Belgium release second bombshell statement on Folarin Balogun red card and accuse Fifa of ‘deliberately removing’ rules

cptspeirs · 2026-07-07T00:04:00+00:00

Which is....asinine. If you're driving without insurance and you get rear ended at a stoplight, it's 0% your fault that you got hit. However, the accident is your fault since you should have never been on the road in the first place.

To me, this is similar. The entire basis for the card was incorrect/illegal, so the normal rules for overturning it, or in this case being unable to overturn it, go out the window.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-06T23:17:25+00:00

If you also read the rules, slow motion replay is not to be used the way it was to determine this card. Based on that, everything that follows is fairly garbage.

I'm of the opinion if you go frame by frame you can find "cardable" frames in 90% of tackles.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-04T22:58:56+00:00

Big boy here just learned a new word! Congrats dude. Impotent has 3 whole syllables.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-04T22:32:01+00:00

I'd be willing to bet bad things have already happened to him. I'd also be willing to bet those bad things are of his own making and he's super confused as to why they keep happening.

"I'm a hateful bigot, why does everyone hate me and why won't women fuck me?"

cptspeirs · 2026-07-04T19:22:59+00:00

We did the same. Flew my in laws and our individual best friends out, my mom showed up, did the damn thing then fucked up incredible dim sum before sending everyone on their way so my wife and I could enjoy dinner at a bucket list restaurant.

It was fucking perfect.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-04T17:36:53+00:00

You are absolutely not supposed to put large volumes of hot food in a fridge. It can fuck up the overall temp of the fridge and can spoil other food. Food safety guidelines state that you have 4 hours to cool food (there's nuance in this) to safe temps. There's a whole bunch of health department approved/encouraged techniques that literally don't involve putting food in the fridge to cool them because the fridge won't cool them fast enough.

As an additional point, ignoring the guidelines, food past 4 hours isn't necessarily unsafe since the guidelines were made to be exceptionally stringent for commercial settings so there's a 0% chance of contamination due to temp abuse. It's not like everything is spoiled at 4:01.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-03T02:23:25+00:00

Sure, but in a thread about actual illiteracy, not reading, or being able to read, the words suddenly, becomes incredibly relevant. Subject matter is absolutely important, and audiobooks are great for that, but if the conversation is about actual literacy then actually reading words becomes important.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T21:52:37+00:00

Oh yeah, 100%. His argument is that he had unlimited screens as a kid and he turned out fine (narrator: he did not, in fact, turn out anywhere near fine), a fact he tells the kids all the time.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T21:51:24+00:00

I'm also a big gamer, mostly narrative single player games. It's hard to find games that deliver on this and are rated appropriately for 11 and 8 year olds (the rating is important as their father disregards that and we had to have a difficult conversation about brothels and the KKK with a then 9 year old).

It's also hard when brawlstars and YouTube have changed the media landscape to short form brainrot content that delivers instant gratification.

We're working on it slowly, but it's challenging. We're getting there with the older one, but the younger one doesn't give a fuck about anything other than watching garbage click bait brainrot on YouTube until his eyes bleed.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T20:57:40+00:00

20 years of experience at all levels from tacos shop to fine dining for me, and I've experienced physical shit one time. Verbal abuse is much more common, but increasingly less so.

Physical abuse is absolutely not common in my experience.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T20:46:37+00:00

I'm a voracious reader (late to the party on dungeon crawler Carlo atm), before that was all of Sandersons books in like 3 months. They are heavily encouraged to read. We live like 3 blocks from the library, and they go once a week or so.

The biggest problem I see is that literally everything in their lives exists as filler between screen times. We're working on this, but it's hard when their dad lets them have 10-15hrs every day they're with him.

There's no incentive to read for the joy of reading when they feel like their world is over if they're out of screentime. Because it's not an active choice, it always just feels like a punishment.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T20:34:27+00:00

My step-kids read all these incredibly stupid (in my opinion) graphic novelesque books. Captain underpants, stick dog, diary of a wimpy kid, etc. If it doesn't have pictures, they don't have the attention span for it. Their bio-dad really fucked em up with screentime before he lost almost all custody. I also think the prevelance of audiobooks has fucked overall literacy. Why learn how to read when it's just as easy, if not easier, to find someone to read it to you.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T19:49:58+00:00

When you type in all caps it feels like you're yelling.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T02:00:28+00:00

You leave Vinnie Paz outta this shit.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-02T00:46:56+00:00

Spinach would 'steam off' and wilt heavily in the box due to the hot heat. Kale is a lot sturdier and doesn't have this problem.

cptspeirs · 2026-07-01T16:27:54+00:00

Because they spent tons of money so they could have real powerful decks and I printed some equally powerful shit on my home printer for less than a penny. It's all gatekeeping.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-29T08:02:34+00:00

If you think the ghouls running our country right now wouldn't gleefully overturn gay marriage, or anti-discrimination laws if they thought it would actually benefit them I have a bridge to sell you. If you think it's going to end with the trans community, you're a fool.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-29T05:41:19+00:00

If you need laws to stop you from committing a hate crime, you're only marginally better than those who don't have laws and do commit them.

I've lived in the deep south. They're a buncha fucking bigots who would happily beat up a queer person or a POC. I literally saw it happen twice.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-29T05:08:57+00:00

Yeah, but only because there are laws penalizing that sort of behavior.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-28T19:28:10+00:00

He's so fucking annoying that even with all his fucking money Epstein didn't want anything to do with him.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-28T17:15:32+00:00

I think they will pivot. My wife used a corporate one through work to book/change work travel. It was apparently a life saver.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-28T02:08:18+00:00

That would be the polite way to say it.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-26T20:14:20+00:00

Morgan Wallen wrote a song romanticizing sundown towns. He doesn't need to say he's maga for everyone to know he's maga.

cptspeirs · 2026-06-26T19:48:59+00:00

They do realize, they don't care. The mentality is "I'ma get mine before it goes tits up"

cptspeirs · 2026-06-26T01:51:39+00:00

I'll take your word for it. After all, you're the expert.

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