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Well, I'm just after getting over this wretched disease*. Just in time for my Birthday, which is nice. I believe I caught it because my eejit of a boss caught a serious dose of job insecurity and had me in the office every day since the start of August for no good reason. I walk to work (about a 5 mile round trip, good exercise) and pass half a dozen educational facilities on the way. Primary secondary and tertiary educational facilities with swarms of unmasked wee plague monkeys in orbit. The on site precautions in schools are meaningless outside the gates. So I caught it.

Now, I've had worse doses of the flu, but it always has shifted in a few days, it's never lasted longer than a week. I'm quite healthy and I've been off the fags for about 5 years** now, so I had no fear of this killing me. But the damn thing wouldn't shift. For most of October I have felt like I've been doing serious workouts without warming up properly. Just constant aching and tired. What little energy I have had has been funneled into fury that I had to go into the office in the first place, and that even though I have been wearing face coverings, other people live in scunthorpe.

I take small comfort in the fact that my manager has been officially reprimanded. He's not a bad skin, to be honest I think he had us in because he was fearful for his job. Middle managers*** are redundant in a WFH environment where efficiency is increasing.

TLDR: Caught the COVID, wouldn't recommend. 0.3333333333333333333333/5

*Tested positive on 5^th October
**Off the devil's lettuce for 6 years n'all
***Glorified supervisors

Rashford may have scored a hat-trick last night, but don't get taken in by his blatant talent-signalling.

[DUP]

Looking at the voting record, only one DUP vote was cast, and so I won't be giving them that much credit. Had they all thrown their lot in with Labour, that would have been more impressive. I suppose at least they were smart enough to let the Tories own this one alone.

Of course, I wasn't suggesting this absolves them of all their previous nonsense, but your Government, for all its progressive lipservice, is right of the DUP

Apparently, the DUP, who oppose gay rights and women's rights, draw the line at letting children go hungry. Considering this vote only affected English children, it is quite remarkable and I think the DUP deserve some credit for doing the right thing for once. 2020 has been a quare year.

"The Amazing" James Randi, aged 92. He offered a million quid to anyone who could prove they had any real psychic/paranormal powers under laboratory conditions. No one ever claimed it.

He also made a tit out of Uri Geller.

I couldn't find the STD thread, but I understand the new series is honouring Roddenberry's vision by remaking Andromeda?

Whenever Nephlim get's mentioned I always think of my mate who had a porn tape* labelled "Nephlim Live" because it was a guarantee his missus would never watch it while he was out.

*VHS, it was about 20 years ago and DVD hadn't completely taken over yet

There was a question mark at the end of that comment of mine you quoted. This means it was a question, not a statement of fact.

Rhetorical questions end in question marks too.

Do they?

certain art forms (music, film, comedy, comics) shouldn't have to pander to SJW values because instead of being a nice lefty thing, it feels more like a puritanical thing

It's a good job that this literally doesn't happen then.

But it does. SJW is a translation of 中國共產黨, yes?

...  It is difficult because a discussion can't really be had...

I think the ten pages and premise of this thread say otherwise.

And yet Trump still lives. Fuck.

Once I gave my old Beanos a flicking* and was honestly taken aback by the constant casual child abuse. It would make a cardinal blush.

*I could have phrased that better.

I've been catching up on this. After [spoiler]the second time seeing a skull get popped like a watermelon during a covered up sex scene[/spoiler] I was left thinking about the weird American puritanical dichotomy of abhorring nudity and glorifying violence. [spoiler]Then that guy got strangled by a huge cock.[/spoiler]

It's the same reason we'll never again see a pop artist as big as Michael Jackson or Madonna at their peak, or an athlete as famous as Michael Jordan.

I'd agree on the popstar front, but there have been several globally branded sporters since Jordan. I have no interest in Tennis, but I know Roger Federer is a Swiss man who is very good at it and that Serena Williams married that guy from Reddit. I actively dislike golf* but I know who Tiger Woods is.

I'd guess the majority of this forum don't really follow football, so you might not be aware that you can go almost anywhere in the world and spark a debate over whether Ronaldo or Messi is better**.

I dunno man. I think it's hard to overstate just how huge Michael Jordan was back in the day. He wasn't just world famous in the way Serena Williams or Tiger Woods are - he was an actual superstar. LeBron James is a big deal right now, but are people going to be wearing Nike Air James in 30 years time?

Lebron? You have just named another sportsman that only yanks would care about. I know how big MJ was, but no one outside the states gave a shit about how good he was at his insignificant American game. Beckham never dominated his sport the same way MJ did, Beckham never had his own brand of boots, but fitbaw is bigger than any yank sport will ever be, and Beckham is probably bigger than MJ. And Beckham is not that highly regarded a footballist.

No American baller will ever be as famous as the greater soccerists

Elf is certainly a Christmas Classic.

This does not mean it's very good.