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Gareth Southgate has insisted his England players will continue to take the knee and make the gesture going forward. The Three Lions boss had asked for supporters not to boo the stance on the eve of this final Euro 2020 warm-up game at the Riverside Stadium but, as they did here on Wednesday night, a minority ignored Southgate’s pleas.

Pulisic got the winner - but game will be remembered for the punch up

Hahaha Henderson you knob. Grabbed the ball to take the penalty and fucked it

Think its going through, flexing their muscles Didnt want it in 2009. 🤐 Iniesta. Should have had 4 penalties. ''Its a fucking disgrace'' etc

Watching it again. Little things like when lining up we look focussed, whereas they're looking cocky, like they've won it already. And the ref was very good. For a change....

Frances Stanley was handed a PPE contract worth £14.4 million of public money by the Tories after her husband donated £5,000 to Matt Hancock’s office. She has no previous professional experience of providing such equipment and subsequently failed to fulfil the contract. Her application was handled on the so-called “fast lane” provided to Tory donors in order to help them jump the queue for these lucrative contracts, and we know that she is the wife of a Tory donor who received millions of pounds to provide a service she was unqualified to do, and whose failure is likely to have cost many lives. It is time we knew exactly how many of these duff contracts have been handed out. We need a list of all contracts that have been handed to people connected to Tory donors, stating clearly whether these contracts were handed out via the “fast lane” system, how much money was handed over, and whether the contract was fulfilled. Then we’ll be able to start working out the depth of corruption to which our government sank while our relatives and friends were dying.

Levy is clearly obsessed with Chelsea if Conte joins Spurs, that would be the 4th ex Chelsea manager in 25 years. Mugs

Psychology Today; A new study has found that the typical right-wing authoritarian – that is, someone who is hostile to non-conformity – is a considerably less funny person than the typical person who does not share that disposition. The study appeared in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. It looks at the effects of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) on humour production. The authors define RWA as a combination of factors such as submission to authority, aggression towards deviant and marginal groups, and adherence to traditional social norms. Studies dating back to the 1950s and 1960s already found that people who score high in authoritarianism enjoy jokes that disparage low-status or marginalized groups. Likewise, they are less likely to enjoy jokes that express hostility to authority figures. Yet researchers know very little about the links between RWA and humour production, i.e. coming up with funny ideas of one’s own. One 1957 study found that people who score low in authoritarianism wrote funnier cartoon captions, whereas a 1980 study found hardly any correlation. But the assessment of RWA and humour production have improved in the intervening decades, prompting the researchers to revisit this question. Measuring humour production: what makes a funny person funny? For this study, the researchers recruited 186 adults from a university in North Carolina. The participants’ average age was 19, though they ranged in age from 18 to 53. They were 77% female, and ethnically diverse. The researchers measured the participants’ humour production skills on several creative tasks. Throughout these tasks, the instructions encouraged them to be funny, to express themselves freely, and to feel comfortable being “weird, silly, dirty, ironic, bizarre, or whatever,” as long as their responses were funny. In the first task, the participants generated funny captions for three cartoons. One depicted an astronaut talking into a mobile phone. Another showed a king lying on a psychologist’s couch. The third showed two businessmen, one with a gun, standing over a body on the floor. The second task presented the participants with unusual noun combinations, such as “cereal bus” or “yoga bank,” and asked them to come up with funny definitions for them. The final task asked the participants to complete a quirky scenario with a punchline. One scenario, for example, involved telling people about a horrible meal. The other two scenarios involved describing a boring college class, and giving feedback on a friend’s bad singing. Eight independent raters scored the responses on a 3-point scale (not funny, somewhat funny, or funny). The raters did not know anything about the participants, including their responses on other items. The right-wing authoritarian, openness, and conscientiousness The researchers measured the participants’ degree of right-wing authoritarianism using a 15-item scale on which they indicated how strongly they agree or disagree with various statements. Examples include “Our country desperately needs a mighty leader who will do what has to be done to destroy the radical new ways and sinfulness that are ruining us,” or “Everyone should have their own lifestyle, religious beliefs, and sexual preferences, even if it makes them different from everyone else.” The researchers also measured the participants’ personality traits (using the HEXACO-100 personality test). They focused on the traits of openness to experience and conscientiousness, as past research has found that these traits relate to both humor production and being a right-wing authoritarian. Some research, for example, has linked openness to creative thinking and humor. Other studies have found that conscientious people perform worse on creativity and humor tasks. Results: your standard right-wing authoritarian isn’t very funny Right-wing authoritarianism had a significant negative relationship with humour; people who scored high in RWA generated responses that the raters considered to be much less funny. RWA also correlated negatively with openness to experience, and positively with conscientiousness. As the researchers expected, openness correlated positively with humor production, and conscientiousness correlated negatively with it. These findings, the authors write, “strongly suggest that people high in RWA are less funny, defined as the ability to create humorous ideas, even when global personality traits with established ties to RWA, humour, and creativity are controlled for.” The authors also add that their findings “should be viewed in the context of the sample, which was young, enrolled in a university, and predominantly female.” They suggest that future studies should look more closely at the components of right-wing authoritarianism that impair humor creation. One possible mechanism is that RWA correlates with cognitive rigidity and seriousness, versus flexibility and playfulness. In sum, the authors write, “the findings suggest that people high in RWA just aren’t very funny.”

