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Remembrance of the disaster was the theme at church yesterday so my son asked what happened. I explained, then he asked what happened to the police officers who presided over it. The look on his face when I said "nothing" was heartbreaking. Even now, innocence is being lost. RIP.

What I have learned from this thread: Hotdogs and Coke: bad Pies and Bovril: good,

I missed the second 'shagger' the first time round. I'm losing my touch, clearly spending too much time around Protestants/Brits [delete according to what will outrage the usual suspects the most].

She's not pretending otherwise, fair play to her: As responses to being 'found out' go, she could teach Phil McNulty a thing or two.

I don't know. Is it contagious?

A wise and just response.

I'm not proposing calling HER a unionist poppy shagger. She knows I think that. I'm asking whether I can use the insult on others without being labelled sectarian because I have a unionist poppy shagger wife.

Did that ever get an airing in the ground?

Can you call someone a unionist poppy shagger if you're married to a unionist poppy shagger? Asking for a friend?

I've managed to get my son interested in board games. We've had some epic games of Pandemic, X-Wing and Memoir 44. The little git has the luck of the devil. If he needs four crits/tanks, he'll roll four crits/tanks. Unfortunately I can't get my wife hooked. She has always enjoyed any games we've played with her - I got Wingspan with her specifically in mind - but she would rather be doing something else with her time.

Dave touched on it recently and it got a full airing in this podcast: what defines the Klopp era is the home form. My record in games I've been at under Klopp is P35 W28 D7 L0 F100 A27. That doesn't tell the whole story though. Only once did Liverpool take the lead and fail to win, and that was the 5-5 draw with Arsenal in the League Cup that was won on penalties. Most incredibly though, they've gone behind 13 times in those games. 13! The consensus yesterday was that the Man City-Arsenal game was dogshit viewing, Mr Freedom-For-Catalonia-Slavery-For-Abu-Dhabi and his (footballing) protege stinking the place out with their forensic view of the game. Chris seemed a little awkward about saying it has been a privilege to get to see so many games with Klopp as the manager. I'm quite unabashed about it. It's been such a thrill, and when things go to shit (relatively speaking) in the next few years, I'm determined that I'll view this period as a case of 'tis better to have loved and lost' than marinating in misery.

It looks like he is the man you thought he was. Unfortunately. that's worked against Liverpool.

Today in Northern Ireland: Meanwhile, the 61-year-old leader of the DUP has deleted all his social media accounts.

Early on we get a POV from a fox. The way the book evolved in the writing is fascinating in itself.

The interrogation of the man at the helm by Baltimore PD was fraught: