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What makes this particularly funny is that you can imagine him being one of the first to take the piss out of Diane Abbott when she got her figures wrong.

Good to read a sensible post at last. Sadly the knee jerk reactionary blowhards in our society (a few of whom post here regularly) suck up the rubbish printed by the likes of the Mail, the Sun and the feeders on Twitter and regurgitate this rubbish on social media a daily basis so that eventually this nonsense becomes “fact”. A bigger issue than management numbers in the NHS is how many people waste time spreading disinformation on social media when they are being paid to do a job 😏

Not now knowing the correct response to the question “does my bum look big in this”. Once upon a time it was a given. If you valued your life or didn’t want to risk the ire of your partner for the rest of the day there was only one answer, “no” (no matter if the said posterior looked nice and pert or, to quote the Divine Comedy, “the size of a small country”). Now that larger arses seem to be in vogue, what do we answer now? Is the response expected by our partner a “yes”? Not a question that I expected to be wrestling with in later life, but it seems that you are never too far away from a disastrous social faux par when it comes to commenting on your other half’s appearance.

It’s weird isn’t it? Despite the perceived wisdom by many internet Saints fans that no manager or player worth their salt would ever join us because we are such a shit club, they still do. Go figure. 😉

Souness’s comments brought a tear to my eye. It is always interesting to see tributes about people who achieved things, but to focus so much on what a great human being he was was truly touching. RIP

“Stitched up by a bird”. Yet again Duckie, you show that you don’t know what you are talking about (the “bird” in question did not bring the action against Evans, the CPS did and as you know, a jury initially found him guilty after considering the evidence) and show why you were so easily sucked in by Farage and UKIP. There is absolutely no comparison between these cases. Try engaging your brain for a change (what’s left of it after years of drug abuse) before posting.

Batman won’t be happy about this. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/03/eleanor-williams-lied-grooming-gang-guilty-perverting-justice

As you say, it happens all the time, that’s the trouble with transfer rumours, they are rumours. Sometimes they happen. Often they don’t. Remember the protracted Promes debacle? It’s all a part of the rich pagent that is part and parcel supporting a football club. If it becomes too much for the nervous system, perhaps threads that cover transfer rumours are best avoided 😉

Probably not such a small thing but definitely comes into the annoying category. The car was in and out of the garage just before Christmas and ended up with a new battery and replaced coils costing me over £700.00. On Christmas Eve the engine warning light came on again. Just heard from the garage that the head gasket has gone and it will cost more than the car is worth to fix it. Bugger.

That isn’t true. We played some good 45 minutes under Ralph in the last 18 months without necessarily getting anything from the games. I didn’t see the Fulham game but my brother is a season ticket holder there and said he has seen far worse sides than us there this season and stated what most of us already know, we don’t put our chances away. Losing,like winning, becomes a habit. We don’t have a bad squad (apart from being short of a decent finisher) but the confidence has been shot for a while and we have become used to losing. Whether we manage to stay up depends on finding the two or three right signings who can add that missing bit of steel and quality into the team. Losing Lavia was clearly a massive blow but the long term loss of me player should effect a team the way this has effected us. We do have the players to play football rather than just hoof and hope. We just have to hope that we can bring the right players in and that Jones can find a way to get points on the board.

Liverpool are able to get players in early because they are Liverpool. As we know, agents like to hold out in case they can get a better club for their clients and as we know, our club isn’t the biggest draw in the EPL.

If the minister in charge was struggling with this one, don’t hold your breath!

Might come in handy for collecting the trolleys?

When the word legend and the term GOAT get thrown around all too easily, this man’s name will always ring out and be at the top of the pile. Modern football started with him and the moves that so many have become famous for, like the Cruyff turn, invariably came from him initially. A truly great player and a great sportsman, not something that could be said of some of the other contenders for the crown. Those of us old enough to remember the classic World Cup of 1970 will recall the scenes at the end of the England v Brazil match where Bobby Moore, another giant of the game, and Pele paid mutual respect to one another. RIP Pele. For many of my generation you will always be football’s GOAT.

