yeah i think about moving north of the border quite a lot but unless we were right in the centre of Glasgow/Edinburgh we'd be facing similar issues. we'll be alright here for the time being but it's weird to think we're in a world where Avoiding Racism has become a prerequisite for where we live.
just can't think of anywhere in the UK, Europe, or the rest of the world where me and Nur won't eventually face some kind of discrimination or racism for having a mixed marriage. even a percentage of intermarried Jews started getting sent to death camps in 1945. we're at the 1930s appeasement stage.
Nur was born in London and has Malaysian Indian heritage, so she doesn't stick out as someone from a Muslim family, but i reckon that won't matter soon enough and that we're less than 12 months away from someone calling her a Paki in the street. and there's nothing we could do in that moment.
all this flag shagging stuff has got me thinking about where me and Nur can run off to where she hopefully won't be the victim of abuse in the near future. it's definitely coming round here. there's literally nowhere we could go, is there? everyone's poor, everyone's angry, everyone's racist.
still don't think we should be letting him, unless Donnarumma coming in points towards Pep deciding on a little tweak to our approach from the back? felt very happy with Ederson and Trafford being our options this season, but apparently not.
said as much when i was on the show last 12 months ago. him and Walker together revolutionised us and let Pep do exactly what he wanted to do. no coincidence that we've dropped off as Ederson's started picking up injuries and Walker has grown older. those are the two we really need to replace.
if i was Trafford i'd be looking to get out in January. he has future England no.1 potential and he's not going to fulfil it sat behind Donnarumma for the next 5 years. lots of top clubs are in need of a new keeper and he's shown he's capable of playing in PL games. all of this is just... not on.
and in the middle of all this we've brought back a talented lad who's been at City's academy since he was 13, given him assurances that he'll be our #1 keeper by 2026, and then hastily signed Donnarumma - a keeper with a totally different skillset to Ederson & Trafford who will keep the #1 shirt.
this is what i was on about the other day in that thread (i think i deleted it?). this "win at all costs, no room for sentiment" atmosphere descending on City as our most successful era winds down... Ederson shuffled out without a goodbye, Gundogan about to leave TWICE without a goodbye. feels sad.
can't tell you how bothered i am by Ederson's departure. leaves without getting a proper goodbye, dumped out at the end of the window. not my favourite City GK (Joe Hart 💙) but he's our most decorated of all time and arguably the most influential keeper to play in England this century. feels wrong.
Donnarumma
not on board with this Donnarumma deal at all. save ratio% is the same as Ederson's and he's nowhere near as good with his feet, so what's the plan? Trafford will learn and has shown signs of being a potentially world class keeper. Donnarumma coming in sends an awful message to Trafford imo.
this is absolutely nuts. two months ago we told James Trafford he'd be coming in as #2 and would then get promoted to #1 once Ederson left next summer. now we're selling Ederson, signing a keeper with a completely different skillset, and telling Trafford he'll never be #1. fuckin bonkers.
really hope Martinez goes to United because he's dogshit as well and it'll be too late before they realise
Salah's explosiveness has just vanished hasn't it
if you've got a thought that someone else has already had, you can't post the same thought so you post a more extreme or more niche version of it. and then you dig in on that, which pushes you further into a corner and further away from mainstream positions.
don't know if any academic stuff has been done on this but what you've said here taps into summat i think about sometimes, where the combo of The Algorithm and Twitter one-upmanship has forced a lot of our "Brightest Minds" into narrower and narrower corners and more extreme positions.
Everton fans will understand
called referred that's what i meant!!!
