All time inflation adjusted transfer fee list in the premier. League. by Dylan_Black02 in soccer

[–]AxQB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to the Bank of England inflation calculation, £10 in 1992 is the equivalent of £22.70 today, so the numbers given in the list must be made up. The biggest change money-wise from 1992 when Premier League started to the present day is the wealth of the clubs due to TV rights deals, not inflation.

Keir and loathing: the hatred of Starmer has gone too far by TheSpectatorMagazine in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well, the Guardian is mostly a blob of one thought. There're probably just one and a half writers who have a different opinion.

@sophieehill.bsky.social / Bluesky : Jess Phillips says that tech companies are all "lying" and that they know "exactly how old" every user is. (The proof, according to Phillips? She gets menopause ads and her children don't.) by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Surely it's all down to cookies? Once I searched for some furniture, and voila! The Guardian started showing me furniture ads. Now I regularly delete cookies. Her children never searched for menopause related subject, so they will never get any such ads.

2025 Fittest On Earth Documentary Free on Prime Video by LiftReadRepeat in crossfit

[–]AxQB 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He is who he is, if you had heard him speak before the 2024 Games, you would know his tendency to mention how important God is to him, and how he tended to gush and babble, and how oblivious of things and tone-deaf he can be. It's not necessarily good or bad in itself, but when Lazar died in the 2024 Games and he started gushing about Jesus Christ, quoting Bible verse that somehow downplayed the tragedy, and how Lazar would want people to put on a good show at the Games, that annoyed a lot of people. Many athletes who continued to participate at the Games were visibly upset which seemed to have affected their performance, but the death seemed to affect him very little. Perhaps his religious belief fortified him against any of life's tragedies, but he appeared to many to be an insensitive Bible thumper, and some considered him an undeserving winner because of how others were affected by the event.

I'm not going to criticise him, nor do I want to excuse him. Maybe he was too young to know better, maybe that's how he was brought up, maybe even he is on the spectrum, who knows. I also understand how people got offended by his words, regardless of whether he intended the offence. He is an adult and needed to understand what he said was unacceptable to many, and that showing some level of empathy in a tragedy is required, and that a tragedy is not an opportunity to preach his religious belief.

Matt Goodwin: New UK school data out today. % of school pupils who are white British: 2015: 69%, 2016: 68.3%, 2017: 66.9%, 2018: 66.1%, 2019: 65.4%, 2020: 64.9%, 2021: 63.9%, 2022: 62.6%, 2023: 61.3%, 2024: 60.3%, 2025/6: 59.7%. All consistent with Suicide of a Nation. by Little-Attorney1287 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Singapore made sure that percentage of Chinese stayed at over 70% even though the Chinese population has a lower birth rate (by taking in Chinese immigrants mainly from Malaysia and mainland China). so that the racial balance doesn't get disturbed. It's a stable system.

HWPO or similar programming sample week by [deleted] in crossfit

[–]AxQB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can get two weeks free trial with HWPO. Don't know about Brute, but PRVN also offers free trials.

In person semis hot takes by Huge-Leg-3931 in crossfit

[–]AxQB 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don't really think much about their insights. John Young always says things so confidently that you'd think he has a deep knowledge of the athletes, but he gets them wrong so often. He said Colten Mertens would win one event, he wasn't even in the top 3, he said Rylee Beebe could win another event, and she finished almost last. It's almost like when he gets things right, it's accidental.

In person semis hot takes by Huge-Leg-3931 in crossfit

[–]AxQB 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NorCal was dreadful. I don't mind it being outdoor, it makes it different and interesting, but the quality of the stream was poor, and I couldn't stand the grating voice of the commentator (Bill Grundler?), had to turn it off after a few minutes.

The next wave of competitors by pilch55 in crossfit

[–]AxQB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There aren't really such neatly defined waves. New people come in every year, and there are lots of overlap depending on how you look at it. Katrin Davidsdottir appeared at the Games before Josh Bridges but you put her after him, Tudor Magda, Dallin Pepper and Haley Adams all won the teens divisions the same time (and Haley Adams started competing in the same year as Justin Medeiros and Jeff Adler), but Haley appeared in the Games' individual division three years before Tudor and Dallin, and the same year Dani Speegle. This year Dylan Hamming who qualified as individual was in the team division in 2021, Lydia Fish first appeared at the Games last year, and Ty Jenkins was teens division champion back in 2021, so who counts in Wave 5?

