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We're pretty far into the narrative he's been casting and his and Stephen Miller's contributions I think might have fairly long lasting consequences. I don't think the now emboldened and openly fascistic portion of the USA is something that can just get tucked back into a box after Trump dies or is otherwise incapacitated. That cunt could die tomorrow and I'd cheer, but I still wouldn't be convinced it will lead to a better ending.

Did anyone watch the Mehdi Hasan Jubilee debate? Fuck me man, they might aswell have just airdropped the poor cunt into the middle of Klan rally. Ive got a lot of time for Mehdi and he actually handled it really well. But they really tried to stitch him up in a way that I'd go as far as saying was incredibly unsafe for him and the couple of confused non-white immigrants (one who I think admitted he was undocumented) who found themselves on the side of 17 or 18 very openly vocal White Supremacists. The USA is absolutely cooked. The cunts behind shit like these clickbaitey Jubilee debates are more than partly responsible. Maybe even Mehdi needs to have a word with himself for entertaining them and platforming "Far-Right" American conservatives, and same for myself for watching and drawing attention to it. The creepy weirdo who proudly called himself a fascist really early on in the debate is apparently a very vocal white nationalist anti-semite with a pretty big online following that includes a guy who's running for Texas AG. There's so much to process I think I'm going to have to watch the whole fucking thing again.

Absolute non-event. I think most of Glasgow was mostly prepared for a reasonable proportion of your fans using places like the Bristol Bar as a temporary base and some of the fringes getting a bit carried away and larping as descendants of hardened members of the Lodge with an Uncle that was in the UVF for the day. In all honesty, when I saw those flags I thought "that's probably just folk from Airdrie that are still celebrating Eddie Howe turning down the Celtic job".

You say that but spelling and context aside, that's a reasonably well tied ratchet clamp, which seems entirely unnecessary unless this is the world's saddest float parade. Ironically if this is indeed a float parade, I wouldn't mind seeing this particular float being catapulted into the English Channel and left to sink.

"He's going nowhere. Not even to our own pre-season friendlies".

Their back four was all 2nd and 3rd string players until Tierney and Scales came on. If it makes you feel any better though, they also put four past Man City in a friendly this time last year.

Aye. The hatred towards Real Madrid is historical and partly stems from Real's link to the Spanish Monarchy but probably mostly stems from the fact Liverpool have consistently lost to them in late stage tournaments in recent years. The Trent hatred likely stems from the a feeling of betrayal that "he's a Scouser that betrayed his roots." It's the Steve McManaman transfer all over again, the hatred only seems heightened because we're in the social media age and Trent isnt white.

That's my point really. In the grand scheme of things if that's the worst case scenario I'd be reluctant to call it "struggling".

I agree with all of this but I'm not convinced on that last sentence. That's almost verbatim what everyone said last season and they won the league at a canter after only signing Chiesa. I do think (rather, hope) the league will be more competitive this year and agree Liverpool will struggle to walk it over the finish line in the same way again. But struggle generally? I'm not convinced.

You know you don't have to just sit on the settee and endure it, right? Generations of people facing similarly unpleasant domestic situations are exactly why things like headphones, pubs and divorce are so popular. I had been quietly holding out in hope that these Oasis reunion shows world be cut short after a massive on stage brawl that would put the View and Janes Addictions recent shenanigans to shame, culminating in one or both of those two shitheads getting permanently taken out by an overzealous roadie or a freak hanging accident from the cord from a Parka jacket hood, but neither of them are deserving of such a rock n roll death and theres clearly far too much money behind these shows for anything to go awry beside maybe one these cunts calling his brother a cunt, which the music press would undoubtedly milk for the best part of a fortnight.

I saw the supposed stage times were leaked earlier, most of the bands seem to playing 10-15 sets, and the two "Supergroup" sets are both longer than Sabbath are due to play. Maybe experiences at Hamden and Murray field have made me unfairly judgemental towards gigs in stadiums in general. If it was a proper open air festival with that line up I'd have been there bells on, but seeing this was at Villa Park really put me off the whole thing. Im sure it'll still be a cracking day out for anyone that gets to go, it just seems like it could have been so much more if they'd made it a proper final Ozzfest rather than this Football Stadium shite.

I don't say this lightly, but I genuinely think you need to find someone to cut out that last bit of your frontal lobe that the last guy clearly missed.

It's a story as old as time, and it's often the folk who are largely completely insulated from the supposed socio-economic issues from immigrant populations they've been told to fear that are the most vocal in their objection. I'll forever remember being being on a bus in fairly rural central Scotland some 25 years ago when two fairly young (white) women got on with bus passes and started talking quietly in a language that was quite clearly not English and some lone pensioner completely lost her shit and confronted them, shaking with rage screaming the same anti-immigration tropes that are still doing the rounds today. Coming over here, getting everything handed to them. Not even bothering to learn the language. My grandson can't get a house or a job because of you and your kind, fuck off back to Poland. Not that it should even matter where they were from or what language they were speaking but it turned out the two women that were the victims of her vehement outburst were native Gaelic speakers from somewhere near Stornoway. Bigots don't really need much encouragement to reveal themselves, just give them some goalposts and the suggestion they're on the "deserving" side and you can make them anyone for their own problems.

