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Zelensky has turned up to Downing Street to a big crowd cheering by the sound of it. Not gonna win him a war but he's having a better day than he did yesterday at least.

Trump and Vance are an absolute pair of cunts who totally stitched Zelenskyy with their bait and switch tactics. From the opening quip on arrival, they had him in their sights. The first part of the meeting seemed fairly cordial but then they just went for his throat and it was their hatred for Biden and his support for him which they started with. The tirade Trump then went on showed how deranged he is. As an administration, they appear to be completely compromised by Russia so I don't know how the sane US operators behind the scenes will be playing it all out but if I was him, I'd be more concerned about the threat from his own agencies. From a UK perspective it appears any state visit won't be til next year anyway so given that we are just a month into this clown show, I'm sure there'll be plenty more stories to come to allow us to kick it down the road. This might be seen as a victory for Trump and his lap dog, but it's hopefully woken the world up to the dangers that this lot present. Europe needs to get it's shit together, and quickly.

Klopp on a Trivago advert just there, just seeing his false grin again.....

There are no words. There are just no fucking words. Get the US out of our politics, this is a fucking clown show. Drop the dollar, work on our own continent and our own problems. Ban twitter. Some of the most shameful stuff I've ever seen.

This has bothered me much more than it ought to. You have a man there who didn’t ask for this situation. He has been quietly courageous and unflinchingly courteous to his allies. Even yesterday he stopped off in Ireland on his way to America to meet the Taoiseach in Ireland. Now Ireland has taken in a lot of Ukrainian refugees but not provided much in the way of funds but he still had the courtesy to thank us on his way to one of the biggest meetings of his career. Then in the other corner you have two massive cunts basically belittling the man trying to fight a much larger opponent. Mocking him and pretty much telling him to beg for help. It makes me sick.

This might please you (even if the 'translation' of the float slogan is painfully shit): https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c04zzr73vgpo

Too soon?

And what first attracted you to the millionaire Gene Hackman?

Echo this. The POTUS is either compromised, insane, degenerate, or all of the above. I've personally said repeadly, as have many others, we need to split ties with this nation now. If you work for a US company, get a other job. Or at least perform poorly. Don't buy American products. Not hard, they're maiy shit. Give our elected leader some space. He's treading a thin space. Dissembling 80 years of mutual cooperation is difficult.

I saw a post on Reddit today of the same breed, at a dog show, being shown and getting a medal. Fucking thing goes for the judge twice. And by goes for, I mean goes for in an XL Bulldog way. I fail to see why the fuck anyone would chose to have one of these dogs unless they have a tiny penis and/or are a complete cunt.

I'm not sure. The people who voted for him will see this as Trump protecting American tax dollars and avoiding possible major conflict. The anti-war President as somehow he's managed to bill himself for many. I still feel it likely that sooner or later the wheels will fall off the utter madness and chaos that this administration is currently whipping up, and leave it unmasked as the maneauverings of a wannabe dictator rather than a revolutionary, but if not there are aspects of everything they're doing that will garner more support from his fan base and further divide the country.

So uk don’t get tarriffs but in return the PM can’t support a man whose country is about to be carved up by the two biggest cunt-psychos on the planet?…another Brexit dividend 😑

Enjoying the crack you say

Could you imagine HMHM with the yank glory hunters asking for an autograph too? Here is a prime example of one happy fan who got to make their dream a reality.

Slovenia was ahead of the game

Aye, retrievers are bred to have “soft mouths”- they don’t lock their jaws on whatever they’re holding in them. Not that they couldn’t still give you a decent savaging, but the whole breed is designed to be compliant and subservient. Bulldogs, and specifically these XL abominations, are muscle bound biting machines designed to lock on and stay locked on. They’re bred to be fighting dogs. Yes, a little Staffy will be 99.9% soft as shite and lovely, but if it chose to give you a nip, you’d be hospitalised at least.

I've only ever "met" one of these, and it was lush. I'm sure there are good owners that will have these dogs and never have a minute's bother with them, but as Renton says, if they go wrong you've got no chance. We bumped into an old couple with a retriever yesterday, and the old woman was saying it weighs 9 stone. They both walked with sticks btw, it was far too big for them to deal with. But if that's 9 stone, fuck knows what a Bully would weigh.

Issue is surely, they're too powerful. A normal sized dig goes for you, it probably won't kill you. You could pull it off a kid etc. These though, you'd have no chance. They scare the fuck out of me. Last year I was on the beach and a ln unleashed pit bull cut me off my walk and just stared and growled at me. The owners took it away but I was fairly shook up.

