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Following on with my personal tradition of switching to full-sugar coke on the 1st of December after drinking coke zero all year. Will be the first christmas that my daughter has any sense of what's going on although next year will be the one where she'll understand the concept of santa etc.

Results - Round One It was a marathon first round to this season's Last Man Standing League but @Viva la FCB eventually came out on top, with Crystal Palace's 2-0 win at Burnley the decisive result after Viva, @nudge and @6666 had worked their way through nearly half of the teams in the Premier League. The full scores for this round are as follows: 12 points (9 correct picks + 3 bonus points) - @Viva la FCB 10 points (8 correct picks + 2 bonus points) - @nudge and @6666 6 points (5 correct picks + 1 bonus point) - @RandoEFC 4 points - @...Dan 3 points - @CaaC (John), @Whiskey and @Pyfish 2 points - @Tommy 1 point - @DeadLinesman, @Stan, @Dan and @Redcanuck 0 points - @Rucksackfranzose, @Lucas, @Storts, @Bluewolf, @N U F C, @Michael and @Rick We will proceed with Round 2 (Bundesliga) after the international break.

This has been our best matchday this season for now. Matchday 11 1) Tommy 13 points 2) Michael 11 points 3) CaaC(John) 10 points 3) Viva la FCB 10 points 5) 6666 9 points 5) Stan 9 points 7) Bluewolf 8 points 8- Coma 6 points 9) nawoo 5 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 3 points 2nd and 7th spot are closer together point wise than top and 2nd spot. Table after 11 matchdays 1) @Tommy 96 points 2) @Michael 83 points 3) @Stan 82 points 4) @Coma 80 points 5) @Viva la FCB 79 points 6) @6666 72 points 7) @Bluewolf 71 points 8- @CaaC (John) 67 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 63 points 10) @nawoo 60 points

Kitchen Sales era is being woefully neglected amongst us in here

Or Hongkong. Oh wait, we already have that in Sleeping Dogs.

Baring in mind the Bayern - Union match was postponed the scores were acceptable. Matchday 13 1) Tommy 9 points 2) Coma 8 points 2) Stan 8 points 2) Viva la FCB 8 points 5) 6666 7 points 6) Bluewolf 6 points 6) Rucksackfranzose 6 points 8- CaaC(John) 5 points 9) nawoo 4 points 10) Michael 3 points Tommy leads by 10 points again. Table after 13 matchdays 1) @Tommy 107 points 2) @Stan 97 points 3) @Viva la FCB 94 points 4) @Coma 91 points 4) @Michael 91 points 6) @6666 87 points 7) @Bluewolf 80 points 7) @CaaC (John) 80 points 9) @nawoo 74 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 73 points

I quite like Christmas but it'll be the first one in about 8 years where I'll not be looking forward to it at all this year sadly. Dreading it infact. So instead, I've volunteered to work the Christmas day lunch at a kitchen near me to serve people who are either homeless or can't afford a hot meal on the day and I'll pop in and see family in the evening.

Sheep - Season 11 - Overall Scores Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 PD Totals Lucas 40 38 33 55 22 166 Dr Gonzo 41 32 34 52 18 159 Bluewolf 42 29 36 49 13 156 Caac John 41 29 25 52 27 147 Deadlinesman 41 33 34 35 1 143 Nudge 25 33 30 54 24 142 Stan 33 32 32 43 11 140 Tommy 19 34 30 47 17 130 Spike 35 25 25 38 13 123 Pyfish 41 30 41 0 -41 112 Beelzebub 36 23 14 37 23 110 Massive improvement across the board for all contestants with @CaaC (John) giving us the best difference of improvement having showcased a 27+ improvement. @Lucas leads the pack and is slowly pulling away. Will he be crowned champion again? Or will the last round give us a new season winner. New questions come out tonight in the other thread.

