Lighthouse

Yes. Seriously.

Smoking is banned in almost all public and commercial buildings. By that measure it is in fact a lot like Covid passports. Driving is a necessary part of daily life, being unvaccinated isn't. There are also laws governing all the major factors in road deaths; speed, drug and alcohol use, MOT requirements, driving tests, bans for point accumulation, seat belts. Driving is much MORE tightly regulated than simply needing a vaccine. I can't believe this still has to be explained but it simply isn't true. There is still risk to people, even if they're fully vaccinated, the whole point is to bring deaths down to a level which are comparable to a bad flu season. That number will depend largely on what percentage of the population is vaccinated and what percentage is walking around, spreading disease and acting as a living petri-dish for new variants to develop. Nobody is forcing you to get vaccinated but if you don't then you have a hand in killing people, whether you'd like to admit that or not.

I wouldn’t normally word it like this but I’m not sure Djenepo actually has a round hole.

Still nothing from Saints on social media, I wonder if we’ll just never announce anything like we did with Safri.

TBH it’s all just guess work based on internet rumours and hearsay. It could be a simple case of Occam’s razor - we don’t actually think he’s that good.

I had the Pfizer jab but I kind of want to get the new iPad mini when that comes out. A bit worried something may have gone wrong.

Not sure that's entirely true, we'll have had whole teams of coaches and analysts monitoring his career for years in the lead up to this decision. 22/23 is basically crunch time for a footballer, if you're not getting regular football by then you're probably not at the right level. Good luck to him.

Wearing trainers is a personal choice, don’t expect to get let into too many night clubs. If it’s a personal choice, you aren’t being excluded.

A worldwide global Illuminati which controls the way we think and they didn’t think to change one of their crisis actor’s Instagram handles to something other than ‘crisis actor’. Ignoring the fact that this bloke can’t spell ‘academy’ and there is no Oscar in such a category anyway.

When people say, "I could care less."

With hindsight, we were mathematically safe after we beat Liverpool in the New Years Day fixtures. I’d say that was fairly comfortable.

Fair point, from now on I’ll add ‘split’ to the title if stuff gets moved.

Remember in 2014 when we had to sell players just to get a loan from Athletico Madrid and sign a player from FC Twente…

If I leave it on the original thread - people complain If I just delete it - people complain If I split it off onto a separate thread and let people carry on - people complain If I drink three bottles of buckfast and run, naked, through a Bat Mitzvah - people complain I suppose the last one’s less relevant but the point is I can’t win, whatever I do, so you’ll just have to live with it.

There's nothing grim about it. Aside from a brief purple patch before his injury this season, he's been pretty average across his three years here. A good passer and physical presence but with some pretty obvious flaws.

Of all the phrases I’ve ever seen used to describe Jan Bednarek, that’s the least believable.

In an ideal world he’d be replacing Stephens, who would leave for first team football but I’d agree the Vest theory is more likely. If this rumour is true of course.

Managers mud-wrestle naked?

Extra time but both teams have to remove one player from the field every 5 minutes.

You guys remind me of this:

Yes, and I’d very much like to keep it that way. If you start controlling who uses social media, you’re eroding that protection. Every dictator in history has basically started off with controlling the media. The biggest differences between us and places like China or Russia is that we do have a free press and social media. It’s not always pretty, sometimes it’s downright disgusting, but it is free. It’s only possible IF you make it possible for somebody in authority to have access to the personal details of the user of every single account registered on social media. To say that’s easier said than done is the mother of all understatements. You can’t just apply that singularly to the U.K. either, a large amount of online abuse doesn’t even come from this country. It amounts to the same thing, it can be abused in the same way.

Actually we got rid of them because they were no where near Premier League quality and there was nothing to lose in letting them go. Clearly those who’ve analysed their performances in training and in matches decided we were no worse off with JWP, Stephens, Bednarek or Salisu filling in if needed.

Why is that a ‘lol’? Seemed like perfectly reasonable speculation to me, even if it did turn out to be spurious.

Still missing the point, it’s not about consensus. If something is a law, it’s a law for everyone and can be exploited as such. Just look at the countries and people who already want/have censorship of SM, control over who uses it and access to the personal data of those people - Trump, China, most of the Middle East, The Taliban, North Korea, Turkmenistan - are these really the people you want to emulate?

It's not whataboutery, you're missing the point. You're talking about introducing a law, which you only want to use for yourself, for what YOU think is right and wrong. People like Trump and the regime in China WILL use exactly the same arguments about 'terrorists' and 'traitors'. They will use these laws against anyone who opposes them.