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A mistake that we make is brand them that way. They are cleverly groomed to see themselves as fighters for the true strand of Islam freeing their cultural heartlands from heretics such as the Yazidi and Shia and creating a Sunni caliphate. I've had the misfortune to have to deal with this at work this academic year. To young & impressionable Muslim men it all seems like a great big adventure, almost like a PS4 game. One that 17yo we've had to deal with said, and this is a direct quote "It's better than working in a car wash or driving a taxi. I'll get money and a wife". Someone I respect likened it to young men going off to fight for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Idealists, romantics, dreamers, those searching for a meaning to their loves and a few who just wanted to kill people. Thankfully the Muslim young women I talk to shudder and the thought of the repression they'd face. I'm a great believer in supporting Muslim women and womens groups, they are the key to stopping this. Very few mothers want their sons dead & their daughters repressed.

That scene in episode 9 was one of the worst things that I've ever seen/heard. It was utterly awful. Brilliantly done and utterly, utterly awful in equal measure.

The lads that are doing it will big ring everything. 11/28 on the back and pro-compact, 52/34, on the front. Phil, however, said he'll keep his standard rings on! They'll nag me all next week but there is no way I can do that much climbing combined with the distance. It's 120km further than I've ridden and 3000m more than I've climbed.

Just been offered a free spot on next weekends Etape Xtreame in Snowdonia. 365km and 6000m of climbing. They are looking at doing a 30kmph average. Safe to say that I declined on the grounds that I'm not yet insane.

You'll ride faster, longer and better if you ride regularly with others.

My lad and I are doing one or the other. We will either fly into Eindhoven for either game or Bremen for the Groningen game. We will decide over the weekend and book the flights.

The flow kept going and they died by their thousands which is why the ships are there.

I'm not sure that everyone agrees with that.

Perhaps we should just leave them to drown, especially the women & children? That'd show 'em.

I'll be booking my flights this evening.

I'll be taking the lad to Rotterdam via Amsterdam. That'll open his eyes to the world.

They are for me because they are so much cheaper and easier to get tickets for. They also tend to be Saturday 15.00 KO.

Apart from Arsenal (league) I've had no problems getting tickets for away games but then again I get mine through Northern Saints.

Kudos to whoever it was earlier in the season, who knew Ings, that said he would be going to Liverpool as he wanted to stay in the NW.

It'll still be there in you are a Premium member.

Thought I'd had a good weekend after clocking up 170miles with about 6000ft of climbing until my mate posted up his Sunday ride. https://www.strava.com/activities/320438762

It's only just occurred to you? You, at some point up to last night, actually entertained the idea that Saints could win the UCL? Mental.

Pilates or cycling specific yoga will sort you out a treat and really works on the core strength issue as well.

The money would be better spent on upgrading your wheels if I'm honest.

If Wilson is writing it then it's coming from the club.

Have you always been this stupid?

This bit you mean? Now I appreciate that English clearly isn't your first language but that to me suggests that you think we should have signed him in January.

No, no, no. We were told last summer, dreams and ambition was enough. Massive fan bases and huge incomes are nothing to do with it, just need dreams and ambition.

I'm glad someone else understands.