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[NikkiCFC 7,601]

Big earthquake in Turkey. 

[whats happening 1,440]

 

[Vesper 27,378]

50 minutes ago, whats happening said:

 

wow, so hope he and all the others (as many as is possible) are found and are safe

[NikkiCFC 7,601]

What's going on with UFOs in America?

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

Happy anniversary to me!

Tomorrow, 20th March, will be the 50th anniversary of my first Chelsea game. If you happen to be going to Reading I might treat you to some chocolate and ask you to celebrate with me. If not, I wasn't really in a celebratory mood yesterday, but here's to another 50 years eh?

[Fulham Broadway 16,423]

6 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Happy anniversary to me!

Tomorrow, 20th March, will be the 50th anniversary of my first Chelsea game. If you happen to be going to Reading I might treat you to some chocolate and ask you to celebrate with me. If not, I wasn't really in a celebratory mood yesterday, but here's to another 50 years eh?

I bet you can remember that first game well...

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

14 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

I bet you can remember that first game well...

🙂🙂

Was a perfect introduction to The Blues; away at Highbury, in the boys section, FA Cup quarter-final replay, 63,000 in the ground, 40,000 locked out according to the police.

Chelsea go one up. I'm ecstatic, rubbing my blue silk scarf in their faces till one of 'em, who had to be over the age limit, turned and said, "Ok, you've had your fun that's enough now." I didn't argue!

They get a stonewall penalty that the ref refuses to give at first but they surround him and some how persuade him that it was a free kick outside the box. That just makes their protests louder, and even more of 'em get in his face so he talks to the lino who explains to him that it was in fact miles inside. Alan Ball slots it away and they go on to win 2-1.

The biggest memory though was right at the end. I was absolutely crushed, just devastated that we lost. The Chelsea players just walked off though, and that really hurt. I wanted them to look as gutted as I was feeling but they just strolled away like it was another day at the office. I suppose it was for them, but that was hard for me to take.

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On 23/07/2022 at 00:44, Vesper said:

Model who romped with Chelsea star complained of "jaw ache" after sex acts on 400 men

Paola Saulino is football mad and the OnlyFans star - who complained of "jaw ache" after performing sex acts on 400 men - was left feeling 'used and humiliated' after romping with a Chelsea star

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/model-who-romped-Chelsea-star-27540318

Paola Saulino recently hit the headlines after going public to Daily Star Sport about her romp with an unnamed Chelsea star.

But the OnlyFans model shot to fame during the 2016 Italian referendum, long before she claimed she had sex in a car with the Blues star. Back then, the 32-year-old offered any man who voted 'no' sexual favours, and when the no vote came out on top, she quipped: “I am a woman of my word.” And so began Saulino's “mission of love”.

During the first leg of her tour of Italy, which began in Rome in 2017, Saulino claimed she gave oral sex to 400 men, and despite complaining of "jaw ache", she teased a "Pompa Tour number two," but this time in the UK.

Saulino is football mad, and she hit headlines again when she promised oral sex to the entire squad of her beloved Napoli if they won Serie A.

Unfortunately, Maurizio Sarri, who was then in charge of Neapolitans, was unable to come up with the goods as the Southern Italians came up short. Juventus, again, claimed the Scudetto by the time May had rolled around.

Saulino was there when football went to Rome as she cheered on the Azzurri through their Euro 2020 campaign last summer.

However, the sport that she loved so much left her feeling “used and humiliated” after an alleged affair with a Chelsea star.

Saulino told Daily Star Sport earlier this month: “We met at a party in a villa. He arrived and immediately introduced himself to me. He honestly didn’t take his eyes off me.

“We laughed a lot and we spent an amazing time together and I liked him a lot. I loved his smell and his way and he started kissing me in front of everyone, repeatedly, and I liked it.

“We walked away and we started having sex in a car and then some friends arrived and we stopped. We went to a party in a disco and he got drunk. During the dinner, he wanted to leave me his number and he did.”

She continued: “He used to ask me for nudes every day.

