Dr. Gonzo

It's one of those eye-opening things that explains a shitload about the state of the world. Yeah that certainly looks bad. It's the sort of ethnonationalism that typically comes before war and genocidal actions.

Mocking the dead for dying is just disgusting. Whether it's people crushed to death by South Yorkshire police, players dying from a plane crash from taking off an unsafe runway (which is actually a really horrifying death if you think about it - especially if you're like me and when you're on the plane back to your home you're just thinking "oh fuck yes, I'll get to be in my bed tonight"), or people dying in a tragic helicopter accident in something that had once been considered relatively routine by the people who were on the helicopter... or really any other way people that have died tbh. Fans of other sides using tragedies like that as a way of "point scoring" or to "wind up" others are absolute scum. If you're like me and you were born on Merseyside a year Hillsborough and grew up there... there's a good chance you know at least one person that was impacted by Hillsborough - whether it's a survivor, a family member of one of the deceased, or if you're older than me maybe you even knew one of the deceased. And I think one of the things that makes Hillsborough so egregious is the lies the police and politicians told because they wanted to avoid accountability for the blood on the hands of South Yorkshire police - and the lies that were spread about the victims and survivors in the media at the behest of the same politicians and police. It was vicious slander of a whole community already was reeling from Thatcher's war on Merseyside and Liverpool's "managed decline" under her government. And there was no semblance of justice until decades later when the UK government finally apologised - but even the main perpetrators manage to walk away without having to face any real repercussion for filling 96 graves. So it's still a particularly sore subject even after so many decades. It's over 30 years of lies South Yorkshire police, some Tory cunts, and their pals at the Sun told, while playing up a bunch of anti-Scouse stereotypes, that get chanted back at us or mocked with gestures (although I'll always laugh when Everton fans mock it, I feel like that never would have happened when I was a kid - but those are people too stupid to realise they're mocking Scousers themselves), and even admission from The Sun & apologies from the Government won't stop that sort of stupid behavior. You've really got no business stepping into Liverpool, for a football match or otherweise, if you're going to come and chant shit like that.

I think he typically had one bad injury a season? I’m not sure but we can ask @Viva la FCB - he’ll know

Yeah I agree with you. I think millions of people, all around the world - not just in the UK mind you, that disagree with that sentiment.

Shrewsbury’s keeper suggesting large swaths of their fans should be banned for life for their Hillsborough chants. Im inclined to agree. But I suspect many are well against that

Pakistan's mostly Islamic and Jesus is in Islam. There's differences though. He's not the Messiah or divine, he's a pre-Mohammed prophet.

Like I'm going to listen to a virgin who isn't even allowed to drive...

Tbf much of what good Blair did as PM, and I do think he did good as a PM (comparatively speaking, he's probably the best PM in my lifetime), is sort of all erased by being Bush's poodle and taking the country into an illegal war that plunged the Middle East, already a region teeming with instability, into even more chaos. Without that, ISIS wouldn't have existed, so what he's done is get Britain involved in the foundation of one of the worst collections of people the world has ever seen. Any time ISIS kill anyone, in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, etc... anywhere in the world, really... he shares culpability with the terrorists. He belongs on trial at the Hague, not getting a knighthood. And the fact that some terrible people have been knighted doesn't really erase that fact.

If he gets them relegated, he is their best ever manager imo

The main complaint I'd have about those Arsenal fans is they're fucking stupid - both players would still be missing with the rescheduled matches.

Any team on the planet would rather face our youth team rather than our actual team too.

Unfortunately not

I understand @Rick’s frustration - we’ve literally waited our whole lives to see Liverpool be this good. This is the best era of LFC in most of our lives, with the best players and best manager we’ve ever had. And we just can’t really compete with the main title rival financially at all. There’s a very real possibility that this era ends pretty soon and we’ve only got the one league title to show for it & that’s it in terms of league titles for us in our lifetimes. nah we’re 3 matches from a trophy in a season where it looks like City are just going to run away with the league. Although that’s my opinion. Klopp probably will play the kids because he thinks it’s just a shit FA cup. And he already doesn’t think much of the FA cup.

Agree with this, the world’s richest will always make money even in times of disaster. Even in poorer countries with much worse economies that were absolutely rocked by covid, a lot of countries saw the wealth gap between the elites and normal people. The term “disaster capitalism” exists for a reason and in situations that are really bad it’s usually the very richest that end up least affected. I do think some countries have sort of used the pandemic to push for extreme measures which makes me wonder if they’re trying to see what they can get away with in the future. But I also think some reasonable restrictions make sense. And honestly I think maybe rather than a power grab it’s just the result of lots of countries not really knowing what they are doing and just making things up as they go during this pandemic. I definitely think that’s happening in lots of places, so that seems like a reasonable explanation to me.

I am no longer positive with COVID, according to my most recent test. I've had no booster, but I'm double jabbed. I'd say for me it was about as mild as it could have possibly been - only really symptomatic for a few hours on one day. Other than that, pretty much felt fine. I've heard that some mild-moderate cases can be quite unpleasant though.

So on Thursday I met a glassblower and ended up going to his workshop for a bit. And I can’t stop thinking about how much I am jealous of his career. He just blasts metal all day long, playing with fire, making bongs.

It’s hard to say how long it will be for Arsenal to win the league again. The league is much stronger than the last time they won the league - I think now they have a squad that can compete for the CL but a league title is probably a few seasons away. It’s a young squad that’ll get better with more experience and they need some leaders that can help a young squad perform under pressure. I think in Arsenal’s position it’s just important to be really careful with what they spend money on in the future. I think they have been quite wasteful in the transfer market, but I think this summer they’ve done good work. As long as Arteta keeps giving steady progress, I think it’s good to stick with him. He’s learning on the job and I think he’s doing a decent job considering it’s his first job and it’s a club the size of Arsenal.

I think beaches mostly, there’s also a cool looking national park, a shitload of hiking trails.

Maui

Fingers crossed pal

Thanks mate, I'm actually feeling a lot better compared to how I felt a few hours ago. Honestly, it just feels like a mild cold - if I had to compare it to anything. I think I'll be fine long-term.

Thanks pal. It's not so bad, I can still taste (so far) - I just had a cough and a sore throat, so did my wife, our friend had some tests so he came around to leave them on our doorstep and we took our covid tests. A bit gutted to have gone this long without infection and to finally get infected.

That's a bit like some other open world games I've played - but I agree, those kinds of endings end up feeling really unsatisfying for some reason.

Conte says Spurs are appealing UEFA's decision to knock Spurs out by forfeiting the Rennes match.