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Just looking at my Smoking Quit Tracker I have gained 321 days of life so I could make a ton (100) yet

I think Newcastle need to put people in place that can get them to the next level and then be ruthless in getting them out. Getting in to the top 6/8 will be more difficult for them than it was for Man City getting in to the top five back in 2009. They cannot be loyal if they have hefty ambitions. Lampard did a good enough job getting Chelsea through a difficult period but once Chelsea returned to signing an abundance of World Class players they quite rightly employed a World Class Manager to achieve World Class results. Ole's done a good job restoring Manchester United's identity but now they have Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo people are going to rightly question if he should have gone after the Villareal defeat if they keep regressing on the pitch. I'd take this logic to the pitch too. James Tarkowski is available on a free next summer at 29 years old, bring him in to partner Lascelles or another for two years then get him out.

https://news.paddypower.com/football/2021/10/12/breaking-messi-bids-tearful-goodbye-to-psg-ahead-of-newcastle-move-/

Thanks mate but we don't do emotions....

Nah, you're irreplaceable. I'll probably stop watching movies altogether... Won't be able to deal with the memories

I'm going to die on March 5, 2069 nice

Nope, it's an actual chemical reaction Google iodine clock reaction!

If you own a Switch this is imo a must buy just because it has all the elements required to be engaging enough as a game and good to carry around from a portability standpoint as well.

Are you sure.........

Not always - Guy was going to go to the game with his girl for Valentine's Day, she cancelled, so he took his sister and a piece of paper.

Bet he slept on the couch that night...

Bit of a tense ride home I reckon..........

It is time! - 9GAG

Barbados would be great. Are we all invited? Hopefully there are no more COVID set backs now and everything goes as planned.

This is also exactly what the biggest (so far) international panel of scientists said after reviewing currently available evidence from randomised controlled trials and observational studies published in peer-reviewed journals and pre-print servers a month ago - namely, their reccomendation was that booster doses for the general population are not appropriate at this stage of the pandemic, as current vaccine supplies could save more lives if used in previously unvaccinated populations than if used as boosters in vaccinated populations. They also suggested that if boosters are widely introduced too soon or too frequently, there's a risk that it could cause significant adverse reactions, and that could have huge implications for vaccine acceptance in the future. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02046-8/fulltext

Cheers, ill add 'er to the list. Ive got a short list of movies that I have to watch without the other half, this is right up my alley

Metroid Dread is pretty great

Looking likely that boosters are now going to be available to everyone here pretty soon. I think there's a bit of an ethical dilemma here in that: I would be totally fine with getting a booster and having a bit more protection from the virus - but I don't really think it's right that a country that's got so much vaccine skepticism is getting its booster jabs ahead of so many countries where demand for the vaccine is sky high and so many people haven't had their first or second jabs. Strikes me as wrong when it's a global pandemic and people should be getting the vaccine worldwide to really limit the spread of the disease and bring us back to normal ASAP.

Have you ever seen 'Dog Soldiers'? Very similar except these are soldiers on a training exercise and they get trapped in a farmhouse... considering it's a low budget British film without tons of CGI it's pretty decent.. It's 2002 so fairly old now but worth a watch if you can find it...

Today's flavour

Of course it was... maybe just slightly exaggerated

A little selfish part of me might hope that was all true....

Dedicated to @Bluewolf from @nudge with all her love & kisses.

Well, you have 24 years to find a replacement movie night bestie... I would like to be part of the vetting process if I may.. need to be sure that similar tastes are adhered too and all that..

No chance

This thread sucks.

Thought the Prime games were actually quite good especially the second one although I do agree that whenever I think of a Metroid game I always think of a side-scroll platformer which this is. This makes me wonder if Nintendo has plans for an F-Zero for the Switch.

Passed away in 2007.

I just bought Metroid Dread last night. I haven't put the cartridge in my Switch yet because I think I was too drunk to play last night but I'm looking forward to it. I was never really a big fan of the Metroid Prime games... I wanted my Metroid to be more "old school" so I'm looking forward to playing this one - it looks like the Metroid I've wanted for decades.

I'm talking about pharma corporations in general being greedy and looking to maximise their profits in an industry which can easily become exploitative as it focuses on the health and lives of people. Pretty much all of those corporations have history of extreme price gouging, patent litigation, corruption, fraud, even manipulating scientific publications, falsifying safety data, etc. All that doesn't mean that any vaccine or drug manufactured and sold by a pharma corporation is automatically something bad, dangerous, or unsafe though. In other words, I can be skeptical of the modus operandi of pharmaceutical companies, and still accept and use their products, based on evidence. One doesn't have to exclude the other. Also, I don't "trust the scientists" blindly and don't think anyone should - science can be misinterpreted, scientists can be wrong, data could be flawed, missing or be unaccounted for, it can be influenced by political climate, funding and bias. I do trust the scientific method though, which, when followed correctly, continuously evaluates all newly acquired information without bias, and proper, objective scientific process which accepts that there's always a degree of uncertainty and that new evidence may challenge existing and well-known theories. So in short, I build my opinions and make my decisions based on scientific evidence available to me, and adjust them if needed whenever new evidence becomes available. That's why transparency and balanced reporting is so important. What became very noticeable in recent years is that many people fail to understand that science is a process, not a singular discovery or the source of truth set in stone. Scientific knowledge is never final or absolute, it is constantly changing. Somewhat ironically, there has been a rise of something recently that could be called scientism, which fanatically spins "science" into a dogmatic final law that has to be accepted without questioning, which, in its essence, is the complete opposite of science and more like religion. Ironic, really. But anyway, I'm rambling here a bit.

Don't even remind me that Iceland volcano, my flight got cancelled twice and then the third time it was diverted to another airport 400km away, so we had to spend over 4 hours in the bus and then run through the other airport in order to make it Nah, I will pass this time, I'm glad to finally have a break from travelling Spent a shitload of money on hotels, flights and taxis this year already, and am honestly a bit tired from it all

Nah were on honeymoon in January so saving up for that and that's our big main holiday! Plus missus can't get too much time off work right now. 3 months time we'll be sunning it up in Barbados sipping on some quality rum and coke next to the beach

No bullshit, straight to the point, as it should be.

Wee Kaiden got this game for his 8th Birthday gone, the Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword and asked me if I wanted to play it with him...so...me..." Ok.." end of story really as he thrashed the arse off me with my fat fingers and short-sighted even with my glasses on. And @nudge, I think you would like the balloons he got...

Not sure what's fraudulent about it really.. Each woman only had to buy one gift per year which is normal practice is it not??

Well at least both were reacting haha to each others post in the beginning. Classic roasting gone personal

You outlast me.

Yahooooo, 9 years left then I can find out what is above in the wild blue yonder, "Beam me up, Scotty"

Ok so I just tried the 'Death Calculator' for a crack and after putting in all my details it's telling me I have this long left... Not too shabby..... Death Calculator (thecalculator.co)

Nothing we probably didn't know already, but this government has blood on their hands. I wonder what excuse they'll hide behind.