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lmao A tabloid reports that Eduardo Li was with his girlfriend at the Zurich hotel when they arrested him. Then on one of the "respectable" papers there's an interview with his wife and kids about how they are worried about his health.
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May 29, 2015 05:01
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Africa has 54 votes today, UEFA has 53, Asia 46, CONCACAF 35, South America 10, lol sure makes sense
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May 29, 2015 05:05
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I really hope that Blatter makes a speech after winning and is just casually carted away by the Swiss cops in the middle.
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Teddybear posted:I really hope that Blatter makes a speech after winning and is just casually carted away by the Swiss cops in the middle.
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May 29, 2015 05:09
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opus111 posted:lol the guardian is terrible generally but its sports is good and also its not owned by murdoch you total simpleton. so the new york post minus the murdoch
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May 29, 2015 05:17
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Stuff about the 2002 fraud is starting to trickle in, Marca are saying that Warner said that the trinidadian linesman he named for the Spain-Korea wasn't incompetent when he disallowed two valid goals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psFB6ox65HY http://www.marca.com/2015/05/29/futbol/futbol_internacional/1432855800.html And then something about Moreno admitting he was bought but lmao if you think I'm gonna try to translate these tiny jpg artifact filed italian words when I can barely understand it normally https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGJShzpXEAAJBbQ.jpg:large
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May 29, 2015 05:18
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Lol, the Brazilians fleeing supposedly means we can lose the fifth spot because they were supposed to vote on that in the Executive Comitee tomorrow too. Figueredo, Leoz and Del Nero are not voting. gently caress this gay Earth, at least we qualified to the rugby world cup *looks at group and cries* Bobo 
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May 29, 2015 05:20
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:so the new york post minus the murdoch I thought that the guardian was owned by a trust that among other things ensured journalistic independence, and it operated at a loss. If that's a terrible media outlet I'm not sure what qualifies as good
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May 29, 2015 05:31
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Bishop posted:I thought that the guardian was owned by a trust that among other things ensured journalistic independence, and it operated at a loss. If that's a terrible media outlet I'm not sure what qualifies as good
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May 29, 2015 05:37
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My Costa Rican friend owes me $100 now that we know Eduardo Li paid for them to advance further than Team Jozy last summer. 
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May 29, 2015 05:40
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Crazy Ted posted:It's a pretty independent media organization but at times it cranks out stuff that borders on parody. It featured an article yesterday that claimed that tea, of all things, is an English national disgrace because it's a remnant of colonialism and if you like that well then you probably hate the poors too. The Guardian has long prided itself on publishing hella hot takes.
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May 29, 2015 05:42
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Teddybear posted:The Guardian has long prided itself on publishing hella hot takes. Their last truly great hot take was Jonathan Jones saying the poppy installation at the Tower of London causes UKIP or some such thing. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 05:47 on May 29, 2015 |
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May 29, 2015 05:45
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So we have to choose between Blatter and sharia law?
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May 29, 2015 05:48
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Polidoro posted:Lol, the Brazilians fleeing supposedly means we can lose the fifth spot because they were supposed to vote on that in the Executive Comitee tomorrow too. Figueredo, Leoz and Del Nero are not voting. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that qualify for the death penalty under Brazilian law?
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May 29, 2015 05:50
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Also forgot to mention this, I saw it this morning on brazilian news: https://in.news.yahoo.com/brazil-football-confederation-removes-marins-name-hq-131612188--sow.html
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May 29, 2015 05:54
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dkj posted:So we have to choose between Blatter and sharia law? FIFA needs racism because maybe that would have prevented them giving their flagship product watched by billions of people to a despotic sand people country where slavery and murdering your wife are only technically illegal for any amount of bribes.
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Crazy Ted posted:And just like that, the first headine in today's Opinion section: What if men had periods? It’s a question still worth posing How can you talk about Teh Grauniad's massive attempt to go for click bait and not mention that they employ Jessica Valenti?
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May 29, 2015 06:01
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It was a big mistake to have the pod racing championship on Tattooine with all the corruption and tuskan raiders.
