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Cornish Steve

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  1. What this is saying is that we did the right thing during the transfer window, and it really should pay off.
  2. We should add DC-L to that list. He came in around the same time as Lookman and their potential seemed similar at the time.
  3. Against Italy, Southgate has started Kalvin Phillips, a player who hasn't played a regular league game for the longest time, when there are many more deserving starters. He seems to be a stubborn manager with definite favourites.
  4. How exactly do we define youth versus young players? Chermiti is 19, Branthwaite is 21, Onana and Garner are 22.
  5. It's always exciting to see underdogs do well. In this case, though, England lost.
  6. A principal headline on the BBC website right now is "Everton hold on to beat Liverpool at Anfield". Can it be repeated next weekend?
  7. Here's our Piran shortly after he was spotted in a roadside ditch and taken to the humane society. When rescued, he was so weak he couldn't even stand, apparently. And here he is just eight weeks later... Now he's doubled his weight since adoption and continues to grow. It turns out his mother is a pedigree Dalmatian, while his father is a total mutt (discovered after using Wisdom Panel). Clearly, a breeder got a shock when a litter was born that was not 100 percent Dalmatian puppies and quickly dumped them before anyone found out. (The American Kennel Club recognizes pedigree puppies from a mother's first two litters only, so the owners probably hid what happened so they wouldn't lose many thousands of dollars.)
  8. Very glad that you're considering a rescue from a shelter. Around here, they are overwhelmed right now, and many dogs/puppies are having to be put down. We adopted a puppy about three months ago, and I was more careful this time around from where we adopted. I took the time to study online all shelters within two hours' drive, and ended up very much respecting a small shelter in east Alabama. They are a no-kill facility, they receive no state funding, but they do a superb job and people travel from other states to rescue dogs from there. I've found myself donating food etc. to them even after adopting. I'm sure there are plenty of similar humane societies where you live.
  9. The only country in the world with the same name, the same land, and the same faith as 3,000 years ago.
  10. If Harrison gets injured, he's going to put Garner out wide - unless you can think of a better option.
  11. I'm not looking for an argument, for sure. I'm just amazed that the British press can't tell the difference between the callous targeting and slaughter of innocents from a nation striving to defend itself. There's a headline currently on the BBC site that says it all: "Why BBC doesn't say Hamas militants are terrorists". Of course they are terrorists! What else can you call them based on their actions? There's no moral equivalence here, not even close. Are the BBC now going to refer to Hitler using the same terms as for Churchill? They were both simply wartime leaders doing the best for their people? We weren't at war against enemies; instead, we were as justified and as guilty as Nazis. Come on!! My mother lost her parents, war does that to people, but I live in a free country because Britain stood against evil.
  12. The question asked was, in effect, whether it's ever right to drop a player for a disciplinary matter, and it's clear this is a tricky question. On the whole, I agree with it, but maybe with a proviso: If it's not a knockout game, then go for it and discipline the player; if it is a knockout game, play the best team. In other words, do it for a league game but not for a (meaningful) cup game.
  13. Israel NEVER targets innocent women and children. It's a modus operandi of Hamas and Hezbollah that they position their weapons in schools, hospitals, and the like. What are Israel supposed to do then? And who's to blame when innocents are hurt in that scenario?
  14. I took a picture of it. Reading this page, what would you conclude?
  15. And how's that going? How many are dead in that conflict? And how long before the public gets bored and Russia wins? There are times when it's wise to turn the other cheek, and there's wisdom in keeping emotion out of military responses, but there are also times to recognize extreme evil and stand up to it. Thank heaven our ancestors, while a little late, stood up to Germany - even though my mother was orphaned because of it.
  16. Yes, but also a litany of reports about what happened in Israel. Not a peep at the BBC site.
  17. I find it hard not to fume right now. "heavily influenced by the likes of the USA whose senate is made up of 10% Jewish staff"? Apologies, but this is outrageous, suggesting that Jews are to blame? Where have I heard that narrative before? Was Britain wrong for bombing Germany into unconditional surrender? It was an existential threat. I've been to Israel many times, seen the conference rooms that double as safe rooms, heard rockets and bombs exploding in the distance, sat in a cafe, where locals were murdered by terrorists, understand how the nation's very existence is always under threat. Too many still would prefer them to disappear from the map, rewriting history as if they displaced previous inhabitants, ignoring how other nations around them have kept refugees in camps for decades. They face an existential threat, and it would be folly to just ignore it. Yes, the innocent always get hurt, but there's a huge difference between innocents being killed as you attempt to disable rocket launchers placed in their buildings versus deliberately targeting children for death, raping women after killing their families, and attempting to wipe out entire communities. We need to face the fact that what happened in Israel was extreme barbarity, inhuman barbarity, cruelty of the worst kind, arguably worse than what happened on 9/11. I'd be outraged if Israel didn't respond. The deaths in Gaza are not on them; they are on those who authorized the attacks on Israel.
  18. What do you expect? Israel must and will defend itself. This is not on Israel, not one bit. Compare the BBC's lack of news with CNN, for example: - Children found butchered in Israeli kibbutz in an ISIS style of killing - 'They cut heads off': IDF leader describes aftermath of attack. And so on. You know I have every sympathy with oppressed and overlooked groups; it's in my nature. But to blame Israel, as many in Britain seem to be doing, is simply disgraceful. What would we do in the face of sheer barbarity? Say that a response is wrong?
  19. It's been years in the making, maybe, but it's always Israelis who face extreme barbarity. There's simply no equating sides here. Take a look at the BBC news page right now. The main headline is that power is lost in Gaza. There's not a single news headline about the utter barbarity that took place in Israel. How can that be? It's disgusting, and I'm appalled at the bias. I have many friends in Israel, and the constant stream of messages about this friend or that family member having been killed - and we're talking about women, children, the elderly, etc., not the military - is overwhelming. This atrocity is, in many ways, worse than 9/11 in the US, and the BBC doesn't even mention it among their headlines? Really?
  20. How anyone in Britain can be supporting Hamas at a time like this is beyond me, yet I'm reading reports of it. So many of my friends in Israel are sharing horrific reports and pictures of friends or family who were callously murdered in cold blood, innocents and not military targets, as cruel and barbaric as it gets. How can anyone look in someone's eyes and shoot them in cold blood? Not being physically present, there's no way we can truly understand the sheer inhumanity and terror of recent events, but this news reporter, for one, will never be the same. https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/10/09/tl-nic-robertson-jake-tapper-live.cnn
  21. The Premier League could do with a good dose of transparency. If some of the owners are private entities and therefore not obliged to publish financial results, maybe the footballing authorities themselves should demand a level of transparency consistent with GAAP regulations.
  22. A less than flattering article about 777 Partners in today's New York Times. What concerns me is the total lack of transparency about finances. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/world/europe/everton-777-premier-league.html
  23. Given the preponderance of the word 'mate' in this thread, I thought I'd enlighten non-British TT members. As per the article quoted below, "mate is used as a term of endearment, but also frequently used to casually ingratiate oneself with a stranger or new acquaintance." Another meaning can be seen in "oi, watch it mate", which is a term meant neither to endear nor to ingratiate but to intimidate. Mate can also connote a sexual partner. In other words, 'mate' in Britain can mean just about anything. Which of the four meanings do Shukes and Palfy intend when calling each other mate? I wouldn't want to hazard a guess, mate. https://evanevanstours.com/blog/seven-essential-british-slang-words-know-trip/
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