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Reminds me of the gold Northern Rock shirt design (05-07?)

This one passed me by. Weren't they supposed to have a women's team that would shit all over us? No doubt it's because of the murderer's money...

Hope the almost semi-virtually-permanent Mrs PL is on the road to recovery, Rob. I've had at least two jobs for life which considering where I started the journey as just about the most naive, stupid teenager to leave school with the barest of bare GCSEs was a massive result, a bit of luck and a bit of hard graft the hard way through my own initial naivety. Sometimes it's hard getting out of it, sometimes, even when you sort it out but you know it's not right it can also be dispiriting, 2024 was a mental year job wise where I was very fortunate to have a decent lumpa from redundancy and a new official status as carer that allowed me the good fortune of sucking it and seeing if you like plus a knowledge I had time on my side if it didn't work out to not do what I'd done for years, sometimes unhappily. My last job was at a factory in December, in team valley, getting up at 4.40 one week out of two, quite a few foreigners, (nothing wrong with that in itself but tells you that people dont like the job much), then I discovered I could go part time through the wife's claim for a UC payment we could've had years ago. In between Christmas and new year a job pops up on my doorstep, I apply, get it, it's a totally different job to my usual, is usually a piece of piss with little stress and I've been there since early march whilst waiting for a DBS to come through. Things can change in a day but they usually don't and it's hard when you're in it. As PL rightly says, sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're not but the logical part of your brain will know this as much as the worry part of your brain will go into worry mode and they're both correct and doing their jobs.

Players can sign but not change registration until the window opens. Where have you been for the last...when did transfer windows come in?

It’s all preparation for when he refuses to leave office when his term is up. He’ll have his armed muppets fully convinced he’s the answer to all their woes ( and cheaper than penile enlargement surgery), and it’ll be Jan 6th II - The Sequel. This time I’d say there’ll be a lot more bloodshed, on both sides. He’ll be watching from his golf course.

Trump (well, the US federal government) has given her family $5m despite the officer involved being cleared of any wrongdoing.

How are players completing transfers when the window isn't even open yet?

I guarantee they’re not - particularly if they have a wife and kids

One for the SMB catalogue. Sat watching the match in this Irish bar on Sunday. Three mackem lads come in (hoodies from some gym/boxing club saying “Made in Sunderland” or something similar) about ten minutes before our game kicked out, spent all the game rooting and cheering for Arsenal and then left at full time. You’ve got to laugh

Cheers. That’s precisely where I get all that bullshit from. Oh and wear sunscreen

Hope everyone’s situations pick up soon, even if I’m late to reading about them all. Rayvin, it took me a good 6-8 months of navigating the job market before I found something decent and I wasn’t looking in a role that had anywhere near the job specs you’re looking at. It’s a massively frustrating experience so I absolutely sympathise with you on it but you can’t beat yourself up over it. Hope you feel a bit better for chatting about it. PL, awful news about the missus but glad it appears that she’s on the upward turn. Going away for something like a wedding or a weekend away can do the world of good sometimes. Glad that her graft was OK with it all too. I can tell you now that if anyone at my place went through similar, they’d be shafted as soon as they came back to work.

And just to extend your bullshit cliche, ‘the race is long and in the end, it’s only with yourself’ [\Baz Luhrmann] I hope your wife is through the worst of it, PL.

His World Cup book is excellent but must admit, it’s my only real experience of reading any of his work

My next door neighbour deliberately waits days/weeks to throw balls back over and also hides a lot of them. And she is working class. She has a young kid as well. She is such a miserable prick. Luckily the kids have about 20 balls so we don’t miss them. I’m going to start hoying dog shit over there one day.

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@wykikitoon Have you been hacking accounts? 🙂

@PaddockLad Sorry for what your wife's going through. Hope she's feeling better soon but it's shite losing a pet in whom you've put so much love and attention. Have you got a colour in version of that book for a resident of Boldon? 🙂

Here PL, I'm really sorry to hear about your wife's troubles this year. Hopefully time will help. Awful to hear she's struggling though and I hope things get better soon.

@Rayvin Bit late but I just wanted to agree with pretty much everything that's been said (apart from @Christmas Tree and @Monkeys Fist contributions). Hang in there and keep coming here to vent. Someone has usually got sensible advice (apart from @Christmas Tree and @Monkeys Fist obviously). 🙂

Why are none of us remotely surprised. 🙂

Andor season 2 was better than I expected. Felt more like a quality political/spy thriller than a Disney star wars production. A brave nod to current world events too.