Renton

It wasn't the kilt per se mate, more your insistence to truly embrace your PL roots and go commando.

I'm in consultancy. Can't say too much but we had a client approach us who basically were trying to sell a generic antiseptic you can buy in Tesco to the NHS for thousands of pounds a dose. I just laughed. No way are you getting away with that shit here. The States though is more the wild West - not for regulation but for payment and compensation. When I joined here, 3 years ago, my boss pretty quickly sold us as a going concern to an American company, which as I've mentioned I pretty much hate working for. Got millions for it. Mansion in London, villa in France. He must have had a clause that he couldn't start another company for 2 years. Now that's passed, he's started a phoenix company and nicked half our staff. Cheeky bastard. Pretty sure this shit happens in every industry though.

No. Sounds either that would be a bus man's holiday to me or an annoying polemic by a guardianista journo with no qualifications or real knowledge of the subject. It's very complicated. It costs minimum of a billion pounds to develop a drug with no guarantee of return. Some of them are used only in a handful of patients. Pharma exists within the capitalist paradigm, no shit Pharma companies want to make money. I'm always puzzled while they're singled out. I mean, the forward to that book, he uses covid vaccination as an example of their negative impact on the world. I mean, what? The vaccines literally saved millions of lives and allowed us to get out of lock down. So companies made money out of it? How awful, they shouldn't have bothered. Not that I don't see bad practice in my industry, I do. But it's still probably the most heavily regulated industry on the planet, along with air travel, nuclear etc. RFK jnr may change this, we'll see, but it won't be for the better. I did read Ben Goldacre's book, Bad Pharma, a couple of decades ago. He's a good writer and a qualified doctor. I still found parts of this hyperbolic though. That's the problem with writing a polemic, you cherry pick data to prove your narrative, which in this case is highly ironic.

Naah. Twitter is an irrelevant money stream for him. He made more in the election than X is worth. His revenue is from Space X and Tesla. Musk is literally like a teenager incel troll nowadays. Off his tits on ketamine, coke, hallucinogenics. Chronic insomnia, desperately unhappy randomly trolling people.

It's funny when they get close ups of this mackem crowd. They're sat there in silence looking miserable as sin. I mean they're winning at home on a real promotion push and still not happy. If they do get promoted they'll get pumped without fail every single week, then what? I'd hate to be a mackem forced to watch this shit.

Christ, I'm watching the Sunderland match while I'm waiting for the Liverpool ManU one. Fucking hell the speed, quality and atmosphere are dismal.

This is hilarious. He was just sticking up for his buddy on LK a few hours ago, saying how they are going to hang out at the Trump inauguration, and now Musk has publicly humiliated him.

Aye, the 6th of January, the Epithany, is the last day of Christmas. Leave your decorations after that and you have to leave them up all year.

Eh? A day early if anything

Taking down the decorations, wandered into the living room and Mrs Rents is watching Kuenssberg with Farage being interviewed on iPlayer. What an absolute loathsome piece of shit he is. Hey, he's not accusing Starmer of anything, he's just asking questions. Oh, and Trump's literally a hero in his words. How fucking thick do you need to be taken in by him? He deflects every question, poorly imo, but LK isn't tough enough. He's also so obsequious to Musk and Trump. Says we don't need to fear tariffs from the US, we just need to cut all ties with Europe. He's a transparent literal traitor. Oh, and weaponising child rape to promote racism. Yet he's gaining traction even amongst the young apparently. I know I should have just turned and walked out the room but it's like that philosophy thing of does a tree make a noise when it falls if there's nobody there to hear it? Well yes, it does. And sticking your head in the sand isn't going to stop you getting fucked over down the line. Ignorance is rarely bliss in the long-term. I expect politics to get very ugly these coming years, worse than ever before.

Very much looked like it hit his chest first to me too. Not sure why this wasn't mentioned by any pundit.

I had like 6 followers, probably all bots, never checked. A lot of these journalists have 10s of thousands of followers they actively communicate with which has taken years to foster. I can see why its harder for them, that's all. I'm not going to condemn someone who is part dependant on the platform for their livelihood. The money involved is utterly irrelevant to him. He can still direct the right wing crowd who are not leaving. He'll just have fewer targets to troll, which is something at least.

Do what we did 2 years ago in the league at this time of year, the time Arteta's lwgo top head blew off. With Botman back we've got nearly all that team and some extras.

A Bridge too fucking far? If we're using WW2 inspired metaphors, how about you think of your avatar and get into the spirit of the Guns of Navarone?

I think he's gone all mackem and insinuating the Saudis somehow bribed the officials. He can't say that without censure though obviously. He's reminding me of Klopp. Fine when he's doing well, a complete dickhead when he isn't.

Howay man, let's not make excuses. Arsenal are the same but have Europe to contend with too. And Saka is injured isn't he? As well as Sterling who often seems to score against us. We want it more than them. A draw or narrow win to them imo. We've got this blad!

Good point, let me check the small print here.

Ruined their football weekend 24 hours before they kick off.

Someone could. Usual mackem bullshit bingo over there. The PL is shite, we've bribed the officials, they could beat Spurs, Jobe Bellingham is worth £200 million etc.

He'll be on the bucky with Tuchel tonight. The state of them.

McCoist like us tbf. He was just being sentimental.

Best festive period I can ever remember. Unlike other seasons, we don't have an injury crisis. Draw against Arsenal, beat them at home, revenge for 73. It's happening.

Yeah, but don't let that detract from the first half when we smashed them. Also, ateod our defending was class.