MHSN

I can't say I didn't like it but it has a very slow pace , I remember there was an  episode about trying to catch a fly in the lab ! so my answer is No, if you didn't like the first episode I don't think you will enjoy the rest.

Ahh, that header man, a thing of beauty. Should be in every highlight video of the WC.

I watched lots of recorded matches from WCs but they never leave a memony, so I limit myself only to those I watched live. (which means from 1994) and I think the word "best" is relative. this is the list of my memorable WC matches and not finals
 
1. 2006 Italy vs Germany
2. 1994 Bulgaria vs Germany
3. 1998 Argentina vs England
4. 2010 Germany vs Argentina
5. 1994 Italy vs Spain

so that's the reason why we never had full lockdown here and even those restrictions (semi lockdown) are planned to be lifted .
 
to not face a strong second wave, we let the first wave to continue and become a tornado.
 
I always knew we are starter than the rest of the world

@MHSN something for you  

here all barber shops are definitely closed...
 
I'm always used to have quite long hair (especially in winter), but now the situation is going out of control...my hair look like Mario Kempes' at Argentina 1978 (it's good 10 months I don't go to the barber shop)... 

And the problem in Canada is hair clippers for home are jacked up in pricing as well. So if you don't have it at home (like myself) we are really screwed lol. 
 
All of us will come out looking like we played a season of Survivor.

Yes. The last time I got it cut was a few months ago, and it’s really starting to get too long. I’m about to point where I’m ready to see how skilled I am as a barber 

do any of you guys having problems with your hair ? going to a barber shop is exactly against the idea of social distancing and I'm not even sure if barber shops are open !
 
with a bit of exaggeration, I look like Marcelo (Real Madrid player) right now

Decision on Thailand and Malaysia Weightlifting federations
https://www.iwf.net/2020/04/04/independent-member-federation-sanctions-panel-imfsp-issues-decisions-thai-amateur-weightlifting-association-malaysian-weightlifting-federation/
 
Thailand is suspended for 3 years.

Decision on Thailand and Malaysia Weightlifting federations
https://www.iwf.net/2020/04/04/independent-member-federation-sanctions-panel-imfsp-issues-decisions-thai-amateur-weightlifting-association-malaysian-weightlifting-federation/
 
Thailand is suspended for 3 years.

Saturday is the first day of the week and today was the first workday of the year. and to everybody's surprise, Tehran's streets became something like this !
 
despite the fact almost all shops have to remain closed. and most offices were supposed to work with 1/3.
 
 

Because things like this are okay for dictators.

Since we have LOTS of free time these days, I decided to read more about the history of Iranian politics. I'm not talking about the million years ago, I mean years around 1979, the Islamic revolution, the problem is it's impossible to find neutral and fair sources, everything is biased.
 
if you listen to IR sources
the Shah was a brutal dictator and his SAVAK killed lots of people, the whole "corrupt western world" (and even eastern) was supporting him. Khomeini was an angel falling from the heaven, it was only an "Islamic revolution" and other groups had nothing to do with it (which is in fact a big lie)
 
and if you listen to anti-IR sources
Shah was such a nationalistic gentleman but since the "western world" was afraid of him of being the next superpower, they plotted against him, they "made" Khomeini ! and BBC played a big role they still call it Ayatollah BBC,  (if you don't believe me, just google that, you will be surprised )
 
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recently I got my hands on some old newspapers, reading them is a very interesting experience for me, most of those comments and interviews at 1980s sounds extremely stupid and unbelievable right now in 2020
 
but the reason why I brought this up is a sport-related reason, it was always my question why exactly Iran boycotted two Olympics in a row. both Moscow and Los Angeles. today I found a newspaper from 1984, statement from the Iranian prime minister at the time about boycotting the games, I'm going to translate the most important part:
 
Because USA continues to meddle in middle east countries affairs, specially USA government's support for the "Zionist regime" and because of the crimes they are committing in Latin American countries specially  El Salvador !!! The Cabinet decides that our athletes don't participate ...
 
really, El Salvador ?

