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I hope Hellas go down with a record low number of points. Awful club.

I can only really give you my perspective from the angle of teaching primary in England, but did change career in mid twenties. First of all, I utterly love my job. Kids are a right laugh and there is nothing better than developing a bond with your class and watching them grow, develop and progress over the year. Sometimes the workload gets you down, but every single day is interesting and little moments here and there can be absolute gold. In terms of days off - find a school that's right for you. Given the workload you put in, if you're valued and have a decent boss they will be flexible - I've been lucky in this respect. If you genuinely want something fulfilling, then go for it. There are times but you'll be frustrated, but - after a spell questioning things a couple of months back - I wouldn't give it up for anything. In terms of changing career - I found it easy. I had a good job in communications that was well paid but didn't enjoy it. Also if you're good, you'll progress quick. I was head of year in a couple of years, then a key stage and prob be assistant head in next year or so. The only drawback in Scotland might be pay. When I looked at coming home, I was surprised to see how low the ceiling was for senior leaders - the assistant head in my smallish primary is on far more than than a head of a large primary in Scotland, even allowing for cost of living. TL:DR - there are drawbacks but it's a great career that makes a difference.

Actually quite enjoyed last night's card. Thought ITV covered it pretty well and good to see no adverts on a box office show. Thought Galahad was excellent, dealt really well with a durable opponent. The Davies Jnr fight was the fight of the night, how he managed to get himself drawn into a fire fight was a mystery, the polish lad couldn't miss with the left hook and it was eventually going to cost him. Thought Selby was excellent - his footwork amongst the best an good variety of punches, totally had his way with him. Absolutely no idea how he managed to go ahead with it after what happened with his mum. As TCK alluded to, a shot Abraham is tailor made for Eubank Jr. Good performance but I reckon groves will have too much for him if they meet.

I'm sure this has been done before but couldn't locate a topic quickly. Thought I'd ask the P&B travellers for advice. So, I'm taking the missus to Paris for a few days in a couple of weeks time. Any recommendations outside the obvious? Places to eat, nightlife, etc. I've been a couple of times before, once for a festival and the other time was a brief stop so any advice would be welcome.

You'd be wrong. It must be awful being you, raging at everything with a clue about nothing. So simple that application numbers would represent the health of a workforce [emoji23] I know you're a troll and stuff, but please get better at it!

Yep, I used to live in Enfield and he's got a massive support and sells a lot of tickets. Top lad as well, I used to teach at a special school and he came down, did an assembly - let all the kids have a photo with his belt and stuff. When we spoke to him about needing stuff for a raffle to raise money he got in touch with Harry Kane and arranged a signed shirt. He is British level at best though. Would like to see him rematch with Burton if at all possible. Thoroughly enjoyed that. Just watched Manny - had him winning by four. Pretty poor decision but would imagine it sets up a rematch.

Corbyn is getting way too much credit here. He was in a hole because of his utter shambles of a leadership so far. The media operation was awful - utterly no attempt to drive or control narrative. He created the shambles of perception, so wasn't placed for the implosion of the tories. He was let off the hook by the fact that the utter clowns fronting the tories are equally incompetent and ran the worst campaign in living memory. A Cameron led, ruthless machine would've bulldozed him and CCHQ will ensure that the same shambles doesn't happen again. It's interesting the stance Scottish labour supporters have latched on to Corbyn as some great hope. His manifesto isn't particularly left of the SNP and some of it(Education) spectacularly ill conceived. Do the Corbyn fanboys actually genuinely believe that he is capable of delivering social democracy for Scotland over an independent Scotland?

Decent statement. I've mentioned on the other thread but I really think it's time that labour supporters in Scotland ask themselves difficult questions. Corbyn was rejected by the electorate. Yes, he didn't do as disastrously as many thought, but a real, genuine progressive UK was an option and it was miles away from forming a government against the biggest clusterfuck of a campaign ever run. Do Labour "progressives" genuinely want to stay in a union where Scotland will never be run in the way their politics would like? Is the union and nationalism more important to them than actually being able to take Scotland on a progressive path, where a centre left party can actually win and implement the type of fairer policies they support?

Agree entirely with this and also had ward ahead by the same margin. Quite similar to the first fight - Ward had clearly taken control of the last couple of rounds and was going to pull away on points/force a stoppage. Definitely number 1 p4p for me.

Appalling effort, nowhere near the required level against a pretty poor champion. No wonder he is regarded with such derision

Fair enough lads. I disagree though, thought there was a lot of mindless plodding from kovalev whereas Ward won round after round on the back foot with cleaner shots and also did a lot of excellent work inside. Guess that's the beauty of boxing that we all see it differently. Looking forward to the rematch. I like both guys a lot.

I thought Ward won the first fight quite handily tbh, think I had it by three or four. I think it'll be much of the same.

Your group chats sound like a laugh. And definitely not made up.

Am sure last time they predicted conservatives largest party but not a majority.

Akala is utterly brilliant. An all round top boi.

Show your working then put the bottle down you bitter old mess.

Being sick. Been off work a week now, was hoping to get back in today but still feel crap. Pretty sure my boss is pissed off but not really much I can do.

I explained it to you, you absolute slaver. You get back to the comfort of the bottle, I won't be playing your rummy trolling games that revolve around piss stained pedantry.

You probably can't remember tbh. It was something along the lines of them being original. It's cool though, get back to the bottle and passive aggressive posting.

I saw you complaining to someone about them calling you a drunk. Tbh, until you can manage a grown up, sober point instead of the usual mix of the snidey, pedantic rantings of the town drunk you'll be treated as such. So, in those spirits: Quieten down, rummy.

I didn't think Indongo looked particularly great but dominated from start to finish. Hopefully they try and unify all four belts, Crawford will totally dominate him. Burns was awful and the tactics all wrong. I had it 9 rounds to Indongo, 2 Burns, 1 level.

Might hire Flanagan as an after dinner speaker at my next big do tbh

They did show it. I've seen it twice today on TV news - it didn't come across as humiliating though. As usual, Farage just came across as an angry, unimpressed guy howling whilst the adults around him laughed.

First bet on a horse for a while, 16/1 winner yesterday.

I would echo what was said before. Nigh on flawless display from Linares, really great to watch. Seems like a top boi too. As for Taylor/Davies - I'd really like to see it and think it's a fairly 50/50 fight. Really like both of them and think it would be a cracking scrap.