Today's discussion about the news
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Thought the same
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I might be being cynical, but part of me feels they are really just upset about having to work longer and the only valid argument they have found is lack of notice, so that is the one everyone is going on about.
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Maybe I'm entitled to compensation for the Child Benefit changes, they didn't affect me at first and by time they did it was no longer in the news and I didn't get any correspondence to tell me. Ended up having to repay quite a hefty sum. I'd assumed this was my fault but if these pensioners are at a Level 4 I reckon I'm at least that if not higher.
Whilst being facetious I would say it has similar parallels and possibly a more direct and heavy financial impact.
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Sunak has swiftly decided this is a matter for the PM to get involved with 😂
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It does seem slightly strange to change the colour of a flag since it's not really that flag any more if you do.
However, no matter what colour they change it to is unlikley to be as offensive as the 120kg grown men you see wandering around town in skintight football kits.
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Always decisive when it comes to commenting on the big issues affecting the country. FWIW I really don't see why Nike have felt the need to do this or why the FA has allowed it but it really isn't worthy of the attention it's getting.
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Conservative logo is currently a union flag distorted into a tree shape. I really don't care, but the obvious own goals they score are incredible.
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I thought English football fans traditionally preferred the Swastika?
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Starmer has decided to opine on it as well.
Look at this bad boy from 2011.
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The Sun says the new kit is woke, obviously.
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"Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the design of the St George's Cross on the English football team kit should not be "messed with"."
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Shout out to all the footy ultras who are up in arms about this, who will then take a big old flag to a match thats covered in home town/club/firm slogans and logos.
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I think the mistake here is that Nike have described it as the following:
"a playful update to the cross of St George" which "appears on the collar to unite and inspire".
Which tries to imprint a meaning on it, and can be read as saying that the England flag needs updating and doesn't inspire or unite. If they'd just said "we thought it looked nice" I think the news would find it much harder to generate column inches out of it.
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A panel of referees looked at it from various angles, and after about 10 minutes, they decided it WAS a cross of St George.
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Get well soon PoW.
Well that should stop the rumours….
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Re the England shirt - obviously I'm not raging about it or about to boycott watching games but I do think it's poor.
My take is to ask why have they changed the flag - it's not a take on the 66 training kit as claimed as that is blue with red white and blue trim. I don't know but I suspect Nike and /or The FA felt there are negative connotations around football fans and the English flag. Not quite the image they want to project. If that assumption is correct I can understand people being angry. People are entitled to be proud of being English or of England when it comes to supporting the national team and the flag is a symbol of the country. I'm not against it being changed or stylised per se it's the reason I suspect they've done it. The assumption that a football fan with a St George's cross is a racist oik - for those that remember it the Emily Thornberry attitude. Yes I may be wrong but a few people I've spoken to made the same assumption.
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As the anthem goes: "We fxxking hate England, we fxxking hate England, we fxxking hate we fxxking hate England..." and on and on...
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Could you imagine the celtic reaction if that was the other way round.
Tw@t
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Very eloquent.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]2 -
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You lot have never been to a Scotland (or indeed any of the other 'home nations') v England game then...
#ABE
(where is mattfalle these days?)
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He’s in the make believe land that he invented for himself.😉
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Well, I genuinely hadn't even entertained that possibility. 40 confirmed dead already. Not sure what the objective is, other than terror.
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Just when you thought the shit had been stirred enough, yet another reminder that nobody knows what the future holds.
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Sometimes I'm just left bemused. The US seems to have given the heads-up that something was going to happen a few days ago, but Moscow dismissed it as Western fear-mongering. Some Rusky outlets had already been trying to pin it on Ukraine.
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Back to the shirt disaster that Nike inflicted. They are annoying the Germans too...
Th pursuit of money is the root of all evil, as someone once said.
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Fair play, that's an even more stupid thing to get annoyed about.
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I’m not sure the German National kit switching to Nike after a long time with Adidas is “evil”.
Football has many many many more problems then who’s the kit sponsor or if they’ve put a flag with different colours on.
I mean, who else did that?
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