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You can guarantee that tomorrow's front pages of the likes of the S*n, Daily Heil and Daily Racist Express will be screaming their abhorrence over what has gone down tonight, alongside their usual headlines displaying the very same attitudes they are slagging the Bulgarians for.

He's carried the team after Christmas last season and he's doing a great job now helping out, what a fantastic player he is. A wonderful person too, love him.

That guy’s dead wife.

Not anymore. But we need a bit of historical context here. Anyway, have you seen English fans abroad? Unfortunately I have. (Admittedly it reflects a particular part of English society only, but that's probably true in Bulgaria, too.) And, incidentally, I don't recall quite the same degree of outrage over the behaviour of English fans in Prague. You can say that was outside stadium, if that matters. And you can say those fans aren't racist. But then I'd question their attitude to travelling overseas. Just to be clear, however: football culture in Central and Eastern Europe is infested with right-wing scum. It's disgusting and deserves a response. (Personally, I stopped going to see Lech Poznan because I was sick of it.) But most of the countries in question are dominated by right-wing parties. (About 60% of the Polish electorate voted hard right on Sunday.) It's a much bigger cultural problem rooted in (post-)communist history...

The CBI figures shouldn't be taken as the absolute truth (and they should certainly not be taken as impartial). https://weownit.org.uk/blog/here’s-why-cbi-wrong-about-labour’s-nationalisation-plans "Public ownership is an investment, not a cost As John McDonnell keeps pointing out, when it comes to water, energy and the Royal Mail, we’d be acquiring profitable assets which would return billions to the public purse every year.... But what about the upfront cost of buying back the companies involved? Well, it’s not up to the CBI. Parliament will decide on compensation levels for buying back our services, based on the public interest. UK and European courts have repeatedly said that “legitimate objectives of 'public interest', such as pursued in measures of economic reform or measures designed to achieve greater social justice, may call for less than reimbursement of the full market value”... The CBI said today that renationalisation of water, energy, rail and Royal Mail would cost £196 billion. There are two problems with the way they calculated this figure. Firstly, they used the Regulatory Asset Base (RAB)/Regulatory Capital Value (RCV) of the companies involved. But this isn’t the real market value, it’s just a notional figure used by the regulators. Secondly, the 30% markup is based on traditional takeover practice. But bringing assets into public ownership isn’t a takeover. It’s hard to imagine that parliament would justify giving shareholders 30% extra on top of RAB/RCV. Why would this huge handout to investors be in the public interest?.. Public ownership pays for itself Buying back the water companies in England would pay for itself in 8 years. It would cost £15 billion (the actual book value of shareholders’ investments) and we’d save £2.3 billion a year. Buying back our energy networks would pay for itself in 7 years. It would cost £22 billion (the actual book value of shareholders’ investments) to buy back the National Grid and the regional distribution companies and we’d save £3.2 billion a year. Buying back our Royal Mail would pay for itself in 7 years. It would be even simpler - the private owners have managed it so badly that the market value today is only £2.2 billion, less than half of even the book value of the company - and we would save over £300 million a year. When it comes to rail, we can take franchises in house one at a time as they come up for renewal without paying a penny in compensation. We already own the infrastructure through Network Rail. When new trains are needed, we can buy them directly on behalf of the public, and save ourselves the £200 million a year currently going to rolling stock shareholders. We would then collectively own, control and benefit from all the assets of our public water, energy, post and rail systems... Bringing these assets into public ownership would not only pay for itself, it would have huge benefits for the environment, society and economy. Benefits like transparency, democratic accountability, lower bills and fares, more investment, more care and better services. Instead of insisting private companies have to do everything, we can embrace a mixed economy and 21st century public ownership. Public services should work for all of us, not just for shareholders. The sooner we make it happen, the better."

Imagine paying £50 to hear an hour and a half of that shit. Christ al-fucking-mighty.

We forfeit the game because he is banned ?

