Lighthouse

Still, that's a lot of terrible accidents to try and organise. It's all going to end up like Blackadder, "the acting returning officer very sadly, accidentally cut off his head whilst combing his hair."

We should get NATO and the EU to offer Belarus membership, if they depose Lukashenko. It'd be some of the best political sh*t-housing I've ever seen.

Yes, in the sense that he’ll be sh*te and score an absolute worldie.

I could sure go a Belarusian revolution right about now.

They don’t need to control the city itself, just the roads in and out. If they do that then ALL Russia supplies west of Mariupol would have to route through Kerch, and they’re already desperately stretched. If they can do this, through what is mainly just farmland and rural villages, it makes their job in the south that much easier. It also gives them a chance to surround the Zaporizhzhya NPP and hope for a surrender without the need for a firefight.

They’ll all flee to Russia. A bunch of power grabbing opportunists, no way they’re going to stand and face justice on any sense of principle. The so-called leader of the so-called DPR has already been videoed heading somewhere in a Jeep whilst telling his soldiers to stand and fight.

I wonder where the best tactical place to advance next could be. A punch down towards Mariupol, from west of Donetsk could cut off the link between South and East. Perhaps they’ll just look to consolidate with modest gains in the NE and around Kherson and try to freeze the Russians out in a couple of months.

I don’t agree with everything Peterson says but he seems to be hated by many for bursting their fantasies of how the world should be by explaining how people and societies actually interact. I’ve seen a few interviews when he’s discussed why we will never have equal numbers of women in STEM jobs, which some seem to interpret as being why women should be stopped from taking these jobs.

I have no real interest in the royals and would happily have spent yesterday at a Saints game but to say there is, "no point," in them is clearly nonsense. This is front page news around the globe, the British royal family is one of the most internationally recognised institutions in history. They have the level of international standing that many countries will spend billions trying to replicate by hosting an Olympic Games or World Cup for three weeks.

Stacy Soloman doesn’t see the point in the Royal family. That’s Stacy Solomon who became famous by finishing about 6th on a TV karaoke show 13 years ago.

The next few days could be interesting. It’s probably wishful thinking to hope for a full scale collapse but Russia could lose territory they’ve held since 2014. Taking Donetsk would be a hell of a coup for the UA but they probably need to regroup first.

Got £5 on England getting bowled out for 96 in tribute.

They’ll be in Vladivostok by Christmas.

You think it’s acceptable to have non-interracial lesbian bears in 2022?! Disgusting racism.

No, because nobody is being forced into attending any sporting events. If you feel this is inappropriate, you’re well within your rights to sit at home and mourn as you see fit. I suspect however that the majority wouldn’t not have done this. I believe the majority of football matches would have been very well attended and relatively few people would have stayed away due to their own grief and sense of respect.

Wasn’t really supposed to be a joke. If you’re going to cancel random stuff not connected to the royal family and say it’s a mark of respect just because we said so, then at least cancel something that everyone would appreciate, not something everyone enjoys.

If we’re doing non-sequiturs, how about we forfeit everybody’s gas bill for September as a mark of respect?

It’s pure narcissism, just like with the Ukrainian refugees. Some people just need BAME to be the victims in absolutely any given scenario and will always try to twist the conversation in that direction. Having said that, they’re not alone. One of Jedward popped up on my Twitter claiming what he was saying was okay because he’s Irish and that people needed to educate themselves on history. I was surprised the cretin can even spell history.

I think the most surreal take on grief I’ve seen so far is Clubland TV who are only playing sad dance anthems, in the minor key. 🤨

Pretty annoying, I was looking forward to going to that. Still, let’s look at it as being a bit more time for Fandab to train with the squad and JWP and Lavia to get fit for what is definitely a winnable game.

I'm definitely in the 'hoping they don't cancel games' camp on this. I don't know how or why people would interpret that as a mark of respect, especially for a woman who was the very embodiment of carrying on with a stiff upper lip.

None of those players were average. Davis was excellent and a key part of our most successful team in recent decades. The other three are poor players at this level and a whole team of their quality would get relegated.

Call me a misogynist but I’m not sure these people on Facebook are actually selling furniture.

I liked him, just like Claus, Tessem and many other average players we’ve had, but let’s not kid ourselves. He was never on the radar for a big club and wasn’t as good as Morgan or Wanyama. He was a popular, Saints level player; nothing more, nothing less. Having said that, I’ve just remembered Hojbjerg. He can go there instead.

The problem is that they’re preaching to an audience which is that thick and wanting to believe that they’ll swallow anything.