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Oh that's a relief, next time I'll make sure to take the jacuzzi!

I was posting on a few forums back in the day and received a text from @Stanasking me to join what was TFF back then as he'd liked to content I'd been putting out and knew of the cult following that I had (the Cannabisettes as they were called at the time). I think it was around 2007 but I may be wrong. Instantly involved in an Internet bar fight with HalewoodToffee but famously won (he died around 2010 from AIDS brought on by dogging in an unclean taxi). Ended up on Love Island in 2011 and had a blast, that's where I met @nudge and @Tommy. The latter who denies being ever involved but I know the truth. Had a hiatus for a while as I was having to live in my hotel room 24/7, couldn't move without people wanting pictures and shouting "Are you that bloke Cannabis?" at me, not being able to go down the street really took it's toll. That's where I met @MUFCas he wanted a selfie with my feet. After 6 months and a reach around I accepted, pretty sure the image is still on the old server but could be wrong. That's also where I met @CaaC (John) as he was the photographer. Now I pop in and out of the place, @Rab and @DeadLinesman send me nudes to my WhatsApp so I only ever come on here now for football related talk. It's been a blast though, 10/10 would do again.

Tbf I don't think that's the spaghettis fault

Week 34 Results Melbourne Victory 2-1 Melbourne City Norwich 1-0 Ipswich Roma 1-0 Lazio Sporting Lisbon 2-1 Benfica Athletic Bilbao p1-1 Mallorca LAFC 2-1 LA Galaxy Rangers 3-3 Celtic Feyenoord 6-0 Ajax Club Brugge 3-1 Anderlecht Galatasaray 1-0 Fenerbahce Round-up Potentially one of the best rounds of fixtures we've ever had in terms of the teams involved - all but one of the matches are derbies or rivalries of some sort, and the one that isn't was a cup final, so equally as contested! In terms of the table it was very closely contested too - with the range of scores being 11-14. At the top end were @Viva la FCB and @CaaC (John) who cancelled each other out with 14 points. @Rucksackfranzose surpassed 400 points with 13 to add to his tally, while @Tommy is just one point away from reaching the same mark.

Egg Masala!

I've decided not to renew my season ticket, 16yrs of going the game coming to and end in a month or two. The love of football and Everton has evaporated to the point where clinging onto it is only affecting my mental well-being in a negative way. I just don't have the heart anymore to still hold on. I'll be putting my energy and new found spare time into my family. The Premier League, $ky, Moshiri, Kenwright and all the other absolute car crash bollocks has totally done me in, to the point where I'll be getting my football fix from my local Sunday League team (I have two clubs a 10 minute walk from me in the North West Counties League) and on the TV via FC Porto (the team of my wife's family). So sad that looking around for forum, so many are in the same boat. Football has been killed for the "historic" fan. Totally dead.

This looks like a proper Western. Written and direction by Vigo apparently says the trailer. Ill be seeing this one in theatres... @CaaC (John)@Bluewolf@nudge

@Rucksackfranzose @Stan @Michael @Viva la FCB @Coma @Bluewolf @nawoo @londonerlilie Your weekly reminder.

@Rucksackfranzose @Stan @Viva la FCB @6666 @Bluewolf @Coma @nawoo @Michael Your weekly reminder!

The use of shadow in that painting is absolutely amazing. I remember seeing it a while ago and thinking how real it looked.

Week 32 Results Man City Women 3-1 Man Utd Women Republic of Ireland 0-0 Belgium Stockport 5-0 MK Dons England 0-1 Brazil France 0-2 Germany Charlotte FC 2-0 Columbus Crew Costa Rica 3-1 Honduras Everton Women 0-0 Liverpool Women San Marino 0-0 St Kitts & Nevis Italy 2-0 Ecuador Round-up Mixture of internationals and domestic fixtures sprung up some interesting results. And with that said, lots of praise for @Rucksackfranzose for getting 18 points which propels him up into the chasing pack, and into 5th place. And not only that, he was also the only one to predict the goalless draw in the Women's Merseyside derby. Next best were myself and @Tommy with 13 points. The latter capitalising on Nawoo not predicting and closing the gap to 2 points. @Viva la FCB closed the gap on @CaaC (John) to just 3 points.

