Rayvin

I am sincerely sorry you experienced this. Sounds like it must have been devastating to see as a child... not sure I could have handled it personally. You've got to wonder at the shit people go through sometimes.

This audit they've just done has stipulated that we need a new inquiry to address a few different things that, with the exception of one around the definition of rape, were already in the previous inquiries. Even the one 10 years ago - and yes, including the ethnicity tracking stuff and whatever. If we need an inquiry into anything, it's why the Tories did fuck all about this for the entire time they were in power.

Tosin is on 120k a week at Chelsea. I think stuff like that is probably a factor too tbh.

Fair tbh, I kinda feel bad for them but I suppose they enjoyed it.

What a statement this is from FIFA, well worth everyone's time so far...

I was on it for a while for anxiety but the side effects were intolerable. I'm not sure if I thought it helped or not, maybe it did. It's really hard to say with some of these sorts of things. I just use Beta Blockers now for days when I'm particularly bad and beyond that call it quits. Hope you're well anyway Andrew, but sounds like the right decision to get off them given the side effects. I'm told different drugs can have wildly varying responses from different people, another type may be better for you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7872pngj2qo We are now going to have yet another inquiry into grooming gangs...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43902372 Just worth remembering whose fault this ultimately is. Trump binned the previous deal with Iran because: 1 - Obama had agreed it. 2 - He wanted to buddy up to Netanyahu who didn't like the Obama deal. 3 - He was listening to hawks in his cabinet who never would have been in office in any respectable administration. Had we not binned that, maybe now we wouldn't be here.

You know, this looks like it might be a proper war. Israel seems very committed to this.

Israel has just announced an order to close all their embassies worldwide, and told Jewish communities to be vigilant and remove anything that would identify them as Jewish. How has what they have done made any Jewish people safer, I will never understand this. At every single turn, they've made them more at risk. As for Trump - this chaos is directly on him IMO, it's the direct cost of the US pulling itself back from the global stage. Israel don't seem to give a fuck what he thinks, in fact it sounds almost like he's been steamrollered here and is just catching up after the fact to save face. The cost of having weak fucking leaders man...

I would once have agreed with you but what the era of Trump is showing us is that the only way a sovereign state can guarantee its safety is ownership of nukes. Ukraine is the other example. Even India and Pakistan de-escalated pretty quickly out of fear of where that whole thing could lead. There is no chance Iran would ever use a nuke, even via a proxy, without fully expecting to get nuked back - it would never happen. And indeed I would argue that they look quite cautious in a lot of their responses most of the time.

How much do we reckon he's actually worth of that figure?

Maybe so but I think we can also backdate some of this to Trump's first term and the scuppering of whatever nuclear arrangement was in place back then. I honestly do wonder if the whole region is safer if everyone has nukes. The only positive here I suppose is that Iran can do fuck all about this really, hard to see how they escalate.

If I was the Iranian government, I'd be doing everything I could to get hold of nukes.

This is definitely considered a skill in Sunderland. The most iconic moment of their last spell in the prem seems to be Cattermole taking out Colback. They have avatars dedicated to it, T shirts, coffee mugs...

This killed me

And yet the site rollback has left us with this absolute pearl of an opening post. We truly are blessed.

If that's talking about 24-25 then it would be more relevant for the season just gone than it will be for next year, I would have thought. So I would say that's talking about why we were limited last summer.

I'm sorry but.. what does this even mean What is the implication he's taken from 'sleeping areas' that suggests the women would be under threat..? I mean maybe he's right but I'm struggling to find my way to his conclusion at the moment, at least one that would support saying "there are laws!"

I'm not sure any of us have a clue on likely 'ins', we thought we would be in for Mbuemo. With that dead all I've seen in here is snatches of rumours, nothing concrete. Likely outs seem to be the supporting cast of the midfield positions. Longstaff, Willock potentially. Hopefully we're about to shift at least a couple of hundred goalkeepers.

Do that many nuclear subs really give us a significant strategic advantage over the 3 we already had? It can't all be aimed at Russia, they must be anticipating more of a global presence..

Sorry does that mean Trident goes from 3 to 15?

Appreciated

I don't know how to merge that shit or I would fold it into other threads tbh.

@Howmanheyman Sorry to hear of this mate but glad that you're in consultations and so on about it. Well done for taking that step because sometimes people sit on things like this. Sounds kinda manageable at least, hope things improve nonetheless though.