casadeoctane comments

From what I remember of the story the guy was Spanish, but everyone just assumed it was a Brit on the piss. Either way must have had significant mental health problems - are we still ok to make fun of that?

Too little too late. With these cluster bombs Brexit could have been averted.

@blue I do think that the UK is basically a poor country pretending to be rich these days, and announcements like this are symptomatic of that. But the UK joined the ESA before the formation of the EU and is still a member and in the top 5 contributing countries to the budget.

Definitely a potential winner of the Film Actors Guild award for impartiality.

Those who say the masks do no harm must only have a couple of functioning brain cells.

For teenage kids with acne, its like an incubator for that stuff, potentially leading to scarring and lifelong effects on confidence. How about the mentally and physically impaired? If you are hard of hearing reading peoples facial expressions and lip reading is important. The young are affected so much, kids here growing up without normal human interaction and unable to read facial expressions - its going to have massive effects down the line. And what of the old too - maybe for some people that walk down the street to go shopping and just see people was a big part of their day, now just a walk among faceless automatons. What will be the effect on the birthrate? Kind of difficult to be attracted to someone you've only seen in a mask! Where's the cost benefit analysis?

France didn't win.

A US and Japan showdown for the Cup!!!

That's the spirit!

Be afraid of the sleeping giant that is U.S soccer. Will be the dominant team in a few years.

Agree on the sleeping giant part. But dominant, no. There are a few countries getting better and the next world cup will be 48 teams. The dominance of the few teams to have won many world cups like Brazil, Italy etc. will end but there won't be a dominant team.

this would be like you let Puerto Rican play the US

LoL. So true.

Its good to know that criminals and victims of crime can adapt to this permanently masked society.

Play off between Wales and Qatar to decide which is the worst team ever to play at a world cup finals?

set electric scooters on fire

I've never seen an electric scooter on fire. Do they go up well? Maybe they could become an eco-friendly weapon of choice for the urban street fighter as Europe descends into the inevitable chaos it has been brought to by its woke, pilfering leaders who cared nothing about their citizens.

Do they bring the trash bags all the way from Japan? They must be gutted if there is no trash to collect! It feels like even the trash bag is virtue signalling.. I'm better than other trash bags!

As discussed in the movie Clerks, the Rebel Alliance is morally ambiguous at best. When they blew up the Death Star they probably killed independent contractors and conscripts trying to put food on the table for their families.

Good luck figuring out how to do seccy on the webby mate.

Oh dear. We have a post-war debt without any post-war to celebrate. I am surprised anyone wants to be PM.

Maximum Caution. That would be a great name if they bring in a Japanese Marvel superhero.

I feel lucky to already be in the country and can go about my business like a normal person

For now. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Keep going Boris! Every day he clings on it makes my day to read yet more whining from those who are still salty about brexit like CNN and the Guardian.

By running the tours, the ministry aims to improve precautions against COVID-19 and confirm procedures to follow in the event visitors test positive for the coronavirus.

Or make more money. Either let people in or don't, the idea that there are people allowed in the country but what they do is controlled, monitored in any way makes me feel like I'm in North Korea.

I love this country but I think I'd rather kill myself than be on that tour.

The masks are permanent here. It will never go away. Even though, as has been pointed out - they don't work! People underestimate the downsides.. there are kids growing up now who see it as the norm. Ask them to draw a picture of a person, they'll probably draw a picture of someone wearing a mask.

Its one of the questions we're all asking. Will Messi or Ronaldo get their hands on the trophy and become the GOAT. Will any brave players come out about their sexuality and stick it to Qatar? And how many games will Fox cover in the US?

20 people. We're fed the pictures of them arriving and several times the news repeats refugees, Ukraine, Japan. Then wait a few days and release a story about how much financial support they will get. Repeat again, Ukraine, Japan, refugees. People paying limited attention (most people) then think great, Japan is doing a great job and is accepting refugees from Ukraine. A friend of mine expressed the opinion that maybe there would be more strain on the housing market because Japan is accepting Ukrainian refugees. LoL. People really do lap it up.

I love the phrase "soccer violence". I was once asked if I participated in it by an American friend. This story is worrying though, if it does spiral out of control Mexico could become a dangerous place!

I think Western Europe should go in. America is lost, gone, done. Maybe a declaration from France and the UK to commit to not use nuclear weapons no matter what. Then just go in no matter what, we can't let this stand.

zichi

So you never believe what is in the history books because you were never there. or some law of physics because you do not understand it.

Yeah but I wouldn't comment on history or physics because I'm not a historian or a physicist. Some people watch his show. Its readily available. Most people who do don't seem to consider racist at all. Your position is a bit like summarizing a novel without reading it. Its there. You could, but you didn't but you still have an opinion on it.

So what is your opinion on his racist slurs, acceptable, or not?

The context is entirely omitted. I wonder how many hours of him talking they processed to find those things. If we listened to 2,000 hours of the average person talking, would they say something that could be taken out of context to be interpreted as racist? I'm surprised they couldn't come up with more! What do we do, cancel everyone?

so zichi, you're basically reading other people's spin on it and forming your opinion based on that. Can you not see the problem with that?

zichi

I have no idea who listens to Rogan, only I do not.

LoL. I have no idea who listens to Rogan and I do not but I'm here posting comments about how racist he is!

virusrex

The reduction is much more important than some "negligible percentage" as proved scientifically, assuming that something you want to believe must be true is not valid even if there is no information available, but having evidence of the opposite it becomes disinformation.

I was expecting, after reading "proved scientifically" followed by a comma, that you'd continue with something like, as shown by this study or something like that.

Its very simple. If countries that have vaccinated everyone willing to take the shots, usually about 80% of people in developed countries, and rolled out boosters, but omicron is still spreading and rampant throughout the population, how can it be argued that they reduce transmission in any practical way? Israel seems to be the case in point, their omicron wave peaked at about almost 100,000 people per day. Population 9 million, almost all vaccinated and boosted. Its not what I want to believe btw, I wish the vaccines were 100% effective, but come on!

How? The booster doesn’t prevent transmission of COVID.

I really don't get why comments like this are downvoted. Look at some of the countries ahead in terms of dealing with Omicron. Basically everyone gets it whether "double vaccinated" or having boosters. I guess it depends on your interpretation of the word prevent. If it reduces transmission by some small almost negligible percentage does that mean prevent? I mean when you've got 80% of people vaccinated and more than half have the booster, but everyone still gets the rona, are we still going to say it "prevents" transmission?