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Nobody reaching double digits, only 1 player scoring over 5 points. This matchday wasn't great for us as a group! Matchday 10 1) nudge 9 points 2) CaaC(John) 5 points 2) Michael 5 points 2) Stan 5 points 2) Tommy 5 points 6) Bluewolf 4 points 6) Viva la FCB 4 points 8- 6666 3 points 8- nawoo 3 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 2 points 11) Coma 1 point All quiet on the western front! Table after 10 matchdays 1) @Viva la FCB 70 points 2) @Stan 67 points 3) @Michael 63 points 4) @Tommy 61 points 5) Rucksackfranzose 60 points 6) @nudge 59 points 7) @CaaC (John) 58 points 8- @6666 57 points 9) @nawoo 55 points 10) @Bluewolf 53 points 11) @Coma 39 points

I know America isn't great, and for a proper leftie or anyone who thinks Israel has crossed the line by about 200 million miles, etc. (okay any normal person), Harris and the Democrats aren't perfect or even particularly good, but I really don't like the "they're all shit" narrative. Harris is nowhere near as bad as Trump for the USA or the rest of the Western world at the end of the day. If you don't like her then fine, but come on, if someone offered me the choice of stubbing my toe or having my feet chopped off then my response wouldn't be "well they're both just horrible!"

I worked at a nursing home for years. Anyone who says they don't support assisted dying, send them on a trip to the local high care dementia wing of a nursing home. Literal prisoners in their own body, scrunched up in the same position, unable to move, just able to blabber and eat slop. No way to die.

I have a very strong opinion about this. People should have the right to die with dignity, and they deserve to have the right to choose it on their own terms.

Another matchday not suited to brag about our predicting efforts. Matchday 12 1) Bluewolf 6 points 2) Coma 5 points 2) Stan 5 points 2) Viva la FCB 5 points 5) nawoo 4 points 5) Tommy 4 points 7) Michael 3 points 7) nudge 3 points 9) CaaC(John) 2 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 1 point nudge lost over half of her lead. In other news little movement at the table. Table after 12 matchdays 1) @nudge 78 points 2) @Bluewolf 76 points 3) @Michael 73 points 4) @Stan 67 points 5) @Viva la FCB 65 points 6) @CaaC (John) 64 points 7) @Tommy 62 points 8- @Coma 59 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 57 points 10) @nawoo 55 points

America is an unfair battleground democratically, due to their policy on voter freedom. Republicans in general, but Trumps republicans especially, tend to vote based on feeling. Not any policy or real issue. So they always turn out. A larger proportion of dems need to be stimulated by policy, and won't get up to vote if what they want isn't on the table. Funnily enough, the flag waving god fearing church on sunday types that infest the red states vote like it's their god given duty. I agree with the sentiment here that the first Trump victory was kiiiiiiiiiiind of acceptable, in that he platformed on being radically different to the established order and that he was going to change everything, and was crazy enough to do it. I didn't buy it, but people are dumb, so can be excused for the 1st mishap. But none of it happened. He didn't drain the swamp, he filled it with his own invasive creatures, then regularly had to fire them. It was 4 years of riots, garbage economics that crippled the US export industry, then a call to a fascist takeover at the 11th hour of the term, which every right wing talking head (Shapiro ect) now says 'no it wasn't a fascist takeover, because the takeover never happened!'. Like the police intervening and stopping the event somehow makes it a freebie and politically inconsequential.

That's been one of our better matchdays. Matchday 12 1) Stan 11 points 2) Bluewolf 10 points 2) nawoo 10 points 4) 6666 9 points 4) michael 9 points 6) nudge 7 points 6) tommy 7 points 8- Coma 6 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 6 points 8- Viva la FCB 6 points 11) CaaC)John) 4 points Ding, Ding, Ding! We got a new table leader! Table after 12 matchdays 1) @Stan 87 points 2) @Viva la FCB 84 points 3) @Michael 81 points 4) @Tommy 78 points 5) @Bluewolf 77 points 6) @6666 75 points 7) @CaaC (John) 74 points 8- @nudge 73 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 71 points 10) @nawoo 69 points 11) @Coma 52 points