Pakistan. Leaving out the governmental aspects – The culture of finding connections, and sweet talk to get anything done or expedite it. – Peer pressure to get somethings done in life by certain age marriage, kids, house etc but It is reducing with time. – Shahid Afridi. He's ruining Shaheen also – Pathetic cinema choice. Bollywood is disproportionately mostly shit and has destroyed the cinematic taste of people. Again changing with time but I would dub mature cinema from the world and make people forcefully watch it. Civilizing those primitive savages. – Pollution. Smog has become a big issue in recent years like if we were manufacturing like China it would make sense but wtf ? Though it is a problem in the whole region. – Lack of thick forests and low biodiversity for a decent sized country. Even pesky little Estonia has more animals than us.

His economics is from the same decade as his haircut.

Ah the irony of England being placed on the right wing as well

@Viva la FCB is listed in the Hall of Fame for a ninth time following his victory in the first round of this season's league. His streak of 9 consecutive correct picks is one short of the record for a single round. Congratulations!

Sure My latest trip to Iquitos (for the 4th time this year) which is in the heart of the Peruvian amazon. One I took at 6 AM. When I became king of the Bora group. Here with a parrot. Tried to give it food and it told me to fuck off. The trip before that I did Tacna and Arequipa... For those in the discord group, they know I had issues in Arequipa cos I had the worst bathroom in the world. I lost the photo but @Tommy and @Toinho can preach As for the actual trip... Santa Catalina Monastery. At the Peru/Chile/Bolivia triborder a good 4 hours away from Tacna. Took an expensive cab there since there is no other proper way to get there, 4400 metres above sea level. Altitude was draining, but it was worth it for this statue. The town itself was called Tripartito, unfortunately one of the poorest towns in the country. Also made it to Chile, the second last South American country I had left to visit. Now only Paraguay is left. This one on the Tacna/Arica border. And Tacna itself, who are not the prettiest town but one of the cleaner and easier cities to live in here in Peru thanks to the low crime, non-existent traffic and relatively easy living conditions barring the water cuts from time to time.

Week 18 Results Kiel 3-2 Wehen Nantes 1-0 Nice Osasuna 1-1 Real Sociedad Corinthians 1-2 Internacional Newcastle Jets 0-2 Melbourne Victory LAFC 2-0 Houston Dynamo Bristol City 1-2 Norwich Eastleigh 2-1 Reading Sassuolo 1-2 AS Roma Barcelona 1-0 Atletico Madrid Round-up Some very good scores across the board, with all but one of us scoring double-digits. Highest scores came from the WPL Cup Finalists - myself & @Viva la FCB scoring 17 points each. The latter going up to 5th. @CaaC (John) is still close behind in 2nd place, while @nawoo went up 1 spot thanks to his 15 points outscoring @Bluebird Hewitt's 13 points.

The limit does not exist. "Did I do okay, did you enjoy yourself, I'm sorry im not enough, I'm going to improve" ect ect is all I can imagine from Brian, stage 12 clinger.

CaaC(John)'s perfect Karlsruhe 2-2 Rostock score is the prediction of the matchday. Also remarkable Viva got 9 points without predicting a single perfect score. Matchday 15 1) CaaC(John) 10 points 2) Viva la FCB 9 points 3) Michael 6 points 3) nawoo 6 points 5) Bluewolf 5 points 5) Stan 5 points 7) Coma 3 points 7) Tommy 3 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 2 points Our first participant jumped over the 100 point hurdle. Table after 15 matchdays 1) @Viva la FCB 100 points 2) @CaaC (John) 93 points 3) @Michael 86 points 4) @Bluewolf 84 points 4) Rucksackfranzose 84 points 6) @Stan 82 points 6) @Tommy 82 points 8- @Coma 81 points 9) @nawoo 73 points 10) @londonerlilie 48 points

A very mixed week considering the range of scores between high and low is 16 points. Top score came from @CaaC (John), achieving 23 points. It took him up one place, as did 21 points from myself. A 2-3 away result is fairly unusual but we both predicted this so Prediction of the Week is somewhat deserved! @Redcanuck jumped into 2nd place but there is a clear gap to @6666 in 1st place. With the high scores, there are now only 10 points between 4th and 9th.

