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I'm feeling much better Craig. Took the weekend to rest, and then hit work with a vengeance on Monday, achieved more in 3 days than I had in the previous month. Was a needed distraction, plus relieved a fair bit of stress relating to work performance. Finding my councillor pretty hopeless though tbh and getting access to what I need on the NHS is very slow (GP cancelled my appointment last minute). In the meantime I am now firmly looking after myself, avoiding alcohol completely, eating healthy food, and exercising. I've almost got too much energy now though and still not sleeping well. It will come. Anyway, going to the funeral in Glasgow on Wednesday and will be a pall bearer for the second time in 2 months, 3rd time in about a year. Sounds daft but I'm worried about this because mu uncle was a big man, although I gather he lost a lot of weight since Christmas. Just hoping I don't drop him!

"Where are we starting off tonight then, lads?" "What aboot Dobsons?" "Nah, Strawberry has a wider selection of crisps!" "Strawberry it is!"

Every time my mother sees him, she asks who he’s breaking those teeth in for

Bill there with all the employees that he's 'hired'. L:R Male model, MILF porn star, Ainsley Harriott, Tramp, extra from Made in Chelsea.

I remember the Becks tap in the Strawberry with immense fondness….like a fragile ornament…mind my liver hated the fuckin thing and it also thinks I’m a cunt to this day

You couldn't even get Wolf Jerky on the shelves, so good luck providing tech solutions. And Heron Foods doesn't qualify as a restaurant.

Fucking hell, TS

We know where to find him after the game…

I dunno, sending random women pictures of my Japenese eye just doesn't sound as sexy.

Never trust the Brits. Did my training teach me nothing?

Still no fucking trophy, I did get one of those tellies though.

£10

Can you do a bulk rate? £100 to delete all of CT’s content on here?

Still ...

Thanks mate, and to all. I absolutely will keep it up. Fairly convinced I hit a nadir last week, and if I stay physically healthy, I'll get back. As long as no other bugger dies in the near future, anyway.

Mike Dean from Merseyside who’s kids are reputedly season ticket holders at Anfield? That Mike Dean? 🤔

Meanwhile he's proving exactly why those countries were right to have joined NATO.

Yes, a lot of your opinions of me appear to be that I'm a naive idiot that just dives blindly into any particular opinion depending on what is put in front of me. You're welcome to that opinion but I don't sit here in awe at your reasonings either. We fundamentally disagree about some core points in here and that's fine, but I continue to believe that opposing imperialist warmongering has to be a consistent act, and that means whether or not it's the US. On the Azov point - It's not selective, it's a matter of degrees. I've looked into Azov and found that yes, they're nazis, but there are 900 of them according to the very link you just provided. 100,000 rapists and murderers are now rampaging across Ukraine thanks to Putin. It's a matter of degrees. It's also clear that the relevance of Azov in this at all is only to provide a flimsy justification for the notion that Russia is somehow doing this to defeat Nazis. Do you believe that's even remotely on their list of genuine issues? NATO is clearly never going to attack Russia. Putin knows it, NATO knows it, the fact that we haven't used this clear cut excuse to immediately attack Russia proves it. What they are afraid of, if anything, is Western systems and processes eliminating their mafia state control setup. The wider battle here is democracy (such as it is) and authoritarianism. We are losing.

Celebrating the sale of another two printer cartridges

No. Forgive the writing things as "fact" it's as much opinion as everyone else, it's just my style I suppose. I think you're being drawn into it by our own media propoganda. We ARE escalating it now, for our own domestic political reasons. Tories don't give a fuck about oppression or illegal occupation or we wouldnt support Isreal, Saudi etc. We've gone from one oppressive country to another for our Oil. I mean is anyone talking about the "Brave Mariupol (sp?) defenders" in truth, you know that the Azov regiment are actually nazis and have lynced people publically Taliban style? Don't get me wrong, I support the world supporting Ukraine and Russia is the agressor, but aggression is not the answer - showing them our power by completely blocking them is the answer. World lessons are here - the world is almost going down the road of the Treaty of Versailles and it doesn't work - creating hyperinflation raises support for the war, it doesn't dent it. Giving them assistance with Weapons etc is one thing, but making declarations of wanting to attack russian soil is completely different and we are then putting ourselves in the position of proving Putin's paranoia correct, that we were just looking for an excuse. - They are NOT a NATO country - so as sad as it seems - do you get as upset about the Yemen? Do you feel a need to do anything there? Why not? Because its not close to home. We do nothing because we profit from it , is the brutal truth - just the same as our government saying how much they care - to make money and protect their own power. Ukraine can deal with this and keep their honor, there is absolutely fuck all need for the fuckwits in power now to start pretending that they can plan anything . They have fucked up everything they have touched in the last 3 years, whats going to be different now? Nuclear war is suicide, its mutually assured destruction - there is no deterrent needed other than that. The world has the worst leaders at the worst possible time, and I personally put a lot of blame on the Internet.

I bet you love it for long time

I don’t usually say “I told you so” but I said that on here about 3 hours after the first tank rolled across the border. Putin needs to be physically opposed by NATO. Anything other than defeat emboldens him, his shitty gangster state, those who may sit in his chair next and any other fuckers watching on, sticking their fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing eg China. Yes, nuclear war is a possibility. But mutually assured destruction is either a thing or it’s not. It horrifies me that we may have to try it out but this is indeed very likely the start of WW3 and western leaders look like they’ve come up with err “a plan”, the tone from the US has changed this week and client journos are being instructed to spread the word. Western civilisation has had a good run but all empires crumble….

