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Would that have been the ‘Captain Fantastic’ album, with its photo of the Aston Arms pub in Rasen, where regular kick-offs inspired Bernie Taupin to write Saturday Night’s Alright…

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All formats really, except the phone.
Sometimes connect laptop to hifi for youtube etc. but an adblocker is essential.
Some radio too, but the ads are a turn off!
This site is quite handy if listening on the computer. It gets most stations and there’s no need to register.
https://www.radio-uk.co.uk/radio/england

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Niche is best, you’re right NI.
But I think most of us on here go along with the Christian ethic, just not the mumbo jumbo! Here’s a prayer and a plea.

Our father who art in heaven,
If you’re there…
Tell me
How can American so-called Christians and Jews
Vote Trump?
Supporting a well proven liar,
Rapist, misogynist, and narcissist.
In fact, all the characteristics
Of an anti social personality disorder (a.k.a. psycho).
Good Lord!
These people have allowed their politics to usurp their religion!
Fox news rules
Over the word of God!
Rupert Murdoch bigger
Than Christ Almighty!
How can these folk enter thy Kingdom,
Even in the age of post-truth?
Christ, old Nick’s fires will burn brightly
Unless, oh Lord,
You deliver us from this
Hypocrisy
Of truly biblical proportions.
Amen.

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Iron-awe wrote:

The club will do what the club will do, if we sell Roberts and don’t get promoted the fans will have a choice to make next season.

Given the fashion for AI this year, I put the conundrum to ChatGPT to see its analysis.

Here is a transcript of the ‘conversation’… complete BS or Boardroom Seat?

Gurn said: If Scunthorpe United sell Callum Roberts, who will score the goals?

ChatGPT said: If Scunthorpe United were to sell Roberts, the big question would be who steps up to take on that responsibility. Football clubs often rely on a number of strategies to cope with the loss of a key player, and it could go a few ways:

ChatGPT said: Ah, Roberts has certainly been an important player for Scunthorpe United. If they were to lose him, the team would likely face a significant challenge in replacing his contribution.

Given Roberts’ qualities—his creativity, pace, and goal-scoring ability—Scunthorpe would need to find someone who can fill that creative void and also be clinical in front of goal. In terms of replacements, they might look for someone with similar attributes, like a winger or an attacking midfielder with a knack for scoring, or possibly another forward who can link up play effectively.

Some potential ways they could cope without Roberts include:
1. Shifting to a more team-oriented attacking strategy: If they can’t replace Roberts directly, they might focus on creating opportunities for multiple players to score. This could involve encouraging central midfielders or wide players to chip in more.
2. Promoting from within: If they have any promising younger attackers or wingers in the academy or reserves, this could be a good time to give them a chance. A young player with potential might just step up and make an impact.
3. Tactical adjustments: The manager could also tweak the formation to create more chances for the players who remain. A more attacking setup or more emphasis on set pieces could help keep the goals flowing.
4. Loan or transfer market move: Scunthorpe may look to the loan market or the lower leagues to bring in a player with a good goal-scoring record. Sometimes clubs find hidden gems in lower divisions, especially when they have a solid scouting system.
The loss of Roberts would undoubtedly be a blow, but with the right tactical changes and reinforcements, Scunthorpe could still maintain their goal-scoring threat. Hopefully, they’d also look at how Roberts’ work rate and link-up play contributed to the team’s overall dynamics, not just his individual goals.
Do you think they have anyone in the squad now who could step up and take over that creative responsibility if Roberts does leave?

Gurn said: Maybe Danny Whitehall
ChatGPT said: Ah, Danny Whitehall – he could definitely be a player to step up if Callum Roberts were to leave. Whitehall has the potential to be a key figure in attack. He’s typically more of a central striker, but he’s got a good work ethic, physical presence, and the ability to score goals, which could make him a good fit for leading the line if the team needs to find a new focal point in attack.

While he may not have the same direct creativity and flair as Roberts, Whitehall can still be a reliable goal-scorer, particularly if he’s given more freedom and service from the midfield. If he can form a strong partnership with the other attackers or midfielders, his physicality and movement could make him a real asset.

