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Has anyone watched the documentary about the Titan submersible that went bye-bye with 5 people on board? It's on Netflix. Fuck me, the bloke running the show. What a cunt. Hired people with the know-how to actually do what he was wanting to do and then sacked them one by one as they raised red flags about his plans. Then tried to bankrupt and ruin the life of a whistleblower that tried to put a stop to it all. There's bits where he's going deeper and deeper and you can hear the carbon fibre hull making these terrifying popping noises, which people on the doc are explaining is the carbon fibre strands snapping - in other words, the hull is failing. Daft lad calls it "seasoning the hull". He deserved what he got, it's just a shame he took others with him. A proper narcissistic psycho.

I'm fairly agnostic to whether it's a good thing or not tbh, but clearly a lot of people don't think it is which is leading to Reform etc. And I'm unsure how sustainable it is, surely a population should be approximately self replacing? Surely it's wrong young adults can't experience the joys (and misery) of parenthood due to barriers imposed so we just have immigration to fill the gaps? Of course the impact of AI remains to be seen. Fuck knows what the future holds tbh.

I'll be at an ADULTS ONLY hotel in Kos next month. 📢 BRING ON THE FANNYYYYYYY!

Correct. On a serious note though, I don't know why anyone would have kids here these days. The country is dropping to bits, the climate is upside down, most people are complete fucking wankers, and it's all getting worse every year.

This would be a good thing in my opinion There also plenty of Eurooeans who could be "imported" My kids are both in their 30's. I'd be astonished if either of them became parents

If that is genuinely the reason this doesn't happen then we deserve the hellscape we're heading towards.

aren't you aware that this is the '70s thread?

The initial signings took the club forward at a ridiculous rate. But they’ve also left us in the predicament we are in re: PSR. To just heap praise on Staveley doesn’t really look at the whole picture. Obviously PSR is designed to stymie us interlopers. And we’ve all got to give fanks to Mike for the lack of revenue streams which have also been a massive factor. I do think she was a good link between the footballing management side of things and the (real) ownership however. But I don’t think it was a particularly sustainable transfer policy. Unless you’d be happy to see some of our best players leave to go to the sides we’re trying to chase down

A lot of vested interests there tbh. Labour MPs don't want the value of their homes and property portfolios to go down, and no floating voter is going to vote for it either. I fully agree though, house prices are one of the big issues crippling this country (and the west generally, it's not just a UK thing obviously).

I honestly feel like if they just made homes affordable it would make things a lot better on this front. Labour seem to be doing absolutely nothing on that front and I've no clue why in all honesty. As for hating the country, that followed Brexit specifically so I'm not exactly too worked up otherwise, but there are no solutions to any of this in the current administration. Treating symptoms and not causes.

Currently at a family hotel in the Algarve so apart from the odd yummy mummy the blart is very disappointing. It will be noted in my Tripadvisor review.

I'm starting to think that the club is now totally clueless and useless in the transfer market since Amanda Staveley moved on. F*ckin' this window up will confirm it!

Aye.

I pay the price of a mortgage every month for two kids’ childcare. If I added a third then it wouldn’t be worth the wife going to work. It’s a massive problem. And of course we don’t get the 30 hours free childcare that you lot get in England, although even that only kicks in over a certain age.

You can’t knock his choice of best man.

If it helps at all, it's perfectly possible to let a career just trundle on even without kids as the reason.

Or it's all just smoke and mirrors.

No idea, maybe his personality?

Hopefully it was a ploy tbh. I’m not arsed about Pedro but maybe it helps make a move for their CB more likely.

The more I read about him the less sense I could really see in signing him. He's played almost exclusively as a striker or a left winger for Brighton and neither of them are positions that we need a starting player for. So £50m-£60m seems unnecessary for backup at this point. I know he has skills that may allow us to play in a different way and we may have been able to use him to work against a low block but it seems to me that we should be signing someone who can go straight into the starting 11 to do that. Which basically means someone who can play on the right. Not sure Elanga would really offer that either mind but we'll see how that progresses.

I wonder what she sees in him

Meh, I’m not bothered missing out on Pedro. £50m seems like far too much of our budget to spend on a backup striker. Assume we were only in for him because Brighton wanted to sell so he might have been much cheaper if no one else was interested.

Declining birth rates are a huge issue, in fact, with climate change probably the biggest issue the west has. Not just the UK, in places like South Korea and Japan it's catastrophic. In the former, they have provided loads of incentives for people to have more kids to no avail. So it's not just financial, but this is undoubtedly important. Without indigenous young people, you need to import people from places like India and Africa to fill the gap. Over time this will undoubtedly change the demographic makeup of the country and cause issues we are witnessing today. So Bridget is probably right (frankly I can't be bothered to read what she says), but what's laughable is her thinking she can change things by just telling people what to do and without MASSIVELY incentivising having children. It's absolutely crippling financially in this country. The cost of childcare, food, clothes, education, holidays. All the while the strain of it sets you back in your job as in my experience having children just isn't recognised as something that needs to be worked around. I also spent a decade so focused on the needs of my kids I kind of just let my career trundle on, not wanting more stress through responsibility. Only now trying to change that. Sorry you feel the way you do about the UK, but most is down to 14 years of the last lot. We'll struggle to fix that now, maybe it's not possible. But on this issue, it's not UK specific. It's affecting the entire "first" world.

Totally agree we can't waste time with offers that aren't going to be accepted but I'm not sure that was the case here. It seems the player always wanted to go to London and it seems to me that we've been used as bait to get Chelsea to make the move.