Week 16 Results Bolton 2-1 Blackpool Lens 1-3 Marseille AC Milan 0-0 Juventus Hearts 1-4 Celtic New York City 0-2 New York Red Bulls Macarthur 0-1 Auckland Chelsea Women 1-0 Man Utd Women Sparta Rotterdam 1-2 AZ Alkmaar Anderlecht 6-0 Genk Athletic Club 1-0 Real Sociedad Round-up A mixed week of results with only 4 home wins and one draw, all of which includes two games which had 5 or more goals in them. In the league, it was probably the highest average of scores we've had all season; just under 15 points. @Tommy top-scored to solidify his 1st place, extending the margin to 6 points as @RandoEFC and @Viva la FCB scored the same amount. The next highest scores were from @CaaC (John) and myself. The former swapping with @nawoo was the only movement in the table.

Finally a good matchday for us as a group. Matchday 11 1) Bluewolf 14 points 2) CaaC(John) 12 points 3) Tommy 10 points 4) 6666 9 points 4) Michael 9 points 4) Stan 9 points 7) Viva la FCB 8 points 8- Coma 7 points 8- nudge 7 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 5 points 11) nawoo 4 points A few changes below 4th spot at the table. Table after 11 matchdays 1) @Viva la FCB 78 points 2) @Stan 76 points 3) @Michael 73 points 4) @Tommy 71 points 5) @CaaC (John) 70 points 6) @Bluewolf 67 points 7) @6666 66 points 7) @nudge 66 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 65 points 10) @nawoo 59 points 11) @Coma 46 points

Tommy brilliantly forecasting Lautern 3-2 Braunschweig is one of only two predicted perfect scores and prediction of the week. Matchday 13 1) Bluewolf 9 points 1) Coma 9 points 3) Michael 7 points 3) nawoo 7 points 3) nudge 7 points 6) Rucksackfranzose 6 points 7) Tommy 5 points 8- CaaC(John) 4 points 8- Viva la FCB 4 points 10) Stan 3 points Now we're having 2 players sharing the lead again. Table after 13 matchdays 1) @Bluewolf 85 points 1) @nudge 85 points 3) @Michael 80 points 4) @Stan 70 points 5) @Viva la FCB 69 points 6) @CaaC (John) 68 points 6) @Coma 68 points 8- @Tommy 67 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 63 points 10) @nawoo 62 points

Week 15 Results Peru 0-0 Chile Tottenham Women 0-3 Arsenal Women Turkey 0-0 Wales Chelsea Women 2-0 Man City Women Real Madrid Women 0-4 Barcelona Women Netherlands 4-0 Hungary Latvia 1-2 Armenia Algeria 5-1 Liberia England 5-0 Ireland Italy 1-3 France Round-up A real mix of results as the 4 fixtures on Sunday out-scored the 6 Saturday games. 18 goals against 13. An impressive 9 clean sheets too which is unusual. In the table, the mixture of results was shown in the range of scores, as the highest from @CaaC (John) with 19 points and the lowest of 8 points by @nawoo. Despite that, there was only 1 swap of players and that was the latter along with @Spike. The top 4 are only separated by 3 points, as @Viva la FCB & @6666 score the same but close up on @RandoEFC and @Tommy. Aside from the leader, the 3 others are all on the same points! Just outside the top 4, @Rucksackfranzose was the only one to predict a 4-0 victory for Barcelona Women over their rivals Real Madrid Women. That was part of a score that was 2nd highest of 15 points, along with @Coma.

I get what youre saying and electing Trump for the first term wasn't really that surprising and hence allot of people got on board as a middle finger to the rest of politics etc. But after seeing 4 years of him and the fallout of him losing, the lawsuits, the impeachments, the criminal charges etc etc people voting him in again are fucking dumb. That being said its nearly entirely the Dem's fault. Absolute theatre.

