Jon Ford

A feeble-minded young man of infinite potential

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@Undue_Risk Forgot Arsacid

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@lefineder I'd question the capacity of a relatively small invading force to carry out a robust census in a period of transitory government and conflict and a vanishingly small number of Arabic and Coptic speakers. If the popn appears low, it's probably because they haven't counted everyone

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@LRSerling Polybius was more of a hostage than a slave

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@flendermanc @FugeusRedux I'm just surprised that the number 1 reply to all his posts wasn't "what kind of Irish is your grandad..."

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@dying_lava @Trans_Lykeia Women could do both of those things in Roman law.

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@ReubenR80027912 This is just the town from Roadhouse

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@InsideN17 Surely the litmus test for this is whether Tottenham's opponents suffer ACLs disproportionately at your ground versus others? I can't think of one happening to an opponent in the years since the ground opened?

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@Bob_Somebody021 For CK games you're basically playing every dynasty's Tywin Lannister

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@longtwerp @discordspies That's an obtuse way of looking at the proposition. "Sorry you're unable to make rent with money; I guess I'll have no choice but to evict you, unless you have sex with me" is fundamentally a coercive way to have sex with someone.

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@longtwerp @discordspies "If you don't have sex with me, I will evict you"

Compared to:

"If you don't have sex with me, I won't pay you"

They are clearly quite different propositions with different coercive effects.

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@YourSlutopedia @toonpete85 I agree we're all shafted by the cost of everything. Not sure how so many people can afford regular away trips, tickets + flights/trains/overnights. Fully agree with e.g. the Liverpool fans' ticket price protest last weekend.

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@YourSlutopedia @toonpete85 SJP and SoL are just too far off the beaten track to be serious contenders for most semi final match ups. The midlands is really where the matches should be played unless it's 2 clubs from the same part of the country, where you should just use the biggest local ground.

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@YourSlutopedia @toonpete85 Fine, 42k or whatever it is. That means 15k tickets to each semi finalist vs Wembley's 30-35k each.

I don't like the SFs being at Wembley, but the reality is that the appropriate stadia in the middle of the country just haven't been upgraded in line with London and the NW.

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@YourSlutopedia @toonpete85 It's the failure of all those clubs outside of London or Lancashire to expand their grounds in the PL era. Villa Park should be the same size as the Emirates or Spurs stadium. They're pretty much getting the same attendance as they were in 1993.

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@hannahchrstina CAMRA going around talking about terroir, wearing "my culture is not your costume" shirts in All Bar Ones across the land.

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@gr3n3rd @JRLevinsLaw And, if Davies' litigation doesn't win, then Parkrun will have won, and a new precedent will be established which organisations can follow.

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@gr3n3rd @JRLevinsLaw Leaving aside my personal views on the topic, it doesn't strike me that the Supreme Court have settled the issue as it pertains to a fun-running club allowing self-ID in non-sensitive spaces (i.e. not in toilets or changing facilities).

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@gr3n3rd @JRLevinsLaw ...sides here. There are enough counterbalancing planks of legislation and precedent that both sides could feel supported by law in their interpretation of the case.

Just because she can take this to court, doesn't mean she will win.

[Jon Ford @jonford01]

@gr3n3rd @JRLevinsLaw Because the court case is what determines whether the litigant's case is supported by the law or not (or if a new precedent will be set by the court). Obviously totally vexatious or unsupported cases can be summarily thrown out early doors, but I'd expect the law to support both