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Seriously, I cannot believe they would announce this. Maybe they are trying to distract people from talking about the club's cost cutting measures and the lower than low results.

Possibly. Ratcliffe just gave an interview in which he laid bare Utd's problems without ever really mentioning the real problem; the absentee Glazer landlords who have taken over a billion quid out of the club, hate their own fans and really don't care if Utd win or lose as long as they get to cream their cash cow. They never even bother coming to watch a game.

They're probably the 2nd biggest club on the planet after Real Madrid but are in a bad state to say the least. The Glazers won't be going anywhere unless someone gives them £5 billion, and who can blame them? It's one of the most alluring brands in sport.

But back on-topic, they will find financing this stadium pretty easy. Utd spent much of the 70s & 80s being unsuccessful but were still an enormous draw. Their revenues are still huge despite being currently a mid-league team who have spunked hundreds of millions on mediocre players and managers.

Ratcliffe is a very good businessman and I have no doubt that the new stadium will knock places like The Emirates or Tottenham Stadium into a cocked hat. It will be different class.

Still a crap club with plastic fans though.

Not sure about that tent thingy on top of the thing, but I'm sure it will be an amazing place to play Championship football in.

I got up for the 2nd half, we played alright but not good enough. I was in a foul mood all day, still am.

The logistics could be difficult given Putin is the size of a shot glass and Trump and Kim are carrying enough spare tyres to sink an aircraft carrier.

They aren't fat, they are just short for their weight.

NK's war on the sea continues. At least Trump is Stronk enough to threaten Greenland and Panama.

I bloody love Man U today. That should be more than enough for us to win the league now.

No guarantee Arsenal will finish second at this rate.

They'll be top 5 though, and that's all that matters now. I expect Legohead to shift Arsenal's focus to the CL. If they can get Saka back for the last month they have a decent chance, on their day they can be devastating.

How on earth would China invade an island as far away as Taiwan?

It's less than 100km from mainland China.

So many sad gullible people.

So many sad gullible but useful people like you who the CCP rely upon.

we also need to declare the gun cartels terrorist organizations, including the makers of guns who eagerly sell to them.Oh, and demand it takes steps to become a democracy rather than a duopoly.

You have been cheering on an invasion by a violent non-democratic leader that has led to 500,000 deaths and counting over the past three years.

How seriously do you want us to take you?

I’m talking about within the U.S.

You were talking about America being in a hypothetical war with Brazil and if Europe would aid the US. So no, you weren't.

Unless you think Brazil is within the US. It wouldn't surprise anyone if you did.

You have an awful memory and can't even remember what you wrote moments earlier it seems.

I’m talking about inside the U.S.?

"I mean, if we were at war with Brazil,"

It's like talking to Homer Simpson again. I should have known better than to even try.

Dismissed.

if we were at war with Brazil, you think Europe would exhaust all of its money and weapons to give to us to fight them?

You haven't exhausted all of your money and weapons in Ukraine so calm down with the strawman tripe. And Europe supported America in its military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, amongst others. Lots of lives were lost there.

And we didn't need to invent an extortion racket in order to fund it, nor keep asking for you to say 'thank you'.

Your man needs to start getting tough on Putin to get a peace deal. He's good at being a tough guy with your Greenlands and Panamas of the world. But when faced with a proper maniac, he just doesn't have the courage.

If this trajectory continues, the USA's international reputation may take decades to recover.

WMD scenario. America's enemies still use this to discredit anything the USA says 20 years later.

Trump's treachery will have a similar effect on allies. Who will want to be their ally when America betrays them every few years?

As for Trump, he's already on the path to eternal shame for his feeble capitulation to Russia. In doing so he'll also secure Biden's legacy as the man who stood up to Putin.

Looks like the Europeans are swirling back to the 18th century.

18th century Napoleonic nuclear weapons?

Is that like those 18th century Revolutionary War air bases that you MAGA tensais believe in?

How much would the US save withdrawing its troops from Europe?

And where would it put them? There are almost 90,000 of them in Europe.

Maybe Elon & Felon can find a use for that chainsaw again.

DJT = Make America Rich Again!

.."the net impact of Trump's tariffs will be between a 1.0 percent and 1.2 percent hike to consumer prices, a yearly toll of $1,600 to $2,000 per household."

Thick people deserve to be fleeced by the people who promised to fleece them in return for their vote.

The rich will get tax breaks and richer. The poor pay more for basic things like food and get poorer

Poor people vote MAGA. Trump is just expanding his voter base.

