Protests following the killing of George Floyd
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
When did all those pilots die?
Fighter pilot would be highly dangerous. Are air traffic accidents more frequent than I imagine?
What's the relevance here? No armed forces mentioned but I'd imagine a tour of Afghanistan during conflict would be more dangerous than being an athlete. I'd take a pulled muscle over an IED any day!
Probably because the total number of pilots being so low every death counts more on a per capita scale, plus accidents in small/charter planes that don’t make the national news.
There are plenty small choppers and planes working for the mining companies, forestry companies, fighting fires... It's a shity job, but well paid. Accidents happen all the time.
Remember the famous basketball player that died not so long ago? Also the tourist chopper that went down in the grand canyon? shit happens but not always gonna make the news.
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Yeah but even that doesn't seem to happen frequently.
I can see this being the case.
It’s due to the sensationalism in media, if it bleeds it leads. Roofers or loggers dying from accidents on the job won’t get much attention. An officer getting murdered by another person is newsworthy and grabs people’s attention. Same is true when police injure or kill a citizen, whether justified or not. Add race to the picture? Perfect. Let the shitstorm begin.
"White Privilege does not mean your life is not hard. It means the colour of your skin is not something making it harder" basically implying what @Thats'sHernandez has said.
This was quote was written on a poster stuck by someone today on property we are renovating.
Do you lot boast about how dangerous your job is stateside or something? I still don't get the meme.
In 2018 on average 3 small plane crashes occurred and there is around 120 helicopter crashes per year.
Embarrassing
These things are not the same... That’s the point.
It does get mentioned a lot, yes. Not necessarily by police officers themselves but often in this type of discussion when allies of policing are trying to justify why an officer went too far.
yea sadly some do. It is and can be dangerous, but I remind people that the majority of on-the-job injuries and deaths are from traffic collisions, not from being killed by suspects.
It may not be the most dangerous but the stress levels are through the roof, psychological problems, substance abuse, domestic abuse amongst other things.
I wouldn't do it and I do admire those who do it well.
I wouldn't do it and I do admire those who do it well.
this will be fun ..
He says while having the opposition flag in his display name.
I find it really weird that these "patriotic" people love the confederate flag which literally represents an enemy of the state. I don't know whether they are just proud of their racist heritage or just dumb fecks who have no clue of their own country's history.
I guess we can add NASCAR to the pile of races those inbreds hate.
Agree in general but that particular one is taking the piss.
Those poor souls, between this and kneeling at NFL games they might have to resort to watching soccer.
Don't just assure me. Tell me your point?
My point is pretty simple. Anyone can post a load of twitter articles without any real insight or bothering to look into them. When I asked him to share his views he went off on a childish rant which confirmed my suspicion that he knew feck all.
Posting tweets with no context given in the post or even just the tweet has been a problem. It is weak sauce.
Brilliant.
Biden, wtf?
I suppose he’s working hard to try to appease the cops, and others that wouldn’t like de-funding, so it looks like he’s proposing to give more money to said cops.
There is no appeasing them. Well, the money will help, but they’ll come for more once that $300m is spent.
I suppose he’s working hard to try to appease the cops, and others that wouldn’t like de-funding, so it looks like he’s proposing to give more money to said cops.
There is no appeasing them. Well, the money will help, but they’ll come for more once that $300m is spent.