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Well fuck me sideways. I've made it in to The Good Beer Guide 2020. Four years of hard work doing what I love doing and I've got a CAMRA pub of the month award plus this under my belt. Fucking made up.

No, those are the actions of a total cock womble.

What about the music though?

Apropos of nothing.

Not to be confused with Jon Culshaw: one is a photo-realist, the other is an Impressionist.

That'll be the influence of the Doobie Decimal System.

I didn't mean that in an overly negative way, just that they are prone to hyperbolic nonsense when criticizing /arguing against left wing / hard left concepts and ideology, hence Boss with Hitler and Corbyn. My personal experience is that they also make a lot of good or at least interesting points and tend to be well informed and educated. They also tend to be contrarians and slightly sociopatic (usually) males that are economically successful or think they are about to become so and as a rule underestimate the impact of chance or privilege in that success. Some go all Ayn Rand on you which is usually when you need to use the safe word and extricate yourself from the debate.

“Beans on a fry-up?” ”I have my fry-up on beans”

Just over a tenner but he had to pay for the extra sausage. Pay attention, man, this is a serious thread.

So I was at the cricket yesterday, so had a fry up on the way in a cafe I've not been to before "the front room cafe" in tollington park road in London near Finsbury park. Everything is cooked fresh, so a bit of a wait. 1 egg, 2 bacon, 2 sausage (1 comes with the breakfast I added a 2nd), 1 hash brown, beans, toast and tea. Just over a tenner. Some of the bacon was a little undercooked for me. The sausage was decent, although the skins were tough. Too many beans. Not enough egg. Weird seeded toast. Despite all that, I enjoyed it and the seeded toast was even nice (I'm a firm believer in white toast with a fry up). All in all it was decent enough, 7.5/10. I'm not sure if I'd go back, but purely because I don't eat round there much and there's other places to try I've not been to. It's probably the best fry up I've had around N4.

Man City are very well oiled. Huge amount of oil.

In our set up, with the attacking full backs, and a front three, we need solid, functioning, consistent midfielders. Can is not one of them. He does some good stuff, and some ridiculously shite stuff. Do not want.

Usually a big game in our house this. My bird’s dad is a Geordie and she supports Newcastle herself, although a lot more casually than her old man. They’ve both made last minute plans to go out with the kids tomorrow. Can’t think why.

All this is pretty standard when you engage libertarians in a discussion.

He was good at a lot of things, but I don't think he's at the same level as any of our current midfield starters. It's the one section of the team that gets questioned, but Hendo, Gini, Fabinho and Milner have put in some huge performances over the last couple of years, especially in Europe. You don't reach two European Cup finals in a row and bring Manchester City to the last day in the league with a dodgy midfield.

You can make a pretty compelling argument that evaluating them purely as attackers, it's very close. But Luis will always come out ahead when you look at it comprehensively. Torres was unbelievably good at playing on the shoulder of the last man, he could do absolutely everything there - pass, dribble, score. But that's really the only thing he was good at. Suarez, on the other hand, was unbelievably good at everything. He defended from the front almost like Bobby does, he was a fantastic passer from deep, his attitude and desire to win made everyone else around him better, and then he was also as good at the pure striking duties as Torres was. Of course, you also have the fact that Suarez was so good that every time he stepped onto the pitch in 2013/14 you just knew he was going to drag the team around him to victory, even if it was full of the likes of Skrtel, Lucas, Glen Johnson, Flanagan and Mignolet. Torres, while certainly a great player himself, had the good fortune to be playing with a much better supporting cast.

Get a load of this fucking douchebag

Three years in and I've just picked up Leeds CAMRA Pub of the Month which is a fairly big deal for us.

Just one, Im actually trying to sell it. Either way, the elections went great for us. In my home town we became the third biggest party. I’ve said no to become deputy mayor, I want the role as secretary of city planning instead, something I’ve got. I’ll also be the board director of Stavanger city development company. Both important positions for my parties most important politics. The picture is from the night of the elections, on our way in to talk about how to get the power.

Not everybody cooks with napalm

A mate sent me this drooling. Thought of you twats.

Steph McGovern had to slap the sexist prick down in public. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-bbc-star-steph-mcgovern-20056236 Gotta love Steph.

I have a feeling this is gonna be a real tonking, proper old school pasting, if we get away with only conceding four I’d consider it a good day.

You fucking commented on it when I bumped it the other week. Are you a blitzed librarian?

The "egg" looks like someone has placed an orange condom in a white balloon and then burst it, I appreciate detail in the deep fried white dogs turd still having the sweetcorn in it but none of that distracts from the absolute inhumanity and hate crime in the form of a bean orgy slopped on your sad plate. Did you stab the chef's ma?

This is brilliant. Cant stop watching it

Whatever it is, it shouldn't be wrapped around a fry up.

Jari Litmanen > Georgi Kinkladze

I voted Suarez, but...

Fucking state of that. Bean juice everywhere, bacon and sausages look undercooked, no black pudding, tomato or mushrooms (latter might have been through choice?), seeded toast. You’ve ruined my day again, Barry, you bastard.

If I swim hard I might just make it to Egg Island.

One Suarez goal in particular always stands out to me. Carrow Road. Suarez misses a good chance, and the crowd are giving him stick. Camera zooms in on him, and you can see he's beating himself up. The 'keeper plays the goalkick short to the fullback, who plays it inside to the centrehalf. Suarez is on him like a flash, nicks the ball off him, nutmegs him for good measure, and then bends it around the keeper with the outside of his right foot! About 8 seconds between kickout and goal being scored. Absolute genius.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be if people are invoking their inner Voltaire in defence of Boss. I didn't object to him expressing his point of view. Please note that, as far as I'm concerned, his point of view is pure evil, but at least you could argue with it on the substance. The problem was his habit of dismissing anyone who didn't agree with him as a Communist and/or Marxist or some variation on how you are the real authoritarian. Because he wants a small state, everyone who has a contrary viewpoint must want a planned economy. I guess it makes sense that he has chosen to leave. He's only just evaded The Liverpool Way NKVD and a trip to the gulag.

I'll have the starter of the gegenpressing terrine, the main of the Mane special, and if I've any space left over after that I might be tempted by the Bobby no-look special for dessert. My wife will have the same.

Fixed

I really was wondering where the main thrust or debate on that was. Two reasons: firstly, I’m actually interested in both sides of the argument and the viability of such a thing; secondly, I want to see what I wrote so I can either brag or pretend I was joking to save face.

Billy Holiday and her dog

'Get down to Goodison.'

Juicy on the inside with a rough exterior.

If you were really TJ hooker you would find the head of the train company and throw a nightstick at his legs, then roll over your car bonnet and run away quickly.

SD is a proper weapon some times isnt he?