@Rick lol don't tell Gasperini the only person who linked him to the job was me

Week 35 Results Sydney FC 2-1 Western Sydney Atletico Madrid 3-1 Girona Birmingham 3-0 Coventry Motherwell 1-1 Hibernian Torino 0-0 Juventus DC United 2-3 Orlando City Braunschweig 0-0 Hannover Tottenham Women 2-1 Leicester Women Clermont 1-1 Montpellier Vasco De Gama 2-1 Gremio Round-up @CaaC (John) now occupies 2nd spot and overtakes @Viva la FCB in the process, whilst @Tommy top-scored with 15 points and 2 perfect scores. @Rucksackfranzose also got 2 perfect scores, with one of them being the 0-0 draw in the Turin derby.

Tacos in a holder & rice and beans in a burrito = bullshit Mexican food

A single player, open-world pirate RPG game where choices matter. A truly open-world, free-roam Star Wars game where you can travel around a fully-explorable vast universe (generated like in Space Engine) doing whatever the fuck you want. An open-world hard sci-fi game with heavy focus on diplomacy, politics, trade, colonization, science & technology, terraforming of planets, etc. Preferably based on The Expanse, or just something similar. A historically accurate game about preparing for and embarking on expeditions. Polar expeditions, Africa, Asia, etc. A mix of survival + sailing/traveling + making discoveries. A single-player game set in pre-Colombian Americas, with historically accurate representation of nations/tribes. Heavy focus on politics, trade, culture. A racing driver simulator where you start from grassroots motorsports as a kid, and move up the career ladder through various racing series. Similar to above, an immersive first-person football player simulator game where you start in youth academy as a kid and try to make it to the top, and including detailed events both on and off the pitch. Something similar to the concept in I am Playr, which was a brilliant idea. A proper game based on LOST TV series. So many possibilities there. More couch co-op narrative-driven adventure games with a well-written story.

Very good matchday for us as a group for a change! Matchday 29 1) 6666 15 points 2) Bluewolf 13 points 3) Coma 9 points 3) Michael 9 points 5) Rucksackfranzose 8 points 5) Tommy 8 points 5) Viva la FCB 8 points 8- CaaC(John) 7 points 8- Stan 7 points Three more players passed the 200 points mark. Table after 29 matchdays 1) @Tommy 209 points 2) @Stan 206 points 3) @Viva la FCB 202 points 4) @6666 201 points 5) @Michael 199 points 6) @Bluewolf 196 points 7) @Coma 182 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 164 points 9) @CaaC (John) 155 points 10) @nawoo 149 points

Bluewolf's perfect Kiel 4-0 Osnabrück score is prediction of the matchday. Also remarkable Stan's the first player this season to score 8 points on a matchday without a single perfect score in this league. Matchday 29 1) Bluewolf 10 points 2) Stan 8 points 2) Tommy 8 points 4) Coma 7 points 5) CaaC(John) 6 points 6) Michael 5 points 6) Rucksackfranzose 5 points 8- Viva la FCB 4 points The 2 leaders now are feeling the hot breath of the midtable players in their necks. Table after 29 matchdays 1) @Michael 180 points 2) @Viva la FCB 177 points 3) @Bluewolf 174 points 4) @Coma 172 points 4) @Tommy 172 points 6) @Stan 171 points 7) @CaaC (John) 170 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 147 points 9) @londonerlilie 122 points 9) @nawoo 122 points

Muad’Dib is about to emerge from the desert with his third eye awakened and find the golden path to the unification of the holy lands. It’s as simple as that you fucken dunces

I have a friend that conditionally supports Hamas as he states they are the only means that the Palestinian people have for self-determination whether just or not, and I tell him I have no support for Hamas as I don’t believe a boot of any colour on someone’s neck is positive, nor do I buy into the cope of ‘he is a monster, but he is our monster’. I have no support from Israel either, as they cultivated this situation into a war and admittedly so, they are the power brokers in this war all terms and conditions are determined through them. I support both the people of Israel and Palestine not having to suffer through a war that ultimately serves no purpose but to strengthen the imperial goals of the power holders in Israel and abroad, they don’t suffer from their ivory towers.