Obligated exam for people trying to become Dutch citizens  
https://speld.nl/2020/03/25/maak-hier-het-verplichte-corona-inburgeringsexamen/
 
1) In the Netherlands we ... shake hands
 A) do
 B) don't
 
 
2) You're in a bus and an old lady gets in. What do you do?
 A) You politely ask her if she wants to sit in your place.
 B) You ask her if she's completely lost her mind: "What are you doing in the bus, you senile moron?"
 
 
3) Who are you allowed to marry in the Netherlands?
 A) With everyone who doesn't have a lot of friends to invite for the wedding.
 B) With old people, people with breathing problems and people with diabetes.
 C) With everyone who hasn't recently been to Italy.
 
 
4) In the Netherlands, we find it normal for two men to walk hand in hand.
 A) False
 B) True
 
 
5) A homeless person is lying on the street. What do you do?
 A) Ask how he's doing.
 B) Buy a newspaper he is selling.
 C) Walk around him in a wide arch.
 
 
6) How old are most children when they start going to school?
 A) Four years.
 B) Children don't go to school.
 
 
7) In 2020, Dutch people can be divided into two groups. Which groups?
 A) People with children and people without children.
 B) People of whom it'd be sad if they die and people with underlying health conditions.
 C) People who are working at home and people who do important work.
 D) All of the above.
 
 
8) You feel like you're having a little bit of a cold, but feel fine to work. What do you do?
 A) Go to work as normal.
 B) Call your doctor.
 C) Call in sick for the entire month.
 
 
9) If I see a group of people doing outdoor bootcamps...
 A) ...I go and tell them that's not good.
 B) ...call the police and applaude when they arrest the bootcampers.
 C) ...I am part of this group, but afterwards go on Twitter to tell everyone how shocked I am.
 
 

Someone like Hadadi, I think so too. But it could be the opposite for endurance athletes, who if I'm not mistaken often have a rather weak immune system..

People. Stop. Quoting. Entire. Long-ass. Posts. To. Reply. With. One-liners. Please. Use. Spoiler. Feature.

Maybe some what unfair to Trump..... But find him exasperating........ I can just imagine him saying....... " I have tested positive " ... " I am so very positive, no other politician is as corona positive as me " .. . . .  " I am completely and more than a hundred percent positive.... The doctor said he has never seen anybody more corona positive than me "

wow, that's too much
 
Iran got close to Russia only in past 10-20 years but Khomeini was strongly anti-soviet. actually he was anti everything. their slogan at the start was "No East, No west, only Islamic Republic" I really don't hear that these days. not at all, Khomeini and his friends used some of those communist groups (like any other anti-shah group) to make the revolution happen but after 1979 they arrested and executed most of communist leaders (it was called "Tudeh Party" at the time) even though I have to say some of those groups were as bad as him, MEK (or as I call them the Iranian version of ISIS) killed so many high rank officials, they had so many successful terrorist plans, including killing president Rajaei. those actions actually gave Khomeini more power and excuse to go further and silence all opposition groups. including Soviet-backed parties.
 
I'm not sure why Saddam started the war, I'm still trying to read more about that, but he knew Khomeini is his eternal enemy ( as I said he wanted to murder Khomeini when he was in Iraq) and Iraq was a Shia-majority country. he was probably afraid of Iran. he was also at war with Iran under Shah but they made peace later. after the revolution they destroyed most of the army, arresting and executing most of top army generals, so maybe Saddam saw an opportunity to attack a VERY weakened Iran and he was counting on Iranian-Arabs to support him. people in Southwest of Iran (oil rich provinces) are ethnic Arab but he was wrong and they didn't support him. Saddam invaded few parts of Iran, but then Iran regrouped and after 2 years they kicked Saddam's army out of Iranian lands. but the war didn't stop, Khomeini has a very very famous quota. "The Road to Quds (Jerusalem) passes through Karbala" in his wildest dream he was dreaming the Iraqi Shias supporting him taking religious parts of Iraq. Khomeini never wanted to stop the war, after 6 years finally some politicians managed to convince him that it's useless and since the whole world is somehow supporting Saddam and Iran is running out of everything, and Saddam was starting to use chemical weapons. (thanks to some European countries/companies) Khomeini only accepted the ceasefire because he had no other option, and drunk the "cup of poison" as he said himself.
 
of course there are still lots of secrets about that bloody war we still don't know.