Nur's mum just called referred to a vase as a "water growing glass" which is a beautiful turn of phrase
i swear to fucking god
at least there was one explicitly sexual song that actually sounded sexual as opposed to the rest of the album which is just soft pop about like, love and stuff
listened to that new SabCar album last night. it's *fine*. it needed to be violent electroclash or modeled on 2009 Kesha at the very least, but never mind
knuckling down for a Hindu wedding. six hour sesh.
we sent them this picture after the fine letters turned up. we found a friend with the longest fingers to really drive home the point.
gone through the same this week - a letter telling me ParkBee/RingGo is no longer supported when there are signs all over the car park saying it's still valid. a teeny little A4 sign OUTSIDE THE CAR PARK says that from July 1st ParkBee wasn't supported anymore. that's all. they can spin, lmao.
trying not to engage with, or even read, anything to do with David Mitchell's mansplaining comments simply because it's not 2016 anymore. it's the fuckin principle of the thing, ya know
this guitar cover of Keane's Bedshaped has a bit of a Clarity-era Jimmy about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tWk...
what in the American Football
oh man, we drew Napoli at home? that's me going to a Champions League game at the Etihad for the first time in seven years.
i've watched enough Champions League draws over the years to know that it's a "could have been an email" situation and that it really is best to just check it all out afterwards, especially with this shite new format
*might* be in their top 10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wclU...
Rylan can have any opinion on immigration that he likes but we should not be hearing them on national breakfast TV. and for the other three to just sit there while he repeats racist myths which have been debunked dozens of times... cowards. this is why we need to ban 24 hour TV pronto.
if people are seriously listening Rylan Clark discussing immigration on national TV then something has gone terribly wrong. same with whenever the Loose Women lot are asked about Palestine and suchlike. we should not be hearing what these kinds of people have to say about any of these matters.
it's been 40 years and i still don't think there's been a better entry to a verse than "for ALLLL you sucka MCs perpetratin a fraud". cool as hell. rides that beat from the word go and *explodes* into it.
Rock Box is the coolest fuckin song ever
love them so much. very special band. and they did the best thing possible, which was realise you can only really do that sort of thing once and then immediately leave it alone. their live album from Australia is incredible too. the live versions of New Town, Love Trinity, and Let's Get Out - WOW.
years ago he saved my high school from going under, keeping the jobs of 50-100 staff and keeping 650 kids together for the rest of our KS3 and KS4 education.
i got given the chance to write about my old headteacher today. he died last month and was only 64. but before he died he ticked off a bucketlist item and played The Chase on ITV, knowing he was terminal. he only went and won £95k for his team and then beat the Chaser. metro.co.uk/2025/08/27/h...
Em has the better verses but they're two of the GOAT verses. Jay's are incredible too. that fucking "do not step to me i'm awkward i box lefty" scheme is one of his best ever.
it's harder to rap Jay's verses on Renegade. Nas didn't know what the fuck he was talkin about
omg where is that second pic, i recognise it but can't place it
if you did say something, it'd be a bit like *that* bit from Spinal Tap. "why didn't you just stay in 6/8 and play something really resonant and memorable for that specific two bar phrase, and then you wouldn't have to go into 13/8 just to shake things up" ".... but we went into 13/8". etc.
they were polite guys! they'd play lovely songs for us all during lunch! but in your feedback you'd have to focus as much as you could on complimenting their playing because you could never be so impolite as to say that the bit where they dipped into 13/8 for two bars was in service of nothing.
when i started university the first degree i ended up studying for was a music degree (i was vastly underqualified so i switched) and man, the amount of guys there who were so technically proficient and absolute theory wizzes... who could not write an effective pop song to save their lives. christ.
still not got what the joke was meant to be here
this is literally that Katie Hopkins article from 10 years ago but posed as a serious question by a legit news site
feels like Doku will be 30 years old and you'll still be getting people saying "he'll be amazing once it all clicks". meanwhile the man who started every game on the run to the treble is ... not here! oh well!
i understand there were issues between Pep & Grealish off the pitch but Jack started 15 games last season and we only lost one of them. whenever he played, we looked better as a team. still he was frozen out. at least we can bring him back if needed next summer.