Love Thai curry with beef and rice. i sometimes might as well just chuck it straight in the toilet and save some time sitting on the pot and getting the ring of fire but it's still one of my favourite 4 sure

@Stan @Coma @nudge @MUFC @MF Motorsport Don't forget.

@Stan @Viva la FCB @6666 @Bluewolf @Coma @nawoo @Michael Consider yourself reminded.

Hotel? - Trivago

Week 33 Results Torino 1-0 Monza Aberdeen 2-1 Ross County Metz 2-5 Monaco Hertha Berlin 3-3 Nurnberg Austin FC 2-1 FC Dallas Melbourne Victory 2-1 Perth Glory Arsenal Women 1-0 Chelsea Women Girona 3-2 Real Betis Sturm Graz 0-1 RB Salzburg Marseille 0-2 PSG Round-up A strong showing from all that predicted, as everyone scored about 13 and the average for the week was just above 16 points. Highest of the week came from the player at the bottom, as @Pyfish scored 21 points. @Viva la FCB is the new occupant of 2nd place as he scored 17 points; he and myself both got 3 perfect scores. @Tommy moves up 1 spot taking 6th back.

Sheep - Season 11 - Final Scores Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 PD Totals Lucas 40 38 33 55 30 -25 196 Bluewolf 42 29 36 49 24 -25 180 Caac John 41 29 25 52 30 -22 177 Deadlinesman 41 33 34 35 26 -9 169 Nudge 25 33 30 54 23 -31 165 Tommy 19 34 30 47 30 -17 160 Dr Gonzo 41 32 34 52 0 -52 159 Spike 35 25 25 38 18 -20 141 Stan 33 32 32 43 0 -43 140 Beelzebub 36 23 14 37 19 -18 129 Pyfish 41 30 41 0 0 0 112 Some of you called this before we even begun but it seems like @Lucas is the top Sheep once again. Congrats to the winner and in tow we have @Bluewolf in second and @CaaC (John) in third (who wasn't very far from a second spot himself). Thank you everyone for playing and can we get a round of applause for the returning champion of this game, I am thinking no one can really dethrone him as he cements himself in Sheep lore as the best Sheep of the bunch. Thank you to all who participated this season and if we ever do this again I have some thoughts on how to keep it moving a bit more regularly. Till the next time, thank you once again.

Results - Australian Grand Prix A broad mixture of scores this week, starting off with a 0 for @Whiskey who didn't make any predictions. Qualifying was more or less business as usual, with @MUFC the only person to gamble on someone other than Max Verstappen for pole position. Leclerc sadly blew his last qualifying effort leaving him empty-handed, with everyone else bagging 5 points for the usual VER pole. Also resolved on Saturday was this week's bonus question. Not helped by Ricciardo's deleted lap-time seeing him knocked out in Q1, nobody predicted a gap between him and Piastri of anything like the 1.5 seconds that Piastri had out-stripped his compatriot by come the end of Q3, so 2 consolation points go to @OrangeKhrush who predicted the largest margin of anyone. Onto the race, and wouldn't you know that it took until just the second race after we started predicting "top three without Verstappen" that this ends up being the actual top three in the race. The change in this prediction achieved what we wanted anyway, with a variety of Perez, Norris, Ferrari and Mercedes picks yielding a nice mixture of scores. Nobody predicted Sainz in 1st place, but 2 points each go to @RandoEFC, @Tommy, @Coma and @DeadLinesman for putting him elsewhere in their top three. Everyone predicted a top three finish for Charles Leclerc, with @RandoEFC, @Stan, @Tommy, @nudge, @The Palace Fan and @DeadLinesman all bagging 5 points for putting him in P2, everyone else picking up 2 - the only points of the weekend in @MUFC's case. @Stan, @nudge and @OrangeKhrush all distinguished themselves by rounding off their podium predictions with Lando Norris in 3rd, collecting them another 5 points each. The presence of Perez in everyone's top three prevented anyone from bagging the 20 points for a perfect podium. Finally, this week's random driver was Oscar Piastri at his home race. Nobody was bold enough to predict a finish as high as 4th for him, but @RandoEFC was closest with 6th place here so picks up an extra 2 points. Here's what it does for the standings: Three races in, defending champion @RandoEFC sneaks to the top of the standings with a 1 point lead ahead of previous leader @Tommy. @MUFC's poor weekend and @Whiskey's no-show this weekend see them propping up the standings. In the Constructors', a mediocre week for Mercedes sees them drop from 1st to 4th. Red Bull raked in the highest points tally this week but it's McLaren who sneak into the top spot in a close battle between them, Red Bull and Aston Martin. I'm going away tomorrow so I'll be posting the predictions for next weekend's Japanese Grand Prix this afternoon.

