We want to share an important update with our Betfair Community users.
Over the coming months, the Betfair Community platform will be winding down. The final active day for the platform will be December 21st. From December 22nd, users will no longer be able to access the platform.
Your discussions, insights, engagement, and, most importantly, feedback have helped shape the platform and guided innovation. Your feedback continues to be important to us, and we will continue to listen via our dedicated feedback channels, as well as through product testing and innovations.
To share your feedback and experience, visit: https://support.betfair.com/app/home
|
By:
thanks gerry but i hear they are all mental there
would not trust them one bit |
|
By:
I post on there
![]() |
|
By:
Mr Hennig and the other aid workers who travel there to help people knowing the dangers are extra ordinary people and ordinary people like us find it hard to fathom them out. One has to admire their courage.
|
|
By:
Given the ISIS method of not giving a toss about what anybody says, anybody who goes out there to help is a sandwich short of a picnic, even more so if they have a worrying family at home here in the UK.
'So now he is a legend, when he would have preferred to be a man.' Jacqueline Kennedy. |
|
By:
with all due respect gerry
thats the impression i get from folk on here i have you down as a decent guy - seen a lot of your comments on chit chat |
|
By:
ta pugmunter and you seem the same
|
|
By:
Gery is so laid back he`s horizontal
Good guy ![]() |
|
By:
i am reasonable headed altho sometimes let myself down with a few daft outbursts (alcohol related)
which a few folk on here love to play on! gery - see my fred re tv faces from the past. Appreciate your input |
|
By:
another good lad enters - mightymac
dont have a bad word to say about him - nice chap |
|
By:
Very sad news. Was always likely to happen once we voted for military action in parliament. I think we have to face up to the likelihood of the other hostages being lost as well. We need cool heads, a considered strategy and then after all due consideration knock the bejeesus out of these barbarians.
|
|
By:
I've always been a lily livered liberal that most would probably despise on here.
But there is something about a beheading on film like this that chills the soul. The perpetrator has basically said..."I have no respect for human life,I may as well be working in an abbatoir". So... should we respect his life? Sadly (for me)..the answer is No. |
|
By:
Gery's such a nice guy , he's now the voice of all reason on this forum Pug
![]() |
|
By:
Cheers Pug. We all do daft things when drinking mate. I know you are a good guy.
![]() |
|
By:
cheers lads appreciate it
will stick up a thread about it then |
|
By:
The government portray ISIS as an existential threat. I think this is hyperbolic but if we take them at their word then we really do need to do something about our muslim population for our own protection. Some will see this is racism but that is merely an attempt to close down debate and is the refuge of the scoundrel.
The last time we faced an existential threat was during WW2 and fleeing Jews from Europe were interned on the Isle of Wight if memory serves me right. Food for thought. So the government need to be straight with the people of this country. Either ISIS are a rag bag bunch of barbarians a long way away fighting a Sunni/Shiite civil war with plenty of random barbarity thrown in to stir the pot or we do indeed face this supposed threat which our government seems intent on telling us is fact as they whittle away our civil liberties. So which is it and if the latter why aren't they making tough choices which someone like Churchill wasn't afraid to make? I'm sure moderate muslims would support this policy if indeed the threat is so grave. |
|
By:
You hear many saying that one never hears Muslims in this country condemning the likes of ISIS but I`m sure they do so in private. To do so publicly would be committing suicide. I don`t think internment would be feasible. Apart from that, the Isle Of Wight couldn`t hold them all.
|
|
By:
Sure they could. Bunk beds.
![]() |
|
By:
A few thoughts on this:
1. Once a group starts beheading UK civilians, we have to take the fkers out. 2. Extending IS’s/ISIS's actions to all Muslims shows lazy thinking, innumeracy (no. of terrorist killings vs. number of Muslims etc.), and some sort of frustration. 3. There’s no conspiracy here, but the British and US governments might well be secretly licking their lips at this. |
|
By:
You could fit millions on the Isle Of Wight.
|
|
By:
Joking aside my point isn't really about the muslims. It's at least partially about calling the government's bluff when they embark on yet another expedition having ramped up the propaganda. People should be raising these issues when they go overboard about these threats. Sure we are at risk of some terrorist activity as we were during the 70's and 80's with the IRA. Life went on pretty nuch normally as it should and we should look at this with a clear head. If the situation really is as dire as government suggests then bringing in such parallels from history shows them up for being liars, wimps or feeble.
|
|
By:
Just to clarify EEO, I wasn't really addressing your post. I just don't like the widespread, knee-jerk "f*cking Muslims" reaction since it's obviously more complicated than that. The government's stance, past and present, is clearly a factor.
