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Pepe is a thug who happens to have the necessary awareness and fitness to play top level football.

And to add to the above, the Portuguese team are so incredibly dislikable, for a few reasons.

At no previous tournament has 4 points not been enough, so a win should do it for Scotland, but I guess we'll see.

Yeah, you're right on that, I think. Yeah, it appears so. But some of the stuff out there now just seems utterly batshit.

It's such a fantastic application of Poe's Law because I truly, honestly cannot tell a lot of the time who is actually being sincere and who is taking the piss there.

I've seen some of the comments being made about the search for Jay Slater on social media. I really don't think we have the right to take the piss out of some of the folks in the US any more without it being a serious case of pot and kettle, to be honest.

It's certainly unforgiving, but that makes the rush when you wipe out a tough boss all the better.

As it happens, it would be OK the other way round now - the Saffers are closer to England in terms of NRR so pretty much any win for England and any loss for SA will mean all three teams are on 4 points but England will have a better rate than the Saffers do. If there's no result, a win will do too. In short, there's only a very, very specific result range where England beat the US and still don't go through (an incredibly narrow win against the US and an incredibly narrow win for Windies against SA).

A National Park ranger on the topic of making new bear proof rubbish bins: "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists." So in short, yes.

If we do then we'll deserve to never hear the end of it.

Yep, that's because he's using the first paragraph as rhetoric to justify the second. Total bollocks of course, as you say, but sadly a lot of people buy it.

Not the worst thing that could have happened. If England beat the US they're through (barring the Saffers utterly bottling it against the Windies) and it doesn't matter if we top the group or not. If they lose, well, they deserve to go out.

Seeing Rabada off to attack Baartman again here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cldd44zv3kpo Russian asset that clearly doesn't care to listen to the very clear solutions posited by the climate science community. And yet, there's an increasing amount of people who buy into this casual disregard for any kind of truth.

I don't mean to criticise the guy tbh, I guess I just think that post-Murray my standards for his successor at Queens and Wimbledon in particular are really high.

Brook isn't going to die wondering here. That's who he is.

And therein lies the thing that every successor to Murray has lacked so far. High level consistency from match to match to go far into tournaments consistently. Hopefully Draper can buck the trend there.

Taken from us far too soon.

Also, it's somewhat interesting to note that the poll here follows the general polling in the UK on this topic pretty accurately, from my own research.

Yep. And to add to food related pressures, increasing temperatures making ground that hundreds of millions of people live on no longer able to farm or draw water from. Another one of those thousand cuts. The end of civilisation can just as easily be a whimper caused by a couple of decades of famine, war and increasing struggle, than a single spectacular bang.

Do explain further. It would be interesting to hear. This isn't just a "China" problem, as much as we in the West like to look down our noses at them - it's a world problem and it took a lot of historical emissions to make the West as it is anyway. That being said, the point about development is spot on, and so the only way forward must be to get better, cheaper, greener forms of power generation to those developing countries to stop them relying on carbon intensive sources. Any other way ends badly, for one reason or another. There is a way forward, and to say it's all hopeless means to fold our hands, condemn the future right now, and (rightly) be judged as worse than Hitler, Stain, Mao and Pol Pot combined in terms of devastation by those who are left. I'd rather not take that route just yet, thanks.

Yeah. More bosses that act like that and actually mean it would be a good thing in a lot of places, seeing as employees and workers are by definition the most important part of any company. But fair play to those who have said he wasn't the right fit all along, highest level football isn't the place for managers like that. Adapt or get out.

Fantastic win for Draper. Perhaps we might finally have someone worthy of taking the torch from Murray.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czvvqdg8zxno Human-induced climate change made recent extreme heat in the US south-west, Mexico and Central America around 35 times more likely, scientists say. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group studied excess heat between May and early June, when the US heatwave was concentrated in south-west states including California, Nevada and Arizona. Extreme temperatures in Mexico also claimed lives during the period.

I'd agree with this, but a point on the bolded: As with other issues, those who can't accept can (and do) use social media (and sometimes outlets like the Express, Mail and Telegraph) to massively amplify their message and to influence that third group that you mention. They are not passively accepting that nothing needs to be done, they are actively broadcasting that catastrophic misinformation to all that might hear it. Ignoring them is unwise.