You would think that having lived in Nazi Germany as a Jew and having been persecuted by the Nazis in Germany, that his political actions would have been more empathetic. But alas, he turned out to be a war monger and his political decisions resulted in the millions of deaths of innocent people. Interestingly enough, he played for the youth team of Greuther Furth, before his family fled Germany. So he was a bit of a talented footballer in his youth, it's just a shame that he became an infamous politician in adulthood.

It's a recurring issue I need the server technicians to look into but by the time I can send a ticket to support it has already "fixed" itself.

What are you laughing at Stan? If there's one thing that everyone can agree on about the Nazis, is that the real problem was how woke they were.

German digitalisation in a nutshell.

David Cameron's back in government and now the UK's detected its first human case of H1N2 flu strain circulating around in pigs. Coincidence? Nah, the pig fucker's done this.

Week 17 Results Sydney FC 0-1 Western Sydney Norwich 1-0 QPR Twente 0-3 PSV Dusseldorf 5-3 Schalke Orlando City 0-2 Columbus Crew Cincinnati FC 1-0 Philadelphia Union Aberdeen 1-1 Rangers Villarreal 3-1 Osasuna Juventus 1-1 Inter Milan Lyon 0-2 Lille Round-up Three joint-top scores of 14 points for Week 17 - all courtesy of @nawoo, @Tommy and @Rucksackfranzose. The former is now level with @Bluebird Hewitt, whilst @Rucksackfranzose improves his position by 1 and is now 5th. @CaaC (John) and I cancel each other out at the top.

This was an unobstrusive matchday for us. Matchday 12 1) nawoo 10 points 2) 6666 8 points 2) CaaC(John) 8 points 4) Stan 7 points 4) Viva la FCB 7 points 6) Michael 5 points 7) Rucksackfranzose 4 points 8- Bluewolf 3 points 8- Coma 3 points 10) Tommy 2 points Tommy lost a bit of his lead. Also there were a few changes in the hunting spots. Table after 12 matchdays 1) @Tommy 98 points 2) @Stan 89 points 3) @Michael 88 points 4) @Viva la FCB 86 points 5) @Coma 83 points 6) @6666 80 points 7) @CaaC (John) 75 points 8- @Bluewolf 74 points 9) @nawoo 70 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 67 points

Although nobody predicted more than 1 perfect score that's been one of our better matchdays. Matchday 14 1) Coma 10 points 2) nawoo 9 points 3) Tommy 8 points 4) CaaC(John) 7 points 4) Michael 7 points 4) Rucksackfranzose 7 points 7) Bluewolf 6 points 8- Viva la FCB 5 points 9) Stan 4 points Viva's lead has been reduced a little while the table midfield grew even tighter. Table after 14 matchdays 1) @Viva la FCB 91 points 2) @CaaC (John) 83 points 3) Rucksackfranzose 82 points 4) @Michael 80 points 5) @Bluewolf 79 points 5) @Tommy 79 points 7) @Coma 78 points 8- @Stan 77 points 9) @nawoo 67 points 10) @londonerlilie 45 points

Are these linked ?

Biden is a socialist is the most hilarious comment I’ve read on here in years. Biden literally signed the biggest anti-union and anti-labour bill in the country’s history when he quashed the rail strikes. Biden isn’t left wing, the democrats aren’t left wing, they are economic liberals to the core.

Lithuania: I mostly hate how close-minded, conservative, and provincial most of the population is, especially those over 30. Miserable, unfriendly, judgemental, and plain boring. The weather: mostly gray, cold, wet and windy for most of the year. Just depressing. Cold winters, cool summers, with maybe a month of proper summer weather. Fucking supermarkets everywhere, seems that shopping is the main attraction instead of culture and arts. More so in recent years - cost of living. Wages were always relatively low, but living was still very much affordable. In recent years, it seems like the cost of living increased significantly and largely caught up with Central and Western Europe, while the wages are still behind, with the exception of some specific industries.

