Rayvin

Here's the actual speech. Christ.

Believe it or not, I have been aware of him enough to know that he's not a total spanner, despite his attempts to come across as one. Although I did think he was meant to have "found Jesus" a little while ago, so not sure where that aligns with his 'dick slinging' and so on.

I guess Kidrock has released that to prepare for his run at the presidency? Or was he going for the senate, I don't remember. He might actually be a more compassionate individual than most of the republican senators and tbh, at this point, I think it would be amusing. The presidency would be something else though, we need to keep him the fuck away from that

I feel like that graph more or less reinforces what I just said, so I'm going to call it here The rate of growth is falling, it's just a typo from KCG that he's not added the word growth. It's clearly visible on the actual graph though.

I mean I do - I have a therapist. And consequently I've been able to develop my career in such a way that anxiety hasn't held me back. Good investment IMO. Given that China is working towards increasing wages across it's people, it'll be growing at similar levels to the rest of us in the end. It's booming cos it's cheap, not cos it's more driven.

China limits screentime because it has a nation of video game addicts. Moreover, your average Chinese young person has had a lifetime of coddling through being an only child, so much so that it has given rise to the label of 'little princes and princesses'. When I was out there I taught English to a few of them and while it's very anecdotal, they did not strike me as a particularly driven bunch. And while you may call the people we raise on the west 'pussies' I would prefer to see them as 'emotionally developed people who are able to look compassionately at the lives of others, and also attempt to deal with their own personal damage in order to make their lives better in the long run'. Yes there'll be some who go too far, but you don't actually meet very many of those, day to day, in my experience. It's more something that youtube channels get worked up about, rather than being real.

Self defence, surely? Were any plastic bags thrown?

It's not just about today's result mind. We have a string of what look to be unwinnable games in December against the strongest teams in the league. So by January we could be a way more than 5 points adrift and over halfway into the season. If we can't hold it together versus Brentford then we'll be punished by better teams too. If we can get a result against Arsenal somehow then we go back to being ok IMO but we have to start picking up wins from somewhere pretty damn urgently.

Not winning that game is the first moment that's really made me think we might go down here. That was a cast iron must win game given what we've got ahead of us, and failing to do so is worrying. Scoring 3 is great and encouraging but where are we going to get this defensive robustness from. Dubravka is going to have to come in hitting the ground running IMO. No reflection on Howe though - in fact it seems like he's had a positive impact in several areas which is great news really. Will he get on top of this quick enough though.

Why is Joelinton still being picked though? Do we really not have a superior option there?

Yeah but given that it wasn't happening to protestors particularly, it seems like this is giving a very public signal to how it can be done. The whole defence is ridiculous, they're claiming that he heard a gunshot so felt entitled to shoot. But then what if someone heard his gunshot - does that then become a self defence issue and someone is entitled to shoot him? The last man standing goes free, seems to be the ruling we've just established here.

I can see that side but he's literally extinguished the lives of 2 other people. I mean... that has to mean something, somewhere down the line. Also the precendent the situation sets it terrible. Based on this defence, what's to stop people just gunning each other down at political protests?

Some republican wanker has offered him an internship ffs They are absolute cunts man, the lot of them. What this verdict says is that you can go out looking for trouble at a left wing protest, armed to the teeth, and start freely gunning people down when they tell you to fuck off.

Can we not whack him into a Hazmat suit or something and have him there anyway?

Lee fucking Charnley. The last lingering fart in the lift of Ashley's stagnant, pathetic NUFC. An overpromoted, inept nobody who took the very little he had to work with, and produced something that was less than the sum of its parts. A man whose sole qualification was a complete lack of dignity or spine when dealing with Ashley himself. He'll never work in football again, I'm quite sure. Fuck off forever, Lee.

I mean I'm referring more to not picking up stupid yellow cards and actually attempting to win us games with his decision making really

Maybe Shelvey is one of those players who needs to believe he's the best thing since sliced bread in order to play with a brain - it's the only reason I can think of for Howe bigging him up here. If it works, fair enough.

I'm interested to see, over the course of several games I suppose, how much Howe has improved versus his time at Bournemouth - sounds like he's spent the last year or so really researching and working on his own style, exploring new ideas etc. The iteration of Howe that we see could be quite different to what was on show in the past. I really hope we get this fucking win though, would do everyone the world of good.

This where the fuck did that even come from? To my knowledge he's not an expert on cricket or racism so why is he even there? I think his argument is that racism should be dealt with on an individual to individual basis and not structurally which would fit his overall worldview of hyperindividualism. I'm not clear on exactly what about tackling structural racism he doesn't agree with, or why it would pit one group against another. Surely it would only do that if one of the groups was out and out racist.. Either way, it was amusing. He needs to go back to his YouTube lectures really.

Whether Shelvey is our most valuable player or not (he isn't) wasn't the starting point for this particular topic though - it was the idea that under Ashley we hadn't been run down, and that the players are better than they're showing. So on point 1, we were told that £95m net spend in the past 3 years proves that it wasn't run down. Nevermind that £40m of that was spent on Joelinton, or that we're not given any comparative context for our competitors - this number alone proves that Ashley looked after the club. We were 12th in terms of net spend over the past 5 years as far as I can see, with the only teams below us being the carousel of promoted teams. 16th if Joelinton is ignored. I don't think that's great really. The other point was that the players are better than they're showing. Yeah I'd agree with that, plenty of us have said that themselves - it's why we wanted rid of Bruce. But that doesn't mean that these players are capable of taking us on to the next level. It means they're probably good enough to scrape us past relegation season on season, with progressively diminishing returns as they get older. But broadly speaking, I'll agree with that point. Whether Shelvey is a good player or not compared to everyone else we had doesn't make him a good player in general. It just means he's another indicator of where we were under Ashley.

As I implied but I suppose didn't outright say earlier, if he comes within touching distance of looking like he could win come the next GE, I'll revise my opinion on this. If Labour look dead in the water then my vote is better spent making a point.

With all the hysteria about the morality of my choice to vote Green (along with all the other closet Tories), it's getting a little hard to tell the difference between serious and joking

Yeah I think so too. Unenviable position really, but that's the reality of what he's aiming for.

Sorry like, but have you just drawn a serious conclusion about me from a discussion I'm having with ewerk about the prospect of marrying him to get back into the single market?

I mean my approach would more be along the lines of "this fuck up is due to Brexit, this loss of earnings is due to Brexit, this failure of recovery is due to Brexit, your cost of living is skyrocketing due to Brexit", etc. It would mean that when he does eventually start doing that, which he will because it's the truth, he'll seem more credible. Either way though, my role in this is to build pressure for things to move in that direction. You're talking as if I'm trying to win him an election - I'm not. I just want the issue dealt with - it's his job to win the election, not my job to do him favours.