diable rouge

Spoiler alert: They couldn't find 3 wise men...

Santa's Double Bubble Week 14 fixtures... Saturday 26th December Leicester City v Manchester United Aston Villa v Crystal Palace Fulham v Southampton Arsenal v Chelsea Manchester City v Newcastle United Sheffield United v Everton Sunday 27th December Leeds United v Burnley West Ham United v Brighton & Hove Albion Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur Monday 28th December Crystal Palace v Leicester City Chelsea v Aston Villa Everton v Manchester City Tuesday 29th December Brighton & Hove Albion v Arsenal Burnley v Sheffield United Southampton v West Ham United West Bromwich Albion v Leeds United Manchester United v Wolverhampton Wanderers Wednesday 30th December Tottenham Hotspur v Fulham Newcastle United v Liverpool

Week 13 points... Week 13 table...

No idea if related to the above, but I read somewhere a couple of days ago that Denmark considered No Deal, with respect to fishing rights, was better for them than some of the % proposals being bandied about...

Someone else occasionally posts on Trump's Twitter, either that or he has lucid spells between his narcissistic psychotic episodes...

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "I think it was TD just having s dig..." > > ah - silly me I never spotted that this was you, perhaps because you weren't having run-ins with ????...;-)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Admin can see IP addresses of posters - > so the games up if they have the same IP all the > time (of course users then claim they are flat > mates and share an internet connection). Isn't there such a thing as an IP blocker? And isn't it possible to run two accounts, one using wifi, the other 3/4G? Just have to remember which is which. Very difficult to change a posting style though and keep it up, certainly if you post regularly, old habits die hard, eventually they slip up. There's one multiple poster who makes the same typos, and as Sue mentioned, even the timings of someone's posts can give the game away...

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > does anyone apart from TB actually think me and BB > are one and the same? I think it was TD just having s dig...

I can't believe Spartacus hasn't made a joke about Uranus Sue...

Trinnydad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The style is very similar and BB has been accused of > multiple IDs before. It's been a while since BB was accused of multiple IDs, I'm guessing before your time as Trinnydad. If that's the case, care to tell us what you're previous ID('s) were?...

TheCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > diable rouge Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > The 1500+ lorry jam shows the folly of 'taking > > back control of our borders'. > > Borders are shared, and Brexiters waving their > > magic sovereignty wand doesn't make a blind bit > of > > difference... > > We haven't left yet. Actually, we have. We left the EU at the end of Jan this year, that was Brexit. The 11 month transition period we're in now is to allow for finalizing a trade deal and also to allow all parties/businesses etc to get ready for a deal...

Borderus Openus...

The 1500+ lorry jam shows the folly of 'taking back control of our borders'. Borders are shared, and Brexiters waving their magic sovereignty wand doesn't make a blind bit of difference...

Just like Brexit, if you ask Leave voters what sovereignty means to them, you won't get the same answer. And, as has been said numerous times, the minute you start negotiating trade deals, certain aspects of a country's sovereignty is on the negotiating table...

...until the inevitable tax rises come home to roost

Trinnydad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would guess he's a vegan, bearded, cyclist and > part time social worker whose posts are extremely > judgemental... And this year's award for Total Lack Of Self-Awareness, goes to...

Keep up Trinny, we've already had the discussion that the UK can implement the roll-out vaccine while still an EU member, EU rules allows for such a situation...

That's because they were told that they wouldn't lose any of the benefits of being in the EU. A lot of them genuinely believed that we would stop EU immigration but still be allowed to visit the EU freely. And when pointed out that wasn't the case it was dismissed as Project Fear. It was an issue the Remain campaign failed to address as well as the benefits of EU immigration, i.e. they made a positive net contribution to the system and were not a drain on the health service etc. Not surprising when you consider most EU immigrants were young, healthy, hard working, while we exported a lot of dufffers who would normally be clogging up the post office...

IlonaM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > John Le Carre This personally was very sad news, my favourite author, and as many tributes have said, much more than just a 'spy novelist', he was a great storyteller and chronicler of post-war Britain, in particular Englishness and the decaying ruling class. ''The rats have taken over the ship'' Fascinating man who led a fascinating life. Rest In Peace JLC...

During lockdown I watched some episodes of A Place in the Sun, and I was struck by how many 'ordinary' people were looking to buy a holiday home or permanent residence and sample life abroad (Before someone accuses me of being a condescending metropolitan elite for using the term 'ordinary', I consider myself to be 'ordinary' in that I come from a typical 'working class' background, born in a council house, one grandad a postman, the other a milkman, and so on). Anyways, the point being these weren't necessarily people that were well to do. Their budgets were limited, perhaps a small inheritance, someone's life savings, or selling up and getting more for their money. It then also struck me that my own personal forays to Europe coincided around the time FoM was introduced, and the subsequent opening of Eurostar and low cost flights. Suddenly it became no different, time or cost wise, to travelling back 'oop north'. The possibility of living and buying abroad that previously 'wasn't for the likes of me', was now more of a reality. I think when BB refers to 'generations' she's not specifically talking about current numbers, but generations to come. For them opportunities have narrowed...

Sephiroth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But that said - it is A loss of freedom. We don't > all want to go and live in Spain- , but it is nice > to know we could at any point. And that has gone. > Or at least the version without hassle has gone It's certainly been interesting watching the so-called libertarian right/free-speechers/free-thinkers etc, squirm and convolute their way around willingly removing this freedom from their fellow citizens, making it more difficult to travel, work, study, retire in the EU. It's true that logistically it will still be possible i.e. travel, but the real stumbling block will be financial, namely having to take out costly private health insurance to cover the loss of reciprocal access to health services, especially for those who want to work/live in the EU. Freedom of movement helped democratize travel and the opportunity to work/live etc. To borrow a phrase, it was for the many not the few...

Week 13 fixtures... Saturday 19th December Crystal Palace v Liverpool Southampton v Manchester City Everton v Arsenal Newcastle United v Fulham Sunday 20th December Brighton & Hove Albion v Sheffield United Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City Manchester United v Leeds United West Bromwich Albion v Aston Villa Monday 21st December Burnley v Wolverhampton Wanderers Chelsea v West Ham United

LadyG, just think how many points you would have if you didn't back Arsenal to win every game ;-) Week 12 points... Week 12 table...

Some supermarkets have had restrictions for months on certain products due to pandemic stockpiling, but a No Deal would certainly make things worse as a lot of our food arrives via just-in-time supply chains, and the fresh stuff can't be stockpiled...