I'll cover for you Nudge. Just paid my monthly price.

Week 16 Results MK Dons P-P AFC Wimbledon Chelsea Women 5-1 Liverpool Women Latvia 0-2 Croatia Senegal 4-0 South Sudan Germany 2-3 Turkey Serbia 2-2 Bulgaria Sierra Leone 0-2 Egypt Man Utd Women 1-3 Man City Women Portugal 2-0 Iceland Scotland 3-3 Norway Round-up A big range in the scores, with @Viva la FCB amassing a very high 21 points. It takes him up to 5th and the days of fighting to avoid bottom spot seem long gone. Next best was @CaaC (John) with 17 points and that takes him up a place to 2nd, and now only 3 points off the lead. He also gets a Prediction of the Week for getting Serbia 2-2 Bulgaria spot on. At the other end of the spectrum were 10 points each for myself and @Bluebird Hewitt...

A South American double for this round, and 4 winners all for one game... Game 67 had a 21st-minute first goal, and the winning picks... 3 points! @Toinho bags 3 more points and he's on a roll! @Faithcore with 2 points for 22nd minute, and @nudge on 23rd minute gets 1 point. Game 68 had a 63rd-minute first and solitary goal, but no winners. Table after Game 68 New leader! @6666 rises to the summit with his latest and 2nd Exact score. @Toinho also rises up to 4th from 9th with a 2nd Exact, whilst @nudge moves on to 11th but stays in 5th. She now has @Faithcore for company on the same amount of points.

You love to see it.

I, for one, am shocked and surprised that F1's latest foray into becoming even more commercialised has so far been an absolute shambles. You're hosting a motor race. All that time and money put into the light shows and opening ceremonies and Netflix specials for this Grand Prix could have gone into actually ensuring the track was fit for purpose. I'm actually glad that they've totally embarrassed themselves so far and I hope the race is shite, which it will be because all of the overtaking is going to happen down that ridiculously long straight which is so wide and long that it's going to be impossible to defend in any way, meaning that nobody will try moves elsewhere in the track, and any faster drivers will just follow the car in front for a lap before driving past (I'm not calling it overtaking) them on that back straight. At least Miami, Saudi Arabia and the other commercially-driven events have managed to put on a competent show. F1 deserves this shambles though for the way they've been running the show in recent years. The fans who have paid to go and see a Grand Prix (a fucking lot in this case) deserve their money back.

I also think that they are paying the price for completely changing their DNA. From underdog who gets the best out of "mediocre" players to Champions League club who signs big names. Probably too many steps at a time.

