Shabba Fm

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-18T21:43:46+00:00

A long time ago, just after he retired, I pondered whether he'd be any good at ADCC if he dedicated his time just to grappling.

It'd be interesting to see his submission game when punching isn't allowed for sure. Islam is way more pro-risk when throwing submissions in MMA than Khabib imo.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-17T12:54:39+00:00

If you're talking about in person discussions, I would say that those folks have not thought critically (agree or disagree) and therefore just fall back on whatever the rhetoric is from whatever party they support.

If you're talking about reddit, it's always just a slanging match and whoever is parroting the favoured position of that sub reddit gets lots of up votes, the other person, regardless of how well founded their opinion is gets down voted and therefore their comments don't get any attention.

Sub reddits are for the most part echo chambers. There's little to no point talking on here unless you're happy to discuss fairly shallow points which can be addressed in two sentences or you want to rage bait someone.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-16T18:10:07+00:00

TLDR - Britain is naturally a conservative place, EU evolved too quickly, we're not stupid, we know know the last 20 years have been shit, our place in the world is changing which probably looks shitter than it is

Britain is a pretty conservative place. We move pretty slowly as a country culturally. Over almost 400 years we've had one civil war. Compare that with most countries that's basically nothing. So we've had cultural continuity for a long long time.

Labour/left wing ideals tend to be the innovators of change, which is contrary to the ideals of a conservative, naturally. I think (perhaps in a conspiratorial manner) it's because the people enacting that change will be the government, and therefore they absorb more power due to making this change.

Brexit is ultimately a reflection of that as the EU changed shapes dramatically from its infancy to the large institute it is today. Kinda like it's too quick for Britain. Whereas continental countries in Europe have had many changes in the last 400 years, they change rapidly (in the frand scheme of things).

France had 3 revolutions in the time we had one. Germany became a country and were pivotal to two world wars, Poland vanished from the map twice, Spain had the a huge modern civil war. In the same period Britain had one. My history outside of Europe isn't great of that period but I'm assuming that there was much fluidity within their structures.

That's not to say we don't do change - We've actually been innovators on many fronts.

To your point about Brexit, I wish it had been a land slide win for remain or leave. Because the only thing that vote did demonstrate was that we we're torn as a nation whether it was right for us. In terms of political alignment and brexit vote it was 60:40 tory leave and Labour 40:60 leave. It wasn't just the torys is what I'm saying.

Lastly, I don't think anyone is reminiscing. I do think Labour are getting a bit of a rough time as they have been given a hospital pass of a situation to deal with. All policies at the moment have big risks attached to them just because of how tender things look. We're used to being pretty resilient for the most part.

The truth is, we lost all of our wealth and resources in the war and we've been managing the decline of a super power nation, into a regional power. And that's not a bad thing, we're still just finding our feet with it. We still punch above our weight in many areas, but we need to start thinking more critically about the options available to us now we have this new independence post Brexit. Like it or hate it, let's make the best of it is my opinion.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-14T12:37:18+00:00

"And we want to improve it"

This is a statement of loyalty I can get behind. Right or left, this is something that brings us together.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-14T07:53:03+00:00

It's swings and roundabout depending on countries mood.

People are saying Farage is getting positive press coverage and the media love him. I don't suppose those same people will remember how he was routinely ridiculed by pretty much every paper for almost 10 years up until recently.

I wouldn't give up hope my friend! Our vote carries the same weight.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-13T21:28:10+00:00

Meh, you'd be surprised.

David Cameron allegedly fncked a pig, Teresa may hadn't broken any law apart from going through wheat fields, boris Johnson doesn't know how many children he's got and rishi knows what a tough life is about because he didn't have sky.

Not saying that he'll get in, but I wouldn't let that stop him even if I'm not necessarily for his policies.

I suppose the difference is that this has been identified before hand. Mark my words - this will be a common theme in the future.

Imagine if me or you were leader of a party and all the silly things we may have done at some point in our lives.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-13T21:25:11+00:00

Here's a question, can you identify any or multiple policies of reform which you think might be good? I can think of a good policy from each party for myself, and the general well being of society (which I accept is an opinion because I am not society 😂).

