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I blame Ketsbaia.

Love that outpouring of concern Gemmill gets each time he updates us on his pending house move

L'OM bought him for 16m didnt they?

You cant make a firm offer to a player until, in our case, a firm offer for Ba had come in. The player cant truly reflect upon uprooting his life from the south of france to Newcastle until a firm offer has been received. If we sent a firm offer to the club the day the offer for Ba was accepted, then you need to give 2 to 3 days for that to be resolved (in super quick fashion, real money on the table presents a calmer, slower decision in all contexts) before the player can receive his fixed offer. In this case, he has 'reflected long and hard about it' according to La Provence, notably resolving itself in the coming days. There is no other way of doing things unfortunately unless you expect us to make firm contractual offers for players we might not need. Yes, we all knew Ba was leaving but until it becomes official your offer to the selling club cant be 100% official. Only then will the player start to make the decision. To be honest if it was resolved by the weekend in our favour that would suggest weeks if not months of work went into it ahead of time.

Anyone with a home computer and a work computer can have 2 identities undetected.

Those comments are from an interview yesterday, a newer article appears today with the view that he is leaving and is 'tempted' by us.

http://www.laprovence.com/actu/om-en-direct/mercato-newcastle-va-passer-a-loffensive It basically says that but adds that the 'sum of 11m euros has been evoked in England' which could mean the figure of the actual transfer itself. But ! The second paragraph asks whether the challenge of playing for Newcastle interests him? "Having reflected upon it for a long time with his entourage (and leaving some doubt?), Loic remy will be from now on inclined to envisage his departure. To pursue his career at Newcastle tempts him" which is very positive.

Well to be fair, you have come across like that sometimes in this thread. Obviously when LBT was posting in here too, it got a bit ridiculous and it was easy to be left with the impression that a few people on here were like that. I understand the issues of course, i have to balance family life with loads of travel and trying to run off excessive amounts of dinners and wine combined with sitting in hotel meeting rooms, airports and on trains etc.

There does seem to be a correlation though

The songs a bit shit too tbh.

How long do you spend looking in the mirror per week? Thats what i mean by healthy self-image. The choice is not between taking obscure proteins and being fat, its a choice between living a normal life and obsessing over body image.

Again doesnt really answer it, i dont want to die before my kids get old either but for the life of me cant remember reading anything about BCAAs making you live longer. As for how many people take multi-vits etc, then the answer is probably a lot smaller % of people than you think. You probably got rid of the spare tyre because you stopped eating badly.

That wasnt the question i asked which is why isnt just good regular exercise and healthy eating enough. If you dont want to look like a steroid chump then you can achieve that without the need to start spouting pseudo-scientific waffle about proteins. I have a mate just like you and the stuff he comes out with about BCAAs, peptides, hormones etc is ridiculous. You dont have to be sculpted to look super cool, i know this from personal experience. Wearing nice clothes is something men and women of all shapes and sizes do and can make the majority of them look nice, only a small minority of women have plastic surgery and only a small (but increasing % of men) use supplements to give an extra edge to how cut they look. The point is that someone with a healthy self-image and a healthy regard for whats important in life wouldnt be spending their time trying to eke out marginal gains with frankly poorly researched and for the most part unproven 'supplements'.

Why isnt it enough to just run/do a bit of sport and go to the gym? Why do you have to take supplements and pseudo-scientific compounds at the same time. If you want to live a long life, dont smoke, eat healthily and do lots of sport. If you want to lose weight quickly, which i understand JawD is doing then maybe it can help. Other than that surely this is just part of the preening, self-obsessed, shallow moronic culture that brings us the cast of Geordie shore?

LTB farting like a trooper as we speak.

So important they played it on the Today programme this morning!

From the people who brought us Tripel Karmeliet and Kwak, a very cold bottle of DeuS. An 11,5% Biere de Champagne. Been to Brussels.

I think there was some new Earl Sweatshirt stuff on the first NPR podcast of the year. Or maybe they were just rapping about him, I was pounding out a 10k run at the time so I missed the details. Obviously been a fan of Frank Ocean since we talked about the Nostalgia mixtape on here. I've got Goblin which is class, the search function doesn't pick up the YouTube clip but I think I hoyed up that Sandwitches track in the music thread. I think this year the whole lot of them are going to be releasing lots of stuff, or that's what I gathered from the NPR podcast anyway.

'Toontastic', 'fanny', 'glamour', 'radgie' ?

Yes, that was at you Gemmill.

Thats one hell of a frightening sounding tranny.

Dont be daft, if the fans dont play a role, lets not worry about them getting behind the team.

Hopefully a break has done him some good because his form has been horrendous. Even Pardew recognised that with comments about having 'faith' in players and hoping to have that faith rewarded (which he wasnt).

I just go jogging Gemmill, i'm not in training for Rio or owt.