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Kamara getting into really advanced positions today.

Chipping away at that negative goal difference. Let's get 3 more!

Yeah, he knew he got burned. I'm sure he'll take a lesson from it.

I like it when things overlap, it's interesting. Language is inherently sociopolitical.

The fact that they are still bringing on players like Martial to try to salvage a result is telling. They're a stagnant club, and Ten Hag is looking more and more like a pretender.

Ten Hag's recruitment is slapdash. The team cohesion is unbalanced and their spirit is easily broken. Some of the players are outwardly unlikeable and don't represent the club well. They don't have a style of play. Every game it's just a complete improvisation.

Got it. But I don't think the older generations have to "relearn language", they just have to stop using a select few words that are no longer socially acceptable. But having to tactically turn rudimentary mechanics of language upside down to accommodate someone's self-conception seems a much more complicated set of linguistical circumstances.

Spurs playing some nice football.

Harsh red card.

You can sense a burgeoning cult hero status...I enjoyed his interview and find him very likeable. Takes some of the sting of last week away. Acuna next, please!

It's a rather obvious false equivalency you're making and drawing me into. I'm not worried about saying "the wrong thing" to someone of another race, because I don't have racist beliefs that might make things fraught for me. Nor am I uncomfortable with "modern language around race", assuming you mean concepts like justice, equity, liberation, reparations, "wokeness", etc. Do you know why I'm not uncomfortable with it, despite my "old age"? Because I'm not a racist and I support those ideas, and I haven't just talked the talk in that regard. So while I don't find conversations with people of another race fraught, I find speaking with people who use alternative pronouns to be inherently fraught, because you are expected to or at least strongly encouraged to vigilantly adhere to a wholesale reconfiguration of ingrained grammatical norms. It's a minefield of looming mistakes and awkward apologies. There are no split second grammatical recalibrations expected of you when speaking the "modern language around race". But there ARE when speaking with non-binary or gender fluid people who use alternative pronouns, and that was my basic point, and if you read my longer posts above the one you quoted, that might be clearer to you.

The policing of pronouns also has a chilling effect on what might otherwise be a relaxed and warm relationship. If someone feels like the more they speak the more likely they'll eventually say the wrong thing, the less likely it is they'll want to engage with the person enforcing the rules. Today I found myself engaging less.

Exactly, and that's why I think the overpolicing of language, particularly when no offense was intended or should have even been perceived, can only backfire on those who do the policing, who theoretically are advocates for Trans/Non-binary issues. They are forcing a wedge issue into the conversation that I think can alienate some people who are otherwise sympathetic to their struggles for rights and protection under the law, issues that seem to me to be of much greater significance.

I know, but I don't think we have a non-binary thread going so figured this thread was non-binary adjacent, and with similar social politics surrounding it.

It was bound to happen eventually, but today I was "corrected" for the first time, not by a transgendered person, but a non-binary one. A person I work with. Their name is Mark, who lives with another co-worker of ours, a woman named Erica. Mark is someone who was quite clearly born "male", and Erica "female", and that's how she self-identifies. Mark however, does not self-identify as male, and uses they/them pronouns. They (Mark AND Erica) are in their early 30's. I've been working with them for about 4 months now, and about a month ago I learned that Mark uses they/them pronouns, strictly by chance while I was overhearing a conversation. Anyway, today I said to Mark something to the effect of "Oh man, I'm sorry to hear that!" (He recently injured his foot). He immediately said, "I use they/them pronouns. Did you not know that?" To which I replied, "Yes I heard. Pardon me, I'll try to be more cognizant of that." He said "No problem, it's natural." So......It wasn't too awkward, but I found it weird nonetheless. And it's not like they (Mark) ever mentioned it to me directly, or introduced themself like that, or even confirmed that someone else had informed me of it, so if I'm honest, I was a bit bemused by their (Mark's) reaction to my use of "man", especially because it was less of a label I was directing at them (Mark), but rather more of a exclamation. In my opinion, they (just Mark) over-reacted. They goes by Mark, lives with a woman, outwardly presents as a heterosexual male, but yet prefers and insists on people referring to Them (Mark) as They (Mark, singular), and I guess insists on people perceiving them as not male or at least pretending to perceive them as not male. I suppose it would be a lot easier to view them as non-binary if they were more gender neutral in appearance and mannerisms. I guess it's up to me to overcome that mental hurdle, maybe for everyone I initially meet, because you never know who might identify as what. My sister works in the non-profit sector and says all her business meetings, in person and online begin with everyone announcing their pronouns. So good luck when there are 14 people on a Zoom call and you have to remember all their pronouns. It's a high wire act. But it's the reconfiguration of basic principles of grammar that I find to be the one aspect of this broader issue that I'm least sympathetic with. It is really difficult to reorient a lifetime of one's reflexive use of language and childhood instruction to accommodate the newly mainstreamed sensitivities of a relatively small demographic group of people. I'm just not sure how practical it is for society at large to make this shift, up to and including the reshaping of language instruction in kindergarten classrooms and beyond. When it comes to political support, I'm behind every group represented on the pride flag and beyond. This grammar thing though, it's tough!

Another slanderous word against Doris, and it's welcome to the Terrordome

We need a right back.

Check out that nutmeg just north of Milton Keynes!

Not many players consecutively play for two teams with red and orange shirts.

We were looking at him a few years back IIRC..

Is Acuna the guy that did not impress me at all in the World Cup?

There's talk that Willis won't grant Trump bail Unlikely that he'll be detained, but what does appear likely is that he'll be forced to have a mug shot taken. Not sure if he'll be in jail scrubs and handcuffs, but that would be delicious, especially if he's paraded around like that in front of TV cameras. Critically, this trial will be televised, which might be a way for some truth to penetrate the cult's brain fog. It really looks bad for Trump now, and I'm allowing myself to daydream a little about the possibility of him actually being put in prison.

Totally depends on the player and the needs of the team. He'd be slotting straight into the starting XI and providing depth and experience until we find replacements for both Acuna and Moreno in a couple of years. 15m is fine, IMO.

The musicianship on this is really advanced for a debut album by young rockers. And it was a smash hit of course, with all the songs getting airplay, not just the singles. R.I.P. Brad Delp

Zaniolo. He's a faster John Carew.