If Scunthorpe were to shift their tactics to make the most of Whitehall’s strengths, they might focus on:
1. More direct play: Using Whitehall’s hold-up play and aerial ability to create chances from crosses or through balls. If they can get wingers or full-backs like those in the squad to deliver quality balls into the box, Whitehall could be the one to finish them off.
2. Pressing from the front: If they lose Roberts’ creativity, it might be important for Whitehall to lead the press and force turnovers in dangerous areas. This could allow Scunthorpe to create goals from high up the pitch rather than relying on intricate build-up play.
3. Supporting cast: Players like midfielders and wingers could step up to contribute more goals. If Whitehall plays as the focal point, he may also assist in bringing others into play and creating space for teammates to get into goal-scoring positions.
The key for Whitehall would be for the team to adapt and play to his strengths, and for him to find some consistency in front of goal. If he’s the one to take on a more prominent role, Scunthorpe might be able to maintain a solid attacking threat even without Roberts.
It sounds like you’re hopeful Whitehall could fill the gap if Roberts moves on! Do you think he’s ready for that increased responsibility, or would you be concerned about the pressure being on him?

Er… dunno.. Bru?

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NI, if your correspondents are religious, do they always send cards which reflect their sentiments, or do they sometimes send pound shop / charity cards, which may be more politically correct / neutral, either because they (the cards, not your pals) are cheap, or maybe because they take into account that you don’t celebrate Xmas religiously??
We should also consider the text therein. If the card has a neutral snowy image or similar, say a fictitious, rustic country scene, is it always the case that the text inside, assuming there is one, is always non-religious?
The final question is this. Are we overthinking this and just a bit pissed?

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Just Iron wrote:

My daughter has voted Republican in the last 3 elections and she is certainly neither thick nor lazy.

Course not, she’s your daughter!
Plenty of others will say exactly the same about their kids whether they voted Farage, Britain First, or raving loony! But it doesn’t mean for a moment that it was a rational political choice.

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Had enough of feelin’ good? Here’s Lucinda Williams with the antidote….

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I think if that were true, the most economically powerful members of the EU would all be wanting out. They aren’t, save a few far right parties who like to punch down and blame everything on immigration.

Heath’s article well summarises the arguments put forward by remain in 2016, which were cheerfully slapped down by ‘leave’ under the banner of ‘take back control’, whatever that meant. All that rubbish spouted on Bru, the banners in farmers’ fields, in the tabloid press, in the Tory party and elsewhere – now see where that collective hysteria has got us, and the EU, for that matter.

As for G-beebies, I know what you mean about devil-may-care delivery of news, the problem is that most of it is just unverified hogwash designed to appeal to unthinking, half-cut couch potatoes.

PS I am sometimes a half-cut couch potato myself, but beebies still doesn’t appeal.

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No ‘jury’s out’ at all. Verdict’s been in for a while. People think it was a mistake.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-poll/

You have to understand Labour’s strategy. If they’d talked about rejoining, it would have forced the Tories fight the election defending Brexit. But, health and the economy are voters’ main concerns, as we saw.

There will likely be a conversation about rejoining towards the next election.

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Just like with Brexit.

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Iron-awe wrote:

Yes it’s very strange when an ex professional footballer with over 600 career appearances, professional coaching badges and a wealth of professional football knowledge gleaned from well over 20 years in the professional game doesn’t realise he’s getting it wrong, whereas a group of well intentioned football fans with I’m guessing no professional based knowledge of the game whatsoever save observing the game over many years can. It always has baffled me that.

Typically happens when surrounded by yes-men. Business, government, sport….

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Haha, she’s the one gift to Labour that Starmer won’t have to declare!

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cassidystash wrote:

Butler is confusing me (and maybe himself)
He has said repeatedly in interviews “I want to win every game”
He then sets up in an over defensive manner and says, as above,”if you don’t concede you can’t lose”
On the other hand if you score 5 you’re unlikely to lose either, can we try that for a bit and see how it goes?

He starts the game with a point. Not conceding means he keeps it.
Scoring goals is harder than stopping them.
Defenders are cheap. Attackers are …
Hence, the current situation.
It’s a problem everywhere. Currently, no team has averaged more than around 1.5 goals a game (Chorley).
Boring, tho’.

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Nah, at least two of OP stats are wrong.

DNA resonates at 40 not 42 GHz

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25584811/

Galactic orbits? The estimate is 20-22 not 42.

