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Media and Arts / Re: Only connect...

« Last post by Claire. on Today at 10:12:09 am »

Connections
Puzzle #323
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Nope.

Connections
Puzzle #323
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Missed the bee connection at first. Good clue. Knew there was an exercise one but could t get the 4th. What’s a bridge? Then I thought there was a US election/vice president connection with Carter, Gore and I think King but again was guessing at a 4th. Fucked it.

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Easy one that, Nick!

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Glute bridge, lie on your back and raise hips and hold.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Arsenal: Top of the divers league

« Last post by killer-heels on Today at 10:10:23 am »

I think our centre back partnership is as good as any in Europe. Agree about not having an elite keeper or striker. Keeper is good enough for the league given how we suffocate teams as you say, but with the passes Odegaard threads through we should have a 20 goal striker/wide forward. That needs addressing in the summer.

I think the centreback partnership is helped a lot by the structure ahead of it and the fact that White helps out and you have Rice in front, plus midfielders who work their arses off. I think individually they can be rattled, but the system is so risk averse that it stops them being exposed.

But yeah the goalkeeper is ok at best. But you do have some fantastic footballers and the coaching is top class.

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General Football and Sport / Re: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

« Last post by lobsterboy on Today at 10:10:00 am »

It's basically every game, Andy. Odd how, through this staggering incompetence, 115 FC basically never get a shit decision given against them (Hooper against Spurs is the only one I can recall) while they have more than a few in their favour. Very strange.

I personally stopped watching games (sticking to brief highlights) after seeing Webb's lies, where he justified the refs not giving Mac a penalty for being booted in the chest. The fact such an obvious penalty wasn't given was bad enough, the complete gaslighting that followed was insulting to the intelligence. At that point I decided that was enough; nearly made that decision after the Spurs farce. I don't plan to watch much of any of next season either. As has been said in this thread, football is no longer the release it was for me. I feel very sad about it as it's a big part of my life but it's such an objectively bad sport now.

I did see the incident yesterday and can't quite believe it happened, nor can I believe that Taylor will get away with what amounts to outright cheating. Actually, I can believe it because that's how it is now. The English Premier League is a terrible product. It produces mainly poor quality, uninteresting football with the odd exciting game, but most games are decided by refs and whether they get major decisions right in what is a low scoring sport where one incorrect decision can change everything.

We have football 'fans' who swallow the lies being fed, mainly because it affects a team they don't like. Apparently, terrible reffing decisions are part of the game now. I don't want to waste my time on such a sport. Then we have the "in your face" cheating from certain clubs...

This all day.
Only certain clubs suffer the most from "the incompetence"
That's not incompetence for me.
Its corruption.
The media also appear especially complicit with the corruption when its against us.
Not the first time the media have done that though.

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News and Current Affairs / Re: MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009

« Last post by kellan on Today at 10:07:47 am »

That said, I've not seen a young person smoking a cigarette for years and years.  It's far more common where I live - but still relatively uncommon - to see someone of that age smoking weed.  The amount of school aged kids that vape though is insane.

Indeed. It seems the 'tool for smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes' has been mass adopted by the generation who hadn't yet taken up smoking and otherwise might never have put anything in their lungs at all.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Arsenal: Top of the divers league

« Last post by The North Bank on Today at 10:07:19 am »

Fair play to Arteta though.
We were mocking him a few years back but as his experience grows, he is becoming a very good coach.
Might even end up at 115 when Ped leaves.

League 2 would be a real test of his credentials

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General Football and Sport / Re: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

« Last post by lobsterboy on Today at 10:06:55 am »

Said it since day one


VAR ruined football. It has absolutely fucked it in the arse with an inanimate carbon rod.

Let's say for example var you get 97% of decisions right and refs eyes get 95% right

Surely we'd all sacrifice that 2% to get our goddam game back.

Its not VAR though.
Its the corruption within PGMOL and the game, twisting and abusing VAR for their own shady outcomes.
Like Fernandes getting a penalty for standing on the defenders ankle while we get denied one for a kung fu kick to the chest.
The refs are bent not VAR.
VAR is just a tool and could be great if we had real professional referees instead of a manc boys club full of bias and on the take.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The Alternative Premier League Table 2023-24

« Last post by killer-heels on Today at 10:05:47 am »

Beat the dross. Win the league

To be fair generally we were doing that, bar that Luton result. More recently though, that went to shit.

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The Boozer / Re: Wordle - Word Game - Guess a different word each day

« Last post by Claire. on Today at 10:05:17 am »

Wordle 1,045 3/6*

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RAWK Announcements, Feedback & Questions / Re: a question for one of the mods

« Last post by Claire. on Today at 10:03:54 am »

SMF permissions are insane so probs not that simple.

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News and Current Affairs / Re: MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009

« Last post by LuverlyRita on Today at 10:03:08 am »

The amount of school aged kids that vape though is insane.

Helped no doubt by the industry decision to market the things with kiddie-targeted flavours 
Vapes appear to have helped a lots of smokers give up but I think that they have their own impacts on health which are only just being understood.
I've notice that people who vape seem to think that it's acceptable in Anfield but I think it's banned like ciggies.