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Is it just me, or has the world just gotten properly ridiculous in the last few years? It's almost like we're living in a computer simulation and the kid running it is getting bored and having a laugh.

Can they sign players ?
We may have to compete with Chelski for the bargain bucket deals on 4.5k per week.
Given the cost of living in London, any player who is wise with his money will clearly see that we are a much better proposition.

The next step is to nationalise Chelsea FC and run it like British Rail.
Replace Thomas Tuchel with a pacer diesel multiple unit.
Transfer squad members to Wandsworth council for other duties.
 

Welcome to the club Chelsea

You seem to be working under the assumption that Quantuma have the power to appoint a preferred bidder when it's clear that nobody wants to buy Derby for a price that will keep HMRC, the creditors and the EFL on board.

The rumoured late bid coming from a certain Melovski Morrisov.

What's the betting that somewhere along the line one of the bidders is using funds linked to Russia? Hence the clarification of "certain details".

Or 'let's nuke the hurricane'.

It's up there with "how do we stop high school shootings"
"Arm the teachers".
I nearly choked on my bleach

Germany wanting to spend €100 billion more on defence, Finland and Sweden wanting to join NATO, China blocking the Premier League last weekend, Not in support of Russia but not wanting their citizens to see huge support for Ukraine, They do not want another Tiananmen Square so keep things quiet.
Taiwan is another concern, China have already built an Island in the South China Sea for their Air support

Does he get to take the match ball home?

Tough day at the office for Moore..

Yeah....we are off topic now, my fault entirely.  I don't agree about Iraq at all, although I agree that oil wasn't the principle reason for the invasion either.  Either way, whether the West was right or wrong in Iraq (it was totally wrong.......sorry couldn't help it ?), it's pretty clear that Putin is entirely in the wrong now.  And Zelensky is definitely no Saddam Hussein....he seems like a pretty decent leader of a country to me, even though Ukraine certainly did have it's problems even before this invasion.

China's certainly been territorially aggressive in the case of regional territories that they contest as their own such as Tibet and Xinjiang that has led to abominable crimes that have been committed on and off for decades. Any google search would give you plenty of information. I'd be happy to try and dig out some of my university essays on the subject if I can still find them on my hard drive.  Their plays in the region have become more overt in recent years and have increasingly beefed up their threat in Taiwan and to neighbouring territories not far off their coast. 

Is it simple side taking or is it because China's a genocidal territorially aggressive authoritarian nightmare and Russia is a territorially aggressive authoritarian country? Maybe people liberal democracy i.e., people having choices about how they live and how they are governed is a good thing and believe that the international principle of r2p is worth implementing. 
It's been one of my bug bears about this thread, the use of false equivalences (Iraq was the same etc.) when it's absolutely morally and geopolitically nowhere near the same thing with what is happening in Ukraine right now. 

The Mrs warned me
"Don't you dare start on one of your Palestine, anti America rants. You're a right knob head when you start and if you get arrested then I won't call a solicitor until its time to go home" 
More oppression imo but I'd rather fight Putin

Just don’t link this topic on your visa application ?

I'm betting that "Giant meteorite" will arrive before the preferred bidder.

Keep him guessing Comrade.

Yeah you’re right buddy. Crazy.
Down our way there have been lots of sightings of animals riding bicycles. My Mrs had enough earlier, and had to forcibly restrain a bear who was not following the Highway Code, and bear left signs. You really couldn’t make it up.

It's just like a scene out of "Little Britain" with immigration officer Ian Foot..........
"If in doubt,  keep 'em out"

Well, it depends which side wins when the war crimes are being brought to court. I still cling on to hope that Blair will face prosecution one day. Hopefully Putin will be too. 

I don't know if the whole war is a crime but Blair and Bush didn't seem to suffer and their reasons for war lacked any sufficient evidence