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Everton fans have bitterness clouds, they follow them around wherever they roam.

fixed that

Top work from from Big Div here: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/feature/widening-participation/

Rik Mayall died 7 years ago yesterday. When people wrote to him asking for autographs, pictures, quotes etc he would often send a hand written letter

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Lovely little understated snide there.

Saw Jimmy McGovern in The Hanover in town in about 1997, not long after his Hillsborough drama had aired. Anyway, i'm absolutely destroyed and i go up to where he is sitting (in the raised bit by the dart board) and slur "Ah Jimmy, mate, thank you so much for getting the truth out there finally, brilliant writing as usual. Class, fella". He gets up and shakes my hand and says "thanks mate, that means a lot" and i feel myself welling up so i back away thanking him again. I have forgotten that there is a bit of a drop and go absolutely flying down the steps and into a (luckily unoccupied) table full of half empty glasses, which go everywhere. Fair play to the man he comes over to help me up. He is deffo smirking to himself though, and i can't blame him. My mates are on the floor laughing too. I leave.

They'll be like the rest of the world asking: Who the fuck are Everton?

Fortunately, we have Salah.

He has the look of a man with a lot of gravytas.

One of the most beautiful things I've learned from life is that Rick Parfit spent a lifetime trying to learn the Bossanova 'Girl From Ipanema' and never managed it, yet he was rhythm guitarist in one of the biggest bands on the planet. You got to love the fact that a person who couldn't even get the basics right of their trade yet goes on to earn millions of pounds and an equal amount of adulation just by being a decent guy who could string a few cords together, humble to the last. The people that ripped him off could learn a thing or two...

I'm going to guess that Klopp knows exactly what needs to be done to challenge for the big 2 trophies again this season coming. I'm also going to guess he'll get it done. Fuck what anyone else does.

You are talking about spending £80m on a player who isn't starting for us. Got a chance of what? Winning the league? Winning the Champions league? We've done both of them and built a team competing at the highest level for 3 years without signing a vanity sideshow. We spent on VVD and Alison and they are the best in the world. Nothing I have seen from Sancho suggests he is getting to that level in the next few years. Our model is Mane and Mo, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating. United need to spend £80m on Sancho, we don't. They'll benefit from spending that amount next season - we won't. All this talk about what 'we need' is just arrogant nonsense. We have won the league, we've clearly not 'needed' anything. You may like something else - but that is on you - but we don't 'need' it. An evolution in the squad is fine for us at the moment. Maybe if some of our fans appreciated the world class talent up front we wouldn't be losing our shit because we are not getting an overpriced Chris Waddle.

Was bored on a conf call so went back to the guardian article some of the responses rightly calling them out others just cracked me up.

I've been scared to come out with for too long now. I like my toast lightly toasted. I know that seems to upset a lot of people but it's who I am, goddammit.

I have developed Tourette’s at the age of 50 because of this gobshite. Every time he appears on my tv if I’m watching the news I will automatically say “fucking cunt” out loud. I don’t even realise I’m doing it.

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Any cunt who pictures himself with the fist/thumb thing up to his chin is a cunt

Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption, with Groundhog Day in third place.

The obsession with driving the narrative of events that had nothing to do with them is genuinely reprehensible, and unhinged.

I think Dr is an abbreviation of Doctor, but I'm open to correction. @Dr Nowt

I listen to this pretty much every day at the moment.

I have this bad boy...and that's what makes me an irresistible babe magnet

Anyone seen Apollo 11? Highly recommended. 10/10. Only uses archive footage, but looks like it was shot yesterday. What a hero Neil Armstrong was. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/25/apollo-11-review-eye-opening-documentary-is-a-five-star-triumph

Status Quo knew more chords.

Sorry to interject but Billy Cobham's version of Some Skunk Funk is also rather good if anyone is interested...

I wish Noel had, would have saved a lot of embarrassment.

Jesus, that bold bit really got published? These weirdo blue cunts really need to give it a rest now, the jingoism is nauseating. And the Guardian want fucking for giving the soft cunt oxygen.

The Shawshank Redemption is the favourite movie of people who make comments on YouTube.

I hate the Gallaghers, I've always hated the Gallaghers. In college I had to sit among people with hair and clothes like the Gallaghers, who'd talk endlessly about Oasis, then at lunchtime go to Virgin where they'd listen to Oasis albums they already owned, then go the pub and play Oasis on the dukebox, then attend concerts where people would throw piss on each other - great stuff. I was a Manics man myself. Pair of thatched roof headed pricks.