Woe Anderson

AOT has answered most of my questions, but just to add; Dianne Abbot has been singled out and treated incredibly unfairly because she got some figures wrong. Phillip Hammond got some figures wrong around HS2, but you've probably never heard about it because it wasn't reported in the same way. Labour's brexit stance is designed to give give both the Leave supporting and remain supporting voters another decision to make. Not to completely ignore or alienate one side of the argument. The reason Labour rejected a General Election under the fixed term parliaments act is because it potentially allowed Boris Johnson to dissolve parliament and arrange an election on the 1st of November meaning it was basically a way to trap opposition parties in to crashing out with no deal and making Boris look like some kind of Genius Right wing hero. Change Uk were doomed from the start. They were only ever going to be the gateway drug to the Lib Dems. I don't agree with Everything Labour stands for right now, but I agree considerably more than I do with the original tories, the yellow Tories and Farage Tory wannabes.

He never quite came to grips with english terms like 'don't lose your fucking man' or 'make sure you don't get fucking dragged out of position' thats for sure.

Not so much mate, but yeah it’s just one of those decisions which makes itself in the end. Not at all comfortable with the concept of going private for multiple reasons, but I’m in a dangerous spot and not going over the edge without a fucking good scrap. Genuinely not their fault though. The last couple of years have pushed me as close to my breaking point mentally as I ever want to go, and I think I just needed to both vent at the wall in a meaningless way and have summarised the above two issues in my own words for my own sake, so they’re clear in my mind for future reference. When I moved up to the adult CF service in my local hospital they had 16 of us patients to look after. By 2016 there were 60 with no staff uplift, it was out of control - still 1 doctor for all the patients as there always had been. Obviously he looked really well at that time. Ward staff leaving burnt-out all over the shop. They then moved our care to Southampton in 2017 with a variety of excuses but it had been in the post for years, I’d been telling friends and family it would happen since at least 2015 if not earlier as our team was barely coping. At my clinical appointment a few weeks ago, I raised a number of the sort of issues I mentioned above in a very carefully-worded and respectful way - having given myself a month or two to stop levitating with anger from when they occurred. I did so because I think I know the issue and it isn’t any lack of competence or dedication in any single person who looks after me. I got a grateful and sincerely apologetic reaction and a plan to make a few pragmatic workarounds based on my comments, from a consultant who’s been looking after me for about 15 years who I respect hugely as a person and a doctor. I was shortly afterwards talking to one of the team’s nurses who used to be ward sister, and she in another context happened to mention my clinic team now has “over 300 patients”. So even if that number is only 301, they have 75 patients per doctor (4 on this team). At the bare minimum a 25% increase in patients per doctor on numbers that were drowning my old team at a hospital 5 minutes up the road, except now I have about a 2 hour round trip to boot every time I go in. Usually shattered when I even set off. It’s frightening to watch it happening in slow motion as I have, having been closely embedded in the hospital service for 42 years and counting. I said to the consultant above the other week, it pains me to say it because I hold them in such high regard individually and don’t want to come over like an ungrateful or chippy cunt, but at a time people’s backs are against the wall health-wise, the hospital care side of things being another obstacle can make life close to impossible. I don’t doubt it’s tipped some over the edge. What can you do? They know it. They feel it. They’re gutted by it. That response people sometimes get which they feel as indifference or superiority or lack of care genuinely isn’t. I thought for a few visits earlier this year it was that when I was taking mistakes a bit personally, then I put some thought into it and came to a conclusion which the above 300 patient comment confirmed. They’re fucked, they’re drowning, and in the midst of it they’re doing the absolute best they can while trying to stay sane and not spend their whole lives feeling guilty. If I was the other half of anyone in that position I’d be saying “You’re doing all you can and it’s a fuck sight better than if you weren’t there doing it for them, so you have to be able to switch off from it or it’ll burn you out and they’ll lose your help”. Fuck knows what the answer is, because the inefficiency and oversight of things which used to be handled smoothly is starting to become more and more commonplace, in my experience. Which anyone sane would expect, with numbers like the above to consider. Do more with less. Marvellous stuff. On the flip side, if you read all that, the pain in your bollocks will surely now feel like a veritable treat compared to getting trapped by me when I begin speaking. Hope your knackers are or get sorted mate and apologies for spewing an absolute fuck-tonne of words at you you didn’t ask for.

