Andrew
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15 minutes ago, The Fish said:
Short reviews of cars I've owned
Rover 200 - pile of shit that my mother had driven for years. I'm glad I crashed it.
BMW 1 series - absolute fucking money pit, ended up getting £900 off a garage who just wanted the parts.
Kia Ceed - perfectly fine hatchback, cheap to run, cheap to insure, 7 year warranty, would have kept it but salesman was a total cunt.
VW Polo - yeah, fine I guess.
Caring about cars must come in your 50s, I suppose?
I dunno, I've always been into cars to an extent, though I mostly keep that to myself, never been entirely willing to get into it as a money pit of a hobby though. Got enough of those already.
Renault Clio - typical first car, one of the suspension springs shattered into bits going over a speed bump once and all of its electrics failedKia Picanto - Slow as balls but reliably ate up miles when I had a long commute
Abarth 500 - Favourite car I ever owned, fucking brilliant, quite want to get another one
Peugeot 308 GT - Dash was shit, no physical buttons but a slow as fuck operating system/touch screen
Honda Fit - Moved to New Zealand, needed a car, wife drives this now
Nissan Fuga - Never even heard of these before moving out here, its big, its fast, it makes a great noise and since its an import theres a Japanese woman in the dash who yells at me occasionally. Brilliant.
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7 minutes ago, OTF said:
I don't think anyone will complain with any justification if there is a clear advantage to the attacking player being ahead of defenders. I'm sure they will still complain but there will be no validity to it. There should be an allowable margin of error considering that they also need to identify the moment the ball was released to determine when to draw the line. That's my biggest contention. So for example if there is less than 150mm* between attacker and the second to last defender at the determined moment then allow the goal to stand. If it's 151mm and you're still complaining then you need a new hobby.
* - Or if you really want to be generous 300mm
I don't disagree but that is still all that is happening right now, unless the critical margin is kept secret from all but the VARs or the machine determining who is off and on then we'll keep having this conversation.
For it to stop its not about what the gap is, or when the line is considered the rule has to have a wholesale change. -
The thing with the offside rule, is that no variation of it actually changes anything that we all hate about the offside rule.
in line - ok so a millimeter out of line and you're offside
daylight - ok so a millimeter of daylight and you're offsidea yard off - ok so one yard and one millimeter and you're offside
Everyones variation is just moving the margin because there has to be some point where you're off vs not off.
VARs shifted the debate to shit about the lines and whatnot but we still spent 50% of every match of the day or whatever moaning about marginal offsides before VAR, nothings actually changed.
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10 hours ago, PaddockLad said:
Just looked for the Harry Enfield sketch of the two boring twats at the party saying “Soooo…. What are we driving at the moment??”… couldn’t find it but that’s this thread at the moment
That is, essentially, the sole purpose of this entire place tbf.
If its not cars its guitars or films or (god forbid) football
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Watching the highlights, Anderson worried that isaks second was offside when hes two yards inside his own half as its played
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I dont really want him to go because he could do with a rest but I honestly reckon Gordon starts in englands best 11.
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Just now, Gemmill said:
Angela looks livid.
I need a replay of Gordon's goal cos the DPD man turned up.
They only just cut back to him slotting it in anyway
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Finally a booking!...for dissent...not any of those fouls then ref?
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Thats a joke
Never looked at the ball
hopefully schar was making a deal with the ref that he gets to flatten the little prick if he doesnt get booked.
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39 minutes ago, ewerk said:
It still seems odd that we haven't exploited this more. Everton had Moshiri sponsoring the training ground for £20m a year and apparently that was just fine yet we don't seem to have done anything similar.
I think we're playing nice at the moment and perhaps biding our time so that we dont "lock ourselves in" to a deal that we could feasibly have had more money for long term
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Aye, or theres been some indication that the fines for overspending are "worth it" and will allow us to grow.
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30 minutes ago, Rayvin said:
Progressive young/urban voters turning away from Labour over Gaza and climate change apparently: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/11/labour-may-fail-to-grab-target-seats-as-young-voters-turn-away-over-gaza-and-climate
Could just be a scare article but some suggestion it could cost them some key seats here and there. Doubt it matters in the end but hopefully something that will remind Starmer that we're not all collectively a centre right hive mind.
Sunder Katwala, the director of the non-partisan thinktank British Future, said: “This is a 2025 or 2028 challenge for Labour. There is a danger of taking your core vote for granted, and that danger will be very apparent after the election.”
Their attitude to the Cass report is potentially a banana skin as well.
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Hows Ederson looking for Atalanta? We've been linked with him a lot over the last few months
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2 hours ago, Gemmill said:
New rules are bad news for us and fantastic news for those already at the top.
The vote in for these rules was unanimous, so they obviously see some gain compared to the current rules at least.
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And then we'll nab their DoF!
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Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER
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https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1caloi6/hi_reddit_im_rio_ferdinand_former_england_and/
Dont think this has quite gone how Rios PR people hoped