Happy Face

Expected much more laughs from a Louis CK product, and most laughs come in the first few episodes in all honesty. I think purposely so, in order to keep viewers watching long enough to get to the really dark stuff. but as a drama it gets better and better all the way to the end. Stick with it, can't imagine anyone feeling let down by the end. Recommend it to all, this is the flavour...

N00b Labour Tom Watson can lead, convinced he's dabbing his way to the youth vote.

It's the lying under oath, not the contact that is a crime. Politically, the crime is less damaging than the collusion though, so worth lying. It's becoming normalised as NJS alludes to. Clapper would argue that "We lie to you to keep you safe". Clapper would be lying again if he made that argument, they lie to hide their wrong doing and activities that would outrage the public, but Sessions doesn't even have that flimsy defense.

Someone start the huddersfield thread please. Undefeated since I stopped starting.

Sports Direct coming to NUFC shirts? http://www.themag.co.uk/2017/03/rule-change-see-sports-direct-branding-newcastle-united-shirts/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?pushid=breaking-news_1488413057&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.e4562c824750

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/28/the-new-yorkers-big-cover-story-reveals-five-uncomfortable-truths-about-u-s-and-russia/

Shall we ask for donations into a prize pot? I've got 3 coding manuals, (C++, Java and SQABasic) I'll throw in. EDIT: This wouldn't at all be the winner getting sent any old shite that people hadn't bothered to take to the tip.

I've only kept the fixtures and the correct score predictions I'm afraid. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QMC3BuA9WUATou7B4TowgXVHVP8USgogHorZk0RUjE4/edit?usp=sharing Incorrect predictions should be in the OP of every match thread, if you can be arsed.

Christ, even MySpace still isn't allowed to die. At no point has labour sunk as low as the conservatives in the first decade of this century. Corby to stay a year or so more and then someone less extreme to rebuild ahead of the next election.

"May's a slag!"

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Don't think I'll forget all you who were questioning Rafa. You know who you are.

Atsu dispossessing himself

Did Brighton even claim anything? They seemed as surprised as us.

Bought myself a massive pork pie which I'll reward myself with when we score our first goal.

Obama advisor sticks it to the libtards

It's interesting to me that the UK media has framed the argument as Miliband/Labour/Corbyn being entirely useless. There is some criticism of the conservatives, even from within their own party, but by and large the blame is fairly and squarely on the opposition. However in America, an inability to beat Donald bastard Trump gets barely any criticism whatsoever. Rather than Clinton or the DNC or the economy or corporate control, the loss is blamed squarely on Susan Sarandon and James Comey. Are the media classes that different? Is it dominated by the public school elites happy to sneer at progressive movements here, while in the US the "liberal media" are Hollywood and will criticise anyone but their democratic friends and corporate funders?

I post links to dozens of stories on here. I value and support a press that leads on facts and truth. I don't see it as a homogenous entity to blame or praise. It is as it has always been, filled with partisan elements on either side that should be corrected regardless of who is in power. People are open to manipulation, I agree, but particularly when they are frustrated about their own lives, struggling to survive economically after generations of the status quo, angry that the "other" has a job or is draining their taxes or is bombing their son in conflicts around the world. Blaming Trump for those frustrations that led to him and Bannon manipulating them and making a power grab is not logical, given they're frustrations and resentments that pre-date them. The answer is to push for an alternative that speaks to those frustrations without being tyrannical. If our only goal is to convince idiots that the "change" they voted for was evil and the Democratic plutocracy that left them frustrated in the first place is their best hope, then we are doomed. I think you agree. You come across as blazing mad about Labour and their ineffective opposition. I don't know why you are more sanguine about the democrats complete inability to provide any semblance of appeal to rival that of Trump despite his obvious flaws.

Agreed. The new-found commitment to facts and truth over stenography in corporate media circles is commendable and I hope it extends beyond a Trump presidency. Similarly the intelligence leaks to inform the public on wrong doing seem to have been greeted with much more praise than leaks under the previous president whose war on whistle blowers had much support. I can't see Trump introducing greater whistleblower protection, but hopefully the next Democrat in office will reflect this current enthusiasm for conscientious leaking.

And the 63 million that vote for Trump or the 51% of Americans that think the media are unfair. I remember you were complaining that the email scandal would cost Clinton the election though you thought there was nothing incriminating there, now you're saying nobody but me and a few other dweebs cared about them. MSNBC pundits were reporting the Podesta mails as fakes when they demonstrably weren't. Ignoring the question of why anyone would fake mails that weren't incriminating, you need to decide if it was massive/decisive issue or not and whether it being a massive issue demanded truthful reporting from Clinton loyalists. If you ultimately decide it's not an issue, then why do you think the vast majority that aren't Breitbart readers don't trust the media? Because the fact is they don't, and categorising a few hundred million people as morons to fit your world view doesn't really hold. Their distrust must come from some common perceptions beyond idiocy, bred across multiple outlets.

To me, a liberal focusing criticism solely on Trump is like a football manager who's 4 nil down at half time telling his team that the opposition are dirty bastards and they couldn't do any more. Maybe try complaining to the referee a bit more. It's astounding that 49% of voters don't have anyone worth voting for but focus is on criticising the one person that could convince the king makers to vote for him. Why are US liberals not focused on standing up an alternative that speaks to more disillusioned voters than Clinton? Why is it OK to focus criticism on labour and Corbyn for their ineffectual opposition but not the Democratic party and their cheerleaders?

I've criticised Trump plenty. I don't know why you demand Trump critics wear blinkers, You're proving the point I'm making about having no self awareness of the ills of your own side and only wanting to focus on the other. I called the Trump killing of a young American girl disgusting and heinous but you took issue that I compared it to the the Obama killing of a young American boy. It's partisan nonsense and it's part of the reason less than 37% of the population and 51% or registered voters supported either Trump or Clinton. EDIT:I provided other examples to Rayvin of media pundits outright lying about important election issues in order to defend Clinton or demonise her critics.