Grealish is gonna finish the season with 15 assists for Everton and we're gonna be told to keep the faith with Doku while he works out how not to slam the ball into every right-back's shins
even Chelsea's two periods of dominance in England (2004-2010, 2014-2017) don't include their two CL titles. City, Arsenal, United, Chelsea, and Liverpool win basically everything now - too much power and money concentrated into too small a space. that's not what English football was about.
it's probably not over now. we have a ridiculous amount of money behind us. if United's "banter era" somehow includes three domestic cups and a European trophy (plus two finals) then ours will be fine. same goes for Arsenal who dropped to the low low depths of... 8th semi-recently.
i've loved every trophy we've won so much, and i obviously want us to win every game we play, but i'm not gonna go mad trying to come up with ways for us to be the best forever. we've had a very long day in the sun, way longer than most, and it's fine if it's over now.
it's only really since Liverpool dominance of the 80s and United's dominance of the 90s that a certain select group of English teams started expecting to pile up trophies year after year after year, and considered anything else to be abject failure. City fans have caught that bug.
most recently you'd say the Leicester team of 2016-2021 is about the closest example to Spurs' early 80s team, Clough's Derby and Forest teams, the Villa team from 75-81, City's 68-76 team etc. where they had a shiny moment, everyone said "well done chaps", and they fell down the table again.
i just....*sigh* i dunno. up until about the late 80s the English football pyramid prided itself on the idea that most teams would have a chance to have their day in the sun. you'd get a solid team together, keep it going for as long as you could, and then it'd be someone else's turn.
we've had a solid 10-15 years as the best team in the country. more than enough for a lifetime. more than 99.9% of football fans ever experience. we either get back to those levels again or we don't. big deal. maybe a downturn in fortunes will send some of these gloryhunting freaks away.
they were DEMANDING Nico Gonzalez as a Rodri back-up but after one dodgy game with his arm basically in a sling they're DEMANDING he be dropped. arguably the sign of a fanbase that knows the peak has been reached and instead of just looking back on the memories they're desperate for more and more.
they spent all of last season DEMANDING that young kids be played instead of the old guard, now they're DEMANDING that lads like Lewis be sold. they're now DEMANDING that Khusanov is played every week at right-back, but a couple of naff games and they'll be DEMANDING we sign Livramento.
6-8 months ago they were DEMANDING that Marmoush be signed, now they've decided they don't like him so they're DEMANDING Rodrygo instead. last week they were DEMANDING Ederson be cast aside for Trafford, now they're DEMANDING Trafford be cast aside for Donnarumma.
beginning to become very disillusioned with City fans. even the old Maine Road lot.
the first four goals all come from shots inside the area with a defender barely anywhere near the scorer
just seen the highlights. xG not been calculated properly on this one.
didn't even make an announcement. Pride feels more vital than ever.
what the fuck
just clicked that I've not seen us beat Spurs in the flesh since 2017, the game when David Silva was missing because his baby was born prematurely. missed the 18/19 game cos i was away, nobody was at the 3-0 win in 20/21, and i missed the 4-2 in 22/23 cos i was ill. lmao. clearly i'm the problem.
pretty even game imo, Spurs just had the physical & technical edge in the marginal 50/50 moments. to be expected considering how many kids and new guys we had out there. thought Pep hung them out to dry a bit tbh, but then we still had chances that we should have buried.
team that wasn't going to win the league looks like it won't win the league. more as we get it.
got this really nagging feeling that City are gonna put a rainbow flag on the big screens today for Pride and that someone's gonna boo it and nobody's going to say anything to the person who boos
it's like, do you want future ASOIAF books because you love George's writing and want to swim in his world, or do you want future ASOIAF books so you can immediately skip to the end of Winds on release day and find out if the Others broke through the Wall with a horn.
people who make stuff will know how much it's (probably) hurting him that he's not yet been able to nurture his baby exactly how he originally wanted. people who don't make stuff just want more content and don't understand why they can't just be given the bullet points of the plot immediately.
ghoulish isn't it. i want George to finish the series, but only for himself. i think you can always tell the difference between people who do create and people who don't when future ASOIAF books come up. people who create seem to better understand that sometimes big projects can't be tied up.
