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Even as a season ticket holder, I doubt I can buy tickets - I'm absolutely staggered by the complete inability to earn loyalty points. Even 15 years held with a 10 year deal and not a single loyalty point on the website !

Hat trick I hope.

I've money on it. It looked to be arranged in December - some hastily deleted social media posts about "always loving the club and remembering the support from the fans" . No current player says that , do they? I'm happy with it tbh, we always look weaker when he plays - Howe's "intensity is our identity" doesn't quite click with ASM.

Channel 4 seem to be rewarding the tories for letting them off privatisation, by running stories all over social media that Starmer want's to privatise the NHS . Also, same as the last election - who the FUCK are advising these political parties - I know they all buy in campaigners and advisors - but who the fuck are they.. I'm starting to get consiracy theories and I'm not (I think) a nutter! Starmer seems to be commiting suicide as a Labour leader , not going for the jugular making televised statements about the Tories trying to use new laws to silence the strikers , or their approach to migrants, or the scandals, or the energy crisis payoffs and complete lack of authority from HMRC as the middle men make an absolute fortune. No it's a speech about how (paraphrased) "Spending tax payers money on public services to BIG Government is not what anyone wants - we need reform and alliances with the private sector" If some fucker hasn't infilitrated the party to put that particular nuclear nugget in his head, I'll eat my own arse. Same as the last election when Corbyn who was previously pretty open about Brexit was advised to sit on the fence and not support either side - a.k.a lose votes on both sides, win votes on neither - and Lib Dems were advised to go for "We will return to the EU without another vote" .. All in the context of the Tory scandals, the energy crisis (public money to private companies AGAIN) , the channel , Brexit issues and an NHS thats falling over due to underfunding over 13 years (Starmer says otherwise) . Unless, it's all a ploy to just get power back and then start returning to sensible balanced economic and social policies. I mean, if it isn't FFS the 1% are absolutely in control here.. *aaaand relax*

Inspired by the computer game Among Us, only not as good !

Be the change you want to see. You don't have to work for an NHS supplier / big pharma. If you are anything like me, you'll feel better for it, even if you aren't as well off - cognitive dissonance is a thing.

Are you mocking my slow mind.. Evil.. evil I say

The official take is that it is more likely to stop infection , and it probably does prevent many infections you would have got without the vaccine. I'd still take boosters, if only for the protection against moderate to severe disease. (But only if its the ambivalent one, if its the same one they were giving out last year its well outdated).

Nah all different tests and I know they are ok because my wife uses them and other family members . I've been through quite a few packs from different places too. I've had one negative since I caught covid (it came 4 weeks later) but I went from testing every 2 days until day 14 , to testing weekly, then I stopped on a negative. Next week I was going to a nursing home so tested again and same faint line, since then its been a faint line weekly. I worked on the NSS Covid response so am pretty "clued up" on the testing and infectiousness side and they reckon that false negatives are much more likely than false positives - also , its 3 months before its "reportable" as long covid and is very unlikely someone is infectious after day 14 from testing positive. I'm alright , but I know I've still got it - mental arithmetic is a fraction harder (pardon the pun!) and im a tiny bit slower at work or getting things done. When I had it to start with I had proper symptoms , but not the ones I expected. Dizziness was the worst, like vertigo.

I'm still testing positive with the same faint line I got on 8th October 😕 Feeling better other than my thinking is a bit slower, mental arithmetic and struggling with some things at work that I'd usually storm through.

Amazon and eBay turning blind eye to VAT evasion, say MPs | E-commerce | The Guardian " Just over half of all online sales were non-store sales, mainly through marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay. Some overseas sellers now choose to export their goods to the UK and store them in “fulfilment houses” before selling them to UK consumers through online marketplaces. Tax rules require that all traders based outside the EU who are selling goods online to customers in the UK should charge VAT if their goods are already in the UK at the point of sale. Amazon and eBay say it is the legal responsibility of the sellers who trade on their platforms to determine and declare any VAT that arises from the sale of goods or services. Tax officials from HMRC also came in for criticism from MPs for not enforcing the rules effectively enough. Prof Rita de la Feria, a tax expert, told the committee that HMRC’s failings were allowing firms to avoid paying their dues. Jon Thompson, permanent secretary of the HMRC, called for legal changes to make firms such as Amazon liable for paying some of the VAT." That's what I was remembering. Someone in Cayman was telling me that they just say they are selling from warehouses / factories outside the UK for nearly everything on the marketplace.

