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Based on the Gueye comments, exect some English championship jobbers to be giving us £2m or so for our versatile winger.

Not convinced that Jack Dorsey’s approved version of reality was in principle any more reliable or incorruptible than any other commercial operation.

30 sleeps to go. I can’t wait!

Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling is really growing on me. No obvious radio hits but no duds, no filler, short tracks and some of the best electronic bleeping noises since Rez.

Not the brexit i voted for

That’s not sharp or memorable either. It is relatively short though. It’s actually quite impressive that they’ve managed to condense meaningless waffle into quite so few words. I don’t think I’ve ever lost interest before the end of a slogan. It’s like some kind of Jedi mind trick so that nobody notices Labour’s even there.

Fleas are much better than bedbugs. Or worse if you look at it from our perspective. Lice are just amateurs, or head lice are anyway. Ticks sound quite hard though.

Funnily enough i came on here to post about a history book i'd just read. It's in the "popular" style but not a particularly popular book. River Kings by Cat Jarman was an accessible overview of the archaeological and historical evidence of Viking trade, settlement and influence in the East. It wasn't an area i knew a lot about previously. I thought she did a pretty good job of not over-speculating where there was little evidence and presenting both sides of controversies. Would recommend. I'd question why anyone would want to read an article like that New Statesman pish, but each to their own.

It's just the packaging. You have to fill clothes up yourself and it's volume that costs money, not surface area. That's why a swimming pool costs more than a tree.

Two birds with one stone here: The Royal Bully XL Regiment Are brave big playful boys

Less than a week, they've admitted it was made up shite https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/09/list-of-projects-to-be-funded-by-hs2-money-only-illustrative-sunak-says

It's disingenuous to suggest (point 2) that Israel was formed in response to action from surrounding states. It was formed by partition before they piled in in support of displaced Palestinians. I suppose you could argue that they made things worse and expanded its borders but Israel was straight into expansion and probably would have been anyway. we'll never know. There are external actors that bear responsibility for the absolute shit show there, but us, the US and even cuddly old uncle Joe are way ahead of the neighbours in the queue.

He'll be trying to sneak in wearing a succession of hilarious disguises and getting rumbled by the bouncer, eventually succeeding, he'll get in when everyone has left.

A fine example of "man in pub said.." knowledge. Gave me a chuckle.

This week I fell asleep watching and didn’t finish two half arsed nostalgia cash ins. Top Gun was just really boring. I was expecting dumb and cheesy, but incredibly it wasn’t dumb and cheesy enough. 3/10 Space Jam new legacy was just shite. Never saw the original, don’t know basketball (I assume all the tall people were real players) and was unimpressed by WB showing off their IP portfolio. 2/10.

There might be something about being brought up in or around refugee camps under Seige and occasional murderous aerial bombardment from your neighbour with no hope of improving your situation that could skew one’s moral compass a bit? Shooting unarmed civilians is clearly very badly wrong, morally and against all laws of war. But these guys aren’t Western incel jihadis. They’re acting inhumanly in part because they’ve been systematically dehumanised, many for their whole lives.

You can’t prove that. You’d be relying on the assumption that said lino would have seen and correctly called it. Seems improbable. But it’s a fair point.

According to whatever Westminister weasel reports for the Today programme, Labour’s strategy for this conference is to keep it out of the news and not draw any attention. While cowardly and uninspiring, it’s probably sensible. Whether they can see it out without some guy in a donkey jacket smuggling a Palestinian flag in is another matter.

Between the Atlantic and Russia

Having a goal disallowed is quite clearly a disbenefit, aka "a cost". We are in a worse position than we would have been had it not been disallowed. The Goal was disallowed by the VAR system. It was correctly disallowed. But it was disallowed by VAR. Had there not been VAR, the goal which was awarded and not flagged as offside would have stood. VAR has therefore cost us. Dur

A goal that the referee allowed and the linesman didn't flag offside was ruled out after the vidoe assistant referee team reviewed it and concluded it was offside. I'm surprised you didn't notice.

There's a T junction at the bottom of the hill with two lanes to go right, into two lanes on the main road. There's then a well used filter left for the left turn off the main road and the next junction is a busy left turn too. So the left hand lane is always busier with a longer queue. This is like a flame for the evoque/ Audi/bmw moth, who thinks "queue short, me go first, me like short queue. Me clever." There's something life affirming about watching a diverse group of strangers spontaneously cooperate to not leave any gaps and pretend not to notice the raging, indicating twat stopped in the right hand lane. Some b*****d always cracks and spoils it though.

Hezbollah cross border skirmish last night. The West Bank has been increasingly tense in the lead up to this with settler mobs attacking palestinian areas and killing a few of them, while the army stand back and only intervene to stop the Palestinians fighting back. Reports of increasing Hamas support there. Not saying Hamas are taking over or anything, but it's hardly a stable situation and i wouldn't bet on it staying contained. Bashar's probably bored now that the war's over. Might fancy a bit of a rammy over Golan heights.

I responded on a work message group, using the thread title verbatim, to the following question "who's up for the charity bingo?"