Dr. Gonzo

Saudi Arabia's been very upset with tweets from Canada and is now trying to support Quebec's secession from Canada

It's possible, but I think it's unlikely. But who knows. Michael Edwards, probably.

Should I play the first 2? They're on the Xbox Game Pass I'm pretty sure. Need some new games to play.

Looks like he took a loan out to buy Usmanov's 30% - not sure if that's a loan that'll be on the club's books, or if it's a personal loan. But considering he said he's a fan of the Glazer method at United... that's not a great sign for Arsenal.

Apparently Saudi Arabia made a thinly veiled threat to Canada recently, because Canada dared to believe that the Saudis should respect human rights: https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-appeared-to-threaten-canada-with-a-911-style-attack-2018-8

If cartoons have taught me anything, what you want to do is leave honey pots lying around. Either that or picnic baskets.

Isn't it Kermode? They're not all white, I think just 10-20% of them are. I only know this because I saw a documentary about them on TV 2-3 weeks ago, weirdly. Otherwise I wouldn't know anything about them.

I think when you've got a government that's had insane crackdowns like this before escalate from other situations, even though they were not as "innocent" as the student protest for road safety, but their protests from 2012-2013 in the run up in their election show that they'll just abduct people never to be seen again... it sort of just becomes an instinct for governments that do shite like this. The brutality sends a message. It's like Iranians who were protesting the recent presidential elections & more recently, the protests because of the inflation & food crisis (which have started popping up again actually). Once the protests grow to a certain point, they seem to have their will to protest beaten and shot out of them, with the leaders mysteriously disappearing and turning up years later released from Evin prison (if they're lucky). Seems to always make people think twice about taking to the streets about their legitimate grievances.

It’s looking like a sad repeat of modern history - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_disappearance_in_Bangladesh and with now reports of tens of thousands of people being abducted and not seen again as a result of recent protests. The world is so depressing sometimes.

This is fucking disgusting https://abcnews.go.com/US/11-children-rescued-filthy-compound-looked-world-country/story?id=57040114

Valient Hearts was a surprisingly fun game.

Tbf it's definitely more preferable to sign someone with a pulse than without.

I think Bogdan is out on loan to some Scottish side. I think it'd be Grabara or Kelleher - Klopp's supposedly been impressed with them.

The new Villa kit is pure fucking sex.

Have you ever had to stop someone from saying something to you because you didn't want to know?

The Telegraph suggests we're looking to sell BOTH Karius and Mignolet - which seems a bit weird, I imagine we'd keep one for emergencies. Especially after selling Ward. But it's not one of the journalists that is generally accurate regarding Liverpool, so it could be totally bullshit.

Yeah it’s shit because you’re utterly powerless to protect them because the abuse has already been done and it’s something they have to live with forever. A family member doing the abuse is fucking horrific. Nothing you can do but continue being a good friend to them. Nothing inherently wrong with “damaged” people though - some of the best people I know have had some very fucked up things happen to them.

For the second time today in this thread, you're making me say this: Holy fucking shit. Was it his school teacher that did the abuse? How long ago was it? My uncle had a teacher that decades later was arrested for being a paedo - and it wasn't until that arrest that my uncle came forward about what happened with him and how he kept quiet about it for decades. And according to my dad, that teacher's nickname around the school was … "Paedo"... so it's not like the suspicions weren't there (or that it wasn't known); but it was decades after they were out of school that this bloke was caught. But I remember my Dad coming home from his brother's house... all the colour out of his skin (granted, he's pasty as fuck - but you know what I mean)... then sitting down with us kids and telling us what he'd been told and just being at a loss for words. So yeah... I'm sure it does feel bad mate. Are you finding you keep thinking about what happened to them, regardless of how much you try not to think about it?

Never watched Trailer Park Boys until I got home from work yesterday. Now I'm on season 4.

Pre-referendum here’s what (at least a part) of the leave campaign thought about a no deal Brexit: https://web.archive.org/web/20160316101713/https://leavehq.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=128 So just remember that when you hear leavers say things like “Brexit means Brexit, we voted for a clean break, no deal is better than a bad deal, etc” - that’s a million miles away from “no responsible government would let it happen.”

Holy fucking shit.

Rafa was/is a bit of a football mentalist though - his dad died when we were in that stupid glorified friendly tournament for winning the CL, and he stayed to manage a pointless match rather than go to his dad's funeral. A bit weird, if you ask me... but that's how serious he takes his football.

The glass window at my office just fucking shattered shortly after a bird smacked into it and I laughed my arse off at it. Now there's fucking glass everywhere. Doesn't really inspire much confidence in the quality of these glass panes surrounding me.

Klopp’s response was much funnier guaranteed to wind Mourinho up.

Yeah but I’ve got most of my friends and all of my family still at home, and they are a WhatsApp text or phone call or email away. It’s not like the disconnect it would be before the internet. There’s also a pretty similar political climate here with it being pretty divided - although much less divided than the people I know back home and their thoughts on Brexit. But you’re right in that my background has generally shut me out to those are extreme hard right immigration policies because there’s less bigoted ways of advocating for stricter border control. So those parts of the Brexit camp I have no inclination to really care about what they think or try to reason with them. The chances of me changing a bigots mind are slim to none. My biggest issue is it seems to me that there’s a wide array of reasons why people voted to leave. And that’s fine and all, but a vote on ambiguously leaving without deciding what it meant boggles my mind. It was absolutely feckless from Cameron. And I’m sure the leave voters not expecting political leadership in the country to be an utter farce... but I still think the people’s choice should have been presented as something more concrete. As things stand Brexit represents something very ambiguous with uncertainty for the UK ahead. I wanted to remain, but if we have to Brexit I am okay with that as long as we do it in a way that isn’t going to be utterly shite. The government buying up food en masse isn’t really inspiring confidence, for me at least.