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He's talking ballocks. Sat in a corner of Thailand, realising he's running out of money, so lashes out with racist sentiment.

What religion is this lady?

What about parental rights? And if its about religious regalia and kids having the freedom of choice (they don't because they are under 18), then extend the ban to wearing of Kippots, patka, wearing of crucifixes. the growing of peyots, ash of the forehead on Ash Wednesday. This is more legislation taking away parental rights. Parents have a right to raise their children as they see fit, in whatever faith they want. Adults have the freedom of religion. Countries pay lip service to it. Few countries have anti-Conversion laws; stopping individuals and organisations forcibly converting people. There is also little in the legislation to fully enforced UN IHR Article 18. ie. I want to change my religion, but you try and stop me. How are you punished? You're not. Its discriminatory legislation. It targets muslim girls in particular, and no other religion or gender. It tramples on parental rights, effectively outsourcing prepubescent choice to the state. The state gets to choose with faith you are raised in? Some would love that. The Nazis tried it.

There will be some nutter spouting about pore sizes, thinking masks work like a sieve

Actually that outfit won't. Wrong filter set. DS4 isn't bio resistant.

Its pointless, because of travel patterns. Your local health department will have a website showing prevailing serotypes. I don't know where you live, so can't point you to the right place. All 3 serotypes, plus emerging sub-serotype are in circulation everywhere. The nurse who is providing the shot is not paid to spend all her time on Epi websites. Show a bit of gumption and do it yourself. Why would you be averse to such a vaccination?

si The vaccines in use target 3 serotypes. including a H3N2. Emerging H3N2 has a slight mismatch, but the vaccine still offers partial protection, and the other serotypes are in circulation as well. So an emerging strain is a piss poor reason not to have the vaccine on offer. The prevalence of the strains varies by region; so the vaccine combos are more effective in some regions than others, at different times in the season.

Hanging is fine. A good hangman gets the job done, and its cheap. Its not about enjoyment. If society supports capital punishment, then it must be forced to confront it. Those who support capital punishment but want to keep it out of the public gaze are hypocrites. Miscarriages of Justice are often used to justify the frankly legalised torture in use in US prisons. The UK miscarriage rate is 1-3%. About 300-350 people are convicted of murder per year in the UK, so maybe 10 people are unjustly convicted. In the US, for serious crime, the rate is 2-5%, with a 4% rate on Death Row. About 1-2% of British capital punishments were overturned on appeal. Nearly half were commuted. For the period 1973 to 2013, 8,466 death sentences were handed out. Interestingly, about half of those were commuted, similar to the UK's "swift" justice. 149 cases were exonerated; the wrong person was convicted. That's 2.2% of cases, no better than the UK. What that means is actually in cases where the innocent has been convicted, the evidence to overturn that existed from the start, and could be discovered easily. It makes no difference on outcome whether the appeal is granted quickly or dragged out. The US defence lawyers must be largely incompetant. The courts mostly get it right first time. Where they get it wrong is on deciding the severity of the crime, which will always be subjective. Public outrage plays a role, and judges, and prosecutors, play up to the gallery, which was seen in the Alec Baldwin Rust case, where it became apparent that the Prosecutor was more motivated by convicting a celebrity than actually justice, because it played well to an electorate, since Baldwin is a controversial figure at times. I don't oppose appeals, but they must be done when memories are fresh, evidence hasn't decayed. If you consider all convictions; abut 0.5% of UK convictions are overturned by the Crown Courts. In the US, about 10% of cases go to appeal, and 15% are overturned, ie 1.5% of convictions are overturned. If the justification for the extended appeals process is that it supposedly allows for more miscarriages of justice to be found; there is no evidence it does. Its a system that guarantees the innocent are punished. Those who are on death row for decades and are then exonerated, are left mental wrecks, their life basically over. They come out old men, completely institutionalised, and live in penury for the rest of their short lives. Look up the case of Reg Woolmington to see what happens when a short appeals process allows the legal bods to focus on the law, rather than being distracted by emotion.

