Hobsons Choice

There's your problem, right there. You know they will, though.

I'm sorry to keep going back to this, but wouldn't that give Russia more of a self defence mandate for the use of tactical nukes?

In that case major escalation, No?

Explosions at two Russian airbases well away from the Ukraine border. Ryazan and Saratov. Sabotage or Ukrainian missiles? Would Ukraine attempt a missile strike that far into Russia?

In what way? Are you suggesting that the green economy is simply a function of capitalism needing a new opportunity? Because as an environmental scientist, I gotta say that while there are opportunities here, the climate change crisis is an existential threat to all life, human or not, capitalist or otherwise.

Dunno, it seems pretty obvious when they do it to me. How did we know Mee meant it? We do though.

I've said before that malicious or knowingly reckless tackles should result in a ban equal to the time your victim spends on the sidelines. I don't think there are actually that many actual malicious challenges resulting in serious injuries to be fair, so it would be a reasonable punishment in my eyes. If you knowingly end a player's career like Keane, you would be plumb out of luck.

Scousers would pronounce it beeerth.

Not sure which thread to post this in, but I just wanted to give a shout out to the scumbags who carried out a cowardly armed robbery of Sterling's house with his family in attendance while they knew he was away at the world cup. Hope you get what's coming to you, you absolute 24 karat bastards.

And a major thing for Phoebe Cates in anything.

And National Lampoon's, obviously. For some reason I have a little bit of a thing for Beverly D'angelo in that film.

Elf, Die Hard, Gremlins, It's a Wonderful Life, Carrey's Grinch, Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooge.

First let me say that I love and grew up with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. That said I can't escape the feeling that from Kill Bill onward he kind of disappeared up his own arse a bit. I know Kill Bill has a lot of fans, but I must admit that I found some of the dialogue and set up stuff almost childish. I get that he's an auteur, but I always felt he should stop trying to make Grindhouse B movies, and just make some good films. Django for me was much much better, but when you have Cristoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx and Leo Dicaprio, it's pretty much nailed on to be outstanding. I don't automatically watch his films any more, sad to say.

Yessss!! Get in.

Glass houses, bud.

A bit much there, Senegal are a decent team. Ranked 18th in the world. They are not France, but assuming we should be thrashing them is a bit disrespectful.

Man, for a Bluenose, Bellingham is f**king dynamite.

Senegal well into this now. They started slow, but have adjusted well.

He was fouled there, though.

All over them atm.

High press is forcing some Senegal mistakes.

Did anyone really expect us to comfortably win the Euros before the tournament, just stroll it? I'm not saying Gareth is the best manager gor England, or even a particularly good one, but surely some credit where credit is due. The extent of the hatred seems quite irrational to me at times. Dislike, fine, but for some it's vehement.

Would being more adventurous have meant Saka scored his penalty? We were that close to winning. Closer than we've ever been to winning that tournament. Surely you cannot completely trash the fact we got that close?

Weren't we one kick away from winning the Euros?

Regardless of what you think about Southgate and what we've done at the last few tournaments, there is a lot of revisionism of those tournaments in the 90's, especially Euro 96. For the most part, the media before and during those tournaments were calling the team out for everything and effectively calling our players and manager shit. After the pre tournament trip in 96 to Hong Kong, the media were screaming for Venebles' head, and for Gazza to be left behind. The feeling was that we would be a disgrace at the tournament. Then the game against Scotland happened, and the game against the Dutch, and after that point when looking back everyone nostalgically looks back at the team as the best we've had for ages, and on a wave of unilateral English support. And in fairness, they didn't get as close to winning it as we did at the last tournament. And since 1966 we've never been as close to winning the World Cup as the last tournament. While I am critical of Southgate's tactics, I think we have to apply some perspective here.