Rayvin

That's a really surprising fee actually. No bad thing at all. I'm wondering if the plan is now to sell Sissoko to fund activity in the January window if need be. It's not looking likely that there'll be many more to come at this point, unless the club spots another good deal like this one.

... CT is a vampire now? Wtf is vamping?

Expect at least a spirited draw. Not going to say this is a game we absolutely should win, but we need to come out of the blocks at some speed for once.

Who did the Spurs game? EDIt - ah it's been done already. That'll teach me to start at the oldest topic and work up...

Although seriously Rents, I can't quite believe how this seagull stuff is still going on Can't you just smoke them out or something??

Thanks for the advice all - I'm probably set for the time being I guess; we'll discuss it and by the sounds of it, I'll be arguing that we shouldn't get one. I'll tell her that this dude online who fucking loves seagulls made the most convincing argument not to do so.

Cheers to both, that's helpful as well. I'm going to go quiet on it I think; see if she brings it up seriously again once we move in. I'd love to have one in truth, but as you say, you have to think about how suitable your life is for the thing.

that should be a badge of honour really.

Saw that earlier. Mental guy, especially with his kid watching... Impressive that he had the stones though.

I like that perspective too. Ultimately I want to do right by the dog though, hence the original question. If they can't handle upping sticks periodically and the occasional night alone, it's not fair to have one.

Thank mate - not heard of pet passports before but that's a useful bit of info. Also understand on the breed. I'm expecting her to end up choosing something that needs nigh on 24/7 attention tbh.

I'd argue that the effect Mao had on Chinese people was approaching into the realms of superstitious ideology mind... the 'cult of Mao' was a prominent thing.

Thanks ewerk, good to have a counter opinion. I guess it's more the stress that a future move to another city or country might cause it. That said, it's just a one off thing I guess.

How many heads have been cut off, and how many cuts into human flesh have occurred, in the name of money or power

Goldfish is a solid fallback, I'll keep that in mind. Will file alongside 'hamsters'.

That's a fair point I hadn't thought of, we go out quite a bit... I obviously understand that ideally, dogs won't be left alone. Food for thought.

Ok so - myself and my partner are in the process of buying a house - same as 50% of the rest of the board, as far as I can tell - and we're hoping to have everything concluded by the end of August. She has just told me she wants a dog when we move in. I like dogs - grew up with them etc. - but I'm concerned about how easy it will be for us to move around in future if we have one. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not even sure we'll stay in this country longer than the next 5 years or so (we have wanderlust). I'm concerned about any decision we make now with respect of the dog leaving us in a position where the next big life change is 'unfair' to the poor thing.

Have to say I'm pretty excited about the season getting underway. Feels like we have a bit of momentum about us now. Gayle looks promising, he's managed a couple in pre-season now. Maybe a little shaky at the back though.

3-2 sounds like a decent game to me but which aspects of our play were poor?

Same

Why do I get the feeling that if, in 5 years time we all concluded that this was a good thing after all, you'd argue that it wasn't?

He is, however, 100% right about scientific progress and endeavour being thwarted by religion and the moralistic codes we have established as a result of it. America in particular struggles in this respect.