Its difficult to compare stats; the Met Police report "knife crime", which includes robbery and possession, as well as stabbings. New York reports just stabbings. If you use knife crime stats for London, New York, you get this But if you dig into data provided for the House of Commons, where knife injuries data is available (people hurt in the course of a knife crime, so generally a stabbing), you get a different view Knives form about 8% of murders in the US. Most murdered people are shot. When comparing knife crime between UK and US, you always have to remember, murderers in the US much prefer firearms to knives. Murderers in the UK find it much more difficult to access firearms. Ultimately, you have to compare murder rates, with the way people are murdered being irrelevant. So you are left with this https://stevecarter.com/liar.jpg The London murder rate is 1.2 per 100,000. Now before anyone starts gloating that all the US cities listed are blue cities, so-called Republican cities has nothing to write home about. Virginia Beach is cited by the FBI as having a "very low" murder rate, with 3.1 murders per 100,000; more than 2.5 times the London rate, yet Virginia Beach is a seaside town renowned for Spring Break holidays. 45% vote for the Democrats in 2024, Republican Mayor can take the credit for a city where you are almost 2.6 times more likely to end your life than in Khan's London. The most Republican city on my list, with 35% vote for the Libtards, is Tulsa, full of Good Ol' Boys who like nothiabout these numbersng better than listening to a bit of Garth Brookes. 16,5 murders per 100,000. <deleted> hell. Americans have got such a blinker about these numbers, its worth putting this in some perspective. Baghdad many would consider some sort of hellhole. In 2008, the murder rate was 48 per 100k. They've got it down to about 11 per 100k, but that's still the worst in the Arab world. Karachi, a city full of shonky Khyber Pass knock off AKs and AR15, 10 per 100k. Its pretty much the worst in Asia. Damascus is supposed to be up there as well. Still better than Republican Tulsa or Democrat Hartford (23.4 murders/100,000). Kabul; 2021, was about 4 per 100k. Manila; 4.3 per 100k Do I need to hire PMCs when visiting Tulsa? The place where don't want to be is Durán in Ecuador; 148/100k. South Africa is pretty bad in most places. Political choices obviously do play a role in differing murder rates across America, but even stripping that out, its clear many Americans enjoy killing each other, when given the chance. The high rate of gun ownership is clearly a factor, at over 1.2 guns per capita (number 2 is bizarrely the Falklands, with 0.6 guns per capita), but other factors must be at play.

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It will be decades before sentence will be carried out. The majority on this forum will likely be long dead by then. People like Dylann Roof (a typically illiterate hillbilly name) are still alive and kicking. When the UK had capital punishment, they did it right. The condemmed had very limited appeals, sentence carried out on a date of the Courts choosing, with no notification to the prisoner. But I would go further. Re-instate public execution, but take a cue from the Saudis and the Chinese. Use mobile gallows, random street corner, and public ballot for witnesses. Everyone has a duty to attend a hanging, whether they like it or not. Officers on hand to make sure gaze is not averted. The state will not provide child minders. Keeping execution behind closed doors is an attempt to sanitise, and has proved to be a failure in terms of deterrance.

30th November. Valery Gerasimov told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Russian forces had taken control of the Ukrainian city of Kupiansk. Forum Z-Patriots fake Poles, Tankies and current/ex Trots cheer hurrah in unison. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russian-forces-captured-ukraine-s-kupiansk-top-military-official-tells-putin/ar-AA1QQen7 https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1QQ9iA.img?w=768&h=432&m=6 Today, 12th December. Balls of Steel Zelensky; wassup everyone, I'm in Kupiansk https://www.longwarjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Zelenskyy-Kupiansk-800-1024x576.jpg

Oh, right, pidgeon English. Better off posting in Hebrew, then we can use Google Translate what you mean.

They did in WW2. Occupied Belarus and Russia had much the same stories of collaboration as Ukraine. Additionally, the Soviets had a pact with Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union was an Anti-Semitic state, hence, as soon as the rotten apparatus fell apart, Jewish people were queuing up to get out. Putin is an out and out anti-semite. He used pretty strong and crude language here: https://www.jpost.com/international/article-834232 Not the first time. Do you remember when Lavrov claimed Hitler was Jewish. Pretty monstrous language from a man who ought to know better.

Money. The RFU faffed around whether to pay players or not, until in the 1890s, there was a breakaway Rugby League, that's 30myears after Notts County went full professional. Being a paid player is a huge deal. Rugby Union was the preserve of toffs who could afford to take days off to play a game. The working man couldn't; back then, most people worked 6 day weeks, and the Sabbath was literally a day of rest. With a profesional game, people could go to a match and see people like them play, and they would cheer them on.

