Lighthouse

I’m increasingly starting to think that having different regions in different tiers is just a stupid idea. The Euston photos showed, it just leads to people from areas of high infection flooding into areas of low infection. If London needs a lockdown, give Cornwall one too, so what? It’ll protect that area in the long term and insure the infected people in London stay there. Even if infection rates are low elsewhere, there’s no harm in them being pushed a bit lower by lockdowns.

That elephant starting to look a little bit ‘Earth Song’.

It’s been the wettest on record apparently.

I’d have thought she’d be singing ‘Dirty Diana’.

I was watching a video a while back, might have been Matt Dillahunty but I honestly can’t remember now, where he explained how the assumption of a sinister, higher power was an evolutionary survival mechanism against apex predators. In humans it can manifest as superstition, religion and conspiracy theories. It’s all the same basic line of thinking. I guess for some, that could manifest as cynicism of the EU.

Very bright academically, a former airline captain and currently in law school. I guess it’s like many of the politics and social threads on here and in the wider world; once you start down the wrong path and only seek confirmation bias, even the smartest people can believe the strangest ideas.

Rather tragically, a good friend of mine who is by no means stupid is completely taken in by it all. He recent posted on FB that the latest lockdowns were an example (which he had perfectly predicted) of the government continuing to turn the screw in taking away our personal freedoms. He won’t listen to several dozen doctors in Wales telling him critical care units are on the bring of capacity but he will share a blog, written by an Alabama redneck on ket, stating that microchips are indeed in the vaccine and if you ever go somewhere with a wifi signal the government will know your precise location.

Season’s greetings! A toast to Saints fans around the world!

I’m still optimistic that some sort of Easter getaway is salvageable given enough vaccinations to the at risk groups. USA might be optimistic with Donnie in charge for another month but other, less bat sh*t mental, countries might be civilised and habitable by then.

Looks like USC have taken the lead against Notre Dame. 1 billion internet points if you get that reference.

I think that’s slightly open to interpretation. They could have had everything planned out, only for a certain number of no-shows to leave a number of vaccines unused. So, rather than waste them, they scroll down the list and pick some more people for a jab.

Was looking at flights to Dubai in April too, some cracking prices out there. Emirates biz for £860 on one particular day, or less than £150 in cattle with BA. Cheapest I found was about £200 return but that was via Kiev.

Hi everyone, I’m planning a ski trip in the last week of January, if the lifts are open and we’re out of lockdown. That being the case, would you mind awfully sitting in the cupboard under the stairs until said week, so we can get the R number down a bit. Thanks a million.

People who say they’re, "ashamed to be from the UK," because of Brexit. Get a f**king grip, drama queens.

Such a Burnley goal to score.

Having the likes of Forster, Redmond, Armstrong, Diallo and Salisu on the bench is not, "painfully thin." I’m not sure what calibre of player you’re expecting to be backup for a club like Saints but that bench is as good as it’s been for a while. Even under Poch we had players like Kelvin, Fox, Hooiveld and Mayuka on the bench.

Since we’re doing adverts: Tesco - why you’d pick Fearne Cotton to do a voiceover when she’s the most gormless sounding halfwit out there, I’ve no idea. That ‘we are veggies’ song. Christ alive...

Freighters are going to be put off from coming here, as they can’t leave again after. Cue more panic buying and empty supermarkets as people buy enough pasta and bog rolls to make it to August.

Why would you wear white trainers with that suit? F**king tool.

Taking it in turns to do a line of Charlie off Priti’s stomach.

😂 If you can call pulling fighter jet levels of g-force for 2 hours in the heat and humidity of Singapore or Malaysia ‘sitting’ then sure, whatever. Don’t get me wrong, I know jockeys have to be fit and light but I wouldn’t put them in that bracket.

I don’t think I could vote for a snooker player, or a jockey personally. They just don’t scream ‘athletic prowess’ in the same way as any of the others.

I’d probably vote for Fury out of those 6.

Really wish Hamilton would take a page out of Rashford’s book and learn some genuine humility, rather than continuously telling everyone how humble he is.

I’ve always been happy with the idea of RB leaving, aged 32 and having given us the best 7 years of his career. Come summer Ings, Vest and Armstrong will be 29, Romeu 30, Long 34, Bertrand 32 and Walcott 32 if we keep him. I wouldn’t want too many players over 30 to start building up. Long and Bertrand would be the obvious candidates to let go first.