I have an idea for a new thread...

[IceCreamMan]

1 hour ago, The Ouzo said:

guys please tread carefully with the politcal talk, we dont want one of the better non cycling threads to be removed too

Hear you, but this is more world affairs than politics per se. It’s an interesting election and conceivably will affect bicycle prices in ZA indirectly. 

[justinafrika]

1 hour ago, Duane_Bosch said:

I'd rather have the endorsement of the devil himself.

😂   I cannot disagree.

 

 

Edited November 5, 2024 by justinafrika

[SwissVan]

9 hours ago, IceCreamMan said:

That time. 

Viva Trump

The world needs a distraction from our current goat show.

World news could be great again for the next 4 years if he gets in.

[SwissVan]

3 hours ago, The Ouzo said:

guys please tread carefully with the politcal talk, we dont want one of the better non cycling threads to be removed too

Ja nee true, this place seriously needs an unrestricted thread where moderators are 🚫 

Edit: This morning I toyed with the idea of starting a topic regarding the US election, but suspected it would be a waste of time due to moderation. Let’s hope they who yield the “thread locked” button don’t opt for the lazy option of locking the whole thread.

 

Edited November 5, 2024 by SwissVan

[justinafrika]

18 hours ago, IceCreamMan said:

bookies here have trump as overwhelming favourite as prez and Harris as overwhelming favourite for the popular vote. 

Bookies always know best. 

Team Harris was counting on crucial swing state North Carolina to win, and lost.  Don't know why I thought that all those ex Republican governors publicly saying they're voting for Harris, and 40/44 of Trump's most senior appointees and generals saying they're voting for Harris, and EVERY former National Security Advisor warning against Trump would hold sway with the average US voter.  Perhaps DJR knows better with that "funny lot the Americans" quip.

Would hardly be the first time I was wrong.  I think I can hear the long distant ex in-laws shouting that they'd like a word.

Edited November 6, 2024 by justinafrika

[IceCreamMan]

1 hour ago, justinafrika said:

Bookies always know best. 

Team Harris was counting on crucial swing state North Carolina to win, and lost.  Don't know why I thought that all those ex Republican governors publicly saying they're voting for Harris, and 40/44 of Trump's most senior appointees and generals saying they're voting for Harris, and EVERY former National Security Advisor warning against Trump would hold sway with the average US voter.  Perhaps DJR knows better with that "funny lot the Americans" quip.

Would hardly be the first time I was wrong.  I think I can hear the long distant ex in-laws shouting that they'd like a word.

Bookies now have Trump at 1/55 and Harris at 16/1. 
 

bookies were wrong on the popular vote by the looks of it. Interesting that Trump polled as much as he did thus far. Maybe America is not ready for a woman president. 
 

a little way to go still. But looking like the Red Sea is taking over all bastions of American politics. 

[IceCreamMan]

Trump has called it. 

[Hairy]

 

[IceCreamMan]

[IceCreamMan]

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/09/proposed-iraqi-law-change-would-legalise-child-say-activists
 

what a disgrace. 

[justinafrika]

On 11/11/2024 at 11:58 AM, IceCreamMan said:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/09/proposed-iraqi-law-change-would-legalise-child-say-activists
 

what a disgrace. 

Horrific.  I recall Nawal Al-Maghafi's 2019 doccie in which she secretly filmed imams selling 1 hour/1 day "pleasure marriages" involving kids as young as 9 in mosques in Baghdad.  8 out of the 10 Shia clerics filmed were selling children in "pleasure marriages" from inside mosques.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/06/pleasure-marriages-iraq-baghdad-bbc-investigation-child-prostitution

 

Edited November 12, 2024 by justinafrika

[justinafrika]

[IceCreamMan]

58 year old men have no place in a boxing ring. 

[justinafrika]

Remuneration for these old legendary boxers is reportedly structured with a base $ deal, and then compensated either by the round or on a streaming viewership numbers basis. The longer the match goes the more the likes of Tyson and Mayweather earn.  It's a farce, it's not sport imo.

Still, I had hoped to read that Tyson moered that TicToc numbskull.

[splat]

4 hours ago, IceCreamMan said:

58 year old men have no place in a boxing ring. 

Comments on Social Media:

Jake going to fight Joe Biden next

This reality: Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson, gets clowned for fighting an old man.
Alternate reality, Jake Paul loses to Mike Tyson, gets clowned for losing to an old man.

[IceCreamMan]

11 minutes ago, splat said:

Comments on Social Media:

Jake going to fight Joe Biden next

This reality: Jake Paul beats Mike Tyson, gets clowned for fighting an old man.
Alternate reality, Jake Paul loses to Mike Tyson, gets clowned for losing to an old man.

100 percent. Was thinking that during the fight. Tyson looked punch drunk and wobbly early on. Thought Jake Paul gonna look a plonker either way. 
 

but they both made bank.