WEEK 15 - THE WRONG SIDE OF FINE MARGINS I think a look through week 15 shows us we've encountered probably the collectively unluckiest weekend of the season so far, with every single person landing at least one of their selections, yet only the two claiming wins and of those, two of the smallest of the season (outside of @Machado). @CaaC (John) is the winner of the week, calling on what is on the face of it a fairly safe double in Man Utd and Ipswich. Two truly predictable scorelines as well in my opinion, said as somebody who had a 1-0 home win on the prediction league, and has quite regularly pushed a theory that Ipswich win every home game 3-2. John doubles his money. The luckiest player of the week however has to actually be Machado. Not based on the betting point of view by any stretch - he just happened to have exactly the same bet against his team in a derby that I had on the opening day of the season, and it produced an identical outcome. I had Leicester to not beat Coventry and we scored 77th and 87th minute goals to win the game 2-1. Machado backs against his team in the derby with Sporting and Benfica remarkably produce 94th and 97th minute goals to win 2-1. Is it the Gyokeres connection? I wouldn't wish to speak for him, but I'm quite safely going to assume he would take the Benfica euphoric victory over this weeks hypothetical £13.50 win - even though it would've been his biggest of the season. Which brings me to the average odds column. I've not bothered to go back through this yet, but I will eventually be updating this to see who is shooting for the stars and who is playing safe, although I think we can guess this here! Back to the bad luck. @Stan made an understandable choice in Bayern to slaughter Heidenheim but they produced a relatively conservative 4-2 win over a side who are averaging over 2 expected goals against per game - which are remarkably bad defensive numbers. Bayer Leverkusen's win was totally obvious, and frankly their odds were mental for me, it's their 10th win of 11 in the league so far, and Union Berlin remarkably have now lost 9 in a row in the league. @RandoEFC claims the only other winner of the weekend but can probably feel a bit aggrieved that it wasn't a full win, particularly given it has paid out in the last six meetings in Turin. Cagliari's consolation goal means he takes the smallest win of the season. Arsenal made no mistake beating a hapless Burnley. @Lucas puts on the opposite of a brave face pretending that Leicester losing has upset him, a result that directly works in Leeds' favour and courtesy of a Leeds player scoring for Middlesbrough. Stockport seemed a completely obvious pick at extremely generous odds, remarkably their 11th league win in a row which is three off the all time record. Leicester failed to bounce back, although we did have the chances at Middlesbrough - it was our first loss against them in 15 games. The really bad luck though I think is reserved for the bottom two, which is no surprise, we've seen this all play out before. I specifically avoid picking games that concern my own teams fortunes at this point because of how convinced I am of a curse, and after Aston Villa sailed in with a 3-1 win over Fulham, I can now add coaxing this dreadful Lyon team to their first win of a season to my list as they take three points at Rennes, in a performance seemingly totally unconvincing, and one that assures you they would've lost if Rennes hadn't picked up a red card after 'six' minutes. It was no better either for @...Dan who turned back to Ligue 2 this weekend, having landed the Paris win, he was robbed in the 94th minute by a Pau equaliser at Angers to draw 4-4. This would've put me back bottom though - so every cloud A pretty dismal week on the whole, given the number of selected wins it's pretty incredible how little money we took in. But not to worry, we only have a limited selection of lower league games and a sift through which international games have something to play for to know what angle to hit the final international weekend of 2023 with. Speaking of which, there will be no week 16 table this week as I'm going to Cape Verde on Saturday for a week, so I will get it together along with week 17. Best of luck. This is going to be testing. WEEK 15 STATS Winning bets: 2/7 Winning selections: 8/14 Weekly forum position: -£37.60 (Ranked 10/15) OVERALL STATS Winning bets: 28/109 Winning selections: 98/206 Total forum position: -£204.75

Top 3 remain the same for another week, with @6666 reaching 200 points. Top score came from @Dan who amassed 21 points, by far the best score and above the average for the week, as well as getting a Prediction of the Week for being the only one to predict a Wolves win, and 2-1 at that. It only took him up 1 spot but he's closer to the chasing pack for the top 3; that pack is now fronted by @Storts who scored 19 points and went up two places, so the top 3 should watch their backs! @JoshBRFC also scored well with 17 points which took him up a place, and he also got a Prediction of the Week for correctly guessing Brighton's 1-1 draw with Sheff Utd.

I'd actually tend to trust neither side in a war. Unfortunately independant unbiased reports are hard to get.

As is the death of the quadriplegic patient the IDF snipper shoot in the neck? Mesmerizing how a war party you have sided with can't commit any war crimes regardless what they do.

