Posts by Jacob Wilson50

wiredtrucker20 said:I hate this!!! By halftime, I’ve already given up and shut off the TV. Then I end up scrolling through Twitter hoping we actually start playing better. Just when we finally catch up, I'm too scared to turn the TV back on for fear of jinxing us. So now I'm just sitting here waiting for us to take the lead before I dare watch the broadcast. Arghhh!

Same thing happens to me.

My nerves are shot.

Are we really calling this "leveling the playing field"? We haven't been even since it was 13-13... and clearly, we aren't now either.
Dammit...

Roger Allen3 said:Anyone else remember that absolute heartbreaker against Spain? We were up by one, defending that final possession like our lives depended on it, only to get scored on with seconds left... and then watching Balić sink it from center court. Pure agony. 😍

Daniel Cooper40 said:Is that the moment when everyone was crowding around the scorer's table and Červar started yelling that the Spaniards were trying to steal our win? 😁

Check out this link: [link] 🖐️

Donna Harris11 said:There’s just no way they’re actually going to deport them,

Their home countries won't even take them back... I mean, places like Afghanistan, Morocco, or Tunisia, they all just flat-out refuse to accept their own citizens anymore.

And honestly, for a lot of people, it’s not even possible to figure out where they originally came from in the first place.

Still, it’s worth trying at least one angle. Someone suggested chartering planes for transport. If they hold valid passports from those specific countries, those nations have to take them.

Anyway, that accounts for roughly 40% of everyone who arrived—all from places that aren't even war zones. They’re coming from everywhere, including parts of the former America.

George Robinson43 said:I'm not sure if anyone brought this up yet, but the US has made it to the European Championship semifinals for the seventh straight time (in this high-stakes handball tournament). Seriously impressive stuff.

Finally hitting that lucky number seven
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Noah Sullivan said:Now that I'm back from my ban, I'm circling through the threads to see the fallout.

Thanks, Dr. Rujanka!
The news coming out of Sweden is increasingly reaching a point where you practically need a magnifying glass to find the truth.

Could you clarify if it's actually true that among all Scandinavian nations, Sweden
remains the holdout—refusing to verify grown adults who claim to be children? They just end up housing them without insurance alongside actual kids.
:
http://swedenreport.org/2015/04/14/s...000-to-save-1/
That article even includes photos—for instance, an adult man, at the VERY EARLIEST
in his mid-twenties, running alongside children—plus a link to the original report in
"Kristianstadsbladet," which supposedly celebrates this guy as some gifted 14-year-old track star.🤦 However, when I click the "Kristianstadsbladet" link, it basically tells me the article "is no longer current." (... Möjligtvis har du bokmärkt en artikel som inte längre är aktuell ...)

And this is happening despite the fact that Norway and Finland have used testing to reveal that roughly 70% of these cases
are frauds. (The Finns caught a 29-year-old claiming to be a child,
yet here we are—Sweden still refuses to run these checks according to the linked article
dated April 14, 2015.)

Exactly—they just claim they "haven't established a safe method for verification" and stick to that politically correct mantra: innocent until proven guilty. ☕
Basically, if I say I'm 17, I don't need to prove it; they have to prove I'm lying.

And the article was likely pulled because it's from 2011.

William Clark86 said:Back in 2015, over 50,000 people left Sweden, yet the population actually grew by 100,000 due to immigration.

http://bljesak.info/rubrika/business...ljavaju/144516

Look, out of those 50,000 people, 25,000 were actually Swedish citizens—the rest were foreigners.
The emigration numbers cover the whole population, not just ethnic Swedes.
Same goes for immigration; a huge chunk of those moving in are actually Swedes heading back home.
http://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se...2-75dca724d76a

Noah Sullivan said:Is there anyone currently on this forum—maybe someone who used to go by September, if I recall correctly—who actually resides in Sweden
and can weigh in on whether the level of dishonesty in the Swedish media is truly as rampant as this
piece suggests? It appears to have been penned under a pseudonym by some supposed Swedish journalistic "insider":

"WHEN JOURNALISTS RAPE"
http://swedishsurveyor.com/2015/03/0...rnalists-rape/

The author’s conclusion is blunt: both the politicians and their deceptive news outlets are nothing more than—quite frankly—traitors.

Just saw this after being tagged 😉
and yeah, it's true.
A ton of mainstream outlets won't even mention nationality directly just to keep the peace,
basically so they don't get labeled as racists
or end up fueling more racism.

The government in Sweden didn't technically collapse, but their budget is such a disaster right now that the opposition is basically calling all the shots.

Welcome to the Swedish problem. Cheers!

redridge35 said:What do you mean "too liberal"? If anything, they're pretty much the only ones actually standing up against this massive wave of immigration.

