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Standings after Round 3 of Last Man Standing 2020-21 A solid round 3 for @Viva la FCB sees him extend his lead at the top to 4 points. @DeadLinesman moves up to 2nd place. In reality, though, it remains anyone's game in what has been a low-scoring season so far.

That image is the polymorph from the Red Dwarf

Just watched 'Breach' Right... Where to start... I think I should start with 'Avoid at all costs' that would probably be a good starting point... Considering that they persuaded the likes of Bruce Willis & Thomas Jane to star in this terrible, terrible sci-fi mish mash shows you just how far down the A-List ladder they must have tumbled... This is soooo bad I think they need a new movie classification C- Now I was not expecting a lot to start with but hopeful that there might have been some reasonable effects or a bit of suspense or even a decent creature but they have failed totally on every single thing possible... They tried to rob parts from films like Alien & The Thing and it's just too awful for words... If anyone has ever watched Red Dwarf and seen the Polymorph episode you will have some idea of what I am talking about monster wise.. At least everybody knew that was supposed to be a silly laugh... I will give it 1/10 and the one is for bringing up the end credits and putting me out of my misery.. Don't say I have not warned you....

Yea, apologies.. that's from Red Dwarf and not Breach although it was quite hard tell the difference in my opinion...

It is... and it looks like a CGI masterpiece compared to the one in Breach...

He was always smiling aswell, even when he got locked up in a Paraguayan jail .

What the hell is going on over there?

I think we forget how amazing this fella was at times because of the lack of longevity, we'd already saw the best of him once he'd reached 27, but in those inicial years for Barcelona(and before that) he brought so many joys to the club, and the sport in general. One of those players that nobody could dislike.

Think you've got me mixed up with someone else mate. I was the one saying £50m for Sterling wasnt enough because of his potential, whereas others were saying good riddance. I always thought Sterling would become a quality player and that we shouldn't have sold him. Turns out I was wrong because he wouldn't get in our first 11 now.

