Toonpack

My concern is, as things deteriorate at home, he'll look to engineer incidents/escalations to make the west appear the bad guy and garner/change public support in Russia. Am coming round to thinking that's all but inevitable, we should continue to pour defensive weaponry into Ukraine for now, but we should be watching for bullshit escalations and we should be looking to plan and just cut to the chase at that point, he'll just push and push until it happens anyway (and at that point it'll be on his terms). Even if this degenerates into a full on NATO/Russia shooting war, you don't take that war into Russia.

Looking at his seating plans, it'll be fucking difficult for anyone to smuggle in an icepick with a 20ft handle !!!

Nah (not that time) was with the Mrs, thought I'd take her to see her first proper rock gig - HUGE mistake. Not taking any learning from that experience I then tried again, to take her to see her first big US act - thinking popular massive US band bound to be a good show - Reo Speedwagon, they were utter shite an all, without a bandmember off his tits excuse !!!!

I was also there, and they were shite, guitarist (Chapman I think) was completely pissed/off his head, thought Pete Way was going to chin him at one point. Strangely as well as being one of the crappest gigs I've been to, they also number among one of the better gig's I've been to, when they reformed and toured with Schenker (Walk on Water tour 95/96 ish, City Hall) they were excellent, next night they had a big barney on stage in Manchester and fucked the gig off (Tour was canned I think after that). Support was Uli Jon Roth playing rocked up classical music on his 7 string guitar (first one I had ever seen). Oh and Trooper, I was also at that KISS gig you mention, got tickets and then they announced it was an "out of makeup tour" was gutted, but you are dreaming if you think it was minimalist, there was fire (Symonds doing his fire breathing) and other pyro, the drum kit was on a huge fake tank turret FFS which moved forward on the stage and fired smoke/dry ice into the crowd. (I had my trusty kodak instamatic with me and took pics).

Yep, I was about 14 iirc

I was also there, not a hells angel or biker, but did have rather long hair and probably my cut off denim jacket. Embarrassingly my first ever gig was this lot:

The vibe was more, money doesn’t go up enough in Champ, but costs will, so owners would have to dig deeper personally to support it. Was the way I read it tbh. 😂

It appears from the thread about the meeting with the wonderkid owner, there is a growing belief they aren't getting promoted because the owners don't want to !!!!

We are the mackems of world cricket

Fucking hell !!! RIP

He'll be telling you to pea off shortly

I carrot take this seriously I'm afraid

Well he was an Aussie, and it felt like we hardly ever beat them. He played England 42 times and only lost 11.

NSFW mebes

I waited but he didn’t turnip

Hope the service went ok Renton, but we’re not heading for nuclear war. We’re not near Cold War/Cuban missile crisis levels of panic yet. You don’t need to go to Ukraine to neutralise Russian assets, just trundle down to Westminster. Chin up.

Rod Marsh stumped, I hated him as a player, RIP

Meme evidently doing the rounds in Moscow "you're closer, hit him with something" "with what?? it's 20+ metres"

Poser twats (erm RIP poser twats)

They do it at home, certainly the crowd control barbarism, not sure why the surprise

Lettuce pray

They intend to pacify, whatever carnage they leave behind won't be their problem, they have zero consideration of human consequences. It's what they do, Syria, Grozny etc. Flatten Ukraine and it becomes a vassal state, Ukraine, not Russia, will bear the cost of any rebuild.

It's what they do, standard Russian military doctrine since WW2, their army is built around artillery, if we can't have it, neither can you.