Reminder @Tommy @Bluebird Hewitt @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666

Only the final results of the three Sunday matches prevented our scores from being absolutely desastrous. Matchday 14 1) nudge 9 points 2) Viva la FCB 8 points 3) Michael 6 points 3) Stan 6 points 5) CaaC (John) 4 points 5) Coma 4 points 5) nawoo 4 points 8-Tommy 3 points 9) Rucksackfranzose 2 points 10) Bluewolf 1 point Last matchday nudge shared the lead now there's already a gap between her and shared 3nd place. Table after 14 matchdays 1) @nudge 94 points 2) @Bluewolf 86 points 2) @Michael 86 points 4) @Viva la FCB 77 points 5) @Stan 76 points 6) @CaaC (John) 72 points 6) @Coma 72 points 8- @Tommy 70 points 9) @nawoo 66 points 10) Rucksackfranzose 63 points

People should be able to choose for themselves... Both my parents suffered and I know for a fact that my father would have taken the option to end it all earlier because he knew what was coming. There comes a point in your life where the quality of life is no longer there anymore and it just becomes a struggle to get through each day and that is no way to live.. It just becomes tedious survival with no happiness... I am sure that there would be other family members that might oppose it but that is probably down to some selfish reasons, nobody likes to let a loved one go but let them choose and give them some dignity or you might end up with the situation @Devil-Dick Willie mentions where the choice eventually passes you by and you are trapped in a body that hardly functions and I don't personally fancy going out like that..

None of my business what people want to do with their lives. Should be their choice and I find it absolutely baffling how the main opposition to this comes from the (often religious) libertarians who otherwise can't stop banging on about freedoms and the "nanny state" whilst simultaneously doing everything they can to tell others how to and how not to live their lives. I get that there's an exploitation angle in some cases but it really annoys me how religious people insist that everyone lives by the same values as them. If you think that humans don't have the right to preside over life and death because God gave you life then fine, nobody's forcing you to take up the option of an early but comfortable passage to the next place, so please don't stop everyone else who doesn't believe in that from having the option themselves. Same with gay marriage, abortion, etc. It's the 21st century.

https://www.fcstpauli.com/en/news/published/fc-st-pauli-withdraws-from-x/ FC St. Pauli withdraws from X Thursday, 14. November 2024, 12:00 Uhr FC St. Pauli is withdrawing from the social media platform, X. The Boys in Brown joined the platform in 2013 and had 250,000 followers. Announcing its reasons for withdrawing, the club said that owner Elon Musk had turned a space for debate into an amplifier of hate that was capable of influencing the German parliamentary election campaign. Since taking over Twitter, as the platform was previously known, Musk has converted X into a hate machine. Racism and conspiracy theories are allowed to spread unchecked and even curated. Insults and threats are seldom sanctioned and are sold as freedom of speech. In addition, following his election victory Donald Trump has picked Musk to head up a new government department. Musk was a major backer of the Trump campaign and also used X for this purpose. It is to be assumed that X will also promote authoritarian, misanthropic and far-right content during the forthcoming German election campaign, this manipulating the public discourse. FC St. Pauli had already curbed its use of X and increasingly posted political statements in support of diversity and inclusion to make a stand against hate. Now the club is ceasing its activity on X. The account will no longer be used, but the content of the last 11 years will remain online in view of its contemporary historical value. The club would like to thank its members for the critical exchange on what to do about X and calls on its followers on the platform to switch to BlueSky. FC St. Pauli’s English account will also move to BlueSky.

The problem with this analysis is that people who come out with it are invariably people who lean further to the left than the nominal "left" option. The Labour Party tried an offer to people who needed it most under Jeremy Corbyn and suffered their worst defeat in decades. There has to be some realism here. People haven't voted for Trump over Harris because Harris and the Democrats weren't socialist enough. Personally, I'd love the UK to have a genuine socially democratic left-leaning offer to vote for but the evidence says that the electorate at large, in the UK and in the US, just don't have the appetite for it. Sometimes we have to step back and just admit that there's a large number of people in the US who actually like the inflammatory, faux strong-man character with undertones of white male supremacy and despotic fascism that Donald Trump plays, and that there's a bunch of low-information swing voters who see nothing beyond "my groceries are more expensive than they were 4 years ago and I'm mad about it so I'm voting for the other guy again" and a "not nice" way of describing this is calling them stupid or idiots when uninformed would be more accurate. It seems unthinkable to us very online people who find Trump's antics shocking that these people exist but go and look on Twitter to see how many Americans searched "who is Donald Trump" and "did Joe Biden drop out" and "who is Kamala Harris" on search engines over the last 48 hours to see that they exist. The Democrats have clearly made a litany of errors. Joe Biden should have dropped out much earlier and they should have had a genuine contest to determine who should have run instead, but there's no way that someone like Bernie Sanders or AOC running on a socialist agenda and promising to be the saviour of the Palestinians would have ended any better for them. Any time Labour in the UK or Democrats in the US dare to go any further to the left than they currently are, they get labelled as communist traitors by 90% of the media and the fight is over before they've begun.

