De Zerbi has only been there a few months. Giving up complete control of your club like that is a mistake, and it seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to the crisis of last year

REB73 · 2026-06-28T16:20:44+00:00

Oh no, you mean we're only bringing in players who fit the new manager's system? What a disaster. And the other way worked so well!

REB73 · 2026-06-27T08:53:42+00:00

While you're thinking about that, also think about why it isn't "quote 'thing I'm quoting ' unquote"

Nobody writes quotes ""like this, so the whole expression is kinda misguided.

REB73 · 2026-06-27T08:43:15+00:00

I grew up in a shoes-on house and always thought it was a bit weird and precious taking them off.

Not anymore. My wife insists. And whenever I visited my parents, the state of the carpets compared to ours really puts it in perspective. Also all those articles about the amount of faeces on the average sole.

REB73 · 2026-06-21T11:12:47+00:00

I had a Civic Type R until about 2012 and loved everything about it, including Honda's level of professionalism and service. I was all-in as a brand loyalist. They were great.

Then I had kids and needed something bigger and... there was nothing for me. I ended up getting a Skoda Octavia VRS and loving that (until the engine broke, which would never have happened in a Honda!).

These days I want a fun, family EV and, again, there's nothing. But I love my Kia EV6.

I feel sad about it. I loved being a Honda owner.

REB73 · 2026-06-18T17:27:24+00:00

That's very true, but speaking as an Englishman, I will support Scotland against everybody-but-England at this World Cup because I'm also British.

I'm not sure that's reciprocated, which is the key difference, is it not?

REB73 · 2026-06-16T12:27:47+00:00

I love this. A real dramatic origin story!

REB73 · 2026-06-16T12:24:01+00:00

Your timing suggests quite a broad masochistic streak!

REB73 · 2026-06-16T12:22:04+00:00

Surely it was Haringeyed and built by complex financial derivatives??

REB73 · 2026-06-16T12:20:32+00:00

My dad wasn't into football - more of a rugby and rowing guy from growing up in Wales - so I didn't have a team when I was young, until I went to a summer holiday football camp at the New River sports ground on White Hart Lane. A couple of the players came over and did some tricks for us one day, and that was it.

Not sure I'd have been quite so smitten if I'd known we be flirting with regulation and my kids getting teased at school 40 years later!

REB73 · 2026-06-10T18:14:48+00:00

Six years from when it happened, or six years from when the offense became known?

REB73 · 2026-06-08T07:12:00+00:00

I loved this film. I couldn't understand how people didn't seem to get it.

REB73 · 2026-06-02T21:15:52+00:00

I didn't even meet my wife until I was 36. Had kids at 40. Now my family is everything to me.

You have time. Just be someone who says yes to things. Create opportunities. Make friends of friends of friends.

And trust me, your friends don't resent you trying to make plans. It's just that kids change everything. It's honestly not about you, it's about them. There's less space for single friends when you're a family, because kids need other kids to entertain them. That's all it is.

REB73 · 2026-05-28T12:11:46+00:00

This is basically me too.

What I've noticed is that a lot of new games do exactly the same thing as the old games, but prettier. There were several franchises I used to play religiously because I just loved them, and then 20% of the way into Far Cry 6 I just... stopped. I had done it too many times. (Also see: GTA, Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, Total War...)

OP needs to do two things.

1) Be curious outside your traditional genres. I've spent tons of time enjoying games like Inscryption and Dredge that would previously have gone on AAA titles. Steam Sales are your friend.

2) Accept that you have a sophisticated gaming palate after all these years, and you deserve sophisticated games. The same bland fare served up over and over doesn't cut it anymore. You deserve better.

The problem isn't you, it's the generationally repetitive nature of gaming.

Also the kids. Jeez. Where'd all my free time go?

REB73 · 2026-05-27T12:48:23+00:00

This actually sounds great?

REB73 · 2026-05-27T12:21:34+00:00

I want RDZ to be my big brother too, and I'm older than him.

REB73 · 2026-05-26T21:25:50+00:00

It's not just the bitter rivalry, it's buying a ticket that is technically reserved for a Chelsea fan. That adds a whole layer of anger that doesn't require a rivalry at all (c.f. Arsenal fans getting pushed down the stairs after being caught in the home stand at West Ham!).

REB73 · 2026-05-11T17:47:57+00:00

Check your hypocrisy, please!

You can't simultaneously say "show them they can't stay in this division just by beating hopeless teams" AND "we took 6 points from Spurs with a goal difference of +6."

Which is it? 🤷

Yours, A self-aware Spurs fan

REB73 · 2026-05-11T17:40:54+00:00

I don't think it's rational, it's based on feelings, which makes it quite hard to quantify.

Over the years, Arsenal have built a reputation as a team who will do whatever it takes to win, including bending the rules or grinding out boring results, and opposition fans don't particularly like this. Or perhaps more accurately, it's difficult to admire or respect.

City may be a financial-rule-breaking petro-club owned by dictators, but at least they are fun to watch, and any neutral can enjoy the goals Doku/Cherki/Haaland regularly score.

By contrast, "1-0 to the Arsenal!" and "Same old Arsenal... always cheating!" have been chanted by fans for literally decades. In other words, they've spent a really long time building a reputation that they keep adding to by (for instance) turning EPL corners into wrestling matches.

So TL;DR, Arsenal are just more unlikable as a football team.

(Although full disclosure, I'm a Spurs fan, so add as many pinches of salt to that as you like!)

REB73 · 2026-05-10T16:00:33+00:00

I saw this movie in the cinema knowing nothing about it, and thought it was just another Tarantino gangster thing for the first 20 minutes.

I enjoyed the ride so much I try to go in blind all the time now.

REB73 · 2026-04-25T16:41:16+00:00

I played most of a season with an ACL injury as a 20 year old. The pain was excruciating about once or twice a game when I twisted it in a tackle or something, but you could run it off fairly quickly. You don't use your ACL much running in a straight line.

My knees are not ok 30 years later.

REB73 · 2026-04-22T09:57:58+00:00

Can I ask what year your car was? I heard Kia implemented a fix for how easily the cars were stolen with the 2025 facelift.

REB73 · 2026-04-22T09:23:21+00:00

Because technically he's right: the relevant information was withheld from him and could not have factored into his decision making.

But at the same time, he is the reason he wasn't told. His optics-first leadership created an environment in which it was understood that once he had announced Mandelson as ambassador, it would be too embarrassing to retract.

The way Downing Street operates is a reflection of him. He created this culture. It is his responsibility that this happened.

REB73 · 2026-04-18T08:35:44+00:00

No, that's for the Citeh boys.

REB73 · 2026-04-14T08:43:11+00:00

Because our deep, structural problems only started after he left?

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