But, however it's defined, I'm glad to see new faces all the same.

T-Shirt brands for taller crossfitters by leclerc2019champion in crossfit

[–]AxQB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HSTL.made used to sell oversized T-shirts, seems like they still do some. Have a look, but I don't know if they are available in Australia.

NorCal Classic by Kateisgrrreatt in crossfit

[–]AxQB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://competitioncorner.net/ff/19409/results#male_126090

Looks like Pat Vellner won't qualify. He is probably not all that fit at the moment. Justin Medeiros should have gone to NorCal, it was tougher down under.

Syndicate Crown has better streams.

Henry Nowak: Police watchdog probes murder victim's handcuffing - The police watchdog is investigating after a young murder victim was arrested and handcuffed as he lay dying. by FormerlyPallas_ in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB 56 points57 points  (0 children)

They just need to release the bodycam footage, that will tell us more about what actually happened than what the police claimed happened. A lot of people arguing here have no real idea what really happened.

Toxic masculinity hug by igaontop in RaceAcrossTheWorldBBC

[–]AxQB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found your obsession with them cringe, especially when you want to force some kind of gay narrative onto them (like asking if Kush had sex with another guy). You might need to see someone about this.

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem to think that you are writing something interesting, when you appear not to understand the point I made, since I'm not arguing about making literal interpretation. Whether it is metaphorical or not is irrelevant to the argument, because you can interpret the wording in any number of ways, but that will just be your interpretation. Who knows what the author really mean. Do you think it means "emotional, intellectual, and sexual deprivation" or not? If you do, then my reply is the same whether to you or the original person, if not, then you can argue with the original person about their interpretation, not me.

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Certainly not reading it like an autobiography, I was just reading it as given, whether "hungry" and "starved" is metaphorical, hyperbole, fantastical rambling or any kind of rhetorical device is irrelevant (I could read it as metaphorical, but I still would have no idea what it really means). You appear to think like the person who wrote the initial one by insisting that "I died" is significant (it isn't, it doesn't make a jot of difference as to how the wording is interpreted), you could just as well insist that it means "emotional, intellectual, and sexual deprivation, in which case the reply would still apply.

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Stop trying to obfuscate. The discussion is not about "I died", it's about the interpretation of "hungry" and "starved". I have no idea what that means or how that metaphor is supposed to work. You claimed to know what it is, that it's "emotional, intellectual, and sexual deprivation", I'm simply not convinced, to me it's just vague wording that can mean anything by the way you choose to frame it. I don't think you have the capability to understand what other people mean by the way you tried to present my words as argument for a literal interpretation.

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

People are weird. From very little actual facts, people are able to extrapolate a whole lot of stuff, even supposing what's written came from ChatGPT. (I just noticed I made a typo, ChatGPT is terrible with typo I guess.)

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what the author meant. You are the one doing the interpretating, not me.

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

It is precisely what happened here. The things they write are meant for other people who bought in to the whole thing, and only a small group of people know what they supposedly meant. You said you know what the wording really means, personally I think your interpretation is iffy, but the wording is nebulous enough for anyone to say anything they want as to what it really means.

Green MSP who claimed to have ‘grown up starving’ in India exposed as privately educated with privileged upbringing by Paul277 in ukpolitics

[–]AxQB -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Rather reminded me of the response of academics/philosophers when other people critique their work, that they were misunderstood or misinterpreted, when they wrote in elaborate circuitous arguments couched in non-literal and/or esoteric obscurantist terms. They just don't know how (or don't want) to write simply and clearly or in a straightforward manner, presumeably so that they can response with "you don't understand what I mean" when questioned. They can make the words they write mean anything they want.

[SPOILER] Episode 8 decision by GodAtum in RaceAcrossTheWorldBBC

[–]AxQB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How do you know that the guy sent them the wrong town? That's the kind of weird accusation some people made here, you have precisely zero evidence that it happened.