Bet that wasn't cheap? But worth it to get some proper answers. I not knocking the NHS but waiting times are ridiculous, I had to have an ultrasound on my bollocks, I didn't think anything of the wait but when I walked in the Radiographer looked at my notes shaking his head and said "31 days, tut tut." Everything was fine but not everyone's so fortunate.

They've had it wrong all along... he's not a sympathiser, he's a:

This is going to be tough for customs officers.

I feel about sorry for him, 16 years old cameras everywhere and that’s the best footage the sad twitter fuckers can find to bring him down? My career would have been over at 15

Wake me up when it's 25 points.

Been telling my clinical team I don’t think I have my condition’s hipster type 1 style diabetes since 2011, after my diagnosis occurred at the same time I was put on steroids - which notoriously elevate blood sugars - for the first time in my life. I stopped needing to inject myself with insulin once I took myself back off steroids to see if what I thought would happen happened. It did. Been having regular blood sugar testing, oral glucose tolerance tests, annual diabetic eye tests etc ever since, and have raised this small piece of context each time. Couple of weeks ago I got my first ever appointment with a diabetes professor. Just the casual 9 years after my diagnosis. I was in his company for 3 minutes, tops. Listed my case as he’d been told it. I said without being pedantic x part is not accurate...yes, my sugars are no longer elevated but that is no recent thing - as he had the impression it was - but has always been the case other than the year or so period referenced when I was being fed steroids, and a couple of isolated instances linked to being otherwise unwell. ”Oh. Really?” ”Yes”. ”I don’t think you have diabetes”. ”I don’t either”. ”I think we should test you once more next time and then we can confidently confirm you don’t have it”. * handshake, consultation over Never a bad thing to officially lose an illness, but while it’s not massively increased the overhead, fuck if it doesn’t drain your confidence in the efficiency of the health service.

Didn’t get a single minute did he? Nice one Gareth.

When is the next Commonwealth Games?

I think he’ll be one of those players that when it clicks it clicks. That period March to April he looked really good, it’s a confidence/ sharpness issue. He’s one of these players that makes the game look very difficult as his strengths are the most difficult aspects of the game, taking the ball in tight spaces and running at people and playing the killer pass. I still have huge faith in him, as the glimpses have been there, I can’t see klopp giving up on a player he held in such high regard.

Joaquin Phoenix double bill You Were Never Really Here - Small, almost arthouse pic with Phoenix as a suicidal hitman who saves kids from child traffickers. Only 90 minutes long, stylishly shot but I confess I didn't get the reviews of it as a masterpiece of cinema. I found it ponderous at times, too arty for it's own good and it left me cold. I'm sure I could read plenty on why it's so highly rated but it just did nothing for me. One of those films where the form does more for the critics than the audience. 6 out of 10 Joker - AKA Ladybird book of Taxi Driver. Miserable film lacking in the subtlety of the Scorsese films it so liberally borrows from. It straddles a very fine line between seeking empathy and pity for the main character, which is why it possibly gathered some worried press. Didn't do enough of the homework to explain why the 'kill the rich' uprising happened so fast or why Gotham's system was so broken. Very intense, physical performance from Phoenix but there isn't a lot to hang a film on here. Decent but 65% of it is just so miserable that I found it a bit bland; starts to get interesting but then it's over too quick. 6.5 out of 10.

Not many will agree on here I guess, but I dont think he’s been that bad the few times he’s been fit. Far from what most of us expected, absolutely, but I definately think he’s shown signs that he offers something different, taking on opponents and looking for early forward passes. I think he’ll add creativity and a more direct approach if he can ever manage to stay fit for more than a couple of games running.

We woe the game

Could make for an interesting movie trailer that. "He was on the run from the cops. He told them no-one would ever find him. Texas is a big place after all. Can he stay one step ahead or will they find him? Prime Time Emmy award nominee Simon Maroulis stars in the gripping police drama Crouching Cowboy Hidden Squeasant. In cinemas nationwide."