Our Golden Wedding Anniversary is today, 50 years of love and toil but we are both still here, nothing special tonight, our daughter is here with wee Kaiden, having a wine and a chippie carry out, nothing special, that will do us. This is an old photo our daughter put out on FB wishing us all the best, me minus my beard. This will do me for the night with a chippie to boot.

I think you're confusing doctors with politicians.

It's Hippocratic Oath, ans using a knife is also in violation of what some Greek nonce said two and half thousand years ago. Don't you get tired of being wrong all the time? https://marcovecellio.net/downloads-10/downloads-13/files/the hippocratic oath.pdf

@Bluewolf, @nudge, @Michael, @Viva la FCB, @nawoo Last reminder!

@Viva la FCB, @Bluewolf, @6666, @nudge, @nawoo Last reminder!

That was a good watch, think I must get the book. Javiar as Anton gave me the shivers just looking at him.

Merson said the penalty 'went miles wide' then said it hit the post

There will be blood: 2007. 10/10 An phenomenal film, no single aspect could likely be improved upon in any way. Solid contender for the best put together film of all time. No country for old men: 2007 9.5/10 Another absolute masterpiece, watched them back to back. One of the most thrilling, tense films put to screen.

Results - Las Vegas Grand Prix With an average score of less than 4 points, needless to say this was a rough weekend all around. Only @MUFC and @Tommy put faith in Mercedes' positive Practice performances to translate into a big performance ahead of the competitive running. It was @MUFC though who picked the points up in qualifying as George Russell stormed to pole position. The bonus question was also resolved on Saturday, with @OrangeKhrush backing the lowest margin between pole position and 2nd place, which was 0.098 seconds, meaning that he takes the 5 points. Everyone else was within 0.1 seconds of the actual margin, meaning that they picked up 2 consolation points, with the exception of @Whiskey who was outside of the window by a mere 0.002 seconds. Harsh but these are the margins in the pinnacle of motorsport. Onto the race and no less than six people predicted a podium containing Leclerc, Verstappen and Norris in some order or another. @Stan, @nudge, @Dave, @Coma, @DeadLinesman and @OrangeKhrush could only watch on as these three proceeded to finish line astern in 4th, 5th and 6th. @MUFC didn't back Mercedes to carry their qualifying form into the race but at least picked up 2 points for putting Russell on the podium. @Tommy put both Mercedes cars in his top three but wasn't quite able to nail either of their positions for 4 points. @RandoEFC is the only one to get a direct hit here this week, with Sainz' 3rd place rewarding him with 5 points. Finally, nobody could even bag the full 5 points for this week's random driver (which was Liam Lawson not George Russell contrary to my screenshot above). A disappointing 16th place for the RB driver saw @Dave pick up 2 points for coming closest with a prediction of 15th. Here's the updated table: With such low scores, there is unsurprisingly no change at the top. @MUFC performed the best out of the top four but only has two races left to make up a 20 point deficit to the leader. @Tommy still holds a 7-point lead moving into the last two weekends. There is movement in the Constructors' standings though. @MUFC and @Dave were the only pairing to scramble together enough points between them to get into double figures, and it sees them nick the lead for Mercedes ahead of Red Bull. McLaren are still in with an outside chance with two to go. Finally, a little reminder of how things stand in the Season predictions: Remember that I have already added these scores provisionally with a few changes that could happen: - @Tommy will gain a further 10 points if Ferrari are able to outright win the Constructors' championship ahead of McLaren. - There will be quite a few wholesale changes in the "Constructors to Score a Podium" prediction if another team other than McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes or Alpine manage to bag an unlikely top three finish in the last two rounds. - Someone will be taking home an extra 10 or 5 points for the Most Retirements prediction. I'll look at this at the end of the season. It does say "Most Retirements" though so I think I'm going to count DNFs only and ignore "Did not starts" or "Disqualifications". - Gasly vs Ocon is still the only championship battle that's at all likely to swing the other way. If it does, then @Dave will win the 10 points alone for getting the full set, instead of @Coma joining his as an equal winner of this prediction. Qatar predictions will be posted tomorrow.

