Dr. Gonzo

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine seems to be a bit shit

I think the UK have stopped letting people in entirely - but they were doing the mandatory quarantine period in hotels. The UK's done a pretty piss poor job at managing the virus, but they've done better than many other countries in a lot of ways as well. Which is actually pretty remarkable because our government is made up of pure incompetence bagged up and thrown into various people. The fact the pandemic is as bad as it is currently is because governments acted very slow, imo. The outbreak had come to light right before the Chinese lunar new year - which is probably South East Asia's biggest tourism holiday. So as it was spreading from Wuhan to other parts of China - it was making its way around the world. Once it hit Italy and we saw how badly places like Bergamo hit, Europe and the Americas could have acted much faster to contain the spread. Quite a few big countries really did not act anywhere near fast enough and tried to play it off like the pandemic spreading was normal and fine and it would all blow over after a few weeks.

I doubt it, but it would be nice.

I’m not sure immigration was the main cause, so much as tourism.

I seem to remember a certain Dr. Gonzo saying shit like this would happen. Shame to be right so emphatically about something that’s going to affect the jobs and livelihood of so many people in the UK. I’ve noticed a lot of people who were big on Brexit are now either pretending they never voted to leave or that nobody ever warned them about all of the reasons not to vote to leave (they were warned though, they just laughed it off as project fear). This many people voting like idiots is only useful if people learn from their mistakes. So it’s a bit disheartening seeing these people can continue to remove themselves from reality and now pretend they had nothing to do with Brexit.

Yes - silly question tbh

@Fairy In Boots where are you? Please defend this

Soy sauce & some chili oil sauce

@Tommy - turned out better this time!

I found a good pick de gallo recipe online a while back. I’ll try to find the exact one and share it with you.

Nice to sign promising young players, but really if we’re low on funds any funds we have right now should be going into getting someone better than Rhys Williams or Nat Phillips in. Even if it’s just for a 6 month loan.

On the one hand, I sympathise with them because they were lied to. They were lied to constantly, pretty much any time they’d watch the news there’d be some Brexiteer cunt lying about how great it would be for the fishing industry. And they were certainly the loudest voice on the issue. But they weren’t the only voice. So on the other hand, it just shows there’s a whole lot of people that went along with lies without looking more into what the fuck Brexit was doing for their particular industry. They could have been a loud voice in protecting themself against self-serving twats like Farage. Instead they went along with the bullshit and now they’re reaping what they sow.

My responses are: 1) no, 2) badly, 3) yeah but we won’t. This season’s a write off imo, I now just want to see our players Pickford players on other clubs I don’t like and maybe do it to some referees too.

I put off doing it for a while... then I burned them Whoops, I'll try that again this weekend.

We really did do a Chelsea in having Thiago as our marquee signing of the summer - we had 8 CMs and we had 3 CBs. Easy to say with hindsight... so I've gone on and said it.

Winning the league last year was one of the most incredible moments of my life tbh, shame it happened during a pandemic so we couldn’t have a normal celebration.

Nah the US is even worse in that regard tbh. More funding for education is needed all around the world

I’ve seen us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory many times though

I don’t constantly strive to find negatives. I just don’t think things I want to happen will happen. I still hope for the best, I just don’t expect the best ever. It makes nice things happening very fantastic (Istanbul was so fucking euphoric after that first half). If you look back to last year, we were miles ahead and on the cusp of winning the title and @Stan would have to try to convince me we were likely the winners up until the very second we won. It probably stems from being bitterly disappointed each year by the club in the 90s as a kid

Who?

