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Andrew's new nickname just dropped.

They'll have her for sports washing if they find out who she supports? "Does the right honourable member of the opposition agree with me that that the right honourable member for Sunderland is guilty of sportswashing for Saudi Arabia and guilty of not hating the.....[reads his notes]...... Mags anaarl?"

Things are boring enough on here at the moment without you forcing us to sit through one of your PowerPoint presentations.

Cheers mate. It’s tomorrow at 9am. Thanks to everyone for their words and advice 👍

It’s complete nonsense. Gerry Adams was never in the IRA.

Mull is lovely and has the added bonus of hardly any Scottish people living there.

Makes sense

Having sat with my dad at home while he died of bowel cancer, and we couldn’t get help from a macmillan nurse or a district nurse because they were too busy, giving him the legally allowed amount of morphine to help him sleep, having the medicine in the house that would have ended him but couldn’t legally give him it. This is a fucking triumph, fuck everyone who voted against it. Sit with someone who is in immense pain with no way out and all they have to come is a painful and undignified death then come and talk to me. Cunts.

The Labour party’s own Gareth Southgate

This "chook" shite was tiresome last year, it's embarrassing now... Any player who gets the club like Anthony does has a lot of credit in the bank. After all we want a team that tries and he embodies that

I've got to produce some slides for the Board while you're mincing about the shops, so no I don't think I will enjoy my Friday. 😑

Aye. Being a massive pedant, they went to war with us a decade ago, and we didn't realise or wake up in time. That was a colossal failure of normative politics in many countries. I wish they had declared it. Amazing how much damage this little insecure prick from St Petersburg has done to Western Europe, the US, and his own country in the time since.

I go back to this notion that the West needs to wake up to the fact that Russia declared war on us 10 years ago - I still recall PL posting that Cadwalladr tweet that said as much and it was an eye opening moment for me. A lot of the problems we are now seeing can be traced back to Putin (though I suspect it's now taken on a life of its own, sadly).

Plus I reckon Gordon tips his bin men at Christmas. Maxi plays football against them in Saudi and Turkey.

Absolutely.

Give over man. 3 good games in a row and you'll be DM'ing Tuchel with glowing reports.

I'm now in new job after a week, I should be ok but it can be a bit physical at times, could do with it being a bit lighter but everything seems to be ok so far other than that so I'll just plod on for now. (Feel free to FYP with differing plodding on periods). But work to 67 onwards, aye?

He did both. Put his socks down the big to rinse them, then put them on. I mean, who hasn't?

Friday night in, having a couple of drinks, chilling, couple of mates having a bit of crack via WhatsApp..... The Crack: Mate 1: "Last time I had ibuprofen was on me 60th birthday…I wasn’t feeling too good and me and Jane had the night in Berwick, had curry for lunch and Turkish for evening meal…as well as about 8 Ibuprofen…then the next day we went to Holy Island and we were about a mile away from the public toilets and the previous days Ibuprofen / food kicked in and despite a rather speedy walk to get to the bogs..I failed to reach them and shat my pants..I blamed it on turning 60. It wasn’t amusing at the time…though I do laugh now. Anyway, I got to the bogs as the last 100 yards or so were rather arse clenching as my guts certainly weren’t empty. I got ito the cubicle, dropped me trousers, peeled me boxers off me arse and sat on the bog…caked arse and boxers full of mud, and the smell unbearable. I took my socks, shoes and jeans off…gave my arse a wash with the bog water, and wiped myself clean with my socks, then dumped me socks and boxers down the bog, and put me jeans and socks back on. I didn’t feel dirty at all…and that was that. I’m glad I was of assistance to humour you chaps on this glorious evening…I don’t want to get into the drive home, but I thought I cleaned up thoroughly…and I was clearly acclimatised to my stench…Jane had difficulties driving without wretching. If it’s any consolation I haven’t shat myself since." Mate 2: I’ve had a similar experience myself. I drank Guinness for two days with the lads a few years back. We were playing cards in a pub in Durham when I indulged in a slight botty burp. I realised when I stood up that my arse and back were covered in black shite. Fortunately, I was wearing a trendy cardigan so I tied it around my waist until we got to the next pub. When I carried out a site survey I discovered that my worst fears had indeed come to pass. I spent a good 15 minutes raking out my 501’s and generally cleaning myself up. The train ride back was a little challenging as my chums took great pleasure in my misfortune." I recounted this tale....

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See I think my problem with Srarmer is he isn't offering any solution. But I'll agree he will manage our decline more efficiently and with much less corruption And to be glib there is an easy solution, rejoin the single market.