There's a European Security Summit in London tomorrow which Starmer is leading, and which couldn't be better timed really. He'll have to speak publicly after that, I would imagine. Zelensky is trying to mend the rift with Trump as well, but good luck with that probably.

Fair play to Starmer. I fully support his Twitter boycott.

💯 Europe needs to beef up security, forget about the yanks and stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine

What else could Zelensky do? He had to go to USA. He had to stand his corner. Trump had already made up his mind on Ukraine a long time ago. Zelensky’s mission was futile but he had to do it all the same.

Disgusting.

We should probably retract that offer from the King. We can't be having that cunt over here after that.

That’s just embarrassing for America. You basically have two brain dead bullies ganging up on a head of state who is an ally. Forgetting diplomatic norms and all that it’s just really shit behaviour for some of the worst people on earth.

Who the fuck is Josh Widdecome when he's spectacularly failing to be funny?

Here we have John Smith from Newcastle who says he's voting reform in the next election, can we ask why? "Aye, yi can. Ah'm fuckin' sick of these forrins, wokes, and colourful flags aah'll owa the shop. Aah didn't sorve me country by avoiding the draft with me gout, and then gannin doon for 18 month for looking owa the cubicles at Elswick baths for these muslamics and tha ray guns. Aah'm voting Nigel coz he reckons he'll ha' them gone in 24 hours and aah love owt like that me, like. Aye, he's ganna dismantle the NHS, which means aah'll be deed within fowa weeks, and aah'll probablies lose me benefits but aa'll tell yi wot. I've got mesel a crate of carling and a cheap bottle of gin that aah'll fucking drink while aah watch aah'll them broon people get hoyed oot. Assuming aah haven't drank the lot by the end of the day like, which is canny likely if ah'm being totally honest."

You'd just piss everyone off interrogating them on who they’ve given their tickets to. ”Yes, yes, Bruno, I know she’s your wife and that’s all well and good, but was your lass in the away end at Shrewsbury in Sept 1982, I think not”

He's a certified dog nonce. But no, I'm not on blue sky or twitter and have no idea who you're referring to.

I'd be happy being good around the dressing room for half his salary if anyone from NUFC is reading this?

We're owned by an investment fund. So I guess neither of us are state owned.

Nah, he’s looked alright at best. He wouldn’t get a game at any other club chasing Europe. We need to be more ruthless if we are to keep progressing.

That's the problem, any dog can go wrong, for a multitude of reasons, if one of these does someone will die.

I love dogs and there is absolutely no legitimate reason for anyone owning one of these. And I don’t think it’s the breed necessarily from a behavioural pov, it’s the type of owner it attracts.

I had to Google who he was. Obviously just trying to be witty. Relax WyPoopie.

Oh I get ya He's not a nonce like, just a fucking HUGE age difference.

Like strawb said he was alright. I know ACL reconstruction has come a long way, but he's the wrong side of 30. If he gets a contract extension its because he is good in the background and training ground. We don't want him near the starting 11 or bench unless its v Bromley and even then I think thats a big ask. But on the flip side to totally overhaul players like Lascelles out of the squad, will cost even more.

tbf when Rafa was here he was always hovering between decent and good IMO. It was Bruce that ruined him (along with many others) so I wasn't that surprised that he looked good again under Howe. It's scary that he's still our best aerial threat on set plays considering he's barely played since the takeover like - and Wood forgot he was a footballer during his time here.

i agree with the general point but i thought he was great last season when called upon and looked like another one of the ashley era players who benefitted from proper coaching.

Imagine finding out someone has been questioning your ability and slagging you off to strangers at the golf club. Then imagine finding out that the person was Sean Longstaff

Mbeumo KLAXON! You've summoned the Toontastic Lollipop Guild now.

Playing the runaway leaders on their patch with 3 of our key spine of the team missing. On the face of it, it could have been a lot worse. And for all the TNT jizzfest over Salah, Hall had him in his back pocket all night long! His performance was massively overlooked by the pro-Liverpool commentary. Never expected us to get anything there - on the plus side Man City & Liverpool away are now behind us. Focus on the rest of the season.

This is the worst episode of Last of the Summer Wine I've ever seen.

12 games… we probably need 9 wins to finish in a Champions league place. But given the whole division’s lack of consistency it will likely be less than that…