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Solanke and Ibe fees are nuts.

No fan at all of this government but they were damned if they did, damned if they didn't from the off with this one. Keep restrictions in place? How could they, obliterate mental health, it's only one day, I miss me mum etc. Ease them for a couple of days? How could they, they've condemned every person over 59 years old to a long, slow, painful death. It is as true now as it has been since this pandemic first started affecting our day to day lives - people will do what they want at Christmas, it's too ingrained in our way of life as a nation for some to even contemplate going without. Given a choice I wouldn't celebrate Christmas, I get dragged into it by family by and large, so the concept of treating the 25th December just as I have the 25th of any other month is fine by me. As much as I would love to see my family, with the price for it being all hell to pay in the New Year, with its traditional mental health problems at the best of times, really doesn't do much for me. I am honestly dreading what this country will look like come mid-February.

So basically, you want an extra week off full pay whilst everybody else struggles to find and fund last minute childcare.

Ffs

Our daughter let her pet rats out for a run-around and they noticed the water bottle and asked for a wee tipple, told the daughter she should have put whisky in

Nah man, he gave a parking lot brawl 5 stars. This was another level. They traded finishers in the ring and everything.

FUCK. I've taken that hook line and sinker so blind was I by my rage.

Edge Orton for match of the year hands down.

Schalke seem to be in disarray and in terrible form right now. It would be no surprise if Freiburg win against them, even if Freiburg are playing away from home. Back to your previous comments, Freiburg is indeed a beautiful and picturesque city in Southern Germany. The clubs stadium is situated next to the hills of the Black Forest, so yes, the views are great in the Schwarzwald stadium. Freiburg have traditionally always played the attractive football that they display today. Their quick short passing style and their attractive attacking combination football has always been a theme of their game. You will hardly ever see Freiburg lumping the ball upfield to a tall centre forward, unlike many other clubs at the bottom half of the Bundesliga who attempt to do so. Freiburg also have one of the smallest budgets in the Bundesliga, which makes it all the more remarkable how they have managed to spend so many years in the Bundesliga, playing in the style that they do.

The sample return mission was successful.

Personally, I blame Klopp.

I didn't realise I'd walked into the Daily Mail comments section. Don't try and make this about money. Some areas of England have seen a 75% increase in infections in the 10-19 age group over the last week. There could/will be countless asymptomatic kids in families who will be seeing potentially vulnerable grandparents over Christmas. It just isn't worth sending them for 2-3 extra days so they can catch Covid to give to their family members as a Christmas present just so they can colour in a few Christmas trees. I don't know how you get this response from "schools simply have to stay open". Nobody's getting a week off, the argument is to move the schools in question to online learning so please actually read and think things through before spouting comments like this. I won't apologise for overreacting to shite like this after the pasting teachers have taken from the right-wing press this year. Don't let them convince you that we had months off earlier this year either. We didn't, we just had to re-learn how to teach kids sitting miles away through a computer screen with no help and now get blamed for kids falling behind because it's apparently our fault they don't have WiFi or they live in households with 5 kids and 1 computer. Furthermore, I don't even live in England so I'm speaking as somebody who isn't affected by it actually. I already acknowledged on the previous page that it probably isn't practical because of childcare at this short notice, but I think it was Northern Ireland who decided ages ago that they'd shut for Christmas a week early because they realised that it was probably better to go without the week of colouring in and films and awards assemblies that can't happen this year anyway because of Covid, and that both students and teachers would benefit more from the extra week's rest. The rest of the year, everyone agrees that the sacrifices schools have had to make are worthwhile to keep the essential need that is education going, but the last week before Christmas is a different kettle of fish. I'm really disappointed to be honest that there are intelligent people still going around thinking that people who choose to go into teaching and dedicate their careers to educating your kids while getting paid less than almost any other job requiring similar levels of qualifications, still go around accusing teachers of being selfish and suggesting that we're driven by money. I could be earning almost double of my current wage if I had gone into accountancy or trained as an actuary so even if you didn't mean it like that, I'm not going to apologise for comments like this triggering me. There are bad eggs in every profession, I've come across plenty of teachers who have lost their passion and that sense of being in it for the right reasons, but the overwhelming majority are driven by a genuine sense of serving their community and supporting young people. So no, nobody is asking for an extra week off, they're just asking for 4 extra days of online learning to reduce face to face contact and reduce the risk of having Covid over Christmas. It's completely reasonable and the cost to education is minimal to none. It's too late now to do it across the country but it beggars belief that Gavin Williamson is trying to play the hard man over schools that are trying to shut TWO TO THREE DAYS earlier for health and safety reasons. There's absolutely no appreciation for the fact that headteachers have had to effectively redesign schools to be Covid-safe since the summer as well as carrying out their own test and trace operation while teachers have put themselves in front of kids every day with minimal or no PPE throughout the second wave. No, you can't do your job from home for a few days so that you can at least be sure you'll see your families on Christmas Day.

That's from June

Welcome to DDWs top 10 wrestling matches of the year. My 2019 picks were 10. Dustin vs Cody. AEW. 9. Iishi vs Takagi G1 climax NJPW. 8. Tanahashi vs Omega NJPW 7. Okada vs Sanada New japan cup NJPW 6. Ospreay vs Okada G1 climax NJPW 5. Walter Vs Tyler Bate NXT UK 4. Adam Cole Vs Johnny Gargano for the vacant NXT title NXT 3. Naito vs Ibushi, the one where Naito kills Ibushi dead at Dominion NJPW 2. Sanada vs Okada G1 climax NJPW 1. Ospreay vs Takagi best of super jnrs final. Now in 2020. Did anyone top that monstrous Ospreay Takagi match? And can anyone top Okadas triple effort? 10. Young Bucks vs FTR (AEW tag team championship match) 9. Drew Gulak vs Daniel Bryan (I would like to congratulate the WWE main roster for getting a match on this list) 8. Keith Lee vs Dominick Dijakovic (Takeover Portland) 7. Kota Ibushi vs Minoru Suzuki G1 climax 6. Walter vs iIja Dragunov (NXT UK championship match) 5. Will Ospreay vs Shingo Takagi G1 climax 4. Kota Ibushi vs Okada. Wrestle kingdom (IWGP championship match) 3. El Desperado vs Hiromu Takahashi. Best of the super juniors final. 2. Tetsuya Naito vs Okada. Wrestle kingdom night 2 (IWGP championship match) 1. Will Ospreay vs Hiromu Takahashi. Wrestle kingdom (IWGP jrn heavyweight championship match) No one hits a triple this year, but Ospreay, Hiromu, Ibushi and Okada all get on there twice.