Dr. Gonzo

https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/07/09/thieves-plow-truck-into-midway-district-walgreens-steal-atm/ This happened early in the morning here. Interesting bit from the article says the cars used in the heist were stolen from the same area where my friend's car was recently stolen. Wonder if it's in any way related?

Should be banned from attending matches for life tbh

Looks like we've got a few players extending their stays with us: https://www.espn.co.uk/football/soccer-transfers/story/3897181/sources-origi-set-to-extend-liverpool-contract So that's Divock sorted, but also from the article:

It's very rare that a player comes back as good as they were after a bad injury like that. And especially when they're in the form he was in, which is where he looked like he was finally clicking in the team and was making the case to be an important starter for us.

I hope so. While he was fit, he was one of our best players and really came into his own in that spell right when Coutinho left. But there's a lot of competition in our midfield - some of the positions will be won by players due to form, sometimes it'll be based on tactics, sometimes it'll be to rotate players. It's really hard to say who'll start in our midfield with 3 spots between Fabinho, Henderson, Gini, Keita, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana, and arguably Shaqiri could be forced in there (although usually it's a 4-2-3-1 when we've got Shaqiri in centrally, so a bit of a different system; and then the 2 behind him will be 2 of Fabinho, Henderson or Gini (if everyone's fit). But if he can hit the levels he was hitting before that bad injury, then he'll be getting plenty of time on the pitch.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/08/120000-alien-hunters-planning-storm-area-51-discover-truth-10131273/

You mean the sequel to the Wolfenstein reboot? It's a much better game than the new Metro (which is a bit of a letdown tbh, maybe it's because the previous too raised the bar so high).

I think @Cicero has said before (and I've seen this said by lots of Chelsea fans elsewhere on the internet tbh) that Pulisic is most likely more of a long term replacement for Willian/Pedro. I think given his stats last season and comparing them to Hazard's, expecting him to pick up that same sort of contribution is unlikely. But I think that he'll have a better season than his last year at Dortmund - and because Hazard is gone and because he was so important to how they played... those goals will have to be replaced and my guess is they'll probably be spread around the team more. So no one player will really be replacing Hazard, it'll take a team effort to come close to replacing him. If Chelsea play well, I suspect Pulisic will get his share of replacing Hazard's contribution - but I suspect that it'll be spread out amongst the other Chelsea attackers as well.

Well I felt the 7.1 earthquake

I didn’t feel anything, so don’t worry about me

I’d never heard this album before, but holy fuck it’s brilliant. It’s fantastic blues rock, and the drumming is brilliant. Oh and Jeff Beck is on guitar so that’s not bad

That's from about a year ago right? Because Buvac took leave before the CL final against Real Madrid and then was officially not with the club by the start of the season. Buvac and Klopp are supposed to be very close on a personal level - but Klopp and those around the club have been very impressed with Pep Lijnders, he's supposed to be the reason why TAA and Gomez got their chances with us as well - and Klopp takes his tactical advice to heart. So if Buvac was upset with Lijnders getting more influence amongst our staff to the club's benefit, then it's for the best he's gone.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1147872/Hong-Kong-protests-news-latest-UK-residents-British-Overseas-video I wish we could have them back tbh

Another thing about the idea that negotiating out of a No Deal scenario seems to not account for is that we're not accounting for being in a weaker position at the negotiation table. Take for instance this: https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/alexspence/canada-is-refusing-to-roll-over-its-eu-trade-agreement-for - British outrage that Canada won't roll over it's EU trade deal with the UK if we have a No Deal scenario on our hands. But that position is mental because it's not taking into account what Canada will be seeing if they're to negotiate with Britain outside of the EU. They're in a position to get a better deal out of the UK than they would get from the EU, Canadian governments are going to represent Canadian interests, not British interests. Why on earth would the UK's negotiators expect Canada to roll the EU trade deal over to the UK if the UK is no longer in the EU? It's like the notion that the EU wouldn't be negotiating with the UK on Brexit with the distinct upperhand. It only makes sense if you only consider the UK's perspective and ignore the fact they're going to be negotiating with people that have different interests. And I'm not sure how on earth we're supposed to be okay with negotiators that don't seem to understand this basic concept of negotiating and being realistic about the prospects of what other countries' positions might be.

