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I know I haven't been a member of the forum for long nor have I really engaged too much. But yesterday was a very happy day for me as I received my final grades for my degree. I've got a place on a Masters degree with a scholarship too, plus I got a solid first in my dissertation. Absolutely buzzing!

Beards off gave my hair a bit of a trim, the wife is happy as she said I looked a right scruff, cost her a few pints though

Now I’m wet.

Wet one on the golf course on Sunday

I'm going camping with the fam on July 17th, so I'm on that boat. As I told you as well, also keen on a canoe trip but I want to try somewhere really far north here in Ontario where the forests are way more interesting than the boring standard ones we have here.

For me it's the other way around - it actually makes me feel better as I find the process of planning future trips relaxing, for some reason. The problem is going down the rabbit hole and researching new destinations and things to do until early morning hours I'll probably make a road trip next month, if everything goes according to plan...

Sounds like the quarantine time's been good for him in terms of his career. Given some time away from football to learn the language better and be better suited for a more physical league.

I was reading that Klopp had instructed our dietery team to bulk him up a bit. Apparently he's put on a few extra pounds now so should be a bit stronger on the ball.

It's just a friendly... and it's against Blackburn and they're pretty shite now I think... but it looks like Minamino was heavily involved in the first half. Apparently he's been working on improving his English over the lockdown, I wonder if he'll appear to be closer to the player we looked like we signed now that he can communicate better with his teammates. Hard to really say though from a friendly against weaker opposition... that I didn't even watch Hope he does well though, imo in those matches against RB Salzburg he was their standout player... even more than Haaland and his ridiculous number of goals. I would love for him to be as influential for us as he was for Salzburg in those two matches.

How did Blackburn get on?

Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days FRAMES - 1/182 (CNN) For the second time ever, astronomers have detected a pattern in a mysterious fast radio burst coming from space. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are millisecond-long bursts of radio waves in space, and astronomers have been able to trace some radio bursts back to their home galaxies. They have yet to determine the actual cause of the bursts. Individual radio bursts emit once and don't repeat. But repeating fast radio bursts are known to send out short, energetic radio waves multiple times. Previous observations showed that usually when they repeat, it's sporadic or in a cluster. That all changed earlier this year when astronomers found that FRB 180916.J0158+65 had a pattern in bursts occurring every 16.35 days. Over the course of four days, the signal would release a burst or two each hour. Then, it would go silent for another 12 days. Now, they have detected a pattern in a second repeating fast radio burst, known as FRB 121102. During this cyclical pattern, radio bursts are emitted during a 90-day window, followed by a silent period of 67 days. This pattern repeats every 157 days. FRB 121102 has been known as a repeating fast radio burst since 2016. Now, they know it has a pattern. "Until now, only one other repeating FRB was known to show such a pattern in its bursting activity," said Kaustubh Rajwade, lead study author and a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Manchester, in an email. "Finding such a pattern reveals important clues as to what could [be] the progenitor of FRBs. A periodicity tells us that the object that is producing FRBs is probably in an orbit with another astrophysical body." The study published Sunday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. FRB 121102 was the first repeating fast radio burst to be traced back to its source, linked back to a small dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light-years away in 2017. The fact that this repeating fast radio burst pattern is at least 10 times longer than the one repeating every 16.4 days shows the potential large range for such activity, the researchers said. What's behind the burst pattern? So what could be the cause of FRB 121102's extended pattern? Researchers believed these powerful bursts could be due to the orbit of a massive star, a black hole or a dense neutron star. One potential explanation for repeating fast radio bursts has been the precession or wobbling top motion, of a highly magnetized neutron star's axis. But that may not explain what astronomers are seeing for this particular burst because it lasts so long, the researchers said. That model may be more suited to bursts that repeat over a few weeks. Moving forward, the researchers want to find other repeating fast radio bursts, determine if they also have patterns and see if these two represent the range of patterns. They also want to observe FRB 121102 more and see if the patterns change over time. "Answering these questions will take us closer to the true source of FRBs," Rajwade said. What's sending mysterious repeating fast radio bursts in space? The burst pattern in this study was detected while using the Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the United Kingdom over four years. The telescope is sensitive to faint radio signals and capable of regularly monitoring repeating fast radio bursts that have already been identified. Fast radio bursts were only discovered in 2007, followed by the discovery that some of them can repeat in 2016. Now, researchers know they can have patterns as well. "This exciting discovery highlights how little we know about the origin of FRBs," said Duncan Lorimer, study coauthor, associate dean for research and professor of physics and astronomy at West Virginia University. "Further observations of a larger number of FRBs will be needed in order to obtain a clearer picture about these periodic sources and elucidate their origin." CNN

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Dear Amazon, I bought a toilet seat because I needed one, Necessity not desire, I don't collect them because I am not a toilet seat addict and no matter how temptingly you keep e-mailing me I won't be thinking to myself, oh fuck it, go on then just one more toilet seat, I'll treat myself...

I have been playing it for approximately a year and a half. I was a free to play player, in that way you can get everything but super slow. I had a good alliance so it helped, but to be good is very time consuming. Would definitely recommend it, very different to other strategy games on mobile.

Is it me? We both did play for Grimsby?

Shit how hard can i get?

The RATM one is hilariously ironic. What kind of 'machine' did they think they were raging against

Only took 3 months but finally have the Yakuza Remastered Collection. Have installed 3 and 4 so will be looking to start those shortly. I'll have to buy Yakuza 6 when I'm close to finishing and I have Judgment waiting as well. This will be fun.

Well, guys, I am 71 today and just had a wee visit from our daughter and wee Kaiden which was great but horrible really as they stood at the end of the stairs, no kisses or cuddles and wee Kaiden singing "Happy Birthday Granddad...", once again FUCK THIS VIRUS!! Got some nice prezzies too and the card the daughter made was from a photo of me and wee Kaiden when he was 3 years old or thereabouts, one of her favourites photos and it's from wee Kaiden showing me how to assemble a bloody lego man ... Now 6 years old A nice pillow for my big fat arse and some Star Trek socks

This is better than James Corden!

Made a bit more of an effort. Fucking James Cordon....cheeky bastards.