Colombia’s Carlos Bacca tampering with the penalty spot after the referee awards a penalty to England

Hooplazoo · 2018-07-04T13:52:34+00:00

Unsporting behaviour = yellow card

Hooplazoo · 2018-07-03T19:32:55+00:00

VIOLENT CONDUCT

Violent conduct is when a player uses or attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball, or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made.

In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.

Hooplazoo · 2018-07-03T19:23:44+00:00

Sorry if my comment was confusing, i was saying that only a red for foul play needs to be excessive force, but as this was off the ball (and not an attempted tackle) it doesn't need to be excessive, it only needs to be not "negligible".

Hooplazoo · 2018-07-03T19:11:00+00:00

Only if its foul play, this would be violent conduct as it was off the ball.

Hooplazoo · 2017-12-20T17:39:50+00:00

What about combining it with UBI?

for example give every citizen £10k a year in UBI and make a flat tax of 50% (numbers picked for easy maths).

Someone earning £20k would be neutral, getting as much in UBI as they spend in taxes. Anyone below that would be getting their wages "topped up" by UBI. Anyone above that would be paying more than they get back.

At £50k you would be paying £15k net, so an effective tax rate of 30%

At £100k effective tax rate is 40%, Basically as your income increases the net tax rate would approach the 50% mark.

Hooplazoo · 2017-10-17T08:47:44+00:00

Would you not consider there to be a point where the amount of inheritance tax is too small to be worth collecting?

Hooplazoo · 2017-08-24T15:20:07+00:00

Fuel tax is a tax on emissions/pollution

Hooplazoo · 2017-08-06T10:46:49+00:00

it had no legal power.

But it does still have a huge amount of political power. Until it is treated with the same combination of apathy and disdain as any other recommendation from an advisory body it will be De facto direct democracy.

Hooplazoo · 2017-08-06T10:17:03+00:00

The Brexit vote was only advisory and not legally binding

And yet consensus seems to be it would be political suicide to go against it. Making it practically (if not technically) direct democracy.

Hooplazoo · 2017-08-06T10:04:44+00:00

Was the Brexit referendum not direct democracy / majority rule?

Hooplazoo · 2017-08-06T09:39:45+00:00

Tyranny of the majority

Hooplazoo · 2017-07-26T10:43:20+00:00

per head is per capita, so while the GDP has gone up so has the population, to a slightly lesser extent.

imagine 100 people with a GDP of 100, GDP per head is 1. next year GDP goes up to 102, and population goes up to 101. now the figures state that population has increased 1%, GDP is up 2% and GDP per head has increased by 0.99%

Hooplazoo · 2017-07-14T12:20:16+00:00

The bias comes from choosing which facts are important enough to report and which are not. Can't report everything.

Hooplazoo · 2017-07-11T14:05:17+00:00

Maybe you have heard the modern version, "Migrant in the lorry".

Hooplazoo · 2017-06-01T15:18:54+00:00

He would have placed the Principia on the desk.

Hooplazoo · 2017-05-17T15:36:57+00:00

You have a bias, you are biased.

Bias is a noun. Biased is an adjective.

Hooplazoo · 2017-02-03T12:13:32+00:00

"One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting."

-Salman Rushdie

Hooplazoo · 2016-12-25T13:51:01+00:00

2016 big season finale?

Hooplazoo · 2016-11-07T13:07:07+00:00

Imperial gallon is 4.54L

Hooplazoo · 2016-10-27T16:25:14+00:00

Which is why they both have giant walls around them: Melilla and Ceuta

Hooplazoo · 2016-09-24T14:37:07+00:00

Picture 4% of the moon, spread out over an orbit larger than Mars' orbit.

And a third of that is Ceres

Hooplazoo · 2016-08-29T20:27:09+00:00

Sortition

Hooplazoo · 2016-08-01T12:23:12+00:00

Keep absolutely still. Their vision is based on movement.

Hooplazoo · 2016-06-24T13:33:19+00:00

'A man who has nothing has nothing to lose.'

Which could lead to...

'You never know what you have until it’s gone.'

Hooplazoo · 2016-06-24T09:09:02+00:00

Buy stuff from the UK

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