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I'm feeling much better Craig. Took the weekend to rest, and then hit work with a vengeance on Monday, achieved more in 3 days than I had in the previous month. Was a needed distraction, plus relieved a fair bit of stress relating to work performance. Finding my councillor pretty hopeless though tbh and getting access to what I need on the NHS is very slow (GP cancelled my appointment last minute). In the meantime I am now firmly looking after myself, avoiding alcohol completely, eating healthy food, and exercising. I've almost got too much energy now though and still not sleeping well. It will come. Anyway, going to the funeral in Glasgow on Wednesday and will be a pall bearer for the second time in 2 months, 3rd time in about a year. Sounds daft but I'm worried about this because mu uncle was a big man, although I gather he lost a lot of weight since Christmas. Just hoping I don't drop him!

"Where are we starting off tonight then, lads?" "What aboot Dobsons?" "Nah, Strawberry has a wider selection of crisps!" "Strawberry it is!"

Every time my mother sees him, she asks who he’s breaking those teeth in for

Bill there with all the employees that he's 'hired'. L:R Male model, MILF porn star, Ainsley Harriott, Tramp, extra from Made in Chelsea.

I remember the Becks tap in the Strawberry with immense fondness….like a fragile ornament…mind my liver hated the fuckin thing and it also thinks I’m a cunt to this day

You couldn't even get Wolf Jerky on the shelves, so good luck providing tech solutions. And Heron Foods doesn't qualify as a restaurant.

Fucking hell, TS

We know where to find him after the game…

I dunno, sending random women pictures of my Japenese eye just doesn't sound as sexy.

Never trust the Brits. Did my training teach me nothing?

Still no fucking trophy, I did get one of those tellies though.

£10

Can you do a bulk rate? £100 to delete all of CT’s content on here?

Still ...

Thanks mate, and to all. I absolutely will keep it up. Fairly convinced I hit a nadir last week, and if I stay physically healthy, I'll get back. As long as no other bugger dies in the near future, anyway.

Mike Dean from Merseyside who’s kids are reputedly season ticket holders at Anfield? That Mike Dean? 🤔

Meanwhile he's proving exactly why those countries were right to have joined NATO.

Yes, a lot of your opinions of me appear to be that I'm a naive idiot that just dives blindly into any particular opinion depending on what is put in front of me. You're welcome to that opinion but I don't sit here in awe at your reasonings either. We fundamentally disagree about some core points in here and that's fine, but I continue to believe that opposing imperialist warmongering has to be a consistent act, and that means whether or not it's the US. On the Azov point - It's not selective, it's a matter of degrees. I've looked into Azov and found that yes, they're nazis, but there are 900 of them according to the very link you just provided. 100,000 rapists and murderers are now rampaging across Ukraine thanks to Putin. It's a matter of degrees. It's also clear that the relevance of Azov in this at all is only to provide a flimsy justification for the notion that Russia is somehow doing this to defeat Nazis. Do you believe that's even remotely on their list of genuine issues? NATO is clearly never going to attack Russia. Putin knows it, NATO knows it, the fact that we haven't used this clear cut excuse to immediately attack Russia proves it. What they are afraid of, if anything, is Western systems and processes eliminating their mafia state control setup. The wider battle here is democracy (such as it is) and authoritarianism. We are losing.

