The Fish

He just uses his fingers.

Cheers all, I'm sure he'll be ok. He just needs to take the foot off the gas, but it's going to be a challenge getting that through to a man who's never really been comfortable just chilling out. Tried to encourage him to take up a hobby, but everything I suggest he's got no interest in. Wish he had an interest in writing down his life, I've tried to get him to do it but where he's happy enough telling stories, writing them down is a chore for him.

There's some lovely pubs near Hadrian's wall for the garrison posted there.

MCU, the man barely sat through Nolan's Batman because it was too far fetched. He prefers his heroes to be believable, like James Bond...

Just off the phone with Mother Fish. They've kept him in over night so she didn't get back until 8pm so didn't want to call and worry me. (Family has this weird thing where any calls after 8pm must be bad news). Anyway, his seizure was a bad one, he cracked his head open on the bedside table. Turns out he had a COVID booster on Friday and was laid low by it, then on Sunday he went for a 5 mile walk, then did some gardening. Mam asked me if I could ask my doctor mates if that may have been a factor... I have no medical training beyond how best to combat a hangover (warm woolly hat, am I right @Alex?), but I'm pretty sure that if you've been ill, then over-exert yourself it's pretty likely to have an impact on your epilepsy. I was planning, as a Christmas present, for me and him to go to an Air BNB in the countryside near a pub and some hills but now I'm worried he'd have a seizure in the middle of the night and we'd miles away from help.

Yeah, it's understandable, but infuriating.

He'll be okay, he's in the best possible care and my Mam will take care of him as he recovers. Honestly I think he's just not willing to accept that he simply cannot be as busy as he's used to. He should be enjoying his retirement, not volunteering everywhere, taking on responsibilities and all the rest of it. I'm not saying spend all day at the staring window, he just needs to scale shit back. These latest seizures will mean he'll not be allowed to drive for another 6 months (at least), which will break his heart.

So apparently the old man has been having seizures on and off throughout the nights and him and my mam haven't been telling us, and last night he had 3 so he's been carted off to hospital again. Guarantee the fucking dumbass has been exerting himself too much. It's my mam I feel for, she'll be worried sick.

Careful, that kind of stuff will get you blocked on twitter.

Um, actually, this place allows spaces, so it'd be "The Pedant".

If they'd parked in front of my house I'd be even more annoyed. Why the fuck are they on my drive?! Where am I going to park?!

I see it now.

Well, of course I do. I think "how am I going to get my car off my drive?"

Gross spend is relevant here. If they were a midtable club surviving by recruiting and selling well just to stay afloat, then sure, Net spend is important. When their gross spend is approaching £1b you can't cry poverty. This isn't Brighton or Leicester. Liverpool have been consistently in the top 4 clubs in this country for ages with all the benefits that brings. Last 24 years, they've never finished below 8th and have only finished below 5th on 7 occasions. They are one of the elite clubs and have spent accordingly. They can afford to drop £76m on a centreback or £56m on a 'keeper because they're the final pieces of the puzzle. West Ham would need to buy spread that kind of money over 3 or four players just to stay midtable. Chelsea, Man City have had to spend a fortune, just to catch up with them. Liverpool are bitching because the head start they had has been eroded. The "we can't compete" line is horseshit. They didn't land Haaland, fine, whatever, they still spent £60m+ on Darwin Nunez. They literally are competing, they're still spending a fuck ton of money and their owners are perfectly capable of putting more money into the club if they wanted to. "We can't compete". Fuck off Mr Ed

Why is it carried on into other fixtures though? There's no reason for me to think United means Manchester if they're up against Leeds, or Newcastle, or Rotherham. Hell, we chant Yanited! at games, are we giving them support from afar? Are we bollocks. It's Man City and ManYoo, and it forever will be. Anyone saying otherwise should take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror and try to work out where it all went wrong.

They do, so do Leeds fans. Man Utd, or Man U, and Man City. I can kind of understand it if it's the Manchester derby, or even when Man Utd play Liverpool or whatever, but in a fixture between two Uniteds, don't refer to one of them as "United", it's needlessly confusing.

Got him jabbed as soon as I could. 6 pints of Bhuna out of 6. Highly recommend. Would do it again.

Says the coward who does this exact thing on Football Manager games. The rank hypocrisy is disgusting.

Win him back with a knickerbocker glory and prawn crackers

Any validity to that tweet was obliterated by signing off with Au contraire.

You were particularly swayed by the Kangaroo arsehole stuff weren't you? You big pervert.

Blind voting. You don't for a party, or a leader. The manifesto pledges are on the ballot, you check the promise you like. Party with the most backing for promises wins, and if they fail to deliver on those promises they're dropped off in the Jungle and fed Kangaroo arsehole.

Jesus what's worse, Liz and her Lettuce, or CT and his Mushroom?