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N.B. I'm not trying to turn this into a "F**k the Tories" thread but it is kind of a government problem in so far as there've been crippling cuts to all sorts of public / social services, closures of third spaces, mental health provisions etc etc and that explicitly was government policy for...

Wait, so...Bournemouth are Fulham in disguise!? Disguiseception!

Cue endless "are you Bournemouth in disguise" chants

I'm struggling to think of my favourite Pascal moment. Right now it's his scoring of our first Premier League goal against West Brom. We'd drawn blanks in the defeats to City and Leicester and then another blank in the 0-0 against Watford and I remember losing my absolute mind when he put the...

I'd love to know who exactly at Nike is allergic to having stripes that go over the shoulder.

There's an excellent book by Travis Lupick about the drug problems in Vancouver called 'Fighting for Space'. Well worth reading. They've been rocked, as many cities have on that side of the globe, by the opioid crisis.

The thing I like the most about myspace is that Tom just sold up and went off to enjoy his life. Dude made a ton of money off that sale and didn't turn into yet another awful tech-bro. Last thing I remember reading is he just travels the world doing photography just for the joy of it.

Yeah, when I did a brief bit of reading this morning they were looking down the barrel of a major HIV crisis in 1999/2000 and this was the driver behind the law change

No, short answer. Slightly longer answer - no country will ever, ever, implement a drug enforcement policy that ends associated violent crime. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take steps, like Portugal have done, to try and make things better anyway.

Portugal is often cited as a good example with regards to their drug policy. I don't know too much of the detail but, as far as I understand it, they've decriminalised rather than legalised. So it's still illegal to use cocaine but if you're caught with a gram of it at the football it'll be...

How depressingly predictable. We're f***ed as a species, just f***ed. Someone turn out the lights on the way out. f*** me.

End of an era. What a player.

It's interesting; I know someone who is a psychologist. They work with all sorts of people with all sorts of problems and they would probably argue that every single decision we make comes down to our mental health at its root. Which would then mean that every negative in a persons life is down...

Which is a shame because then people with actual mental health issues may not be taken seriously

Ruined by the badge for me. Not that it's Chelsea, although a little bit because it's Chelsea, more that it's red. Awful.

Paying someone £120k who is essentially a very well educated mechanic specialising in the human body makes perfect pissing sense to me to be honest. It's one of those jobs you don't want to skimp on. Pay them well, keep them happy and in return they fix my heart when it goes wonky. Good deal.

Someone should tell Mr. Robinson that he's spelt 'nationalism' wrong

I don't necessarily disagree with most of this. I'm seeing it from a different angle though. I am a child of parents who will leave my siblings and I some properties when they pass. They've done exactly as you've described - worked hard, raised kids and have set us up for the sad day they...

Not to derail but there's a very good book about class in the 21st Century, if you're interested in that sort of thing: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/265557/social-class-in-the-21st-century-by-savage-mike/9780241004227

Speaking of "it ain't over till it's over" things I'm reading from my cosy left of centre side of the internet suggest Trump and his team are scrambling having spent a lot of effort working out how to attack Biden, only to now need to pivot. Rumours he's pulling out of a debate as well. All...