Rayvin

I'm definitely gonna look into this taxi/hire idea, it'd be much safer.

I'm out in Lanarkshire, south of Glasgow. Infection rate is a good question, looks slightly above the national average? Not sure exactly how to get the info but found that much: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/search?postcode=ML8 4NZ

No, I don't drive and live too remotely to be 'collected'. This isn't actually a bad idea tbh, I'll give it some thought. Cheers.

Lads, can I ask for an honest opinion? I was planning to go back across to Newcastle for Christmas to stay with my dad for a few days. It'll take me two trains to get there though (I don't drive), and two back again. There's a likelihood of elderly people being present, my Grandma is nearly 100 and she's going to be around.. I want to go but is it just a stupid risk for people I care about? I'm struggling to make a rational choice, which I think means that I know the answer already, but I want someone else to say it anyway.

I think we all know the answer to this. She "worked hard" and fully believes that the reason she's got to where she is, comes down to there being something special about her. Something that makes her better than the people she came from. Anyone could make a success of themselves no matter their background, if they just work hard enough (but only people with as much grit as she has, will ever manage this). Those that don't, deserve their strife.

Patel is apparently preparing a leadership bid. I mean they've got no one decent in a position to step up, that's the positive we should be taking from this.

We could buy some little known team in Saudi Arabia and have them buy Clarke for £300m.

Watch the PL say that the season has to end now, league positions as final...

The PL, thanks to its own modus operandi, is a de-regulated wilderness. I'd be amazed if we can't find all sorts of ways around these issues. I mean I mentioned it in jest some time back but what if we set up schools in Saudi Arabia for footballing excellence and charged £1m a year for attendance, with an intake of 100 pupils per year. Does the PL have a precedent there to set against it? What if we broke off from the other sponsorship deals for TV rights and sold our own? We could take the PL's achievements as the 'precedent'. We could start streaming training sessions into Saudi Arabia, the state could subsidise access to it. I mean I just don't see how they can close every single loop hole without ending up in court assured of losing on at least one front.

So are we heading back into full lockdowns and so on after Christmas? Or is the idea now that the economy is so fucked we're just going to have to deal?

What if they bought the naming rights and named it "St. James Park". Legally speaking, could anyone even say anything?

Is... is that well? You know UK accounting rules well, right? I mean I don't have a clue about any of this, I'm just musing on the fact that my understanding was that the point of the sponsorships was to funnel money in beyond what the rules said we were able to do already.

Is the deal here not that they could just put that £200m straight in without worrying about sponsorship deals etc? Effectively that's an allowable loss, right? The reason we need to worry about sponsorship would be for everything beyond that, since FFP blocks us from just throwing that money into the club - but up to that £200m I thought it could just be loaned or gifted straight in? As an aside, is this new nonsense from the PL enforceable in the championship?

I wonder this too - I think the tide has turned for an honest few, but the issue we're always going to come up against for the majority is the fact that they simply will not admit to being wrong because their whole worldview now relies on the notion that informed experts in any given matter, be it Brexit, economics, politics, medicine, sociology, whatever, are all part of some kind of conspiracy to strip them of their 'freedoms'. I've said it before but it takes a lot of strength and personal responsibility to admit you're wrong about something, and for all the Tories and their voters bang on endlessly about both, they're not much for actually living what they speak.

Bit of a shame Longstaff hasn't managed to kick on tbh.

Oh god, we're back to this again. "He's signed, nailed on." And then two weeks of silence before it turns out he objects to the strategic vision of the club or something.

The Ashley era was more "Aye mate, you can grab some scran from the Greggs down the street"

I mean the whole thing sounds like it could have come straight out of Line of Duty to me.

Surely it is, they must have got him to do this? It's uncanny otherwise.

It does look this way, no chance we'd blow our entire budget on a right back if that wasn't the case. So we are indeed going for the great escape. And failing that we're going to fucking obliterate the championship next year.

I thought this too, why risk it? The office Christmas party is nice and all but it's not worth risking actual family Christmas for.

You know, I made the same damn typo the second time I mentioned it and thought to myself how fortunate that I caught it since someone would definitely pick up on it Didn't even notice that I fucked it up the first time too. And given how much Milo talks about being gay, yeah, maybe gay conversation therapy is exactly what he's about.

@Diego21 signed off on him right? I'm on board

Aye but this great nation was built on the back of the average joe. We never needed experts before, and we don't need them now. "Common sense" is all that matters. Experts are all part of one great unified conspiracy anyway.

It depends how you play the market. I bought some ETH back in September when the price crashed to $2100. It then went up to $4800 at which point I sold. Now it's going down again so I've bought back in, modestly, with more prepared if it drops further. Arweave is well positioned to become instrumental within the blockchain community more widely and the infrastructure that they have is already being used quite widely by an assortment of blockchain startups in various areas. Luna, again, is offering a 20% yield on staking. The narratives are the same as they are for commodity trading IMO - what is gold going to do today based on various political and commercial factors throughout the world, as well as buying and selling activity. It's no different with crypto, although I'm not a day trader in either so I tend to look more for bigger picture stuff. Eventually we will hit a bear market and everything will settle down again, but if blockchain is successful then crypto isn't going anywhere IMO. It's not for everyone and I would certainly say that there's a reckoning coming where it's going to flatline for a while - but the whole community knows this too. It's an established pattern. People will go on as if the world is ending, and in the meantime others will quietly add to their stockpiles so that when the market recovers, they're well positioned. Fair enough if it doesn't interest you, but so far I've made money out of it rather than losing it - more than I would lose if it all became worthless overnight in fact.