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[Loud Whispers]

I don't even know why is there such a big obsession with football in Russia. It's, like, the sport in which we're absolutely in the shitters, every other one we do better, significantly - but nooooo, they just have to like the fucking football!

Football has the largest stadiums, thus the largest battel arena

How many times our football team has to lose like chumps, until the people get the idea that maybe football just isn't our forte, and switch to liking something that we're actually better at, like volleyball?

Or weights, squats and going to space
I do recall that one Roman Emperor, who thanked the gods that he was not a fervent fan of either the blues or the greens

[Sheb]

On a more EU note, Germany announced it is cracking down on underage and polygamic marriage in recent arrivals

Syrian "child brides" and international law
"Alarming increase" in number of child marriages within Syrian refugee communities in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon, says Save the Children
It is argued that marriage protects the girls from sexual assault and other hardship
It is also seen as safeguarding family honour
It reduces economic burden on refugee families

Yeah, pretty nice example of why we shouldn't leave those people in refugee camps IMO. Although I do wonder how he plans to fight polygamy from a legal standpoints. For child bride, you can refuse to recognize the marriage, maybe even bring statutory rape charge for the more extreme case, but it's not like those polygamous marriages are recognized now. The article cite several wife sharing one's inheritance, but I fail to see how preventing some of the wives from getting inheritance money would make the situation less worse.

[MonkeyHead]

I don't even know why is there such a big obsession with football in Russia. It's, like, the sport in which we're absolutely in the shitters, every other one we do better, significantly - but nooooo, they just have to like the fucking football!

How many times our football team has to lose like chumps, until the people get the idea that maybe football just isn't our forte, and switch to liking something that we're actually better at, like volleyball?

I thought Ice Hockey was your thing. I mean, that has the fighting built right into it!

[Dorsidwarf]

EgyptAir debris & probbably wreck sites found, Apparently

[Loud Whispers]

EgyptAir debris & probbably wreck sites found, Apparently

Still no black box? Also in the sidebar of that article I'm quite surprised the Pistorious trial is still going on

[Arx]

EgyptAir debris & probbably wreck sites found, Apparently

Still no black box? Also in the sidebar of that article I'm quite surprised the Pistorious trial is still going on

Yep, because the homicide judgment was overturned.

[Sonlirain]

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160507/1039228442/poland-refugees-politician.html

I wasn't sure whether this belongs in the WTF thread or here.

[Teneb]

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160507/1039228442/poland-refugees-politician.html

I wasn't sure whether this belongs in the WTF thread or here.

Wait, you mean to tell me this isn't WTF thread: euro edition?

[Sonlirain]

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160507/1039228442/poland-refugees-politician.html

I wasn't sure whether this belongs in the WTF thread or here.

Wait, you mean to tell me this isn't WTF thread: euro edition?

That's why it ended up here. Lehistan is in europe.

[Loud Whispers]

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160507/1039228442/poland-refugees-politician.html

I wasn't sure whether this belongs in the WTF thread or here.

Germans already did that

Shucks Poles, get with the current year

[Morrigi]

But in practice polygamous relationships are often quietly tolerated, the paper reports. For example, if a man dies, his inheritance may be distributed between his two wives.
But Mr Maas wants to stop authorities turning a blind eye.
"Everybody must abide by the law, no matter whether he has grown up here or has only just arrived," he told the tabloid.
This also applies to forced and underage marriages.
"We cannot tolerate forced marriages, above all, if they affect under-age girls," Mr Maas said.
Bild reports that the federal state of Bavaria alone has registered 550 cases of brides aged under 18, and 161 under 16, among the asylum seekers that have arrived in the recent migrant wave.
In most of these cases, the young girls were already married before their arrival in Germany.
A court in the city of Bamberg recently decided that the marriage of a 15-year-old girl to a 21-year-old man, conducted under Syrian jurisdiction, could be regarded as legal in Germany.
In Germany the minimum age for marriage is 18, but it is possible for a young person aged 16 or 17 to marry, if a family court gives consent, and the other party to the marriage is at least 18.

JUSTice Minister: 0
Tolerance:        1

Taken Maas long enough to say *something*. He is a pathetic excuse for a man and a politician.

[sprinkled chariot]

I dont, why we even needed the olympics and football, it is just throwing money out of the window, why did not our country let someone else do that instead of us? 

[Orange Wizard]

There's a myriad of reasons why sporting competitions are good. It provides a boost to the local economy with all the people visiting. It lets people join together in nationalistic pride. It's also fun for... most people, who enjoy watching their faviote athletes and teams.
Sure, it's expensive, and certainly not essential, but anyone who thinks expenditure should be limited to things that are purely essential can go live in a tent and eat hardtack.

[Sheb]

So, there is a rather nice tax reform package being passed at the EU level (although the Czech finance minister is almost single-handedly blocking it at the moment, because sadly the EU can't easily overrule national government, unlike what the Eurosceptics here would have you believe.

Who said nothing would come out of the Luxleak?

[Dorsidwarf]

Mars Rover is being floated until they can work out the rest of its funding

UK MP critically wounded by gun and knife attack