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I‘m actually really not arsed about the transfer window. I started supporting Newcastle about 30 years ago and for the most part it was worrying about the next season and if things were going to be worse. Last season was the most amazing experience for me as a football fan taking in mind I celebrated two world cups and one European Championship with Germany (I was not really into 1980). I am pretty sure something will happen until the end of August. We might miss some targets but will end up with other players Eddie will make to be great. Instead of worrying about signing or missing out of some players I do rather wait on who we will play next season and what opportunities might arise to get a ticket. I am more pissed off with some random foreign fans getting to take part in adverts considering the pain I suffered for three decades. All will be well. Or not. I will still die having seen Newcastle lifting a cup. I am happy, I enjoy supporting Newcastle. Something that was difficult for quite a long time.

We all know Keith from the SMB is thick as pigshit and boring as fuck to boot. Perhaps he has some emotional intelligence after hearing about the tragic death of Diego Jota? Nah, of course not, time for another boring as fuck driving anecdote from the brain donor.

what exactly do you have against the generic small time football blather thread?

next time keith.... buy 4 remoulds and drive faster.

this swedish cunt not signed yet?

They've absolutely lost it like. Almost none of them fear relegation, many think they will finish above us.

CT btw If we’d signed three players by now, he’d be waddling in worrying about PSR and having to sell Isak

Certainly does

After Sunderland do it next season, EVERYONE is going to want to get relegated.

Could be worse, lads.

Lads, I feel like we're a bunch of feral charvers laying into TP curled up in the foetal position on the ground. Its not his fault he's from a generation of cunts. And more to the point, if we were born into that generation we'd be cunts too. Whisper it quietly but if you were born in Sunderland you'd be a mackem. Peace and love everyone.

“Slightly different” Aye, just a bit, Keith, you fucking thick cunt

Almost had an argument with the missus when as a by-product of talking about the pip fiasco which obviously could affect us she in a roundabout way put immigration as a problem which should be looked at before the disabled, I mentioned the phillipson comments the other day about falling birth rates and they just needed to reverse Brexit and get rich cunts to start to pay their taxes for a start and her reply was Brexit will never be reversed as they'd be kicked out straight away. I said the polls are overwhelmingly anti-brexit but she disagrees when it comes down to it, but the absolute zinger was me saying, in relation to the falling birth rate, that young people aren't having kids because of the state of the cost of living/shit deal they have etc and she reposted a lot of it was to do with being taken over in our country!!! I couldn't believe what my corbynista wife was saying? I got up to make the dinner as it was starting to get heated but I should've said 'I bet Corbyn wouldn't agree with you?' I put this 100% on Facebook and reading shit like the chronicle letters page. She'll argue disability rights with people on there and she'll be right but it's almost like the conquer and divide arguement in action with regards to immigration.

Makes you think

He is to reanimating ancient threads what Robin is to GIFs.

In general they voted for brexit and consistently vote tory.

My lass won’t have them on, prefers the dub. Yet another reason that no court would convict me

Fuck me there’s some serious bed wetting olympics on display in here over the last few weeks We’ll be fine come start of the season.

Texting the Forest sporting director with one hand and moistening mrs Howe with the other. What a man.

alreet, toonpack

Keep an eye out for Wyki

I think the answer to the question is Brexit, voting Tory, buying up property for rental income. And then to top it off, and I don't know if this is a majority or a vocal minority, but being absolute fucking cunts when it's suggested to them that young people face hardships that they never had to contend with. "Eat less avocado toast" and all the shite about snowflakes and being too soft, etc. These twats bought 4 bed houses for under £20k and retire on unbelievable pensions. My mam didn't work for the vast majority of my childhood and has a pension I might just about surpass having worked all of my adult life in jobs that pay multiples of what she would have been earning.

He is to our CPU usage what CT is to new hobbies that wont last.

I don't disagree with a lot of that. But in theory I quite like the idea of the best clubs from each federations best leagues playing each other to see who is the best in the world. But it should be just that, the best teams from the best leagues. Not the 4th or 5th best, not the winner of a cup. It should be English, Spanish, German, Italian champions vs the champions of Brazil, Argentina, US, Mexico, Japan, Korea etc. Have a simple knock out competition so teams only have to play 3 or 4 games even if they make it all the way to the final.

I drink loads of water too, pints and pints of it. I’m fine through the night, but if I have one lager I’m up twice at least. Life fucking ruins everything fun.

Fair play to them letting the model wear a hoodie and cutting out his face to hide his identity.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/jealousy-from-other-clubs-about-safc-being-trendy-now.1659357/ “Jealousy from other clubs about safe being trendy now” is worth a read

I sat in a cafe there this morning and there was a table full of barely alive 80 somethings being patronised into being publicly racist by an enormous jowly loud mouthed Essex cunt who was maybe in his early 70s .. probably been a Tory since he was eating rusks but is now undoubtedly the local Reform UK LTD organiser. He said he'd been at uni in Edinburgh and he could understand the locals there but not those further west which is because he loudly divulged that he lived n fucking Morningside which is like living in fucking Belgravia 😑 They were all complaining about being overrun with foreigners, I was there all morning, drove into cosmopolitan Bournemouth this afternoon and it was only then I saw someone who wasn't whiter than a fuckin polar bear .. there is no doubt that some areas of the UK are experiencing huge problems due to immigration. Dorset isn't one of them and never fuckin will be... I remember your visit to rural Dorset, still a fairly magical place as can be seen in the pic and although not tourist free it's not anywhere near like Devon & Cornwall . I advised you to visit the next valley to the Piddle to observe this magnificent edifice:

