Lighthouse

I saw a programme once where she had a chicken stripped, tied up and rubbed all over in oil. I don’t think I’ve ever been so envious.

I think the confusion stems from you conflating two separate points; being a key worker and being unable to work with your daughter at home. For example you could be a professional sex doll tester like I er... a friend of mine and the latter would apply but not the former, so you wouldn’t be justified in sending your child to school. Anyway, you are a key worker so it’s all academic.

In 2014 we lost Lambert, Lallana and J Rod, the latter to long term injury, and with them went all our goals. 6 months later we were 3rd at Christmas. We’ve lost Mané, Toby, Virgil, Lovren, Pellè, Tadič, Wanyama and Morgan, who were all key players, whether or not they quite made the headlines that Ings does. If he leaves, we reinvest and move on. Some people are reacting to our financial figures as if we’re the only club being hit by the loss of gate receipts. We aren’t, market prices will fall to a level where people can actually afford to pay them.

You can, however the point is that simply having your daughter home as a distraction doesn’t make you a critical worker in itself.

Another 1,800 deaths today. We’re really paying for that sh*t show in December.

Whether we want to sell him or not, it’s undoubtedly in our interests for him to sign a new contract first, so with that in mind we must have offered him a pretty decent deal. With regards to the second BIB, he had a shot with Liverpool but he was perennially injured or kept out of the team by superior players. He’ll get whatever offer is in the table, be it at Saints or otherwise but he isn’t entitled to anything.

He’s 29 in summer and has had one properly decent season. He’s an older, more injury prone Beattie and isn’t worth £80m. Don’t get me wrong, I love having him here and he’s a quality player but nowhere near £80m.

In any case, tens of millions of women voted for Trump after he said he could just walk up and grab them by the 🐈‍. I don’t think such a relatively inane statement is going to put many people off him. It’s like an audience with Jimmy Carr or Frankie Boyle, the more they offend, the more people turn up.

Probably very little. Many of them will not care about being abused, so long as a perceived strong leader is making promises they can believe.

Two of those aren’t exceptions as they haven’t turned down better offers elsewhere.

Nice to see such a calm, measured response to the situation. Top half of the league, one player gets linked with a move away and we’re already relegated. We will sell, reinvest and move on, same as we did with Lambert, Lallana and co.

I agree, I think and hope this is very much the crescendo.

That kind of ties in with the London lockdown a few weeks ago, when everyone packed onto the trains to flee the city. What a stupid policy that was.

The troubled genius of the meat processing industry, he once did 5 lambs in under a minute.

I’m going to make an optimistic prediction of sub 500 deaths on Friday 29th. Let’s see how well this post ages.

I saw another post somewhere (can't verify any source) which reckons 400 people per week die in care homes in Norway anyway. Obviously the causes of death should be rigorously checked in such circumstances but as more and more vaccines are delivered, more of these stories will emerge.

Unlikely, I didn't think he was great for Bolton.

I like when people say this about players who are quite blatantly not going to stay fit.

I'm indifferent. I quite like UA's stuff in general but they've had a couple of sh*t shows with getting stuff delivered on time and some of the quality.

Was it pitching in line?

Fair point Chez, if anyone's interested this video adds a bit of flesh to the way I view the situation. It's an older story but as relevant today as it ever was.

Makes you proud to be British.

Then we’ll agree to disagree. Highlighting the issues is only of any use if good and open minded people were unaware or misinformed in the first place. There are cases for it; Greg Clarke being a good example of somebody trying to do the right thing but clearly lacking a little enlightenment. Simply stating, ‘black lives matter’ isn’t imparting any knowledge on society.

Good grief, it's like Where's Wally trying to find the fragments of article in that sea of click bait. I got the gist though. 👍

This kind of thing has it's moment but I believe that moment has now passed, in the UK at least. Take being gay as an example, it was only 50ish years ago it was a criminal offence. It was a generally accepted norm in society that homosexuality was a sin, as decreed by the church. That kind of backwards thinking was considered mainstream and needed to be challenged. The reason people like Rosa Parks and MLK will be remembered for centuries is because they marched down streets chanting 'black lives matter' in a time and a place where they didn't. Black people were segregated by law and it was considered acceptable in society. The crux of the matter is that in those cases, good people didn't know what they were saying was unacceptable - All they needed was to be told. Today everyone does know but not everyone chooses to accept that.