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The latest points sanction seems to have been designed to totally gut the Toffee men, and that is exactly how they look.

Can't get a break from the referee either, with every 50-50 going Chelsea's way.

Anyone wishing to learn about engine rebuilding, Grace Engine Developments is well worth a look.

Just WOW!

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the word woke has been "repurposed as a pejorative synonym for liberal or left-leaning".

There seems to be a difference between Woke and Critical Race Theory.

So choosing margarine on ecological grounds and not butter, to put on your scone, probably counts as woke and the claim that white people oppress all other races, and that "equity" is the solution, would probably come under the heading of CRT.

I recognised Goggins immediately, so you just know its going to be good.

It goes without saying that its visually stunning.

So definitely recommended by Vault Boy!

I've never played the game but I always loved the aesthetic.

Is Goggins actually in it?

On the subject of sheds and planning-permission, aren't back gardens now classified as brownfield sites?

2 hours ago, bickster said:

Not the same thing though, what most supermarkets do is shit stuff around, the shop making it harder to find what you actually went in for, what Lidl and Aldi do is put it all in a special place so it doesn't get in the way of the normal products.

As it happens, I actually went to Lidl especially for a middle aisle item the other week, a wire brush  

Presumably your chest hair needed untangling again?

Anyone interested in things Mercedes, might like SPR Autos Mercedes Benz.

Some hot workshop action to be enjoyed!

1 hour ago, Stratvillan said:

At times yes, but we have beaten 2 of the CL quarter finalists this season. 

Recent performances have left me with a dose of PTSD!

After reading Harald Jähner's Aftermath recently, I find I have a totally different view of Germany's "economic miracle" and the extent of their sense of guilt about the war.

I had failed to fully grasp the significance of the introduction of the Deutsche Mark, which eradicated 90% of both Government and private debt.

The way the new currency was allocated substantially reduced economic inequality, which made for a very stable society.

This contrasted starkly with British war debts, mostly owed to the Americans.

The fact that the population of Germany was bigger by the end of the war than at the beginning seemed like a further advantage.

As was to be expected, the fact that so few of those who perpetrated Nazi war crimes were punished, is inevitably depressing.

39 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Very pessimistic. I think this is where our season unravels. 

My feelings exactly.

Having been blown away by the sheer quality of this week's CL fixtures, Villa's shortcomings seem glaring.

13 hours ago, striker said:

Just watched the PSG V Barca game. Fantastic extra quick football!

With the greatest respect Villa aren’t ready for that standard of football yet.

It's my belief that Everton's present troubles stem from their CL qualification - agree or disagree?

18 hours ago, mjmooney said:

But it's not an organisation. It's a slogan. 

Every slogan invites a donation.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation raised $90m.

On 03/04/2024 at 11:22, mjmooney said:

Or the hilarious idea that 'Black Lives Matter' is a 'Marxist organisation'. 

A quote from the opening page of the Manifesto of the Communist Party:

"The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done
away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression,
new forms of struggle in place of the old ones."

Would a supporter of 'Black Lives Matter' disagree with the sentiments expressed above?

I don't believe they would, they might want to substitute race and gender for class, but their view of the power relations in modern societies wouldn't be very different.

On 06/04/2024 at 09:26, bickster said:

Taxi dispatch algorithms 

The topography of Merseyside (excluding the Wirral) and I mean in a way that I’d beat any taxi driver with 30 years experience in a topographical knowledge test. Routes naming nearly every street, mileages the lot. I really do have this uncanny ability above what you’d expect given my job, in fact this is one of my abilities that for where I am today

Thanks for the reminder, I'll be watching Jack Rosenthal's The Knowledge tonight.

Its on YT.

4 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I was thinking more of this: 

 

I don't think that has aged well, and besides, a real welsh accent is always better than a vaguely located midlands one.

On 06/04/2024 at 09:05, chrisp65 said:

Fish, for some reason I can identify a huuuge number of fish species. On the stall in the market, on a tv nature programme, spotted in a rock pool. It’s very rare I don’t instantly know what fish that is.

Cookie cutter, monk, mullet, stickle back, finger, or thresher, I’m yer man.

 

 

I always read your posts in the voice of John Sparks' Siadwel character - just brilliant!

16 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Just seen the penalty Liverpool were given. Not that I’m complaining, but that’s never a pen in a million years

I didn't know you could be awarded a penalty when there is absolutely no contact?

1 hour ago, villa89 said:

I think this has happened for a lot of people since COVID. Most of my colleagues are much less willing to pretend that they care about their job or appear motivated. The majority want to just work from home doing as little as possible. Companies are going to have to try to find new ways to motivate employees and forcing them to come back into the office 3+ days a week won't work either. Now one caveat is that I'm 20 years in the same job, like most of the people I know. At that point I guess everyone loses their motivation. 

You make an interesting point.

I've often noticed how it is group pressure rather than management's threat of sanctions which discipline and even motivate workers.

Late for work - get a chorus of disapproval.

Stay off work sick and get a barrage of sarcasm.

Staff as opposed to menials or manual workers are supposed to be self-motivated but working from home seems to suggest that the difference is a myth.

Working in isolation with no one to bitch about or complain to, might actually be bad for people.

Villa's makeshift team did okay but two glaring errors cost them two goals.

An assist for Rogers and a goal for Duran will build their confidence.

On the bright side, the not unexpected outcome hasn't done much damage to Villa's realistic aspirations.

On 30/03/2024 at 09:13, bickster said:

Seeing the Small Faces Tin Soldier reminded me it isn’t even the the best song with Tin Soldier in the title  

(I like both songs btw)

 

 

I remember Charles Shaar Murray raving about Stiff Little Fingers' live gigs in the NME, back in the day; did you ever see them live?

The problem with woke philosophy is that its all about an oppressor-victim relationship between the privileged and the under-privileged in society.

White males are considered the oppressors of women, all dark-skinned races, and all other groups with protected characteristics.

White males cannot escape that designation by expressing woke opinions or sentiments.

No hate-speech law includes white males as a catagory worthy of being protected.

So white men who agree with the political aims of the woke, are agreeing that they are themselves oppressors.