Lighthouse

I think you need to stop believing the mainstream media and have more of an open mind to how hospitals really work. Doctor A: "Gary just phoned, he’s on his way with another lorry load of dead footballers." Doctor B: "ah f**k I forgot it was a Sunday, he’ll be bringing a job lot in from the pub leagues." A: "FFS we’ve not even finished the paperwork from all of last weekend’s stiffs." B: "Don’t you think it’s a bit funny that this never used to happen until three years ago? Maybe we should take a look at some of the bodies." A: "nah, f**k that, we’ll just get some nurse to write ‘athletes foot and rabies’ on all the death certificates." B: "sound like a plan to me, wanna go to Greggs?"

Nothing says we’ve got tonnes of military surplus quite like pulling 50 year old tanks out of museums and going cap in hand to North Korea for ammo to fill them up.

I think you may have been talking to a hippo.

There’s a whole world of difference between being a military superpower with the ability to occupy Ukraine in there days and having some involvement in a terrorist attack on their own soil. FWIW I don’t think Russia had any involvement in this, I’m going with Occam’s Razor. It was Islamic terrorists and Russia was simply negligent with whatever warning they received from US intelligence. How best to spin this from Putin’s POV remains to be seen.

Complete conjecture, there’s no credible medical evidence at all backing that up. The AZ had a very marginally elevated risk of blood clotting, first reported in Scandinavia in a small number of men under 35. As a precaution many countries, including our own CMO, recommended other brands were used in this demographic. Hence when it came to my turn I had three doses of Pfizer. People like Tiss just ignore this though. Sensible precautions taken in response to a mild elevated risk are absolute kryptonite if you’re determined to believe the world is hiding tens of thousands of unexplained deaths. You may wish to read up on survivorship bias.

These are just pointless strawmen. Nobody has ever tried to claim he wasn’t a wonderful footballer. Nobody is trying to silence him either but freedom of speech does not mean that anyone has to listen to, like or care about what you have to say. He’s been tweeting absolute garbage about Covid for four years and can (and probably will) continue to do so for the rest of his life. I repeat, nobody is trying to silence him. He basically is though isn’t he. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/30/increase-measles-cases-unvaccinated-vaccine-misinformation-cdc

I just can’t really see what the rational would be behind this as a false flag. They been in Ukraine for two years, committed countless war crimes and even now are firing any missiles and bombs they can get their mitts on a civilian areas. I don’t know what they’d need to give themselves permission for with something as as drastic as this. It’s not even particularly plausible for Russians either. Nazis and NATO in bed together in Kyiv sort of works as a narrative. Those two and Islamic jihadists all in a great big super team… I can’t see that flying too well in public.

If there's one thing which he fears, it's looking weak, especially in the eyes of his own people. With cross border Ukrainian attacks against places like Belgorod and now this in Moscow, ordinary Russians aren't going to be too impressed with their so-called strong man leader. Especially after the US did apparently warn them and he did nothing.

If it is ISIS the attack will be because Russia exists and its citizens aren’t dedicated to the exact, specific interpretation of Islam that they subscribe to. I’m amazed that these suspects (assuming they were the gunmen) allowed themselves to be taken alive, f**k knows what the FSB are going to do with them.

Who the f**k let Eric Cantona on this thread?

Gaza, Brexit and pineapple on pizza produce 'differing opinions'. What Matt exhibits is a total and willful denial of the entire medical profession, whilst silmultaneously demanding investigations into things he can provide absolutely no evidence for. That's why people thing he's a simpleton; he's on the negative-x axis of the Dunning Kruger chart. P.S. I have no reason at all to believe or support SL's theory of autism.

Pretty f**ked up terrorist attack in Moscow today. Oh well.

I've never seen anybody claim he should do anything of the sort, so I've no idea what your point is. I'm more than happy to completely ignore him.

I don’t know how much of it was down to that flight (KLM had a very similar incident over Alaska not too long after) but volcanic activity is now routinely included in all preflight significant weather briefings.

Another somewhat dubious resemblance to add to the collection. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68625041

West Stand. I’ve not seen him post for a while but I seem to remember him referencing some of his exploits on the Sala plane crash thread a few years ago.

I was saddened to learn this morning of the passing of Eric Moody, a couple of days ago, at the age of 84. I never met him personally but he was a Saints fan and occasional poster on this site. Eric was famously the British Airways captain who in 1982 safely landed a 747, after having ingested large amounts volcanic ash off the coast of Indonesia. If anyone wants to know more about the incident, including an interview with Eric, there’s an Air Crash Investigation episode based around the events of BAW009.

Something I don’t understand: assuming for one minute all football board members and their associated DoFs absolutely despise all black people BUT are willing to exploit black players for no reason other than to promote their own careers and profits… why aren’t they willing to do that with black managers?

You’re conflating two separate points; that we’re perennial chokers and that the Skates have more trophies. The first isn’t true, the second nobody cares about. People laugh at Liverpool fans because they’re obsessed with the great teams they watched growing up in the eighties and the trophies they won 40 years ago. Pompey fans bragging about trophies they won in a very brief post war window is probably more laughable than not having any at all.

You’re talking about stuff which is barely in living memory. Aside from a few of the old boys who get wheeled out of the care home every couple of weeks for a day at Fratton, nobody is going to remember Pompey last winning the league in nineteen forty-whatever it was. About 85 of the 92 league clubs have won f**k all in the last three decades. PL money came along and that was basically it.

We aren’t though. We didn’t choke promotion in League 1 when Huddersfield were snapping at our heels the whole way, then the followIng season we didn’t bottle promotion against a West Ham squad with much more experienced PL players. Since promotion we didn’t bottle any of our relegation battles either, including the absolutely must in at Swansea. We also didn’t bottle a two-legged semi-final against Liverpool and gave one of our best performances under Puel in the final. They’re the chokers if anything, 13 years in League 1 including a couple of playoff defeats.

Good for a scary news article but if it came to all out conflict they’d get nowhere near the U.K. mainland.

What exactly is it you think Che Adams, Sekou Mara, Romain Perraud and Duje Caletta-Car were capable of last season?

If we sell Alcaraz, it'll be because someone has made an offer that we deem acceptable, not because he wants to go to Juve and we don't want to stand in his way. That's pretty much never happened with any player.

Of course we didn’t need perfect form, that would be preposterous. All we needed was a bog standard, straight forward 14 wins and 1 draw over the last 3 months and we’d be third in the table.