Recent content by squiggle

The term LGBT is a pretty poor one, though, conflating issues which really can't be conflated. Parts of the T are currently in opposition to much of the LGB, dependent as current 'transgenderism' tends to be on a regressive 'gender' understanding. I don't think lesbians should be criticised for...

I think its admirable. A change from speaking about politics only as long as it's politically useful. There can't be any dialogue about the World Cup that will make it alright - those people died for a game. Dialogue isn't bringing them back. What dialogue could there be? Telling them not to do...

It gives that impression because that's the case.

That's it. I find police brutality and what happened to George Floyd appalling but I won't privilege US problems over others. We are not colonies of the USA and the people in our countries have equal dignity.

It would be the height of hypocrisy and virtue signaling to take a stand on this when they’ve ignored the deaths caused by their own sport. Even if those deaths were, for example, of third world workers rather than an American.

Pogba is obviously the only one who doesn’t come out of this looking a bit of a twat. I always find it ridiculous that people who are paid to be wankers have hissyfits whenever a player makes even the mildest comment in response. Not specific to this situation, but my favourite line is ‘he...

Benzema's very talented but he scored 27 goals from 81 games for France in talented teams. I'd guess that part of the problem (both for Benzema and other people) is that Benzema, not Giroud, was supposed to be the striker for a golden generation. It's a bit like when people had to adjust their...

Giroud is Damon Hill, and that’s a fine thing to be.

The champions are Liverpool. Team rivalry doesn't come into it. Reading some posts I'm not sure if theyre genuine suggestions or just banter. If they're genuine suggestions they're weird and if they're banter they're not really appropriate. The bottom of the table is tricky, though.

With Giroud apparently moving to Inter, it still surprises me that ten years ago he was playing in Ligue 2 while several of his contemporaries were already big stars at major clubs and had won the U17 World Cup. Now he's France's third highest ever scorer with the World Cup, Ligue 1, Europa...

There was a good film waiting to be made as the sequel to TLJ. It would have dealt with Rey and Kylo's continuing light/dark struggles (when I heard the title I expected Rey to say, towards the end of the film, something like '...and I am the heir of Luke Skywalker' at the moment when the...

Jenny Nicholson puts it well: 'I think the worst thing a franchise ending can do is make you feel kind of stupid and embarrassed for being so excited about it in the first place.' (at 1:03:30) For me, this ranks with Attack of the Clones at the bottom of the list. A waste of time that...

I decided to watch a camrip before deciding on whether or not I’d try to persuade someone to go with me. It’s a pretty easy decision. What a disappointing film. I dislike it when films or books try to be mysterious by simply retconning everything we knew. It was Palpatine all along. Everyone...

It is a risk but maybe that's what the club needs. It went for a fairly safe appointment last time and it didn't work. I've always like Ancelotti and thought of him as a potential Arsenal coach but I'm not convinced he'd be great for us now, considering both the state of the club and his recent...

“I really hope Mikel considers going into coaching " - Arsene Wenger I'll be cautiously optimistic and trust they've done their research well. You could say I don't have a lot of reason to believe that considering recent seasons but Arteta was supported by Wenger in his early coaching studies...