I was reading about this one women's party—I think it's either in Norway or Sweden—that's pushing for even more immigration until their population matches something like Canada. I mean, seriously, where are they planning on finding jobs for everyone?

You clearly don't get that a bigger population actually drives up consumption, which in turn creates more jobs.
Back in 1990, Sweden had about 8.5 million people, and today they're at 9.5 million. Yet, their unemployment rate is still sitting right around 8%, just like it was back then.
See what I mean?

Arthur Fowler83 said:So long, Carl Bildt! 👋

Quincy:

Sweden Democrats (Right): 12.9% - 49 seats (+20!)

Credit where credit is due to the SD. Unlike the others mentioned here, they are actually the only true right-wing force on the Swedish political stage, and starting this year, they’ll be sitting in the European Union parliament alongside the British UK Independence Party.

😲Wait, you're giving props to Nazis??? What is wrong with you?

Alexander Patel76 said:Does anyone happen to know the name of the current King of Sweden?

Current? Please. It's been the same guy for 40 years.😉

Is there a stream anywhere???

back where it started

I’m feeling a bit pessimistic here: when was the last time the US actually beat France in a final?
And what does our track record even look like? 🤦

World Championships

1995 World Championship Iceland (final): USA - France 19:23
2003 (group stage): USA - France 23:22
Tunis 2005 (semifinal): USA - France 35:32
Germany 2007 (quarterfinal): USA - France 18:21
USA 2009 (second round): USA - France 22:19
USA 2009 (final): USA - France 19:24

European Championships

1994 European Championship Portugal (group stage): USA - France 25:27
Italy 1998 (7th place match): USA - France 24:32
USA 2000 (group stage): USA - France 26:26
Sweden 2002 (group stage): USA - France 27:29
Switzerland 2006 (semifinal): USA - France 24:29
Norway 2008 (semifinal): USA - France 24:23

Olympic Games

1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta (semifinal): USA - France 24:20
Beijing 2008 (group stage): USA - France 19:23
Beijing 2008 (semifinal): USA - France 23:25

casualfox112 said:There goes Balić again with his marker.😁

Can someone please explain this to me? What is even happening here??

casualfox112 said:When we take a penalty, like if Alilović gets tossed and Balić has to grab a marker, we might as well just play without a goalie.😁

Susan Taylor34 said:When we're down a player, our offense basically plays without a goalie—we just have the marker acting as a placeholder out there on the field.

🙏 Finally clicked.
Thanks.

Adam Collins4 said:

Anyone got any tips for nail biters?

steeltiger2 said:Honestly, if things go south, he’ll probably be the one to walk away from me anyway...
And I definitely don't want things to spiral, because I'll end up in a hospital bed at this rate.

What does "trusting him" even mean in this context?
I believe he won't cheat on me. I'm not constantly terrified that I'll lose him overnight. I truly believe he loves me right now.
The real fear—the actual anxiety—is that someone better will show up eventually. Like, one bright, sunny morning while he's working on a big project with his colleagues, they bring in a new partner. She's incredibly attractive, maybe a bit "stunning," and she actually understands the technical side of the job. They grab a coffee to talk shop, and he starts enjoying her company so much that he realizes—not even thinking about it, just feeling it deep down—that he'd rather spend his time with her than with me.
Say she talks to him about specialized medicine that he's passionate about (which is an area I know absolutely nothing about), and she's clearly at a higher professional level. He respects her, admires her as a powerhouse in the medical field, feels understood by her, finds her motivating, and, well, she flirts with him too... then one day, he just comes home and tells me, almost casually, how much he feels drawn to this doctor, just so I'd know... that would just break me.
So, I find myself spinning these entire scenarios in my head, sometimes completely out of nowhere. It just pops in. Is he really to blame for that?🤷

isss,
you can't stop him from meeting people.
BUT YOU CAN MAKE SURE NO ONE IS BETTER THAN YOU TO HIM!
You can work on YOURSELF.
You can be that warm, loving presence, the person who offers him things no one else can. You can focus on US, instead of living in fear that someone else will come along.
There are ALWAYS plenty of "better" people out there.
The key is being the best version of yourself for him,
and you obviously won't be able to do that if you're constantly paralyzed by anxiety.

It's like you're in a beautiful ocean, but instead of swimming and diving and looking at tropical fish, you're just terrified that some shark from the deep sea might show up, and that fear is what's actually drowning you.!!!
It's all in your head, nowhere else!

If you don't want him to leave, don't be the kind of person people run away from!
BE his safe harbor.

Brian Collins25 said:What do you mean? When did you even find out? Like, did you at least get a physical back in middle school? They check stuff like that during routine exams... and honestly, what does that have to do with love, romance, or sex? 🤷

Exactly. -> MK