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Nevermind. Seems I'm not able to express myself properly today. Sorry for that. I still maintain that the post triggering me is bordering on racist. Now I stop digging though.

Re boat people : showing my age. The term comes from the Vietnamese refugees rescued after escaping their communist country and is positively contacted. But when I hear someone talking about how immigrants have negative influence even in stupid things like average height, especially when there is a much more likely non-racist explanation presented, my hackles are raising and I try to expose that talk by cranking it up. Sorry again - this doesn't translate to the written form. Re Indians: Taken out of context maybe. Sorry if I gave that impression. Since I employ several Indians in my team and have an Indian boss, I maybe I got lax since we are not so very restrained internally. Shouldn't happen though. (And I'm fully aware that my defense here is my best friends are xyz...)

Not disputing that but may I remind you that the discussion was that kids in UK become smaller. And the UK population is genetically very diverse. The argument that the loss in average size is caused by boat people is

You have to compare the life situation in Bulgaria now with before they joined the EU. If you can't see the improvement than I'm not sure what to say. My capabilities to search sources are limited because I'm in China (where I meet a lot of tall people contrary to many popular myths) but try this link : https://randalolson.com/2014/06/23/why-the-dutch-are-so-tall/ The racist part is more connected but not exclusively to your theory about boat people polluting the good English stock. Think about it, I won't explain more.

I don't think you are right on this one. Names for foreign places are very often rooted in history. Look at all the different names for Germany. I'm totally looking forward to telling our Polski neighbours to stop using their rude term for Deutschland. This will go down very well

Way to miss the point. Bulgaria is a shining example because the had the chance to improve a lot. Mainly because they opted for something that the UK rejected. I rather not engage with the rest of your racist post

But isn't that the failure of the left? Staying ideological pure is more important than beating the enemy. Let's rather concentrate our ire on the people's liberation front of Starrmistan.

The hope for me as - a non brit is - when was he lying about his position more? Now or then? Assuming that his team has identified his current course of action as a vote winner, wouldn't it be possible they are lying to the electorate now more than ever? In general the morons who cheerfully vote for the likes of BJ somewhat deserve that treatment to trick them into not voting for the worst possible choice. But yeah in general doesn't sound very positive.

I don't think so. Kyiv is a deliberate attempt to break with a colonial past and the new spelling should be followed for that reason There are some other exceptions, like we don't really use the German names for some places but that's also not consistent. We say Ljubljana instead of Laibach. But not Gdansk - and of course wouldn't translate the band names either. But why should we exactly follow the local naming when there is a perfectly good transcription of the name or even a traditional non-controversal name in your own language? I'm not even sure, that me as a German writing texts in my own language should write Kyiv. Why on earth should I follow some English transcription rules? It's probably Kyjiw but I never see that version anywhere.

EU citizens. That's why it's not (yet) available here.

I would say that since Putin's actions turned the Baltic sea into a Nato pond, Muscovites now even have a hot water port.

That's far beyond the mental capacity of those people. If you are against the Muscovites attacking their neighbors they always come back with you Americans did worse in Granada or wherever. Explaining them that you were against that too and maybe are not American or even from a country that may have been victim of their imperialism would immer destroy their binary and upside down world view. So it will be ignored.

Since we have a thread about him...

My airline has rescheduled my connection flight from 21:15 to 16:30. But I will arrive at 17:35. This is already the return flight so canceling is not really an option. This is bad for my wife cause she will take this flight home. So what on earth is KLM thinking? The positive side effect may be for me. I won't be able to be on this flight in any case so maybe I can get a refund for this impossible flight?

I dunno. The capability to enrich myself seems to be a much more real world skill than sinking enemy submarines with sonar. I would even go so far to say that as a finance bro, your chances of sinking underwater vehicles are higher.

So are they raping and killing randomly or is it systemic? You claim it's neither one or the other but it clearly happens on a massive scale. It's something that is also not forgotten in Germany, just not mentioned so actively for obvious reasons. The Muscovite army is raping on massive scale wherever they go. And innocent boys who rape for the country? What is wrong with you?

Not random shooting. You said earlier the doctrine involves killing civilians. And the behavior of Muscovite soldiers doesn't really need an explicit command from Putin. It's just part of your much admired culture as Swan Lake and stupid matryoshkas. Russky Mir. Own it. All of it.

I'm sure you know that the Muscovite unit in Bucha has been personally honoured by Putin. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/19/europe/russia-bucha-brigade-honorary-title-putin-intl/index.html

Ah okay so nothing special just F.D.P. Is fdping again. They are the enemy of the people.

What did they do this time? Sorry I'm in China and have trouble reading the news from home.

Have they thought about IVF? This way they both get their wishes done.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Assuming Wagner keeps in fighting shape they will be recalled sooner or later. Whether that will be the rehearsal for Swan Lake is another topic but at one point Muscovy will draw in every fighting force. Maybe even the Tiktoks. Better to burn them in Ukraine than have them in tip-top shape for another round against the dumpster trucks.

This one has daytime tv movie written all over it, but please swap the gender to make the characters more likable and the head coach a monster.

Can we maybe move the discussion to the traditional place - the UK thread?