Lighthouse

Wow, that six at the end to decide things.

Yeah, my bad sorry, I was thinking we were two points behind them for some reason.

Awesome, I saw the Essex score but had no idea what the NRR was going to be.

Confirmed? I’m still waiting for the BBC table to update.

Turner 3-15 off 4 today. What a talent.

I wish I was Adrian Lester.

Has anyone said he wasn’t? We’ve said we definitely won’t be keeping him but Reading might offer him a player/assistant role which would suit him at this stage in his career.

I’m not saying it’s bad but the people of Ukraine are sending their thoughts and prayers.

Yeah, I hate it when people tell lies. Like this one.

They can offer him any contract they like, there’s no way he can be arsed reading it before he signs.

Pathetic this. It’s going to be another 5-0 isn’t it.

No but they have signed James Tilley from Wimbledon to play along side him.

I think there are a few players who don’t really enjoy it and it’s just a job for them. Batistuta was one player who basically said the same.

Am I still an idiot for not wanting to chuck another couple of million in to just get it done?

Should be okay with that, the final day fixtures are near enough perfect for us too. Oh and Bears actually won their game after that abomination of a first over.

Shame about the rain, we were motoring along there. In other games, Brum are 7-4 in their first over. 😆

This is nothing to do with gay people, that was the original point. The concept of gender identity directly opposes the concept of sexuality. If all the people you’re attracted to can choose their gender, then you have no sexuality, be it straight or LGB.

Three big problems with that; It isn’t true. Gender, male/female, man/woman have been around for centuries meaning biological differences. IF it’s something different, then call it something different, it’s not complicated. The people who says this are always lying. They have no intention of accepting any difference between biological sex and so called ‘gender identity’. If they’re different, why do biological men want to compete in sports for biological women? Why the testosterone and oestrogen supplements? Why the surgery to remove perfectly healthy body parts? A so called male to female trans person can quite easily compete in biological men’s sport, whilst socially identifying as a woman (whatever that means) so why don’t they just do that? If gender identity is different, what exactly is it? Give me a definition.

Letting people live out the lives they, "feel they were born to lead," is not empathetic. Standing there saying you support all the things that people say they want to be true doesn’t make you a good person, it’s just superficial self satisfaction. Especially when that persons behaviours involve self harm and irrational, unstable behaviour. Take the MP Jamie Wallis, who said he came out as transgender after being raped, was suffering from PTSD and was involved in at least one road traffic incident, was declared unfit to drive and fled the scene. Does that sound like a wonderful, happy person just being themself or is it someone who needs serious psychiatric therapy dealing with personal trauma? It’s one of the hardest things to do, confronting a friend or family member with serious issues and essentially telling them they’re wrong and need help, when they don’t want to hear it. It often gets rebuffed by some pretty serious gaslighting. How many people can relate to an alcoholic telling them something like, "what’s your f**king problem, why are you all so judgemental? Just because I’ve got friends and I go out having having a good time and enjoying my life, whilst you’re just a bitter loser with no life!" Paranoid schizophrenics genuinely, honestly believe voices are telling them to kill their family, they aren’t just saying that for a laugh, that’s their perceived reality. Is it real? Things haven’t moved on a bit. There are things (I include a large section of the animal kingdom) with ovaries which produce eggs and things with testicles which produce sperm, one of each is required to create life. That is a necessary truth, always has been and is cannot be identified into or out of based on social stigma. If you have some other social idea of gender, fine but chose some different words for it so everyone is clear on what they mean. If you think that’s outdated, what exactly is your definition of ‘gender’ and ‘woman’?

Your friend can deal with her issues however she likes. I’ll even call her Dave and he/him in polite conversation for the sake of being civilised but that doesn’t mean I forgo my own attachment to reality and half a billion years of the evolution of life on earth. If you think a women can take a load of testosterone supplements which cause abnormal hair growth and a deeper voice and become a man, you can have that belief but you’re talking about some other, made up definition of gender that I have no interest in and you certainly have no right to impose on the rest of society. Your definition of mutilation it’s textbook. It’s severe, irreversible damage, done deliberately to a perfectly healthy, functioning body part. You brought up FGM; ironically those girls are still able to reproduce after this barbaric practice. It may be forced, rather than voluntary, but their organs still just about function in the way they are designed. If you find that description somewhat horrifying well… tough because the most literal and accurate word I can think of to describe what is happening. It’s a coping mechanism to a serious mental health problem, not all coping mechanisms are necessarily wise or healthy.

Box….. of…… frogs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66045177 Who's feeling brave then?

You were more fun when you pretended to be Kenyan.

No, you’re thinking of sand people. In all seriousness though, they found some fairly well preserved remains in the wreckage of Air France 447, two years after it crashed in the mid Atlantic, so I’d imagine it’s a similar story here. I’d imagine they’re quite badly crushed and possibly burned, depending on the severity of the air pressure change.as skint says, grim.