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Good analysis Ed. I know everyone (or everyone with sense) in the US freaks out at the suggestion that Biden has already won, but it's difficult to see a way back for Trump.* The harder he tries, the more he blows up his own campaign. In just a few days now, the US will wake up from the most surreal dream. *(Let's see how well this post does when compared with the outcome - will it out-Nostradamus our always-wrong OP?)

Separated at birth.

Gavyn Davies?

And so are expressed the hopes, prayers and wishes of the multitudes.

I saw that. I wish I knew what it meant.

I know I've been away a while but how the fork has hypo, of all people, come to be thought of as ITK?

Your last qualification aside, I'd be careful about the temptation to think it'll go tits up. Club transfer policies are like quantum physics - you think the outcome is certain but then random shit happens.

It's a good question, and I think the answer is no, Gao wasn't putting extra money in. You might get to an answer if you were able to ask the players at Southampton and Espanyol whether they were asked to be represented, either as agent or as negotiator for image rights, etc., by LD Sports. If the initial investment was with the intention of leveraging income from this, and getting a foothold in the lucrative business player repping, it makes sense. It also makes sense that, regardless of the pressure of such a request coming from the lead sponsor, the answer from the players was a universal 'no'. Hence the pull-out after a year.

You said the stadium is a 'curse'. Is that Keynesianism or monetarism?

Your point was that the London Stadium is a 'curse'. So really a point about witchcraft rather than economics.

Hahaha. I love your fact-checking MLG, and the accompanying sound of exploding posters.

Fulham is going to be a struggle even if fans are allowed back in by December. They've only got three stands.

From that brief description he looks promising. By the way, is it strictly legal to have 16 year olds sign contracts?

Am I the only one who has a momentary sense of dread every time this thread bobs back up to the top?

OMG

You tell 'em Jim. I think it's brilliant the way you read through the forum for all the speculation and regurgitate it into a bite-sized blobs. And don't get me started on that hooligan ultra trousers.

Unlike LeTiss, it was still possible to work out what he was getting at though: were the black cats dead or alive or somehow both at the same time?

The uncircumcised truth.

Crikey. Is that that you lot look like out in the provinces?

The UK is tough on everyone these days.

You have to be much more careful when using these statistics. First, you have the percentage of black population wrong. It’s 13.4% for people who identify as African American only – over 14% if you include mixed race African American. Second, the statistics are the arrest records (they’re from the FBI so not surprising that they do this, but it’s misleading because some ethnicities are more ‘policed’ than others) Third, crime is age-related. Younger people tend to commit more crime. The most common age for black people in the US is 27. The most common age for white people is 58. Fourth, crime is class-related. There is a strong association, independent of race, of crime with poverty. In the US only 9% of white live in poverty. For African Americans it’s more than double that – 22%. Even then, you’re guilty of being selective. Almost 70% of all arrests for imprisonable crime in the US, according to the FBI, are committed by whites. Whites are over-represented in serious crimes such as rape.

BB King, of all people, once said that Peter Green was the only guitarist who made him sweat - that his tone and feel for the instrument were unreal. Even his chord progressions were genius (D - A6 - Gm - D in Man of the World is so unusual and yet unbelievably beautiful even if you just strum it.)

Has died. This will be of interest to someone in particular on here.

This is a thread about shirt design, not bladder problems.