Rayvin

Thanks ewerk, good to have a counter opinion. I guess it's more the stress that a future move to another city or country might cause it. That said, it's just a one off thing I guess.

How many heads have been cut off, and how many cuts into human flesh have occurred, in the name of money or power

Goldfish is a solid fallback, I'll keep that in mind. Will file alongside 'hamsters'.

That's a fair point I hadn't thought of, we go out quite a bit... I obviously understand that ideally, dogs won't be left alone. Food for thought.

Ok so - myself and my partner are in the process of buying a house - same as 50% of the rest of the board, as far as I can tell - and we're hoping to have everything concluded by the end of August. She has just told me she wants a dog when we move in. I like dogs - grew up with them etc. - but I'm concerned about how easy it will be for us to move around in future if we have one. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not even sure we'll stay in this country longer than the next 5 years or so (we have wanderlust). I'm concerned about any decision we make now with respect of the dog leaving us in a position where the next big life change is 'unfair' to the poor thing.

Have to say I'm pretty excited about the season getting underway. Feels like we have a bit of momentum about us now. Gayle looks promising, he's managed a couple in pre-season now. Maybe a little shaky at the back though.

3-2 sounds like a decent game to me but which aspects of our play were poor?

Same

Why do I get the feeling that if, in 5 years time we all concluded that this was a good thing after all, you'd argue that it wasn't?

He is, however, 100% right about scientific progress and endeavour being thwarted by religion and the moralistic codes we have established as a result of it. America in particular struggles in this respect.

Funny, but somewhat optimistic about the state of the human condition. I always felt that without religion, we'd be killing each other for other things anyway. And I think we've proven this over time (oil). That said, on the ground level, religion is the thing that motivates people to commit wrongdoings. Well, that and nationalism/racism. And money. And politics. I just think we're collectively fucking useless no matter which way you spin it.

Ffs

Wait, his lung collapsed twice? How often in a single lifetime can one's lung collapse before someone takes you to one side and tells you that you probably aren't cut out for this footballing lark.

I lived in Leeds for 3 years while at uni and fuck all ever happened to me. Must be cos I'm nails... /Gemmill

Would a lone wolf go for you though?

FFS

Gloom is seriously uncomfortable about the bears it has to be said...

Next thing we'll hear about this is a report in the papers. "Newcastle born man mauled by black bear - attempt of escape on hoverboard proved futile but other family members were able to walk to safety at a leisurely pace"

Jonty...?

can't argue with that last bit in fairness.

If anyone has 10 mins going spare I strongly recommend the first ten or so pages of this thread. The ribbing CT gets for his metal detecting and digging up some random old handle is superb, but is topped off by the Fish's infamous frozen grapes moment, introduced seemingly out of nowhere. This forum has to have one of the best communities out there, like. Does CT even still do this metal detecting lark?