The Sun is expected to become a red giant in about 5 billion years. Since one galactic year (the time it takes for the Sun to orbit the Milky Way) is roughly 225 to 250 million years, the Sun will complete about 20 to 22 galactic years before it transforms into a red giant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year

But 42 makes a good answer to any question about Brexit!

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Well said. It looks cheap and grasping, as if the club cares more about cash than its lifeblood – the fans.

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Awaywego wrote:

Pensioners will vote against the government at the first opportunity.

They already do – lots have been voting Tory or Farage for years. The ‘retirement’ villages round north Lincs. are full of ’em! Hence, the present mess.

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Is this a reference to ‘Fiddler on the Roof’?

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Ah, the debating soc again…

Bill, most sensible folk don’t accept that ‘miracles’ exist, at least in the god-given supernatural sense.

Importantly, we shouldn’t think that just because we can’t understand or fully explain something, that it must be evidence of a god at work (if ‘scientific’ evidence matters at all to the religiously inclined). For example, I can’t properly explain to you how my tv or radio works, but I know it isn’t down to magic, or a deity transporting him/herself through the ether to a box of miracles! I know there’s a scientific explanation, even though I don’t know what it is.

I also know there are many natural phenomena which are gradually being explained to us, as scientific knowledge of the Earth, planets, and life advances, thanks to some great investigative science. You only have to listen to say, Cox, Packham, or Attenbrough to hear explanations of evolution in layman’s terms, to understand we know far more now than even just 10 years ago, never mind what our parents or grandparents’ generation knew.

There are lots of complicated papers online about the biology and chemistry involved in the creation of bacteria and simple cells. There’s also a good thread on it here.

https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-first-uni-cellular-microorganism-come-into-existence-on-Earth-which-eventually-led-to-all-the-other-organisms-on-Earth

Or, you can dismiss it all and say it was because of some Latin folklore creature described in a book called the ‘bible’, who worked his magic, Harry Potter-style.

The pleasures of a simple, comforting explanation should not be underestimated. Come to think of it, it’s a bit like the way some folk still think, or rather believe, that all Britain’s woes at present are down to small boats, immigration and the EU, rather than 14 years of economic mismanagement by Cameron, May, Johnson and Truss!

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Just Iron wrote:

If my post isn’t reasonable and unbiased then it doesn’t get posted. It’s a standard I set myself.

I didn’t know whether to die laughing or choking on my own biliousness when I read this. It’s precisely why you need to review your own mails and approve yourself in public. It’s the pinnacle of narcissism, and if you can be bothered to read Proverbs 6:16-17, apparently what your god hates most, along with – you guessed it – ‘hands that shed innocent blood’.

Which brings us to support for the IDF slaughter of innocents, and a depraved view of biblical teaching that ensures the killing on both sides will not stop, as thousands more will lose their lives. Supporting this carnage is a colossal perversion of the Christian ethic. It’s like the ‘patriot’ with a swastika on his back in Sunderland this week.

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Aye, judging his own posts now! Another sign of desperation.

You aren’t angry with my post JI, you’re angry with yourself, and well you should be, attempting to dignify the unspeakable acts of the IDF.

Doesn’t your bible say something about forgiveness? C’mon, what would Jesus say about forgiveness? Would he be on a spree to murder those women and kids? What about your Lord’s Prayer? Go easy on your knees, oh, and eat more nuts.

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I think many posters find your own biased stance towards a government / military operation bent on killing thousands of unarmed civilians and in flagrant contravention of international law, beyond nauseating.

You seem to think you deserve a free pass on this because you’ve allegedly got family involved. But you don’t, because like many deeply religious folk, your political opinions are based not on facts and reason, but on feelings, falsehoods and misunderstandings garnered from unreliable news sources (as we’ve seen many times before) which serve to reinforce your own prejudices.

In any case, you won’t give a figure on a sufficient number of deaths before you’d call a halt to the massacre, so presumably the IDF should go on and on, ethnically cleansing the region of all the women, children and babies and other unarmed, non-combatants. Worse, you don’t care if it’s bombs, bullets, disease or starvation that kills them, as long as others pull the trigger.

It’s beyond morally abhorrent. There are thousands of Israelis who think so too, just as there are thousands of Palestinians who don’t support Hamas.

