thomas

Well this is very good news.

He did.

He thought it would slay. Probably mentally reminded himself to hold for the laughter before dropping that gem.

their third choice gk is a bit of a tit I'm afraid.

I believe the line is 'the deft first touch of a rapist" meaning aggressive, unsubtle and alarming. imo.

I think there's a lot of people who DO care (and many who do not) but are struggling with their sympathies. I don't blame Gascoigne at all, as I know from personal experience that alcoholism is a fearsome beast. When my grandfather - who had been a very high achiever in WWII and for the Crown Agents thereafter - retired, he started drinking out of boredom. And booze killed him. I suspect that boredom has played a big part in Gascoigne's current condition. i.e., he was alcoholic 20 years ago at Rangers, but it's got immeasurably worse since he hung up his boots (or, anecdotally, was unable to tie them up when he was playing for that Chinese club). Aye, I get that people's emotional wells aren't bottomless, and I know first hand as well that you can and do get numb to the sight of someone continuously slipping off the straight and narrow. It's incredibly tough. It just felt like blame is being used as a way of justifying that numbness. I just don't think it's needed. You don't have to actually blame anyone to justify saying "you know what, I can't do this." Anyone can get to that point and sometimes the best thing is just to sever. But blame just feels accusatory and judgemental and entirely unhelpful and unproductive.

Well I wasn't suggesting any of that, just saying that people saying he's not at fault is wrong. Also what does absolving him of blame accomplish here? Blame is pointless. It doesn't help. I don't see it as absolving more like ignoring. I just don't care. Help should be available regardless as well as basic human compassion. In my opinion a discussion about blame is just so meaningless to the situation of a human suffering.

Why is everyone so desperate to apportion fault? Is it appealing because it becomes easier to justify a "fuck him" stance once you can say he's at fault? "Nah I'm not a heartless bastard; he did it to himself, so fuck him." What's the appeal. What does it change? Fine, he's 100% at fault. He woke up one morning, said "I'd like to destroy my life" and then did it, which, as an aside, kudos to him for coming up with a plan and sticking to it. Where does that put you now? No sympathy? No compassion? Want to see him lying in a gutter choking on his own vomit? What. Does. Fault. Accomplish. Here.

not so easy is it gaz

Look, sometimes PoTY is because a player has been genuinely outstanding and a true game changer. Sometimes (this time) it's who has been least shit out of a bunch of shit players in a shit season and it's almost meaningless to pick between them. Might as well be Elliot tbh. Honestly think it should just be skipped in the latter situations. Maybe give it to Armstrong for being a scoring machine

Because it's the simplistic reasoning of a caveman who thinks cause and effect occurs in a vacuum and doesn't want to consider it a disease that can interfere with otherwise rational and normal brains. 'Fault' or blame implies choice and forethought, so it's effectively saying someone has chosen to destroy their life by willfully becoming be an alcoholic, which is absurd.

need a bad luck brummie meme

Agree with that like, but if he doesn't face up to his part in it he'll have a ready made excuse. If people say to him it's never his fault, while marriage breakdown, loss of job (not being a footballer anymore) and other things happen that drive you to addiction. You simply can't say don't worry mate, you're not to blame in any way. His marriage for instance and hitting his wife, things happen that you are responsible for and must face up to, to understand your addiction and the causes of it, so you can start helping yourself along with other help to get yourself clean. You simply can't absorb him of blame. Absolve? Anyway, alcoholism has a > 60% relapse rate. You can bet your life that lots of those people understand addiction and causes behind it but will relapse anyway. The fact that he can't or hasn't solved it yet doesn't make him a responsibility dodging monster, it makes him actually completely normal (among alcoholics). It's a chronic problem that's not easy to solve, mostly due to factors they can't control, e.g. DNA predisposing them to addiction, troubled early and formative years leading them down a bad path. So I'm not entirely sure of what to blame him. Not solving an extraordinarily hard problem like alcoholism? Having bad genes and a shitty childhood? That said, it is also disheartening to see how unevenly second (and higher) chances - not just for alcoholism but for most things - get distributed in society. But I don't lay that at his feet and I won't be in the business of telling the people who help him they can't do what they want with their time/money. Just fucking tragic all around really.

"they might be feeling 'we're going to have to score to get something out of this game'" Brilliant, Darke. Almost Madden-esque. p.s. i come in peace, but that was horrible. edit: maybe I'm good luck.

Feel a little bad now laughing about his hair but it's the only thing keeping the depression at bay.

Has the same do as buzz from home alone and I hate him for it http://i.imgur.com/6shN3BC.png please save us, buzz.

On a side note, it's humanly impossible to actually read that website without intense pop ups and the page jumping around. noscript, ghostery and uBlock origin make it palatable. but it's a damn shame they ever needed to be written in the first place.

Guatemala 2 - 0 USA you say? http://i.imgur.com/MojTkR2.gif

Jesus christ

'no wins for norwich' should be a sad book for children.

He is but, barring a multi-tier drop, I get the feeling he won't sell at a non-extortionate price, e.g. 400m+. It's not a good deal unless someone else is getting fucked over.

Was Cattermole not starting due to injury or something? His spastic labrador routine in the first few minutes usually set a nice baseline for their being carded and having fouls called. Impressed if Fat Sam recognized this and held him in reserve on purpose.

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