Rayvin

I'm not the one who keeps talking about his Johnson tbh

It's now all over my family, some of whom I saw at the weekend - so I'm expecting the worst now. Allergies have been acting up since yesterday but maybe it's not allergies.. Damn pain this thing.

I'm not sure who that person is but I agree with you that no one should be receiving death threats on social media. That does seem to be what twitter is mainly for though, given how often you hear about it happening. Your sister is of course entitled to express her view without being threatened - in the same way that you'd hope trans people would be free to live their lives without being attacked. It's odd that people who come under such sustained abuse by the wider world would be so ready to turn to aggression themselves, but presumably (as in all such cases irrespective of the area of argument) it's the unstable people leading the charge here.

Exactly. I really don't think this stuff happens very much at all. My mum used to argue trans women entering women's bathrooms made women vulnerable and I'd have to argue that if a man really wanted to assault a woman, the social weirdness of entering a woman's bathroom was not a barrier.

I'm not going to comment on the matter at hand in terms of specifics because I don't have firsthand experience - suffice to say that I know many trans people and they don't mention being as comfortable with the sort of reality that the author describes, as she herself does. Mileage seemingly varies. That point aside though, even if I felt the need to speak out against left wing views - as I have done before - I would never choose to do so in the Daily Heil. They're not running that article because they care about the issue, they're running it because it agrees with their perspective in the culture war. I don't understand why anyone would offer themselves up for that.

A 1.2% chance of going down.. I think we're good.

BBC reported yesterday that current polling goes as close as 51:49. At some point, the centre is going to have to recognise that something needs to give here. Either the policies or the narrative, one of the two. IMO they could stand to be a little more honest with voters across the board. I very much hope Macron wins for the sake of Europe. I'd vote for him on that basis alone.

I thought that myself tbh

He's a human being whether we like it or not, also a cunt, and whether I call him Boris or Johnson changes none of those things. I do try fwiw but I'm over apologising for forgetting like I'm a hen pecked husband who forgot to put the seat down ffs You lot can have at it, I'm going to ignore the comments in future. Johnson is a cunt, and he has been one in my mind for his entire political career irrespective of who called him what. I suspect everyone else on here has the same view. If you found him more relatable when he was being called Boris, that's on you tbh.

So, this may be common knowledge for all I know - I wasn't aware of it but there's plenty of people on here more knowledgeable on the region than me - I was told earlier today by my old man that the animosity between Sunderland and Newcastle (or at least the overenthusiasm for it on wearside) stems back to the 1700s and the English civil war. Apparently Newcastle was a royalist city, and Sunderland threw in with Cromwell and, by association, the Scots. When the Royal family was restored or however that went, Newcastle was rewarded for its loyalty by being given mining contracts that were otherwise with Sunderland. A grudge that the Sunderland residents apparently have generationally hung on to without necessarily being aware of it. And from that point they've been economically behind us. It's interesting because the English civil war was a great waste of everyone's time that Sunderland seems to have wholeheartedly embraced following a populist uprising, which they 'won' and then disproportionately suffered for.. which, idk, sounds kinda familiar to some other great event that perhaps occurred more recently...?

I hadn't realised he wasn't the first tbh so yes, fair comment on that.

What exactly is he going to do if he finds out it was Number 10?

Christ man, I don't know who we think on here is going to read my post and start thinking that he's somehow not the very obvious bastard that he has proven himself to be over and over again just because I called him by his media name. We get worked up about weird shit on here, genuinely.

The pictures and videos of Boris walking through Kiev, mind... I reckon he's gotten an approval boost in the post there. Dare I say it, even I respect that. As much as it will be for his polling, it's still actually braver than most leaders.

She is arguing that we shouldn't send weapons for Ukraine to defend itself against tyranny, and should instead leave it to be conquered. And that at this point, we can agree peace with Putin. The alternative is what we are doing, which is to give Ukraine the ability to defend itself so that when the eventual peace discussions occur, there is something left of their country outside of the Kremlin's fascism.

Ridiculous view. Should we have sat down with Hitler? The only possible outcome of her view here is that Ukraine ceases to be an independent state. Who the fuck is she to claim that this is an acceptable cost - which is what she's effectively saying.

Just thinking as well, assuming it's inconsequential to us, would we prefer to lose to Burnley on final day of the season if it relegated Everton? Man I can see that one being notorious tbh

I think Watford are done unless they win today. They're probably done anyway, but definitely unless they beat Leeds.

We are 7 points up on where I thought we would be across the same games. I had us getting 15 points total by end of season and we've got 13 already from that stage. So we're definitely going to exceed that, I can't see us only getting 2 more points. I'll dig it up later but my head is swimming a bit tbh

I may have had a few last night but I stand by that post We are safe despite everything. And we are gonna fucking win something in our lifetimes, I am sure of it. And they will all bitch and moan and complain, and we will magnanimously inform them that they are, to a man, cunts.

We are fucking safe. It's over man. Just fucking done. "Oh but no club has ever survived after failing to win 13 games" "Oh but Saudi Arabia" "Oh but Steve Bruce was actually doing a good job with a championship team" "Oh but we won't sell you players to protect our cartel" FUCK OFF you southern fucking bastard journalists, and you fucking Northern fucking mackem bastard whatevers, and you fucking variably placed top 6 cartel motherfucker clubs that are piss scared of a resurgent Newcastle. I hope you all fucking choke on it! Fucking safe. Done. Fuck off the lot of you.

Just reading Marina Hyde's article on the Sunak affair - I'm still not overly excited by it I'm afraid, but one thing she did raise that got me pretty fucking annoyed ws this section: Hard to pick a low point, but I’ll go with the time he turned down the request from the hugely respected educational recovery tsar Kevan Collins for £15bn in pandemic catch-up funding for children. Sunak would only fork out £1.4bn, which isn’t even twice what he spent buying people free burgers with “eat out to help out”. Collins resigned in despair. It emerged that an internal presentation had shown Sunak and others in Downing Street how failure to invest £15bn now in this failed generation of children would result in the state paying upwards of £160bn down the line in welfare and criminal justice. And still Sunak said no, presumably on the basis that that would all be someone else’s problem in the future. The Tories are an absolute disgrace. It's unconscionable. It's a total lack of interest in the future of our nation, short termism and more than anything a callous disregard for the lives of the people who our later £160bn will be paid to 'deal with' in some form.

Did that noise about pre-existing business relationships around sponsorship ever get sorted out?

Also a decent point. Like I say, carry on Let's hope it buries him. It won't, but we can dream.

This is it, honestly I do get it, but compared to the other stuff it feels very minor. I mean, what will happen? Nothing. His approval ratings go down I guess, that's good. Let's hope the public don't forget about it going into the next poll.