Instead of berating other posters for not sharing your own blinkered, violent, war-mongering, you’d do well to consider your own armchair support for this vicious regime, instead of allowing yourself to become a monstrous advertisement for ‘faith’, particularly the Jewish variety.

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Following ‘his’ teachings Bill?
Just look at this, especially the first 3.5m.
JI cheering it on, while calling himself man of God.
You do realise this kind of behaviour is classed as psychotic.
(Warning: this clip contains distressing scenes)
https://www.channel4.com/news/israel-gaza-400000-residents-ordered-to-leave-khan-younis

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Just for the record:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgerz8we1vgo
“It’s the lesser of two evils”

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Yes, it’s quite a perverse, cultish mentality IA, lurking behind the veneer of civility.

It’s typical of the far-right or indeed any cultist whose opinions are based on feelings not facts, that when all the contradictions are exposed to them, they crack, go into meltdown and blame the messenger, throwing around all kinds of wild accusations rather than taking a look at themselves. Just like here, in fact.

NB JI…
– You’ve never ceased posting to satisfy anyone!
– WND – You have evidently forgotten again that you’ve been a fan for a long time
and recommend them elsewhere.
-You still think the IDF should continue murdering thousands of non-combatant women
children, sick and elderly in hospitals, schools etc. if Hamas doesn’t return the
hostages. But you still can’t answer questions on how many and how, because you are ashamed to do so – ashamed of yourself, it seems.
– Despite all this, you still consider yourself a Christian worthy of a place in a
paradise! Can you explain how?

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Just Iron wrote:

Every needless death is one too many.

You protest too much JI. You’ve said too much previously to be sincerely resiling now. It’s clear you support the IDF to the hilt. So presumably the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza are not needless but necessary, in your cultist view. It’s the lesser of two evils, right?

Part of the problem is that you’re only interested in feelings, not facts, for example that all Gazans are bad people who deserve to die. Or, that the video Siderite posted was actually true. Or, that the nonsense of WND is good, because of the far-right Christian world view world view it presents. Just look at the guff on there, it’s like a copy of Viz! And yourself, supposedly an adult.

Home 2024

It doesn’t matter if it’s mass murder, propaganda or whatever – never mind the facts, if it doesn’t fit your feelings, then it’s best ignored. If you didn’t ignore it, your world would collapse under the weight of reality. So your support for the Nazi-style execution of harmless civilians – unarmed, young, elderly, sick, disabled will continue.

You know all this, but you’re ashamed to admit it on here, and that’s why you can’t give a straight answer to a straight question, on the numbers of civilian murders you’d support, on the kind of killing to be done, etc. You’d rather deflect and waffle, and hope the questions go away. How should the IDF kill an infant, for example? Care to reflect on that one? Shame!

St Peter is watching JI, and you’ll have a lot of explaining to do. How’s your Hebrew?

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Well, there’s a confession!
Here we have a champion for World News Daily, random propaganda videos, and a supporter of a lying sex offender for US president! Oh, and all the Brexit propganda too.
And he claims he cares about facts!!!
It’s surely a spoof post.

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Just Iron wrote:

Gurney … be assured ..I definitely don’t need absolution from you.

You make these claims about Israel’s behaviour being ‘the lesser of two evils’ and how they are right to continue with the massacre but you really can’t find it within yourself to defend them on here. You could give a straight answer to a few simple questions, but you really don’t want to, do you?

That’s because you come on here with an image of yourself as a good Christian with solid, family values, living wholeheartedly by the messages your faith teaches, so you know very well that any admission that more, or even all Palestinians should die would make you appear even more hypocritical and shameful than usual.

Let’s try another question and see how you get on. Tens of thousands of women and children have already been killed with bombs, disease and starvation. These are the realities which you support. But, how should the killing continue? More Israeli bombs? Or more bullets, chasing down the desperate, skeletal victims among the ruins, like in some macabre computer game? Or how about Nazi-style camps, where they could be ‘terminated’ in a tidier, more efficient way, perhaps with a Joy Division on site for the IDF. What do you reckon? What should the IDF do?

So, come on JI, you support the mass murder of civilians by the Israeli state, but how should they be killed in future, and how many? Come on, no waffle or deflection, what’s your answer?

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“It will be 25 years before we can properly assess whether Brexit was good or not.”

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I wonder what JI makes of it.
The lesser of two evils?

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