Renton

Nearly 2 more years of the tories now blatantly trolling us. What a country. Edit: oops, wrong thread. He's referring to the Lee Anderson appointment if there was any doubt.

I think like a lot of things people just decompartmentalise their minds which allows them to function. It's like religion. I have known some genius physicists, far more intelligent than me by almost every metric, yet they believe in Jesus and Jehovah. Quite how you can have such insight into the grandeur and scale of the observable Universe and still believe in a tribal Miiddle Eastern religion, that has its origin 6000 years agoo at most, and believe that the son of God was born from a virgin 2000 years ago but he was also his father as well as being a ghost, and committed suicide to save us from our sins which were due to a woman who bit an apple after conversing with a talking snake is beyond me. But they can't see the contradiction here, and worse, for me, is they can't fully appreciate just how wondrous nature is without this supernatual bullshit imposed on top. Anyway, although most scientists are not christians, a sizable minority are (or muslims etc). I've long stopped trying to understand their mindset at this point, as long as its benign, I don't really care too much. But the problem is, the latest anti-science popularism really isn't benign. I'm fucked if I know how to handle it though. You can ignore it, but it doesn't go away, it gets worse. But these people are impervious to reason so education just doesn't work either. What are you supposed to do?

Thing is, if I genuinely believed the World was ending in 2012 It would have a pretty radical effect on my behaviour. I mean, I'd either plunge into a catatonic depression or I would end up with a prolapse from too many champagne enemas. And then I'd reevaluate my belief systems follwoing the corrective surgery when the prophecy turned out not to come true, and stay away from batshit conspiracy theories from then on. But no, these people need the whole set once they go down the rabbit hole. It's frightening how susceptible they are to people like Rogan Josh.

My wife has "lost" her best mate to this. Well they are still friends but nowhere near as close as they were and I am not comfortable with her looking after the kids now tbh. I mean if she just kept her batshit opinions to herself it would be okay but they can't help evangelising can they? Which isn't great when I am now working at quite a high level on a number of vaccines for places like the CDC, cos frankly I'd have to be "in on it".

Sunak obviously thinks rather than have someone on the outside pissing in the tent, he'd rather have him on the inside shitting in it. Only 23 months of this to go.

Jesus Christ, some of that footage is shocking. Makes you appreciate living in a place where we have no real natural disasters.

Although like many of the period, he alternated between ROker park and SJP back in the day.

Bowie was a MLF marra.

Honestly, I didn't know what the fuck it was either, had to look it up. Some B&M shite I think? I 've only ever heard of RedBull and Monster (who I think sponsor us?) and only tasted the former (fucking vile). However, whenever I hear the words Caribou I just get that Pixies song in my head. Caribou, Caribouuuuuuuu....

Reminds me of an old gf who got through on Metro Radio and won tickets to see Erasure. She said how much she loved the band on air (she lied, she was just one of these people who likes competitions). The DJ then asked her what was her favourite Erasure track and there was an embarrassing silence. The gig was ace btw.

Yeah, straight through, then computer says no on the second ticket straight away. I was half tempted to buy a single ticket and rinse tbd, but he's much too canny for me to do that.

I hate the shit either way, fans villified for going under Ashley's tenure (I have seen some ridiculous "scab" analogies), and fan's boasting their "loyalty" is being rewarded. Just fuck off with all that shit man. People do what they want accroding to personal reasons ateod, neother group are better fans than the other. Let's now get the ground expanded and accomodate as many as we can.

It's under Mrs Rent's e-mail but we forewarned about the categories as per CT's post and worked it out, now just verified by trying to book online. It's a tricky one because whilst I do agree it should be based on loyalty and a "+1" system isn't the fairest and could be abused, I would imagine there could be thousands of disappointed kids out there, as gnerally kids don't have 25 plus loyalty points. But then maybe the lottery will be okay, looking at the numbers, cos I reckon a fiar few ST holders won't be able to go due to the fucking terrible transport situation (although I guess there will be organised coaches? I've only ever done that once personally as I don't like just going to aways there and back on the same day in general). If I get sorted I'm just driving.

As expected, fallen foul because my child ST has no associated loyalty points, so split between tier 1 and tier 4. So we will both have to go into the lottery on Thursday. And then try to upgrade the child's ticket for an adult. My optimism is floundering too, so I'm thinking we will lose anyway now so this is all a bit of a ballache tbh.

I think she sort of is actually. She starred in the Whitley Bay panto a few years back and fairly sure there was some bantz back and forth between her and local celebratory Steve Walls about it. 👍

Ahem, as I was saying.... https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/celebrity-lads-fans.1599769/

Sympathy like. Fucking transport in this country man, especially outside of the SE. A shirt time ago, an intercity train ride was a pleasure. Now it's a fucking nightmare and you're rinsed in the process. Really makes you think twice about leisure activities like football.

Aye. Not a disaster but still.

Eell that was fucking shit, thanks a bundle @LondonBlue Lots of twists and turns still to come in this league. We've still got a game in hand over Spurs and got to play them at home, but we've got to start winning rather than drawing games now.

Sunderland have only sold 5 players in their history for more than 10 million, all during their Premiership stint. The two Jordans, Mingolet, Bent, and Van Aanholt. Yet apparently nearly every player is worth 10 million after coming up from L1? They are fucking tapped

Oh I'm flogging the shoes. For anybody who doesn't know, climbing shoes are designed to be insanely tight and no way will I ever get these on again, as I've got a gouty tophi protruding from my little toe. Story behind this, it appeared just before lockdown, I ignored it at first thinking it was bursitis, but it never went. Then a self diagnosed it as a tophi despite the fact I've never had classical gout. Several Xrays, a blood test, and an MRI later the docs agreed its not cancer but probably a gouty tophi. I'm now on allopurinol and it's shrinking but will take years to shift apparently. Anyway, getting old is shit and I'll never climb now. Think I would have been pretty good up until about my 30s though as had a decent build and always enjoyed the odd bit of scrambling. Would have loved to joined MF on his Alpine climbing bang mobile but alas I never had the courage for such an unconventional life. And where the fuck did toeing the line get me? Fucking hell. 😆

Yeah, but we missed out on Francis Jeffers iirc. I guess that piece of Robson serendipity was more than evened out by us ending up with fucking Hugo Viana rather than Ronaldo.

When Che Adams scored on Tuesday I had this really strange feeling of incomprehension. What had just happened, what does it mean, what is this negative emotion?

Just wish we'd been a bit more adventurous in the window, especially with a creative mid or premium striker. I know it's not feasible or that Rome wasn't built in a day etc, but thankfully at least we have Gordon who was really impressive.

Perfectly summed up. Don't think anything else needs said.