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oh aye, scrolling through the scores meant something completely different in OUR day Robin.

Coverage of sports in my day was a bit spartan.

Watching A House of Dynamite, Netflix, impressive cast, tense as fuck, very good so far.

Glenn Keeley

Fuck, senile old boomer cunt.

He looks exceptional right now, no sign of the Bramble-esque performances that were suggested he was prone to, when we were linked summer before last. Him, Botman, Hall and Tino have the potential to be a back four the likes of which we've never had.

Murderers twitter feed:

This 👆 with our two first choice fullbacks unavailable too. We're going to be cooking, very soon.

* Frittes et fromage (La pédanterie est terminée).

I thought of that too but even I chose not to go there. I couldn't salmon up the courage.

Burial at sea ???

Trump and the test Tiger, Elephant, Giraffe you say ???

Lupin - Netflix, French superthief caper. It's entertaining enough and some really nice shots of Paris and Etretat.

What's ewerk done now ???

It's a deep rooted societal problem IMO and there's a question to be asked around "do people even want kids" my eldest certainly didn't/doesn't and he's 43 now. Leaving aside the financial impacts, as you say, do people even want to settle down, let alone have kids, these days 🤷‍♂️

I know of no-one who thinks/talks that way outside of Tory politicians/radio gobshites tbh. There's hard in different ways, it's not all about financial things, there's stuff like central heating and double glazing versus breaking ice in the bog and ice on the inside walls on the back stairs (am speaking from experience) having to go to the shops irrespective of the weather (fucked on a Sunday if you need anything) versus home delivery same day/next day etc etc etc. On the financial side we were absolutely skint when first married and then couple of years later we had kids which perma-skinted us even as my career progressed. Just as well there was fuck all to spend money on. If you solely look at property sure it's harder now but even back then it wiped you out buying it, and so what it's worth a few hundred grand, that's only realisable when you're dead, there's an awful lot of other stuff that's lightyears better today. Every generation has it tough in different ways IMO.

@sammynb All the best mate, hoping you have a full recovery

I am well aware that pensions are paid by those working today, I paid for pensioners for 45 years. As an aside, I also paid tax to pay off the debt from reparations paid to slave owners when it was abolished - as did anyone who paid tax up to 2014. Again you can't tar everyone with the same brush, how would a shopworker (for example) pile money into a private pension to "not need" the state pension ? Yes older people (particularly down south) vote Tory, I get that but to extrapolate that into wealth redistribution is just a teeny bit of a stretch and don't forget pensioners were contributing working people for at least 35 years to get the state pension. Aye it's a problem but I have no idea how to fix it, short of euthanasia for us old cunts. As for your "anecdotally" as quoted, step back and have a bit of a think because maybe, just maybe, those families eating home made sandwiches actually chose to do that, you know wrap up, go to the seafront (I assume that's where you mean because I see no-one eating sarnies in W/Bay itself) and have what's called a picnic with the kids, if it was very cold I'd guess they'd stay at home. As for the Eggs Benedict, did you go into any of the cafe's and see this or did you imagine it? Because I go for breakfast/brunch, once a week at the coast, with a mate and we have probably just about worked through every cafe down there: Some highlights: Foda - Monkseaton (before it closed down) invariably we were the oldest in there lots of "mums" and tots though. Allards - West Monskeaton - good mix of ages, less tots because it's primarily a bar. Kith and Kin - Park View (lush food but comparatively pricey. always rammed) it's like young mum's central, full of them. Kitchen 91 Cauldwell Lane - cheap and cheerful been twice both times the oldest one's in there - lots of young manual workers in for brekkie though. Earsdon Plants Centre - what a laugh, canny breakfast though but fuck me I felt young in there compared to the tea drinking hordes (which is what they do, they go somewhere and drink tea and cackle). Earl and Eve - Whitley Lodge (last Friday) pretty old clientele although a couple of mums, one table of 6 old dears who did nothing but drink tea and cackle - much to our annoyance, food average, won't be going back. If you want a decent brekkie, Kith and Kin if you can cope with the tots, The Boatyard (Cullercoats) middle aged clientele, Dill and The Bear (w/Bay station) mixed customers and a lush breakfast bagel are the best. Room 308 is canny if you fancy a Turkish breakfast. I will admit I am not averse to an eggs benedict myself, but I would also point out it is, outside pf a plain bacon butty, one of the cheapest menu options in most places which do it. Perhaps you should have said Steak'n'eggs (£18 at Kith and Kin).

Adidas must fucking love us, they're making money they missed out on when they weren't our supplier by flogging remade stuff from last time they were !!!!

Not in doubt, most critiques of our performances totally ignore the fact we're missing both our best fullbacks, who also happen to hugely contribute to our attacking capabilities. We will be cooking soon.

One step at a time, there's always a St Mirren, waiting around the corner, to get hammered by just the right amount.

* Maroon if you please. Anyway it's Sunday and so it's Packers sweatshirt day, otherwise spot on. HHGH !!!!

I can't conceivably be a Tory, I didn't have a nanny.

I'm not insecure at all, I just get mightly peeved when people label a whole fucking generation because of "some" and by some, I mean a few. Housing prices are not cash in hand, it's in bricks and mortar, you sell and buy somewhere else which has also gone up in price, it's not a jackpot. Unless you downsize significantly, which in turn is a reduction in your living standards. Are we (boomers) lucky in respect of proprty, sure, but it wasn't easy and there was shitloads of stuff we didn't have the benefit of that exists today. You go on like they gave houses away. Do you ever stop to consider what your postman/housewife parents went without to afford their £90K house and bring you up ?? Life is tough most of the time. Anyway will leave this before it gets even more heated. Nothing is simple, future generations will do what every generation has done since time immemorial, they'll get through it.