Results - Brazilian Grand Prix I'm in a bit of a hurry to get this posted so forgive the brief nature of it. Let's get the boring part out of the way - everyone bagged 10 points to start off with due to another Verstappen pole/win double. This was all that @RandoEFC, @MUFC, @Whiskey and @DeadLinesman could muster for this weekend. @OrangeKhrush and @nudge successfully backed up Verstappen's P1 with another P2 for Lando Norris, scoring another 5 points each, while @Stan and @The Palace Fan missed out the McLaren driver's podium position by 1 and had to settle for 2 points each. Nobody predicted a top three finish for Fernando Alonso. Random driver Guanyu Zhou failed to finish this weekend's Grand Prix, but as he outlasted three other drivers, he has been assigned "17th place" as I think I stated in the rules at the beginning of last season (deal with it if you don't like it). @The Palace Fan and @Coma therefore grab 5 points each for this prediction. Finally, only @Tommy was brave enough to back all 20 drivers to finish the Sprint Race on Saturday, so he gets a big fat 5 points all to himself for the bonus question. Here's what the table looks like now: There isn't actually any position changes in the Drivers' standings but @Stan and @Coma have made another small dent in @RandoEFC's lead at the top with just two races remaining. In the Constructors', another poor week from @RandoEFC and @DeadLinesman sees them lose top spot, with Mercedes and Ferrari leapfrogging them. Meanwhile, Alpine's due of @OrangeKhrush and @The Palace Fan were the top scorers for a second week running and could still make a late charge for the title. But did somebody say something about a bonus update? I've had a quick look at some of the pre-season predictions to see how those points could pan out. Here's a little preview: Nearly everyone will bag 40 points for calling both title winners correctly, but @Tommy and @Whiskey will have to get ready to get well and truly shafted when the final points are added for having faith in Ferrari. They should both get 10 points each for Ferrari finishing in the top three in the Constructors', but Leclerc seems unlikely to rescue even these points for @Whiskey. The "Drivers to Win a Race" and "Constructors to Score a Podium" are worth 10 points each for an exact answer and 5 points consolation for the closest guess. We currently have three different race winners in 2023 (Piastri's Sprint doesn't count) so @RandoEFC, @MUFC, @nudge and @The Palace Fan should be on track for 5 points here - make it 10 in the unlikely event that the last two races both see new winners. @Tommy and @nudge are currently on track to win 10 points for the Constructors' to score a podium (Red Bull, Mclaren, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston Martin and Alpine) but a shock podium for Haas, Williams, Alpha Tauri or Alfa Romeo would see these points swing instead to @DeadLinesman. There's also 10 points for Most Retirements and 10 points for picking the winner in the most team championship battles up for grabs but they take a bit more work to figure out so I haven't looked into those yet. Las Vegas predictions will be posted tomorrow!

The 2023-24 table after one round with @Viva la FCB at the top:

With the exception of John this matchday was... Well have a look yourself. Matchday 13 1) CaaC(John) 10 points 2) Bluewolf 5 points 3) Viva la FCB 4 points 4) Rucksackfranzose 3 points 4) Stan 3 points 6) Coma 0 points 6) Michael 0 points 6) nawoo 0 points 6) Tommy 0 points John catapulted himself from 8th to 2nd spot. Table after 13 matchdays 1) @Viva la FCB 86 points 2) @CaaC (John) 76 points 3) Rucksackfranzose 75 points 4) @Bluewolf 73 points 4) @Michael 73 points 4) @Stan 73 points 7) @Tommy 71 points 8- @Coma 68 points 9) @nawoo 58 points 10) @londonerlilie 33 points

You know they won’t. The same reason the US and Russia won’t be held accountable for war crimes. I’m pretty sure all 3 aren’t even members of the ICC because they don’t want to have to submit to a jurisdiction that might recognise war crimes.

You fucking love war crimes don’t you

Well shit, we finally have a winner! @6666 didn't pick (sorry for no second reminder), @nudge backed against the wrong shite bottom four team as Sheffield United actually did a win against Wolves, meaning that @Viva la FCB takes the W after backing Crystal Palace to win at Burnley, congratulations! I'll type up the final scores tomorrow and hopefully launch round two.

Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt (one of 21 DFB regional associations) have banned Kreisoberliga (9th tier) club Eintracht Gladau from association membership, and so automatically from their league for right-wing extremist activities. Although Eintracht Gladau is the second club, who experienced that sanction Sachsen-Anhalt are the only regional association that practiced this method, so far. Ostelbien Dornburg the other club that were excluded from the leagues for right-wing extremism were also from there.

@Viva la FCB, @Michael, @Tommy, @Bluewolf, @Coma, @nawoo, @londonerlilie Your weekly reminder!

Looks amazing!