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My favourite - "It's Christmas So We'll Stop" by Frightened Rabbit,

Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby (audiobook) halfway through and it's superb, can't stop listening.

On 23/08/2022 at 16:09, Paul said:

So Heat 2 is absolutely fucking brilliant. It deals with events from before and after the film in a surprising but incredibly satisfying way. One of the best books I’ve read all year and apparently there’s scope for a follow up. 

Agree with this, I particularly loved the prequel section of the story, the ending too. It will make an amazing film or TV series if they can cast it well.

Sad news, what an incredible song this is.

7 hours ago, Scott_M said:

 

I enjoyed the first episode.

It really lacks Raul Julia and Angelica Houston though. Raul Julia was such a brilliant Gomez.

On 21/11/2022 at 20:38, Chip Butty said:

‘Wednesday’ the series, starts…you guessed it, on Wednesday!

Tim Burton doing the Addams Family thing again and by all accounts it’s meant to be really good. 

We're enjoying it so far, 2 episodes to go, nice to see Christine Ricci with a small part too.

I always loved this match, I remember watching it live, sad news.

This is a perfect description of the new Harry Bosch book, I had the audible version and couldn't stop listening.

Thanks to everyone btw, I'm overwhelmed, you're a sound bunch.

11 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

 

Sorry to hear you've been through the mill. Dementia is a real bastard.

 

My father had it. We never got on that well, but one thing we'd do together was cryptic crosswords. Sat in the conservatory, or over dinner, and we'd managed not to argue. Then one day, he lost the ability to follow that train of thought, and we had nothing. I came home feeling weird, and I couldn't really understand why. Then I realised I was grieving for the loss of someone who wasn't even deceased. Dementia took him a piece at a time, over the course of years, until the last thing to go was his body. 

 

Never really said that to anyone.

Thanks for sharing this, the last thing dad enjoyed was the charity shield this summer, he loved it. After that he deteriorated and though he tried, he couldn't concentrate on anything. I'm so grateful that I had such a relationship with him. Dementia is absolutely horrible.

I'm not a prolific poster here but I really enjoy the community and respect so many of the people. Anyway, my grief story, both my mother and father have passed away in the last month. My father had parkinson's, the worst kind, which does not respond to any medication and includes dementia.

He was diagnosed this month, last year and despite being told by his neurologist that it would be a very slow process he plummeted in April of this year. He was admitted to hospital because of repeated falls and fear of skull fracture. His absolute despair in hospital where he went on hunger strike, refused to take his medication, except from his children was truly heartbreaking.

He spent 8 weeks, where I visited everyday, despite him blaming me for putting him there, in front of a full ward - I knew it was the disease but it still hurt so much. On release, he immediately improved and my mother cared for him, with help from me, my brother and my sisters. We cared for him through COVID in July and just after his birthday on September 24, my mother, out of the blue, got a massive stroke and passed away. He couldn't attend the ceremony even though, in typical Irish fashion we had 100s of people at the house for the wake and funeral.

He survived for a couple of weeks but deteriorated and when his swallow stopped we had to call in palliative care and he passed away within hours. It's been an absolute blur over the past week or so but I am getting over it as he had zero quality of life and hated having this disease. The only thing keeping him alive was my mother and when she passed his spirit left him.

I have no regrets, I was always very close to my parents, they were brilliant,I loved them and am so happy I cared for them both right to the end. Dad was a huge Liverpool fan, I took him to Anfield a couple of times and he loved it. I even got a brilliant kid from our village to sing ,"you'll never walk when his coffin was leaving the church to piss of some manc relatives. I know he would have enjoyed it.

Finally, not looking for sympathy or anything just to add, try to love the ones that are important to you and tell them regularly. Sorry if any mistakes but I typed this on my phone.

Peace and love to all.

How brilliant are these guys?

I'm 51 and am out if it's a state owned take-over as per City or Newcastle.

I have loved every minute of Klopps reign as we won, playing amazing football, up against huge cheats, and we did everything the right way. I always said after 1990, I wanted to win the league again and after that I'd be happy.

I sympathize with the younger generation of LFC fans and will be happy for them if we win doing it the City way but it's not for me. I also think Klopp will leave if it goes like this.

Too many of our defenders think they can coast through games, Konate loves the physical battle and just enjoys defense. This is what we need 100% now. 

Konate just loves to defend, whatever it takes, we need that now 

Brilliant by Robbo

Perisic is a warrior. 

Firmino not in the game , completely bullied, we need Darwin through the middle 

We can't get out at the moment, they're penning us in.

2 minutes ago, niallers said:

Since we've scored we've been dire. Succumbing to any little bit of pressure

That's happened in the last 2 league games as well. We're so vulnerable after we score.

A 4-4-2 diamond like we played in 13/14 under Rodgers with Darwin and Mo as Sturridge and Suarez and Bobby through the middle in the Sterling role.

1 hour ago, dave u said:

Frauendorf and Musialowski are definitely not making it with us. I really like Cannonier but he's probably too small to make it here unless we change our style. Bajcetic is quality and I do like Morton a lot. The kid Doak we got from Celtic looks quality. Chambers has something about him too but it will be one or the other (or neither) between him and Beck.

 

Agree on the balance of the squad. There's too big a gap between the old and the young, not enough in the 23-27 age bracket, especially in midfield.

We've got Mabaya, Bradley as well as Ramsay for right back, all look promising. I also like Quansah.

I used to think Oliver was a decent referee but since the Goodison game in the covid season when he was forced to admit he got the Pickford decision wrong he's been dreadful. 

Quansah is a powerhouse, Chambers is outstanding. We have some real quality full backs coming through.