Rayvin

I hope he comes good in the end. I think he could make the step back up into the PL, he just needs a run of games to get into the flow of things. That said, if it's not going to work, we'll know by the end of the season. I could definitely see a PL team like West Brom or someone picking him up if we don't want him.

Not hipster enough. You need to talk with Gloom more.

A lot of people are reporting that he did, so that kind of dampens the optimism a little bit. Will we be compensating Nissan in a few years...?

I thought DK said he was going to the match...?

You guys made it mainstream though. Possibly. I can't say I really follow this stuff but the gist is, you're all hipsters

Well, that's good I guess. To be honest about this, I'd far rather be wrong about Brexit, so if companies like Nissan are prepared to invest, that's a positive.

I blame London for this in entirety.

As kind as it is for you to do all this analysis lads, don't feel that you have to! It's starting to sound too much like work The one table we keep is fine, I don't think we'll be poring over the results very much at the end of the season.

Meaningless really though, isn't it? I think we've all been sucked into this thought that the act of the referendum itself would destabilise the economy. And of course it did, but not as much as actual Brexit will. Very little has changed economically because the only real difference at the moment is that 'Brexit means Brexit' and the pound has tanked. When Brexit actually happens, if we leave the single market, there's going to be hell on.

brilliant

Hull fans seem confident... not sure why, exactly...

Great draw. Even if we lose, as has been said, we'll get a sense for where we are.

It seems Wham and Chelsea fans have decided to try to kill each other...

I like the bit where he says it'll be different on Saturday and then admits in the next line that he can't promise anything with respect of the scoreline, but that, basically, he's hoping and praying that they don't lose 6-0 again.

Comments from the poor soul who manages Preston: "I'm not going through that again on Saturday. This is a big arena; it's a big pitch - they make it big. It will be different on Saturday. "I'm not going to make promises that it's going to be a different scoreline, but I'd like to think that it will be. "We could have played our strongest team from Saturday and still been beaten tonight. The league is our priority, but we are hugely disappointed."

I was gonna post a video of someone saying it but really, it's not worth watching. To be fair to them though, Hong Kong comedy films have always been pretty good. Kung Fu Hustle is superb

He's right like, Howay. Villa fans and Essembee anyway.

Exactly.

Never been asked that. They have puns and word-play so it's kind of similar to ours. They lack the desolate, embracing-of-the-void style gallows humour of the Europeans though. So for instance, they have a finite number of word sounds, or syllables; English has as many as you can think of, but they're forced to combine the same sounds to make different meanings. Their verb for 'to be' is 'shi'. Shi can also (out of context) mean city, a grammatical particle, certain animals, and the number 10. Therefore, there is a Chinese poem that is made up entirely of the syllable 'shi'. It's multiple lines long, is ridiculous, but actually makes sense. The Chinese find it hilarious: Transcript (traditional Chinese): 《施氏食獅史》 石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。 氏時時適市視獅。 十時，適十獅適市。 是時，適施氏適市。 氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。 氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。 石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。 石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。 食時，始識是十獅屍，實十石獅屍。 試釋是事。 Phonetically spelled: « Shī Shì shí shī shǐ » Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī. Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì. Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì. Translation: « Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den » In a stone den was a poet called Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten lions. He often went to the market to look for lions. At ten o'clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market. At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market. He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die. He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den. The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it. After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions. When he ate, he realized that these ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses. Try to explain this matter.

Does anyone seriously believe that we aren't talking about two sides of the same coin in the New Labour/Tory discussion? http://www.academia.edu/5373503/Blair_s_New_Labour_and_the_power_of_the_neoliberal_consensus https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/04/gordon-browns-legacy-rampant-neoliberalism

...? New Labour were pro austerity too, weren't they?

This is why it makes no fucking difference who you vote for in the establishment

...or maybe he wasn't less of a Neocon...