you can say the diner scene in Mulholland Drive is actually about Americans knowing something evil is hiding underneath their society, and you'd probably be right, but Lynch would just say "well i had this idea to have a freaky guy hanging out behind a diner, so that's what we did, and it felt good"
but not everything Lynch does in a single project pulls in the same direction. sometimes something will just be there not for a complex reason, but because Lynch saw an image in his head and went "holy hell that would look amazing" or "holy shit that really matches the atmosphere i'm going for".
i feel like people pore over his work looking for Lynch to provide the answers, when they could provide the best answers by just trusting their own feelings. i'm not saying Lynch has zero authorial intent, or that he doesn't have things to say about society and politics and popular culture.
whenever he's been interviewed, he's always struck me as being way more of an impressionist than filmbros apply to their interpretations of him. sometimes he'll put something in his work just because it looks good or because he has a particularly intense feeling, regardless of where it "fits".
obviously Lynch works within a recognisable "structure", but if you try to break his films down into puzzle pieces that, when assembled in the "correct" order, will *reveal the actual complete picture* of what he wanted to say... i don't think that's productive or likely to yield positive results.
he's always struck me as the kinda artist who just trusts a particularly striking image, or a particularly startling moment, to generate a strong feeling in the audience. and from there, the audience will build their own meaning and come to the conclusions that means the most to them.
i'm not trying to do Lynch a disservice here, and i'm not saying it's a fool's errand to try and work out the emotional intentions within his work, but Lynch has always seemed to me to be way more a "rule of cool / if it feels good, do it" filmmaker than a lot of people seem to think?
the thing is, if you put this to Lynch at a Q&A and asked if he mourned 50s Americana but exposed its "rotten underbelly" via his villains, the opening line of his response would be "Well, ya know... every film needs a... creepy guy" and the audience would fall about laughing.
SUCH a belter music.apple.com/gb/album/fut...
Potter's finished isn't he, this isn't even a bad West Ham side
still remember reading that stat though that of the 20 goals he scored for City, about 13 of them were score in April and May alone. what a guy.
kinda mad that he only made 360 apps but i guess he really was injured that much
just found out Danny Mills was still contracted to City when we signed Carlos Tevez. what the fuck.
you bet. might as well have spat on me, it's fucking brilliant. i'd always wondered how they got THAT sound out of JPJ's bass and it turns out he was playing this fucking thing, whatever it is.
only matched by 3:08 in this www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZA...
2:42 might be my favourite thing a rock song has ever done www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMLH...
here's part 2. wrote it last week, forgot to share. medium.com/@colourfulse...
you probably have read this already because it's from 2014, but just in case you've not! thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
decided to start a new blog series. covering my 10 favourite number ones of the 2000s, in no particular order. first up. Tatu. colourfulsevens.medium.com/the-10-best-...
funny for me to record a Hits 21 literally last night that went past Country House, suggest that maybe we only still hear about the Battle of Britpop now because everyone who worked in the media then probably still works in the media now and maybe refuse to let go, and then wake up to see this.
and you can't say Attack Attack didn't influence anyone www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFf...
is this the point where i try sneak in my opinion that Attack Attack were decent and that Stick Stickly is one of the greatest metal tunes ever
glad Lee Malia is getting his flowers now too as one of 21st century metal's great guitarists. even when BMTH were pretty shit he was writing killer licks/riffs. best to just listen to the instrumental. Oli's *not in great form* on that first album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oug8...
glad that old BMTH has (mostly) been rehabilitated a bit since the mid-2010s. lots of "scene" bands from the 2000s who got bottled off stages by metalheads and dismissed by purists had a lot of good stuff going on. Oli's scream - he was fucking his voice up so much but god did it sound good then.
still huge www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoP...
put that up against the Arsenal XI from above... that Arsenal XI gets more business done. Liverpool's would probably be: Mamardashvili(?) Bradley, Gomez, Guehi(💲), Robertson, Jones, Endo, Bajcetic Elliott, Gakpo, Chiesa hardly ripping up trees is it.
