Be more German

How many mods are there now? Seems to be everyone except me.

Barb Dwyer wrote:How many mods are there now? Seems to be everyone except me.

You are a mod!

You have mod powers for your competition thread  I believe?

To be honest we don't really have any more mods than usual.

We always had two main mods Aaron and Keegan, well Aaron's not been around for ages and Keegan seems to be more a visitor these days than a regular, so we just asked Boggers and Johnny if they wanted to hang on to their mod powers and help to cover for the two who no longer seem to be about much.

We've tried something different with having a specific topic (Euro 2016) and having people to 'champion' it (giving them just mod powers for that specific thing to help them do that) - and it seemed to work ok - so we've simply done the same again by keeping on WGO and bringing in Mr Amos (who up to now hasn't been around much) to do the same for the Bolton Town section.

So no real change there either - like for like.

And finally the people who run our competitions like your goodself are similarly given mod powers to help them do so - if they require it at all.

So yes a lot of mods but at the same time hardly any at all - if you understand what I mean.

I guess a more accurate description is people having administrative powers to help them do a job for the rest of us on Nuts, if they happen to need it - albeit these powers are exactly the same as mods have.

Hope that explains things a bit more clearly?

Sluffy wrote:


so we just asked Boggers and Johnny if they wanted to hang on to their mod powers and help to cover for the two who no longer seem to be about much.

Hope that explains things a bit more clearly?

It certainly does. It explains that you're fucking mental. 

Copper Dragon wrote:

Sluffy wrote:...so we just asked Boggers and Johnny if they wanted to hang on to their mod powers and help to cover for the two who no longer seem to be about much.

Hope that explains things a bit more clearly?

It certainly does. It explains that you're fucking mental. 

That's the fun of Nuts though - at least we aren't boring!




Anyway get those three song links of yours pm-ed to me!

Thank you.

Copper Dragon wrote:

Sluffy wrote:


so we just asked Boggers and Johnny if they wanted to hang on to their mod powers and help to cover for the two who no longer seem to be about much.

Hope that explains things a bit more clearly?

It certainly does. It explains that you're fucking mental. 

it would have been mental making a burnley supporter a mod on a bolton forum but otherwise how is it mental?

y2johnny wrote:

Copper Dragon wrote:

Sluffy wrote:


so we just asked Boggers and Johnny if they wanted to hang on to their mod powers and help to cover for the two who no longer seem to be about much.

Hope that explains things a bit more clearly?

It certainly does. It explains that you're fucking mental. 

it would have been mental making a burnley supporter a mod on a bolton forum but otherwise how is it mental?

Well boggers locked a thread last night and nearly caused WW3 

I nearly locked a thread, but I managed to find my way around the batcave to solve the problem.

Easy mistake to make, with all them fancy buttons .

Interesting this, you have to admire the German's in not letting hysteria take over -

At the end of July, Germany was hit by a series of violent attacks, three of which were carried out by asylum seekers. So are Germans turning against Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy? Damien McGuinness in Berlin is not convinced.

"Merkel on the ropes!" screeched one headline, after the recent attacks in Germany, before going on to predict confidently that her "premiership is hanging by a thread".

"Calls for Chancellor Angela Merkel to stand down grow," wrote another paper.
But what's interesting about these and similar articles is that they were written by English-speaking journalists reporting from outside Germany.

And in both these cases, the only evidence that Merkel's government was apparently about to fall was a video filmed by Russian TV of right-wing extremists protesting in Berlin. No polling data. No evidence. Just that video.

You can't necessarily blame the journalists. From the outside the narrative makes sense. Merkel allows Germany to take in more than a million asylum seekers from the Middle East. A year later there are violent Islamist attacks committed by migrants. So it stands to reason that her government is on the verge of collapse.

The problem is, though, the facts really get in the way of that story. Almost 70% of Germans do not think that Merkel's refugee policy contributed to the attacks, and the violence has barely had any effect on support for her centre-right party, making it unlikely that anyone else will lead the next government, let alone topple the present one.

Since the attacks, her personal approval ratings have slipped, but almost half of German voters, across the political spectrum, say they still want her as chancellor. In fact, she has no credible rivals - the left-wing opposition is small and the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany party is riven with internal rivalries.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36985861

Do you have a framed picture of Merkel in your bathroom?

No space for it with all the Corbyn merchandise.

bwfc1874 wrote:
The problem is, though, the facts really get in the way of that story. Almost 70% of Germans do not think that Merkel's refugee policy contributed to the attacks,

I see that they've provided plenty of 'facts' for saying that. 

Almost all of the population of this country (including me) didn't think that we would vote to exit the EU but we did.

It's probably a case of the downtrodden silent majority who don't like to come out and say what they actually think because they'll be branded as something that they aren't.

And if there's one set of people in Europe who have a complex about this sort of thing (which they shouldn't), then it's your average German.

The migrant issue is just part of a bigger overpopulation problem which will continue until population outstrips food production capacity.

In the West we don't take account of " natural causes" to keep overpopulation in check because medicare is good and we take the view that everyone has the right to breed regardless of their ability to feed and nurture their offspring which is a new development in the scheme of human history - and something that is morally debatable. Not that state sponsored spaying will happen anytime soon whilst most of the world's cultures extol having large families in lieu of contributing to a pension scheme.

In reality most migrants would to prefer to live in the area they were born in if it was safe for them to do so and they could feed themselves. But for the most part the wars and famines that drive them to come to Europe are fostered here in the West.

We want to sell arms,Western goods and ideologies and we want to take oil and other natural resources from them, but we don't want to pay the full price - which should include the cost of maintaining social and economic stability in the countries of origin. If we did, there would be no migrants.

Worth noting, one year on -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/syrian-refugee-crisis-how-different-countries-have-responded-france-lebanon-uk-a7220616.html

How many refugees has the UK actually taken? The UK, as well as many more countries seem to be missing from that list.

Bwfc1958 wrote:How many refugees has the UK actually taken? The UK, as well as many more countries seem to be missing from that list.

I'll bet it's not as many as we have created.

Fewer than 2,000 refugees has been resettled by the start of Q2 this year with the government set to fail on their 20,000 pledge.

Just another lie from the Cameron government designed to take the heat off a bit.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/refugee-crisis-uk-syrians-resettled-latest-numbers-news-asylum-claims-high-eritrea-human-rights-a7158086.html

It says in that article though that there are 34,000 asylum applications pending. Is that 34,000 applications from Syrians or the total number of of applications full stop? The target is obviously achievable if they just get their arse in gear and process them quicker. 

Another problem by the looks of it is where to put them. With local authorities already on a shoestring because of government cuts many are refusing to take them because of the inability to fund them with the government coming up short on providing them with the money to do it.

Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, TV exit polls have suggested.

The Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party took 21% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD's 30.5%.

The German chancellor's CDU was supported by only 19% of those who voted, according to the exit polls.

The vote was seen as a key test before German parliamentary elections in 2017.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37271971


Just to put that into some context, this is Angela Merkel's - Conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) - home state, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania!

Just to follow up on the pathetic record of this country, just 20 children in 2 years against a target of 3,000:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/03/uk-admits-only-20-unaccompanied-child-refugees-in-two-years

While they cock up Brexit, let's not forget all the other areas we've been failed in by the government.

How many did you take in Troy?