Uneducated people also vote MAGA, which is why Trump is planning to defund the Dep of Education.

Thick, impoverished people ruled by autocratic billionaires is the MAGA dream.

The "music" at Eurovison is secondary to whatever Uber "Progressive" agenda they're shoving down everyone's throats that year.

It seems very simple to shove stuff down your throat. Have you considered not watching it, or at least watching it without your gob wide open?

Baier asked Mr. Trump, "Would the Palestinian have the right to return?"

"No, they wouldn't, because they're going to have much better housing, much better. In other words, I'm talking about building a permanent place for them,"

Trump would throw them out and not let them back in. He's a liar and an ethnic cleanser.

Not only do MAGA know this, they want this.

JD Vance is not pro-Putin warmonger, neither is President Trump a pro Putin appeaser.

Trump is certainly a stitched-on pro Putin appeaser. He's already sacrificed a whole raft of major American bargaining chips before the talks have even started. In return for absolutely NOTHING from Putin.

Vance is just an idiot helping Trump to help Putin to do the job that the Russian army couldn't do in 3 years, never mind 3 days.

History will always see it as such despite your feeble delusions that Trump is looking for 'Peace'.

I wouldn't send my son off to fight for a leader that won't negotiate for peace.

Putin will be disappointed to hear that. As I imagine will be your son.

The "Trump bad/Russia bad" line really does permeate everything with the usual suspects here. Black and white the world is not.

Russia is bad. It regularly invades its neighbors, kills their people and steals their land. Trump is bad for being its feeble and willing plaything.

You aren't looking very good in this either I'm afraid.

but the Russia-Ukraine conflict had been ebbing and flowing for years.

"Ebbing and flowing" is a pathetic way of saying, "Russia had been invading Ukraine for years". It's a literary coping method.

It is fascinating how MAGA have to bend themselves into such odd shapes to support Russia's naked aggression over several decades.

Traitor Trump and his pet worm Vance should be on their knees begging Zelensky to come back and bring what's left of their reputations and dignity with him.

I hope it goes better than the inaugural Fuji Rock Festival that they held there and was an absolute disaster.

Roundabouts FTW. Proven to improve traffic flow, assuming people know how to use them.

I thought the same, but there are a few reasons why they aren't suitable for much of Japan that a poster mentioned here last year.

Briefly, roundabouts make it harder, more dangerous for pedestrians to cross the roads. And roundabouts have a 'dead space' in their centre, which take up more area in the tight streets of Japan's towns and cities. The bigger the roundabout, the more dead space.

And lastly, they would cause carnage because Japanese drivers are, I'm afraid to say, atrocious.

My Liverpool

I think @Jimizo is finally leaving the dark side.

Never too late in life to become a Red.

11 points from 5 tough games in 15 days.

I’ll take that!

Hard to see us blowing it now.

I never said, nor thought Ukraine ever had a chance, I knew what the results would be in the end.

In the early months of the war you wanted America to give Ukraine jets.

So we can dismiss your 'I told you so' bragging.

Is Fuji Yoshida the place where they stand in the middle of the road on that flyover for an Insta photo?

No, that's Fuji-Shi in Shizuoka.

But Fuji-Yoshida has it's own place where tourists stand in the middle of the street and dice death for the photo.

https://fujiyoshida.net/en/see-and-do/410

Supervisor: "Please send me an email listing what you've done at work this past week."

....or else you are fired.

DOGE isn't their 'supervisor'. They have actual 'supervisors'.

Tell me what you did at school last week or I'm firing you. In fact, I'm firing you anyway. Clear out your desk.

He is largely referring to the proposed 1000 yen parking fee for the Chureito Pagoda area.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eZKLDs4ZmWmwWh5K9

It is a bit of a zoo over there, especially during sakura when it is just a seething mass melee. There's lots of anger and stress around that area.

Most tourists go there by train. They imposed parking fees there a few years back (500 yen) and the locals did not like that at all as people were parking in the nearby side streets, which are very tight, so they made it free again.

I include Japanese drivers in this, who think that they can park anywhere in their huge Alphards as long as they put their hazard lights on.

Might buy one of these just for novelty.

I’ve got an older Coolpix 60x superzoom, but unlike the P1000 cameras they are quite ‘compact’. This thing is big!

And they are awful in low light or average light at full length.

Still, I’m glad someone is still making bridge cameras like this.