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I have a lot more respect for her than I do for the dafties that fill their faces with shite and end up looking like a broken fucking kaleidoscope. Not that I would like. Probably wouldn't shag most hot women these days either though, I prefer a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.

I’m no fan of either but comparing posh to Cliff Richards a bit unfair

I don't think it jives to say the transgender debate is the same as the one around being gay years ago. Coming out as gay is a personal choice made by an individual which impacts nobody else's life or wider society, it's crazy to think people ever had to hide away from being what they wanted to be. Now, 'part' of the transgender debate could be classified as that, most people, even on this thread, don't seem to take issue with any of that, i.e people wanting to change gender. What they have issue with is stuff like self identification, especially when you're still clearly your original gender by every conceivable metric, or people changing their language 'people with cervixs' and the like, women's shelters calling people bigots for being afraid of transgender women being present, men going to women's prisons, men competitng in women's sports, kids having irreversible surgery, or stuff that even attempts to deny that things like gender or sex are even a thing and being asked to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears under pain of internet and career pumeling by the hashtag 'be kind' brigade. Some of it is flat Earth shit. The two issues are deliberately conflated so people who have a problem with any of the latter are gaslighted into being told they have a problem with the former and are therefore akin to the kind of people who used to stomp on gay lads' heads with Doc Martins in the 80s.

At my age and state of repair I would happily tup all three and thank them for their efforts. Pete Burns is a no , but only because he is dead. Can't believe Tony hasn't been on yet asking Mook what biscuits he would have rather than a shag.

Not long back from a date day with the wife. She does deserve all this but: 1. I drove, she said she wouldn’t have a drink. She did. 2. She promised the walk she had planned was no longer than five miles. It was at least eight. 3. She said she’d buy lunch. I bought lunch. 4. As soon as we got home, she went in the bath. She’s now in bed. I’m making the kids tea. On the upside, Knaresborough is a very beautiful place.

May as well call this thread time is a cunt. No point in posting pics of people 30 years apart. Surely it should be about border line options where there is some room for debate.

I deserve to be kicked in the bollocks this morning. didn’t cook the bacon enough, and somehow failed to adequately reheat the beans from last nights tea. (the beans are homemade as a tin of chopped tomatoes, tin of borlotti beans, chopped onion, paprika, Tabasco and cumin).

You just know that if nazis invaded Ian Duncan Smith would be a collaborator, the shit house

People who use the collective term 'how are we' to a single person.

How fit was the singer from Mazzy Star by the way?

Interstellar, really enjoyed it, 9/10 I reckon. Not sure how I missed it first time round as the subject interests me and the reviews are great. Probably cos I'm not a big fan of Matthew Mc even though he is in one of my favourite films of this genre, Contact. Maybe I just thought it couldn't compare. But it does. Wish I'd have seen it on the big screen.

The British people generally did stand up well to enemy bombing in the war, as did the Germans, under a far heavier weight of attack than was visited on this country, and as did the Soviet people who endured unimaginable privations in the sieges of Leningrad and Stalingrad. So it's not just a British thing, it's a human thing to close ranks in the face of the enemy. My Mum lived through the Blitz; she worked at British American Tobacco, down near the docks, and I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been. Perhaps she got through it because it wasn't as bad as it might have been. An earlier post mentioned 70,000 civilian casualties during the war (from all causes, not just enemy action) but the pre-war estimates (I suppose we'd say modelling today) were for 600,000 deaths in 6 months of German bombing. It's why the government ordered a million coffins to be prepared for the outbreak of war, but had no real plans to rebuild damaged housing because they thought the people dehoused would be dead. So, surviving when you didn't expect to may have enabled people to cope. But that generation were pretty stoical; they knew life could be nasty brutish and short. My Mum as a young girl had lost her Mum and her teenage sister to TB, then a killer disase, for which the only treatment was really kill or cure. I can't imagine her experience was unique. Someone earlier mentioned mistrust of the ruling class. I've always thought this began with the unmitigated diaster of the Ist Day of the Somme back in 1916. It still didn't stop the British people putting their trust in 1945 in a public schoolboy and former army officer, and they were right to do so.

