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Trent's clearly been reading Balon's fashion thread.

Not a big fan of @Tommy in any shape or form, although would pet or cuddle one.

The daughter's pet female Gecko, let her out of her glass enclosure for a wee wander while the daughter and son built a new enclosure for her, lovely wee type lizard and very shy and only comes out really in the late afternoon or at night, at the moment Buddy is shedding her skin for a new colour.

Geckos are lovely.

Definitely!

To support the local breweries, some bakeries in my city now bake Altbier-Brot. So instead of water they use beer that the breweries would have to otherwise throw away due to the bars being closed during the pandemic. https://www.bild.de/regional/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-regional-politik-und-wirtschaft/baecker-helfen-brauerei-in-der-not-wird-aus-bier-jetzt-brot-75817156.bild.html

A politician dressed as Porky the Pig, what the fuck ?

My friend told me after the Peruvian protests last November that the next worry for the country is a populist government. He was spot on. Lopez Aliaga is in running and he's been dubbed as Porky as he dressed like the character from Looney Tunes. He's our Trump, talks a lot. Already threatened to ban anime due to religion (which is an awful idea as we've got great ties with Japan) and he's saying he's going to do a bunch of things to win in his favour. Unfortunately, the other candidate is worse. So we're in a terrible state for the next elections.

I live in Wollongong, we're fine. I've lived through them before too, back in 99 there was some nasty ones on my street. Some people I know on social media are marking themselves "safe" when I know they live in apartment blocks or on hills Whoopers

All depends on what floats your boat... with a series unless it's a one off can tend to become a bit samey so it's hard to keep the motivation to keep watching... What I liked about 28 days Later was that it took the traditional lumbering zombie ( where you had enough time to have a picnic before they reached you ) to the ( Can't even stop for a piss, run for your life ) type zombies on steroids... did make them a bit more frightening..

Have not seen Train to Busan or Braindead, I will have to add those to the list cheers. I have seen the couple oldies I dont know if I want to revist them or not yet and wasnt a big fan of World War Z so might skip that. Kingdom I nearly forgot about I did see the first episode and it was good but I couldnt find it on any of my "free" streaming platforms so i kinda forgot about it thats a good reminder. Walking Dead I did like the original couple seasons but I stopped and starting watching a couple times I think im over it at this point. I did "read" about the first 8 or 9 volumes of the original graphic novels and just found those alot better.

I don't think I've commented on this for a while. I think you just keep it with a few small changes: - Referee/linesman needs to commit to an on field decision before going to VAR. If 60 seconds isn't enough to find evidence to overturn the decision then it isn't clear and obvious and the on field decision stands. - Keep using VAR for offsides but get rid of the geometry kit. Pause the replay at the point where the pass is released and if it's visible to the human eye that the on field decision is incorrect then overturn it. - Sack off the screen beside the pitch. If the VAR official can't tell the referee the on field decision needs to be overturned without the referee having a second look himself then it isn't clear and obvious, get on with the game. Taking this approach removes the effort to go from 95% refereeing accuracy without replay assistance to 100%, and replaces it with an effort to get 98-99% of decisions right and eliminate the absolute howlers. This is what VAR was supposed to be in the first place, and yet we've never seen them try to implement it this way. Outside of VAR you still need to look at handball rules and, if anyone aside from me is still remotely arsed, simulation, which remains the biggest form of blatant cheating in football yet is actually punished more leniently over time rather than more harshly. Don't dare to have both arms in tact while defending in the area and having the ball twatted at you from 2 yards away or collide with someone on the turn whilst being 1cm closer to your own goal than your closest team mate though.

Well you have '28 Weeks Later' The follow up to 28 days, Then 'Dawn of the Dead' ( 2004 ) & 'Land of the Dead' ( 2005 ) but would recommend seeing the original 'Day of the Dead' ( 1985 ) & 'Dawn of the Dead' ( 1979 ) Then you have 'World War Z' (2013 ) with Brad Pitt for more of the crazy fast zombies.. If you like a bit of humour then go with 'Shaun of The Dead' and 'Zombieland' & 'Zombieland Double Tap' And if you wanted to see some old fashioned over the top aussie zombies then I would suggest 'Braindead' ( 1992 ) but expect maximum silliness... Also nearly forgot to mention 'Train to Busan' ( 2016 ) pretty good film from South Korea also a good zombie series for me was 'Kingdom' on Netflix and of course the classic 'Walking Dead' series.. Plenty in between as well...

I'm pretty sure Sinopharm Vaccine play in the Malaysian Premier League. When your uncle said he was a trialist he meant he got 15 minutes in a pre-season friendly.

We've had this a while now and I have genuinely never come across meltdown errors in a great deal of Newcastle games. Maybe any? Next season when we are playing in the Championship and there is no VAR I'll probably notice a difference.

Wow, just did some reading. So the dude has been a member of Opus Dei for decades, practices celibacy, represses his sexual desire by thinking about Virgin Mary, and self-flagellates by wearing a cilice. Fucking hell.

Communists. So not far off really!

I don't recall seeing Blue&Wine, ChelseaTotty or TheRealFatFrank on this forum?