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Troy Queef posted:How can you talk about Teh Grauniad's massive attempt to go for click bait and not mention that they employ Jessica Valenti?
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May 29, 2015 06:10
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Crazy Ted posted:It's a pretty independent media organization but at times it cranks out stuff that borders on parody. It featured an article yesterday that claimed that tea, of all things, is an English national disgrace because it's a remnant of colonialism and if you like that well then you probably hate the poors too. The opinion/comment is free articles have been self-parody as far as I can remember.
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Waroduce posted:We have one in chicago where we torture our own citizens without charge I don't think Soldier Field counts
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Azhais posted:II don't think Soldier Field counts lmao
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bloodsacrifice posted:It was a big mistake to have the pod racing championship on Tattooine with all the corruption and tuskan raiders. *tracy jordan voice* dats hilarious
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May 29, 2015 06:34
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Bishop posted:I thought that the guardian was owned by a trust that among other things ensured journalistic independence, and it operated at a loss. If that's a terrible media outlet I'm not sure what qualifies as good It's funded by the Scott Trust. It's terrible because its an advert-laden clickbait aggregator now instead of the quality bastion of journalism it has been in the past. Its main focus these days appears to be reporting on Game of Thrones, top 10 lists and breathless reporting of Twitter outrage. Their 'comment is free section' used to attract prominent thinkers and academics. Take a look at it now. It's a drat shame.
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May 29, 2015 06:35
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If people are ragging on the Guardian I'm interested in what papers they think are actually better.
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May 29, 2015 06:37
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hadji murad posted:If people are ragging on the Guardian I'm interested in what papers they think are actually better. FT. That's it. The rest are worse.
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Azhais posted:I don't think Soldier Field counts Should've said Wrigley.
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May 29, 2015 06:53
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opus111 posted:It's funded by the Scott Trust.
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May 29, 2015 07:12
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hadji murad posted:If people are ragging on the Guardian I'm interested in what papers they think are actually better. The paper itself is still quite good, the website is loving poo poo though lol the FIFA voting is a joke with how the numbers line up no wonder Blatter changed it
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May 29, 2015 07:27
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opus111 posted:FT. That's it. The rest are worse.
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Jose posted:The paper itself is still quite good, the website is loving poo poo though
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straight up brolic posted:the FT is great if youre dead inside It just presents important news, giving you the facts and likely implications in a sober manner. Thats what I want, not '5 things we learned from the final episode of Community' or George Monbiot grizzling about people using EasyJet.
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May 29, 2015 07:32
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Jose posted:The paper itself is still quite good, the website is loving poo poo though How did the voting worked before Blatter?
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May 29, 2015 07:34
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Blatter is definitely going to win btw
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opus111 posted:It just presents important news, giving you the facts and likely implications in a sober manner. Thats what I want, not '5 things we learned from the final episode of Community' or George Monbiot grizzling about people using EasyJet. It's generally easy to ignore the stupid Comment is Free bits of the Guardian tbf. There's at least a pretty clear distinction between where the news ends and the dumb clickbait starts. I read the Washington Post because it's my hometown paper and they've been playing the clickbait game for a few years too. They still do decent journalism sometimes though, like when they busted open the Rolling Stone UVA story last year.
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Alain Post posted:It's generally easy to ignore the stupid Comment is Free bits of the Guardian tbf. There's at least a pretty clear distinction between where the news ends and the dumb clickbait starts. this is my last post on it i promise but every other day i was redoing all the customisation on their site so I would only get UK, World, Football, Money (or whatever) because it kept resetting and showing me a bunch of pictures of miserable looking fat girls writing about video games, but it was so annoying and obviously cynical of them that I've just given up and only read the football bit now. I had a yearly subscription for like 3 years, now I can't even look at it!
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i linked a really good guardian piece in the pics thread yesterday, thats what the guardian used to be like more often than not so i agree they can still do it sometimes.
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May 29, 2015 07:39
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I love the pictures of the opinion article writers because 100% of the time they look exactly like how you'd expect them to look.
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