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And I’m not sure learning conversational Latin is a good use of time frankly

Also learning more than one language isn’t a sign of intelligence, everyone in Norway speaks two languages and they aren’t all smarter than most people in Britain. It’s a sign for whatever reason you were exposed to a lot of another language and bothered to learn

There is a difference between a drone hitting your city and debris from an intercepted drone hitting your city in military terms… but I’m not going to your marina either way. This is such a weird thing to insist lol, both mean you’re under fire and there’s metal falling from the sky!

The thing is Zack Snyder is a liberal Democrat genuinely confused at why everyone else sees any meaning or subject at all in his movies lmao. To quote Patrick Willems, truly out himbo auteur

Just for the record, “anxiety about anti [x] voters in constituencies like [y]” is an entirely legitimate and necessary thing to consider when making decisions in a democracy lmao

I think challenges are a good idea in principle tbh. Referee discourse is incredibly toxic and redirecting it towards “your team didn’t challenge that the idiot” or “your team blew their challenges on correct decisions so that goal had to stand” is about stopping someone getting hurt at this point

I think tennis tacitly acknowledges this with the genuinely hilarious detail that on clay courts it’s not used and instead the umpire goes and physically looks at the mark the ball left on the ground

Oh so the reason Hawk-Eye doesn’t work for human bodies is they’re weird shapes. If the centre of the torso is all you’re tracking, it can be done with goal line technology. The ref’s watch could buzz as someone steps off if you wanted

So applying my software engineer hat, I think it could be genuinely instant if your torso had to be offside 😂 just track all the positions at all times, it’s an expensive system but completely doable. Whether this is better or worse than daylight offsides idk

The fan backlash to every post-VAR referee mistake would make the backlash to VAR look absolutely piddling

VAR is never going away in our lifetime. Everyone hates it till their team concedes an offside goal in the first game after it’s scrapped

It’s really notable in other sports, you yell at YOUR CAPTAIN for not challenging a bad decision, or wasting their challenge on a good one

Also I think challenges make knowing if a decision should have gone your way a tactical thing your team can be bad at and that will take a lot of heat off refs

I think moving to a challenge system and implementing Wenger’s daylight offside thing might be a very substantial improvement tbh

Unfortunately a nation state doing this for sportswashing also meets that criterion

I actually think having an owner who’s doing this very very publicly and depends on maintaining a good public reputation to keep their career might be as close to good governance policy as you can get

Oh yeah but I don’t care about that. The tourists don’t come to the player’s houses they come to the stadium

Roman Abramovich doesn’t own the team anymore

Aston Villa 😏

Feyenoord? Rotterdam is not glamorous

Yeah I suppose the counter argument is Wrexham are as close to Liverpool as AFC Wimbledon are to the London Eye

The thing about the super clubs is they’re from London, Milan, Manchester, Liverpool, Munich, these places are already exciting! Hell even the underdog teams people love like Brentford and AFC Wimbledon are in London

I also do kind of think it’s nice. Maybe this is gonna get banished from south wales but Wrexham really is the smallest least glamorous place with a football team foreigners have heard of and I kind of think it’s sweet

Thing is Wrexham have risen so fast they really aren’t buying THIS league. Ryan Reynolds is not as rich as the average championship owner. So we can give them a break imo

If Wrexham go up (and I think that’s an inevitability soon if not this season) I want a proper athletic deep dive into whether a team that’s basically a TV show embraces tedious low blocks and the meat wall

I think the story broke in an order where for a while “I got a skull and crossbones tattoo while drunk, I didn’t know it was a totenkopf till now” was actually vaguely plausible and lot of people went really to the mattresses for him and that stage and NOW they’re too embarrassed to back out

The Welsh government just changed it without referendum. I think a government that wanted to do it could just do it and it wouldn’t be the biggest issue by the next election. Whether they morally should is another question ofc. But I don’t think the constraints are particularly binding

Theoretically, without difficulty. The 2011 AV referendum was “post legislative”, the legislation necessary to change the system was passed within a year, it just wasn’t ratified. Strike out the referendum clause of that bill, plenty of time.

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He’s taking to Polanski here isn’t he? I think Polanski might get away with his mad FP position bc everyone most angry about them has madder ones