The same old same old from Batman. I think the give away here is “mentally ill” Batman. No one thinks that the abnormal actions of people who are mentally ill are “normal.”

This could go in the Brexit thread too but given that the after effects of Brexit are still hamstringing our country I have put this year. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/27/charities-and-employers-struggling-due-to-post-brexit-funding-delays

Very true Whelk. Power came back on at 11:30am so the pub will be fine as they are just over the road! A few villages left without power still but people rallying around with offers of places at the diner table, bbq’s and camper stoves (not ideal for the turkey but essential for a cuppa) so the Dunkirk spirt is alive and kicking in rural Kent. The power people have been excellent with constant updates by text and advice. It seems like a local pole burst into flames which knocked the power out at 7:30am. They managed to reroute most of the supplies and have arranged to bring in a generator to supply those still without power which should happen by about 2/3pm. I don’t know if they have pulled out all of the stops because it’s Christmas Day but it is good to see a utility service actually providing a service! As per your point Whelk, if the worst that happens is that some Christmas dinners end up a few hours late, there are many with greater things to worry about around the world today.

Woke up this morning to find our village without power. Due back on at 11am. 😂 What a way to round off a crap year. Merry bloody Christmas!

Jesus Christ you are desperate for an argument aren’t you! Not one person on this planet believes that they are holding out for19% apart from maybe you. The whole point is sitting around a table and negotiating a settlement, which they will have to do at some point. Thank God you are not part of the negotiating team from the Government side. Or perhaps you are? 🥴

And still you go on about it despite not giving a monkeys. 🙄 Anyway, back to the subject in hand. A further raft of strikes due in the New Year, thousands of people without a water supply at Christmas. Record number of people using food banks. Warm banks set up across the country to try and help people from freezing to death. Despite our “wealth” and standing in the world, you would be forgiven for thinking we had become a third world country. As dear old Alpine would say, we a being run like a second rate seaside B & B. Yet there is still no sign of our latest PM getting a grip and sorting thing out. Happy days.

Thanks for your opinion. If you don’t give a monkeys though, why bother to comment?

There was absolutely nothing wrong with her statement and the only piss taking going on is of some bloke who still insists on calling women and girls “chicks” despite it not being the 1970’s any more. Nathan Redmond has not recently won a major honour, she and the Lionesses have and have proved to be great examples to girls in sport. Comparing your statement with hers, it’s not difficult to tell which of you is deluded.

I doubt very much if they are Egg, but some might be. That isn’t my point. How would you feel if you had a stalker intent on posting mostly made up bollocks about you on an almost daily basis? I do mostly ignore him but occasionally I see something and bite. He has a small band of followers who repeat his BS and as I am sure you know, it doesn’t take much for BS to become “fact” on places like these. I’m sure people who have been reading here for years know exactly what his game is, but relatively new posters won’t. If he was to follow me about the streets calling me a “cock” he would get arrested, yet that behaviour is fine on an internet forum? You call me out for responding to my stalker but doesn’t it occur to you to call him out for his antisocial behaviour? You say you don’t take sides. Seems to me that you do.

Not for me but then I am old school and think that hand ball should be deliberate. Now it seems if the ball hits you on the hand or arm there is a good chance of a penalty. They gave similar penalties in the WC even when players weren’t looking at the ball and had turned their backs.

Or maybe it would suggest that you want to put the record straight for other readers who might actually fall for his guff? Obviously if I don’t see his posts I don’t worry about whether I should respond or not. If I see one of his posts quoted in another’s posters comment, I can ignore its content but it is harder not to read it. Does that make sense to you or do you want to continue to give the forum troll more support? Just so that we are clear, TUI inside became a much nicer environment to post in once he was banned and I am sure the same could be said for here. One of the reasons I don’t cough up £5 is posters like him, but if you want to believe that I have some kind of morbid fascination with him and need to interact with a strange individual who stalks people on the internet, knock yourself out Egg.