Since we have LOTS of free time these days, I decided to read more about the history of Iranian politics. I'm not talking about the million years ago, I mean years around 1979, the Islamic revolution, the problem is it's impossible to find neutral and fair sources, everything is biased.
 
if you listen to IR sources
the Shah was a brutal dictator and his SAVAK killed lots of people, the whole "corrupt western world" (and even eastern) was supporting him. Khomeini was an angel falling from the heaven, it was only an "Islamic revolution" and other groups had nothing to do with it (which is in fact a big lie)
 
and if you listen to anti-IR sources
Shah was such a nationalistic gentleman but since the "western world" was afraid of him of being the next superpower, they plotted against him, they "made" Khomeini ! and BBC played a big role they still call it Ayatollah BBC,  (if you don't believe me, just google that, you will be surprised )
 
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recently I got my hands on some old newspapers, reading them is a very interesting experience for me, most of those comments and interviews at 1980s sounds extremely stupid and unbelievable right now in 2020
 
but the reason why I brought this up is a sport-related reason, it was always my question why exactly Iran boycotted two Olympics in a row. both Moscow and Los Angeles. today I found a newspaper from 1984, statement from the Iranian prime minister at the time about boycotting the games, I'm going to translate the most important part:
 
Because USA continues to meddle in middle east countries affairs, specially USA government's support for the "Zionist regime" and because of the crimes they are committing in Latin American countries specially  El Salvador !!! The Cabinet decides that our athletes don't participate ...
 
really, El Salvador ?

'Enjoying' the fact that it's the end of March and so it's off-season and the rest period anyway @brunamoura  
 
As for the Netherlands, Olympic gymnastics champion Sanne Wevers (hello @thiago_simoes) has had a 5 meter long balance beam delivered in her appartment, which was a bit of a challenge as you can see in the video in this tweet (if you can't see the video, I put a tweet with photo in the spoiler)   She already has a balance beam, the one of the Rio Olympic final, but in Tokyo they'll use one with a bit different layer on top and so she ordered/asked for this one  (with an extra low part underneath it as to not hit her head on the ceiling)
 
 
 
 

yeah, but to me dates around 1977 to 1988 is like a black hole, you rarely can find information about those days. I mean from reliable sources because as I said earlier everything is biased.
 
yes of course he underestimated Khomeini, he had multiple opportunities to murder him but he didn't, Khomeini was in exile in Iraq for something like 15 years and  from what we know now, Saddam Hussein asked for MohammadReza's permission to murder Khomeini few times but he didn't want to do that, mostly because he was religious himself ! killing a grand Ayatollah was crossing the line for him.
 
Shah has a very famous speech on the national TV (or maybe radio) two months before the revolution, there is a famous line "People, I heard your voice of revolution" saying that could save him a year ago but he "heard" the voice when it was too late, he had to flee the country few days after this speech (and never had the chance to come back) his last prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar is one of the people I respect the most, he was jailed by the same Shah but Shah released him from prison only few weeks before the revolution asking him to save everything. he tried to help only because he knew what's going to happen when Khomeini captures the power. but as I said it was too late, Bakhtiar later got murdered brutally in France.
 
I'm not sure if other countries had anything to do with the revolution, they probably just let it happen but it was really people's revolution, Khomeini deceived everybody. it wasn't really an Islamic revolution at the start, there were other groups involved too. Khomeini was charismatic and indeed smart and took advantage of the situation, I recently watched a documentary on Sadegh Ghotbzadeh , he was very very close to Khomeini during the revolution, they were like father and son, he played a huge role, risked his life so many times but then got executed by the same person he was adoring , of course he was really planing for a coup but mostly because there were people like him believing their revolution is being hijacked by the islamists. in fact there is a famous picture, when Khomeini arrived in Tehran (from France) 10 days before the revolution, everybody on that plane risked their lives because it was always possible that Shah Airforce decides to shoot down the plane , what's amazing is nobody in that airplane is in power in Iran right now, they all got jailed, executed, or fled the country.
 
