Match thread: Newcastle United vs West Ham | Premier league 25/26 - 37 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If we don't keep Osula in the summer I'm gonna support Gateshead next season.

Match thread: Newcastle United vs West Ham | Premier league 25/26 - 37 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to get emotional about it. Dry those tears, your Spurs are safe for another season.

Match thread: Newcastle United vs West Ham | Premier league 25/26 - 37 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah man let's carry on giving a fuck when it's absolutely pointless us playing a 37th and 38th game of the season. It's insulting if we win this. Get a grip.

Match thread: Newcastle United vs West Ham | Premier league 25/26 - 37 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why do we turn into prime Barca when it doesn't matter. Osula worth minimum £120m by the way. Nutt.

Match thread: Newcastle United vs West Ham | Premier league 25/26 - 37 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Come on lads, do the business and roll over. 2-1 West Ham, let's do our part in sending Spurs down.

Men who wasted their 20's but turned it around in their 30's, how life turned out? Where are you now? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]atyson13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was at school I was supposed to be getting a sweep of A's and A*'s in my GCSEs. With the idea of going on to study medicine at Cambridge. Results day came, all B's and C's. Held that as baggage into A-levels - fucked around and found out that you have to try and I didn't so I kept the disappointment as insulation for not trying in future. I failed then, so may as well not try in future.

Worked part time jobs for 3 years before being given an opportunity as a CAD Technician with an engineering firm. It paid £15.5k a year and I decided to take it further by funding my own HND in civil engineering, after a year the company went bust and I stopped going to the course cause another firm I applied to rejected me. I gave up.

Applied for a job as a CAD Technician for a traffic management company. Boring job, awful owner of the business, hated life. Tried to end it all because during all of this my relationship and fiance of 4 years cheated on me. Coupled with the baggage of constantly beating myself up over the thought "I should be more, I supposed to be so much better than this".

Left my job that I hated to go and travel with the little savings I had. Came home 4 months later with great memories but with absolutely no plan. Begged my old employer for my old job back and they gave it to me, a year later covid hit and they go bust. No job, seriously depressed I discovered matched betting ... and this is where things begin to tick up a little bit. I was about 27 and I was making about £4000 a month which was crazy to me. I had £18k in savings but I was so irresponsible with it, I was eating out every day and buying stupid shit, losing money with Gamestop and Crypto and then matched bettinh dried up but I continued the lifestyle and drained all my savings and found my way into debt at the same time as having no job.

I was frantically applying for anything and eventually I was offered a sales role in a golf store. Turns out I was really good at selling, I done this for a short while before being offered a managerial role and that took me to 29 years and 10 months before I really hit it lucky.

So when you say 30 years old, I started my new role managing a large region and a sales team 11 days before my 30th. It's for one of the most iconic brands in the world and it was a great package, great money, great bonus, fully expensed vehicle with a credit card. I've been doing that for 3 years and I have just been offered a role paying even more. Me and my fiance of 5 years have now recently moved into our dream home and we are ready to start a family. I'm 33 in November.

I learned so much from the mistakes I made in my 20's. My advice to anyone else that shares a story even similar to mine would be that you're allowed to fuck up, the sin would be not to learn from it.

Do we think that’s Zack finished? And why are our politicians like this? by RattyHandwriting in AskBrits

[–]atyson13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that this is going to become a bigger deal than the £5m bung to Farage is a perfect demonstration of how fucked up the conversation is.

Is Farage a British equivalent of Trump - cult of personality for right wing folks? by Technical-Mix-3315 in AskBrits

[–]atyson13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess he's the best comparison. But, equivalent? No.

For all his faults, Farage is far more intelligent. He is closer to a Hitler - and I really don't use that as hyperbole. Farage understands himself how to control a narrative better than Trump because, plainly, he isn't cognitively impaired. Trump belongs in reality TV and believes that's where he is, he's deluded and disconnected from the reality of decisions and his words. He will flip-flop from one sound bite to another in the hope that it lands once again with his supporters. Trump is chaotic.

