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Finally, I can use this again! get well soon...

The Kepa situation got so bad, Cech has officially came out of retirement and is registered as a GK. Our technical director.

A League have been doing it for a while. Their argument against here is not picking up footballers swearing in the referee's face on the microphones before the watershed. This is a drum that has been banged before. If they're really interested in sorting it out they'll introduce an instant 3 match ban for any player caught using foul language by the officials' microphones. This will obviously be met with a mixed response but they manage it in other leagues and sports so it is objectively achievable.

I think hearing the decisions in real time would genuinely clear things up for a lot of fans in PL. Instead of the reviews and apologies a couple of days later which don't really do anything in reality. Hearing the comms between officials really would help.

Hi I'm new here and I am a club member at Schalke. I'm from England but started losing interest in English football about 15 years ago due to the high ticket prices and lack of atmosphere and started watching Bundesliga on TV and found myself routing for Schalke. Can't really explain the reason other than I'm from Newcastle and it is twinned with the city of Gelesenkirchen and also there are some similarities with the football clubs. Both have huge fan bases but don't win many trophies! Basically I enjoy being miserable! Anyway looking forward to the discussion on here

Not Surprised... I have never heard of the bloke??

Hey all, went looking for a Bundesliga group that actually has activity and found this one. I'm in the USA, Cincinnati to be specific. My roots with German football go back to ~1999-2000 and I remember taking a liking to Dortmund and Bremen at that time, but Leeds United have been my passion for the past 20 years. Fast forward to 2020 and when Bundesliga was the first league to come back after COVID it was my lifeline for the rest of the summer. Since then I've been doing as much reading on German football and culture as I can get so any recommendations for fanzines, etc. would be appreciated. Leeds were finally promoted back to the Premier League but my renaissance with the Bundesliga has taken hold permanent and I make it a weekly routine to watch every game I can on ESPN+. I still have an affection for BVB but I've found that I enjoy watching a few of the more troubled clubs who don't win every week and actually have to grind it out just to stay in the league.... read: Koln, Freiburg, etc. I also have a soft spot for the city of Hamburg so I look for HSV's and St. Pauli's results as well. As a side note, Cincinnati is twinned with Munich but I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

Good little work around if anyone is craving a few pints with their mates. Working lunches are allowed, so if you set yourself up a Limited Company (easy and free), make your mates directors and you can have 10 pints in a boozer along with a meal.

Technically, it's not a landing, it's a Touch-and-Go event, but I agree - it's mindblowing nonetheless... I've read about the whole procedure and watched them practice actual maneuvers a few months ago, and it's a highy complex engineering feat. Things like that make me proud of the progress we are making in terms of technology and engineering. Imagine a van-sized spacecraft about 330 million kilometers away from the Earth trying to collect a surface sample of an asteroid as big as the Empire State building, and we get to watch it live on youtube. Wouldn't have believed it if even just 20 years ago someone told me it would be possible. This is a cool map of the asteroid: The sample will be taken from the Nightingale site.

Give over... No way we are the same age... You are from the Paleozoic Era and I am from the Mesozoic Era at best....

Me... The Wife....

Good luck!

Lol, you beat me to it, just seen an article on this on a science page and was about to post it in here.

Taking decent moon pictures with a smartphone is nearly impossible, you usually end up with a tiny bright blob...If it has manual controls then you can play around with them, reducing exposure, etc for better results, but it will still be disappointing and won't show any detail. I have taken some decent moon shots with a DSLR, and even then it can be quite tricky as the moon is so bright it fools the lightmeter into trying to average out the bright celestial body with the dark sky, so you end up with overexposed shots again. A tripod, a telephoto lens (at least 200-300mm) is a must, and then finding the right exposure is key. Simple exposure compensation of at least two steps back might work, but I always got best results with spot metering and focusing on the brightest spot on the moon so the exposure goes down to around 1/125s minimum. I know those detaisl probably do not interest you at all, but I love talking about it

Just been watching this Documentary about the explosion... Heart breaking stuff for all those people involved..

Two Moon shots I took last month using a friend's scope.

Looks like a handgun if you mean that guy pictured, more than likely he thought the other guy was carrying a bag of money?