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I think there’s a few content creators that'll be pushing the sale this week

Already on Jackson, I'll enjoy the price rises

Also I’m thinking a few will be selling Watkins this week as he’s no longer on pens

Yep, it’s probably my move unless Gabriel starts this week. If Gabriel starts I'll stick and roll my 1 remaining transfer to the following week as the fixtures for my team are going to present me with a selection problem already

If it is one of those, be careful, they have quite the bite. Not going to kill you obviously but can cause quite a bit of reasonably prolonged pain

I actually went in the shop you were heading to but nothing remarkable for me, was almost tempted by Blancmanges first album for a fiver to replace mine that was missing in action but couldn’t be arsed carting it about up to BBQ and back home semi pissed

The baby can drive now, passed her test last week

Well this Cud have gone in a number of topics This came up in a playlist, no problem, the track is great but it came up labelled as being on a compilation album of the bands material… all good so far… but it was also labelled as “previously unreleased” Yep that made me a little terse, it was released both on the Strange Fruit label with the rest of the session and it was released on an album of all the bands Peel sessions (the o er of which is in the video below) Anyway have a cover version of Hot Chocolate

Already pulled the trigger on Bruno to Maddison, first transfer of the season

It wasn’t Aldi it was Dali a slightly surreal supermarket

I am in the Bro-in-Laws in Southport, he’s got a new Barbeque in his new house, it’s f***ing space age. It’s got an app and temperature probes. It cost him £1500, he’s been smoking this piece of brisket in it since 2am. I’m sat next to it and I’m getting all the smells all of them, I’m now ready to eat a whole cow A grand and a half for a barbeque! I didn’t bump into @Seat68 who is also in Southport but I suspect he’s timed his visit to coincide with the Flower Show and is busy eying up the prize pansies Southport remains an utter shithole of a town centre but anyway A grand and a half for a barbeque! Can’t wait until he gets bored of it and offers it to us

Glad I benched Pedro and played Jackson at this stage Im in this odd position of only having one player playing so far and watching myself slip down the table in my ML

But again that is a yes and no too. Western liberal democracy isn’t a concept in the sole purview of NATO and before Feb 22 the same democracies bordered Russia as they do today. That threat, I agree is absolutely there to Russia but it isn’t NATO that poses that threat it’s democracy itself. Sure there’s a connection between the two but it isn’t an absolute.which is why the EU is as much if not more of an existential threat to the Russian Regime than NATO. Both bodies are a product of western liberal democracy but it is the EU that poses the threat you talk of much more than NATO. It was the Euromaidan protests in Ukraine that sparked Russia's increased activity in Ukraine, it was the thought of yet another country on its border with an awful lot of Russian speakers / relatives becoming likely more prosperous that was the threat. Euromaidan was where Russia started meddling in Ukraine's politics and then later invading under the guise of protecting its people, Ukraine. Western Democracy is the threat you're talking about and the closeness of it to Russia's border. It’s also why Russia quelled the Belarus opposition and installed Lukashenko, around that time Belarus was ahead of the Ukrainian curve in wanting to be a part of the West not East. NATO really is a product of what he wants to crush, as is the EU but he can’t aim at the EU because it will be all too transparent as to why he’s doing what he's doing and wanting to attack western democracy isn’t going to fly with anywhere near as many people, a military alliance is a much easier target. So yes I agree but also slightly disagree too. NATO is the excuse not the cause of his ire.

Pleased with that Wordle 791 3/6

Counter not attack, it’s important to understand that. The aggression is clearly from the Russian side. The Russians understand that all too well. Switzerland would have to be an aggressive nation for an anti-Swiss alliance to be formed.

Death Cult in November might be a giggle for old times sake

I reckon you'll be alright there, he'll play. It’s a move many will make next week or the week after, he's their only recognised RB, I just didn’t fancy 3 Chelsea against West Ham and I want to see what happens with Gabriel at the weekend before I make a defensive move

How does a defensive alliance threaten another country's security? Let's really stop talking nonsense about how Russia see's it. Russia knows only too well that NATO has no intention of threatening their existence, what Russia says in public and what Putin / Russian Military High Command really understands to be the case are most of the time completely different things. So imagine that Russia really does think that (which it doesn’t) it will now have two more countries even closer to its border as a part of the NATO alliance that it didn’t have before the Feb 22 second phase of its invasion of Ukraine. It's not going well is it if their aim was to move NATO further away. It really is time that people stopped with this Putin inspired line about Russia feeling threatened. It’s come directly from Putin via the usual shills in organisations like Stop The War and the likes of George Galloway and indeed until very recently by rocket polishers like Farage too. The argument doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny.

If I had that choice I think I'd be edging towards Turner this week Sheff Utd appeared rather toothless last week

For me that move is on the radar too but that may be Gabriel's replacement but it also breaks my no doubling up on defences rule but it may need to be broken

Rumours of Baldock being injured if people have him on their bench. I do but plan to do sweet FA about it

Rubbing sausages isn't a job

Pedro or Jackson up front is my only dilema right now

One hit wonder Beach Boys fanboi

Ah man is a shortening of ah man alive, its just an expression of shock