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Sure, people just stop paying staff, companies, stewards and more because of comments and thinking they have a right not to pay, not because they can’t finance a club like legit owners.

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Yeah, sure, someone who had viable money would let those CCJs and stewarding situation crop up. A few people being mean, criticising or asking questions is not a valid reason for stopping funding and not the most pathetic excuse ever, which should fool no-one.

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Dodgy Dave tried to shortcut because he didn’t have the money and was yet another case of him initially blaming rumour mongers. Then the authorities for picking on poor, beleagured Dave, who would have rights not to pay staff wages because of such nasty expectations of him to adhere to rules.

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His actions at Ilkeston or Matlock don’t absolve or change his dodgy actions here. They will always go down in infamy and his actions at Matlock are already causing some raised eyebrows.

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We scored enough goals to be a solid team, but we need to score more if we want to have a realistic shot of promotion. Defence was far too error prone though and was the bigger problem.

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Butler having a life outside of football? Disgrace! Butler out!

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https://x.com/KieranMaguire/status/2059628108475425166

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People online saying it’s a club in black and white who are signing him, but not of the fishy or Geordie variety.

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The point I am making is these decisions add to the conspiracies, not that Hearts’ grievances are necessarily correct. There was an even worse decision not to award Hearts a penalty v Motherwell the game before the Celtic one too. These escalate the conspiracies, along with the “did the Celtic-Hearts game end?’ question and recent Scottish authority comments.

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The proponents of VAR claimed it would remove controversy from the game and that football was worse with contentious, on the spot, refereeing decisions. With the amount of admitted wrong VAR calls, I don’t see how this can be the case.

A review has concluded that the last minute penalty awarded to Celtic in their game against Motherwell should not have been given and this cost Hearts the title. There is a lot of skepticism towards the neutrality of the authorities in Scotland from non-Old Firm fans and this has really added to the conspiracy. I have to say, with good reason given the peculiar calls over there.

Far from removing controversy, it has added to it. Sure, we have other things like social media that have ramped up conspiracism, but it has only got worse with VAR. Before, people could say the refs had a short time to make a decision; sure, there were bias claims, but there were mitigating factors that made people think it wasn’t so overt. Now, we have VAR being inconsistent and people will see it as a conspiracy to favour certain teams because they have to take time to arrive at their decision; the scope for error is assumed to be lower.

VAR just ruins celebrations, delays the game and does not bring an end to controversy from discussions over decisions, as was the claimed need for it. It’s true that much of this is because of the humans that use the technology, but it has been consistently poor and not just in the UK. Last world cup, I remember a dubious penalty given to Argentina when 1-0 down to Poland after losing the first game to Saudi Arabia, and comments online were “got to get Messi his world cup, so can’t have them going out of the group stage.”

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I have often thought that there is a need for a liberal patriotism because why care for the country and want things to improve if you don’t care about the country? It will make anyone suspicious of your motives if you display a disdain for patriotism, so those who aren’t fully on your side will be put off without it. However, it has to be married with a respect for people liking representations of their country, like the flag. I don’t think it is convincing enough to others that true patriotism should be talking about having a society that looks after all; it needs to have some pride in the country and less sneering at people for ‘flag shagging’ or whatever.

I am not calling for flags at every school or anything like that, but less sneering at those that do would be better in convincing others that liberals or the left don’t have disdain for pride in the UK, and would make people less vulnerable to turning a blind eye to radical voices on the right presenting their bigoted ideas as just about showing pride in the country.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

The ones that flip to 180 degrees are okay to drink from. If some people didn’t throw rubbish everywhere there’d be no need for them. The amount of discarded plastic bottle tops I’ve seen over the years is disgraceful.

I also find that if you have the lid perpendicular to your mouth then it doesn’t brush against your upper lip and is like normal.

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I’m a regular watcher of Ashley Neal, he’s made me a better driver, ‘pocket of space, make it a non-event’ etc.
As an aside his dad is ex Liverpool and England player Phil Neal.

His driving fail clips are always good because he nails the real issues and isn’t scared of calling out the dashcammer when required. Which is more than what can be said for the ‘driving fail’ channels which just present the cammer showing a supposed fail from another when it isn’t always the case. Which brings me to a pet peeve – dashcammers who cause incidents.

Dashcams are great for posterity and providing evidence, but it gives some drivers a sense on righteousness and feeling they can not accommodate errors or actively intimidate others when driving. Roundabouts being a common occurrence where it is noticeable from these videos that cammers accelerate across the roundabout or drive over a mini-roundabout to cause an issue with a driver who may have been late in emerging. We all make mistakes, but we should all accommodate them from others, instead of trying to cause and escalate issues for self-righteousness and getting a video on a youtube compliation. Many would be non-events if they did what they supposed to in not accelerating around roundabouts or over instead of around mini-roundabouts. I don’t get the mentality of let’s create a road rage situation, instead of just letting the mistake happen and getting on with your day. Angry reprimands won’t lead them to change behaviour and sometimes people have brain farts and aren’t inconveniencing you because of their selfishness.

I have had it to me. I remember a roundabout I am familiar with (a fairly large one) where I saw a car approaching on the lane perpendicular, but knowing the roundabout I judged I would be fine in getting across if the other car kept at a steady speed. Instead, as soon as I emerged onto the roundabout I saw the car immediately accelerate, then brake and start honking his horn aggressively. If I held back it would have been a non-event, but equally if he had not sped up it would have been a non-event, since I would have been around. I have been past that roundabout since and been in a similar position to where that car was and seen cars emerge from where I was and I had no issues with being cut off because I travelled at a steady pace. I don’t know if this guy had a dashcam, but it’s this kind of behaviour that dashcams have caused among some.