One positive is Biden's policy platform has moved way more to the left since winning the nomination than when he was running in the primaries, where his positions were more in the centre. It seems as though he's listened to the base of the party that was skeptical of him. So he's promising a more left-wing vision for America than Hillary Clinton, and even Obama, and unlike Mrs. Clinton he doesn't have decades of right wing propaganda that has pretty successfully worked to demonise her in the eyes of the right wing base of the GOP and the left wing base of the Democrats. I agree with you re: Obama's drone policy - but I think hoping an American president will stop having a hyper imperialistic stance on the Middle East is an absolute pipedream. For as long as the US is a superpower and as long as oil is black gold, they will be trying to have significant influence over as many countries in the Middle East as possible. It's part of the reason why China, the other superpower, has been slowly but surely spreading it's influence into the Middle East (and they've now got significant influence over resource rich Africa) - and Russia's not a superpower but a definite power-player on the world stage and by being located on the Caspian sea... probably have the most legitimate "cause" for constantly meddling in the region. I also agree with you that one of the worst things Trump did was rehabilitate the image of status quo politicians - because Biden's equivalent in the UK would probably be as a "moderate" Tory... and that's not a ringing endorsement of Biden (despite the positive I listed earlier, which does make him better than most Tories nowadays). George W Bush is a war criminal, and one super distasteful after-effect of Trump is... his image has really been really rehabilitated to much of the US public after being pretty widely hated in the US (but he lost republican support more for the recession happening under the watch of a president of their party after having served 2 terms, rather than being a war criminal). I don't know if I agree with @RandoEFC that the "revolutionaries" need to work outside politics, because at the end of the day without the positions to affect change in the US... then you've got a bunch of legislators that won their seats due to huge amounts of corporate money then tasked with creating a US government that treats actual people at least equal to the way big business is treated in the US. But expecting one man, like Bernie Sanders or, in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn to bring about change by themselves is unrealistic. These people need to still be voices for big and meaningful change, but they need to be able to get enough other politicians and enough voters onboard with the idea of bringing about change. Otherwise, you need at least enough of them to be able to influence a party that can take a leadership position - like Bernie Sanders seems to have done with Biden - to bring about more graduated change in the party's manifesto. I think it can also be pretty tough to remember this, especially after a decade under the Tories, and before that we had Blair for a very long time and he's about as right-leaning as possible for Labour... but America is MUCH MORE RIGHT WING than I ever imagined. And they built their political system with as many roadblocks as possible for anyone with power - which maybe(?) can be a benefit, but it slows down the US political machine's ability to make change. And it does a lot to ensure that all politicians can spread the accountability to as many people as possible - so politicians that fuck things up can pass blame elsewhere. To me the political culture in the US is very fucking weird. And yeah, US celebrity worship is hilarious/weird as fuck as well.

I see the negative in everything, not just LFC. The club is honestly one of the biggest sources of joy in my life, so it's served me well so far.

He’s a Harvard Law Grad, he’s not this stupid. His voters are though so he’s got to appeal to them. The GOP base reacts well to fear of others and outrage. So here he can say this is a president reflecting European values and putting non-Americans first. That checks both boxes to a lot of these people. He knows what he’s doing. The Republican base has been carefully cultivated to react to this kind of rhetoric - he’s just pandering to that base now because he’s getting a lot of heat for his part in inciting the riots and probably lost a lot of moderate support. He’s got presidential ambitions. He can’t win that nomination without trying to shepherd Trump’s flock. Until the voters feel some sort of sting for snubbing reality, they’ll continue to reward slime like Ted Cruz. Similar to the Tory stranglehold on UK government, despite a decade of failure. They keep doing a shit job, they keep getting elected to run the country.

It sounds like Lampard has totally lost his way and Chelsea fans are talking about Chelsea the way I talked about us under Hodgson, while pretty much everyone on here insisted we needed to see out the season with Roy. Roy was also a media favourite so there would be loads in the press defending him. I think because of the media, Roy kept his job longer than he should have. I think it’s only fair that Chelsea hang onto Fat Frank for a bit too long before sacking him.

I haven’t said we’re favourites for a very long time I’ve always been a pessimist and it serves me well. Optimists set themselves up for disappointment. I set myself up for either being disappointedly right or pleasantly surprised.