There's a mini music festival currently being held at the rugby club behind our house. I was going to pop along since it's only a fiver entry but I'm absolutely cunted after a horrendous night with the lad and trip to that fucking Swedish flatpack furniture labyrinth today. Back on topic for the thread, our summer holidays might be a non-starter this year. Look like we're moving house again (for the third time in three years) instead. So I'm sat in the garden listening to the music from the rugby club trying to decide if my knees are up to the job of laying 50sq meters of laminate again or if I'm just going to phone it in and go with a mix of vinyl and carpet for the downstairs. On one hand I do think this one might actually be a great move for us in the long term and the Mrs and kids all seem genuinely excited for once, but at the same time the thought of doing this all over again in the middle of the summer holidays with four kids in tow really puts the hoor into Hooray.

It's basically just an Enid Blyton book with an Irvine Welsh short story shoe-horned in the middle tbf.

My childhood was basically that film "Stand By Me". A mostly quiet and isolated wee ex-mining village where everyone knew everyone, we all kicked about together and went on daft escapades to the woods, local quarry, or played hide and seek grounds of the chipboard factory. Pissed off all the local farmers by moving all the hay-bails around and building what were probably incredibly unsafe structures from them. We would nick ropes and nets from the factory use them to make hammocks and zip-lines deep in the woods, or "absaile" down the cliffs at the quarry. Half the time there would be some random stray dog along for the adventure with us, we'd know the dogs name and roughly what house it lived at, but nobody knew fuck all about it's owners. Suburban childhood bliss until we stumbled on the body of a body of woman in one of those fields. Turned out she'd had a drunken arguement with her partner, he'd stabbed her 19 times and moved her body to the field in a wheelie bin. We were 10. Wish I could say I was joking. It was probably a year or so after that our neighbour introduced me to SLF and gave me a copy of some dodgy Guns N Roses bootleg. Absolute hero. That was childhood. The teenage years were a different thing entirely.

This is obviously just anecdotal but my own experience backs this up. I wasn't on SSRI's for all that long in the grand scheme of things, but did go through three different types when I was really suffering from pretty severe depression. Fluoxetine (Prozac) really fucked me up, it basically sent me into a manic for about 2 or three months, barely sleeping and waking up feeling like someone had shot speed into my eyeballs. Ironically, my prior experience with actual amphetamines and uppers was almost the opposite. Really worried quite a lot of my family. GP suggested doubling the dose and I went along with it, no prizes for guessing how that panned out. I forget the name of the second one we tried, but it was ultimately sertraline that seemed to work as intended and pull me out of that headspace enough to get back to functioning mostly normally day to day. Sertraline also really helped Mrs B massively with post-natal depression. I know quite a lot of people who are prescribed it or have been prescribed it and almost all of them feel it's been beneficial. Except for one really close friend who was on a really high dose (200 or 300mg) and ended up with pretty severe agoraphobia. It really fucking sucked seeing someone who was always such a socialite suddenly having full-blown panic attacks over the mere thought of leaving his house. Modern medicine is great but I do think that finding the right one is less likely to happen if you cant properly advocate for yourself, or have someone close who can advocate for you, especially with shit that literally intended to affect your brain chemistry.

Is there a way we can crowdfund a reacharound for him as a goodwill gesture? I have relatively short arms, but collectively I think we could manage to reach out and give him a thankful squeeze.

Can't beat a good old chip pan fire. Get the fire brigade out and the whole house and you're neighbours get a few hours on the Oxygen cylinders with a light show and some men in uniform. Street party 101.

That's roughly where I'm at too if you substitute red wine with Guinness and the Bordeaux region with an ex-council house in Central-Scotland.

I'm starting to think these outages might be the result of some sort of supernatural force, deleting my posts to help me save face. Long may it continue.

If it truly is psychic super-powers, don't let them medicate it out of you until you've helped me uncover the identity of Zowie Fenderblast. People have to know! More seriously, look after yourself man! You'll be driving again before you know it. I used to work for a guy (who incidentally married into my extended family) has what sounds like a far more extreme form of epilepsy and still is able to drive on the daily. Make the most of the break from driving responsibilities. There's a lot to be said for Uber, home deliveries and pints at lunchtime. And while Uber and delivery drivers are clearly being exploited, you conscience is clean because it's just a temporary measure and those fuckers can still drive.

Fucking hell that takes me back to my days shilling digitals cameras around the turn of the millennium. I'm pretty sure even then that Leica were always heavily partnered with Japanese companies (Kyocera and Panasonic), and the production of the lenses themselves was mostly (if not entirely) outsourced to the far east. But the name itself was a massive selling point. Not to get into a cock swinging competition, but I use a £150 Motorola for all the same exact things, with the only real caveat being that yours probably badly has a better camera and processor. Last flagship phone I ever bought was the first one Sony released after the split with Ericsson and got burned really fucking bad. I don't think I could go back, it's great knowing that I drop this thing off a bridge or my son launches it into a river I'm not still on the hook for £30 a month for another year and a half. Mrs B has slowing been coming over to the same mindset. Fuck, I even have a teenage daughter who now swears by her iPhone 11 because, in her own words "it still does everything I need it to do, and every time I smash the screen I know you can fix it for £25."

Dont overthink it man. Phones are now practically disposable and the flagship devices are a complete con. Nobody under the age of 35 worth caring about gives a shit about what phone you have, what trainers you're wearing, what car you drive. Slightly older iPhones are orders of magnitude more repairable on the cheap than newer ones or the android equivalents. But by and large they do exactly the same fucking thing as the cheapest android devices.

I hadn't realised it'd gone offline tbf, just had a browse today and thought I might've dreamt my few weeks on here with equal parts relief and mild confusion. Cheers for keeping this place going @Andrew. I'm not one of you but as far as congregations go you're mostly all incredibly sound and reasonable people when your not talking about football. > hopefully the place will stay up through tomorrow. It might not be fully erect, but you can still keep it upright.