The Fish

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I get the sense that, with your attention span, the American style of tv is more your speed. "We're going to look at alligators and crocodiles. Here's an alligator, later we'll look at crocodiles. We looked an alligator, remember, here's the clips we showed. But now here's a crocodile. We've looked at alligators and crocodiles in this episode, here's all those clips again in case you forgot. Next episode we'll look at crocodiles, then alligators."

Why, because it has similar texture to meat??

Oh, it's good to be back.

You had jack fruit or banana blossom as a meat substitute?

So do everything you can do to disguise it's flavour and texture? Doesn't have to be vegan, but

Tofu can fuck off, and so can you for suggesting it.

That's less to do with parsimony and more to do with market values. How many players were moving for £50m before 2008?

Paint the banana black and that's perfect for an Alien theme night.

Oh 100% Man City are still charged a premium on players because they're a rich, Premier League club, fighting for titles. We'll get charged a premium because we're richer than that, and a Premier League club, even though we're fighting for survival.

That's where I got jabbed.

Sorry?

No.

I think that'll be true in the summer regardless of who we've got trying to broker the deal. January windows have always been a pickle.

Right, so it was possible to do just that on a smaller budget with Mike Ashley in situ. You think it'll be easier, or harder to do it on a larger budget with the Saudis in charge? And do you think we'll still have that squad 6 years down the line from then?

Agree with most of this. Have to say that it's not just the over paying, it's the drawn out process. Essentially unless there's a release clause we're going to have to fight tooth and nail for the majority of the transfers. Would say that we'll have a greater amount of time and (hopefully) have personnel in place to expedite this complex process.

What a way to inflate your ApP. Your xA was dropping a little, but good to see a return to normal. Apology form is temporary, but apology class is permanent.

You've thrown abuse around like confetti, you can't clutch your pearls because it's been returned robustly. If you need a safe space, can I recommend Parler or somewhere like that? You should take a glance at the abuse (personal and otherwise) that is thrown around here, you know what this place is about. It's words on a screen from strangers, if you're taking offence then you should step away.

I'm surprised that you, of all people, would say that.

Man who sets out to provoke a reaction from people surprised when a reaction is provoked from people.

Lads are off to Saudi Arabia over the international break. What odds on one of them doing something wildly inappropriate while they're there?

I got it. So there's no need to be a prick about it.

There's some new builds near mine with what I now see are heat pumps (originally thought they were AC boxes). The things are massive and an eye sore, and it seems like they're not worth the outlay. No way would I get one for this house. I could get a new kitchen for less.