Light and shadows were definitely things that made Vermeer stand out.

At the bolded part: You're neither an Israeli nor living in Israel, so nobody asks you to do anything like this you mentioned.Know you're Jewish, yet while there are Jews like you, who aren't Israeli exist, there are also Muslim and Christian Israelis. Stop that equating the state of Israel with the Jewish community, it's outright wrong.

"DiSnEy WeNt WoKe NoW tHeY'lL gO bRoKe"

I don't care what they've done to be honest mate. Every day now is PSR, PSR, PSR. Almost daily reminders that this is the new football. Accountants, lawyers, yawn, yawn, yawn. I think the Premier League have shown beyond all doubt this season that they're in no position whatsoever to be pretending they can implement these financial rules. I can see where this is going now. Nobody likes VAR but it gives everyone something to talk about and, most importantly of all, it gets clicks. The more VAR drama, the better, because it gets people on social media shouting about "the worst decision they've ever seen" and more people are talking about the Premier League. It's going to be the same with PSR. Let's find another way we can introduce financial charges to a club so everyone can keep talking about points deductions and appeals and how stupid the rules are because the only thing worse than people slating the Premier League is people not talking about the Premier League at all. I'm sure Leicester have a case to answer just like Everton and Forest did but you can see how the coverage has changed since Everton initially got the 10 point deduction. Things that would have been dealt with behind closed doors are now a spectacle that has to be played out in public over the course of several months, several meetings, and rounded off with a few journalists leaking the result before it's published accompanied by a bunch of emojis. I'm convinced it's all deliberate. All this "Forest are expecting a decision on Monday or Tuesday at the latest and maybe Sunday" is deliberately designed to get people spending three days refreshing their social media pages and searching for information. It's telling now that the national journalists have increasingly started tweeting out minor updates that would have been a footnote in an obscure article in the past. It's all about the buzz. Football is so fucked, man. If the Premier League want to be viewed as a credible enforcer of these rules then they'll start making a dent in Man City's 115 charges instead of going after a team that's already been relegated from their league. Low-hanging fruit. Of course 115 charges are more complicated but that's all the more reason to get started ffs.

Casting Pierce Brosnan as a Bond villain at some point in the future would be funny/cool.

So Martinez got a second yellow during the shootout but apparently there's a special rule where it doesn't count as a second yellow in a penalty shootout. What a random and bullshit rule!

What do you mean mushrooms? Mushrooms in a Bolognese?

Whenever I see images of British Chinese food, it's basically just all brown

One of my German facebook friends who lives in the same city as me posted pictures of the sun today with the caption. "Feeling sad - No solar eclipse. Shit" Yea, no shit. It was only visible in North America ya doofus.

