WigstonWanderer

I’ll take dull as dishwater if he keeps us up this season. No time for experimenting with pretty football styles, just need to get the job done.

Probably need Harry Potter in to keep us up

Whilst our squad isn’t very good, particularly now with injuries, etc, I think they’ve shown in patches that they are capable of better. A team being less than the sum of the parts has to be down to the manager.

Scoreline better than the dire predictions in the pre-match thread, but pretty uninspired performance bar the odd few minutes here and there, so yeah, Cooper out!

Finished the half well. Surprisingly still in with half a chance of a draw.

With the recent spate of deaths from methanol poisoning in Laos and previous ones of course, shouldn’t it be possible to produce some sort of simple test kit to check drinks for methanol? I’m thinking something like a litmus style test. Any chemists here want to make some money?

I doubt either side would deliberately start a nuclear war, even Putin, but there is always scope for mistakes when tensions are high and Putin is launching ICBMs I’d have thought. Would the yanks know it wasn’t nuclear armed? Would they know where it’s headed? Edit: Just noticed the post from @Dunge clarifying, stand down. Still somewhat alarming though.

America seems to have reached the Caligula phase of empire in double quick time. Expecting Trump to nominate his horse for a position at any time soon.

Or borrow a couple of your mum’s if that’s possible.

Maybe the epoch of Oligarchs and Authoritarians. Quite possible that democracy was a relatively fleeting moment in human history.

The world in general seems to be entering a more “dog eat dog” era sadly

Can’t see him going anywhere unless we’re actually in the relegation zone

Bloody hell, you guys are really harsh today. Perhaps I’m going a bit soft.

Soundly beaten. Can’t think of anything else to say.

Reckon our bugler is better than theirs. Defending for our lives for 90 mins won’t work, but good luck lads anyway.

How depressing. Let’s hope with some of Trump’s more extreme rhetoric like trying to deport 15m people, and possibly going after press, opposition, civil service, etc, that he was just trolling the left. As always we’ll need to see what he actually does.

If anyone wants something a bit more challenging that gives something of the mathematical flavour behind many of the topics in physics, I can recommend Leonard Susskind’s lecture series. I worked my way through several of them about 12 years ago, and you start to feel as if you’ve got a bit more of an insight compared with the usual Discovery type stuff. Unfortunately most of it has now deserted my aging mind but I still look back on that as a period where I really learned something at the time. I assume the series are still on YouTube or somewhere. Doubt whether he’s still producing new stuff. Edit:

Started well but a bit on the back foot towards the end of the half. Need a Cooper pep talk

Just our luck they’ve sacked their manager just before we play them twice. No doubt they’ll suddenly go on an amazing run.

Well he tried as hard as he could, plus much has changed since 2016. The guardrails are significantly weakened, particularly with the current Supreme Court and its bizarre decisions. The right are much more focused on distorting voting rules and I wouldn’t dismiss Project 2025 lightly either. The argument that Trump’s done 4 years so must be harmless is entirely bogus in my opinion. Edit: Acknowledging others have made similar points above more articulately.

Yes I found it frustrating that he didn’t seem to get to the punchline, though I’m only about 25% through I think the moment has passed. Interesting stuff though

It all depends on whether you think you’ll get the chance to vote again in a free and fair election. I don’t think Americans can take this for granted if Trump gets in. Whatever you think of him as maybe just a joker or a clown, probably quite incompetent at being a real bad guy, he’s got some really dark people around him who might be more competent. I guess we’ll see.

Bezos keeping his head down in case Trump gets in. Won’t want any retribution that might affect his business. Probably see a lot more of this sort of thing.

Whatever the question, Trump cannot possibly be the answer. Right wing populism is a cancer eating away at western democracy, and I see no end to it.