“He used to say ‘one more please’ and ‘last one’ and I loved playing that game. Sometimes I would stop texting and sending photos and then late in the night I would send one last hot pic so he could see it once he was awake.”

However, it all came to an abrupt end when his agent approached her in an 'aggressive manner' and she blanked in a London restaurant - she added: "I always think about that and I still cry, I felt humiliated. I really liked him."

Saulino didn't let it completely knock her, and she's moved into acting with her latest film, Phone Book, released earlier this year.

Guy says he will have sex with 100 women on a porn channel and will make them all have a orgasm. He shags 62 of them and gives up he says to his manager after '' I don't know what the hell went wrong it went fine during the rehearsal'' 🤣

[Fulham Broadway 16,423]

14 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

🙂🙂

Was a perfect introduction to The Blues; away at Highbury, in the boys section, FA Cup quarter-final replay, 63,000 in the ground, 40,000 locked out according to the police.

Chelsea go one up. I'm ecstatic, rubbing my blue silk scarf in their faces till one of 'em, who had to be over the age limit, turned and said, "Ok, you've had your fun that's enough now." I didn't argue!

They get a stonewall penalty that the ref refuses to give at first but they surround him and some how persuade him that it was a free kick outside the box. That just makes their protests louder, and even more of 'em get in his face so he talks to the lino who explains to him that it was in fact miles inside. Alan Ball slots it away and they go on to win 2-1.

The biggest memory though was right at the end. I was absolutely crushed, just devastated that we lost. The Chelsea players just walked off though, and that really hurt. I wanted them to look as gutted as I was feeling but they just strolled away like it was another day at the office. I suppose it was for them, but that was hard for me to take.

Only started supporting because our uncle took us to  a game in 1967 - but its a Chelsea family through and through

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England’s Forgotten Pet Massacre of 1939

Why were hundreds of thousands of pets put to sleep in London?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/british-pet-massacre

Rescue of a puppy during the Blitz, South London, c 1940. Wartime images and actions like this contrasted strongly with pre-conflict treatment of pets. DAILY HERALD ARCHIVE/SSPL/GETTY IMAGES

IN THE FIRST WEEK OF September of 1939, London’s animal shelters were overflowing with patients. Lines of pet-owners, all waiting to euthanize their cats, dogs, birds, and rabbits, stretched out the door, in some cases wrapping around the block for nearly a mile. But none of the animals were dying. In fact, none of them were even sick. The distraught Londoners had brought them to do what they thought was the humane thing: Spare their pets from the atrocities—and food shortages—of the impending world war.

The British Pet Massacre of 1939 is a horrific, if not seemingly impossible, twist in the narrative often told about the “People’s War.” In fact, animal cruelty was often used to embody the cruelest reaches of fascism. One piece in the Daily Mirror ridiculed a German ambassador for abandoning his dog when fleeing the embassy, stating “[t]hat’s what Britain is fighting—the inherent brutality of Nazi-ism, that has no justice or human feeling—even for its pets.”

Instead, England championed its brave-hearted canine war heroes. At the Ilford Pet Cemetery, you’ll find headstones commemorating World War II animals such as Simon, the beloved cat who received the Blue Cross and the PDSA Dickin Medal for his Naval service. But, according to author and historian Hilda Kean, buried alongside these celebrated critters are thousands of pets who were killed before a single bomb had been dropped. “The PDSA grounds might well be defined as a site of memory,” Kean writes, “only certain, individual, animals, whose exploits are narrativised to fit within the notion of a ‘good’ war are actually remembered.” And until recently, that darker history has remained, largely, underground.

Here lies the noble Able Seacat, Simon. ACABASHI/CC BY SA 3.0

The National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee (NARPAC) had estimated that England was then home to six to seven million dogs and cats, 56 million poultry, and more than 37 million farm animals—about twice as many domestic animals as there were people in the country. War not only meant the potential for air raids on the homeland, but also for rationing and major food shortages. In anticipation of wartime conditions and sparse resources, NARPAC issued an advisory pamphlet to animal owners encouraging them to send their animals to the countryside. But if the animals couldn’t be placed into someone else’s care? The pamphlet suggested it would be “kindest to have them destroyed.”