This is 7 days old, but if this sale is still going on: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/a-great-gaming-headset-is-on-sale-for-30-at-best-b/1100-6467958/ IMO the headsets you can get for 20-30 are going to be significantly shittier than the ones you can get for $50-60 (on average), so that's a good deal.

Headset for PC or console? Because with a PC on Skyrim... I'd recommend just using a nice pair of headphones rather than a dedicated gaming headset. But if you want/need a gaming headset with a microphone for other games as well as Skyrim... well then, what's your budget mate? I've got an Turtle Beach set for my Xbox... it's not the best, but it's better than some of the other headsets I had that were a bit cheaper (but not that much cheaper) and I'm happy with it.

He probably didn't train well or fit in with the personalities at the dressing room

Henderson only ever looked as shite as Lingard looks when he was played well out of position on the right. He looked good as a box to box midfielder before Klopp ever came in. Nice try, though.

Lol what?? I'm with @Dan here. At least with Rashford it's not as baffling as to why they want to keep him compared to someone like Lingard, who's nowhere near good enough to be at a side competing for top 6.

Why would they go for him on a permanent move? He's not exactly a player unfamiliar to Emery... and he was training with the Arsenal squad and couldn't make the first team. Why waste part of the transfer budget on someone who's not going to cut it based on the evidence the manager's seen?

I just lump them in all together on this. That May couldn’t keep her party in line regarding the stability of the fucking nation, is entirely her failing, she gets no sympathy from me. She should never have been PM and she’s basically the living personification of ineptitude. How she survived a no confidence vote I will never know

Well yeah, that’s the entire point of making a deal with the EU before leaving. The EU has been saying to expect no deal for over a year, so no doubt they have plans in place - like the equivalency program for our financial services sector to continue doing business with the EU (though under that plan Brussels can unilaterally end the program, so our financial services industries will be at the EU’s mercy - which is why many people are predicting the EU will keep this program in place while they entice firms to leave the UK). And because May and her gaggle of morons that couldn’t really negotiate a deal have boxed us in with their shit deal, yet the Tories don’t want to face reality and believe we will leave with a better deal, despite the EU basically telling us to do one, I’m fairly confident we’ll be exiting with no deal. And with no plans in place for no deal, because that’s the kind of leadership we’ve got. I feel for the young people in the UK having a hard time trying to get their lives together with these stagnant wages. When people point to improved employment statistics, I will keep pointing to the low wages in the UK. And unfortunately I think for them to improve their lives more people will do what I did, chase better wages that allow for upward mobility, for the same exact work abroad and plan to come back some other time.

I’d agree with you, but the EU will be hit in the pocket with deal or no deal.

I think I’m resigned to the UK just being on the periphery as a world power now, there were chances to avoid it - but clearly people don’t want to avoid it. After three years and a piss poor deal that will never pass parliament to show for it, resulting in Brexit killing another PM and giving us one of two complete bellends to run the country through a tough time with a completely split electorate. There isn’t going to be a second referendum before the deadline. May’s deal won’t be approved by the UK. The EU won’t go out of their way to devastate us economically, especially just as the dust settles. They need us, we need them. But it is now in their interest to poach our industries. The UK will still make trade deals, but without the collective economic strength of the EU with us, we’ll be making deals with other countries with less bargaining power. There will be a recession and austerity, which I’m obviously opposed to. But it won’t be the end of the world. And both of the grifters vying for the PM job are promising tax cuts on the wealthy, setting the stage for some disaster capitalism and pushing income disparity further. Maybe that’ll wake people the fuck up to the lies they were told, maybe not.