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It gets worserer in the world of footie shirts...
Row erupts over German football team switching supplier from Adidas to Nike
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68634777
Gott in Himmel...schweinhund Amerikaners
Row erupts over German football team switching supplier from Adidas to Nike
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68634777
Gott in Himmel...schweinhund Amerikaners
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Or the Saltire?
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Yebbut, most Yanks think Scotland is a small town just west Worscesteretershireham and doesn't have its own flag, so it won't even register.
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Surely if you change the colour(s) of a named flag it stops being that flag? Or is that me being too literal?
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It would certainly cause confusion when it came to swimming at the beach.
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Forced to go public when they'd rather have dealt with it privately and protected their children from knowing their mum was so ill. Shame on anyone that hounded them to go public.Yorick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:03 pm Fark. It has no boundaries
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68641441
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We don't know how ill she is, she might have got lucky with the cancer being detected at an early stage. Biopsies, treatment, and time will tell.Taipan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:09 pmForced to go public when they'd rather have dealt with it privately and protected their children from knowing their mum was so ill. Shame on anyone that hounded them to go public.Yorick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:03 pm Fark. It has no boundaries
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68641441
Either way, she did the right thing making the televised statement which will hopefully put a stop to all the prurient speculation and conspiracy theories
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I'm calling bullshit.
Clearly she's been kidnapped by aliens and replaced by a replicant. Look at the shadows in the footage and in the top left of the screen you see Biden in the grassy knoll.
Clearly she's been kidnapped by aliens and replaced by a replicant. Look at the shadows in the footage and in the top left of the screen you see Biden in the grassy knoll.
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I couldn't disagree more. They revealed enough and had the right to protect their children, or should have had the right to do so. But as usual, the gutter press vultures are hovering...irie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:15 pmWe don't know how ill she is, she might have got lucky with the cancer being detected at an early stage. Biopsies, treatment, and time will tell.Taipan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:09 pmForced to go public when they'd rather have dealt with it privately and protected their children from knowing their mum was so ill. Shame on anyone that hounded them to go public.Yorick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:03 pm Fark. It has no boundaries
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68641441
Either way, she did the right thing making the televised statement which will hopefully put a stop to all the prurient speculation and conspiracy theories
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What do you "disagree" with?Taipan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:15 pmI couldn't disagree more. They revealed enough and had the right to protect their children, or should have had the right to do so. But as usual, the gutter press vultures are hovering...irie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:15 pmWe don't know how ill she is, she might have got lucky with the cancer being detected at an early stage. Biopsies, treatment, and time will tell.
Either way, she did the right thing making the televised statement which will hopefully put a stop to all the prurient speculation and conspiracy theories
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I'm no royalist,never watched Liz's funeral,Chaz's coronation or any of the weddings but right now my heart goes out to them,they're doing it hard, the paparrazi are going to be all over it & there's 3 young kids to protect.
They should be allowed to get on & overcome the situation in private,but just when they need their privacy & quality family time they'll be getting hounded by the media
They should be allowed to get on & overcome the situation in private,but just when they need their privacy & quality family time they'll be getting hounded by the media
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I didn't know space lizards could get cancer!
Sorry, I'm channelling Greenman.
Sorry, I'm channelling Greenman.
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The usual. The sense of entitlement, that people have the right to know everything. They don't. A public figure was ill and hospitalised and is now in recovery and has disclosed that, but for some reason, some people think they have the right to know every intimate details of the illness?!n It's invasive and abhorrent. Children know of cancer and the association with it and should not have had to learn that their parent has it. Any parent, whether a public figure or not, should have the right to shield their children from that and deal with it as they see fit, not how the press or public see fit.irie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:20 pmWhat do you "disagree" with?Taipan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:15 pmI couldn't disagree more. They revealed enough and had the right to protect their children, or should have had the right to do so. But as usual, the gutter press vultures are hovering...irie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:15 pm
We don't know how ill she is, she might have got lucky with the cancer being detected at an early stage. Biopsies, treatment, and time will tell.
Either way, she did the right thing making the televised statement which will hopefully put a stop to all the prurient speculation and conspiracy theories
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The point of her public announcement was to try to achieve exactly what you above say is desirable, namely to protect her and her family's privacy. It should not be necessary, but with the gutter press and vultures circling it is.Taipan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:46 pmThe usual. The sense of entitlement, that people have the right to know everything. They don't. A public figure was ill and hospitalised and is now in recovery and has disclosed that, but for some reason, some people think they have the right to know every intimate details of the illness?!n It's invasive and abhorrent. Children know of cancer and the association with it and should not have had to learn that their parent has it. Any parent, whether a public figure or not, should have the right to shield their children from that and deal with it as they see fit, not how the press or public see fit.
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If you're part of the Royal Family, especially one of the heavy hitters, then this stuff goes with the territory. As with any gig, there are upsides and downsides. This is one of the downsides. (Not cancer, obvs, but press intrusion into every micro detail of your life.)
See also Fame and its attendant drawbacks.
See also Fame and its attendant drawbacks.
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mangocrazy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:57 pm If you're part of the Royal Family, especially one of the heavy hitters, then this stuff goes with the territory. As with any gig, there are upsides and downsides. This is one of the downsides. (Not cancer, obvs, but press intrusion into every micro detail of your life.)
See also Fame and its attendant drawbacks.
This.
Loads of people get cancer. some survive, some don't. Most people who get cancer just get on with dealing with it and the outcomes. The only people you hear about in the media are celebs with cancer. It's part of the territory.
You didn't know or care about my wife's terminal, pancreatic cancer and why should you? She was only somebody to her family and me.
You didn't know or care about my partner M's ovarian cancer and why should you?
The Royal Family are public property and you're gonna have to know about everything. It doesn't matter that the cancer is treatable, terminal, messy or painful, it's not about the cancer, it's about public interest. The Royal Family have public interest in spades. As mangocrazy says, it goes with the territory.
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I suspect that the public announcement was made because, as a result of her medical records being unlawfully accessed, information about her cancer diagnosis has been circulating in the background and was likely to be revealed somewhere sooner nor later.
I do not happen to share the widely held belief that those in the public eye deserve whatever publicity they get where private medical conditions are concerned and especially where private medical records have been unlawfully accessed.
I do not happen to share the widely held belief that those in the public eye deserve whatever publicity they get where private medical conditions are concerned and especially where private medical records have been unlawfully accessed.
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Unlawfully accessing private medical records is clearly beyond the pale and should be dealt with by full force of law. But prurient interest in celebrity's lives is part and parcel of the incestuous culture we inhabit. So many people are making so much money out of it that it's effectively ungovernable.
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It certainly would, with only bisexual trans lesbians being allowed to swim. Or something.
(Image ripped of from the DT)
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