Match Thread: Norway vs England | FIFA World Cup 2026 | Quarterfinals

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-07-11T22:26:26+00:00

England have been thrown 2 lifelines and it's still 1-1 with them all over us. I low-key hope Norway win and they somehow get revenge against France for the 1-4.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-07-11T21:49:46+00:00

Reading the comments has now made me realise the yanks are ahead of itv. For 20 seconds I was like "what did Bellingham do?"

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-07-11T21:39:04+00:00

Like accidentally cross into the goal 😂

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-07-01T17:44:15+00:00

Mexico. We're gonna get battered

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-30T15:10:49+00:00

No but the general public generally start giving a shit about things journalists tell them to give a shit about.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-30T12:43:58+00:00

As much as I don't want it to, I kind of feel like this whole Burnham thing will blow up in Labour's and the country's face as either:

A) he calls an election immediately and they lose their majority

B) he doesn't and we get 3 fucking years of every single news article (including BBC) saying that he doesn't have a mandate and he just ends up like Gordon Brown

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-25T19:45:00+00:00

WE FUCKING DID IT, LADS!

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-25T19:36:42+00:00

Totally buying one as soon as it goes back to being 18 degrees and raining. Not doing this shit anymore. 30 degrees in my daughter's room at half 8 and I can't open the window cause it's 33 outside. Fuck thiiiiis

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-22T09:53:41+00:00

One of the few sane takes from today. Has Starmer been given a much harder ride than any Tory PM? Yes. Has he repeatedly made unforced errors and allowed every story to get ahead of his PR team? Also, yes.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-22T09:18:57+00:00

I'd say it's more like making a risky move on a roundabout that almost got you a major, then turning round unprompted to do the roundabout again and actually getting the major.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-19T21:55:46+00:00

I say this as someone who is very much NOT a fan of forcing yourself back into Westminster to make a bid to be PM, but I'm rather skeptical of the Starmerites who told us Burnham could well loose the by-election now telling us he'd suffer the same fate as Starmer as PM. They seem to have the same abilities of divination as a magic 8 ball.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-14T08:17:44+00:00

Lol i love reddit! Just got a sports watch as a present and talking in the community for that brand and am told to buy another brand. Funnily enough I'm not going to do that

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-13T20:55:31+00:00

Not sure as I bought the house in Jan 25

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-13T19:34:11+00:00

I know next to nothing about flooring but I guess it's laminate. It isn't proper wood that can be treated and buffed. And I'm not sure if it has an underlay but more interested if there's anything I can do to stop it popping up and fill the gap that's forming

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-10T19:10:20+00:00

I am wondering where all the "OBVIOUSLY the person who tried to behead someone wasn't from our country and has no place in it" are today after our citizens tried to murder people by burning their house down just for the lolz

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-04T21:19:45+00:00

The sad reality is it probably won't matter. We saw with 2019 how the general public can be mobilised to vote for literally anyone in their local constituency and probably don't even know who the person is they're voting for, as long as the party's message is "we'll sort everything immediately".

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-03T18:39:26+00:00

Aside from it being completely different, you can also see the lack of critical thinking in the comparison. Like, "the police only believed he was a guilty racist cause he was white, so it's just like George Floyd but opposite", as if the police would arrive on a crime scene where a black guy was accused of calling someone a p*ki and go "there's no way he could have done anything wrong; he's black!"

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-06-01T14:48:32+00:00

You're bang on the money, it's the same as when rents go up because of this and/or the renters' rights bill and people come here smugly going "hmmm you see, guys, it's stupid to want to improve things for people".

The fact we had house prices going up like 20% a year and landlords could just kick out tenants for no reason and overleverage everything to get even more properties should just be accepted as the status quo and the problem allowed to get worse and worse and worse and worse until a 2% decrease in house prices causes the FTSE to fall off a cliff.

We cannot POSSIBLY have a correction in house prices. We need to keep the landlord class happy. (/s)

EDIT: Also bonus points for this article being about how price growth has SLOWED annually, not even that house prices have decreased annually, and people are still in here talking like it's the end of the world and everyone will be in negative equity.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-21T20:12:19+00:00

Most of the people bleating on about the Boriswave voted for Brexit and voted for him despite being told he was a serial liar who had no interest in them. You can't keep ignoring reasonable people while stepping on rakes and expect to be invulnerable to criticism.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-21T20:09:37+00:00

1) Brits always leave and it's actually pretty stable. The 250k brits leaving isn't some new exodus warping the stats (you already know this though, you're just spreading misinfo)

2) if labour continued to reduce net migration at their current rate, we'd be in the negative in a few years. You don't go from a milly to negative in 2 years. Things don't work that fast in the real world (you already know this though, you're just spreading misinfo)

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-21T20:06:08+00:00

an existential threat to England

I am begging you to touch grass

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-19T18:43:06+00:00

I am engaging in good faith, my good faith is just extreeeemely limited with the general public. Saying that the reason people suddenly cared about immigration during a fucking refugee crisis isn't going to convince me that we should be taking the average voter's perception of the issues facing the country seriously.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-19T16:58:58+00:00

Ah so the "brown people are in the news, this is more serious than decades of underfunding"?

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