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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.

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

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.

I can tell you really hate burritos from this picture

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

As much as it's not technically what the OP is asking I guess, after eating any Italian food in Italy and then eating it anywhere else is worlds apart. I know that eating any dish in its home country is different but seriously, you're not eating pizza in England.

We have really good tacos here that cost around 2 bucks each.

Not in my experience, at least with burritos I've had in Mexico. Granted I've only had them in one city and from 2 different places. The burritos I've had in Mexico were in Tijuana and they were very different to the burritos people would typically picture. They're much thinner and the only filling was meat. Thought it was a bit strange and between tacos in Mexico or the types of burritos I've had in Mexico, tacos win hands down. In Southern California and Texas, I think rice and beans are just filler to make burritos look fatter, cos gringos love big fat burritos. It's why the California burrito took off, adding chips to the burrito was a low cost way of stuffing a carne asada burrito to look much fatter without actually adding more meat. You go too far north in California and the burritos start looking like absolute monsters but that's because it's 80% rice and beans and barely any of what it's actually supposed to be - these burritos are absolute bullshit. In San Diego if you see a burrito with rice & beans, it's a bullshit burrito and you shouldn't get it. But Mexico's a big country and culinary styles change from region to region in any country, and Mexico is no exception, so I'm sure some Mexicans do put rice and beans in burritos. But most people worldwide when they're thinking of burritos, they're thinking of Tex-Mex style burritos. And a lot of those do have rice and beans in them. But too much of that and I think it's absolute bullshit just to inflate a burrito and use up less of the more expensive ingredients.

She looks like someone deprived of both tacos and burritos.

Taco ahead by 1. 4-3 and in the lead. Currently @Mel81x, @Tommy and @Coma can shove their burritos up their arses.

@Michael, @Viva la FCB, @Bluewolf, @Coma, @Tommy, @londonerlilie, @nawoo Your weekly reminder!

@Tommy, @Viva la FCB, @6666, @Michael, @Bluewolf, @Coma, @nawoo Your weekly reminder!

Australia isn’t in the Middle East, fuckhead

Jackson and Madueke trying to take the penalty when Cole Palmer was on for the golden boot was absolutely hilarious.

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.

I joined the original forum on the 29th of September 2009... Was doing my Master's degree in the Netherlands at that time. It was my first time living alone abroad!

This is getting ridiculous.

I'd rather say this obsession with strong leaders and strong leadership is a part of the problem rather than its solution, to be absolutely honest. If neither the former and reigning israeli PMs nor the former and reigning Palestinian representives had always been so busy to demonstrate "strong leadership" a compromise could have been found decades ago.

Please be so kind and explain how extending a war and producing an ever bigger bloodbath in the process can be seen as positive? Genuine curious?

Just googled it: according to "Open Doors" there're a bit less than half a million Christians in Iran a county of 88M inhabitants. Not even 1%, millions my arse.

9 goals across these two games, and both first goals in the first half. Game 121's was very early, in the 4th minute - only @Bluebird Hewitt getting close enough to get 2 points. Game 122's was towards half-time, in the 37th minute. But no winners here. Table after Game 122: Those two points propel @Bluebird Hewitt all the way up from 12th to 6th, level on points with myself.

It’s just an islamophobia trope, the people that say shit like ‘Iranians are converting to Christianity’ are just saying that to give their own religion moral superiority and to give a justification to whatever anti-Islam ideals they hold. Even I know that Christianity is so minor in the history of Iran that I wouldn’t be surprised of there are more Mazdayasnas and that is nearly a dead religion. Let’s go for it, lets get some secular Zoroastrians, I’m on board with big bonfires and sky burials, that’s metal as fuck - the sister rooting can stay with the Sassanids though.

Tony Khan wtf Absolutely embarrassing. All they’ve done is prove Punk right.

Uhh, a singles match between cody and roman that cody wins, with bloodline interference of course, but with cody triumphant, Basically last years match but with Cody winning. The more special guests run ins and fan service you get the more it does 2 things, 1. Distract from Codys win. Here we are talking about who turned up for the match, rather than the result. 2. Undermine Codys win. Beating Roman is supposed to be final boss stuff, but this is more like a WoW dungeon raid where your mates carry you through, and whos to say that Zayn, Owens, Logan Paul, or whoever else wouldn't have beaten Roman too if every man and his dog had come to help them? What did Cody do here that makes him special? This was supposed to be about Cody and Roman. Instead we're all looking at the rock, Cena, and the return of the cumdertaker.

I love the dichotomy of wrestling fans, those that eat everything up, and those that just sit at home hating on everything because they have diabetes or some shit, both so cringe yet so different.

@Tommy you have more to add to the clan.

