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If they're playing their 3rd choice keeper I'd play 'shoot on sight' El Goalzy. The rest picks itself imo: Brick Cash. Konsa. Mings. Targett Nakamba Douglas. McGinn Buendia. Ings. El Goalzy

Is The Suicide Squad a sequel? Or is it a remake of Suicide Squad? Are they pretending the first one doesn't exist? Does the frugality of this information mean that only obsessive nerds are supposed to go and watch these films?

Probably correct. But Afghanistan has potentially the world's largest source of lithium according to CNN https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/18/business/afghanistan-lithium-rare-earths-mining/index.html

Take your radical nonsense elsewhere, Trot.

Something I've been pondering. Oil has been the motivator for most western foreign meddling in the latter half of the 20th century. It's put middle Eastern sheikhs and countries into real positions of influence due to the money they have and the oilfields they control. But now, oil is being phased out as a fuel for locomotion, being replaced by stored electrical energy in private vehicles and eventually in commercial and industrial settings too. For this, the world will be massively reliant on lithium. The US will be acutely aware that they'll need to source lithium wherever it can be found soon. Anyone with vast quantities will be a world financial heavyweight. Where has the most lithium? Afghanistan. Why would the US look at the world's largest reserve of the mineral it will be most reliant on for the next few decades at least and decide to march straight out? Diplomacy? Not much chance taking it by force without creating a huge anti war backlash and having to engineer another war on terror. If the previous government were unstable enough to look like they would allow the Chinese to come in and get whatever they wanted then would it make sense to allow the Taliban to take over, form a stable administration and be able to trade weapons for lithium, which the Chinese couldn't compete with and the Taliban would be most interested in?

Just seen Free Guy. Absolutely brilliant. It's Ready Player One with The Truman Show and a bit of The Matrix. Maybe a bit of Elf too. Ryan Reynolds exactly how you'd expect.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-antisemitism-accused-purging-jews-over-claims "A new report says that Keir Starmer’s Labour “is purging Jews from the party” - with Jews almost five times more likely to face antisemitism charges than non-Jewish members. " "Jenny Manson, co-chair of Jewish Voice for Labour, who is herself under investigation by the Labour Party, told MEE: “For the first time in my life as a Jew living in the UK I feel persecuted, hated and shunned by the apparatus of the Labour Party and the loud voices of some sections of the Jewish community. The weapon used too often is to call us JVL activists antisemitic. Bizarre and wicked.”" It told the EHRC: "Our Jewish members do not feel safe in the Party and this is experienced agonisingly like the persecution our families have experienced over centuries"." if you read that Jewish people are saying they feel persecuted and unsafe and you still seek to denigrate their experience through factionalism then I don't know what to say to you. Oh and this: "Approached by Middle East Eye, the Labour Party did not respond to the JVL’s claims." is particularly egregious. The Labour Party under Starmer is choosing which groups of Jewish people to listen to and which to ignore. Does the McPherson principle and the EHRC not rule this out of order? This is Naomi Wimbourne-Idrissi it's worth listening to what she has to say: she was suspended from Labour for saying this, nothing to do with the proscribed groups: ""I feel bloody uncomfortable seeing damned good comrades and friends of mine being suspended from this party for doing nothing more than trying to discuss the questions which led to Jeremy Corbyn’s unjust suspension - we know it was unjust because he was readmitted - and then the question of the whip being taken from him which is almost certainly unconstitutional in the party.”" From https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-senior-member-jewish-pressure-group-suspended The whole thing stinks. I have solidarity with all Jewish people, not just those with whom I agree politically. To only have solidarity with one group because it's politically expediant to do so is weak and cowardly. This is one of the major reasons I have such disdain for Starmer and Evans.

No I don't genuinely believe that. I find the continued targeting of left Jewish members extremely troubling and the narrative that Starmer is tackling antisemitism while this is happening being accepted by many without question even more troubling. I don't really have a bubble thanks for the concern anyway.

"By expelling all the Jewish members"

Re: mask wearing. I tend to follow the request of the establishment I'm visiting. In homebase they still have signs up asking for masks and the staff wear them, so I do too. In other places where it's not requested, I don't. I know that indoors is the riskiest place but my feeling is that we have up 18 months of our lives to try to get back to some degree of freedom. If I can't take my mask off now, I'll never be able to. But if it's a shop requesting it, I'm fine with that. The hand sanitiser thing winds me up though - it's the classic emperor's new clothes. People are still doing it because news hasn't yet reached them it's pointless. Shops still have it outside and ask you use it. It's ridiculous, we need to call this out and stop with the nonsense. Also, masks outdoors. This is also pointless. Hand sanitising for COVID protection and outdoor masks need to stop, while people need to realise that the risks indoors without ventilation are higher than they've been led to believe (which I know makes my non mask wearing inside seem like I know I'm taking a risk, I am, but right now when almost all vulnerable won't die because they're vaccinated, there would have been more sense wearing a mask before COVID when I could have passed flu to someone elderly, unvaccinated and killed them)

I did too. So did thousands of people, quite a number of which were Corbyn supporters who were told Starmer would continue with the popular policies but not have the attackable history.

Yep, the party really does need to split. I know people cite the SDP fiasco handing the Tories power but I don't think the current situation is the same because the party has never been this divided before. I just wish there was a way to allow it to happen with PR so you don't have 2 diametrically opposed groups fighting over the name.

Started it, it's excellent. Thanks

Series or film? Both are on there.

I think the aim is to piss off all the socialists so much they all leave, all the unions disaffiliate and the Blairites are left with the name 'Labour' to have another go at ChangeUK/The Independent Group/Which? Magazine Political Party.

That presumption is the basis of your entire argument isn't it? Could be true but I haven't seen it anywhere. Labour over the last 40 years isn't the same Labour it was founded as and continued to be for the 60 years after that. For what type of party it should be, the clue is in the name.

Bailey training apparently so could feature

A great pun. That's the way you do it.

Yeah I don't want to have a marathon session wading through stupid puns.

Was about to suggest this. Definitely able to go 3-5-2 this season with Tuanzebe back. 3 top class CBs. Cash and Targett are excellent wing backs too. More like 3-4-3 though. Nakamba and McGinn in midfield with Buendia in 'the hole' behind Ings and Watkins.

Looks the right type of thing thanks About 82/83 I'll have a look thanks.

On the topic of horror films, I've got flashbacks of watching horror films as a really young kid at my Nan's. No idea why she was letting me watch them but hey ho. One was where a female dead bottom was naked under a tarpaulin on the back of a flatbed truck and the other was a short fat evil guy dancing on a stage. I seem to remember another part of that was his wife brushing his hair and seeing a mark on his head? Either of those 2 ring any bells?

A sample of everything brilliant about the Office US in one little clip

Watched the Final Cut edition recently. What an incredible, messed up, unsettling, creepy film.

I think it's probably somewhere in the middle. I think the players and staff at Villa are all being professional, amiable and have no reason but to wish him well.