I do feel bad for Leicester, I always like it when smaller teams do well... but then Leicester have already won the league before, and now the cup, so maybe that's enough.

I think Liverpool will qualify for the Champions League, along with Chelsea. On the balance of the season I think Leicester maybe deserve it more than Liverpool, but it's a close thing.

Yes, that's right. And I would suspect as with demonstrations on many different subjects, that any violence would be due in large part to people who just want any excuse to cause trouble and so will attach themselves to anything where there's a chance of conflict with the police.


I understand completely. When moon? Where lambo?

I think it happens quite often. In general you don't want to play teams who have just been relegated, just like you don't want to play teams who have just changed manager.

For Sheff United, they have been under immense pressure all season, with the risk of relegation. But now relegation is no longer a risk, it's a definite fact. So it doesn't matter whether they lose now, the fact is already determined, and the pressure is off. I think it's precisely because it doesn't matter that they were able to win.

I wouldn't use the word 'victim'.
But surely it is better to be concerned about those who are oppressed or treated unfairly than to simply say 'This doesn't affect me personally, so I'm not interested'?
Have you ever donated money to a charity?



We may appear to have digressed, but I'd argue that it is all relevant to the thread. Regardless of whether the "Good morning ladies and gentlemen" issue is simply an anti-SJW tactic to rile people up and create outrage out of nothing, it's interesting that people are outraged - or at least irritated. I'd suggest that there is a considerable overlap between those irritated/outraged by the "Good morning ladies and gentlemen" issue and those who equate BLM with, as below, the phrase 'vandalize and riot'.  



You know how much I love posting charts and links to data...

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I would add to this that any prominent and well-publicised demonstration, on whatever subject, is likely to be joined by some people who don't care about the cause but just want to fight the police.

The goal difference between Liverpool and Leicester is the same... which means that Liverpool's fate is in their own hands.
If Liverpool win, then they will qualify for the Champions League no matter what happens in the Chelsea vs Leicester game.

I'm not sure if this has been studied much, so the evidence is largely made up of many individual cases, such as the gold-medal winning black athlete who was stopped by police because 'black people in fancy cars are suspicious', or when black billionaire Oprah Winfrey was looking at an expensive handbag, and was told she couldn't afford it.



I would say I'm left-wing, but I don't feel that I'm a victim at all.



'Better than ever' is relative, and as you say we are not yet 100% equal... for which the evidence is overwhelming. As an example, some data released today on the situation in the UK:

_{https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/17/lgbt-youths-twice-as-likely-to-contemplate-suicide-survey-finds}



Which I think just goes back to my original point. People being irritated by revised terminology is not the biggest problem here.

It's really incredible - and such an important goal, too.
Yes, goalkeepers do score occasionally... but I read that this is the first time for Liverpool:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57044633

I'm surprised that Barca lost, and I'm impressed that Atletico managed to win after being behind with only 10 minutes left. If they hadn't scored those two goals, the title would now be up to Real to decide.
As it is, Atletico's fate is in their own hands: If Real draw or lose, Atletico are champions. If Real win, then Atletico must also win.

Yes, that's my point, really. The distinction about feeling annoyed because of political correctness and feeling annoyed because you are more likely to be murdered.


Nowadays if you want to experience victimisation, harassment, bullying and general unfair treatment because of your sexuality, you better be trans or gay.

... that kind of distinction, between the importance of things in movies and the importance of things in reality.

There is an unpleasant trend whereby when any minority group seeks empowerment, fairness, representation, then there are those who oppose it. There are people who, when they are told 'black lives matter', decide for some unknown reason that the phrase is preceded by a silent 'only', when that is quite obviously not the case. This is why the phrase 'all lives matter' is so obnoxious... because BLM already means all lives matter. I have a fundamental moral objection to the 'what-about-me'ism from majority groups whenever a minority attempts to be heard.

The purpose of 'political correctness' is not to evoke slight annoyance from the traditionalists who like bias because it's in their favour. The purpose is to address historic wrongs, and if sometimes there is an inadvertent degree of overcompensation, then surely this is a price worth paying?

It sounds horrific. Which is why the vaccine is so important.



But cancer is extremely common. I think it's a more than a stretch to link this to the Polio vaccine.



Okay, but the relative numbers are an important consideration here, and they utterly undermine that argument...

https://ourworldindata.org/polio#the-vaccine-against-polio

Compare the scale on the y-axis across the two charts.

The Inter match was supposed to be the one that ended any real hopes of Juventus remaining in a Champions League spot... but they surprised everyone, and are still clinging on.
It's still out of their hands, it depends on Napoli, and they basically need every result to go the right way for them. It will be interesting to see how this surprise win affects the other teams vying for CL places, who may have thought Juventus were out of the running.

Yes, exactly. And it's quite an indictment of humanity that the tactic is so successful.



Unless you want to be attacked or murdered by the actual police instead of Dirty Harry, in which case statistically it's much better to be black...

Yes, exactly. There is risk attached to anything. Driving a car. Eating food. Walking down the road. Existing. The key to this is understanding probabilities, and then applying logic...

Around 700 people per year in the USA die from falling out of bed. Does this mean we should sleep on the floor?

There does seem to be a slightly raised risk of blood clotting from the AZ vaccine. Data are still being gathered, but in general show only a very small increase over the base expected level in everyday life.

The study linked to below finds instances of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) are:

Pfizer/Moderna vaccine: 4 per million
Astra Zeneca vaccine: 5 per million
catching Covid: 39 per million

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1005

... which certainly indicates that if the choice is either 1) AZ or 2) nothing and potentially catching Covid, then taking the AZ vaccine is by far the better option.


Anecdotally, I've had the AZ vaccine. Side effects were barely noticeable.

Yes. I'm not a fan of the Monaco grand prix - the most exciting part is the qualifying, which goes a long way to determining the race winner.
The race itself is just a parade with no overtaking; barring mishaps, the only real chance to change positions is generally at the pit stop.

Yes, they did...



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too stupid

The vaccine rollout started in late December, but cases didn't start dropping until mid-January. This is because the vaccine is irrelevant. Mid-January is when Trump left office. One of his last acts as president was to build a wall around the secret Wuhan Bill Gates Big Pharma 5G Virus Lab where the Covids are manufactured. Of course "they" don't want you to know that, so it's all being suppressed. But this is what's stopping the virus from getting out. Did you think his wall was a stupid xenophobic jingoistic waste of money? Well, you're wrong. Turns out he's actually saved the world.

Yes. It felt very forced and scripted when Hamilton said it. Maybe Wolff had already tried with the FIA, or was concerned they wouldn't listen and just wanted it out in the open as a point of discussion.



I can't remember how close Bottas was at the time - was there a risk of Max finishing third if he stopped again?
There's also the issue of whose tyres perform better. Not sure if it's the drivers or the cars, but Hamilton has always been extremely good at managing degradation, and his car seems a bit stronger than Max's in this regard.

We can add this to this list of concerns for BADecker's health. It probably comes in at number two. Miracle Mineral Supplement is I think still top.