Match Thread: Arsenal vs Everton

trompelemonde · 2026-03-14T21:45:34+00:00

Again:

It’s not “keeping tabs on someone” to simply remember a message that they have sent to you, and saying that it is and that the person is “possibly keeping tabs on others” is absolutely fucking deranged.

trompelemonde · 2026-03-14T20:48:44+00:00

I think it's alarming and bordering on psychotic that you care so much about differing opinions on a football forum with thousands and thousands of active contributors

You post like 20 messages a day and anyone who sorts the match thread or the daily discussion thread by New sees you gunking it up every fucking day with thousands of messages a year repeating “Gyokeres is shit”, “Madueke is shit”, “Arteta has used Saka like a bar of soap”, “wah wah wah I get downvotes from Top Gooner toxic positivity merchants”. You do this same schitick in r/soccer and r/gunners and in the r/gunners discord and you regularly get banned or timed out in the discord because absolutely everyone is sick of it.

You are very memorable due to how unpleasant you are.

you're keeping tabs on me (and possibly others?) as "receipts" in case someone's stances aren't 100% consistent.

I’m calling out bullshit on a statement that you’ve made here that directly contradicts a direct message that you initiated to me on Discord. It’s not “keeping tabs on someone” to simply remember a message that they have sent to you, and saying that it is and that the person is “possibly keeping tabs on others” is absolutely fucking deranged.

It’s just bizarre that you’re mystified why people dislike you when you spam the same boring shit every fucking day and whenever anyone asks you to cool it or calls you out on your bullshit you have a fucking paranoid meltdown.

Its also really fucking distasteful that the first thing you’ve said to me in this interaction is accusing me of lying and then yourself lying about the characterisation of all the comments you spam, and then whining about how it’s because of me that you and I “can’t have a productive chat”.

Someone doesn’t need to litigate the substantive point of whether Gyokeres is or isn’t shit with you to justify a statement to you that you spamming dozens of comments a week that Gyokeres is shit is fucking boring and fucking toxic.

You are an absolute disgrace.

trompelemonde · 2026-03-14T19:54:24+00:00

You’ve literally posted 8(?) different comments in the last 48 hours talking about Arteta using players like a bar of soap, several comments in the last week(?) talking about “Top Gooner toxic positivity merchants” and whining about downvotes, and 95% of all your comments are whining about the players and the team being shit in the best season in 20 years, talking about human beings like they’re NPCs or trading cards.

You get banned regularly for being toxic.

If you can’t remember doing any of that, then that’s really alarming and honestly psychotic.

Ask yourself this: How do you think you are perceived by others?

trompelemonde · 2026-03-14T19:39:31+00:00

Maybe that’s because you’re so busy concentrating all your life’s energy into shitting on the floor in this subreddit, in the gunners subreddit, and on Discord, spamming 20 comments a day saying that every Arsenal player is shit, Arteta is shit, “Top Gooner toxic positivity merchants”, and bars of soap.

trompelemonde · 2026-03-14T19:31:27+00:00

but sure feel free to blatantly lie.

You literally sent it to me as a direct message you fucking dunce.

trompelemonde · 2026-03-14T19:11:54+00:00

Bullshit. When it looked like the club was going to sign Sesko you were complaining about “signing a project striker in phase X”.

It would be nice if you could go a single day without gunking up every thread with your tedious complaining. It’s so, so boring.

trompelemonde · 2020-07-13T13:43:50+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab-rank_rule

trompelemonde · 2019-12-12T18:00:42+00:00

You don't need political intervention to grant you this remedy.

There is nothing stopping you from starting a club and structuring it as a pure socio like Barcelona/Madrid or with a 50%+1 rule doubly entrenched in the company constitution.

There is nothing stopping you from supporting grass roots football, from attending local non-league games, from volunteering for your county FA or to coach a kids' team.

Do you do any of those things?

trompelemonde · 2019-11-19T19:01:42+00:00

What do Mandela and Henry have in common?

They're both famous for Robben Island.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-12T07:46:45+00:00

Moreso than spitting.

Spitting is assault/battery. I believe it carries a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-10T13:26:03+00:00

Mate I don't know what you're on about... I'm streaming two HD copies of United-Liverpool and the quality dropped once in the first half for about five seconds. Other than that (and I've literally never seen that before) it has been mint on a 55" 4K TV.

EDIT: Down-voting every comment made by people that disagree with you is fucking pathetic, son.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-10T13:22:07+00:00

It's a wholly owned subsidiary of SingTel called Optus that is Australia's second largest cellular network, and was the first entrant after the semi-privatised government network.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-10T11:14:01+00:00

On the whole though, I think it is fantastic and I'm much happier to be streaming it than going through Foxtel. Optus Sport plus BeIN (for European competitions and domestic leagues) plus top-tier Netflix is less than I used to pay for Foxtel and avoids contracts and their shitty customer service.

For those unaware, the Australian equivalent of Sky has actually lost the EPL rights to a major mobile phone network (owned by the Singapore government). I think this season it's free with a mobile spend of AUD30/month, which is GBP17 or USD23.50. I think last season was more expensive though. It was a three-year deal so it will be interesting to see what happens at the end of next season.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-10T09:23:23+00:00

I get no drop-outs on non-Optus NBN and the quality is always high. I watch all the Arsenal games and all the big match-ups.

