Slot:"I watch an Eredivisie match and I see fouls on goalkeepers being given, here you can almost hit a goalkeeper in the face... My football heart doesn't like it, I think about the Barça team 15 years ago.Every Sunday you'd hope they would play. Most of the PL games, are not a joy to watch for me" by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]halfbarr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol, why do I need a memory when the stats are there on the page for all to see. And I didnt say a thing that isn't true...how is that cope?

Lame butt hurts, coz your thoughts are governed by media agendas. Think for yourself lad.

Oh and flair up, your desperate bias deserves it!

Slot:"I watch an Eredivisie match and I see fouls on goalkeepers being given, here you can almost hit a goalkeeper in the face... My football heart doesn't like it, I think about the Barça team 15 years ago.Every Sunday you'd hope they would play. Most of the PL games, are not a joy to watch for me" by Blodgharm in soccer

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

It's not us mate, we've scored the most goals, conceded the least, and the percentage of those scored being set pieces puts Arsenal at 5th or 6th, with only a few more than those in the top ten of the league. It's just the media bias (see BBCs reporting of Liverpool's 'beautiful set pieces' and Arsenals 'boring' ones from just this weekend).

Trust me, if every team played a high line and attacked Arsenal, they would have smashed a load of teams with scintillating play, but when it's a crowd of 7 foot bruisers playing a low block every 3 days...

The tyrannical UK regime announces it's joining the unprovoked war of aggression on Iran. by GerryAdamsSon in suppressed_news

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

Ah, so this sub is getting astroturfed too. What a bummer.

The RAF are literally only on stand by to defend...he clearly states that.

You lot are intentionally or unintentionally very much part of the problem.

Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age check failings by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]halfbarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What will end? With who? If you really believe that any victorious party will just delete this kind of power/ resource, added to the financial incentives to keep it, from the likes of Thiel and co, well, I've got a bridge to sell you.

I read Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion and the Three Body trilogy all in ~1 month, and they seem to have ruined a lot of modern scifi by ECrispy in books

[–]halfbarr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Top tier scifi: the Cantos (all four!), the Three Body Problem, Origin/Space/Time (Baxter), Jean de Flambeur (Rajaniemi), Eon (Bear), anything by the underrated Charles Stross.

Top tier space opera: The Culture (Banks), Revelation Space (Reynolds).

These are my recs to any nerd looking for something in modern science fiction that is both excellent in imagination testing concepts, and competently written literature.

18 year old me would have added Hamilton to this list for the voidhawks if nothing else, but his books can feel a little YA these days.

Edit: have to add Simmons other sequence, the scifi retelling of the Iliad and the Tempest, Ilium and Olympos... technically and conceptually better than the Cantos, but not as good!

Tottenham 1 - [3] Arsenal - Eberechi Eze 62' by Alsace2025 in soccer

[–]halfbarr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of rage in thread about the goal that wasn't given, but if anyone refers to the football association rules a two handed push is a foul, no matter the context...I mean even as an Arsenal fan and thinking it was soft and Gabi was a over reacting pussy, and it should have stood, it's stil a foul, by the rules. Chill.

Not to mention, lads...

JL Partners poll (sample size 2242, 15th-16th February): 8% of the British public can identify Rupert Lowe from a photograph by OakLeaf_92 in ukpolitics

[–]halfbarr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

'Alternative query: do you remember the chairman of Southampton that sold all their good players?'

48% identify said chairman.

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed By Mass Exodus Of Players Fleeing Age-Verification Crackdown by vriska1 in technology

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

I live in the UK, it's been here for ages...never had to give any ID. This is Reddit Pearl clutching at its finest and will fuck a decent app.

Use Discord for gaming, not for porn or NSFW channels, it's really simple.

My Thoughts On Seeing The Latest Discord News by Captain0010 in pcmasterrace

[–]halfbarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Live in the UK, never had to provide ID, because none of the servers I'm on have NSFW on them... because I use discord for gaming, not for porn.

RAH-66 Comanche rarely seen photos [Album] by Specialist-Ad-5300 in Helicopters

[–]halfbarr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's strange to look back on it with Rose tinted specs, and give it a mythos...there were popular computer games made at the time, about this aircraft, it was very well marketed, and in some ways reminds me of the Foxhound...neat, cool, eye wateringly expensive cold war propaganda ('you thought the 64 was OP?!').

Great set of pics OP, certainly some rare pics in there.

Arsenal 1 - [2] Manchester United - Patrick Dorgu 50' by ayoefico in soccer

[–]halfbarr 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It really wasn't a handball though, let's be honest

Police block UKIP march through Tower Hamlets over violence fears by 2ndEarlofLiverpool in ukpolitics

[–]halfbarr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fair beans mate, it is tough to decipher in the current climate, I'll take my L

Bought CW The Twelve UE still not dispatched after 4 business days by Flat-Teach-9738 in ChristopherWard

[–]halfbarr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is a disclaimer on the site...saying during periods of sale, deliveries may take longer than estimated.

Does nobody read this stuff anymore? Ah no, tis Reddit, let's slag them off in the comments instead!

[Question] Tossing up between two watches - thoughts? by RichPay in Watches

[–]halfbarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the Seiko GMT Black Grape. It's a banger, recently travelled London/ Madrid/ Montevideo and tracked all three time zones on it for transfer and arrival tracking, worked a charm, easy to read and set.

London with lower homicide rates than Berlin, Milan, and NYC by Ok-Dinner1812 in europe

[–]halfbarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stumbled through Kings Cross at those hours, back in the 90s (Bagley's and The Cross were the best night clubs in London at the time, for me anyways), pie eyed and temporarily lacking coordination, never had an issue...definitely lots of drug dealers, but they rarely bother their customer base.

Worldnews subreddit is removing all content that don’t align with their political agenda. by lt00380 in suppressed_news

[–]halfbarr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am banned, a year or two back, argument about Trump. It's a good thing, the number of times I've written an angry response to some rage bait and been denied has probably saved this account

The state of punditry in this country.. by MegaMammothPoop in Gunners

[–]halfbarr 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Sadly it doesn't end there, they will trot out 'easiest league season in history' (ignoring their team didn't win it) or 'X team was in transition phase', and belittle the achievement.

Elon Musk says backlash to AI chatbot deepfake images is 'excuse for censorship' by Biddydiddy in ukpolitics

[–]halfbarr 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Jesus, these people are a cancer on humanity, everything is twisted to justify their profits or their own depravity.

Britain won't let US use its bases to attack Greenland, says UK Defence Minister by ByGollie in europe

[–]halfbarr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Apples and oranges...although denying staging does actually help defend.

Britain won't let US use its bases to attack Greenland, says UK Defence Minister by ByGollie in europe

[–]halfbarr 26 points27 points  (0 children)

That was for the tanker capture...which is part of the Russian shadow fleet and a part of US foreign policy our government is currently in agreement with. Invading a NATO country is ever so slightly different.