|
|
By:
the geordie guys story about the russian way was of interest.thats the sort of thing id back.i have no compassion when it comes to this subject .we need to be totally ruthless to stamp this isas out
|
|
By:
Dear jihadi john you may dress as a ninja and carry a knife but essentially you are an inadequate hamilton accie coont.
|
|
By:
wouldn't it be nice if muslims just shrugged their shoulders collectively in the mosques and said - we may have been a bit out of it and now we are going to integrate and be part of british life
instead some 9 percent in one poll said they didn't see anything much wrong with islamic violence yes a poll in THIS country |
|
By:
Found innocent in a Sharia law court run by IS.
A charity man there to help people, most of whom were Muslim and traveling with a Muslim convoy. This simply proves to me these people are just a bunch of psycho's hiding behind a sham they call Islam. Life is cheap to these animals but not so cheap that they are brave enough to show their faces. Their day will come though. |
|
By:
Psychos get drawn to violence, and use causes, religious or otherwise, to justify their actions, even though they don't follow any rules, religious or civil.
If there was no religion, no poverty, no suffering these psychopaths would still jump into any possible trouble and escalate it. |
|
By:
Just remember the vast majority of muslims are not terrorists!
No they are far tooo busy trying to rearange the curriculum in schools,praying to mecca and trying to pump your underage daughters. |
|
By:
just read in the guardian police were called to a dispute between parents and the head who is trying to intoduce diversity - of course no proper details about who it was
Welford a school with 'nearly all children from minority ethnic heritages' Of course the guardian doesn't speak plain english but mentions the head in favour of CHIPS challenging homophobia in primary schools!!! New speak for acceptance of equality for gays etc - I bet that went down well with muslims!! |
|
By:
i do not want that coward from is to die we must do all we can to get him alive you know he will want to martyr himself
|
|
By:
portmanpark 03 Oct 14 22:29
they must know this guy........round up his family and drop them off a cliff So by that logic all of Mick Philpott's surviving offspring should be thrown off a Cliff, after all he did slaughter 5 innocent children. And that was just one example. |
|
By:
the yanks will be made up. The more strife in the middle east he better, and although the act is clearly barbaric, Im afraid this state of affairs has been caused by the yanks and ourselves.
|
|
By:
and so it will go on, the more we interfere, the more terrorists will breed.
|
|
By:
didnt read anywhere about mick philpots children beheading someone???????????????
|
|
By:
i think the family should come out and denounce this maniac
|
|
By:
unless of course they agree with what he is doing
|
|
By:
dr . atkins 04 Oct 14 12:49
i do not want that coward from is to die we must do all we can to get him alive you know he will want to martyr himself Personally I think this s c u m b a g if caught & was put through what he has done to his victims would probably wail like a baby & beg for mercy, martyr himself? I doubt it, if he wanted to be martyred he would have shown his face & suffer the consequences, this c0ckroach would crawl under a rock & hide at the first sign of trouble. |
|
By:
portmanpark 04 Oct 14 13:08
didnt read anywhere about mick philpots children beheading someone??????????????? No he burned them alive!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is that not as bad? |
|
By:
Very much doubt that this murderous criminal will ever be captured. Will probably be sent on his way to his imaginary paradise by a drone strike or a military hit squad.
He probably won't even know what hit him which many will judge as being too quick and clean. Feel for the family of Alan Henning. So much unnecessary suffering. |
|
By:
vile Eboue leave
|
|
By:
RIP Alan..
A few thoughts... 1) killing of aid workers is I'm afraid nothing new. You tube videos are though and hence the wider outrage. I worked for a charity years ago in a far eastern nation and had to sign a disclaimer.. The charity (which was undercover using a different name) would have abandoned me if I was caught. That was the arrangement and I was 'happy' to sign. 2) Eid is going on this weekend. The ritual beheading of lambs by members of the public who in the sight of their children decapitate the animals. Muslims aren't as squemish as the rest of us.. 3) A friend in Morrocco emailed me yesterday said that hearing the screams of the lambs and seeing all the blood in the streets was more like 1314 AD not 2014 AD 4) We decapitate people but not with knives or swords. We used bombs/missiles. The cheapest of which on a Tornado is I believe £30k. Missiles do a lot worse than take one's head off.. This NEVER gets reported despite many of the victims being civilians.... 5) Spoke with an old gent this morning who felt sad for Alan but made the point that we WERE bombing them...so not sure what we could expect... |