Torquay Gunner

I have an 11 year nephew who has a better vocab than him.

As a belt? If so are you Mick Jagger?

I must have been bought 3 or 4 of these belts as a kid. I think most boys I knew had one.

Good article, but hardly groundbreaking. Part of the article talks about ‘community cleanups’ for want of a better term and yes if an area looks cared for, it’s likely to reduce anti social behaviour /crime. That ‘theory’ is well established. Ludwig the author of the book argues that neither Brown the original aggressor or Hood the killer were evil. Well yes, although Brown was a clearly violent man and had no compunction in hitting women. That such a man met his end through violent means was hardly surprising. Ludwig seemed to suggest that a tighter community might have resulted in Brown being ‘talked down’ from his violent intent. Maybe and maybe not , although it is understandable that people would not want to intervene in a country awash with guns. Most of what he wrote made sense, but sadly it really just equates to so much ‘pie in the sky’.

Minor story, but very much reinforces my above post. Trump’s vile administration wants to be clear in the messages it sends out and A-holes like Hegseth are happy to oblige.

You can’t reason with sociopaths unfortunately. Many will feel emboldened under this right wing government and probably see themselves as heroes in such situations.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Trump had fantasies about playing himself in The Purge franchise films. He’s got the new founding father nazi look down to a tee.

The only lure for Frank could be CL football. However, as Spurs are so ill equipped to compete in it, he would be better off staying put.

Ukraine bombs Russian planes in Siberia. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/ukraine-launches-major-drone-attack-on-russian-bombers-security-official-says

That’s certainly one of the reasons, although the main reason is probably the obvious one, in that Israel does not want verified news agencies like the BBC and CNN broadcasting their daily footage of carnage and starvation into people’s homes. Much harder for Israel to dispute their accuracy and impartiality. Edit I see you have touched on this in para 4.

Owens believed in the Booker T Washington approach to equal rights. So basically move slowly, don’t upset the white race too much, work hard and eventually that will reap it’s own reward. Black power at that time was the opposite of that for him.

Yes he was, even in the 60’s when LBJ signed the civil rights bills.

Very true, shame that Owens was perceived as an uncle Tom in later life for not backing the activism of certain black athletes in 1968.

Racist white US soldiers going over to Germany to fight facism has to be one of the most staggering ironies of all time. Respect to those British people up and down the country, who refused to stand back and do nothing.

Humphries is just so difficult to beat. He always seems to find that turbo scoring in the latter stages of a match.

Yes I just found her character intensely irritating and selfish. Season two overall a big disappointment.

Waiting for Trump to rename the country ‘The Democratic Republic of America’ cause we know the countries using that prefix are anything but.

I feel Villa are just so unreliable. They choked both of their biggest games of the season and not the type of side I would ever put money on to win a big game.

Yes that and their attitude to immigration generally.

Lucky old Sterling then! Coady at least scored an important goal for you guys this season.

Strange list without Raheem Sterling, who got more yellow cards(1) than goals, or even shots on target in 17 abysmal appearances in the PL. Several of those players including Zirkzee were more effective than him.

Didn't you hear him at the parade? “The third season of a TV series is always better than the 2nd”, paraphrasing, but that was the gist. 😂

Fitting end to Spur’s PL season. What now for Postecoglou?

No, you’re the joker.