If today was the day, I hope you and the missus are doing alright. A fucking shite thing to have to go through, there's no getting around it.

Assisted Dying Bill has passed. Majority of 55. Kim Leadbeater has moved a motion to get the ball rolling with Edward Leigh.

Yeah this is bollocks. It's not a right wing narrative to think he should stand up to the press. Its not a right wing narrative to think this along with leaving the 2 child cap, raising bus fares, and losing the winter fuel allowance is terrible politics. Even the stuff I agree with like the inheritance tax on farms they've framed in such an amateurish way its allowed the press to attack Its not a right wing narrative to call out his cowardice in refusing to be honest about Brexit. I'm desperate for Labour to succeed. We need him to be better, for them to have any chance of turning this shit show round. If they dont christ knows what will happen at the next election He's got a fucking massive majority, he needs to use it I just don't get this attitude that any criticism isn't allowed and is playing to a right-wing narrative, if anyone is enabling a right wing narrative its him

It's got numbers in it, you're excused.

Apparently 'United' won the European Cup last night against a full strength Galaticos Real Madrid under superb new gaffer. Or That's how the BBC are portraying it.

The truth is Gordon hasn’t hit the heights of last season but he’s still looked one of our biggest threats when on the pitch in most games. He’s had the odd poor game but which player hasn’t? He is clearly an asset.

NJS didn't poverty chant and didn't insinuate he's a better person in the quotes you put up? He did imply that a lot of Liverpool fans give off a sense of moral superiority which they absolutely do. The Hitler/catholic church but was pure tongue in cheek is the way I took it but then again, I'm not a morally superior Liverpool fan.

Who?

you ever heard of the expression 'doth protest too much'? that's you with the chook that is, in reality you're strumming like eric fucking clapton.

That's LTA's Christmas present sorted.

So because there is a theoretical risk of coercion or because of the risk of "slippery slope" (a logical fallacy in itself) others should suffer a tortured undignified death, or be forced into suicide, alone? None of the arguments against assisted death stack up for me. It's all about others wanting control over your life, and death. Taking away your bodily autonomy. And 90% of the time this boils down to religion, with people desperately trying to hide this using a range of fallacious logical arguments that wouldn't be out of place in sixth form. My body, my mind, my choice thanks, end of. Also, nice to see parliament debate this respectfully and reach the right conclusion.

To wellington? Aye a couple of times. Lovely city to spend a few days in, though flying in is awful by all accounts, windy as fuck. Some great food, the weta workshop, Te Papa museum with the Gallipoli exhibit is one of the most incredible things Ive ever seen.

aye, absolutely shitting meself me....

He's probably pissed and confused, he is 61 I believe?

275 dickheads voting against it. There's not a single credible reason why this shouldn't be passed. And if the god squad disagree with it then they can opt out, the same way people can with abortions.

That's awful mate. Sorry for yours mate's loss.

Bridget might have to go for not washing her hands after a piss.

Say Nothing True story of two sisters who were in the IRA and the disappearing of a mother of 10 in the Troubles I thought it was superb, though I'm sure it's portrayal won't be uniformly popular The performance of the actors who played the two young sisters were stunning. The actor who played Gerry Adams was unrecognisable from dumb Marco in the Responder It seemed quite an honest account to me, I read somewhere it was shown as more of a class struggle than a religous one, not a point of view you see very often on British TV I followed it straight away with "I Dolours" that interviews one of the protagonists

Been to Mull a couple of times. I saw an eagle near Calgary beach. Absolutely gorgeous spot. Bar the practicalities I would move there myself.

They've got to start having the balls to explain things. The other lot had press conferences every five minutes to tell steaming piles of lies. He should have called a press conference today and spelled out exactly what Haigh did, and why he is not going to ask someone to resign for an innocent mistake. This business of saying nothing and hoping it will go away or worse still, with this example, doing something fucking ridiculous to make it go away. It isn't working, because the right wing press doesn't want it to go away and will fill the vacuum of the govt's silence with more noise. They need to start coming out and defending themselves.

The Scousers/Hitler remark was intended to be a bit light hearted but if you want to debate me on the Catholic church being complicity evil over abuse while preaching morality then as the kids would say "Come at me, bruv".

It’s not a matter of respecting anything. It’s impossible without an amendment or a coup.

Fashion truly is cyclical https://www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-salmon-on-your-head-is-back-in-fashion-for-orcas-after-a-37-year-break-76971

This is what happens when Blastronaut is allowed out of the guitar thread.