Weston Super Saint

You (deliberately) missed the "waving placards" bit

Sadly, the other teams are too shit for this to make a difference. Fingers crossed one or two of them find a run of games, but I'm not sure they will.

Sadly, Hamas don't appear to be interested in the protests. They could force a ceasefire tomorrow by releasing the hostages, but apparently don't want that. What the fuck are you on about, re Apartheid? It lasted over 40 fucking years. It wasn't ended because some fuckwits in another country waved some placards around.

I read a study about this (I can't remember where or how I found it as it was a couple of years ago) which was very interesting. I'm paraphrasing as I can't remember the full article, however, it stated something along the lines that whilst the specific chromosomes are assigned at conception / fetal development that determine 'sex', hormones continue to develop / affect behaviour long after birth during life, so effectively someone born female could conceivably believe they should be male (and vice versa), due to these hormonal changes. I guess that would influence the debate about whether this should then be considered a medical issue (is illness too strong a word?) and whether hormone therapies should be introduced to redress the balance / the ethical or moral debate around that. I know I wouldn't want politicians involved in those decisions!!!

And spend their time constantly worrying about it - the same way that people with body dysmorphia do. Again, I understand that it is not classified as a mental disorder, but question whether it should be. Either that or we declassify body dysmorphia to no longer be a mental illness and ignore the plight of those currently suffering / help those with anorexia to become even skinnier! Which seems wrong! When it comes to the WHO, they've been wrong before (see COVID) and will be again. Currently they are classing old people being lonely as a global catastrophe

Including the NHS it would seem... They are happy to classify Body Dysmorphia as a mental illness LINK On the other hand, Gender Dysmorphia (where an individual wants to REMOVE an entire organ(s) of their body, which is literally the definition of body dysmorphia) is NOT a mental illness LINK It seems disingenous that the NHS would classify one condition where an individual spends time worrying about themselves as a mental illness, but another where individuals do exactly the same thing as not a mental illness! It's another example of political correctness gone wrong. I accept that it is not classified as a mental illness, but can see no logical reason why it isn't given the criteria for classifying body dysmorphia as one. In terms of the affect on the individual between the two conditions, I'm struggling to see a difference.....

Mental health ones?

If you stumble across Portishead pier on your travels give us a shout - apparently it doesn't exist anymore in Portishead

Yep, really, well and truly deleted. Gone.

My point was (as you clearly seemed to have missed it), that Labour front benchers are happily deserting the ship over a vote that was never going to achieve anything meaningful and in complete opposition to the party leader's instructions. If they are willing to do that for a meaningless vote, imagine what they would do when they finally come back to power and the vote actually means something. It highlights (contrary to certain posters' current views), that when Labour take back power sometime in the next 12 months, that it won't all be rainbows and unicorns and that self serving politicians will continue to be just that and will always put themselves first rather than the 'needs of the people'.

This makes no sense - half finished sentence! Enlighten me to the point....

Really? So you think they are in power? Odd.

Labour are revolting - and they don't even have a position of power or influence yet.

Do you think that might have something to do with the fact social media hadn't taken off when Blair was PM?

Well, apart from the bit about being the leader of the party, absolute spitting image.

I can see a large heap of disappointment on the horizon.

Not for measuring manager achievement it isn't, especially given our resources...

Why have you moved to the past tense? Is English not your first language?

Is our stated ambition to win the league?

This is still the Israel thread isn't it - amazing how soggy can turn every thread into a "far right", Tommy and Katy fest 🤦‍♂️

He's waiting for January where he will be immense. If no one makes an offer then, he'll be a bag of shit again.

I read something that said he was in Spain but had been b-anned from twitter until Musk un b-anned him a week or so ago...

If the Tory government is right wing, what does that make the right wing element of the Tory party? If anyone has a visual chart to show the degrees of right wingness that would help....

If she was Welsh then it's extremely likely

Phew! Potential future furore avoided.