A wide range of scores for Week 31, as the highest score came from @6666, with 23 points. That means @Rajabhat Rovers's lead is cut down to 9 points as we head into the final weeks of the season. Or is it too late for the leader to lose out...? Next best is @Bluewolf who managed 17 points - this allowed him to go up to 8th, and got Prediction of the Week in the process as he was the only one to get Newcastle 1-1 Everton exact. @Rucksackfranzose is now level with @CaaC (John) and I am now level with @Storts.

Wow that's mental. That season TV was really pushing Leicester's title race and it was probably the most I'd cared about a team that wasn't Liverpool actually doing well. Kind of fucked up that people would be more interested in this league being dominated by a handful of clubs (and lately one's been much more dominant than the others) than in situations where you can have a side like Leicester get promoted and shortly after... they win the fucking league. I'm surprised that really didn't make the league more marketable. I don't see how you can like football and not like stories like that. When you hear about legends of the past like Brian Clough or Bill Shankley getting a team promoted and then taking the fans of those clubs on a wild ride... and it just seems so far from the reality of modern day football... then you see Leicester do probably the closest possible thing to what these legends of the game did. How is that not entertaining or exciting? I also think it says something about the state of modern football where I'm a fan of a club that's currently in the probably the most interesting title race in years, in an era of supporting my club where it's without a doubt the most successful we've been in my lifetime thanks to Klopp, and my interest in football generally is just so low. Possibly the lowest it's been since I was in my 20s and really only cared about having sex and doing drugs. You would think, all things considered, I'd have a bit more optimism about the state of football considering this is probably the best few years of football my club's had in my life (and possibly ever will have in my life). Yet here I am, feeling weirdly disenchanted with the state of football.

Frankly what the Premier League have done, hand in hand with Sky, to English football with their capitalism on steroids makes it absolutely hilarious for them to be going around using the phrase "too much money" in any context whatsoever. This is a nation where the disparity between the top two leagues is so monstrous that anyone who gets relegated receives hundreds of millions in "parachute payments" just to stop them from going completely bust, a league where the only sustained "upward mobility" that any club has really achieved in the last 35 years has had to come from billionaire investment from overseas. The Premier League created the wild west and now wants the residents to live off rations. I have no sympathy whatsoever. I hope the entire organisation collapses because it's almost comical how not fit for purpose it is. There's been a lot in the news lately about clubs being criticised for voting against a deal with the EFL which would allow more money to trickle down the pyramid. Those clubs should be criticised but why the fuck are they allowed to vote on this stuff in the first place? This independent regulator can't come soon enough but it really does need to take radical action from day one.

Starters: Chicken skewers with some form of barbecue or Asian-style marinade. Main: Lamb keema with rice and naan bread

I once asked my mum if she was going to watch the eclipse. She replied with "does it not damage your eyes?" I replied with only "if you stare at it before the moon fully covers the sun". She replied with "ok, so where do I look?" I almost facepalmed my head off my shoulders that day.

This looks pretty good! Speaking about Westerns, this is the one I'm most looking forward too...

Tandoori chicken and leek pie. First time ever making a pie!

So our self proclaimed liberitarian shows their true colours. You're not a libertarian which would be unpleasant enough, you're indeed an authoritarian proto-fascist. Or is there a possibility to interprete that sentence in any other way than supporting oppression and withhold of liberty?

The global community wants to tear apart Israel? Since when? The so called Western states showed a lot of solidarity towards Israel, not only the US but also Canada,Australia ;Japan , and the EU. You were deluded, if you thought otherwise. If these countries would indeed do what they can to pull Israel apart, or had done so in that countrie's history Israel wouldn't exist anymore.

Has no experience as a manager, yet served as Freiburg's connection coach between youth and first team, whatever that job entails. Somebody, who played for Streich and was a long-time member of his coaching staff. Apparently Freiburg want to continue on their path. Wise decision, although Schuster will find it hard to follow in Streich's footsteps. Wish him all the best, would be great, if Freiburg carried on to be successful for a club with their history and financial means. Was tempted to say their size, but they've grown creditably in the last 10 years.

So you're traveling there in a Hot Air Balloon?