Renton

You're reading too much into things I think. Starmer is most definitely a coward but he's not a puppet. The news agents have made a podcast on what his speech meant this week. It is pretty galling to hear him come up with regurgitated shit like Take Back Control, but that's what the spin doctors have ordered. If that's the wrong strategy then it's simply them getting strategy wrong - again.

What a brilliant polemic mate, fully agree. Unfortunately you lost Finbar Monkey's Fist at this point though.

RESPECT MY PRIVACY. Now let me tell you a story about how I lost my cherry to Caroline Flack in the car park of the Nag's Head. What a fucking tit. Of all the shit he's spouting though, his recounting how many taliban he killed in Afghanistan and what the British Army said about them is fucking stupid. He's put himself at risk, his family at risk, and probably other ex-service people at risk in general. All to make a few quid on a book. What an arsehole.

That's awful, sorry to hear it. Yeah, this stuff just increases exponentially the older you get unfortunately. Found out today that my dead sister's fiance (also mentally disabled) passed two days ago. No idea what the cause was yet. Feel really guilty because when she died I had promised to take him to the match, but I never got round to it. Now that chance is gone and both of them are just memories. Regarding cancer, yeah it's so cruel. As a matter of fact I'm currently working on a potentially curative treatment for advanced testicular cancer. Seems like progress is glacially slow but I actually think we may be pretty near a paradigm shift on treatment for a lot of cancers. But I guess even if we are something else will kill us. Erm yeah, happy Friday everyone!

Follow up. We were indirectly relegated.

Fucking pancreatic cancer again.

Aye. Back to reality tomorrow. Thank God.

Was going to quip "better", but not really. I expect I should be more careful with my phone when my daughters are milling round me cos they're bored senseless at centre parcs!

Cheers MF. Opened link. Voice over shoulder: "Daddy, who's that woman?". "Erm, its Bridget Philipson, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South. Here, let me turn this off, and have my phone to play Candy Crush".

Got his portrait on the wall of the Downing Street staircase, will be invited to loads of state functions as an ex PM. Cushy place in the Lords cos Labour won't abolish it. Job done. Its all about them and nothing else.

I worked between Xmas and New year so I could take the days over to take this week off. Literally all my US, UK, and European clients are on a/l as are my peers so taking the time off is for mugs tbh, you're in classic loafing territory. Plus it gave me an excuse to go to the office and get away from the family. 👍

Is this related to the Singapore on Thames shit they're obsessed about? I do think Maths is probably the most important subject, being the basis of all physical science and therefore the language of nature itself. I think its importance and application is probably underestimated in this country, and our overall matlhs literacy is poor, which is a bad thing. But probably less than 20% need it to A level, and maybe less than 5% above this level. Some people, like Pegg seemingly, just can't do it so this is a colossal waste of time for them. Incidentally, this was one of my favourite beliefs of Wolfy. He believed Maths was made up, and ultimately that was his basis for thinking all objective scientific reality was a fiction. This was principally because he was too thick to understand anything past arithmetic. So yeah, you can go too far the other way.

Sports washed. ☝️

Mind tbf I can't decide if I should start hounding Howe out now after our failure to score in two consecutive matches. And more to the point, what is Toonpack's status now? I'll go out on a limb and say he can start the next Premiership match thread IF he sorts his out basic facts in the thread title.

If you read upstream of the thread, the part Tom quoted above, I'd say this 'existing' bloke might well be someone like Simon Donald, it's classic Viz, half expect him to make his excuses and leave. Either way, very funny.

Absolutely. Think the mackems appear ro be the most clueless in my experience but its hard to know just how much their bitterness taints this. Apparently we are the equivalent of Wycombe wanderers according to them, whatever the fuck that means. It was a good, physical game and actually very enjoyable. Both teams had chances to win it but a draw for us was just as fair if not moreso than what Leeds got against us last match, and I'm not whinging about them. Great result for us because I honestly think we can get maximum points from them on the return leg. Also hope for maximum points against Spurs, Liverpool, and ManU at SJP.

This is parody though, right? Fair play, he's hooked a few.

Plus less games as we're not in Europe, though winning both domestic trophies may take its toll on us. 👍

I've always said look at GD for a guide to how good a side is. Compare ours with theirs (ManU, Spurs). I'll be gutted if we don't get 4th now. Not only tonight did we end Arsenal's 100% at the Emirates, we are the only team they haven't scored against as well. The story of NUFC so far this year is our defence is the best any of us have ever seen.

Did I imagine it or did the board admin at the time get grief because our thread titles were getting associated with a kids website of the same name in Google searches? I must admit I prefer the slightly more sanitised titles for the inevitable " Dad, what are you reading?"....

This is best read in a Trump voice.

Happy new year everyone.

As much as it is appreciated, what the fuck is happening with the boolean syntax in the thread title? Is is it minus (Gemmill AND Trips). Or is is minus Gemmill but PlUS Trips? Now I am smart enough to know the answer and it is implied with the last part of the title, but this type of carelessness for such a crucial game is simply unacceptable, especially now you've outed yourself as a white background user. 3/10.

So, there was a thread last week on the SMB about how shit their stadium is, but at the same time ir was mich better than SJP, obviously. A few posters commented about "shit" greenhouse roof on the Milburn and Leazes stands. You know, the one which is an architectural wonder and one of the largest cantilevered atructures in Europe, flooding the stadium with natural light? Anyway, I'm at Centreparcs at the moment but something was nagging me yesterday when I was swimming in the subtropical paradise. Then it struck me. I couldn't help thinking this is alright, but it would be much better if thet replaced the glass roof with corrugated iron, like at the SoL.

Been there done that too, the wife even keeps every little shit piece of art the kids have ever made. Good luck mate.