Badger in Life is politics, life is complicated
Personally I'm feeling pretty anxious about the whole thing too, and agree with Bob - feels like talking about it would help
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Stive Pesley reacted to Highgate in What are you eating tonight
Careful...or you'll get the thread closed! ?
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from therealhantsram in Watchable telly
Watched the first one last night and I have to say I haven't laughed so much in ages. The missus has worked in hospitals/NHS so she warned me that it was written by a doctor and I might not find it that funny. She was wrong.
Like a perfect mix of Green Wing and ER
Thanks for the tip
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Stive Pesley reacted to Rev in How do you stop the knob eds running on the pitch?
The age of some of our players, it was probably his older brother!
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Stive Pesley reacted to Crewton in The Administration Thread
Don't know about the other bloke, but I think the Rotenbergers have been doing the catering ...
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Stive Pesley reacted to Eddie in How do you stop the knob eds running on the pitch?
From what I've seen over recent years, it ought to be re-named "Colombian macho powder".
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Stive Pesley reacted to Ghost of Clough in How do you stop the knob eds running on the pitch?
Based on the past two pitch invaders we'd be more successful by banning the sale of Mars bars.
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Stive Pesley got a reaction from Kathcairns in How do you stop the knob eds running on the pitch?
Take away their Colombian marching powder