Brit

Dammit again

Dammit

The growth of the young talent is just as a important as having Von Miller, imo. Epenesa has taken a couple of years to develop, but the limits caused by COVID must have had an effect. Our second team DL this year might overall be on a par with our starting DL last year.

Hmmm... I might be in trouble...

We call sweet chestnuts - chestnuts (and a an autumnal delicacy). Horse chestnuts are conkers - beloved of schoolyard games.

It's got to be teabagging DBs after the tackle, surely. Oh, and turnovers and penalties...

Not seen him either. We'll see after half-time.

Arse

I might have woken up the neighbours...

Laurel and Hardy would be more appropriate...

Apparently Khomenei (the guy who issued the initial Fatwa against Rushdie) never read the book. He just took it as an article of faith that what he was told about the book was the truth.

Went back to watch the game and listened to Collinsworth a bit more, and he is not nearly as bad as some here think. Not perfect, but not a grade A I-do-not-even-know-what-the-hell-that-is-zle-but-from-the-context-it-must-really-be-bad. I will be paraphrasing and it was yesterday morning I watched it again. In response to various statements here: He did not say Addison had led the Bills in sacks the last 3-4 seasons. He said he had led his team for the last 3-4 seasons. He was joint leader here last year and the previous seasons he led the Panthers. So Collinsworth was right. On Josh and the MVP. He was asked if he was in the conversation. He said he has been improving as this year has gone on. By the season's end he would be up there. His last two games had been in the rain. This was his best game so far. And, finally with the TD throw, just give him the MVP now... He was being positive. He also said Josh was mediocre his first two years. Yep, he was. It is why so many were down on him (and some idiots still are). He was exciting those first two seasons but tried to play hero ball and the rest of the O sucked for the most part which did not help. He was by no means great, or even good (although there were some great patches (and his highlight reel over those seasons were something), there were some pretty awful ones as well). He called Josh phenomenal last year and that he was getting to the same level over the last few games this season. On the penalties. On the RTP penalty after the phantom Morse hold he did not like it and said it would be talked about after the game. He did (half-heartedly) identify why it was given, though. On Oliver's RTP call he said that if the Chiefs came back into the game that penalty would be talked about as well. He was less down on the penalty, but he did recognise it would have been talked about. The holding on Morse he initially talked about grabbing the shirt, but when he and Michaels watched the whole play concentrating on Morse their comments were Michaels 'Really?' Collinsworth 'Shocking!' He also noticed that Diggs had his arm held on at least one incomplete (he may have done this twice). The implication being that PI could have been called there. On Analysis: Did a nice bit on why Josh's early runs were so successful with the pulling O-linemen clearing the way for his long run and TD run in the first drive. He also identified a good block on Groot that prevented him from tipping a pass thrown out into the flat (go for the legs). And said then you needed to do that otherwise Groot could make a play. On Groot's interception he pointed out that this time the blocker did not go low, allowing Groot to get his hand on the ball, tip it and make the interception. He had identified what would make a play work and what could make it a disaster. And later in the game he was proven right when the exact thing he was highlighting happened and Groot made the interception. That is pretty good analysis, IMO. I wish there was more, but he did do some good work. Okay, he will get things wrong. He will talk rubbish from time-to-time. But given the time frame he has to operate between plays that is inevitable. And I have heard much worse football commentary over the years. Just be thankful you guys never had to listen to the soccer commentators I grew up with in the UK. THEN you would know what crap commentary and analysis was all about. (I think what I have typed is correct. But I was tired when I watched the game again. And I was mostly watching it for enjoyment, not for this thread. So I reserve the right to be wrong from time-to-time. Like everyone else.).

Listening to it now.

www.free-sportsradio.com/scores/nfl

It would be a free play, if we score great. If not, then you take the penalty.

Klein

Milano doubtful to return. Hamstring.

Getting treatment for cramp.

I used to play a lot of Pandemic. Not a lot recently, though... Catan was a breakthrough game in that it inspired designers to expand their horizons on what made good board game design. Still a solid game but there are now a shed load of games that are better. Booze and games are great. Big risk of playing in pubs is that any playing pieces dropped tend to be highly camouflaged on the various carpet designs pubs use. (Talisman sucks though...)

Oi, Beanie, you lazy ******d, pull your finger out of your a***

Human traffickers. They smuggle desperate people into other countries. Many end up as slaves and are undocumented (same as coyotes who smuggle in people on the Mexican border). The UK tends to have less of an issue than the rest of Europe (geographically at the extreme edge and being surrounded by water) but organised crime will do what organised crime will do. Have the odd really bad incident of mass deaths where people have been crammed into trucks/containers and have suffocated in the heat). The slightly less awful trafficking gangs will just dump their charges somewhere, the worse ones will use them as slave labour or force them into prostitution. Seems like in this case he was just dumped in London, which is about as good an outcome as could have happened.

A few years ago I came across Christopher Hitchens and his work as a book reviewer. Read some of the books he wrote essays about and then went looking for more good reads - I found the Guardian newspapers list of 1000 books to read before you die and have been working my way through it ever since (although the list includes trilogies and series, some up to 40/50 in number, so the total is closer to 1400 or so. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/bestbooks-fiction The list is a good way of finding new authors. Currently reading through Chester Himes (A Rage in Harlem), have read 4 of his books this year so far. Although there are some books on this list that I just wonder at their inclusion. Some authors I like but have not seen listed here: George MacDonald Fraser - the Flashman series. All are good but the earlier books are brilliant. Comedy gold. Nevil Shute - 'A Town Like Alice' and 'On the Beach'. All his books are great - On The Beach should be a must read for any politician who may have their finger on the big button at some point. Elmore Leonard. All his books ooze cool characters. So much of his stuff has been turned into movies or TV shows. Crime and some Westerns. Sometimes both (Justified came out of a bunch of his short stories about Raylan Givens). Hilary Mantel. Salman Rushdie. Both produce books that are long reads and get a while to get used to. But love Wolf Hall and Midnight's Children. Cormac McCarthy - Notably 'The Road' and 'All the Pretty Horses'. Again he is stylistically very different. Writes bleak, bleak novels. Ed McBain - 87th Precinct series. Light crime novels. One of the first police procedurals. As he wrote so many of these it will take a long time to read them all.

I love Jorge Luis Borges. Has some great stuff. However, the number of Latin American authors translated and readily available in England are not that many.

Stabbing teammates?

Can you really blame them?