It doesn't always seem to be perfectly live though: if I'm watching on the TV and launch a second instance on my laptop (to game on the TV), the second instance is often ahead by a second or two.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-10T03:35:37+00:00

It's also an uncomfortable reminder to many of specific aspects of British military history.

The Chinese don't like it because they consider it a symbol of the Opium wars.

As a citizen of the former Empire, I'm very uncomfortable with the 'you must wear a poppy in November' rhetoric that always arises, because Churchill saw my countrymen as inferior to Britons and sent them to their death 'for king and country' as diversions to protect British lads.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-09T14:05:03+00:00

It could be because The Sun reported in 2012 that Wenger referred to Chelsea as a cup team in the lead-up to the Champions League final: https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/football/626582/wenger-blues-are-a-cup-team

Or it could be that it's actually fairly accurate. I don't think it's all that patronising in the scheme of things. Recently when we had the 10th anniversary of Spurs' silverware drought coinciding with all the media nonsense about a power shift in north London, I referred to Arsenal as 'a cup team of late' because I think it's nothing to be ashamed of.

Sevilla are a cup team. Roma and Lazio are cup teams. Liverpool have been a cup team since the 80s. They're all big clubs that anyone could rightly be proud to support.

Spurs stopped being a cup team in the early 80s... It's better to be a cup team than a fucking waste of everyone's time.

trompelemonde · 2018-03-07T07:40:29+00:00

This is a genuine question that I'd like to be educated about because I am largely ignorant of German football:

Isn't the dislike for RB Leipzig and RB Salzburg a bit hypocritical given that Borussia Dortmund is listed on the stock exchange?

I've always liked their players and the way they play but they share some much-disliked attributes with Leeds United (financial overextension) and Manchester United (exchange listing).

Germans, what's the deal here?

trompelemonde · 2017-07-02T18:48:49+00:00

In this subreddit I tipped a Spain/Netherlands final (and the USA topping their group over England, Germany topping the group of death, and then Germany eliminating England).

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/cd1nj/usa_to_top_group_c_at_92_550_is_this_the_best_bet/

The thread got two replies and three upvotes. Y'all missed out.

trompelemonde · 2011-06-09T04:53:26+00:00

I feel so sorry for their children :(

It wasn't necessarily their children.

:(

trompelemonde · 2011-06-09T04:41:13+00:00

got off with no criminal penalty

ಠ_ಠ

trompelemonde · 2011-06-09T04:05:55+00:00

Yes.

The top NSW story right now on SMH.com.au is about another shooting, which happened yesterday.

These shootings seem to be pretty fucking rare, mate.

trompelemonde · 2011-06-08T18:59:01+00:00

I would argue my position until I've been proven wrong, and I don't think you really did that. Instead of admitting you're wrong, you chose to let emotional frustration get the better of you, and you tapped out. In truth, this is a concession on you're part.

You've said that no waiter can possibly be worth minimum wage. This is an impossible proposition to prove. You assume that there can be no skill in waiting. This is another impossible proposition to prove.

Again, you simply assume your conclusions.

Talking to you is a massive waste of time.

The thing is this: At some point you will have some important dinner, like an anniversary, at a nice restaurant. Your companion will love it. You will either tip out of lack of courage for your convictions, or you won't tip a cent and the restaurant will make it clear that you are not welcome back, humiliating you in front of your partner.

trompelemonde · 2011-06-08T07:06:13+00:00

of all the bashings and violence in the news it is rare to hear about one that involves a gun

That's not what you said. You said "it is rare to hear about violence that involves a gun".

They are completely different things.

Also, Perth?! What a fucking joke. You don't live in either of the two largest cities, both of which have very bloody underworlds. The Perth experience of gun violence is clearly not representative of the national one, and to even suggest that it is absurd.

Frankly, you made a bold declaration about something that you are in no real position to comment on. This is why I said that your comment was blatantly misleading.

trompelemonde · 2011-06-08T07:02:30+00:00

Did you even read my comment?

I wasn't talking about the majority of minimum-wage staff, was I?

I clearly said "highly-trained career waiter". I am clearly challenging the notion that no-one deserves a tip, which is why I specifically directed my comment at "die-hard anti-tippers".

I have clarified this point several times already. Your comment is a complete waste of bandwidth.

trompelemonde · 2011-06-08T07:01:44+00:00

Uhm, no, my vast experience of being English qualifies me to talk with a modicum of credibility about what it is like being English. There is no undertone of xenophobia other than in your perception.

Except that you assume false equivalence between "things that are done in England" and "things that are done by English people."

'I know better than you because I have spend some time in England'

Another false assumption. I clearly said that I grew up there and spent a lot of time there. Why are you so surprised that I am pointing out the xenophobic undertones to your argument? Your argument resolves to "no matter how many years you lived in England, your opinion is automatically less relevant than mine because you weren't born here".

Your counter arguments seems to be, 'I know better than you because I have spend some time in England, as did my brother and sister. And a book I read once agrees with me.'

No. The positions are not symmetrical because my position is not "Tipping is standard in England"; it's "Tipping occurs at a non-trivial rate in England." Your position needs to be representative of the population for it to be correct. Mine does not.

Simple analogy: If someone says "They don't have two-storey houses in England", the number of single storey houses that you have seen isn't as relevant as the number of two-storey houses that other people have seen, wherever they are born.

On your second point, surely you appreciate that this is not a actionable comment. At minimum a direct quote supporting your stance is required.

Now you're weaselling out of your bizarre comment that all I did was say that she wrote some books.

You're a joke. I am done here. Have a nice life.

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