The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

Jimmy did you see Kevin Penny's try yesterday. Unreal.

 

little cranes being taken apart by some big murican morons.

Supposedly these sandcranes are a pest.

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'Hoi, Macca you up to anything, buy ye a pub lunch?'
'Aye mate i'm on a permo, been at reggae parties since friday. Down Govanhill, kinda hitting the wall tho, we've run out of crack.'
'Oh right bummer. Ah yeah, Govanhill's a wee bit out my way, i'll probably leave you to it then, maybe catch you monday or tuesday'

 

:dunno:

 

Meeting my accountant friend instead. See how yesterdays meeting with the mortgage adviser went and such like. He won't be on crack.

 

Gaga cant handle this shit

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DeathGrips good stuff is really bloody good, their bad stuff though is FUCKING TERRIBLE. Really fucking bad.

 

Nu-uh. Even the bad stuff is fucking jackson. They're the best group off are thyme.

 

Narrrrrr mate. It's bad. Plain bad.

 

Once I'm done making Irish's tea I'm gonna give you a real talking to.

 

Better get Silas a cup and all, this sounds like a long night.

 

Silas ya bamstation! I BREAK MIRRORS WITH MY FACE IN THE UNITED STATES I BREAK MIRRORS WITH MY FACE IN THE UNITED STATES I BREAK MIRRORS WITH MY FACE IN THE UNITED STATES I BREAK MIRRORS WITH MY FACE IN THE UNITED STATES! I DONT CARE ABOUT REAL LIFE!

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Hey Hut can you post that "fuck you" video again? It's like a rap song kind of.

 

i cant think what you mean man. Anything more to go on?

 

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Cech is a good signing for Arsenal. I hope he can regain his prior form. In the past 3 years, Ozil has left Real Madrid, Sanchez has left Barcelona and Cech has left bumfuck chelsea and joined AFC.

 

It's a solid signing but they're going to have to do more if they expect to compete for a title.

 

I hope Arsenal win it next year. They always seem 'one or two signings away' though. I guess Wilshere might be that signing, mind

 

If he can stay healthy.

The likes of Benzema, Schneiderlin , Bender, Lavezzi, Cavani, Draxler, Gundogan probably can all be had for a price. Obviously some much more than others.

 

Need a back up striker. I really loathe Welbeck. Health has been the club's issue more than lack of talent in the past few years. Last year's injury woes were ridiculous. 6-7 players out for 3-4 months each.

 

I think it would be best if they could obtain Benzema and have Giroud as their backup striker. The trio of Sanchez, Ozil and Benzema (on paper at least) would be quite formidable.

 

I recommend you sign Scott Brown, you need to add some mindless running-about in that midfield.

 

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BVB have this Slovenian guy named Kevin Kampl. Hard working sort, always in the mix but rarely appears to have a purpose behind his efforts.

 

Joseph Stiglitz.

http://www.theguardian.com/business...litz-how-i-would-vote-in-the-greek-referendum

The rising crescendo of bickering and acrimony within Europe might seem to outsiders to be the inevitable result of the bitter endgame playing out between Greece and its creditors. In fact, European leaders are finally beginning to reveal the true nature of the ongoing debt dispute, and the answer is not pleasant: it is about power and democracy much more than money and economics. Of course, the economics behind the programme that the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) foisted on Greece five years ago has been abysmal, resulting in a 25% decline in the country’s GDP. I can think of no depression, ever, that has been so deliberate and had such catastrophic consequences: Greece’s rate of youth unemployment, for example, now exceeds 60%.
It is startling that the troika has refused to accept responsibility for any of this or admit how bad its forecasts and models have been. But what is even more surprising is that Europe’s leaders have not even learned. The troika is still demanding that Greece achieve a primary budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 3.5% of GDP by 2018.

Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive, because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deeper downturn. Indeed, even if Greece’s debt is restructured beyond anything imaginable, the country will remain in depression if voters there commit to the troika’s target in the snap referendum to be held this weekend. In terms of transforming a large primary deficit into a surplus, few countries have accomplished anything like what the Greeks have achieved in the last five years. And, though the cost in terms of human suffering has been extremely high, the Greek government’s recent proposals went a long way toward meeting its creditors’ demands.

We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks. Greece has gotten but a pittance, but it has paid a high price to preserve these countries’ banking systems. The IMF and the other “official” creditors do not need the money that is being demanded. Under a business-as-usual scenario, the money received would most likely just be lent out again to Greece.
But, again, it’s not about the money. It’s about using “deadlines” to force Greece to knuckle under, and to accept the unacceptable – not only austerity measures, but other regressive and punitive policies.
But why would Europe do this? Why are European Union leaders resisting the referendum and refusing even to extend by a few days the June 30 deadline for Greece’s next payment to the IMF? Isn’t Europe all about democracy?
In January, Greece’s citizens voted for a government committed to ending austerity. If the government were simply fulfilling its campaign promises, it would already have rejected the proposal. But it wanted to give Greeks a chance to weigh in on this issue, so critical for their country’s future wellbeing.

That concern for popular legitimacy is incompatible with the politics of the eurozone, which was never a very democratic project. Most of its members’ governments did not seek their people’s approval to turn over their monetary sovereignty to the ECB. When Sweden’s did, Swedes said no. They understood that unemployment would rise if the country’s monetary policy were set by a central bank that focused single-mindedly on inflation (and also that there would be insufficient attention to financial stability). The economy would suffer, because the economic model underlying the eurozone was predicated on power relationships that disadvantaged workers.


And, sure enough, what we are seeing now, 16 years after the eurozone institutionalised those relationships, is the antithesis of democracy: many European leaders want to see the end of prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist government. After all, it is extremely inconvenient to have in Greece a government that is so opposed to the types of policies that have done so much to increase inequality in so many advanced countries, and that is so committed to curbing the unbridled power of wealth. They seem to believe that they can eventually bring down the Greek government by bullying it into accepting an agreement that contravenes its mandate.
It is hard to advise Greeks how to vote on 5 July. Neither alternative – approval or rejection of the troika’s terms – will be easy, and both carry huge risks. A yes vote would mean depression almost without end. Perhaps a depleted country – one that has sold off all of its assets, and whose bright young people have emigrated – might finally get debt forgiveness; perhaps, having shrivelled into a middle-income economy, Greece might finally be able to get assistance from the World Bank. All of this might happen in the next decade, or perhaps in the decade after that.
By contrast, a no vote would at least open the possibility that Greece, with its strong democratic tradition, might grasp its destiny in its own hands. Greeks might gain the opportunity to shape a future that, though perhaps not as prosperous as the past, is far more hopeful than the unconscionable torture of the present.

I know how I would vote.

 

Hut, you may find this hard to believe, but for me, I hope the Greeks just say "fuck it", and walk off into the sunset. I really hope they walk away.

Then Ireland can do the same in a few years.

Let the Germans sell their cars and their petrochemicals and their stuff to somebody else.

Great people, hardworkers, innovative....but I've had enough of them.

It's WW1 all over again, with the French fighting for the Germans after the Krauts had cauterized Russia and the Balkans {for the time being.......they've only got eyes for the Donbass.....}

 

Sad stuff..............

 

On a lighter note..........

 

Changed the thread title.

 

For fucks sake, I made the BEST sandwiches last night to take to work today and I fucking forgot them. :doh: :doh: