Stive Pesley

As a small child of about 5 I vividly remember discovering that my own "little stive" sometimes went all big in the bath, and my mum telling me to stop touching it because "if you keep doing that, it will fall off" I didn't dare go near it again until I was about 13 - at which point I thought "sod it, if it falls off, it falls of - at least I'll have fun finding out"

Yeah it's weird - I really enjoyed the first season, but as it went on it became a LOT cheesier and the writing seemed to take a nose dive. As Bob said - how many times can the joke be - "oh the English have a different word for this"? Once I realised it was essentially "a US TV show about an imaginary England" and not a British sitcom, I just got a bit bored That said - the fact that there are millions of Yanks who think that is what life is like in an English Premier League team makes me chuckle though (and that people walk around London actually talking to strangers in the street!)

Let's be honest - if we have an off-day against Carlisle, a team who will have been relegated long before the last game - we don't really deserve to be promoted!

Gave up on Ted Lasso part way through Season 2. It just got really, really awful. Started watching Loudermilk on Netflix last night instead. A comedy about a misanthropic ex-alcoholic trying to counsel others. Looks OK so far, but we shall see

Read an interesting take on the fears that now Blackrock are hoovering up as much BTC as they can, that (based on the way that they operate in every other market) they simply won't stop until they own almost all of it. Leaving the supply and demand of the currency largely in their hands I don't think this is the future that the evangelists hoped for

Back to the 1970s where this joke was funny

I'm sure they would be if any kids actually used it, but they don't. Weirdly a platform that's mainly full of Nazis, bots and Nazi bots doesn't appeal to kids 😂

That's a tough read, but all the best to you and thanks for sharing All I can really say is that I became a father at 25 (relationship didn't work out) and then for a second time with Mrs Pesley when I was 40, so get the "too old" thoughts out of your head. 42 is not an unusual age to have kids these days. It's been absolutely fine. A bit more tiring sure, but just as rewarding, if not more so as I was in a much better place the second time around Good luck whatever the future brings

I suspect it's primary purpose is now to harvest people's data for unspecified use in the meta verse

No one is arguing that all the social media companies aren't terrible in their own way. But only one of them has been taken over by an entitled billionaire man baby with the express intent of "making it better". Which is the exact topic of this thread. If all someone has to offer to the debate is "Facebook is a bad too" then you wonder why they bother. I better they are a delight at dinner parties

I'm guessing he couldn't find the thread entitled "Tedious off-topic whataboutery"

Yes - and Nigel Owen states that within an hour of that approach being made by Roan - CK was telling everyone privately that the funds had been transferred and the job was done You can question that with the benefit of hindsight yes, but it's easy to see why, at the time the head of a Supporters Group would have accepted the invite. CK's MO was very much flattery and trying to make emotional connections with people

The judge actually ruled that the case was a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) - that's a legal action intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defence until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Not a good look for the "free speech absolutist" Ironically the lawyers he used now risk being de-barred because part of the Bar rules in California are that you don't bring frivolous or malicious cases. Doubly so if Elton wants to try and appeal what was a pretty firm judgement

I thought the jist of the article from those interviewed was that in retrospect they were taken aback by how genuine he seemed, and how they thought it impossible (at the time) to even consider that he wasn't the real deal The bit where someone describes him being at the LIV Pro-am golf thing and he was giving Yasir Al-Rumayyan bear hugs and acting like they were the oldest, bestest friends. Without the benefit of hindsight, if you'd witnessed scenes like that - would you have thought "nah he's probably a fraud"? Taking the fact he nearly destroyed our club out of the equation, you almost have to have a kind of admiration for quite how far he took his fantasist lifestyle and what he got away with. On a par with Anna Sorokin. Would anyone be surprised if they maker a Netflix series out of it?

I'd not heard of it either - drives me mad that so much content can pass you by if you're not careful. This thread is so bloody useful! Good decision on Bloodline by the way. The second two series are basically the main guy trying to cover up what he did and going to more and more daft and unbelievable lengths to do so. I can't even remember the ending beyond that fact it was really unsatisfactory!

People should just read this and stop deluding themselves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars

He did the Lemon interview because he wanted to try and expand Twitter into a broadcast video platform. Lemon was fired from CNN for making controversial "unwoke" comments about women, so Musk clearly saw him as prime candidate to entice his anti-woke fanboys Didn't really go as planned 😂

Oh dear - more salty billionaire tears on the way Did anyone see the Don Lemon interview? Fascinating to see his petulant reactions to being asked awkward questions about the current state of Twitter

I'm sure I reviewed this in the thread last year, but I can't immediately find it with the search Honestly - we enjoyed the first series, but it went rapidly downhill, like a lot of these shows do, once they are renewed and realise that "oh bugger we need to actually come up with a plot for another season". I mean, it wasn't awful - it just got a bit too silly. If you're happy to suspend your disbelief and go with it, then you'll be OK. We finished all 3 seasons but by the end we wondered why!

Agreed - to say "we haven't in any way moved forward" is plainly daft. 50 years ago we'd be attaching electrodes to people's heads and zapping them stupid. 100 years ago we'd be doing lobotomies I've had CBT and it really helped me

Whilst that's true, it is and always will be a tiny minority that succeed in gaming the system. Certainly when it comes to claiming long term benefits. I have close friends with disabilities that limit their mobility and ability to work and the hoops they have had to jump through to get PIP payments are unbelievable to the point of being dehumanising. It has actually had an adverse effect on their mental health to even go through it! In terms of those who get signed off work short-term by a GP for mental health issues - regardless of whether they joke about it or not, if they really hate their job so much that they are willing to go to those lengths then you might argue that they have bigger mental health issues than they realise!

Split is nice, and Dubrovnik is stunning (but I'm told that since Game Of Thrones) it's all gone very touristy and expensive Sibenik is a good alternative - much the same vibe but cheaper and far less busy But my absolute favourite place in Croatia is Zadar. They have the most amazing sunsets and you can sit on the sea front atop a wave- powered sea organ that makes this incredible gentle humming noise in time with the waves The videos don't do it justice, as it always sounds a bit distorted, but stick me here at sunset with a frosty karlovacko in my hand and I'll die happy

So disappointing to see the Work & Pensions Secretary Mel Stride saying that the de-stigmatisation of mental health issues has gone “too far” and that we should just consider it the “normal ups and downs of human life” I'm pretty sure that most people who have contributed to this thread have had their mental health struggles and found that it's the de-stigmatisation of mental health issues which has allowed them to open up - and that's a brilliant thing. None of us are alone It disgusts me that we have dinosaurs like this in positions of power who think we should go back to the days of telling people to "just get over it" 😞

Had HRH The Queen been in there before you? https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-queen-poo.20878/