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It's just personal preference. I quite liked the Eurosport coverage, where it was a single commentator. I tune into games moments before kick off, get half time tea, and turn off at full time. On the rare MotD watches, I'll tune in half way, go back to the start and just move through the match action bits. It really was easier for me when they weren't there. They all get paid quite a bit. I'd guess they at least looked to see if it was partly the people on it, rather than just the highlights. Completely fine if people like that, and find their comments add to the programme.

No loud "one more mate" for Stephens and Lallana. Total leaders. Edit: Martin spiky at having to do it an extra time.

I rarely watch it, but my favourite was when everyone was missing over Lineker's posts. It was less hassle to fast forward past everything he, and the co-hosts said.

I think it's great that people of all shapes, sizes and differences are confident to have photos of their lives online. It should be normal, not brave for someone to do this. Here, a woman with three tits is posing for...oh wait, one of them is Jermaine. As you were... 🙂

I definitely wasn't keen on him signing. But that turned out to be based on highlights and the bandwagon of criticism around him. I thought he was fine for us. Considering the abuse he got from fans, it's perfectly understandable why he could care less about their opinions.

I got it in school, before getting to switch it out for something else. My brother made something egg based, that he forgot to take out of his bag over some holidays. The fumes of it are now classed as a chemical weapon, now banned by all civilised nations. Rumours abound of rogue nations, setting up home eccy kitchens to replicate it. 🙂

I was thinking of that too, as I put a baked potato in the microwave. 🙂 Cooking is relaxing (I don't do anything that complicated). I could listen to a podcast/ radio, talk away, or multi task in the kitchen, read. The meal will taste much better than anything bought. My system will appreciate it. I usually do enough for a leftovers meal, so I don't have to spend time on a future meal. I don't do it anywhere near often enough, though. Factors that might stop people doing it: Poor sleeping, diet, exercise, work/life stress and being hard wired for quick calories/additives/sugars may all help contribute to getting it done as quickly as possible. Or might just mess up your body clock and it's desire for food. Juggling work/life balance, family etc and just not being a time management machine might all contribute, depending on the person. And it all feeds back into each other. That's not even brining in costs of ingredients/ energy etc. Thinking back to previous generations, there wasn't the same level of distraction from TV, social media (not my posts, obviously), gaming getting in the way. For me: Block off the time to cook; Plan ahead, so everything is on hand; have something else to do while cooking (even if it's watching/listening to something that would take up time later); make it interesting to try new things; once in a while it's fine to get a fish supper as a change from the cooking, or eat out. Combine with the tried and tested no snacks, hydrate, get some steps and fresh air and turn off devices well before a decent bed time.

An excellent opportunity for him to get the minutes to develop his game. Looking forward to seeing that progress on his return.

Five

“It is understood the former footballer’s contract was terminated earlier this week, because of alleged issues relating to workplace behaviour. It followed allegations involving digital communications such as texts, which were raised with the corporation a few weeks ago, the BBC said” Independent

I recall the chance to remove an extra layer of embedded bureaucracy, as a plus mentioned by people too. I recall reading articles regarding the amount of corruption, misapplication and misuse of EU funds, from well before this. There are often transparency articles showing citizens concerned about the levels of corruption, and feeling powerless to do anything about it. That came up a fair bit. Our lot are bad enough, so why encourage more waste in an EU that was happy to bring nation's even closer under its influence, and bureaucratic control? It's an area that I had to give some thought to, when it came to voting.

Eggs 101: Eggs to avoid.

I think there was some confusion implementing menus. "No, not awful, I said offal." 🙂

Well said. There are loads of players who have spent time in the PL, it's not been fantastic for any party involved, and who have done perfectly well elsewhere. I hope he does well. It's a little nod to our scouting, if he does, too.

By 1000 votes to none, the club are proud to announce the FansVoice signing of Bijlow to the club. A landslide vote. We'd like to welcome our voter to the stage...🙂

As Leeds slipped down and out of the PL, I remember Harte getting a ton of abuse. As I wasn't paying that much attention to them, it seemed a bit OTT at the time. But perhaps he had that outspoken approach then too.

In related news, the Saints shop is now selling club themed protective face masks. 🙂

Noon

A moment to remember SaintsWeb poster, Egg. Consumed in an overzealous forum health kick.

When I read that, and had seen his injury record it came as no surprise that we'd sign a player just coming back from injury. I was just moving onto the next post when I went "wait a minute" 🙂 Just to be devil's advocate here. If the record of poor decisions, which were based on SR being smarter than your average club owning bear, has resulted in us having to take risks, knowing what the record has been, then something more fundamental might be the issue. Which I think has kind of happened. SR implemented a strategy not fit for the overhaul required. A panic window and loan debt and relegation just sunk us further. But there were, and are positives in there, and you can see the move to a more cohesive squad under Martin.

Picking up on some earlier posts, I know educated, intelligent people who accepted the prospect of financial loss, and voted leave. As it stands now, a number of that group still think it was the right decision. There's a number who bemoan the way it was prepared for and implemented. But still a few who stand firm that it is still the right way to have gone. At the time, it was less about slogans on buses for them, than it was dislike of Maastricht; the thought of ever closer union that was being pushed; the consensus approach resulting in us following down that path, and now being given an option to stop it; the adoption of new members that were nowhere near stable enough, threatening economies - Greece for example. There were rumblings about Turkey joining at the time too. No doubt immigration control and sovereignty did come up too, but not for most. That's off the top of my mind now. There could have been other reasons too. Across most of them, I think an economic agreement would have been preferable, but was not an option, rather than continuing to be closer in so many other areas. My point being, like a lot of polarising debates, is that by lumping those that don't agree into being a group that's less intelligent, less informed, utterly wrong and other abusive terms, says more about the people making those remarks than those that voted that way. If that's how they are categorised, if that's how they are thought of, what chance is there for constructive dialogue? It's also not true. Like everyone who voted remain had their finger on the pulse of every facet of the EU, as they made their vote.

Thanks for the video Turkish. I'm watching it in calorie controlled chunks, as I get the time. Seeing the links to generational issues is very interesting too. As the video said, it's not an industry controlled for health, or for dietary benefits. It's an industry controlled for profit. Like other historical examples such as pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, there's a lack of trust in the information put out by them. It makes logically argued discussions from various expert sources, not necessarily beholden to that industry, very valuable. Although, I can just look at my grandparents and parents, and the relatives of my peer group. Traditional diets that helped in lowering risks of various things. I got the benefit of that too, growing up. Even if I'm a bit rubbish at it now. I know my system prefers the healthy options. It just gets a bit hijacked at the thought of a multi pack of salt n shake. 🙂

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Interesting. Adds another angle to datasets, recruitment and growth of the club's all buying into a shared resource.