Dunno, hurling and shinty are pretty hardcore. Has actual weapons to hit each other with.

At one time, baseball and cricket were played both sides of the Atlantic; Derby County;s Baseball Ground is called that for a reason. One of the reasons that baseball really took off in America, capturing the imagination was when the Cincinnati Red Stockings (Red Sox) won the first ever World Series (which is named after a newspaper sponsor, its never been a literal World championship, just like the Milk Cup was never a match over a pint of silver top). In the 1860s, there were professional cricket and baseball leagues. Harry Wright immigrated as a child, and his dad was a professional cricketer. Sam Wright got both his sons into cricket, and they turned pro. In those days, an immigrant would earn about $150 a year. Its now clear why, by Harry was lured by the Red Stockings, to switch games, and come play for them for $1200 a year. He got his brother to come over for $1400. He was a pitcher, and his bother was short stop, but I read what the cricketers brought to the game was fielding strategy. Baseball, you're welcome.

I was thinking something along the same lines. But history is full of homosexuals who were hard men. Paddy Mayne, founding member of the SAS, hardman playing for Ireland and the British Lions, hardman in the Army, not afraid of slotting Nazi pilots while they slept. Reputedly, the only reason who didn't get the VC was Monty didn't like the way he swung. Whether he was or not, shouldn't matter. Try Padded Rugby Safety Rugby Padball Puffball Softrugby Fluffbash Scrumtarts

Sensible posting. You can get a vaccine at any time, including having flu and covid shots at the same time (but not with RSV). The virus isn't season, human behaviour is. There is also small print with some travel insurance policies; some will annul your policy if you are offered a vaccine and decline. That includes if you are in an eligible group for free vaccination but don't bother taking it up.

I usually find its a tell. People who lazily use the term "Leftist", or "Leftie" are often communist, only they don't realise it. Communist supporters would saym they haven't woken up yest. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sP9H9IKt4AQ/maxresdefault.jpg In extremis, it has lead to a literal MAGA Communism movement; Trump supporters who identify as communists. People like Jackson Hinkle. Maga Communists are unusually loyal to Trump the Man; they believe he is a powerful voice to mobilize the American Working Class, particularly the American male. They are very socially conservative, and paint things like transgender rights, climate change and racial justice as "neoliberal distractions"? They are opposed to the feminist movement, on the grounds that they see it as the cause of decline of "honour" and the decline in basic masculine virtues, the rise of effeminization of men. They label trans activists as "trans terrorists". They are not appealing to Trump's core vote; the 70 something year old man who will soon be dead, but poll strongly among generation Z voters. These are the core beliefs people like Hinkle is pushing https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdHWQuNaUAAj1Xz?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 Whats the bet thats a list that resonates with many who blame "Lefties" Is it s ridiculous, incoherant ideology? Yep, but so were the Nazis, and they got just enough people to vote for them. Nonsense like this AI fakery The idea that there is no such thing as a linear political spectrum; that eventually Left meets Right, that Hitler was both Left Wing and Right Wing, or neither. He was also ridiculed, and his ideology was nowhere near as developed as Mussolini's. But he had his way.

The irony is that Riclag doesn't use his real name on the forum, and pretends to be English. He's an old man, seperated from his daughter, possibly living alone, given his pattern of posting on the forum (initially about normal matters like visas, then a long break, and then ferocious rates of posting on very narrow subjects).

He fled in 2013. Despite the election of people who's world view overlaps with his (he was not a liberal), we can see where his true loyalties lie. He spun a good story to fool people into thinking what he did was heroic (it was the very opposite. To be heroic is to have the courage of your convictions).

Many do that. And many people will share all of those Email accounts. The policy won't lead to no one giving any details. On the contrary, it will be an enormous haul of data, which might not be secure.

The vast majority would comply with requirement. Ultimately, the opposition to digital ID is fairly soft. The challenge is the Federal Authorities is being swamped with huge amounts of data, without being able to show effectiveness (the test of the policy; what's it supposed to improve). Right now, ESTA is requiring you to share email addresses you use, social media handles, including professional social media. While you might not be on social media, your digital footprint means you can be linked to activity, say here. Well, that's the idea. Your digital footprint isn't on your phone.

On the face of it, actually enforcing the policy seems extremely expensive. ESTA fees will generate about $2.4 billion in receipts. What's the metric being used to show the policy is actually worthwhile?