Avacado now growing as a bundle of fluff!!

@nudge, @Bluewolf, @Michael, @nawoo Last reminder!

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

Reminder @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Pyfish @6666

Werder following suit https://bsky.app/profile/colinmillar.bsky.social/post/3lbaupdjk2c2v

Many senators are demanding the report. I'm pretty sure it's all democrats though, not republicans... so it's essentially meaningless lol

Not the first, won't be the last. There's a mass X-odus to Bsky Social I've noticed.

*Aliens invade* "Let us speak to your most powerful man" Us:

A 4-point lead remains intact for @CaaC (John) as we head into the final international break this calendar year. The top 3 all score 12 points, but the biggest winner and mover is @Storts who amassed 20 points to head up into 5th. He's now level with @Lucas at the expense of @6666 who drops to 6th. Goalless draws are always hard to predict, especially in the Premier League, so a shout-out to @Rucksackfranzose who successfully predicted a 0-0 draw between West Ham and Everton. @nawoo also scored very well with 19pts to make ground on the 3 above him, where there is only a 4pt gap between 8th and 11th.

This goes back to their 'mates club' thing. And the 'good process, lads' comment. And calling each other by nicknames. It unintentionally brings about some informality and I thought they nipped it in the bud, but even now on the VAR review comms that do get released they're still all so pally and overly friendly. I read a while back (and more recently due to Chris Birchall training up) that ex-players are going on courses to become referees. Part of me hopes this is a good thing in that they'll actually have experience of playing the game and therefore make more informed decisions. The other part of me thinks that a) the rules are so ambiguous and vague and grey in some areas that it won't make a difference and b) they'll soon fall in to the 'mates club' and therefore also won't make a difference. I don't think there's corruption involved as alluded to above - as said it's a huge thing to allege, let alone put into practice. If they're corrupt, who are they corrupt against? Countless times a season there's decisions that go for and against every single club. No matter how hard done we feel as fans, there's probably several examples we can point to where a decision has gone the way of the club you support, but other fans can point to decisions that have gone against. They're not corrupt, they're just poorly managed by the people in charge.

Lol if we're waiting for that we might as well be waiting for Godot.

Please note earlier than usual deadline!! @RandoEFC @CaaC (John) @Tommy @Bluebird Hewitt @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666

Pep said, after the Southampton game, that he learnt a lot from Russell Martin. They're on the way to losing 4 games in a row since that comment

@Michael, @6666, @nawoo, @nudge, @Bluewolf Last reminder!

@nudge, @Bluewolf, @Michael, @nawoo Last reminder!

Reminder @Tommy @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Coma @Pyfish @6666

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

I like John McDonell but this is exactly what I'm talking about. This guy was part of a Labour Party that put forward a genuine centre-left agenda that was emphatically rejected in the UK, and the US is largely more right-wing than the UK. You don't have the answers here buddy. We can all eulogise about the world we want to live in but you have to be realistic about what you can actually convince people to vote for. It's a crying shame actually that his section of the Labour Party weren't in charge in the UK for the last election because the deep unpopularity of our Conservative government is the sort of exceptional circumstance you need to get a proper centre-left party into power in countries like ours, and it's probably one of the only elections in our lifetimes that they could have won and shown people what actual progressive policies can do for them. He's right about people feeling the improvement in quality of life but again, the idea that Biden/Harris being more left-wing helping them electorally is a nonsense.

Labelling people idiots or stupid for voting that way doesn't help at all. It's what happens when the alternative doesn't do anything to help those who need it most. I think Spike in a previous post covered the reasons better than I could. Those are the reasons why you end up with people like Trump in power and the likes of Farage/Reform winning seats in the UK and probably will gain more after 5 years of Starmer's Labour here in the UK

I hope for an alien invasion, as in the movies they always seem to invade the US solely, that would be an upgrade

Everything crossed for Kamala Harris and the Democrats to win.

Round of 16 will be drawn this ebening at 19.15 CET. Going to update the matches. Bremen Darmstadt Regensburg - Stuttgart Bielefeld - Freiburg Leipzig - Frankfurt Köln - Hertha BSC Bayern - Leverkusen Karlsruhe - Augsburg Wolfsburg - Hoffenheim