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People who think it’s ok to fare evade and those who excuse it by making out that they’re sticking it to the big wigs. The only people this will affect are customers who will have to pay more for fares or low paid workers who need a wage from the company. It won’t be the CEOs.

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It’s there to protect workers 1st and foremost,

There is no rule against merging in turn. The road doesn’t end 800 yards from closure. As long as people aren’t driving at ridiculous speed, use common sense, it’s fine. When cars are often travelling at less than 10 mph, there is no need to be moving lanes long before closure.

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That’s why it’s speed dependent. In the video, he says it’s different on a motorway when it’s high speed and makes a mention of those bombing down to the end. However, if the traffic is at a slow speed, it is perfectly ok for both lanes to be used and it is what should happen. Yet I regularly have seen endless queues at a standstill, when we could have half the traffic in one lane and half in the other, still at slow speed, filtering in as it is intended and with less clogging of roads.

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I agree with SODiron. The lane isn’t closed until you get to the cones or end of lane. People moving to the next lane before the end of lane causes more congestion further down the line; if everyone utilised both lanes traffic would be more flowing. The only issue is if the traffic is flowing normally and there is a person going faster in one lane. If the traffic is flowing normally, the cars in both lanes should match speed and there should be no issue, where there can be easy adjustment for when lanes merge.

This driving instructor lays out the case for it:

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Robbed! I demand a VAR decision.

Just kidding. Well done Oppidum.

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People who think indicators mean “I am moving this direction right now” and not “I am signalling my intent to move that direction very soon when it is clear for me to do so.”

Phone zombies walking while scrolling, moving erratically, making it hard to go by and sometimes just stopping, forcing people to either just stop (if somewhere narrow) or squeeze by.

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There seems to be a lot of hate and venom in society, with a lot of self-righteous justifications from those engaging in it and finger wagging at everyone else. It’s depressing and what gets me is that kids are being brought up with this hate in some cases:

https://x.com/RadioGenoa/status/2055589346221191560

Now we have fevered anti-Muslim conspiracism from the speakers, but we are told they are just proud patriots who are only wanting to wave their flag and show pride in the nation. Patriotism does get unfairly sneered at sometimes, some Islamic ideologues do preach hate, but not all and ‘legitimate criticism of Islam’ should be based on a rational defence of secularism against its worst aspects, not anti-Muslim bile based on them being the evil other:

https://x.com/HomoSocialist/status/2055714039049638188

Oh well, maybe there’s a grim point of unity for some of the Unite the Kingdom and counterprotesters. Frothing anti-semitic conspiracies:

https://x.com/hearnimator/status/2055618906060968426

They can sing a Tim Minchin style tune of “we don’t like Jews, you don’t like Jews. Maybe we can not like Jews together.”

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Amazing thanks David! Do they mean Mr Hilton surely not!

If you are getting giddy at the thought of Dave proving people wrong about him and how he is really such a wonderful owner because he chose a manager that has a fair few Matlock fans saying they are happy with it, then knock yourself out. Even some of them seem a bit taken back by the craziness, but at least they have a manager who has a level of popularity (some on there were saying he is no great shakes, but they go again), No other owner could possibly have done that. Doesn’t change it for those of use, which are the majority here now, that ended up living with his idiotic reign.

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They seem happy with the managerial decision. Fair enough. I have seen that here with Grezza and even returning players like Conor Smith in January. Doesn’t mean the very valid reasons for us for having suspicions about Dave, except for one who is battling against the tide.

There are plenty of others saying these days are a bit crazy and a bit of a whirlwind too, so it isn’t all so fawning. Some clearly have concerns to some level.

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Now allegations of legal threats made by Matlock against those who have commented on social media about the decision to scrap the women’s team. Seems the women’s team are the current bunch of nasty guys out to get poor, honest Dave, by not just going along with anything he says.

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Francis Austin, who is definitely not Dave, despite a previous Francis Austin account being linked with Hilton.

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If dodgy Dave ends interest in his projects, be it football or business, quickly (as he often does), and it’s not because of money, but boredom, then he should not involve himself since such projects require long term commitment and the fans do too. Instead of fumbling around for pitiful excuses like a few fans on a message board forced him out, players and staff had the tenacity to ask for wages they are owed, managers playing games or how all and sundry have wronged him.

Ultimately I don’t buy his fairy story of building a family legacy, such repeated behaviour isn’t the hallmark of someone who has legitimate money to sustain a club, and this looks like another venture he is trying to get out of after not being able to match the funds promised over anything else.

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I don’t particularly care if a crook has a dig at his former club, as if he is in some position to look down on anyone with moral superiority. When you look at twitter, there are plenty on there, from Halesowen, Brackley and others alongside Scunny and Bury with negative views on dodgy Dave. Seems everyone knows what he’s about apart from the few who want to kid themselves because he had a tacky bar built.

Only Dave’s spending always comes to an end and it’s definitely not because he never had the money to really commit.

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I wonder what Graham’s story is. Always someone else’s fault wih Dave.

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It’s all going to pot for Dave’s new project, as it was always going to, but we can always trust AWG to come to dodgy Dave’s defence.

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Cliff Byrne’s Right Peg wrote:

“He passed the fit and proper persons test”

“He’s built a new sports bar”

“He’s set up a wonderful new fan investment scheme, like he did with us, just before looking to get out. That money will definitely be invested in the club and not cause a headache for the next owner.”

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