Think again

Man you can't be talking shit about Mexican food when you had fajitas, the food that Mexicans make fun of gringos for liking

It’s close but baja style tacos are basically unmatched so I have to go with tacos

Most people in Iran don't want war with the US or Israel. People are fed up with the ridiculously bad economic conditions and the negative sentiment surrounding the government from that human rights movement that led to mass imprisonment and executions hasn't gone anywhere. There's a huge portion of the country that views their government as the enemy (cos they are) and the rumblings of war as nothing more than something to distract people to keep the government firmly grasping to power. People haven't forgotten that the shadow of the war with Iraq led to the IR consolidating its power and purging out dissenting and more moderate voices post-revolution, they know how the IR operates when it is at war. When you've got football crowds chanting "marg bar diktator", "marg bar Khamenei," and "marg bar jomhooriye islami" (death to the dictatorship/Khamenei/the Islamic Republic) every week, it really does give a finger on the pulse of how ordinary people in Iran feel about their government. There's obvious division in the country though. In the more rural communities, support for the IR is strong. Amongst the elite of Iran, unsurprisingly because the reason they are elite has to do with their close ties to the government (if not being actively involved in governance), support for the IR is strong. But in the cities among normal people, I suspect the feeling is more common to what you see in the streets of Tehran or in the football stadiums of the clubs of the big cities. The increasing sentiment that the IR is not a legitimate government and one that only has its "mandate" to lead by the brutality they inflict on their people. All you have to do is look at Iranian posters on twitter/instagram, look at the ones that are actually coming out of Iran... and take a look at what they have to say about their government and sepahis (members of the IRGC). You might have to run it through a translator, but you can see the Iranians that are using their VPNs to express their thoughts to the outside world absolutely hate their oppressors. And you can't really blame Iranians for not having any appetite for a war with Israel. First, there's a huge number of people that have bitter resentment towards Palestine. Iran's economy is in dire straights and the government funnels money to Hamas and Hezbollah in the name of ending oppression of Palestinians. A lot of Iranians think that money would be better spent on Iran. Inflation is out of control in Iran - tens of millions are struggling with the cost of living, wondering if they will be able to afford their homes & buy food at the same time. This escalation, which now is likely to bring further US sanctions as well as a military response from Israel, is the last thing Iranians needed in this difficult time for them. The US sanctions have been largely ineffective because while they tank Iran's economy... it really only negatively impacts normal people. The elite keep their money flowing by using Russian and Chinese networks to skirt sanctions as well as simply selling oil on the black market. So further economic hell for the people living in Iran, along with the ever present threat of Israeli strikes. It's why I find the calls from non-Iranians bellowing for Iran to throw itself into full blown war with Israel so offensive, tbh. These are already struggling and suffering people, to call for them to put their lives on the line to end the "oppression" of people other than themselves, while the international community largely sat back and didn't give a fuck about Iranians pleading for the international community to end their own oppression... it's just insane. Iran has it's own problems and it's own oppressors to worry about before going to war with anybody else. And like Israel, is surrounded by countries that are either openly hostile or full of people that think less of them because of their religious beliefs and ethnicities - so the prospect of a greater regional war is the prospect of Iran going headfirst into an existential battlefield. Anyone with any interest in peace and stability in the region should be against this conflict escalating to Israel and Iran's cold war truly heating up.

Atletico get one back. Is it just me or is it ALWAYS Hummels who gives away a goal?

Can see him turning down Bayern , if an other club of International reputation, naming Barcelona amongst others come asking, though.

All feet lead to me.

Issue with RPG's nowadays is that their hype is never delivered. Hogwarts Legacy or Dragon's Dogma 2 had very poor/weak decision making outcomes and although the open world was beautiful, it still felt limited to where you can go and what you can do. The main story was too short and the side quests were very unfulfilling. There were a lack of relationship and character building, so you never really felt taken into the world itself. None of which are remotely replayable. Currently playing the Witcher 3 and I can see why its been praised as it has. I'd love something as expansive as this in a game of thrones/lord of the rings type RPG with unique character customization.

If you 'click' on your name it will tell you when you joined... I will chalk up 6 years come October and I won't be going anywhere else fast, I am a member or 2 other Forums and have been in them a few years but this now is the main one, I joined just after I retired from work.

Stalking Stan

Depends how you define fire first. Iran and Israel have been in a Cold War for decades now. Hamas is a proxy of Iran & Qatar, but Hezbollah is a distinctly Iranian proxy that the IRGC basically has total control over. Like with Israel v Hamas, there’s no real “good guys” in a war with Iran & Israel. Just a lot of unwilling participants for a war that really only suits the 2 terrible leaders of the two countries.

Yeah there's an Assyrian population in Iran too - I do think it's significantly less than the populations of Syrian/Iraqi Assyrians though. I'm not sure about that. Tbh, I forgot they're Christians too - looking at the numbers though, they're an extreme minority even compared to Armenians living in Iran.

The only people that think there are millions of Christians in Iran are cooked youtubers and their viewers.

I don't think it's a knee jerk reaction, Gasperini doesn't really get the credit he deserves outside of Italy, three 3rd place finishes in a row, two times runner up in the Coppa Italia. Doesn't really have the budget to compete with the likes of Juve, Inter, Roma, Milan etc but he still manages to in terms of top 4. Initially when I made my post about potential replacements I did think about putting him in, but the list of maybe's generally included people who had won something. It would be a left field appointment but not necessarily a bad one. Only thing I would say and this is why I didn't suggest him is previously Klopp was a very obvious appointment. It didn't take a lot of looking at underlying statistics to realise that appointing the man who broke Bayern's dominance with a low budget and great attacking football was going to be the best decision for Liverpool. I think the club will look for something or someone similar and Gasperini probably won't make it that far. But it wouldn't surprise me if they'd already had a good look at him

ABOUT FUCKING TIME. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68791135

Leverkusen clear favourites now. I think that second goal makes it too much for West Ham. We are definitely out. All bark and no bite lately. Wouldn’t have scored against my local pub side tonight. I hate to say it, because I love his work rate, but Nunez is really testing my patience in front of goal. Really is.