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    Football Manager Sacking Bingo 3

    Yeah, well, I think so - but that's seven defeats on the bounce and a club record string of games without a clean sheet - some of the fans are getting restless. I'm struggling to see how we'd help the meagre survival chances by changing things now and if we do go down I'm thinking Simmo has form getting a relegated Carlisle promoted the next season. And, he's local, and a local legend.
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    Football Manager Sacking Bingo 3

    Hmmm, been saying the new owners at Carlisle are talking a long-game and have put in the kind of money that buys a revival in a relegation zone team. Up until this afternoon it looked like Paul Simpson was safe but a 0-4 home spanking in a relegation six-pointer has forced him on the defensive. Performances, especially surrendering midfield possession and then chaotic defending have done for us, though it likely can't help that we brought in enough new talent to make those already in place restless and we've struggled in the transfer window to offload the displaced players. The atmosphere on the training ground with the newbies being spanked and others unable to get on the bench still training with them is likely a challenge to any manager. Simmo saved us two years ago when the National League was beckoning and - last season - got a team with a bottom half budget promoted via the play-offs. He also went down (to the Conference) with us in 2004 and managed two promotions in a row from that point. So, who knows: https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/sport/24126673.carlisle-uniteds-paul-simpson-pledges-keep-fighting/
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    Andy Fordham Memorial Darts Thread

    Probs not an indication of a life-threatening illness but as dead poolers we should probably keep tabs on the situation, just in case, like
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    Things To Do While Waiting For Death

    If you're an undertaker - sent a valentine to everyone in the nearby care home. Seriously, they're bound to thank you for that, and the tabloid press will understand what you meant, right? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-68316465
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    Donald J Trump

    You got anyone in mind?
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    Donald J Trump

    Saw Mary Trump - The Donald's niece and a psychologist who's made a decades long study of the dysfunction in her own family, declaring the latest legal decision to be the end of her grandfather's legacy, and saying how much it will (personally) hurt Donald Trump. So, someone in the family's happy, then!
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    Donald J Trump

    Key point here being that he has to deposit that amount so's he can continue the legal fight. There's always been doubt about the distance between the wealth he claims and the wealth his biggest critics think he actually has. It's getting tasty.
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    David Cameron

    Aye, the giveaway for me is the lack of anything new from the Tories other than some half-hearted stuff attacking Labour and the tax cuts/public service cuts that always play well to the (less than) 100,000 paid up party members who are largely monied, ageing and wedded to anything that smacks of Thatcherism. Point being the lack of new direction suggests strongly there's nothing in their private polling that gives them hope that there's a winning idea lurking in their policy dept. that can disinfect the current shit show. Far from it, Reform are cutting swathes out of their agenda on the right. Whether they'll stabilise after a pasting or totally disintegrate is the real question. I'm thinking Labour will underwhelm enough to give them hope but that hope is at least a couple of years away. The alternative, has a historical precedent, it's about a century ago that we last had a Liberal government as opposed to a load of Liberals propping up a coalition. Point being, there was a time that party were a party of government and mattered on a national scale. Much of the near terminal damage to their standing was done by a bunch of upstarts called The Labour Party.
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    David Cameron

    Aye, time's literally money there, mind - going on last night's by-election results the Tory gravy train will be careering down the embankment in a few months.
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    Derby Dead Pool 2024

    Test for the scrutineers surely coming - unnatural death bonus likely deserved, though the official line is he "felt unwell" before losing consciousness, doubtless some official cause of death citing a previously undiagnosed medical condition will follow.
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    King Charles III

    Harry's about to discuss his dad's health on telly.Will likely use to same interview - with no sense of irony - to call out Piers Morgan for splashing royal secrets across the media. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68314330
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    The Dead of 2024

    Alexei Nevalny joins the list of those opposed to Putin who never join the pension queue https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68315943
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    Brian Wilson

    Family moving to protect him, at least let's hope that's what their seeking a conservatorship is about: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68315147
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    Today's front page - deckchairs and the Titanic come to mind, or is it just me?
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    Yeah, but - John Curtice was discussing that this morning, a recent poll suggested if there were no Reform candidate over 30% of those voting Reform wouldn't vote Conservative (either UKIP, though they're practically irrelevent now, or wouldn't vote at all). That stat would be enough to nix the hypothetical 77 vote win.
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    Football Manager Sacking Bingo 3

    Stable in hospital, though frankly he's looked like a sleepless zombie for weeks so it's no surprise - through crocodile tears Palace are wishing him well. Frankly a bad day for almost everyone concerned: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68303964
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    King Charles III

    So, more likely rarity value - a selfie with a shiny new King Charles III postbox. No shit, I was having a coffee on the seafront at Ramsgate and saw people queuing for a selfie, went out to see what the fuss was about and the other thing in said selfies was a genuine Edward VIII postbox, obviously there from the 1930s and ultra-rare, apparently.
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    Things To Do While Waiting For Death

    Dunno where else to post this. So, I can't be the only one hereabouts who reads the odd crime or court report and thinks hard about what was going on that isn't reported. This one, however, has me stumped. So, a guy mixes his own sperm with that of his dad, the purpose being to get the young 'uns partner pregnant. This happens in Barnsley so my prejudice is thinking we're not dealing with debonair criminal masterminds here but despite creating a "welfare minefield" they actually got the child they were trying to create and - legally speaking - nobody's gonna land anything on them. All three (incl. the mum) were complIant in this. I'm just wondering how many of the three were in the room together at each stage (jizzing, mixing jizz, implanting). I think we should be told, because imagining is worse! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68311273
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    Donald J Trump

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    Disc Jockeys

    Yeah, wall to wall marching music Or maybe - Dear Vlad, please play a song for me and my dildo which has been my constant companion since my husband Sergai got burned to a crisp when the Ukranian army torched his tank!
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    Disc Jockeys

    Specifically the usual non-dom billionaire suspects who abhor the whole notion of public service broadcasting and use the British newspapers they own to make that point. Didn't notice the Guardian going apeshit over the Beeb's treatment of Steve Wright
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    Donald J Trump

    OOOOH (as was said many times in her on screen career) and (appropriate in this case) fuckin' get in! For you young 'uns out there - trust me, politics was never this much fun under Bush the elder and John Major
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    Disc Jockeys

    I'm assuming your confidence to say that betrays the fact you live in a western democracy!
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    By -Election Bingo 2019-2024

    Just checking out the other possibles now Labour have massively shat their own pants - Ravin Rodent Subortna is your Monster Raving Looney candidate up there. Makes you wonder. If George Galloway beats a self-declared looney is there any point in satire? From the party's website: As an MP he would campaign for the introduction of a 99p coin to save on change He said he would call for all roundabouts to have fairground carousels in the middle to tell cars where to go and prevent road rage. Among his other policies is a plan for all new-build housing to have hedgehog homes included to help eradicate homelessness for hedgehogs, and making sure hedgehogs had lollipop signs to help them cross the road. Ravin says he is aiming to win “zero votes” because “that would be fair to give everybody else a chance”.
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    Donald J Trump

    Looking at the likely options Putin prefers Biden, apparently - yeah, right! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68302071
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