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Normally when a fighter is undefeated and is dominant to the point of looking unbeatable (e.g. Tyson before the Douglas fight, Rousey before the Holm fight, etc.) I keep betting on them until someone shows they are beatable. For that reason alone I should pick Khabib. But this is a really...

Weird gal called Gwenifer sits among a bunch of taxodermied animals and does quick-finger Nick Drake gets lost in Appalachian mountains stuff. Works for me.

Have meant to ask for a while: what is your ‘hot take’ on all this Brexit business, Jockeroo? You are, like, literally the only regular here whose position I neither know nor feel I can safely infer without bothering to ask.

A few points. Will try to keep them brief as I’m supposed to be working from home today and we’ve gone over this stuff a bunch of times before. 1. I have conceded approximately a billion times that a referendum doesn’t settle a matter ad infinitum. People can change their minds. I would just...

Ah, TFW when the most ‘money in the bank’ pick on your accumulator is the one that lets you down. Reminds me of when Thug Rose lost me £300 by having the temerity to beat Joanna. Always a massive kick in the plums. Only thing worse is when the coupon buster is a fight your guy/gal loses from...

I had 48-47 to DJ on my scorecard, but I definitely belong to the ‘don’t score takedowns that highly if they lead to no significant damage’ school of armchair judging, so Cejudo getting the split was no great shock. DJ losing sucks because he has a reason to stay at flyweight now. I think if...

Not a huge box office fight, but Garbrandt vs. Dillashaw 2 was No. 2 on my list of most anticipated fights this year (second only to Khabib vs. Tony), so really looking forward to tonight's event. Conor vs. Khabib booked for UFC229 on 6th October. Poirier vs. Diaz booked for UFC230 at the...

P.S. Apologies for taking an age to reply. I put time aside on at least 3-4 occasions to write this unsatisfying guff, but each time I tried to log in the forum was down.

How should I describe those who repeatedly call for a second referendum, or those who dismiss the 2016 vote as ‘advisory’ and call for it to be ignored altogether? Even with all the civility and good will in the world, I can’t describe those people as democrats. Obviously not all Remainers fit...

I won’t dwell on the conflation of Europe and the EU (as moaning about that for 15-20 years has done fuck all to stop people doing it) but, seriously, what does ‘evaluate our relationship with Europe’ mean in this context? You posit a counterfactual in which Remain wins 52-48 and appear to...

She regretted that when she began to see the medium-to-long term political consequences of those reforms. She was an arch EU-sceptic towards the end, which is one reason (arguably the reason) why she was pushed out before the Maastricht Treaty was produced. If there was some way to recreate...

Further proof, if it were needed, that referees can make incompetent decisions and ruin a game even when they have the luxury of stopping the game for 3-4 minutes and watching an incident 27 times in slow motion. Criminal to give a penalty for that. Poor Croatia.

The Communards doing awesome covers and Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles (now a Church of England vicar!) elevating dorky dad dancing to an art form.

For great crime drama, Fargo and Hannibal are two of the more ambitious and entertaining TV shows of the last decade. Netflix has only series 1 and 2 of Hannibal but series 3 disappeared up its own fundament and isn't worth watching anyway. Fargo is on Netflix in its entirety. Better Call...

They should just ditch the programme. I can’t watch it for more than 20 minutes without thinking we should scrap democracy entirely or at least reform our political system so it works roughly how it did before 1867. P.S. Would think differently if the new host is either Prince Phillip or...

It’s been an unrealistic expectation since last June, when the governing party stood on an explicitly ‘Hard Brexit’ manifesto and lost its majority. Back in 2016 it was reasonable to expect the government to at least pursue ‘Hard Brexit’ (which is the Brexit both sides assumed during the...

Well, at least Punk won his court case.

This is rather ungenerous, isn't it? Even Red (!) managed to give props without tacking a "Tories = heartless c***s" caveat on the end.

I’m afraid this impertinence is sometimes necessary to combat another (and in my view greater) persistent evil, namely people sitting next to you unnecessarily and being annoying. We’ve all been there. There are plenty of vacant two-seaters elsewhere but, for some reason, an anonymous weirdo...

I am watching them on my laptop. A friend sent me a bunch of MKV files (viewing using VCL Media Player). No doubt he acquired them illegally, so give me a few days to arrange a secure means of transfer. Obviously I’ll need to get approval from Box 500, set up a cypher, establish a dead-drop...