Rayvin

Yoga too, iirc.

Essembee isn't deriving as much enjoyment out of the mackems plight as you would think mind. He barely posts about it at all these days. Be honest Essembee, you miss them don't you?

Didn't even notice that but aye, you're right. I'm tempted to assume that both teams lost key players over the summer but you'd think that such people would only have been sold into the PL, and as such, they should have been well paid for them. The margins must just be that fine, I suppose.

This has rumbled on long enough now that I think it's safe to say that not everyone is joking around here

Fair enough - I've never been sold on splatoon mind. If you didn't have a Wii U there is also Mario Kart - but it's a rehash so only worth the money if you didn't have it previously. I think the matchmaking in RL prevents you from "getting your arse bashed" - there's no way you should be up against people who have been playing for years. Unfortunately though, the low ranking communities are toxic as fuck, so idk how enjoyable it is down there anymore.

Only really been following Sunderland's plight in the championship this season, but was just looking over the table there and am surprised to see that Sheff Wed are lower half. They had a storming run at promotion last season, weird to see them fall away as they have. 17th on 37 points.

We'll win this - it's not as if we've been playing badly, we just need to learn to close games the fuck out.

The 4 teams at the bottom are all dire, but Barnsley have put together a run of sorts. 5 points from their past 5 games is a damn sight more than Sunderland have managed. Burton are the same, 5 from 5. Only Birmingham, who seem to be in total freefall, are doing worse.

It has Rocket League. Seriously, I know I harp on about this game all the time but if you don't have it on another format you'll get plenty of enjoyment out of it. Also Skyrim if you didn't play that first time around.

I want to see Neoliberalism pulled off its pedestal and an alternative formed. I don't care exactly how this manifests, but this ideology is pervasive, and has been dragging us slowly to one single destination across multiple governments. We can go back to something that ostensibly looks like Blairism, would be fine by me - but it needs to have more focus on people as people, and not as consumers. Problem is that we're just one of many battlegrounds, and without the EU we'll have to make compromises with countries who don't share these values. So we may be fucked either way now, thanks to Brexit.

It never even crossed my mind that he would be making shit up - not that kind of forum tbh.

Not disagreeing. I don't actually want a socialist utopia as I think I've said on here before. I would prefer a return to the centre - but a centre that hasn't been hijacked by a right wing economic philosophy. Socialism, implemented to the fullest extent of the word, is not what this country needs. But we could honestly do with the country being dragged leftwards again, and with a general rethink about some of the things we just consider normal. Blairism can't give us that.

Has anyone tried?

Depending on for how long Arsenal rumble through their 'crisis', we could well get a point against them too.

Can see us picking up draws from 2 of 3 games against Leicester, Everton and Watford as well. So I'd have us down for 7 points from the 'easy' home games, 2 points from the above 3 away games. We sneak a win from any of those 3 and we're safe for certain. Gonna say 9 points overall though.

Even so, it's the closest we've come so far.

Aye if we can't avoid relegation with those games then we deserve to go down tbf.

If they start dismantling the state it'll make Labour's job even easier. We were going through a slow but progressing dismantling anyway, across Blair as much as Cameron, and starting with Thatcher. Now Labour has something that will not just blithely go along with it, and it means, IMO, the Tories have to be careful. There is no parliamentary consensus for that path anymore. They can't overplay their hand - especially not given how close it was last time out. They're unlikely to forget that in a hurry. But maybe you're right - to which I say again that a quick death is preferable to a slow and incompetent one.

1 - Corbyn is a poor leader and were he to be judged against other leaders on the basis of leadership alone, I would agree that he is 'fucking useless' 2 - The point has never been about how good a leader he is. If the proper left of Labour can hold onto power inside of the party, it means that eventually, we will get change. On this basis, Corbyn is the most useful thing that has happened to the political landscape in the span of my serious political awareness (about 15 years - I know, not long).

Well yeah, but I prefer a quick death to a slow, incompetent one. And IMO, it's death either way at this point. Largely given up on any positive outcome for the whole Brexit fiasco.

Actually think JRM would be a better leader than May, as horrific as he is ideologically. He has the confidence and certainty of self to actually lead. I mean, he'd be leading us to hell, but it would be a far less shambolic journey.

It's going to be fascinating to see what happens but it's hard to imagine it isn't under control on some level. We're not hearing panic at the high levels from either the UK or the EU. The Tories will muddle through it somehow because that's what they seem to do.

It becomes easier to understand once you realise that we could be top 6 and Troops would still find something to complain about

Russian democracy What I don't understand is why he doesn't dispense with it altogether. Is there really anyone in Russia, or the world, who doesn't understand what is going on?