I don't suppor that tbh. I think "one off" becomes more than once and it's effectively stealing in their eyes. 1% of 1 million is the government coming to your door and taking 10 grand. Far fairer that tax loopholes are closed, the ability to "negotiate a settlement with HMRC" if you are a multinational is stopped (e.g. vodafone etc) companies are charged a sales tax percentage on all sales in this country non dom only applies if you have a tax treaty and you are actually domiciled in at least that country and the less talked about "non resident for tax purposes" should be means tested by exit stamps on passports (or their technical equivalent, ooops we do that, right? border force?) and again have you not just being "non resident for tax purposes in 3 or 4 different countries and simply travelling around every 89th Day between them. Make corporation tax payable at the same rate for all corporations and not optional by offshoring or offsetting profits to an entity overseas that doesn't exist; whilst filing costs only in the parent company, to "break even". I could go on, but "one off" taxation of the rich is just encouraging us to pit against each other and leave the 1% alone. The 1% have BILLIONS and pay fuck all, 1 million quid as a business owner in London, isn't actually that much (I know, I know... but it pales in comparison to the likes of Mike Ashely etc)

I watched that yesterday and thought, the comedies gone here now, you can't even be satirical - I came away a bit depressed, rather than smiling. That's a first for me watching Jon - I've seen him live a few times , highly recommended! And he's a balanced too, on stage, believe it or not.

Has anyone said Maxi's gone in the next window yet? If not, you heard it here first!

International is more "proper" to me, because you can't buy your team and have to work with the "locally born" <cough> hand you're dealt tbh.

Apparently it's net zero - all solar powered .. ??!?!?!? Those brand new stadiums are all getting dismantled totally at the end of the tournament, along with all the fan buildings and the hospitality venues! What a massive waste

I'm equally as invested in England as I am Newcastle, so yep for me I really care about it. That much so that I've not been on this forum for weeks Oh and the pen yesterday for Argentina, Bullshit - the striker had released the ball and it was goal bound . It was never a pen - what's the keeper supposed to do - say the attacker is too close and I wont risk trying to stop it? I do suspect it's fixed tbh. There's a few rather dodgy decisions that have really stuck out and ensured that African and a certain other Arabian team had favourable results - They tried it with Qatar in the first game, but I suspect its too obvious with a team that is that shite. Finally- It's made me anti VAR and suspect that Southgate was right to complain about the referee instruction video he "accidentally" got access to. The foul on Kane was a foul outside the box in front of the referee , saying "VAR doesn't check fouls, only penalties" is a bit lame imo. It was pretty bloody clear. It's also made me more venemous against the England "fans" who are saying we are stifled under Southgate - we went forward in numbers, saka got fouled, they go straight up the other side and score a wonder goal - thats why you play possession football in tournaments .. We narrowly lost to the champions, Kane missing that penalty left me in shock for the whole weekend! Missed you, and I know you've all missed me .

Did anyone here go to the Enough Is Enough Rally at Boiler shop last night? Zarah Sultana was amazing - Her talent is the only reason she's still a Labour MP - properly losing it "Where's the money tree ? " Goes on to tell everyone how to get money off tax dodgers (Non dom for Sunak's wife etc) then ends with "There's the fucking money" Also says she wont be told what she can and cant say or attend - as long as its FAIR and based on Fact she'll say whatever the fuck she likes. Legend.

The watcher wasn't so bad for me - not a haunted house story , but the twist is pretty obvious 3 or 4 episodes in. It was watchable though. Watched a couple of good horror movies this year though, but I'm having to go to subtitled films to find something decent I've not already seen Last train to Busan (Korean ? Horror film, pretty good) The Orphanage (Spanish , horror / drama) Martyrs (really gruesome, but ends brilliantly)

Bet he's going to be kicking himself. Unai Emery: Aston Villa appoint Villarreal manager as head coach - BBC Sport

One for those that say the BBC is biased: UK doomed without Brexit rethink, warns Tory backer - BBC News Not good reading, but what a lot of us already know.

That's not reality imo. Most are very unhappy because they see behind the curtain at just how fucking horrible "the corporation is" and that they are also slaves to it. Loads of ultra wealthy do loads of good things. 100 women who care - 100 men who care - both utra wealthy philianthopic groups active in all the offshore tax havens. Some give their income directly where they want it to go, rather than to governments who are cutting services , or pushing neoliberal agendas. Things is, the greedy cunts only shout about the greedy cunts, making them all seem like that. Philanthrophy is alive and well - Bill Gates is another example, he's rich but certainly not a cnut - he's given 20% of his income to charity since he was 18 years old. Don't know why I felt a need to defend that, just did - I've taken shit off some of my old school mates cos i've "done well" - when in fact they've just done badly because they were fucking idiots , the kind that vote UKIP as adults cos "foreigners and war" .

+10 for the incredible statto type football fact .

Well, some good has come out of this - I've found - thepoke.co.uk

I'll say it right here and right now - there's no fucking way the Conservative party are going to vote in a "Darkie" as PM. No fucking way.