KingRalphus [they/them,undecided]

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  • Physical contact with match officials

    A yellow card for physical contact with any match official in a non-aggressive manner (e.g. an inquisitive approach to grab the official’s attention). A red card for physical contact with match officials in an aggressive or confrontational manner.

    So yeah. Should have been a straight red.








  • Fun facts about the Volkshalle:

    Berlin is pretty marshy, and building huge buildings on it is tricky. The Nazis built a gigantic concrete test pillar near Tempelhof airport, in order to test how well the area would keep buildings like the Volkshalle and Hitler's planned triumphal arch up. If it sank less than 6cm into the ground, building could commence without expensive and time consuming stabilisation work. When it was measured in 1948, the cylinder had sunk 19cm into the ground.

    The dome of the Volkshalle was so large that, if it were ever built, the condensation from people's breath would form rainclouds in the dome. It would literally be raining inside the dome on a cool day.













  • First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White citizens’ “Councilor” or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direst action” who paternistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. …

    MLK was right