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No, I completely agree. LGB rights used to be a fight for something fair and tangible that people could relate to, the best counter argument right wing conservatives could offer was some guff about, “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!” Now though, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, there are people out there who literally believe gender is a mood you can be in and change every few hours. YouTubers like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh just need to share a video and say, “hey, look at what the alphabet people are doing this week.”

Won’t happen as a lot of people are determined to attach their beliefs to LGB rights in order to gain validity. As a stand alone argument, saying you identify by they/them pronouns is no different to some guy who plays online sci-fi telling everyone he wants to be addressed as ‘Darth’ Steve Pilkington. It’s just emotional blackmail.

Post crap to try and appear smart and garner attention. Said crap is easily disproven by others with minimal effort. Everybody thinks you are dense. Ask Steve Grant for a new account because nobody is taking you seriously. Everybody figures out it’s you again within a matter of hours. Insist you are an entirely new poster called Brett, from Camden. Return to step 1. It’s the ciiiiiiiiiiiiiircle….

Ake went for over £40m when Bournemouth got relegated, Sissoko over £30m at Newcastle. I think it'll probably be in the £20-25m for someone with Tino's record, if he does go, but bigger fees are entirely plausible. Especially since we are financially stable and our better players have fairly long contracts.

Why? None of that cash is going in the players pockets. It’ll influence who we can afford to bring in but if a player is already under contract here then nothing changes. Either someone meets our demands or he stays.

I don’t think they will have any bearing on each other at all. Tella and Alcaraz future will depend entirely on if they’re willing to stay and if someone is willing to stump up the asking price if not. Lavia, KWP and JWP are all going for a decent enough fee, we don’t need cash beyond that.

It’d be a weird move for him, at that age and coming back from a big injury. He needs a solid season of regular football, not watching Trippier from the stands four games out of five.

Decent start with the ball too, 140 odd still needed to avoid the follow on.

Our problem last year was nothing to do with age, the players were just crap. Moi is 28, Stu 31, McC 33, Che and AA both 26, Orsic 30 etc. and all of those were useless. Our best player was a 19 year old.

It was all a bit strange that. Tiss doesn’t seem like the type to be easily mislead by an absolute charlatan with nothing of substance to back up his claims, so you wonder how he got involved in all of this. Overall I think we’re very lucky that the eventual ML takeover wasn’t derailed completely by Pinnacle entering a period of exclusivity. They could very easily have looked at other options or lost interest completely, then who knows where we’d be now. With the benefit of hindsight and everything working out in the end, I guess this is another of those quirky little footnotes in Southampton’s history. He’ll be remembered along with the Ted Bates statue and Ali Dia as one of those WTF moments we still can’t quite believe really happened.

I think most eight year olds could have told you that sticking a Sega Megadrive controller in an old hot water cylinder, with an expressed desire of driving it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 500 miles out to sea, is a bad idea. I think most twelve year olds could tell you that a militia of alcoholic rapists, released from prison and lead by a belligerent Uruk Hai, leading an armed revolt against the government of Russian, was going to get somewhat messy. That fact that someone of Alexei’s cranial output considers either of these points to be ‘expertise’ doesn’t particularly surprise me.

So who’s your favourite, far right insurrection leader? The Shaman gets it for me, Prigozhin just didn’t put the effort into his outfits.

Clearly he didn’t drum up the support he expected from certain factions and felt that he couldn’t win. I’m not sure I really believe all charges against him were dropped. Dropped from a window in Minsk, perhaps.

Surely Putin won’t just let him go back to work as normal, like nothing happened.

Your arse would be twitching if you were on one of them.

You said that it’s interesting Russian air power hasn’t been used against them. I don’t think it is, Russian air power has already proven to be largely ineffective in this conflict so far, their 1970s aircraft and diminishing stock of guided bombs aren’t the formidable force that some like to pretend they are. Wagner have already brought down a small number of helicopters which attacked the convoy and an Il-22 reportedly as well.

I think you’ve spent a bit too long listening to Alexei and his, "if we take on the Russian AF it’ll all be over in one weekend," routine. If they were any good, the war in Ukraine wouldn’t be going the way it has.

Lucky buggers are getting a bank holiday on Monday, too.

A huge explosion and flames at a Russian military facility near Voronezh now reported to be a fuel depot. Almost certainly done by Putin loyalists to hinder any mechanised column heading towards Moscow, IMO.

Completely unverified source but plausible.

Which is more than the women they raped and murdered ever got chance to do. No tears from me, opposed to Putin or not they’re still ruthless thugs.

https://twitter.com/Sputnik_Not/status/1672355756912279553

I reckon he was on that submarine.

I thought Russian tanks were supposed to be maintaining order on the streets of Kyiv? So confusing, this three day SMO.

It wasn’t until I read the captions that I realised this wasn’t Prigozhin but an uncanny look alike. I can see why so many Russian women are desperate to marry western men. It’s like every single one of them is the spawn of George Dawes.