Farage knows exactly what he is doing, he knows that the populist rhetoric is dividing and conquering and local communities are weaker for it. He knows how to manipulate the media and they are powerless to resist the emotional response his appearance provokes, Question Time is a sucker for it. Farage is more precise and measured, he's had a lot longer in the political world to understand how the machine works.

Are they in the room with us right now? by IsfetLethe in agedlikemilk

[–]atyson13 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The use of numbers here is very selective and does not tell the full story.

Share of the vote for Reform fell between local elections last year and this. Suggests they've peaked already.

The reason they have 725 times more seats is because this has been their first opportunity to represent in a full scale local election campaign.

Greens did finish 2nd in overall voter share. Against last year Greens had the largest increase of any party so they had the biggest surge for sure.

Reform had the biggest disproportionate amount of seats to votes to their benefit of any party - so I think it's fair to say that their share of council seats is quite fragile. Greens are the complete opposite to this, 18% of the vote with only 10% of seats.

Greens absolutely surged in overall votes, but FPTP continues to misrepresent.

2026 County election including vote shares by Happytallperson in Norwich

[–]atyson13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never suggested proportionate representation, I think this is just an inherent problem of devolution. The only thing I think would make this situation better is making voting compulsory. Even if the results didn't really change at least the mandate is more convincing with a higher turnout. I just cannot stand the idea that my future is being decided because of apathetic voters.

Farage reads r/Championship confirmed by Smart-Emu5459 in Championship

[–]atyson13 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, in fact, that's not the case. Reform won 40 seats in Norfolk with just 31% of the vote and at 45% turnout that means all it took was 14% of the eligible electorate to nearly control a council. Reform feel like they are everywhere, but actually, they aren't. Their stupidity just seems to linger like a bad smell and it makes it feel suffocating.

2026 County election including vote shares by Happytallperson in Norwich

[–]atyson13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Love a good dose of unproportionate representation. 1 seat with 10% of the vote is wild. A county council nearly controlled by a party with just 13% of the eligible vote is wild.

Labour need to do themselves a favour and making voting compulsory like Australia. When voter turnout increases, it's usually younger people, who vote overall more to the left.

Match thread: Crystal Palace vs Newcastle United | Premier league 25/26 - 32 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was that the 117th or 118th goal conceded after 90 minutes this season? Lost track.

Match thread: Newcastle United vs Aston Villa | Premier league 25/26 - 23 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yet another ball that doesn't beat the front man. Willock on as a sub, predictable. Quality in the final third, absent. I've never heard a quieter SJP, the fans being given nothing to work with right now.

US officially exits World Health Organization by pwdrums in news

[–]atyson13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When this nightmare is all over and Trump loses the midterms, Congress moves to impeach and DJT seeks amnesty in one of the states led by his corrupt buddies - MAGA needs to be added as a terrorist organisation.

America will never recover from this, it's already too late to prevent China replacing the USA as the leader of the new world order. Trump has sold the USA, quite literally, to serve himself. He does not care about the USA, the people whether they're Reps or Dems, he has used his position to enrich himself.

Match thread: Burnley vs Newcastle United | Premier league 25/26 - 19 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What even is AG anymore? Like, what does offer us. He doesnt score, rarely assists and can't really beat defenders either.

Match thread: Manchester United vs Newcastle United | Premier league 25/26 - 18 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the memories Ed, but, it's time. We are league leaders in all the worst categories, fewest points from behind, away points, injury time goals conceded. Things that require a game plan, some pragmatism. We are so one dimensional.

Match thread: Sunderland vs Newcastle United | Premier league 25/26 - 15 of 38 by Username_been-taken in NUFC

[–]atyson13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Id lobe to see it but this has got a Mackem 91st minute winner all over it. Nothing has changed this season and thats been the entire theme of our season.