Celebrating the sale of another two printer cartridges

No. Forgive the writing things as "fact" it's as much opinion as everyone else, it's just my style I suppose. I think you're being drawn into it by our own media propoganda. We ARE escalating it now, for our own domestic political reasons. Tories don't give a fuck about oppression or illegal occupation or we wouldnt support Isreal, Saudi etc. We've gone from one oppressive country to another for our Oil. I mean is anyone talking about the "Brave Mariupol (sp?) defenders" in truth, you know that the Azov regiment are actually nazis and have lynced people publically Taliban style? Don't get me wrong, I support the world supporting Ukraine and Russia is the agressor, but aggression is not the answer - showing them our power by completely blocking them is the answer. World lessons are here - the world is almost going down the road of the Treaty of Versailles and it doesn't work - creating hyperinflation raises support for the war, it doesn't dent it. Giving them assistance with Weapons etc is one thing, but making declarations of wanting to attack russian soil is completely different and we are then putting ourselves in the position of proving Putin's paranoia correct, that we were just looking for an excuse. - They are NOT a NATO country - so as sad as it seems - do you get as upset about the Yemen? Do you feel a need to do anything there? Why not? Because its not close to home. We do nothing because we profit from it , is the brutal truth - just the same as our government saying how much they care - to make money and protect their own power. Ukraine can deal with this and keep their honor, there is absolutely fuck all need for the fuckwits in power now to start pretending that they can plan anything . They have fucked up everything they have touched in the last 3 years, whats going to be different now? Nuclear war is suicide, its mutually assured destruction - there is no deterrent needed other than that. The world has the worst leaders at the worst possible time, and I personally put a lot of blame on the Internet.

I bet you love it for long time

I don’t usually say “I told you so” but I said that on here about 3 hours after the first tank rolled across the border. Putin needs to be physically opposed by NATO. Anything other than defeat emboldens him, his shitty gangster state, those who may sit in his chair next and any other fuckers watching on, sticking their fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing eg China. Yes, nuclear war is a possibility. But mutually assured destruction is either a thing or it’s not. It horrifies me that we may have to try it out but this is indeed very likely the start of WW3 and western leaders look like they’ve come up with err “a plan”, the tone from the US has changed this week and client journos are being instructed to spread the word. Western civilisation has had a good run but all empires crumble….

I think you have a lot of valid points in general about the US being belligerent and I would normally be one that side of the aisle too, but I cannot see how this is anything other than squarely on Putin. This may well be part of a wider US geopolitical issue, but it is also very clearly a matter of Ukraine's right to exist. It is very much also their war - primarily their war, in fact. They are being conquered by an imperialist power. Whether the US is a total shitshow is an entirely separate point on this matter IMO because Putin launched this all off his own bat to "solve the Ukraine question for future generations of Russians" as he said himself. I would also say that the article I linked puts forward two options - obviously the author prefers that we surrender to the psychotic bully (and I do get why because lives saved and so on are a factor. How many lives is national autonomy, your nation, you culture, worth?) But the other side is we become actively involved. Which I would support. I don't know what sort of hellish world we would be living in if we just let Putin have Ukraine. And then when he takes something else, then what? Let that happen. Etc. If Putin is prepared to engage in wars of aggression like this, we've already lost the battle on solving things peacefully. It's him who should be desperately looking for an off ramp, not us who should be trying to find him one.

Japan has such a huge baseball culture it’s a weird thing to bring up.

Speak for yourselves. (I didn't join till 2009).

How much are we going to hear about ‘that special night in Istanbul’ in the lead up to the final. If it’s Man City they play I assume they’ll skirt around the incident where the Man City bus was attacked the last time they met in the CL, and we will just have the commentators wank off over the scousers singing ‘you’ll never walk alone’. And the plans are to make the CL even more predictable

It’s fucking mental isn’t it. They’re making insane amounts of money as things stand yet they’re so greedy they’re willing to jeopardize it in an attempt to make more. It’s the same as all these clubs wanting to engineer the CL to essentially make it a closed shop, competition and the chance to see their club involved is what drives interest and money.

Class. They’re even booing.

Keegan saved this club in 1992, not Hall. If Hall had got his way, we'd have signed no-one and most likely we'd have plummeted into Division 3. I appreciate he provided the capital to get this started, but the narrative peddled around that was the saviour of NUFC doesn't wash with me. His best decision was his choice of manager. He then focused solely on floating the club, handing it over to his fucking useless son and then flogging the place to a disingenuous cunt who Shepherd knew was bad news. Saviour, my arse. He used the club and its successes to his own advantage.