That was Lee Mason but the criticism still applies. The standard, given the league's standing in the world, should be so much better. There's probably only a handful at best of top class referees who you could envisage could be at international tournaments/elite level. For me, they are Anthony Taylor, Michael Oliver and Andre Marriner. Controversy doesn't seem to follow them as much as anyone else. While that's still not a barometer of how good they could be/are, it does still speak for their ability. The rest are all average at best. Craig Pawson, Lee Mason, Jon Moss, Mike Jones, Kevin Friend, Paul Tierney, Stuart Attwell, Chris Kavanagh, Mike Dean, Graham Scott all fall in that category. They outweigh the good refs far too much, which is bad.

I agree. The standard of refereeing in the Premier League is really poor. Mike Dean is an exhibtionist who somehow manages to remain a referee despite being absurdly incompetent, the red card for Bednarek was ridiculous a few weeks back even with VAR, he sent him off. That's just shit officiating. Jon Moss yesterday in the West Ham v Arsenal game had a shocker as well, not forgetting his flap under pressure with the goal that disallowed, given and then disallowed in the West Brom game. VAR seems to have amplified the idiocy. For a league that praises itself as the best, it's officiating is as bad as Ligue 1, and trust me, that is shite. All VAR has done is made it all too apparent how inept it is.

I don't feel like VAR is the problem... I feel like English referees are the problem. They're either given poor guidance on how to use VAR, or they're complete imbeciles. I watch the Bundesliga primarily (4-5 matches per week) and I honestly can't recall a decision made by a German ref that I thought was questionable. I'm sure there have been some, but nothing like the weekly debate in the EPL. When it's applied correctly it hasn't ruined the game. But drawing lines from kneecaps to armpits is fucking annoying and, in my opinion, not what the game wants or needs.

Over the last few weeks I have been pretty disengaged from political developments. You read about young people being disenchanted and I think I am starting to feel what they're talking about. The political condition of the country just seems hopeless, never mind with all the antifa scaremongering, anti-"cultural-marxism", flag-waving Americanised shite. This used to be looked at as extreme right-wing talking points, now it’s the mainstream ideology of the government. The younger generations desperately want action on things like living costs, job creation, regional development, housing security, and climate change - serious, material issues. Things which you can make verifiably true and untrue statements about. But, most of the country is absolutely fixated on nonsense and illusions - paranoia and artificial nostalgia whipped-up by the partisan right-wing media, and then amplified and legitimised by "impartial" or "liberal" outlets. Mostly, this is aimed at people who are either retired, or settled in their path in life - many of whom can't conceive of any need to worry about how the next generation will fare. A concern with future-oriented national policy has been replaced with making sure you are able to leave a nicely over-valued house to your own children to help them along. Politics has almost ceased to exist in the country. It is impossible to talk meaningfully about actual policy issues. The only movement that has attempted to do so in the last decade was Corbyn's Labour party, and look what happened. Actually wanting material, progressive policy in this country will get you branded as a cultist and a racist. It will get you beaten in the street and blacklisted from public life.

"Randy, we need you to take a pin from Alexa Bliss" "I'll do it on one condition. She has to straddle pin me"

Chill, I'm just messing. It is not unusual for the club management/scouting to ask opinions of their players/ex-players about potential signings, so of course you can't rule it out. For me it just sounded more as acknowledgement that Tapia is doing well, and should be ready to seize the opportunity if/when it opens up. Now, recommending Tapia to Bayern is not that hard. Could he recommend Werder to Tapia though AND persuade him to join on much lower wages? Now that would be an achievement!

You're missing the point again. My issue isn't even necessarily with the refs getting everything wrong. It's an overly ambitious demand for them to get every decision right and as proven by the fact that they still can't even with VAR in place, it makes you question why they bother having it at all. The rules in place are largely subjective, largely down to interpretation and it's an impossible ask to get them all right. Therefore, why ruin goals and steal some of the moments that make the sport special in the attempt to achieve a goal that they will never fully reach? I read a brilliant article on the athletic once from Michael Cox, it was a VAR in or out debate, Raphael Honigstein made the pro-VAR case and while he put forward a decent argument himself, Cox listed far too many things that were spot on. Harry Kane when scoring a winner away at Dortmund is asked how he feels about scoring a goal and his first reaction is "I hope that isn't ruled out by VAR". That's just completely damaging to football as a spectacle. I will never dispute that it has increased the number of correct decisions you get in games, but the cost for me completely outweighs the benefit, to a level that I can barely comprehend the fact any fan, player or manager wants it in the game.

The table update following round six of this year's tournament. @Rucksackfranzose is the big mover of the round with the highest score of the season propelling him to joint 4th in the season standings. @...Dan moves up to 2nd with a whopping 7 point haul but @Viva la FCB's consistency pays off, 5 points for 3rd place in the Dutch round essential in keeping the competition at arms' length. He now goes into what could be the final round as the overwhelming favourite to reclaim the league title he won in the 2018-19 season, with his closest competitors @...Dan and @Mel81x likely needing to win the Portuguese iteration outright to have a chance of stealing top spot. At the other end, of those that have taken part in every round, there is a much closer fight over the wooden spoon between @Bluewolf, @McAzeem, @Pyfish, @Storts and @Stan .

Pesto crusted lamb with a nutty asparagus salad/veg. And the best roast tattys I’ve ever had.

I would refuse to wear that outfit.

Outrageous.

Ewwww.