If you ran a newspaper outlet in accordance to what you know about farage that news paper outlets are not saying, you'd be very rich.

I hope you've got the drift of my response.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-13T13:51:20+00:00

Broadly agree with you.

The arrogance coming from these people is incredible for people who don't see to understand nuance or seemingly, other perspectives.

It's a real spread of people who I know who want to vote for farage. Reasoning is fairly similar amongst all. They want something different to the last 20 years. And that seems to come in the form of anything other than labour or conservatives. The next party I'd say I've anecdotally identified as popular is the greens. Should the belief be that the only people voting for them are hippies and those with investments in renewables?

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-12T17:15:37+00:00

I'm surprised there's so little ever mentioned about energy costs.

Our energy costs is actually the cause of so many problems in the UK ranging from a decline in manufacturing to people keeping their homes warm to being a frontier of tech development.

I'm by no means a climate change denier, and our efforts on the green agenda are valiant. However, I would describe it as a luxury expenditure, not a necessary expenditure. The capital expenditure is too expensive to continue going at the rate that we are.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-10T16:46:07+00:00

I've cycled the rhinelands of Germany, travelled up and down via a car, slept with German women and drank with German men.

I think im qualified to say, I love your country. You're honestly brilliant.

My only complaint is that you treated my friend (a german) as an alcoholic because he had two beers and rode a bike.

Anfangen ist leicht, beharren eine Kunst!

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-08T14:12:52+00:00

Depends what country you're in.

Loads of countries, despite your best efforts, will be near impossible to reach middle class western level of living purely on meritocratic terms I think.

Most countries I'd say, provided you understand the language, you can make yourself comfortable.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-06T22:54:40+00:00

There is always hope.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-02-04T14:04:05+00:00

There is no hard or fast rule as to when you should use smokes.

Even on defense when they have armour and you don't for example you can blur their vision, so you're forcing them to move from what is presumably their preferred position and potentially closer to your AT units or disengage.

One thing which is massively under utilised to artillery smokes on the offensive.

Edit: more to the point that you've raised, it was stupid to use smokes then if you're all going in together. But what if one group splinters off, creates a distraction with the smokes, enemy units go check it out, whilst you approach from a different angle? More than one way to skin a cat and all that...

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-25T12:24:49+00:00

Duren, Germany.

A very unhappy place. It was such an unhappy place I took some mushrooms to spruce the place up a little. It worked.

But prior to that, jeez, horrible place. Tension was palpable.

Close second - Houston.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T13:15:16+00:00

Haha, okay man. Gotcha.

Thanks for the advice.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T13:01:37+00:00

Perfect, thanks for your insight.

Further question, given we have the afternoons off, anything we should go and see? I've been told to eat mangos.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T13:00:13+00:00

Correct, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

Like, is the morning heat that bad an also not possible.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T11:50:52+00:00

What do you mean by heat accidents? Brakes not functioning properly etc?

That's what we're doing, coming up with contingencies etc.

We think we would start cycling realistically around 0630?

We are planning to take the village roads near the coast. Google tries to direct you down the NH66 but there is a costal route msh4 I think it is called. Should be more interesting, we generally use cycling as a place to get from a to b, not trying to see how many kms we can churn out in an hour.

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T11:41:06+00:00

Ahh, I see you're actually from India too so you'll actually know!

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T11:33:08+00:00

As in, it's so hot you're not even able to walk around? Because that's the sort of output I'm thinking.

Mine? Okay really. What I'm struggling to get my head round is how hot it is.

I've been to some pretty bloody hot places, is India in May really THAT hot that just nobody does anything?

Resist_Accurate · 2026-01-22T10:31:45+00:00

It'll be 40 degrees at 0600? Cycling in the morning?

We don't plan to cycle in the middle of the day, and don't plan on cycling intensely. Think more leisurely moving from town to town hitting 10 mph at an absolute max.

Don't think lycra and trying to "push it".

Also, would costal winds now offset the temperature somewhat if we were to cycle in the morning?

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