MC Prussian

All the people complaining about Cifuentes: If the club management had any sense of ambition, the manager would've already been sacked before Christmas. He has a job guarantee for mediocrity. He won't get the sack unless we land in or near the relegation zone.

This has 4-4 written all over it. We definitely won't keep a clean sheet with this makeshift back four.

Le Havre third.

Mexico‘s World Cup away shirt (allegedly):

You getting a ticket for a match in Trohno?

Who the feck are they? Also, serves me right for not seeing the change in subject from the page previous.

Behave! How else would she be able to afford (match) make-up, fake eyelashes, fake nails and ugly tattoos? Lehmann has scored 21 times in seven years... as a professional footballer. If she wasn't a midfielder, that'd be Daka stats. Says it all about women's football. Just as bad as the WNBA.

Wrong thread? Apart from that, I concur only partially. Given the fact the team lost its two starting QB early on, a 22nd consecutive winning (or rather non-losing) season is still impressive. Shame they bowed out that early during the playoffs. There's always next season. Under a new manager this time. Always be grateful to Mike Tomlin for the Super Bowl win against the Cardinals. What a game that was.

Ghost Story (1981). Underrated. A little supernatural horror gem. One of the last movies for Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and John Houseman – and the last one for Melvyn Douglas, who died before its release. Miguel Fernandes is very good in it, too. Also features Alice Krige (later on achieving fame as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact).

Which as a result means people killing each other, thus reducing the world's population again (briefly). Those wars will be fought elsewhere, in Africa and Asia, in particular. And again, we're at the issue of growth in global population, driven by a handful of countries – and Africa. I guess that'd mean the birth rate will have to come down. Which it will, with or without wars. As stated before, it's all hypothetical. No one knows what the outcome will be. I guess we'll have to wait and see – and put faith in science and technology. Humanity has shown tremendous resilience to all sorts of crisis, and the Earth is still coping. As humanity is nothing but a drop in the ocean of Earth history. We've had a lot of alarmists and doom mongers in the past. They're all dead now – and humanity is still kicking.

As you state in your own words, the speed of change is unheard of. We have no other scenario in (recent) human history that comes close. I'm not debating/negating the development (in the past 250+ years). As you're explaining succinctly, we simply have no true frame of reference as to how the Earth will respond to this development. I guess it's all a question of frame of mind. Do I accept climate change? Sure. Who wouldn't? I guess; I just don't belong to the alarmist faction. No one can predict the future, not even scientists. As stated prior, the discussion in the UK/the EU/Europe is somwheat redundant. I think it's great we're undertaking efforts to turn our societies into more eco-friendly ones. I'm just not sure it's worth preaching on a UK forum, when the real culprits are found elsewhere.

That was decades before the talk about climate change, driven by the constant fear/presence of war. We've seen an unprecedented influx of migrants in the Western World in the past 20+ years (I know, a blip in the grand scheme of things), China, India and Africa have grown tremendously population-wise. Yet we still manage. The five countries with the biggest growth in population are India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and Mexico. Instead of preaching to the choir over here, climate activists ought to focus their efforts on these parts of the world (I don't see the likes of Greta Thunberg in Lagos, Delhi or Beijing that often – I wonder why). Regarding "pressure on arable land", there's efforts to turn deserts or steppes into agricultural land. Successfully, I might add: https://earthshotprize.org/winners-finalists/desert-agricultural-transformation/ https://disruptorsmagazine.com/the-blooming-desert-how-israel-turned-arid-land-into-agricultural-gold/ Desalination could help, too: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/04/desalination-drinking-water-water-scarcity/

Looking at the middle class dissolving more and more, not much change needed when all you require is the bare minimum. We're also 80+ years into a time period without any major war (in Europe). That is unprecedented. That safety has made a lot of people complacent, I'd say. I have a grandmother who survived WWII (the bombing of Königsberg) who's still alive today, and that gives me some perspective. As another element, I'd also claim that many people lack historical knowledge and or historical context and don't know about the past, don't want to learn from the past. They live their life as they please, in the moment, some way beyond their means. And I can't blame them for that. They don't know what a crisis or sacrifice really means. When water, food and power is gone. I'm the last one to preach, it's just something I keep in mind on a regular basis, my plea for us to be more conscientious.

I remember. And I also mentioned that we ought to prepare for that cooling period, just as much as we have to learn to live with higher temperatures. The cooling period will come, eventually (just not in my or anybody else's lifetime, mind). Also, a drop in temperature can happen any day already. As we remember the Year Without A Summer (1816) or the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. I also stated that I have great faith in humanity and our technological advancement. Add to that the expected decline in population around 2050, and we'll be fine. Energy saving efforts in Europe are all fine and dandy – as long as nations such as China (way ahead of everybody else), the US, India, Russia or Japan don't change their policies, it'll all be for naught. All our efforts turn into a blimp in history (as they already do). And then it serves nothing but to soothe the individual or collective guilty conscience, and turns into virtue signaling to the rest of the world.

It's also not really helpful to put things into perspective, you know, giving context: https://theconversation.com/is-it-really-hotter-now-than-any-time-in-100-000-years-210126 I don't see many media outlets going into further detail here, or referencing this chart – instead, they focus on the same old "panic mode" scenario (whatever works best to generate clicks, I guess): I've said this before: Judging by Earth's history, for every warming period, there's been a (very long) cooling period, too (as extreme as Ice Ages).

Dark Star. Hippie truckers in space. For the time and the budget, pretty impressive. You can see the influence chain: Kubrick's 2001, then Lucas' THX 1138, then Dark Star, followed by Star Wars – and Red Dwarf. Part of me wishes John Carpenter would do a fleshed-out remake, approx 90 minutes long. There‘s still time.

Wrexham, Oxford, Charlton next. I've said it before, this is the decisive month this season. Lose two or even three, we're done. Win to or even three, anything is possible. I'm not confident at all. Mainly thanks to Marti.

For a man who wants the fans of the club he owns to be closer, he does a pretty good job at putting them off even further...

He was there in spirit.

Ayew's chosen the wrong sport to earn a living. With the amount of time he spends on the ground each game, it's not too late for him to switch to wrestling.

So we and the club should just give up/give in and accept our mediocrity and demise? We've had the opportunity to establish ourselves in the top flight, and we blew it spectacularly. Cifuentes is a mid-table manager leading a mediocre, partly rather inexperienced, rather leaderless squad, hired by an incompetent club management. The fact that the people in charge accept mediocrity says it all. All the aspiration and ambition is gone. I mean, what are our goals this season? Has the club ever publicly come out and stated the management and/or the manager wanted to reach the playoffs or an immediate return to the Premier League? In their eyes – are we under- or overperforming? Do we have a three-year, five-year plan? Do we have a plan at all? Has Top appeared in public lately (after that shit show of a club interview) and scolded the manager or the team? Apart from shallow statements and hollow phrases, where are the genuine interactions with the fans, where's the genuine interest in interactions with the fanbase? Nothing. They don't care. And that's the frustrating part.

Yesterday wasn't down to a lack of strikers, it was down to a lack of decision-making and taking your chances. We have wingers and attacking midfielders and central midfielders who all know how to score when given the opportunity. Just not against Cov.

This is going to be an interesting January transfer window.

He's not bringing Soumaré on, is he? IN THE 90TH MINUTE.

Complete cock-up in the second half. All the energy and fluidity gone in 15 minutes. Useless manager, sub-par team (effort). This season is unbelievably frustrating.