The acting is amazing.

I didn’t know they’d already kicked off...

I reckon City win by 3 or 4 goals today

Shame they didn’t win by 3 or 4.

Didn't think Atleti were very good today

I fell asleep.

So did I actually

I wish someone would fire Simeone into the sun.

They had 0 shots I believe, delightful

Have you always hated Simeone, Daz?

Since 1998.

I like him
Hes grate
Mad respecked too Atleti 4 the anguish they Corrs 2 utherz

Napoli apparsntly agrre signe sumbody name Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
Thats fooked up

That the real spelling or your rendition?

IOAG, I read your post on Rosso's thread (which he has for some reason banned me from commenting on )

"I read you post something very similar the other day, but I’ll be honest with you, to me it seems anything but simple and reads like a protracted ad for cryptocurrency.

I turn 54 this year too, so we’re of the same generation. Most of my mates are worse off now than when we were just a few years into employment, but so many things have changed in our lifetimes that I’d be reluctant to pin it on a single factor.

The population boom has to be one of them. The ageing population another. In some countries at least, the seismic shift in family and and workforce structures. The throw away culture we’ve all gone for - the textile industry mentioned here is a prime example, but the same can be seen everywhere you look. Our years have seen the commodification of everything. Home appliances, electronic gadgets, cars, people...
Personally, I also think the dismemberment of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall removed an essential counterbalance that kept the capitalist system in check and forced it to make workers’ rights part of the equation. It basically allowed big business to reset the rules. Ever asked yourself how “free market capitalism” only deregulates to the point that is beneficial to corporations, and will re-regulate when it suits those same corporations? Remember the banking sector bailouts? Our governments erect all kinds of trade barriers, tariffs and even sanctions where suitable - but cannot demand that any imported goods be manufactured in compliance with the same or similar labour laws and rights we conquered in our own societies. It’s obviously a great thing for developing nations, but that has been merely circumstantial - the real reason all of this has happened is because it’s allowed big business to completely circumvent the restrictions workers’ rights imposed on their unfettered greed.

During all these years there have been people who understood the long game and how it would play out, but appeals to the rational brain have been drowned out by the short-circuiting of the reptilian brain in response to the 24/7 advertising of the latest iteration of happiness a box for just £2.99, £3.99, 120 convenient £300 instalments.

And we continue to fall for it, because we’re hooked - a society of junkies that need our latest fix and just sleepwalk from dopamine hit to dopamine hit, ever closer to the cliff edge. We’ve already pushed most wildlife off it, our number is bound to come up soon."

Great post, totally agree with this

Thanks, peks, very kind. Tbh I don't think the diagnosis is the hard part though. It's how to cope with the fallout and set things back on the right track that we're, or I at least am completely stumped with.

He’s filtered you, peks.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 5 hours, 16 minutes ago
That the real spelling or your rendition?
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Lol its real, copy n paist

Victor ‘Honey Badger’ Osimhen manage too hurt his thigh in traning ffs

Simeone saying Atleti wanted to win last night. Pull the other one.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
Thanks, peks, very kind. Tbh I don't think the diagnosis is the hard part though. It's how to cope with the fallout and set things back on the right track that we're, or I at least am completely stumped with.
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America is the worst for unapologetic capitalism that you have to be another cog in the wheel for. Its why most of Baltimore, similarly my neighbourhood looks like:

https://images.app.goo.gl/BYe3WkVG8vEyEQA37

Similarly loads of neighbourhoods look like (or nicer):

https://images.app.goo.gl/m8Ci4Vixc3ZVkTHLA

I wouldn’t be able to live in America for that reason. The Tories are left wing compared to America. Does it make you feel uncomfortable living there with all that in mind?

Not really as it does sort of work - living on benefits here is actually relatively comfortable compared to the UK.

I think that all differs from state to state though, Maryland is a blue state so you get charged healthcare/dental/child support proportional to your salary. Similarly you get food stamps to pay for food & social housing. Plus everyone (here at least) is getting some payout due to drinking water with lead in back in the day.

They are also (slowly and poorly) trying to become more and more left leaning. Wheares in the U.K. we are moving with some relative pace to become America.

I actually think I slightly prefer the healthcare system in Maryland to what the UK has become.

But tha