David Kelly

Fish it would have been much easier if you'd just asked for a dab instead of a key. I mean ffs, who snorts mandy anyway? Fwiw I find the reverse side of a kebab shop white fork a much better sniffing utensil than a key.

Passing through Whitburn, Cleadon and Roker they're all seem like perfectly nice places to live. My ex brother in law lives near the hospital just outside the town centre and that's a pretty nice area too. But he wouldn't set foot in the town centre because it's a shit hole and the people are all mongs (his words not mine). Of course Sunderland has some nice bits to it just like every city, or in their case town. But the reality is it has nothing going for it to attract anyone. The Bridges is full of people wearing pyjamas and slippers and, like their high street, is full of second hand shops and pawn brokers. If you go out in Sunderland for a night out you're made (in the words of Oz) to feel about as welcome as fart in an astronauts suit. Not because they look down or you, but just because you're not local and they don't know who you are. It's honestly like Royston Vasey. Unfortunately this isn't second information I'm passing on here, I had the displeasure of working there for a long time as well as marrying a bird from one of their mid range areas (ie not up to the Cleadon or Whitburn standard but fortunately not from the likes of Hendon, Pennywell or Southwick which really are like the land that time forgot). Of course there are some very nice people that I have met from there. In fact most of them I got on really well with and still stay in touch with some (fortunately not really the wife). Most of them know exactly what the place is like and lots of them prefer to spend there free time elsewhere. In all honesty, most of them bare no resemblance to the fucktards to who populate RTG on a regular basis. Although get them all together and talk about football and far too many of them lose their grip on reality.

For JLC's tit's alone it's a classic.

Has any of the press explored the potential impact of the HMRC investigation into any deal? I know a few people on here have mentioned it but I haven't seen it discussed by journalists. I mean, I expect any new buyer's due diligence to be be more thorough than Ashley's so I'm sure they'd already be aware of the issue and will be investigating the possible outcomes but I'd be interested to know what they might be. I know the mackems are pinning all there hopes of things fucking up for us on this, but is there any real possibility that it could derail a takeover?

Still thinks he is.

That thread is absolute gold. I love it when they start off by saying something like "Realistically" and then they come up with shite like they have a better stadium and that they can increase the capacity of it to 60k. They have no realisation at all of what they are in the world.

There's been no reason to believe anything that has come out of the club since around that time. I'm quite certain what he is saying is true.

A mate sent me that. I thought the whole Turk thing was a set up until I just went on the Chronicle site

Owns Jaffa Cakes and Penguins so makes sense he'd want a club too.

Hopefully that's an upcoming episode.

I enjoyed Sundays Electric Dreams. Covered themes that have already been looked at in big screen adaptations of PKD's work. I'm going to start The Deuce and Mindhunters this week I think.

After years of Ashley trying (and succeeding in many cases) to make us believe we can never compete with the top whatever it is these days, I'm going to try and take this as positive news and hope we will in fact be rid of him by Christmas. And by next season we'll still have Rafa managing some quality players and no Sports Direct free adverts cheapening the stadium.

The fact that they're putting it out there and putting a time frame on it suggests it's something more concrete than the usual rumours. Whether or not his price still puts people off remains to be seen.

Want rid by Christmas. Ties in with some of the reports coming out of the middle east the other week.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11678/11084133/newcastle-owner-mike-ashley-officially-puts-the-club-up-for-sale

Aye, I wonder what the reasoning is behind that. Can't think Ashley is doing something just so that it might benefit the club.

Merson unsurprisingly has us to lose too. 2-2 I fancy.

There goes January's budget.

I finished Better Call Saul last night. I thought Jimmy's story got a little bit less interesting post the Bar review and pre the final scene. But Mike, Nacho & Gus kept it going. I started watching the latest Electric dreams but ended up falling asleep. It seemed pretty mental though.

If Chris Pratt was dicking about with anything in the Star Trek universe I'd wonder where the rest of Guardians had got to well before considering the technology. Tbh I thought it was a bit daft in the Chris Pine Star Trek films where they tried to back to the technology of the original Shatner tech that as I say was based on the available tech of the time it was made. It makes no sense to me that you'd go back to stuff that is out of date in the present day. Clearly we're not going to agree on this so I'll just sit back and bask in the glory of knowing my Star Lords from my Kirks.

I think absolute fucking arse hole would have been more appropriate for him.

Aye but back in the days of Kirk, these things may have been thought of, but they certainly weren't widely known about. And the TV production companies of the day had no way of bringing them to life on screen anyway. 3D Printers for example are well known things now and they could be easily considered to be a precursor to replicators. So once they've been used in that universe on TNG it makes no sense to go back to what the known technology of the 60's could bring to the screen. Yes they could make them slightly less advanced than other incarnations set further in the future, but you can't make a show that has future where we can travel the universe and fuck green bints but most of the other technology is behind what we have now.

I'd watched the first couple of episodes of season 3 when they were first shown but then got distracted with Twin Peaks, Game Of Thrones and re watching The Sopranos. So I've just watched the last couple of Fargo's and so last night when I got in after five a side I thought I stick episode 3 on. I ended sitting up until 1 watching it and then watched episode 7 this morning. The lead up to and fall out from Jimmy's Bar Association hearing was excellent.

Aye I've restarted Better Call Saul the last couple of days so I've not watched it yet. But I'll probably finish that tonight and watch Electric Dreams too. Aye, Jodie Foster is directing the first one of the new season apparently.

I found Skull Island to be a totally joyous experience, perhaps even more than TFA and RO, both of which also fell into the joyous category for me. Yes they might not be original and might have more holes than a swiss cheese but they're still Star Wars. Personally I'd be over the moon if there was a new one every year for the rest of my days.