OI also sad times.

RK Tuchel will be scouting English players in the reserves soon. Sad times.

Brentford v City has just two english players starting

An opinion in the Times but I hope not an accurate one. Let's take an example of a transgender woman working in a pub (fucking brave as she'll probably get worse than the odd milk shake thrown at her). I'd find it completely OK for a group to be talking about how they thought transgender women weren't really women. She could hear and disagree but they are entitled to their opinion. Then they address her using male pronouns, still not worth a ban in my opinion. She asks them to use her chosen pronouns and instead they continue and address rude remarks to her. That is harrassment and out the door with them.

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Article in today's Times indicated that if a member of staff was listening to a conversation between customers and was offended by it, their employer could be potentially responsible. This may be a case of "beware what you wish for".

Kite - that’s the thing, different vaccines produced different responses among different people. Lots with sore arm, headaches, etc, some with nothing at all…

I had the killer Oxford vaccine (first) followed by four Pfizer and finally Moderna after I experienced quite bad side-effects with Pfizer

Don, I suspect that is in the interests of both parties - for us, he could be a bit injury prone or struggling with fitness & for Browne maybe he would look towards Lge One or a better remunerated contract, if it works out

I’m fairly sure there’s no plan to stop certain conversations taking place in pubs, I don’t know where that idea came from - I suspect that maybe it has been suggested that people shouldn’t be verbally abused in pubs, and I’d imagine that most sensible people would agree with that. Would love to see the proof that what Farage suggests is proposed is in fact what’s proposed, maybe someone can provide a link to the evidence rather than relying on potentially faux outrage….

This should please JAW [Link]

BBC says Browne is only with us until end of this season. shame

Had 4 Pfizer. That's my lot, Had the flu jab also. Do we know the difference between a cold and covid these days.

If it is as presented by some it is a complete nonsense. the Wail article refers to it in terms of harrassing staff though, which is something that should be avoided. I'd guess that if taxi drivers came across people who sat in the back being rude about their driving, ethnicity, apperance or odour they might try to avoid that customer or even in extreme circumstances curtail the ride. I'd be right on the taxi driver's side. Should hospitality staff be treated differently?

I had Astra, Pfizer and more recently Modena (and Novartis?). Astra seemed the least effective of those and had more side effects, mostly at the level of a headache or a sore arm. A few sadly were more serious and there should be support for those who suffered them. All studies have shown that the vaccines were overwhelmingly positive, the number of lives saved, cases mad less serious and complete immunity for many, vastly outweighing the small number of negative outcomes.

Hear Hear [Link]

Fortunately I didn't have the Oxford jab.. I'm not against vaccination at all, but I don't like it when subject are closed down and not talked about.and the lazy conspiracies argument doesn't work.

Amba - what a knob 😬

Aww bless ☺️

Amba - I'm a bit surprised that BBC article didn't include pictures of the prosthetic penis.

Bingo, a4e you favorite word when you don't like others opinions. CONSPIRACY!😂😂

Elsewhere -- you had a good job and you cocked it up: [Link]

Facts, eh - the enemy of the gullible conspiracists… 🤪

I'm not sure how many times this has to be explained. We left the EU at the end of January 2020 but entered a transition period that lasted till the 31st Decenber 2020 during which we still followed EU regulations. Thus toward the end of 2020 when the vaccine rollout started we would have been subject to any veto on it under EU regulations (though I guess we could have ignored it). In fact the EU had no veto over vaccine rollouts so we wer on equal footing with Germany, France and every remaining EU country, in that we could hanlde the rollout however we wished.

And remember what I said! Huh, huh, huh!!! Let the bodies pile high!!!