Gemmill

The man is a spokey dokey.

The wheel that he sits at the centre of is buckled.

I don't think you offer it to Carsley, and only then sound out Pep and Ancelotti. There's talk that they'd already spoken with Pep in the summer too. You also don't appoint Carsley on an interim basis if the plan is for him to get the job. I'm telling you, this all comes back to Dan Ashworth being a useless prick.

I like the appointment, but it's a pretty sad indictment of the FA's grand succession planning that they haven't got a viable successor. We're straight back to "pick a foreign bloke that's won something". Was it Ashworth that set this failed system up?

Shearer won't be happy.

He was on the BBC a few weeks back cos he's fronting up this scheme to get older folk to come up with a playlist. The idea being that if you're unfortunate enough to suffer with dementia at some point, that this can bring some comfort and spark memories, etc. He seems to have slowed down a canny bit, as you would expect, but I'm sure he saw this as a real slap in the face given what he did for them.

If you're not expecting to get anything if you sold it, then I don't see what benefit regular servicing is really giving you (beyond obvious things like oil and brake fluid changes).

I love how there's now a "national insurance controversy" because it looks like they're going to raise Employer's NI. The press and the Tories trying to suggest this is breaking a manifesto promise, even though it was abundantly clear that it was Employee's NI that was being talked about during the campaign. The way the press will just run with the Tory line as if there are questions to be answered, instead of just going "Aye that's bollocks, we can ignore it" just again speaks to how they've forgotten how to actually do they're job, because they're so addicted to drama.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/14/cheating-alleged-after-mens-world-conker-champion-found-with-steel-chestnut Shocking stuff.

Synchronise watches, fight fans.

Corbyn's manifesto was undeliverable at the time he proposed it and that was before the effects of Brexit, covid, and Truss. Starmer running on that manifesto in 2024 would have been one of the all time greatest acts of political self sabotage.

It should have been obvious when he wouldn't take 2 million No's for an answer.

Jenrick says he'll appoint Rees Mogg as party chair if he wins the leadership.

His current, yet to be proven take, is that he reckons that polling in America is failing to adequately take account of the huge voter registration numbers since Harris became the Dem ticket. He reckons that, plus increased turnover among women, could.... could result in a bigger than expected win for Harris than the polls are suggesting. Hope to fuck he's right this time too.

He's a good lad. Greek national, now lives here full time. Former civil servant and incredibly posh, but he's sound and a very astute political observer/commentator in my experience. He was the only person when Johnson won his big majority and everyone was saying Labour were done for, that was saying "I wouldn't be so sure. Set free to do what he wants to do, Johnson will be his own worst enemy, and it's much more likely that this ends in scandal and tears." And he was absolutely bang on.

Re Italy, they're trying to get closer ties with Europe where every country has a veto. You can't have closer ties with Europe and refuse to engage with Italy. They're in government, they have to engage with some people that we, and also they, would consider unsavoury. I want to see progress in some areas, but I expect to see some things I don't like along the way. It's the cost of being in government and wanting to stay there. If you absolutely insist on ideological purity, you can only ever have that in opposition, and you'll only ever be in opposition.

A pretty good, sober assessment of Labour's first 100 days. Probably won't appeal to the THEY'RE JUST TORIES crew on here (you know who you are), but it's pretty balanced imo. Laura K features for being a bellend that has forgotten how to do her job.

Beetlejuice was alright. Monica Bellucci and Winona Ryder in the same film is not to be sniffed at. @Monkeys Fist would approve.

They got their bellies karate chopped.

I think it was for Rod Stewart.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBChV6Co004/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=36529929-50ca-46c7-a193-0b03086e1a5b&ig_mid=CB96E0EC-8581-4FC6-BE5D-E6F9E881EB2A They were just playing a big joke on everyone. So convincing.

🎵 Aruba, Jamaica, Mags are wearing barcodes in Bermuda, Bahama, two fat kids with their mama. Key Largo, Montego, they'll even let the mags go to the Kokomo. A big fat family, and their kids seem, slow. Weeeeearing their scratty tops, way down in Komomo. 🎵

You need to have more lie-ins.

You use Salmon and Almond interchangeably in recipes iirc.