Your homemade beans have got cumin? Dirty bastard.

It’s an artists impression, but “about that big” is your answer… roughly the same overall area, just longer and thinner than it’s rounder cousin.

I never thought I was any sort of gift to women, they've made it perfectly clear to me over the years.

October 24th. We go again:

Catherine Deneuve Don't know if this pic has been posted before. Sacre Bleu!

Blokes with flash racing bicycles who refuse to stick a £2 bell on it. God forbid people might be able to hear a lycra-clad twat missile coming.

We did but he was still a joy to watch

Watching international qualifiers makes me feel like a smack addict taking methadone. It's not what I want, but it'll have to do.

If only.

I did. It's a great song. A proper heavy rock song.

I think we’ve got to the end of this now. I’m not speculating how people feel, I’m saying how they feel doesn’t change who they are or give them rights to dictate this to others or erode the boundaries of their identity. Trans men may think they feel like a woman but that doesn’t give them the right to appropriate female culture, sport, changing rooms etc and redefine what it means to be a woman. Anyway I’m done with this now.

Authors are so lucky there's only one country on the planet doing bad stuff, it'd be awful for their bottom line if they had to boycott loads of them.

Couldn't stand that reptile then and I can't stand her now.

This is just ridiculous. If a bloke decides he wants identify as a woman, good luck to him, I would have the good manners to refer to him as "she" and act as if she was a woman. Its just common decency. However, when it comes down to it, she is a man. She cannot go to a womans prison, toilet or changing room etc nor compete against men where a mans physiology makes it unfair. Give trans people loads of respect, they deserve it, but lets not indulge in make believe.

Paddy Moloney, an Irish musical legend RIP.

Brilliant. Would they be offended if you said "could I just have a hand job please?"

Arse biscuits?

Probably the prime example on this thread right there. No chance she was getting asked to do Top Gun 2.

That’s the sign of a man quietly accepting defeat that he’s not the gift to women he once thought he was. I’ll pour an Earl Grey on the streets in your honour.

