Rayvin

The best part of Amelie was the bit about the goldfish... Eternal Sunshine just bums me the fuck out for some reason. Life of Brain a classic though, of course.

Oh really? Fair enough then. It's starting to look increasingly like Sissoko is going to be here until January

I fully agree with you, but for whatever reason Wenger is wedded to his philosophy. I kind of admire that in a sense - sentimentality over pragmatism - but the chances of him pulling it off were always going to be low. What I've never understood about it is that it's not like he's never had 'pragmatic' sides before. He won the league while playing quite different football to what he seems to want to do now.

It has all the criteria you've suggested you'd like in a film, is all I'm saying. It's also not a 12A.

You mean because of Scottish independence? Yeah I guess it might be. Although I'm not sure if I see indyref 2 coming in the next 4 years. It could though, I suppose. Good way to bow out if so.

Did you see Watchmen? I would have thought that was quite strong based on the criteria you're talking about - although it does try to achieve an awful lot in a fairly short space of time.

Does anyone have any vague sense of how many more medals we're likely to pick up? Trott looks certain to be one at least, but this looks like a really good year for GB in sport. It's really nice to see.

I've wondered if we're going to get feminist 're-imaginings' of classic films next. Ghost busters and arguably star wars hit that note. I think I saw that Splash is being remade with a gender role reversal? Not saying it's wrong in theory, but it'd probably just be a cynical way for movie studios to cash in on their IP once more.

Palace apparently after him now. Really, he's swapping for two very similar sides if he manages that. I don't doubt that Pardew will want him and we should on principle make them pay through the nose, but Palace would be laughable. If we get promoted this year we'd immediately become 'the bigger club' again.

I suspect that this year is going to be a return to form for the PL - reckon Arsenal will lose out on CL placings this year actually, and that Wenger will go at the end.

I genuinely think SDJ could do a job for us in the Championship if he could just stop getting knacked. He's never really had a chance to show it, but he must be a decent player at the heart of it. I'd certainly try him ahead of Shelvey if he was fit.

Was Aarons not a youth teamer? I thought he was, but I guess we must have just bought him young. Not that he's a regular yet anyway.

Sounds like he'd fit right in then.

They could make some superb movies in superhero themes if they abandoned 12A ratings and just went for 15s and 18s, IMO. The narratives they're able to tell simply aren't compelling when you've got to make sure that all the small kids watching it aren't going to be too scared to buy the associated merchandise. That said, Deadpool was an overhyped letdown so I don't think that's the way to do it. I think the real question though, is what they're going to be replaced with when they go. The world will still need big budget action movies.

So there's a national shortage of leftbacks... Fuck me. Can we not just buy Santon back?

Why have we struggled for leftbacks though? Why is it such a hard position to recruit for? Do other teams have this problem or is it just us? It's actually beyond fucking stupid that we've not addressed this properly in what, 3 years?

Oh really? I heard about his 1500m comments as well actually, but I assumed they were founded on the fact that he's just that good. Imagine saying that and then failing to even make the finals.

In one of the swimming events, the Australian gold medalist Mark Horton defeated his Chinese rival, Sun Yang (just). The Chinese guy sounds like he runs gamesmanship from the Stevie Taylor book of being a total prat, and was apparently splashing at Horton prior to the race to try and psych him out. Anyway it didn't work, and Horton was asked afterwards what he thought about it. He called the Chinese guy a drugs cheat and said he didn't care about him. Apparently Sun has failed a drugs test previously for medication he took while managing a heart condition. Anyway...! China has gone fucking nuts about this, and has demanded apologies from Horton, Australia, anyone who'll listen. Many of the Chinese internet users are threatening him with violence and stating that this proves that Australia hates China. It's also apparently somehow racist. I've watched China do this kind of shit for years, and it's hugely enjoyable. The victim complex they've instilled into their populace lashes out with a vengeance for stuff like this.

Wonder how wound up he was for a taser to be necessary...

If you got hold of a very strong, larger than usual vacuum cleaner...

Glad the whole thing got sorted out at least.

Fucking hell

That whole episode was brutal man. Although it's possible - just possible - that I got a bit carried away.

Really? That'd be a real shame.