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If Costa had any technical ability he would actually be world class.

Getting murdered in the middle and if Watford had any quality we'd be trailing. Need Hazard on for Matic (who might as well have stayed home) so Oscar can move centrally and help close the massive gap there.

Trust me, you don't want to... Basically a matter of time at this point for us to concede.

Going to be one of those matches for Costa, isn't it?

Matic and no Hazard.... Hopefully those are just rotation choices...

Yeah, crash course is how I actually got introduced to Vlog Brothers. Their earlier stuff is at crash course is particularly good. I don't necessarily like that they are getting other people to do the newer stuff. Their economics series in particular has been sub par, imo.

Vlog Brothers rarely disappoint But exactly right, the bias is individuals not policies, so it would interesting to see it can be combated. The unpaid work that John in the video mentions is something worth looking at.

Exactly. Would be typical of us to go on and drop points the moment we look like we're on the right track.

Probably when he missed a few in a row this season..

@Spike coincidentally I just came across this video that was uploaded today:

Mostly the punchable face, but yeah, sure, the abrasiveness too...

Is that you in the video? Yeah, but tbf, the wage gap does not have to compare likes for likes because the notion has come to include (while not scientifically accurate) the fact that women with the exact same qualification of men are less likely to get hired and once hired less likely to get promoted. Which makes total sense since the salary for a certain position is usually decided by company policies which do not have gender biases, but decisions to hire and promote are done by individuals who may have subconscious gender biases.

It's never just about what any candidate says, though, but what you think he/she will actually try to do and how much they can do it. After all, Obama did actually get elected on an anti-war agenda and his terms turned out to be two of the bloodiest and most violent in recent history. His global assassination campaign, his 'drone program' alone, is probably the biggest global terror campaign and one of the biggest violations to international law in history. Sanders, unlike Obama who was virtually unknown before running for president, has a long history of activism and politics so I would be more inclined to believe his belief in his agenda and his main agenda has been to break up the big banks. Now, I don't believe that Sanders will get elected, but in the unlikely scenario that he did, that agenda is simply unattainable in the US. On the other issues, Sanders who actually is independent and is not a democrat, will have no backing in either houses not to mention most importantly that every lobbying group will be working against him. SO I really doubt he can actually make any of that come true. What Sanders might be able to do, though, if he is elected, is small changes like blocking the Keystone pipeline, consolidating LGBTQ rights, shrinking the wage gap for women, reinforcing planned parenthood...etc. Obviously not nearly the required change, but also undoubtedly better than having Ted Cruz in office.

Yeah, I know that checklist. I once did an online test based on that and scored something like 35! In the case of Trump I do wonder how much of it is just show. After he's an actor, an entertainer and for the most part he's giving people what they want. I can't seem to find it now but I recently saw a video compilation of Trump in the late 90s early 00s basically contradicting everything he's said since his nomination on guns, immigration, civil rights...etc. Basically he was a moderate democrat before running but he realizes that going full fascist is his best bet to winning the elections.

Sanders is probably the only candidate with some sane policies (tbf, the little I've heard from O'Malley wasn't all bad either) even if he's weak on foreign policies. Hillary you can just tell that there's nothing even remotely principled about what she's saying. The GOP is not even a political party at this stage. It's so far off the charts even the 'main stream' establishment wing basically consists of lunatics like Cruz. Trump is clown and what he's saying is beyond idiotic but I would take anyone, including Trump himself over corporate puppet Hillary. It would be a new low electing someone who is a war criminal even before becoming president.

No of course Terry shouldn't be offered a new contract because the board owes him anything, he should be offered a new contract because it is clearly in the best interest of the club to do and he can still offer a lot to the club. Cahill and Ivanovic have market values (and to be clear, we're talking here about a few million, at most 5-7m and nothing actually worth while) not because of their age, but because we have offered them contracts. If it were possible, any team in the world right now would rather have JT in their ranks than any of Cahill and Ivanovic....except obviously our own board! If JT turns out to be lying, then I would take everything I said back and obviously he would have damaged his own image. But if 'exclusive source' turns out to be lying then the board would not be affected because they didn't actually put out a statement about. Some journo granted anonymity to an unknown faceless employee. So yeah, I would be A LOT more inclined to believe JT's side simply because he can actually be held responsible for it.

Tbf, until the truth comes out one way or the other, I would take JT's direct quotes over the calculated response of some faceless PR employee of the club supposedly 'leaking' what happened to a single journalist.

Virtual tie in Iowa. Still don't think Bernie could actually win the primaries, but surely this is a big push for him, especially that he's going to win New Hampshire by a landslide.

No idea why, but your optimism about this match just completely shattered my confidence! Almost sure we'll drop points now

Yeah, but you're forgetting that the club was getting tax cuts by listing Terry's wages as charity.... What the actual fuck are you even talking about? Yeah, Terry has been basically leaching off the club and taking advantage of their charitable hospitality of him to help his family's drug and theft mafia.... Or maybe, just maybe, the club thought that this is the best defender in the history of the premiere league and one of the best and most important player to have ever put on a Chelsea and that what he could still offer to the team BY FAR out-weighs any damage the media hysteria and exaggerations of his (and even more immorally, his family's) private lives. Every single board of a top club would have done the same and more for a player like Terry. Had the club decided to sell him in his prime, every single top English and European club would have been fighting for him. If you are suggesting, even for a second, that the board had any reasons not sell Terry, or any other player, at any given moment, other than they thought it was financially and footballing wise in the best interest of the club; if you think that the board of a modern football club would just charitably do a player a favor out of the goodness of their hearts, then you haven't got the slightest idea how business management works. Terry owes this board NOTHING. They have never done anything for him beyond fulfilling his contractual rights. On the other hand, JT has done so much more for this club than it says he has to on his contract. He's always gone the extra mile which showed how much he cared about the club and about its fans, be it watching and cheering on the youth teams on a regular basis, or offering advice and help to everyone at the club or reaching out to fans and talking and discussing with them during tough situations or regularly putting the best interest of the club before his personal health and long-term career. And THAT is why he will be immortal at this club long after this management and board have been forgotten. But I do agree on one thing, it is pretty unbearably cringe-worthy and pathetic the shit you have to read on here some times...

Just sell him while he still has some market value and while he can still salvage some sort of a career...

Yeah, our only hope of getting rid of Falcao without paying Monaco the end of loan penalty was that Jose would sign with some club before Jan and would take him with him.... .....not as a favor for his buddy Jorge Mendez, no, but because his sweet soft heart just can't handle seeing him playing so badly when he has the magical secret to resurrecting his career

Done. Needed something stronger than 'Strongly Agree' about PL clubs making only short term financial plans... Best of luck, mate.

Then I guess my next question is: Why? Gets on my nerves every time I remember that we actually paid his wages this season...

Genuine question: Is Falcao still here?