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26 minutes ago, Dougle said:
fucking lol
I know we're all old bastards on here but ffs lol
Fuck off to facebook man
Lolling at this, mate
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Looking forward to the scouting report from Fish’s
Forest supporting mate
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3 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:
Wor lass just came back from Wimbledon. Pics look great. It sounds really reasonable price tbh
Her original centre court tickets were £90 each and considering the length of time you're there it's really good value.
She had a meal there where mains were £20ish quid. We paid that in a restaurant in the lakes. Strawberry and cream were £2.70!
She also managed to get resale tickets to see Draper in court 1 and was on the second row and it was £10 and she saw and hour and a half of that match.
Did Callum enjoy it?
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43 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
We've had a £40m bid accepted for John Kettley.
There’s something iffy about Katerina Christodoulou moving the other way for £25m like.
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The inverse Midas touch, if you will
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17 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:
Should be noted that after that useless sack of fuckin shit Mitchell fucked off last week Newcastle United's transfer window has properly taken off this week
Form an orderly queue to offer your acknowledgements that myself and my good friend @thebrokendoll called this virtually as soon as fuckin twat turned up and are indeed excellent judges of character and can see a cunt coming a mile off
I think you’ll find Gemmill recently saying this window wasn’t going well has been the actual catalyst for the turnaround
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2 hours ago, Craig said:
That means Leeds United have the edge over Kendal Town in the transfer stakes.Point of order. Kendal is outside of the Lake District National Park
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53 minutes ago, Tom said:
Funny thing is….I think these clubs have a lot more laughing at Sunlan in store and sunderland fans are bringing it upon themselves
I would say Burton still have the upper hand given the relative size of the clubs
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The mention of MBS’s human rights track record suddenly becoming an issue is, equally, a monumental dose of irony and a complete lack of self awareness
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2 minutes ago, Dougle said:
My original post on the subject was purely pointing out that as a ridiculously wealthy person you can pretty much live anywhere and still enjoy anywhere else, why some are comparing their life/situation to a bloke who may earn a few million quid per year is beyond me
I can’t speak for anyone else but I was motivated by boredom
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7 minutes ago, Rayvin said:
I've been largely ignoring this thread cos the whole situation is pissing me off - but then I saw that it got the "hot" label and thought maybe, just maybe, we were signing someone.
Nope, just a weather forecast...
28c in London today. Max in Newcastle is expected to be 19c.
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5 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:
fuck me, arguing about the weather is a new low. when does the new season start again?
I think meteorological autumn begins on 1st September in the northern hemisphere 👍🏻
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Just now, Dr Gloom said:
jenas said newcastle was a goldfish bowl. we mocked him for it, but there's something in it. it's a one city club and it must be impossible to go out as a footballer and not be mobbed by fans. some players (bruno etc) buy into it and love it. for others, it's probably off-putting. in london, no one looks up from their phone, let alone sa hello or make eye contact with a stranger, so it's probably a lot easier for a well-known footballer to move around like a "normal" person.
He was mocked for it because he was a massive fanny rat who loved it then used it as an excuse tbh
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3 minutes ago, Dougle said:
Aye it's fucking great, but you don't have to live there or play for one of the dull clubs to participate in the place ffs
Massive wages we can’t offer in Pedro’s case
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Heard some ITK info last night. Two maybe three big deals are expected to be completed early next week. The club are just waiting on Andrew beginning the site maintenance
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3 minutes ago, ewerk said:
Madam Tussauds. PL footballers can’t fucking get enough of it.
That big M&Ms shop as well
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1 minute ago, Rayvin said:
I want to be clear here that I'm not saying I would take Reform
Gloom said it was a shame Labour wasn't going to implement PR and I mused that Reform at least have it squarely on their manifesto, and whatever you may think of them part of their angle is being reliable against what they promise. Their manifesto references being a 'contract' with the voters, so I think we'd have to acknowledge that they do indeed intend to implement some of this and PR is quite probably one of the easiest ones because it doesn't really cost anything compared to 90% of the rest of it.
If they win I think they'll bring it in. Doesn't make it worth them winning, but it is a silver lining.
I know. I just think they’d renege on that promise once they didn’t need PR. A bloke who cosied up to Trump isn’t interested in PR from the point of view of it being more democratic
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Well he spent ages trying to become an MP. Only to not actually do the job once it happened. Much like when he was an MEP. So the point about whether he wants to govern / actually put the time in is a good one
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6 minutes ago, Rayvin said:
Not sure, naive for what? I'm not for a second saying I'd vote for the silly daft bastard, I'm just pointing out that he'll likely do what he says on this one as he's been pushing for it the entire time he's been politically involved. I also don't think it'll destroy the country tbh - Trump and Brexit prove that countries can survive a lot of shit. It'll be horrifying, but the UK will exist on the other side of it.
I'm really just saying that if we have to have a party of incompetent fascists in charge, I'd prefer them to be pro PR.
He was pushing it when the two party system combined with FPTP meant PR was an expedient solution to (for example) 7% of the vote getting his party about 7% of the MPs in parliament. If that’s no longer the case he’s not going to pursue it any more, ie if c. 30% gets him a majority
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You’d think she’d have learned her lesson after the first train
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6 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:
The now gone Willows on Scrogg road.
Was driving past the Scrogg recently, which is now a social club and not a pub I think. My laddie was playing v Walker Central. I’ve been in the Scrogg years ago when my grandad who lived near there was still alive. It was canny rough then but now the fortifications added give it the appearance of a police station near the Falls Road
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1 minute ago, Howmanheyman said:
Talking of shit, club I used to get into was always rammed on a Sunday, especially when we were on sky, pre-firestick sports, the main bogs would regularly clog up and be out of order so one Sunday, there's the glass collector, decent enough bloke but not the full shilling, coming out of the bogs up to his arms in, err liquid, says he's just about fixed it. Twenty minutes later he's walking around, same clothes offering roast tatties and roast sausages on platters to everyone. I'd never known so few takers as normally everyone got stuck in. Carry on and Betty when you call me, you can call me Keyth.
Wallsend Buffs?
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I heard an interview with Adam Curtis about his film ‘Hypernormalisation’ and what it means. He goes into a bit about the likes of Facebook and how the tech evangelists from Silicon Valley who created the algorithms will argue they are efficient. Because they create communities of like minded people who only see views and opinions they like. Apart from the untruths around things like Brexit being perpetuated though, which is an obvious negative to me, Curtis also points out this is deeply conservative as it stifles new ways of thinking. He argues the left has fallen into this trap and that the echo chambers it creates means all mainstream political movements have become essentially conservative. And that was about 10 years ago and things have moved on since then. But not for the better. How we or politicians manoeuvre out of this now is difficult to imagine without some sort of revolutionary change in the way people think. Another point is that people instinctively know things are getting worse and living standards are falling for most but feel completely powerless. They feel similar about political leaders. And that mindset is conservative too. Because you resist the big changes needed through fear of losing everything. So become complicit in that decline by accepting it.
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I hope he didn’t pack the job in thinking he was going to be well remunerated as a North Tyneside councillor.