Verbal

Forster has a little bit of history when having to pull out all the stops, literally, against superior teams. Ask Barcelona.

You prefer a womxn?

Wait...what?

This is the question Brexiters never answer. So let's see what happens...

Dear god, this is stupid. A club historian defending the idea of 'whipping boy' is a new low.

If you want to torture yourself, fine. But the relationship between ethics, principles and action is rarely mechanical. For example, showing audiences video of the suffering of animals in slaughterhouses or in factory farming usually - so long as it's not an audience of psychopaths - evokes emotions of disgust and horror. The logical-seeming response is to convert wholesale to veganism. But that is unlikely to happen, and there are other ways to defend animal welfare standards, not least through public campaigns leading to legislative change. So there's a difference between giving up meat and campaigning for change - given that only a small minority is going to give up meat, by far the more effective action is to support better welfare standards. Similarly with Amazon. Is it better to stop shopping there, knowing everyone else will carry on, or to support things like unionisation of its workforce (Bezos is notoriously and aggressively anti-union, so even that's not an easy ask). Or, as today, instead of boycotting Uber, welcoming the Supreme Court's ruling against Uber and its horrifically exploitative practice of luring in drivers as 'contractors', hooking them up to punitive 'deals' on car ownership and insurance, then hitting them with successive pay cuts and increased costs? Oh, and it's evasion that's illegal, not avoidance. But today's avoidance can easily turn into tomorrow's evasion - it all depends on legal challenges and rulings.

Wow, an entire thread full of luxury beliefs - where you can have an opinion on something that has absolutely no effect on you.

Was KWP's original injury a hamstring? I didn't think it was. In any case, I dread when he's out of the team. Such a key player.

Oh god, no.

WTF? Subs!!

Interesting idea. How did Ramsey do? I can't bear to look.

Good question, with a bonkers answer.

He wasn't 'left-wing' anything really, except in some sort of accidental way. Knuckle-headed conspiracy theories were his thing. I remember he was so politically inept he wound up as a delegate at a far-left party conference that was considering whether ISIS was a 'progressive' force. But he also found time to jump into conspiracy theories common on the far-right. He was nothing more than a Marjorie Taylor Greene bot.

Do you know what Winston Smith's job is in Orwell's 1984?

You're in Derby. How much worse can it be?

I see that hyper-Trumpist lawyer L Lin Wood has just called on Twitter for the arrest and execution by firing squad of Mike Pence. Seems logical, from his deranged POV. BTW, an anagram of L Lin Wood is Wild Loon.

Wrong. It's not a passive thing of 'recording'. There are reasons why our numbers are so bad.

It sounds like we've already allowed the disease to run wild. The US today hit the grim milestone of having one in a thousand of its citizens die from coronavirus. Only four countries in the world have a worse record: Peru, Spain, Italy...and the UK. Somehow the Johnson cabal have managed to kill the most people for the most damage to the economy.

Says trousers.

As others have said, this is just a mindless regurgitation of Trump doing his tedious routine. The far-right, here, as in the US, exist only to fight culture wars - there's nothing else between its collective ears than to 'own the libtards'. Let me know when you rename HIV the 'Africa virus'.

So detailed analysis of what the deal appears to be is starting to come in. This is from JP Morgan's trade specialists: "The bad news for the UK, in our view, is that the EU appears to have secured a deal which allows it to retain nearly all the advantages it derives from its trading relationship with the UK, while giving it the ability to use regulatory structures to cherry-pick among the sectors where the UK had previously enjoyed advantages in the trading relationship. That applies to the services sector in particular, but to parts of the goods sector too."

I think we all know what happens when you make a prediction, anti-Nostradamus.

We won a game, we're up to third, and we're playing well. That's a cue for more of your dog-whistle drivel?

Your point is false. Firstly, the loan for the Turkey factory was not to relocate from Southampton to Turkey. The closure in Southampton was happening anyway. Second, the loan itself was for £150m. Set this against the £6bn that the EIB invested in Britain just in the year before the Brexit vote. So no - the UK did not 'lose industry because of the EU', it substantially gained it.

Not forgetting his dogged endorsement on here of a Jew-baiting conspiracy theory and his declaration that he 'doesn't like' 'the Arabs'. How you hold both positions at the same time is a mystery until you realise he's the witless, radicalised victim of the combined effects of a gold-plated retirement and Facebook.