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Off Topic OLOF's political thread

Discussion in 'Leeds United' started by MIGHTY, Oct 1, 2017.

  1. Eric Le Merde

    Eric Le Merde Well-Known Member

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    No I haven't seen that, the news here has been dominated by Nuclear subs, the French saying our PM is a liar, which he probably is as he is a politician and the investigation of possible corrupt behaviour by the ex Premier of NSW. We really only see anything about NZ when we beat them at sport.
     
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  2. esteponawhite

    esteponawhite Well-Known Member

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    You lot should be thankful there's not more of them as they usually slap your butts in RU.
     
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  3. Eric Le Merde

    Eric Le Merde Well-Known Member

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    To be fair the Kiwis do that to most countries. We play Scotland today, should be entertaining!!!
     
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  4. brisbane-lion

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    Probably our biggest fault, Eric. If we had more cases people might be worried enough to get jabbed but as there are so few cases people remain complacent.
     
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  5. brisbane-lion

    brisbane-lion Well-Known Member

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    How so? or are you offering?
     
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  6. brisbane-lion

    brisbane-lion Well-Known Member

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    I find it hard to believe that a politician of any stripe, 'specially a head of state, would call another a liar without good reason. I don't particularly like either of these two but I think I have to side with the frog in this case. Of course, we will never know the truth, will we?
     
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  7. Eric Le Merde

    Eric Le Merde Well-Known Member

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    Our PM, Scott Morrison, has been a stellar performer in the last couple of weeks, held hostage by Joyce and his mates in the national party, dumped by the French, shunned by the Yanks and even ignored by the Brits due to poor climate change credentials. When do you think he will actually get something right? Do you think he knows that France are quite influential in the EU, the same EU he is trying to get a trade deal with. I can't say I'm impressed by the other lot either though. It's a good job we have to vote or I think they would get a very low turnout at the upcoming election.
     
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  8. oldschool

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    this is not just bull, this is m&s bull !!!!....good old m&s have given pronoun badges to staff so that customers will know how to address them, if you need to maybe ask a question,........one such badge proudly displayed on linkedin shows he/him/his with the name of the person....i usually just ask "excuse me is there any of" to whatever you might be asking about. never bothered saying anyone's name anyway so i wouldn't dream of saying "excuse me him have you any of these in a size medium".............and are they going to ask customers at the entrance to the store what pronoun they would like to be called if engaged in a conversation with staff, what on earth has it come to with this absolute drivel.....wonder what the founder of this historic store would think now when he started on his market stall in leeds.
    progress or insanity ?
     
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  9. OLOF

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    Virtue signalling woke idiots
     
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  10. Irishshako

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    It's unbelievable. Players doing the black panther salute ffs, is that not devisive.<grr>
     
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    Insanity
     
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  12. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...spends-3m-research-problems-pregnant-men.html

    • UK Research and Innovation quango is financed by the Department for Business
    • Leeds University project 'Pregnant Men' given £668,228 of taxpayer cash
    • Critics say the funds are being wasted on woke programmes
    • The Government has spent more than £3 million on controversial transgender research including projects charting the experience of pregnant men and the fate of trans people in Lebanon.

      A total of 13 such schemes, some lasting up to four years, have been uncovered in analysis by The Mail on Sunday.

      They are funded by the UK Research and Innovation quango, which is financed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to support academic investigations.
    This woke **** has gone to far now its time to put this **** to bed
     
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  13. esteponawhite

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    I have a friend who works in m&s, he's over here on holiday now, I'll be meeting him tomorrow night for some beers.
    I will ask him about this, he doesn't need the job as has plenty of cash, he has a good sense of humour maybe I can ask him to get 'bro' on his name tag.
    The dude is from the Caribbean and black.
     
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rms-need-special-approval-hire-white-men.html

    Bosses at one of the world's biggest investment firms State Street will need to get special permission to hire white men as part of new diversity drive
    • State Street aims to triple number of black, Asian and other minority senior staff
    • Failure to meet target by 2023 will result in executives' bonuses being lowered
    • The investment firm has 30 offices worldwide and employs 39,400 people
    • Recruiters must show that candidates have been interviewed by a diverse panel

    Bosses at one of the world's biggest investment firms will need to get special approval to hire white men as part of a new diversity drive.

    State Street Global Advisors aims to triple the number of black, Asian and other minority staff in senior roles by 2023 as part of a drive to improve diversity within its middle and senior management.

    Failure to meet the target will result in a drop in executives' bonuses, reports The Times.

    State Street, which has 30 offices worldwide, including Canary Wharf in London, currently employs 39,400 people.

    Jess McNicholas, the bank’s head of inclusion, diversity and corporate citizenship in London, said: 'This is now front and central for State Street — it’s on every senior executive’s scorecard.
    'All of our leaders have to demonstrate at their annual appraisals what they have done to improve female representation and the number of colleagues from ethnic-minority backgrounds.'

    Recruiters must now create a panel of four or five people that includes a woman and someone of an ethnic-minority background when hiring middle management staff - employees at vice-president and above.

    Ms McNicholas added that State Street will still hire white men, but recruiters will now need to show that women and ethnic minority candidates have been interviewed by the diverse panels.

    The new drive will also see the investment firm increase spending with diverse suppliers over the next three years..

    It has pledged to 'hold ourselves accountable for strengthening black and Latinx owned businesses'.





    Isn't that illegal discrimination?So stopping discrimination by discrimination- what happened to best person for job!Turn this policy on it heads and see what the repercussions would be, court case at least.How can that be legal



     
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  15. esteponawhite

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    It was for the jocks, kiwis etc haha.
     
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  16. Eric Le Merde

    Eric Le Merde Well-Known Member

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    I was hoping you might have forgotten!!!

    Close game though
     
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  18. oldschool

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    The disturbing part is do they expect people to be topped up every 4-6 months with various companies vaccines which further down the line could possibly be more detrimental to one's health with as yet unknown side effects/illness I had my booster jab about 5 weeks ago and then said it seems like they will want this to be a regular occurrence, even with my medical history since circa 2012 I am feeling slightly dubious as to this vaccination onslaught
     
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  19. Star of David Bardsley

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    To be fair I wouldn’t have fancied your chances before either.
     
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  20. Infidel

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    Yorkshire County Cricket Club is now in safe hands, Lord Patel is now at the helm telling all the young talent out there to come forward, all comers would be welcome, and I don’t have to tell you what race that is going to be, the local Asian MP’s have jumped on the bandwagon condemning this and that……. what a fkg load of c rap, fed up of all of this sh1t now.
    Those cops in America have a lot to answer for, the blacks, spooks, gooks and gonks jumped on it with BLM ✊( yes politically as well ) and have said don’t let this opportunity pass and they won’t, Asians now on the case and they are artists how to milk a situation.

    just come to me….. be interesting how that Lord Patel is going to integrate so called young talented cricketers with a Yorkshire Indian and Paki backgrounds, they hate each other, could be interesting, what I say is fck it let em get on with it.
     
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