Saw them a few times back in the day (cringe) - Chumbawamba were great though !

Whole match showing again now BT Sport 3

Its a great diffuser and leveller, as we know. Think most of the stuff in the Simpsons goes... whoosh

Haha ''so sorry she went all Whoopi Goldberg'' 😆

''The ugly truth is white on white crime does exist. It is a growing pandemic in the white community, and if we don’t call attention to this problem soon, there will be no more white people left to run the world. Most of the conversation surrounding crime involves black people, who selfishly take all of the credit for being criminals. Blacks are notorious for being called thugs and gangsters, but the real MVPs (Most Violent People) are whites. Everyday in cities across the country, people die at the hands of white people. What’s more, they’re killing their own kind. According to the US Department of Justice statistics, 84 percent of white people killed every year are killed by other whites. In 2011, there were more cases of whites killing whites than there were of blacks killing blacks. Between 1980 to 2008, a majority (53.3 percent) of gang-related murders were committed by white people, with a majority of the homicide victims being white as well. In America, whites commit the majority of crimes. What’s even more troubling is that they are also responsible for a vast majority of violent crimes. In 2013, whites led all other groups in aggravated assault, larceny-theft, arson, weapons-carrying, and vandalism. When it comes to sexual assault, whites take the forcible rape cake. They are also more likely to kill children, the elderly, family members, their significant others, and even themselves! They commit more sex-related crimes, gang related crimes, and are more likely to kill at their places of employment. In 2013, an estimated 10,076 people died in the U.S. due to drunk driving crashes. Driving while drunk is almost exclusively a white crime because everyone knows black people prefer to drink on their porches or inside their homes. So why is white on white crime so prevalent, one may ask? Is it the music they listen to? Is it the white divorce rate, resulting in more white children coming from broken homes? Perhaps it’s the TV shows they watch or the violent sports they play. More than likely, it is a combination of all of those things, with the exact root cause unclear. What is clear, though, is that not enough people are talking about the crime plaguing the white community. We need to spread the word, holding protests and demonstrations that call attention to this growing matter. After all White Lives Matter too. K Codette Huff Post

Absolutely mental by the NRA - get kids hooked on guns at an early age for profit.

Even if he goes there they will still go all Spursy...again

Conte always wants big signings, match that with tightwad Levy. No chance of this happening.

Lol missed it first time round -BT Sport interviewer on the pitch saying to Havertz - ''You are the most expensive Chelsea footballer and you paid it all back nearly in one night....'' Havertz ''To be honest, I dont give a fuck about that, we won the Champions League'' 😜

Best thing for someone with that 'notice me' mental disorder, is to ignore. It's like the kid playing up in class. Giving him the oxygen of publicity over jail or anything just encourages the spoilt child mentality

Still cant believe Pulisic's dink didnt go in 🤪

Whole match on BT Sport again tomorrow 12 30

Did you see Joe on BT Sport OFAG ? Celebrating like a mad man dancing up and down -still Chels thru and thru

Hes definitely galvanised the defence - just shows what bit of psychology can do with great tactics

Imagine what it would be like with a top goal scorer ....😮

Hangover wearing off now...Champions of Europe ....AGAIN