Lighthouse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63687412 Monumental, gaslighting w**ker. Apparently we should all be apologising for stuff that happened 400 years ago, not the Qataris for still living like this in 2022.

People who say they were, "dead for eight minutes," if they have some sort of cardiac arrest. No, one of your organs stopped functioning temporarily, death isn’t a temporary affliction.

Few rational people would argue with any of that, the problem is that it has no bearing at all on men who want to be women as a lifestyle choice because they enjoy dressing up in stereotypically female clothes. It regularly gets brought up in an attempt to provide a medical basis for being transgender but really it’s a non-sequitur. Whatever the variations in hormones, genital shapes and genetics, we still have a clear definition of male and female which applies to all but a very, very small percentage of the population; people who ovulate are female, people who have testicles and produce sperm are male. If this was the true basis of what some people actually want to be true, you’d expect it to be fairly consistent; across gender, time, personalities and location. Instead what’s happening is there are 2.5 times as many men who claim to be women, compared to the other way around, the number of people making this claim is growing exponentially, it’s much higher in for example, California than Kansas and it’s frequently associated with people who have serious mental health issues.

Nope, Aribo for me. It’s still like choosing your favourite STD but he has actually done something this season, unlike Ox.

I was at the Stadium MK when Lambert scored possibly his best ever for us. Chris Baird against Cardiff Wayne Thomas, need I say more. Osvaldo Pelle vs QPR Verginiog's cracker against Sunderland

If he hadn't played for us before, you wouldn't be saying any of that.

I think that probably just about sums it up. Not, "we’re fighting three other teams for his signature," Liverpool are trying to offload him onto someone else. We’ve been here before with Walcott, for some reason people convinced themselves he was ‘coming home’ to reignite and relive past glories.

Nope, he’s done nothing for two and a half years.

But he has only one point off safety, so going down was on a knife edge. If we’ve got rid of the main problem, how have we gone from that to definitely going down?

The only person who actually matters rates him, and that’s the manager. If he’s playing regular first team football at Chelsea he quite simply won’t come here.

I can’t see that, he’s played some part in Chelsea’s last nine games in all competitions and started the last two.

Can’t see that happening, everyone knows this is most likely a genuine mistake and not an escalation. There may well be beefed up air defences within NATO territory but I can’t see much more than that.

Crowds never dropped as low as that apart from that one season when Lowe was back in charge and we were getting relegated to League 1. In the other seasons under Burley, Redknapp, Adkins and Pearson we were regularly in the mid-twenties. I'm not saying I want to go down but we'll still pull big gates if we do.

I don’t think it was even what you’d call advice. I believe he was pretty much told before he signed that we’d double his wages at Rovers but we’d be monitoring his physical parameters down to the last fart and expected a big improvement in that area.

Number one by an absolute mile. We’d be comfortably mid table right now if we weren’t utterly hapless in front of goal.

For me it’s borderline, I’ll say yes on the condition that we go down with Everton.

Royal Rumble at SJP.

I think in honour of our God-fearing manager…

I'll be delighted. They have worse players than Leeds did last season, they'll be conceding four or five every game.

The whole point of picking the averages was to reflect the imbalance of wages vs. house prices as a whole. Obviously a first time buyer is going to be at the bottom of the ladder but that will likely go for their wages too. If you’re earning £25,000 you have no chance of saving for a deposit and if you could a bank would only lend you enough to buy a flat in a retirement complex.

A four year mortgage on an average salary of £38,000 (which most twenty-somethings will be earning less than), plus a £15k deposit gives you £167k. For comparison I sold a one bedroom flat in Crawley about five years ago for £190,000 and prices have gone up since then. The £100k was a direct comparison between the average salary and average house price, assuming a four times salary mortgage.

I know some girls from Lincoln, that’s considered an acceptable greeting.

Last played them in 1996, it was also a home LC game. They got a 2-2 draw and took us to a replay.

Switched on at HT, looks like I got it right for once. If we’re going broad spectrum with ‘other games’ that was hell of a batting performance by England this morning. Highest T20 total we’ve ever chased down without losing a wicket.

Entitlement… Let’s say you’re renting one room in a HMO with bills included. The market rate obviously varies depending on location and the property, let’s assume £600-800pcm. Food, personally I tend to spend around £10 per day and that’s avoiding expensive coffees, junk food etc. so £300pcm Fuel, again it depends on your commute but let’s say £50pw so £200pcm Car insurance, tax, service, MOT, let’s say for a modest car in an average year £1200 for easy maths - £100pcm Lets say you have a reasonable gym membership and go to one football game - £100pcm Two modest holidays a year for £600 each - £100pcm Lets allow another £100pcm for miscellaneous stuff you just need sometimes. New clothes, printer ink, opticians or whatever else Total - £1,700 So, IF you leave uni at 21, find a job immediately, which pays a £35k salary from day one, are never made redundant for any period, live in a single room in a house share with a bunch of strangers from spareroom.com or wherever, your salary rises in accordance with inflation every year, you have a partner who is also a qualified professional earning a decent wage BUT you don’t spend any money going on dates at all AND you stay together in a committed relationship the whole time and both intend to buy a house together, you contribute NOTHING to your personal pension allowance, have no children or even pets, have parents who can buy you a decent second hand car, which will last you over ten years and completely ignoring the repayments on your massive student loan which could be over a year’s salary in itself…. If you can do all of that then yes, you might be able to put aside £500pcm from your take home pay each month to put into a deposit. That doesn’t sound like entitlement to me, it just sounds like a nightmare.