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Jason the Yank

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  1. 16 hours ago, Heartwork said:

    Pretty mad to think a Brighton and an Atlanta United player could be lifting the trophy this weekend. It's not even a player at the twilight of his career at Atlanta, he's only 21.

     

    15 hours ago, The Golden boy said:

    Atlanta are very good at developing young South American players, so it's a testament to their club ethos to have one of them representing Argentina in a World Cup Final.

    Also a testament to Atlanta's willingness to spend money. They spent $16MM to sign him from Velez Sarfield, and they've made 4 of the 6 most expensive transfer purchases in MLS history.

    But it also speaks to MLS tweaking the Designated Player rule so that younger players would count for less against the salary cap than veteran DPs. It incentivizes looking for young players that you can develop further and sell on for a profit (which MLS has said they want to take the next step and become a selling league) , as opposed to signing name players just to goose ticket/shirt sales.

  2. 32 minutes ago, ginnybob said:

    We should absolutely get more public holidays. We get ****ed in that regard in this country. Make the 19th September a monarch day, or Elizabeth Day, anything. If we have to put up with having them at least let's get something good out of it. 

    Or just any time a new monarch takes the throne, turn that day into a bank holiday.

    Charles takes over 8 September, so 8 September is Charles Day or something.

    Wills then takes over on, say, 11 June, then Charles Day is replaced with William Day.

  3. 1 hour ago, Rob1981 said:

    Big supermarkets on bank holiday hours for the funeral day presumably. Usually 10-6 or 9-6 or something instead of 6-10. All a bit daft since it means they stay open while the actual funeral is on. They surely aren’t going to close up in the middle of the day.

    Helpful to folks who may have forgotten an item for their Great British meal to honor Her Late Maj.

     

  4. 9 hours ago, Confused Clarity said:

    Doing a laptop rebuild that meant I had a clean windows install for a bit.

    Microsoft have even updated the search tool on the task bar to include a black ribbon FFS.

     

    9 hours ago, Weezer said:

    Bit disrespectful doing that today mate.

     

    9 hours ago, Confused Clarity said:

    Was already scheduled.

    Obviously I would not have done this had I known.

    Absolutely appalling effort from you there @Confused Clarity

    I can only hope that you at least held a 2-minutes silence in memory of YOUR QUEEN as soon as you saw the black ribbon.

    Otherwise you should be done for treason.

    Respectfully,

    Disgusted
    Tunbridge Wells

  5. 3 minutes ago, anagain said:

    That woman professor in Pittburgh may face consequences too. Her college have distanced themselves from her. Whether she'll get the sack, I dunno. I'm not sure Jaki's chip shop will do too well

    If she's tenured she'll be tough to dislodge.

    It is a private university though, so they'd have more room to sack her than a public university would.

     

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