Lighthouse

A straight jacket would stop us giving away so many hand balls.

I’m not confusing anything, we aren’t different ‘shades’ we have differing genetic qualities. If you go back around 100,000-400,000 years (estimates vary) we all had a common ancestor, most likely in East Africa somewhere. If you go back 50 million years, you find the first ancestors of all modern primates. Anyway, the point is is the same basic, tribal behaviour.

Correct, basically. I briefly alluded to it on another thread, but I believe what is essentially racism was an important part in our natural selection. The descendants of modern day homo-sapiens were one of a variety of homo-erectus subspecies but we became the dominant genus. In effect our ancestors survived by being the most aggressive, to the point that all our other relatives died out. There’s a reason why if you go to the zoo the gorillas, chimps and orangutan aren’t in the same enclosure - they’d all kill each other. In short, I believe racial tolerance is a learned behaviour, not something we are born with.

A degree? I will say it with absolute certainty. Racism was a necessary part of our evolution, like a number of undesirable behaviours. It won’t be going away any time soon.

Meh. TBH it’s got to the point now that it’s just meaningless and I don’t really notice it. A bit like when players make the sign of the cross, pray to Allah or any other ritual.

I didn’t realise Twitter had an audio description service.

Has he got itchy boobs?

Please be Pompey. Please be Pompey. Please be Pompey. Please be Pompey. Please be Pompey. Please be Pompey.

Don’t be thick, everyone knows the Tories are desperate to kill off a large number of elderly voters.

SSN reporting that Kane hasn’t turned up for training today.

TBH I'd just like to have some good players for a change. If we 'only' make £20m profit on them, I can live with that.

Spent the whole afternoon trying to suck the vaccine out of my arm with an empty syringe. No joy so far.

That’s open to interpretation though. It could mean we wanted to keep him but his attitude was such that we felt compelled to get rid of him.

….. born in the mid Cretaceous period.

In the last two years we've offloaded Clasie, Boufal, Hoedt, Lemina, Gunn, Carrillo and hopefully soon we can add Moi, Long and Forster to that. That's only players who were surplus to the squad and added basically nothing, so not including Austin, Bertrand, Cedric, Hojbjerg et. al. Even those six, averaging £50k a week, adds up to £15m a year. If we lose that from the wage bill and can't break even then f**k knows what's going on.

£10m a year is nothing these days. Hoedt, Lemina and Bertrand must have been on roughly that, combined.

You say that as if it's a debatable or contentious issue but the same statement could be made about 90% of players in world football. All it really comes down to is price and whether anyone's willing to pay it.

I tried to mix cement in a pelican once, got me a life time ban from Marwell.

But if that same money bought a mediocre replacement, a reasonable goalscorer and some cover at fullback, we'd be better as a squad.

Yes Wilma Flintstone Lois Griffin Jessica Rabbit Maybe Marge Simpson Betty Rubble No Sheila Broflovski

.... Officially.

This got me Googling the age of consent in Japan. 13 apparently. 😮 Better here than the Danny Ings thread. He's not got the tits for a Lycra body suit.

I can’t imagine they’re on anything less than £150kpw combined, ignoring whatever signing on fee we gave Theo. Supposing we brought in a reserve FB on £50k, the extra £100k adds up to over £10m over a 2 year contract, which could have gone on a transfer fee.

It’d be an improvement. Then again, so would dog farts.

Dog farts.