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TV. It's not my connection, just did a speed check and it's the usual 70mb/s. It's alright again now. Probably just a lousy programming job by Sky on their LG version of the app.

If Now TV could stop dropping down to 120p resolution every time we have to defend that would be great, ta.

Casadei and Yunus aren't as defensively solid as the usual Wilf and KDH in front of them either, which probably doesn't help.

Commentator: "That will settle Leicester nerves after a chaotic start" How would he know? He wasn't here for the first 8 minutes.

Got a jump scare when the commentator showed up out of nowhere

Made a good decision on that quick throw in to Vardy which won the free kick for the first goal on Saturday. A nice piece of opportunism.

Turning right out of the bottom of parker drive onto blackbird road, only to see a lorry coming down the wrong way along the dual carriageway. How the fudge did they manage to do that.

Watford being so passive had quite an effect on the first half being slow going IMO. They dropped off very quickly whenever we had the ball in our own half. At one stage, they let Hermanson slowly walk 30 yards out of goal with the ball while they just retreated. We were slow to begin with, but it did feel like the tempo was slowly but surely increasing as the half wore on. Ineterstingly, in the second half it looked like Watford were still backing off at first, but they also started playing a high defensive line as well, perhaps in an attempt to compress the play, so suddenly there was also some space to get into behind as well, if you could play through the cramped centre of the pitch, and quite a lot of our second half chances (KDH hitting post, Vardy penalty etc) involved breaking into some space behind their defensive line.

BOING BOING MOTHERHUBBARDS

Thought the ref was very solid today, had good control over the game, let it flow but pulled up all the correct fouls when needed. Think that was the first time I've seen him reffing, could be one to keep an eye out for in the future. I mean, if the Prem are giving Man City vs Liverpool to Chris Kavanagh, then clearly there's a vacancy for anyone competent to go all the way to the top because they are crying out for decent refs up there.

Find clips of highlights and add to editor: 2 hours Find clips of player running into a pitch or celebrating a goal, then applying slow motion filters and using them to fill the first 3 minutes of video: 8 hours Listening to royalty free music on YouTube to find the worst possible song to use in the background of the video - 5 weeks Make video thumbnail - 30 seconds

Won't a lot of those new laws being passed have been ones introduced to replace removed EU laws as a result of Brexit? I'm not sure the number of laws being passed is really a measure of size of the government, rather a measure of how much they want to muck about with adding stuff to the rulebook if you will. Compare that with the state in the post war period, when lots of the utilities, railways and large parts of heavy industry were all nationalised - they may have had less laws, but the government of the time had much more control and influence over many aspects of the country then than they do now.

Had to go check where Dignitas is based after that, but Wiki reckons it's Zurich on the other side of Switzerland . The mystery continues ... I'm reckoning there's a gang of yetis in the forests, picking off the holidaying investment bankers if they go a bit too far off-piste.

They can't handle getting to the front of a room full of chairs though. No time for mucking about at the back of the room, carefully walking sideways down a row until you sit down. Just run full pelt down the corridor then hurl yourself through the air like an olympic high jumper on LSD before crashing in an almighty pile of folding plastic glory.

What on earth is going on at Mont Blanc? Is it all kicking off at the ski lodges when they run out of hot chocolate?

4th Deadliest Pandemic in human history - brutal. 5th deadliest - NO BIG DEAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics_and_pandemics 2nd deadliest? Just a piffling little flu like illness, don't see why anyone made a big fuss at the time, it's not like it killed more people than WW1 - oh wait. It did.

Why are people still talking about the "Deaths from Covid / Deaths with Covid" argument. It was bollocks, still is bollocks, and always will be bollocks. It was explained repeatedly at the time. They had ONS figures where Covid was the cause of death on the death certificate. These were deaths "from" Covid. These numbers were always at least a week behind, because they would only be reflected when the death certificate paperwork had been done. This was a big problem at the time, as the daily cases would sometimes be increasing on an exponential basis, so waiting an extra week to find out how ****ed everything was before doing anything about it would result in the situation being an order of magnitude worse. The number of people who died "with" Covid could be easily obtained, up to date every day. The government had a database of all the positive test results. They had a database of all the dead people. All that had to be done was to query the databases to see who was in both. This is why it was the reported number, it was the most up to date data available. Now, would this include some people who died of other causes? Probably. Would deaths from other causes have been wildly varying during this time, increasing daily - or - a statistically small subset that remains more or less the same size over a period of time? Here's a question for all the free thinkers out there - since you were all so concerned about them at the time - do you think we had a massive increase in people being "hit by a bus" over that period - or, maybe, it is the same number of people normally hit by a bus - or, perhaps, given that traffic was at its lowest level for years and most people were inside all day - MASSIVELY LOWER THAN NORMAL? Oh, what do you know: Chart 2: Percentage change in casualties compared to 2019, by month and severity, Great Britain, January 2020 to June 2022 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-provisional-estimates-year-ending-june-2022/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-provisional-estimates-year-ending-june-2022 Funnily enough, the argument never goes the other way. There's never a hypothetical person who was tested 31 days ago who died from Covid being excluded from the figures. And when the With and For figures were compared, they always lined up once you applied the 1 week lag. Furthermore, once the conspiracy chat moved onto the vaccine, suddenly everyone who died after having the vaccine was definitely killed by the vaccine. Because thats how conspiacy theorists work - there is no persuading them otherwise, they simply ignore everything that might disprove their theory and double down on any insignificant crumb that could be used to justify it. image-22-1.svg

Putting a crap ref in an office chair at Stockley Park doesn't magically make them any good. Just means they spend 5 minutes poking the monitor with their finger despite having been repeatedly told it's not a touch screen before proceeding to make a decision by rolling a dice like they normally do.

VAR: Maguire shoves a guy over - I sleep A boop on the snoot - REAL SHIT

Can't even keep a clean sheet in his own house

There was an unfortunate tactical mixup, so he was given instructions from the QPR game by mistake - so he spent 90 minutes sitting tight on Chair.

We created plenty of chances today, it was the execution of the final shot, combined with some poor decision making and some very good saves from the keeper that cost us.

Only had to read this much of that post before I could guess exactly what the story was going to be 😄 Seems to happen all the time around there, the fact the slip road is uphill seems to cause the unconfident drivers to carry no speed whatsoever to begin with and as they get some visibility further up they just panic and grind to a halt. Then they are trying to pull out from a standstill into 70 mph moving traffic

Imagine trying to audition to be Link. "Can you give us a read of the dialogue on page 5?" "HYAAH" "Thank you, that was great. We will be in touch with your agent "