Renton

I see Haaland has given up on football to get the benefits of a simpler life labouring using a pneumatic drill?

Not sure that's true. They're traditionally a yo yo club until recently , but we played them near our peak just post Keegan I think and under Robson. But we just never really put them to the sword and were unaware 5 in a row was a thing. Anyway, Portsmouth are shit. They're not getting promoted and regression to mean will put them back in their place midtable second tier. I'm fairly sure of this. I'm a lot less certain about our own fate now admittedly.

Horrible, sorry mate. I had Hobsons choice with my Dad of having his leg amputated to give him some more time, or let nature take its course. It was all thrust on me despite me not having LPA. I chose the latter but the death took months. And you get no psychological support. It's really damaged my MH as testified on here but there you are. Take care. Don't blame the clinicians. There is inherent uncertainty in all of this. Hope he recovers.

Another thread on the SMB about how morally superior they are. This is funny though. Apparently they are more humble than us too. And more intelligent. Not intelligent enough to see the irony of that comment though....

The only thing I don't like about it is it is inherently ageist. But 8t could be a gateway for full FoM. A lot of people don't realise, but the 5% loss to our GDP is not mainly due to tariffs or no tariff barriers on goods. It's down to the economic impact of not being able to fill job roles. This is a complete no brainier, the lowest of the hanging fruit to pluck. Would the racists even care now? They must know the alternative is for visa for Asians or Africans to come over, often permanently. Why wouldn't you want a Lithuanian to do your seasonal work and give our kids the same chance the other way?

Aye. In the article he also stresses the need for closer ties with the EU which Badenoch wouldn't do. But being in the CPTTP is a fucking nonsense which will make this harder if not impossible. Why don't these idiots understand geographic economic gravity? Either Reynolds is an idiot or a liar, take your pick.still early days though.

Just posted for posterity before this thread mysteriously disappears.....

Also, do you remember this unholy alliance we have with Forest cos we're also scabs or something? Not sure I do like. I guess that's also why they hate Ipswich so much. Legitimately buying their best player AND being the nemesis of their marras from the friendly cup. Everything is vicarious to them.

9 pages of that shit so far. We win, it'll be 15 pages and locked into the members forum, Parsnip. We lose, it'll be kept open and reach 400 pages. Sad Mackem Bastards.

That thread is typical, classic SMB. Nominally about Everton but after 5 or so posts it's all about us. They are batshit. With reference to the above, one of them has some self awareness but then there is the old SMB double down and switcheroo. Everything points to the seagull shagger being one of them, whatever some obviously fake Facebook profile said. As for this new obsession with equine abuse, county Durham has the highest rate of cruelty to animals in the country. Pretty sure the same applies for incest. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/animal-cruelty-cases-in-durham-27249965

So holiday update. Not seen any football tops worn by adults of any persuasion. No gravy stained mag bag bastards or fans of massive lads to be seen. Some locals in mallorca,. Real, or Barca tops only, and some German teams. However, D2 has made friends with a lass and talked to her parents. They're from Seaham. Got chatting and they're off to watch the match tonight. In support of NUFC. FUCKING COUNTY DURHAM MAGS!!!!!

WRONG THREAD DICK HEAD! Let's hope you don't actually experience your wife dying in reality and post the news on the joke thread.

Donald Trump? Wtf? AI, I'm okay with. I mean, honestly if anyone has opinions on Brit Pop I'd be interested. Hip hop, ska, rock, pop, classical, opera, metal, etc. all real things. What the fuck is Brit Pop though? Literally just isn't a real thing. Directed at the non Coldplay fans.

Aye of course. Just highlighting the absurdity of the situation really. I'm actually pretty confident I might ace this anyway. If not, then next time.

This is what album club has done to me. I don't make recommendations my upside down cousin. I listen to music as fairly as I can and critique. Write a witty review which my lady peers fucking love and communicate to me with personal Teams messages. They are (genuinely) all young, nubile, and yeah Gemmill, make me feel fucking ancient cos I am. Still.... Now if you're talking about so called Brit Pop, I'll restate it's not a genre or movement. Or even a zeitgest. 90% of it is pure shit, including almost all of Oasis and 90% of Blur. However, I personally love Suede, always have done, they've always connected with me more than almost any real person I know, and they are still producing new stuff which is great and are fucking brilliant live. I also like Pulp but am sure Cocker will get arrested and imprisoned one day for being a wrang un. I'll still listen to him. These are opinions personal to me and I haven't got the time or energy to justify them on a phone. People can enjoy what they like and should. But personally I say keep an open mind, try and understand other genres and how they affect their audience. We have a wealth of music more accessible today than ever before. Your own tastes might change with time, although for me they have broadened rather than narrowed. Ultimately it's all ephemeral of course. Such is life. We all die and the 33 reaches the end of the groove.