So going back to this, surprise surprise, everything that the teaching community said has now come true. Teachers that live and work in London but have families in the North or elsewhere have now been condemned to spending Christmas in lonely flats, because less than a week ago it was so safe to mix with several sets of kids from 30 different households a day for the essential business of colouring in and watching movies, that Gavin Williamson threatened legal action against a local council for advising their schools to close 4 days early. Today, the same part of the country along with many others are back in full lockdown because it's not safe for people to travel and see a household of 4 relatives instead of spending the festive season on their own. Scrolling through Twitter this morning, I've seen colleagues paying tribute to a teaching assistant who has just died of Covid in hospital having (presumably) caught it in school while another one of their teaching assistants remains in intensive care with Covid. I've seen headteachers receiving news of positive tests over the weekend having to continue carrying out their own in-house test and trace having found out from the media, not by receiving the appropriate guidance from the Department for Education on Thursday that mass testing will take place in schools alongside a staggered return after the Christmas holidays. I've seen news that civil servants from the Department will receive a £1000 bonus for working on mass testing in schools over the next two weeks (when it's not holiday for them anyway) while school leaders are expected to contribute to putting the provision in place during their own time off, for which they aren't paid. I've seen teachers in Tier 4 areas (this isn't exclusive to our profession) admitting that they cried during last night's announcement because the only thing that's got them through the last 15 weeks has been the Christmas light at the end of the tunnel which has now been taken away from them, and I've seen a teacher from outside a Tier 4 area that still won't be able to meet anyone on Christmas Day because a student in his class tested positive during the last, pointless week of term, and he has to now self-isolate until after the 25th. It's absolutely abhorrent. If this was a normal country, where people who dedicated their careers to educating other peoples' children weren't vilified as leftie unionist anarchists who "wouldn't survive 5 minutes in the real world", whatever the "real world" is, by the Murdochian press and ignorant, angry members of the public with an undefined chip on their shoulder towards everyone else, this would be the sort of thing that brings a government down. It speaks volumes that when @The Palace Fan joked about a week off on full pay earlier, I couldn't help but bite, because you encounter so many people every day with that weapons-grade level of genuine ignorance and lack of empathy towards our profession that it becomes totally believable that it's an opinion that could be held by a normal person. And some of you will be reading this thinking "it's not just your sector, everyone's having a bad year". You're right, and that makes it even worse. What I've described above is the tip of the iceberg of the mismanagement of this pandemic in the UK. "But everyone's had it bad this year, there's nothing we can really do about it" "Every other country has struggled just as much as we have" "Boris is trying his best" No. This is a government who threatened legal action to ensure that kids stay in school to spend an extra four days colouring in, knowing that it would increase infections, lead to more people locked down for Christmas, and even lead to further hospital admissions and deaths, and then DAYS LATER, told us that it was far too dangerous to mix with other households. And it isn't anywhere near the top of the news agenda. Let's focus more closely on Gavin Williamson, the Secretary of State for Education and the ultimate boss of every teacher in the country at the end of the day. Under Theresa May's government, where he was the Secretary for Defence, he was found to have been responsible for leaking sensitive information from the cabinet and was sacked for breaking the ministerial code by Theresa May shortly before her time as Prime Minister ended. The Secretary for Defence, leaking government information to where it shouldn't be going. Months later, he was appointed to Boris Johnson's cabinet as Education Secretary because he supported Brexit. A few months into the pandemic, when infections started to fall, Johnson and Williamson tried to force through the return of primary school children of all ages before the summer holidays while restrictions remained in place meaning that class sizes were restricted to half of their normal size. The pair of them had a stand-off with teaching unions and primary school headteachers while the newspapers blamed the leftie unionist anarchists for being obstructive and refusing to be "heroes". After a few weeks, Johnson, Williamson and The Daily Mail eventually remembered how to count, and realised that it was impossible to return all children to primary schools while restrictions on class sizes remained in place, without magically doubling the number of teachers and classrooms available. Roll on the summer holidays and the exam results fiasco that Williamson presided over. First we had the algorithm, which skewed the greatest inequality in GCSE and A Level results in years and saw students from working-class backgrounds across the country docked several grades because of how kids in previous years had done at their schools, while Eton and other schools saw their grades boosted. On results day, Williamson defended and praised the algorithm as being rigorous and reliable, you can't just give everyone an A, he said. Two days later, in a small victory for the teaching profession, the government backed down after realising they'd completely shit the bed again. Williamson kept his job. Sorry, we're only up to September now. Universities are unfortunate enough to fall under Williamson's umbrella of responsibility as well. Learning from home was a pretty big challenge for primary and secondary school children and nobody argues that we should have kept them learning at home after the summer holidays. Universities, though? Not many university students go to study without their own laptop, and are old enough to be expected to be independent and not need face to face contact with a teacher in order to learn, so home learning was perfectly viable for university education. Some universities told their students to stay at home until at least Christmas and that lectures would be provided online. Others didn't. Less than two weeks into term-time, we had students imprisoned in apartment blocks, others forced to pay rent for accommodation that they might not see this year. Perhaps this doesn't all fall at Williamson's feet individually but did they really think it was going to be okay to just throw 200-300 students in a lecture theatre together like normal years when the pandemic was still very much alive? It seems like an easy win to keep a bunch of 18-21 year olds not all packed into university halls and lecture theatres like sardines rolling in Covid when in a normal year, half of them would have been catching up on lectures through online resources anyway having been too hungover or lazy to actually turn up. I won't type it all out again but threatening his own staff with legal action in order to force them to stay open instead of prioritising health and safety of children and school staff for an extra 4 days to make himself look like a big hard man is peak Williamson and in hindsight, I don't know why I've allowed it to piss me off enough to write out this massive essay because if I'd thought about it a month ago, I probably would have expected worse. Without a doubt, one of the most stupid and incompetent men I've ever seen in my life. Not just in government but anywhere, ever. The lack of respect and empathy for teachers in the UK really has been exposed over the past few months as one scandal after another just washes over the public. Point any of this out to most people and the only response you get is "what about nurses?" like it's some sort of competition. I know it's a bit self-obsessed to expect the rest of you to care about all of this even 1% as much as I do, because everyone's got their own shite to deal with as a result of this pandemic and as a result of shite governance be it in England, Wales, America or elsewhere. But if ten people skim read this and it gets you to remember just what an avoidable mess teachers and students in England have had to put up with since March then I suppose I can tell myself I've made a small difference.

How fucking good is Canelo? Every punch he throws is a power punch, including the jabs. Canelo’s defense is also amazing - subtle head and foot movement and moving with the punches that hit him. Then to top it off, he’s got a granite chin and impressive stamina and fights on his front foot! I would have Canelo as the P4P#1 if he wasn’t a drugs cheat. Credit to Smith for staying on his feet but an amazing performance by Canelo for the win. The only boxer that could beat Canelo at or below 175lbs is Beterbiev. Caleb Plant could give him a good fight but I feel will come up short. #SweetScience

Thats the beauty of it though, When Pakistan fails, take the same profile and say "King Kohli is best cricketer, Ali no courage no good, India daddy of Pakistan forever yes good!"

The best thing to do now. Go to your facebook/instagram account with a non specific subcontinental name (could be Indian, could be Pakistani) and go on indian cricket pages and say "Ul Haq father of miss kohli yes yes Packistan very father of baby India, Tim Paine owner of Kholi now" Then watch the tide roll in

It just looks like clear water to me. Think you might have a scale problem or something. Contact your local water supplier.

Just started reading Stephen Kings Finders Keepers, can't say if I have read this before or not?