Another vote for lightly toasted although it’s just ‘toasted’ in my head. What really gets me is that being served shite industrially made bread with these breakfasts seems to pass without comment. Heathens the lot of ye…except maybe @mgw100 and @Bruce Spanner

"According to David France, a Liverpool-born Everton historian who has lived in the US for 44 years, the club’s relationship with North America is a long one. France has written 18 books on the Merseyside club..." Holy fuck! 18 books? On Everton?! What a lunatic. Take your pick, folks: Toffee Cards – The Tobacco Years (1997) ISBN 1-874799-05-9 Toffee Pages – The Post-War Years (1997) ISBN 1-874799-06-7 Gwladys Street's Hall of Fame (1998) ISBN 1-874799-09-1 Gwladys Street's Hall of Fame Edition 2 (1999) ISBN 1-874799-10-5 Gwladys Street's Hall of Fame Edition 3 (1999) ISBN 1-874799-12-1 Gwladys Street's Holy Trinity (with Becky Tallentire 2001) ISBN 1-874799-14-8 Gwladys Street's Big Book for Kids of All Ages (with Peter King 2002) ISBN 1-874799-15-6 Gwladys Street's Blue Book (with David Prentice 2002) ISBN 1-874799-16-4 Virgin Blues (with David Prentice 2003) ISBN 1-874799-17-2 Toffee Cards – The Bubble Gum Years (with Barry Hewitt 2005) ISBN 1-874799-18-0 Moyesiah (2006) ISBN 1-874799-19-9 Evertonians Eat Scouse (2006) ISBN 1-874799-19-9 Everton Treasures – The David France Collection (with David Prentice 2007) ISBN 1-874799-20-2 Dr Everton's Magnificent Obsession (with David Prentice 2008) ISBN 978-1-905266-79-1 Alex Young – The Golden Vision (2008) ISBN 978-1-874799-21-4 Everton Crazy - Sixty Seasons, Two Million Miles (2016) ISBN 978-1-909245-46-4 Everton Proud (2016) ISBN 978-1-909245-52-5 Blue Dragon - The Roy Vernon Story (with Rob Sawyer 2019) ISBN 978-1-9162784-0-0

He'll always be Queefin to me.

"Everton can be a special club for special people,” France says You got that fucking right

Review: The Brecker Brothers - Heavy Metal Be-Bop Terrible album title, intrigued though. [presses play] East River kicks things off and I immediately hate the way this sounds; harsh, processed, horrible synthy sounds. Liking it more in the slower parts, funky bass and great drum groove. The singer and vocal a real turn off though. Inside Out - a live track, and it immediately sounds far better. Great jazzy brass runs over the top of a deep funky bass line. Much more to my taste. Very interesting effect on the trumpet; is that a closh or a wah (!) or even a keyboard going bananas with a trumpet sample? Either way, very interesting and impressive playing, miles better than the first song. I love the way this swings, the drums at 4:50 being a real highlight. Great bass and guitar, right up my street. Another high tempo, live jazz funk track - Some Skunk Funk - is next and it's more of the same. Incredible sax playing around the 3:00 mark. The drums and bass again blistering. Nice maracas. Haven't said that for a while. Sponge - interesting bass puts me in mind of Thundercat. More fantastic trumpet playing gives way to great sax and then guitar solos. Would love to see these live in a small club. How did you come across these boys Howie? The drumming around 4:00 is seriously incredible. The virtuosity on display here is both inspirational and abjectly depressing. Funky Sea, Funky Dew is a lot more laid back, I like that simple bass riff. The sax again fantastic, the tune ok. Squids closes the album, a bit quicker, it bounces along nicely. The bass is funky, popping away with more solid drumming. Squids has a Latin flavour in parts, reminding me of that Ozomatli album, previously AOW in the club. So what can I say in summary? I really disliked the first track but I really dug the rest, a virtuoso tour de force, the playing astounding throughout. I can understand why this jazzy tornado might not be for everyone, but it is for me. Great pick. 8/10

It's hard to knock him for the push on the Hillsborough stuff. But let's not forget he only did that because of the reaction at the memorial service, if that hadn't happened he wouldn't have done a thing. Like pretty much everything Hillsborough related, it was the families and the fans who fought the fight. Anyone with any level of power only took any notice because it was forced on them and no one would give up until they actually reacted.

I have this beaut. I might have posted about it elsewhere on the GF.

What can I say? I like to Lviv on the edge.

I wonder if regulation would cover stuff like buying naming rights for a stadium that doesn't exist?

You can let her loose Rico, all sorted now. I appreciate your dedication to the cause though. They called today and offered us an extra £200, which we immediately refused. As soon as we did that, they said they'd honour the agreement made and the money will be transferred today. Appreciate all the advice, thanks everyone.

Watched the first two episodes of Time tonight, very good telly. What a difference when you get actors doing their own accents too.

Jesus Christ.