I think you have a lot of valid points in general about the US being belligerent and I would normally be one that side of the aisle too, but I cannot see how this is anything other than squarely on Putin. This may well be part of a wider US geopolitical issue, but it is also very clearly a matter of Ukraine's right to exist. It is very much also their war - primarily their war, in fact. They are being conquered by an imperialist power. Whether the US is a total shitshow is an entirely separate point on this matter IMO because Putin launched this all off his own bat to "solve the Ukraine question for future generations of Russians" as he said himself. I would also say that the article I linked puts forward two options - obviously the author prefers that we surrender to the psychotic bully (and I do get why because lives saved and so on are a factor. How many lives is national autonomy, your nation, you culture, worth?) But the other side is we become actively involved. Which I would support. I don't know what sort of hellish world we would be living in if we just let Putin have Ukraine. And then when he takes something else, then what? Let that happen. Etc. If Putin is prepared to engage in wars of aggression like this, we've already lost the battle on solving things peacefully. It's him who should be desperately looking for an off ramp, not us who should be trying to find him one.

Japan has such a huge baseball culture it’s a weird thing to bring up.

Speak for yourselves. (I didn't join till 2009).

How much are we going to hear about ‘that special night in Istanbul’ in the lead up to the final. If it’s Man City they play I assume they’ll skirt around the incident where the Man City bus was attacked the last time they met in the CL, and we will just have the commentators wank off over the scousers singing ‘you’ll never walk alone’. And the plans are to make the CL even more predictable

It’s fucking mental isn’t it. They’re making insane amounts of money as things stand yet they’re so greedy they’re willing to jeopardize it in an attempt to make more. It’s the same as all these clubs wanting to engineer the CL to essentially make it a closed shop, competition and the chance to see their club involved is what drives interest and money.

Class. They’re even booing.

Keegan saved this club in 1992, not Hall. If Hall had got his way, we'd have signed no-one and most likely we'd have plummeted into Division 3. I appreciate he provided the capital to get this started, but the narrative peddled around that was the saviour of NUFC doesn't wash with me. His best decision was his choice of manager. He then focused solely on floating the club, handing it over to his fucking useless son and then flogging the place to a disingenuous cunt who Shepherd knew was bad news. Saviour, my arse. He used the club and its successes to his own advantage.

Fuck's sake

All nice sentiments and platitudes but no mention of the fourteen years of absolute misery and disrespect he put the club into, of the mistake he alone made.

Did he turn back and double check he'd actually turned it off five minutes after going home?

We’re now DEFCON2 close to the headline “PUTIN ON THE FRITZ”

I think that the only way the war will end, is by a diplomatic agreement ratified and accepted by the United Nations. OR A coup against Putin - but I doubt that is possible in Russia. OR Putin dies , russia retreats and starts working with us again - I think (seriously hope) this is a distinct possibility. But anyway, lot of posts today forward and back ... In 1 paragraph I'm just sharing my belief that escalating or "doing something" is in no ones interest, no matter what we think our perceived cause is. We need to stop burning non essential fossil fuels NOW or we are all fucked. Collapse of ecosystems that support modern human life are a bigger threat than nuclear warfare to me - because , the "climate change" nukes are already in flight. One good thing that could come out of this and the pandemic is learning how to team up globally to shared goals. I've still hope.

Love me long wine

Can someone assasinate Liz Truss asap please - she's a fucking danger. I'm really as frightened of her being in this position as I am the situation escalating. These stupid fuckers will use anything to try and look "strong" and doing something. Kicking Russia out of Ukraine by Ukrainians fine - but lets not start making PUBLIC fucking declarations that we wont rest until they are kicked out of Crimea and then some. Or that we have "our brave men and women deep under the sea <in nuclear submarines> ready to defend our country" , whilst simultaneously sabre rattling harder than anyone and putting ourselves in the fucking frame. Ben Wallace's statement is sure to be subtitled, edited and used to make Russians think we're mobilised to Nuke them. FFS - It's so fucking transparent that this is just "Save Big Dog" or whatever bollox. Meanwhile - just how much PUBLIC money is again going into the FUCKING PRIVATE SECTOR - these arms are NOT free and its more public money going to companies that Tory donors have interests in. Two months ago we couldn't afford to protect our own nation against Covid anymore. Now as 1500 people die OF Covid in the last 7 recorded days - it's fucking tragic, BAE Systems should be a nationalised industry.

You know someone is about to be racist when they open with “I’m not in anyway racist”.

Great to hear mate, keep up the positive spirits. And I'm sure you'll do a sterling job as pallbearer. I've only done it twice but it was 5 months apart - my Nan and my Mum.

Typical UEFA. Take something that works well and people enjoy and try to fuck it up.

Still commendable since I don’t think I’d go for nowt, even if I supported them

And was happy to fuck fans over with the expansion via the cunt he appointed (Fletcher).

I don't think it's unfair to say that most of us were taken in by Ashley at the very beginning, though Leazes may care to dispute that.

New flag from Argentina given to WorFlags.

"Quackem."

I've said this before as well but his palindromic nature beguiled me