TheAuthority

When did we start believing that we, as in those of us in the general public who didn't train for 7 to 9 years, and then do a medical residency, and then devote our lives to the study of disease and curing other humans, knew better than those that had? I'm reasonably accomplished at playing a musical instrument. I "studied" in academic institutions for 6 years, before doing about 5 years of fellowships i.e. residency work. But I'd love to see folks that hadn't done that, stand in front of an orchestra and play a concerto. Why don't people STFU, do as the health professionals tell them, stop being selfish c***s, and we'll be back to normal eventually. But no, they don't like doing something that someone who knows better than them tells them to do. They think they know better. When in fact, they are ignorant arseholes who are keeping us all entrenched in this quagmire. They are spoilt, entitled whiny little babies. I really hope a variant comes along that sterilizes all of them.

You been at the Eggnog?!

After binging all 3 seasons of succession I started Billions a few days ago. Really enjoying it so far - and set in NYC and so a lot of nostalgia

Great name for an indie band

I would only suggest it under the right medical supervision. Don't go cutting up acid tabs on the chopping board in your kitchen!

Ordered the standing prime rib today - on sale at $13.99 lb picking it up on Dec 23rd The only shop around here that sells mince pies had sold out (according to their online system) But I got there and they had loads so I grabbed about 50 of them

Very important @Davkaus Just make sure the vacuum is in a locked cupboard.

Link or GTFO

Watch him every now and again and he looks useful but his output over any length of time is pretty poor. He’s a slightly more skillful, slightly slower Adama Traore.

Allan Saint-Maximin is French for "flatters to deceive."

Only 2 games left this Saturday. Match of the Day is going to be short!

Thank f**k for that. I really don't want the Barcodes getting out of relegation.

Never a pen FFS - he got the ball twice

They've never seemed to be able to convert possession and pretty approach play into goals.

The next Villa manager - because he has a brummie accent

Reverting to type IMO. They'd overachieved. It's shows that outside of City, Plop and Chel$ki, being tight and compact plus getting a goalscorer ticking can take you quite far in "the best league in the world."

How did Brighton not score there?

Billie the Kid?

It's popcorn TV - they call them dramedies over here. Awful people doing awful shenanigans. Anyone else noticed how they lurch the plot forward sometimes and then you are left guessing what you missed for a few scenes. Then it's either explained with exposition dialogue or you are just left to guess?

I used to have some friends in Florida who owned lots and lots of weapons. Pistols, rifles, semi-automatics (AR-15's) Uzi's and one long range rifle which they called "the canon." When it was fired it was like a f****ng canon. I went shooting a few times them (one of them had a lot of land.) Meh - I've been to ranges since and fired all sorts of weapons - again - meh. I just get bored. You ask about their mental process for owning them and here is my opinion FWIW. Having asked them to explain it to me numerous times. Their reasons for owning them are a mixture of: 1: Boys with toys/guns are cool. 2: Mistrust of the government and being 'ready' for when Facebook team up with Biden and turn us all into the Borg. but seriously they do believe that kind of shit. 3: Hoarder instincts - just hoarding guns and ammo due to slight mental health issues. There really wasn't any more to it than that. Not bad/terrioble people they just have very different thoughts about this subject to me. One guy is a retired marine, now retired state trooper who made his own ammo and was generally very paranoid about government, big tech/corporations. History of substance abuse. He would do anything for you but he was fairly also pretty anti-semitic. He didn't get very far discussing that with me though. The other guy is someone I wrote on here about recently as he passed away. Generous and a huge supporter of the arts. He also loved heavy metal, and had to take strong medication due to mental health disorders. He was a recovering alcoholic, a maverick but everything he did was fairly extreme and he was a hoarder. In the society in which I want to live, neither of them should be able to have access to such potentially lethal weapons.

Wow with Burnley, a terrible Leeds and Brentford in the next few weeks, we could be solidly top 8 very soon.

Watched the end of the 1st and 2nd halves - No-one passes to him. He takes up positions where he receive the ball at Villa and he just doesn't get it. It's like they pass to him when he's the final option and then he just has to retain possession. It's all rather sad.

Ings should have scored