Davkaus

They were looking at the wrong player, and people are furious because they listen to the commentators and believe them

It's not some inadvertent nudge, or a little bit of incidental contact while trying to get the ball. He pulls the man back to stop them playing the ball. It's not the strongest pull, but it's there and he knows exactly what he's doing.

At least they don't have their first choice keeper either

MPG? Yeah, if you're lucky

I remember moaning about the pricing on another site when Tesco started their clubcard pricing bullshit. What used to be the standard special offers stayed the same price, but now locked behind data harvesting. Had a bunch of forelock tugging idiots telling me if I didn't like it, I should just shop elsewhere. Well guess what, now every major shop is doing it. It's optional, but it's anti-consumer from what's basically a cartel, I'd favour legislation against it. I never go to those extortionate inconvenience stores but I'm surprised they're taking it to that next level and locking people out instead of price gouging them. I wonder if it's a shoplifting deterrent.

You'd usually consult on it before announcing your policy at a party conference, I reckon. If what had happened is someone said "we're exploring the idea of whether we should clamp down on zero hours contracts", then they did, and this is what they came up with, I think you'd have a fair point, my reaction would be borderline hysterical. But this is what they actually announced at their party conference. https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/angela-rayner-speech-at-labour-party-conference/ My objection isn't so much the policy itself, but that once again they show that what they say today isn't what they'll do tomorrow. What new information do they have? If they boldly declared they'd ban something before considering that actually some people quite like the thing that is going to be banned, they're thick as shit.

There's plenty of use cases for people who'll find zero hours contracts beneficial, doesn't mean they're not generally a scourge, but obviously that's very much opinion. Regardless of your views on whether they're a good or a bad thing though, surely you see the ludicrousness of proclaiming you'll ban them, then offering employees an opt out? "Great, you've got the job, we just need you to sign here for this opt out". If you don't like it, your choice will be which way to walk after you **** off and they give the job to someone else. Now for prospective candidates reputable employers, this isn't an issue, but reputable employers aren't why Labour initially claimed this was required. They've identified it as an issue, hailed it as bold action, then watered it down into meaninglessness.

I can understand the suspicion that there might be some racist undertones, but there are historic stats to back it up. This is from 2017, I understand London has joined the party a little bit more in recent years, but it's fair to say that there was some justification to be wary of cars and drivers in Birmingham and Bradford. It's obviously not a reason to just not buy cars from those places, because you'd have to be a fool to not be thoroughly checking a car's history and condition, and though these numbers look dreadful, across the whole city I imagine it's still a fairly minor number, but the city has the reputation for a reason. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-6678733/Birmingham-Bradford-dominate-list-10-worst-uninsured-driver-hotspots.html

£63m for Antony is my favourite. The bloke's an absolute waste of space. £53m for Onana, more than they paid for him when he's looked like he's wearing clown shoes on his hands instead of gloves. £106m for Rashford...Last season, sure.

A ban that an employee can opt out of is about as useful as the working times directive that employers just pressure employees to opt of of by default. If you can opt out of your statutory rights when negotiating with someone that has more leverage in the negotiations, they aren't rights. If they didn't think a complete ban was a sensible position, maybe they shouldn't have claimed that's what they were doing in the first place.

I wouldn't wish our kids a game against that lot, you just know it'll bring out the violent scum

I bet he could. He's far from the only clearly talented player who looks nowhere near the pace in that Man United team. Definite questions about his professionalism and attitude though.

The rumours doing the rounds among Man United fans today seems to be that ETH is there for another season, I can hardly believe it.

Anyone surprised? Anyone at all? Usually he just sticks his pledges in the bin instead of watering them down to meaninglessness, so I guess it's...progress? It's still a spoilt ballot with a spunking great big cock and balls for me. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/may/01/labours-new-deal-for-workers-will-not-fully-ban-zero-hours-contracts

There aren't many commentators I like, but if the worst you've got to say about him is he waxed lyrical too much about probably the greatest player we've ever seen, he's doing alright

Would love to see Dortmund win it for the double hilarity of the petrostate falling on their face again, and the hilarity of Kane moving for the medals and winning **** all.

So the Rwanda plan is working There's no market for this - all the people deported to Rwanda need to do is commit a crime in Rwanda. Then we take them back. Seriously.

Re...ceipts? Like, from a tree?

So in a desperate bid to make it look like their policy of forcibly detaining people and sending them to Rwanda at a cost of more than a million quid a head, they've had the cracking idea of getting the first bloke on a plane by, erm...offering him 3 grand to piss off. My only reservation about this is whether he can make his way back to Calais for less than 3 grand

That's spectacular. That's the first interview I've seen in many years that makes the conservative party look competent by comparison. Galloway has done very well to find a number of people stupid enough to go and try and have a stab at defending his priorities without wondering for a second why they are his priorities. Imagine how much he's saving the Russian taxpayer by finding people thick enough to try to shill for them without even asking to be paid for it.

My money is it being driven by much more flag shagging in America. Most of the country have schoolkids reciting a pledge of allegience for **** sake, the country is basically a cult with a flag.

Yeah it's a very, very tough watch. Worth it though. The shine has been taken off it a little bit by reading over the last couple of days about the harassment of people assumed to be the stalker and the tv producer. the stalker basically confirmed it was her after she was revealed, and Gadd has cleared the name of an individual rumoured to be the TV producer, but the name of someone considered very likely to be the real person is doing the rounds. Now, the stalker isn't a great person, clearly, and nor is the real TV producer, but what we have here is a woman who clearly has some serious mental health problems being harassed online, a innocent man being harassed because he looks a bit like an actor in a show, and someone else who might be guilty being harassed, but who has never actually been convicted or even arrested. When you look at just how little effort went in to disguising any of the real people involved, it does look like it may well have been left that way to deliberately stir it up for a bit of revenge. There's evidence left out online in plain sight that's directly referenced in the show, so it took hours for people to figure out who these people were, and while I struggle to find *too* much sympathy for these people alleged to have done such awful things, it does seem a bit like Gadd has used the show to mobilise an internet witchhunt, whether deliberately or through naivety and negligence.

Even I'm shocked that this came up again quite so soon

The correct blue was right there on the badge...

While he never broke the law, I can never get past Seinfeld being a child groomer The idea that Seinfeld would be too "edgy" in an era in which It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia exists is so wide of the mark though. You can't even make jokes these days, says star of the world's most beige sitcom.