as I said most of these things don't make sense in 2020, I really can't understand most of  these comments, decisions,  actions etc. the whole war with Iraq doesn't make sense, I know Saddam started the war, but Iran could end it after 2 years, but they fought 6 more years for nothing, Khomeini was still extremely popular when he died, only after his death people started to open their eyes and learn about his true nature. what I never understand is what people were seeing in this man from the first day ?

yeah, but to me dates around 1977 to 1988 is like a black hole, you rarely can find information about those days. I mean from reliable sources because as I said earlier everything is biased.
 
yes of course he underestimated Khomeini, he had multiple opportunities to murder him but he didn't, Khomeini was in exile in Iraq for something like 15 years and  from what we know now, Saddam Hussein asked for MohammadReza's permission to murder Khomeini few times but he didn't want to do that, mostly because he was religious himself ! killing a grand Ayatollah was crossing the line for him.
 
Shah has a very famous speech on the national TV (or maybe radio) two months before the revolution, there is a famous line "People, I heard your voice of revolution" saying that could save him a year ago but he "heard" the voice when it was too late, he had to flee the country few days after this speech (and never had the chance to come back) his last prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar is one of the people I respect the most, he was jailed by the same Shah but Shah released him from prison only few weeks before the revolution asking him to save everything. he tried to help only because he knew what's going to happen when Khomeini captures the power. but as I said it was too late, Bakhtiar later got murdered brutally in France.
 
I'm not sure if other countries had anything to do with the revolution, they probably just let it happen but it was really people's revolution, Khomeini deceived everybody. it wasn't really an Islamic revolution at the start, there were other groups involved too. Khomeini was charismatic and indeed smart and took advantage of the situation, I recently watched a documentary on Sadegh Ghotbzadeh , he was very very close to Khomeini during the revolution, they were like father and son, he played a huge role, risked his life so many times but then got executed by the same person he was adoring , of course he was really planing for a coup but mostly because there were people like him believing their revolution is being hijacked by the islamists. in fact there is a famous picture, when Khomeini arrived in Tehran (from France) 10 days before the revolution, everybody on that plane risked their lives because it was always possible that Shah Airforce decides to shoot down the plane , what's amazing is nobody in that airplane is in power in Iran right now, they all got jailed, executed, or fled the country.
 
as I said most of these things don't make sense in 2020, I really can't understand most of  these comments, decisions,  actions etc. the whole war with Iraq doesn't make sense, I know Saddam started the war, but Iran could end it after 2 years, but they fought 6 more years for nothing, Khomeini was still extremely popular when he died, only after his death people started to open their eyes and learn about his true nature. what I never understand is what people were seeing in this man from the first day ?

Since we have LOTS of free time these days, I decided to read more about the history of Iranian politics. I'm not talking about the million years ago, I mean years around 1979, the Islamic revolution, the problem is it's impossible to find neutral and fair sources, everything is biased.
 
if you listen to IR sources
the Shah was a brutal dictator and his SAVAK killed lots of people, the whole "corrupt western world" (and even eastern) was supporting him. Khomeini was an angel falling from the heaven, it was only an "Islamic revolution" and other groups had nothing to do with it (which is in fact a big lie)
 
and if you listen to anti-IR sources
Shah was such a nationalistic gentleman but since the "western world" was afraid of him of being the next superpower, they plotted against him, they "made" Khomeini ! and BBC played a big role they still call it Ayatollah BBC,  (if you don't believe me, just google that, you will be surprised )
 
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recently I got my hands on some old newspapers, reading them is a very interesting experience for me, most of those comments and interviews at 1980s sounds extremely stupid and unbelievable right now in 2020
 
but the reason why I brought this up is a sport-related reason, it was always my question why exactly Iran boycotted two Olympics in a row. both Moscow and Los Angeles. today I found a newspaper from 1984, statement from the Iranian prime minister at the time about boycotting the games, I'm going to translate the most important part:
 
Because USA continues to meddle in middle east countries affairs, specially USA government's support for the "Zionist regime" and because of the crimes they are committing in Latin American countries specially  El Salvador !!! The Cabinet decides that our athletes don't participate ...
 
really, El Salvador ?