Ok well let's say you're right. You're not, and I'm absolutely blown away that you lived through the 80s and don't think that that was a decade of rampant disposable consumerism. But let's say you're right and it started in the 90s. Who is benefitting from that rampant, disposable consumerism? By which I mean who is profiting. Who is the driving force behind designed obsolescence? Who is making money from turning everyone into consumers and convincing them that they need the next thing now. It's not the youth of today or even the youth of the 90s. It's fucking boomers. They're the ones getting rich off it and they are (largely) the ones who have resisted every call to say "lads we're completely fucking the planet here, can we maybe think about not doing this".

Fellow 1970s kids! 😀 and the 1970s middle aged ie @Toonpack obvs .. Difficult to avoid the 21st century creeping in here this lunchtime but it's still very quaint...

I heard an interview with Adam Curtis about his film ‘Hypernormalisation’ and what it means. He goes into a bit about the likes of Facebook and how the tech evangelists from Silicon Valley who created the algorithms will argue they are efficient. Because they create communities of like minded people who only see views and opinions they like. Apart from the untruths around things like Brexit being perpetuated though, which is an obvious negative to me, Curtis also points out this is deeply conservative as it stifles new ways of thinking. He argues the left has fallen into this trap and that the echo chambers it creates means all mainstream political movements have become essentially conservative. And that was about 10 years ago and things have moved on since then. But not for the better. How we or politicians manoeuvre out of this now is difficult to imagine without some sort of revolutionary change in the way people think. Another point is that people instinctively know things are getting worse and living standards are falling for most but feel completely powerless. They feel similar about political leaders. And that mindset is conservative too. Because you resist the big changes needed through fear of losing everything. So become complicit in that decline by accepting it. And on that happy note….

Yeah I've even started to hear this from my vehemently Labour voting parents. I mentioned how childcare is now up to £80 a day and my dad said that people shouldn't have kids if they can't afford them. I was genuinely raging. We're pretty lucky in that we both have jobs and both earn a decent amount. We shop modestly, we drive reasonable cars, we save money where we can and we aren't frivolous. However, we can't account for mortgages going up as much as they did, we can't account for utility bills exploding, we can't account for old cunts voting for Brexit because of "reasons" meaning among other things that food shops are vastly more expensive. I'm paying about £200 a month on gas and electric, paying about £1k a month on childcare, the same on the mortgage. Cutting back on avocados or Netflix isn't going to plug those financial gaps, Dad.

not you, obviously

That photo man. Nose like a joiner's elbow.

Who gives a fuck

You could genuinely be writing that about my Dad and Step Mam. When Dad realised I've voted remain he told me I'd "made a clear mistake which was understandable as I wasn't alive in 1973 so have no understanding of what sovereignty is". I mean, how condescending can you get?! It's one of the only times in 50 years I've told him to fuck off. My Step-Mam .... forever texting me pro-Brexit propaganda which I just ignore. Every now and then I have a go and tell her to stop sending me bilious nonsense that I don't subscribe to and she relents ... for no more than a couple of weeks and then it starts again.

I think I've mentioned this on here before but when my job was at risk cos of Brexit, my own mother told me that "well if you can't find another job with your CV, you're doing something wrong". Honestly, I paint a bad picture of my mam on here, but in reality it's anything for her kids and if anyone does anything to upset either of us she'd murder them. But Brexit was this fucking thing for people like her that sent them completely daft. That was the first time she'd ever said anything like that to me, and the first time it was clear that her brain was starting to melt because of Facebook. One of my old mates from school contacted me a few years back and said "do you see the stuff your mam puts up on Facebook?". I don't cos I'm not on there, but I fucking dread to think.

Stop believing everything you read from football journos in the silly season man. They're just cycling through ways to get you to click on the links/tune int' t' wireless. Trafford has been rumbling on for ages and it's probably as much to do with Burnley getting a replacement as anything else, which means waiting for the other team to get in a replacement for their 'keeper and so on. Yes, it's frustrating that we've not yet been able to announce the signing of a raft of new players, and yes we really need the club to be more agile before and during the windows. That's a criticism that ultimately falls at the feet of the ownership. They should have had a replacement CEO by now, Eales has been one foot out of the door since the announcement of his illness. Mitchell was a misstep, no doubt, but it comes hot on the heels of Ashworth's unexpected departure so perhaps less due dilligence was done at the time? Either way, we will sign some players, we will likely be competing for the CL spots once more, and we've still got a very strong first team. Howe has us playing very good football. Oh and while he may get frustrated by the slow movement in the transfer window, he's still got way more control here than he would do at other clubs, he's got an excellent group of players to work with, his pick of staff below him, and the love of the fans. He's not going anywhere. You all need to fucking relax.

Are you sure you're not actually a liverpool fan that just hasnt realised it yet?

I hope they haven’t