danny.

I think it's pretty common now, the amount of banal emails I get at work people have clearly used chat for is crazy. In conclusion, you can always – tell, because – they have loads of em – dashes, for no – reason.

That's quite interesting. I did find it quite specific as it was "case participants that had been shot in an assault" in Philadelphia, no doubt many of those gang shootings etc. and how well those findings translate to different areas (i.e. not deprived inner city areas, areas with less gang activity) and also different use cases (i.e. home intrusion) I guess are going to vary. As mentioned before, I'm very much against gun ownership personally, but I do empathise why some people might feel safer to own a gun at home for self defence. Obviously that is also going to increase the use for things like domestic violence and suicide. Taking broad stats will hide genuinely useful cases or cases where it's of benefit, so I think it's quite a sweeping claim to say that they don't help defend people.

The problem with that is that the conclusions of studies can be misrepresented when going through other sources, especially if different sources have their own bias or agenda.

Well peer reviewed studies generally do have sources available to link to, as they are published and available online. I'd have thought anyone, whether they like football or not, would know the source they are quoting, otherwise why quote it? It was a very specific claim so no doubt is backed up by evidence.

Not really. I didn't make the claim so I'm not going to try and second guess which studies are being referred to.

source for those studies?

I think it creates an arms race, but I do understand why people would feel safer. Look how often you see people in the UK walking around with large knives and machetes now, if one of them decided to attack you you'd have no chance without something like a pistol. The better solution would obviously be to stop people walking around with machetes, but doesn't seem like the UK is down for that rn.

Totally agree. I don't like that anyone can have even a pistol, but there is a big difference between keeping a pistol at home vs walking around with a machine gun. Their "constitutional rights" cause a huge issue for actioning this though.

Equating the concept of self defence i.e. if someone comes into your home with being murdered by a trained sniper is wild. I don't agree with gun ownership, BTW, but not a fan of disingenuous fallacies or false equivalences either.

No wonder society is so fked these days when people are celebrating the murder of people they don’t share opinions with. The tribalism is making us barely better than animals.

Wishing people to drown is also beyond sick.

how tf has that got a laughing emoji, @urban.spaceman you are sick.

Basic maths. Work out the local populace, frequency of required cuts and therefore total demand. Then work out capacity per barber shop and it’s obvious there are 500-1000% capacity at least in every high street around the country. It’s not possible for the majority of them to be genuine sustainable businesses.

because they aren't real businesses, just money laundering fronts, obviously

Unless you soundproof everything the noise will still get in. With windows most installers will leave a 5-10mm gap (more depending on how good/bad they are) and fill it with trim and foam. So even if you had quadruple glazing, you still have this gap area, the frame, and trickle vents were noise will come in. It might improve the noise though, depends on the structure of the rest of the house (i.e. if you have vents or other openings) and also how sensitive your ears are as to whether it's a solution or not.

Most of the country has declined over the last 20 years. Leicester included.

Baffles me that the interviewer makes zero attempt to say his name correctly - so disrespectful

Unless you are Ricky Jones, then it's fine to call for people's throats to be slit over a PA system if you don't like their politics.

If that was a foul then it was a foul on Justin 2 seconds before

I think a lot of the passing backwards is coaching and confidence. Justin is often guilty of it too, but for a moment yesterday he seemed to remember he’s actually decent going forwards and ran through the defence and set up a nice assist for Jamie.

People voted for Darren Grimes?!

Poor Alisha, no idea what you mean

Commentator said it’s because he lives too far from Leicester

“Riots” and “idiots” are different words

That isn't a 12 losses in 13 team, it's not amazing but not awful either, on paper.