The Kraken

Oh Bedders.

Absolute rubbish, practically equal on the possession stats. Juric out.

3 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

These players won't struggle in the Championship next season like many think.

Some of these players won’t be playing in the championship next season. Its not hard to imagine at least 4 or 5 of this starting line up not being with us next term.

Just now, Turkish said:

First vaccines were approved her in December 2020 and started to be delivered to the masses mid January 2021 so although Covid started in the US under Trump vaccines would have be rolled out under Biden. 

Was it that late?

Crikey. 

Genuinely thought it was much quicker than that.

Yes, interesting to know what he is talking about. Especially being as Trump was president when Covid first hit.

Covid hit us from early 2020, we locked down in late March then again in what was it, September and Christmas time? Biden didn’t take office until Jan 21, so vaccines were well underway by then in the UK and over there.

There was huge amounts of pressure put in people to get jabbed, no doubt. Not sure why Zuckerberg is calling out Biden so much when he took over while the vaccine rollout was actually getting towards its end for the majority. 

I’m sure he’s not telling lies. Just a bit of a strange one. I don’t doubt for a second that governments try to downplay conspiracy theories about Covid, just odd that he’s getting political about it.

1 hour ago, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I'd be happily surprised if this funding/ redevelopment was of the same levels as when it was the EU City of Culture. Not a Brexit moan, it's just because of the pooled funding that was involved, that led to bigger projects, and some lasting transformation.

It’s not a moan, it’s just a fact. Liverpool completely transformed their city centre off of the back of the money for European capital of culture back in 08. A complete shithole became something genuinely brilliant. Like you say, I don’t think the level of funding by the uk is going to elevate Bradford to anywhere approaching mundane.

1 minute ago, sadoldgit said:

I think what you meant to say is  a narcissist doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of normal, well adjusted people.

No need to talk about yourself in the third person.

1 hour ago, whelk said:

All she’s got left is her tits

You’re a sick, sick man.

53 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I’ve booked short haul a few times from there thinking it’s close by when it really bloody isn’t. Pain in the arse to get to and I wouldn’t fly from there again. Saying that, I try to avoid small airports and would choose Heathrow every time. 

Really?

Apart from living close by, I find the whole experience of Southampton especially and Bournemouth to be so much more preferable than a larger airport like Heathrow or Gatwick.  As soon as I land at Southampton I know I’ll have my bags pronto and be home within minutes. Bournemouth is a bit of a pain to get to in that you can only really drive there (and their parking prices have gone up a lot in recent years, it used to be really cheap). Southampton just ticks every box for me, and with easyJet now opening up new routes with the longer runway there will hopefully be much more options.

7 minutes ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

Pity he's never been the Leader of the Labour Party. He's make a good PM.

I’d imagine he’s being primed as a leading candidate to take over. Starmer isn’t exactly young.

1 minute ago, Sarnia Cherie said:

The Tories should have implemented the findings of the grooming gangs inquiry but didn't act on any of the 20 recommendations put forward, despite being in power for long enough. Now they are shouting from the rooftops for yet another inquiry. It's just an excuse to kick the can a bit further down the road and not actually do anything. The UK has previous for these long-drawn out scandals. Hillsborough, Post Office, Infected Blood, Grenfell Tower, to name a few. They all take far too long with no improvements made and the victims waiting for decades for justice and compensation. Those responsible are never brought to book either. Governments of all major parties need to stop wetting themselves at the word 'Racist'. The plain facts are that these despicable crimes were carried out predominately by Asian men on young, white, vulnerable girls. We do not need another lengthy inquiry. We need someone with a backbone to implement the previous inquiry's findings now and lock up the perpetrators'.  

Andy Burnham setting his point out very well.

1 hour ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

There hasn’t been a PM with such a “them & us” attitude since Maggie, and I’m not sure itll work for him like it did for her. 

Given the PMs just in the last few years I hope this is a joke, though I suspect it isn’t.

1 hour ago, whelk said:

I don’t click on any links posted by arrogant uninformed blinkered bigots

And I don’t click on any post by forum anti-Semites.

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

The person who liked Rallyboys post or Elon Musk?

Yeah I read it back and realised I could’ve been clearer, it could go either way I suppose.

4 years of this 🤣 the geezer is absolutely hatstand

9 minutes ago, rallyboy said:

He's certainly got a few fans on here. 

This is a such simplistic way of phrasing things, but it’s no surprise that you got the one love heart you did.  The man is a complete berk and whatever else, the overwhelming opinion on here seems to agree with that. The only Musk “fans” on here are in your head, pretty much everyone else thinks he’s a cunt, but wave that flag if it makes you feel better I suppose 👍

11 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Oh he’s worth a shitload more than anyone else, but his outbursts are wiping plenty off the market share and book value of his firms. X is a quarter of the size from when he bought it. If he just wants it as a playground and megaphone, dumping it afterwards, he’s succeeding. But from a business perspective it’s like SR turning a mid-table PL football club into the Champ relegation zone just to try a few philosophies.

SR have been shite, we both agree on that, but I can’t think that was their original aim!

Thats exactly why he wants it. It’s a personal vanity project in getting his name front and centre.  Clearly working too, we’ve got our bloody prime minister making press conferences where he rebuffs Musk’s nonsensical outbursts.

Yeah done it a couple of times.  As whelk says its further than you think.  It's also well outside of Bristol and trying to do it by public transport isn't great.  Plenty of parking on site though.  In terms of the airport itself it's relatively decent, size-wise a bit bigger than our local airports but still not huge. 

I used to have a massive aversion to Gatwick as it's so massive and you could usually be guaranteed of a big queue somewhere (plus baggage reclaim used to take forever and a day).  But having flown out of Gatwick a number of times in the past few years its actually become very slick, the whole check in and security areas are impressive and IME everything kept moving very well, I flew domestic just before Xmas and bags were extremely rapid.  So I'm less inclined to give it a swerve these days (although for the bulk of leisure travel I always try to fly from Southampton or Bournemouth).

7 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Does anyone remember the old Central Swimming Baths and the underwater deep section as you went into the entrance?

5 metres deep if I recall correctly. Used to swim down and do moonies against the glass.

I made it as high as the 5 metre board a few times but absolutely fuck the 10m board, me and heights don’t go well together.

YaYa, YaYa YaYa, YaYa YaYa, YaYa YaYa Toure!

Kolo, Kolo Kolo, Kolo Kolo, Kolo Kolo Toure!

Boring boring tables!

Banter.

FBI press conference updates:

IEDs were found in the car as well as at least two other IEDs found planted separately in the French Quarter. None detonated and have now been rendered safe

They don't believe the attacker acted alone and are aggressively tracking down potential associateS

8 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

 Musk is turning seriously weird. If the article was 1 April that would have been a convincing April fool.

Turning?

The geezer has been an absolute wrongun for years.

Rather predictably the guy sounds like a total crackpot. Got dressed up in full army combat gear, set fire to the house he was renting before he left (which had explosives inside), drove through the crowd until he crashed, then just opened fire until he was gunned down.

America. Fuck yeah.