Imagine leaving the best left sided crosser of the ball we've ever had out

I’m sitting here in the ridiculously named “Barack Obama Plaza” which is a services in Offaly on the motorway between Dublin and Limerick. Thus named because Obama’s great great great something or other was born up the road from here, I’m guessing before the services opened. I’ve now finished the episode and still think it was one of the best of the year. A match report will never be a “best of year” because how can it be? But something like this one is great as you get a trip down memory lane, get to listen to discussions about player not really talked about any more, and get to confirm your long held thought that Dave is a fanny when you listen to his pining patheticness around Suarez and heartbreak pop music. So well done to all. Hope you can come up with something similar at the next international break. As for discussion points- Owen - couldn’t agree more. The sense of ridiculousness Dave has for the Alonso haters is the same as I have for Owen haters. Owen is more of a Liverpool legend then every other player discussed on that podcast and many not. His contribution to the club is written on the legends wall which you can’t say for so many other players who are thought of as “legends”. Collymore, McManaman, Torres, I feel pretty much the same. Although with Torres I don’t think he downed tools as much as people say or that by the time he’s gone to Chelsea he’s forgotten how to play, I think he was already a spent force in that final spell with us. It was partly not arsed, and partly his game had gone. Still not a “red” though. Alonso - yeah, I pretty much agree with most of that was said. In truth, my main I issue was never massively with Alonso as much as it was with that cohort of fans who just turned on Benitez overnight. The lack of respect from them for a manager who brought us arguably our greatest every night, and an FA Cup (our last one) the year after always grated. I just hated that our fans, who I thought were special, were clearly just the same as any other spoilt, ungrateful fans. Now if you were annoyed at Rafa, that’s fine. It’s the ones who immediately started abusing him that turned me. I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand that level of ingratitude. And Dave hit on that with the “Rafa Wars” stuff. It was horrible. The “anti Rafa taliban” and all that. Deeply unpleasant stuff that would never have happened before the internet as the binary, you either love him or hate him crap that the internet does doesn’t exist when the discussion is over a pint. As for Alonso? I noticed how Dave said it was bolox he played poorly for two years, and then promptly made a few excuses for why he wasn’t at his best…. But I agree with that. He wasn’t “poor” but he was not 2004/05 or 2008/09 as evidenced by the fact no one came in to buy him when he was available in 2008 However, he should never have even for sale, as 2008 Alonso was still very good with obvious space for improvement. As evidenced the following season. I remember in the past trying to put myself in Rafas shoes to explain why he might have thought the way he did (and making it clear I was doing exactly that) and immediately just getting abuse on the forum for “despising Xabi” and so just giving up on the conversation. You could never just have a normal conversation about it. That’s what made it such a big issues. But the press leaks from Alonso about how Rafa forced him out annoyed me a bit too. Clearly done to ingratiate himself with the fans. If he’d just said he wanted to go back to Spain and the change to move to Real was too good I’d have been cool with it. But tocause more division was annoying. I also didn’t want Gareth Barry, but revisionism goes both ways. The idea Barry was crap is about as daft as the idea Alonso was crap for 2 years. Barry went to City and won the league and also won the fans MVP for the season. He was seen as pivotal in their midfield. So you can’t moan about revisionism to make one argument but then use to make another. However, Barry was not what we needed, so I didn’t get to the link either, no matter now much Stevie Gerard wanted it to happen. Anyway, I’d have Alonso as a red. His contribution to Istanbul, The FA Cup run the next year, the 2008/09 title challenge and many other moments means he is a red. And just a quick one on Aquilani. So many people speak of the lad from a place of ignorance. I was living in Italy when he was playing and saw him play live a load of times. He was superb. I remember when Ferguson came in for him at Utd and I was gutted, but then delighted when it didn’t happen. And I was then over the moon when we got him. It was a disaster of course due to injury and him never settling, but to judge the reason for signing him on his time AFTER signing him is wrong. He was a brilliant player. You don’t get to be a full Italian international in midfield without being a very very good player. So I can 100% fully understand why we went for him. Slam how it went at Liverpool absolutely but stating it was crazy that we went for him based on what happened AFTER we bought him is wrong. Great episode though lads. Thanks for doing it.

Carole King?

When he was Secretary for the DWP, he was known as Iain Duncan Himmler in the Disability helpline where I was a volunteer. He caused unbelievable hardship and misery in that post. Absolute cunt of a man.

What a time to be alive that was, TK421 had all the High scores , yeti sports and the zombie shooter game particular highlights.

Wow! A new cancer treatment can wipe out tumours in terminally ill head and neck cancer patients, scientists have discovered. In a landmark trial, a cocktail of immunotherapy medications harnessed patients’ immune systems to kill their own cancer cells and prompted “a positive trend in survival”, according to researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, and the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust. One patient, who was expected to die four years ago, told the Guardian of the “amazing” moment nurses called him weeks after he joined the study to say his tumour had “completely disappeared”. The 77-year-old grandfather is now cancer-free and spent last week on a cruise with his wife.

People here would be living in ditches eating their kids through lack of food and they still would be saying...yeah but just imagine how bad it would be under labour.

When my uncle and his mates were younger they were all into acid and other various narcotics, one day they were all sat there and in coordinated fashion put the telly on mute and started mouthing things to each other to make one of them think he'd lost his hearing. Not into drugs myself but that's the kind of craic I'd be looking for.

12 Angry Men. Absolute masterpiece that’s still relevant now. Been waiting to see this again for over 20 years and caught it on film 4 the other day. The mrs hates old movies but she’s not well and is couch ridden so as the caring husband I am, I put it on. Even she loved it and surprisingly, didn’t ask one question about what was going on. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. 10/10

LFD must feel like he has a sniper’s rifle trained on him right now.

suarezsong - 10_10_2021, 20.29.mp4 This was supposed to be at the end of the pod but I had to chop it in case Adele sued me.