The Fish

A sternly worded letter to Anne Robinson's Point of View? Jokes aside I'm trying to think of a remotely similar historical experience. The Romans? The Saxons? The Vikings? What did the average person do then? What did the leaders?

Anyone who chooses their own nickname will soon be given a nickname which is way less complimentary. At Uni, there were three Daniels, One was a Liverpool fan from Blackburn so got Scouse Dan, one entered and exited every room remarkably quickly so got Rocket Dan, and then there was Dan Chiltern who told us everyone called him Chills or Chilly and thus Smelly Dan was born.

Really? I think it's entirely in-keeping with humanity right now. It wasn't 'Muslims' that flew into the twin towers, it was a death cult. It wasn't people from the Far East that created the Corona Virus, it was allegedly some people in a Wuhan Lab, it wasn't... People want to blame a group, them vs us. It's reductive and futile, but it's stoked by the media and the politicians so it's entirely understandable why the people fall lock step in line. Making the distinction between the actions of the Israeli government, and Jewish people requires a scintilla of critical thinking, and that's harder than not doing that.

Was in London with work today, while we were out for lunch near Paddington my Jewish boss saw some violently antisemitic graffiti. Not anti-israel, not anti-zionist, antisemitic. Really upset her. Really worried for the very few Jewish people I know.

We were genuinely talking about getting a dog if we weren't lucky enough to get pregnant this year. So while I'm delighted to welcome an addition to the School of Fish, I'm a little disappointed we won't get a dog for a while.

I'd love it if I could bring a dog to work. Because I work from home, and I don't have a dog and I want one.

I'm not sure me and James Mclean are aligned on what makes a story 'funny'. Me: On the way to work a bird shat on my hungover face and I immediately threw up on myself. Him: a kid's dad threw back his shirt in his face and some people spat at him and his pregnant wife

I didn't even mean that one.

Better than your review, ya bambaclaart

Good job they've got shit strikers who can't finish for toffee. I use the stats from Fbref, they have Everton (14.7) just behind Man City (14.9). But Everton have scored 9 and Man City have 17. We have 17.3 xg and 20 Goals, by the way.

Posts as Gene Clark, very occasionally. Real name is Ian Cusack.

That's the risk of the 'model'. Anyone who wants to copy Brighton and Brentford's approach has to understand that the key to it being successful is that you need to recruit for two steps down the path, all the time. And every transfer is a gamble, even if you have great analysts, great scouts and so on., it's still a gamble. Say you're Ipswich, you need to buy undervalued players who will deliver Premier League survival, because if you sign players who can get you promoted, you'll likely need to replace them when you succeed. That's incredibly difficult. Ipswich likely don't have the resources to hire the best analysts, or provide for them the best resources. They likely can't afford the best scouts, or afford to send them all over the world to unearth the next big thing. Brighton have made it look easy, but it's really not. Just a thought, but was this easier for Brighton because they've been operating in this way since Bloom took over? They've consistently been 2-3 steps ahead of every other team they're ostensibly competing with since League 1.

I dunno if it's great. Some weird phrase choices like "Flekken in the Brentford goal is the football equivalent of a social hand grenade, liable to explode at any second." Why a social hand grenade? Why not just a hand grenade? A social hand grenade refers to someone who's likely to say something, do something that will immediately destroy any social situation. It doesn't need that extra layer. Also, he rightly criticises the mackems for saying the lad who got stabbed in Milan deserved it, then hopes for someone with a chainsaw to go after the bloke behind No Saudi Toon. He's got a broad vocabulary and sometimes he uses it well, but that piece was rambling and had an underlying tone of anger and bitterness.

Fucking Hell man, that's barbaric.

No worries, we'll do well enough for the five of us.

They also invented semafour nil

Explain yourself, young man

That is so bad I actually feel pane.

There's no other way.

At 14 I liked comic books, football, Blur and masturbating. I was a complex kid.