So when, on September 3, 1939, Neville Chamberlain publicly announced that Britain would be going to war, thousands of Londoners marched dutifully to their local clinic to do what they thought was right. Veterinarians worked overtime to meet the demand. The National Canine Defense League allegedly ran out of chloroform. A 1939 report of the mass euthanasia in Animal World later recounted that “the work of destroying animals was continued, day and night.”

Venus the Bulldog was one particularly charismatic canine war hero in the Royal Navy. IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS/PUBLIC DOMAIN

According to Kean, this hadn’t been NARPAC’s intention—they had given specific instructions for agricultural animals, but had omitted any provisions for domestic pets. In fact, in the following weeks, they issued a notice stating “those who are staying at home should not have their animals destroyed.” But it was too late. Within the first week of the war, around 400,000 animals had been killed.

But the bigger question remains: If the state wasn’t wholly responsible for the massacre, how had hundreds of thousands of pet owners come to carry this out? Perhaps it wasn’t just to protect themselves and their families from food shortages, but also to shelter their pets from the atrocities of war.

According to Kean, the role and perception of pets had changed in the decades leading up to World War II. By 1930, dogs were required by law to be collared and taxed, and expected to be trained and leashed, bringing them closer to—and making them increasingly reliant on—their owners. Dogs in particular began to lose their autonomy in pet owners’ eyes, morphing from an independent mammal to man’s best friend.

A crew of 20th-century canine companions INTERNET ARCHIVE BOOK IMAGES/PUBLIC DOMAIN

Those who had lived through World War I knew what a war-torn country looked like, and they never wanted to live in such conditions again. As pets became increasingly integrated into families, it became harder for owners to envision them fending for themselves—or failing to do so—once the war started. According to Kean, many who had lived through World War I stocked up on poison, claiming they’d rather see their children dead than put them through wartime conditions. And perhaps, Kean posits, this was enacted, instead, on their animals. “When war came, however, no mass murders of children took place,” writes Colin Dickey in the Los Angeles Review of Books. “Instead, it appears, many people sublimated this impulse toward mercy killing by exercising it on their animals instead.”

In the end, many of the surviving pets didn’t starve—but rather became even further enmeshed into their human families. While there was no official ration for pets, human meals were shared. Inevitably, scraps of meat would be slipped to the family pup.

Fully understanding the pet cull, perhaps, requires a deep dive into the collective psyche of a nation on the brink of war. But in some ways, the Ilford Cemetery makes clear the collective amnesia that many post-war nations tend to adopt—remembering the good, forgetting the atrocities, and forging a cleaner, more palatable narrative—in order to carry on.

[milka 3,308]

serious chick

 

[ulvhedin 473]

I've got a question about buying tickets for Chelsea game - I would like to attend game vs Aston Villa (23.09) however on official site there are no tickets available yet. But on some sites (like livefootballtickets, seatsnet) the tickets are available, how is it possible? Are those reliable sites?

[Vesper 27,378]

Tickets for Messi U.S. debut cost up to $110,000

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/07/17/exp-messi-mania-miami-soccer-football-riddell-live-071703pseg2-cnni-business.cnn

😮

[YorkshireBlue 2,840]

3 hours ago, Vesper said:

Tickets for Messi U.S. debut cost up to $110,000

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/07/17/exp-messi-mania-miami-soccer-football-riddell-live-071703pseg2-cnni-business.cnn

😮

Just to clarify that my eyes ain't broken....... That's a hundred and ten thousand dollars correct? Fucking scandalous 

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20 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Just to clarify that my eyes ain't broken....... That's a hundred and ten thousand dollars correct? Fucking scandalous 

yes

£85K

 

[ZAPHOD2319 3,896]

Never trust CNN. Verify everything they say. On any sports ticket site there are very reasonable tickets.