That's a massively generous offer, cheers. Tablet and phone only here. PP isn't the issue really, very quick to knock up slides, its going to be the technical stuff, the actual content. Will buy an A4 note book and write a script when the cheeky fuckers give me the title. Cheers though. 👍 I'll post the title here when I'm done and see what you dick heads can come up with.

Aye, cheers both. Just trying to get my foot in the door, likesay.

I think we've established that elderly is more liking Oasis tbh. Analysing new genres to you, like hip hop, isn't elderly. What's surprised me is that I actually like some of this stuff. I've finally realised that for me lyrics are at least half of the beauty of music, probably more. Oasis are literally about the worst on that score, on a par with Coldplay, which I recall you also like.

So, I'm enjoying 10 days in Mallorca, but despite the fact I'm not getting back until next Tuesday quite stressed. I've been trying to move jobs recently and my 'dream' job has come it. I'm perfectly suited to the role, but it's a competitive field and the NHS arms length body is proving very hard to break into at my level, as they like to promote from within. But I spent a long time on the application and have been given a job interview. Trouble is, it's first thing in the morning the day after I get back (late) from holiday. Not ideal. But now they have emailed me and I have to do a presentation, subject TBC, but will likely be highly technical involving a lot of research to do properly. FML tbh. I trying to be c'est la vie about this but it's taken me 6 months to get this far and now I just feel hugely disadvantaged. The job application is handled through a third party so there is nobody I can contact and will just have to do it. My wife is desperate to change her job and has landed a job interview and presentation for her potential dream job. Time and date, exactly the same as mine. You have to laugh.

I listened to about half of that new podcast series on Oasis on BBC Sounds, then revisited a few tracks. They've aged terribly, absolute fucking shite. I'm as bewildered this being a 'phenomenon' as I am with this Taylor Swift shite. I'm in an album club at work where everybody nominates an album to listen to and critique each week. Rule is nothing too mainstream. It's been lush, got to listen to a bunch of stuff that no Spotify algorithm would signpost me to, whole new genres I've previously ignored. BTW, Britpop was never a movement, its all manufactured shite. How can Pulp and suede be in the same genre as Oasis and Blur? Ludicrous.

And, of course, the genocide.

I have terrible guilt being a Newcastle fan, knowing that I put my life before my wife and kids in a ship disaster a century ago. And as for this, I see the error of my ways. I promise to sleeping with close relatives and seagulls, stop fisting horses, and will put my ISIS flag in the bin.

Imagine. What impresses me is that at least 60 of the fuckers are indulging in this weird delusion l

Forgive my flippant reply before, it's a minefield and I am truly sorry for the situation of your in-laws and others. It's shite, and there are countless examples of single mums with kids etc that are also shite. On paper I'm loaded and yet I'm struggling to an extent. I just cannot even imagine how some other people manage. I hope, in time, sensible pragmatic policies will make life fairer and better for all including your in laws. I'm not confident though. I am confident the alternative is even worse though.

The triple lock has broken the pension system. State pensions have risen massively compared with wages in since 2010. The Tories bribing their electorate, and did a lot of pensioners give a shit about the people who were actually working to pay it for them? Not many did. And they voted Tory time and time again. We can't afford the triple lock and WFHA. It's logical conclusion would be pensioners "earning" more than full time workers with families. Will any of us benefit? Will we fuck. Pension age is rising to 68 at a time expected life span is now falling. Fuck rich pensioners with no mortgage and boomer gold plated private pensions top ups. Redistribute wealth to the workers and children for a change. Go out on an afternoon in Newcastle on your work break. Place is packed out with pensioners enjoying drinks and senior specials. Younger people sighing as they pass them on their way back to work as the pensioners tut about how lazy the younger generation are. The working generation are literally paying their triple locked pensions. Oh aye, then visit M&S! Well done Rachael Reeves. 👏