Fuck's sake

All nice sentiments and platitudes but no mention of the fourteen years of absolute misery and disrespect he put the club into, of the mistake he alone made.

Did he turn back and double check he'd actually turned it off five minutes after going home?

Stopped at a block of white writing. Should implement twitter rules

When Anthony Taylor from Manchester regularly refs Manchester United games at old Trafford v us and who's family are Man U fans then all bets are off. Oh, but he supports Altrincham? Whey aye. Must be a North West thing with Dean as well.

I want to know what you think this looks like or how it's achieved, because I can't see anyway it can happen without millions of people dying

I don't believe the Tories do particularly care about the people of Ukraine, but I do. I also care about Western civilisation and consider where we have come to as, while very flawed, the best of all other current alternatives - and that it is therefore worth protecting. We're all taken in by propaganda whether Russian or Western (as far as this conflict goes), it will be inevitable. I am however comfortable that my position here aligns with what I believe to be right. There are more nazis in the UK and Russia than there are in Ukraine, I'm not remotely interested in the war being justified by the existence of Azov. Women are being mass raped and war crimes are abundant. Azov are a footnote compared to this. We have showed our power by blocking them, and they have continued. They are now making inroads into Moldova and threatening to expand the conflict. We are not forcing them to do this, they are doing it because they are imperialists. Which Western leader has claimed we want to attack Russian soil, incidentally? Crimea isn't Russia soil by any international, legal metric. It's a spoil of war. Yes I get upset about Yemen - although the last time I raised this, Renton I believe made some really good points on what that was a very different situation, and why it was doing a disservice to all involved to compare the two. Yemen does sound more complicated with two side competing over a single territory. Not one side valiantly trying to defend itself against an aggressor to which it has done no harm. Civilians die of course, and this is as reprehensible in Ukraine as it is in Yemen - but they are different situations. I don't disagree with you about the government's motives, although I suspect even in the jaded and morally collapsed Tory party, there are some who believe that Western civilisation and its values are worth defending. Even if they don't realise the harm that they themselves do to it. Again though, I'm not 'agreeing with the government'. I want us to go in and stop the guy, and I did pretty much immediately because he is an unmitigated cunt who cares nothing for the lives of even his own soldiers, when compared to the prospect of a grand legacy that he could leave behind. If the US was less wedded to war this still would have happened, because Putin is still an autocratic fascist. Maybe it would have happened sooner, frankly. Ukraine can't deal with this. They are going to lose, and the stated intention of the exercise is for the entire country to be assimilated into Russia, for the Ukrainian culture to be annihilated, and for those who defended themselves to be punished. Russia has decreed this, and so shall it be. Nuclear war is suicide but we will only get to that stage by the actions of one deranged lunatic, and it isn't on us if that happens. It's on him. We need to start pointing the finger squarely where the blame is. No western leader is going to launch a first strike nuclear attack on Russia. NATO is not going to countenance a military invasion of Russia. Thus the only way we get nuclear war, is if the 70 year old with the 14 year old's brain currently running Russia, decides that he's being humiliated. If it comes to that, so be it, but it's not on us. We can't just bend over every time a crackpot state like Russia starts throwing threats around otherwise they will simply keep taking, punishing, lying and persecuting.

Yeah, we’re a pair of Bush/ Blairite interventionist warmongers

My overwhelming desire is for the war and the killing and the death to stop. Escalating the situation is the worst outcome. Unfortunately neither side appear to want this yet I hope Putin drops dead today to be frank, but it wouldn't guarantee what followed would be any better There are no good solutions, but at some point there has to be a negotiated peace and I would like to get there with as little death as possible

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Still commendable since I don’t think I’d go for nowt, even if I supported them

And was happy to fuck fans over with the expansion via the cunt he appointed (Fletcher).

But in the meantime, you can all fuck off!

But can he knock a passover

This also applies to people for them