Dr. Gonzo

RIP Johnny Depp

Thats pretty horrifying

that’s fucking ridiculous. Bet this will wind some Persians up

But does he improve us?

I didn't know where to put this... but this thread's generic title seemed like a good fit. https://www.beinsports.com/en/afc-champions-league/news/persepolis-1-al-sadd-1-2-1-agg-iranians-int-1/1014690 Tehran's Persepolis FC in the AFC Champions League final.

I’ve only seen them after Downing had quit the band and the second time, which was a few weeks back, Glenn Tipton couldn’t take the stage because of how bad his Parkinson’s has gotten... which is even more sad

There's audio recording out there (some say it's from Turkey bugging the consulate, some say it's from his Apple Watch which synced with his laptop that was in the car his fiancé was waiting for him in... and it synced when they were taking the pieces of him out of the embassy. KSA has finally admitted he died in the consulate - they say a fight broke out and he was killed in the fight. I think that's a cover up for them planning to murder him, as they had a Saudi "diplomat" who was also a specialist in fucking autopsies (not a common skill for diplomats) to come dismember him. They first cut his fingers off, while he was alive. Then the "diplomat" who took him apart, put headphones on and advised everyone else in the room to do the same... he then began to dismember the poor fucker. Makes for good lyrics for a death metal song, for sure, but holy shit... so fucking brutal. KSA will likely remain fine after this is all cleared up... because as you say, they're rich as fuck from sitting atop the world's largest crude oil reserves. And since Iran hasn't been an ally for decades, we can't exactly turn to the second largest crude oil reserves.

Just giving this EP a spin.

I'm reading Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest - K.K. Downing's (one of the Judas Priest guitarists until the last 2 albums) autobiography.

Yeah I think him being a moany bastard is probably his most similar characteristic with Mourinho. He's got to be careful with it, because as Mourinho learned... the media might have loved it once, but they've pretty much turned on him even though he's always been a moany bastard. He's probably just got to stay on good terms with the journos and he'll get more leeway. Managers not friendly with the press tend to have public opinion very easily swayed against them when things are going wrong.

I'm surprised you don't like his most similar characteristic with Mourinho.

It really is just living in dream world - the EU will likely remain our biggest trade partner as our closest neighbor and current largest purchaser of our goods and services. Brexit won’t magically make that stop, particularly if we aren’t wanting to have the economy totally unravel beneath our feet. It’ll only serve to make trade much more complicated and costly in regards to trade with the EU. Furthermore, without us in the EU, we are in a far weaker position to negotiate trade agreements. Leaving the EU makes us smaller on the world stage. A smaller and less important trade partner. And likely a huge hit to our soft diplomatic power. You’re right in that control over our borders is the most significant thing that could come from Brexit. And for us to retain any of our EU benefits that so many on the Brexit camp say that we’ll be able to have despite wanting a hard Brexit, we will have to cede some of that control over our borders. The best case Brexit scenario imo is we go the Norway route... and even then, I don’t see what the point is as we would still be beholden to EU regulations. We just would no longer have any say in what those regulations are. The illusion of freedom isn’t worth creating economic instability and putting the personal wealth of all British people at risk, decreasing Britain’s soft power, and ability to negotiate trade deals. The biggest beneficiaries are disaster capitalists banking on economic collapse and privitisation. They’ll have ultimate freedom. But not the vast majority of people.

I wish there was less international football. We just had the World Cup and I think this new tournament is shite. I don’t think Southgate cares long term either, he’s known we’ve got Lallana on a special training regime because of his injury concerns, yet anytime Lallana is called up he does the standard England training shite - then he’s injured. I’m sure he cares for Kane and Sterling, players we can’t really replace long term because the gulf in quality is too high. But for squad players he doesn’t give a shit if he runs them into the ground and stalls their careers, judging by Lallana.

Klopp says VVD & Salah should be okay in the short term, Mane needs surgery though so he’s probably out a few weeks. Apparently Milner had a speedy recovery though, so that’s one injury before the international bullshit that’s been resolved. I hate the midseason internationals though, this always happens to us. And international sides don’t give a fuck about the players long term, so it’s irritating.

Mane needs an operation on his hand because he somehow sustained a hand injury on international duty. International breaks, eh? Good for nothing except injuring our players.

Anyone want to chime in on what looks like 99% certain that the West's (arguably) shittiest ally in the Middle East murdered a journalist in a Turkish consulate? Given that nothing happened to them after their support of: the September 11th hijackers, Al Qaeda, or ISIS... probably nothing will come from this, will it?

Now he's upset that he's been asked to submit to a doping test and said he's not even a footballer - not surprised in the slightest

Or he could have gotten really fat and shite and then much later say something like "I nearly lost a leg eye" to excuse his weight gain and shiteness.

Yeah he should have made a video where he's dabbing like a cunt instead.

Wow that's fucking stupid. I can't say I'm surprised because most CODs have shite single player nowadays, and most people only play COD for multiplayer/zombies. But it seems a bit obviously lazy to scrap the campaigns, especially when Black Ops 1 and 2 had good campaigns (Black Ops 3's was shite and I don't know why it's part of the Black Ops series). Looks like Black Ops is just a way to brand it as made by the most popular COD developers. Stupid friends peer pressuring me into getting a game I didn't really want because they're all going to be playing it. Blackout does look quite good though, I didn't play the beta because of my hand shite though.

I haven't enjoyed a CoD since Modern Warfare 2... but Black Ops 4 is something I'm getting because all of my friends played the Blackout Beta and they've all said it is the best Battle Royale game they've ever played. Plus you get CoD singleplayer (meh)/multiplayer/zombies). Biggest negative I see is whether or not you'll be able to even get the extra DLC without buying the special season pass version. Which is stupid and I don't know why Activision would try to do something like that - but also fuck giving Activision more money.

I’m so fucking shite at shooting.

“A freedom to choose our own path” sounds nice, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Nor does it explain or justify the negatives that come from either a hard Brexit or a soft Brexit that ties us to EU regulations we have no influence over if we aren’t in the EU. Economic instability also doesn’t make for “freedom.” Also the fact that some industries might export less to Europe doesn’t change the fact that most British exports are to Europe. You can argue it’s not true. But it is true, so you’d be wrong. You could argue it doesn’t have to be to Europe. But the EU countries are our biggest trading partners.