Decided to offer my services to Everton, with 30 years building experience and an O Level in Technical Drawing. Should cost them around 800m. Should I forward my drawing to Mr Moshiri?

Pamela Hensley from Buck Rogers

What's the one line you think of when you think of the Sopranos? Mine is "You never had the makings of a varsity athlete".

Sorry mate you need to update your phone settings , your spellchecker is changing the word gorgeous to tentative.

Wtf

Don't even know who their reserve goalie is these days. Take it it's not Roy Carroll anymore?

We always seem to have played them after an international break the last few years with some of our players not getting back until a day or 2 before. Seem to remember the club flying them back on a private jet straight after the internationals more than once, to get them back ASAP. Games after the international are usually shit and cagey with most of the players from both teams fatigued. We gave them too much respect last year. This time is different. Our players will be well rested, Salah has had 2 weeks off, Mane would have had 10 days off, the rest will have all had best part of a week off. We’re so much better than them. they can’t score, their Midfield is shocking and their defence is shit. Im never ever confident over this fixture but given the circumstances, give them zero respect, go out an fucking blitz them. I can see no other outcome but a draw.

Too much overconfidence from our fans and too much dread from the mancs - not giving me a good feeling. I think this will be much closer than people think. Our record there stinks and our performance there last season was shockingly bad, considering all the injuries they picked up during the game AND how badly we needed to win. It's just a shit place for us to go. They will raise their game massively and I reckon it could be another dull draw.

I’ll be Doggone ? Is a great track for me , It Takes Two with Kim Weston also.

I'd bite your hand off for that right now.

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Cos if you know your history its enough to make your heart goe woe.

You'd end up passing your toys down to him.

Made me laugh how offended the interviewer got, and she didn't turn a hair!

Well I could have linked to the Pornhub edit, I suppose. To be fair, it takes me a good quarter of an hour to collect all the paraphernalia needed for a good hard wank, lube, sandpaper, pliers, chisel, I'm a gentleman ffs, either do it properly or don't bother. I do have an emergency toss kit, but then you've got to get the missus out the house, send the kids up the chippie, make sure the dog isn't going to disturb the neighbours again because the poor little lamb's frightened of daddy and his foaming mouth. I MEAN, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT, HARDCORE FILTH FROM THE FIRST SECOND? I GET A FULL FRONTAL VIDEO OF CONNIE BOOTH AND IT'S NOT FUCKING GOOD ENOUGH? CUNTS. I HOPE YOU ALL BURN.

Nothing controversial about it. Beans are one of the basic ingredients of the full breakfast. So basic that if your one of these fucking weirdos who don't like beans on the plate, you have to specifically ask for them not to be included. Otherwise the person serving you will just assume your quite normal and include beans given that they're part of a full breakfast.

I enjoyed it. Nice bit of nostalgia.

Needed a second shelving unit as I had run out of space. Now have a good stock of various, since the picture I know stock peychauds, aztec chocolate bitters, overproof rum, Absinthe, Tequila, Cognac,

# Booing me, booing you, Zahaaaaa! There is nothing we don't boo, Booing me, booing you, Zahaaaaa! Booing me, booing you is the best we can doooo! #

From the Echo today One thing that's important to note here is that the club have had multiple targets and deadlines to meet over the stadium in the past - and have hit every single one up to this point. So, things could all get very exciting in the next few months or so - even more than they already are! On the subject of funding The answer to this still isn't known as of yet. Everton are in the process of exploring a number of funding options for the proposed stadium. Well I plan to win the lottery on Tuesday, well to be precise the Euromillions. It's 32 million and I have multiple targets as to what to do with the money once it's in my bank. I've picked the cars and houses for the family. It's important to note that I have met every deadline, I went to the shop and managed to purchase a ticket. I even have a lovely hand drawn pic of my new sports car. About now I'm guessing you're pretty envious. I bet that looks better than your car, and it goes much faster too. So, things could get all get very exciting in the next few weeks or so - even more than they already are.

No other famous, single tier, behind the goal stands it is mimicking then?