Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
not quite, it's all reality tv and other people's business instead
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh no one can describe man u fans as glory hunters now
strung out
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Pretty sure it's not the Liverpool fans talking anymore, so it must be the weirdos.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Definitely weirdos.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Perhaps we've found the nadir
In this article about tarot When the mystical goes mainstream: how tarot became a self-care phenomenon which is imo poor enough is this picture which as you see in the caption is at best tangential to the topic
In this article about tarot When the mystical goes mainstream: how tarot became a self-care phenomenon which is imo poor enough is this picture which as you see in the caption is at best tangential to the topic
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
not sure those two are mutually exclusive
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Why sound you support a team that always loses though? Makes sense to support a team that has a better chance. Premiere League football is international now, so no need to stick to a local team.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
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Books, not bombs
I was born near the team I support and it was the first team that I ever saw play. Some things just can't be changed. Just ask a Yorkshire cricket supporter.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I was born in Leeds and their fans are awful.
And I don’t like their colours
And I don’t like their colours
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I wouldn't say I support cowdenbeath but I certainly have a soft spot for them because of, not despite, their lamentable performances - some seasons back they let more than a hundred goals in
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Cricket's not a sport, it's just lolling about with a bat and ball.
Can I also say, If I'd happened to have grown up in Leeds, I'd never have supported the dirty bleeders
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I stopped supporting Liverpool to switch to Tranmere (cos they were my local team, I just didn't know they existed when I was asked if I wanted to support Liverpool or Everton). It was not a wise move in terms of trophies I've seen my team win.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Why would you?
Agree about their fans. Back in the day, the hooligans from Leeds were as bad as they come.
because it's weird tribalism? because you don't like the fan culture of your local team? because they're fucking terrible and you want to watch the sport played at a high level? there's as many different reasons not to bother with your local team as there are people who don't bother with their local team, and all of them are at least as valid as 'it's the nearest team to where I was born'
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
No seriously, wtf is happening here? Random 2-plus-page aside about football. Why? This thread's meant to be about shitting on the Guardian.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
I can't recommend this tome enough for those who want to read all about that miserable season (1992/93) and the place of Cowdenbeath FC in the town. One of the best books ever about lower league football.
Cowdenbeath once again are a gubbins outfit this season, propping up the league table, and just ejected from the Scottish Cup by a non-league team, resulting in shouty psychopath boss Gary "Bobo" Bollan being given his jotters by the long-suffering board.
A new manager'll likely improve matters. They've had worse squads in recent memory.
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Starry Wisdom
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Yes, that's the last time they racked up a century in the "goals against" column. They conceded 109 that season, not quite eclipsing the quite epically dreadul effort in 1959-60, when a rearguard made entirely of cottage cheese and worn dubbin let through 124 goals as the club finished "the strongest club in Scottish football", bottom of the old second division.
At least in 92/93 internal club politics meant that a pish squad of wee boys sitting their highers and wayward mavericks, managed by a clueless balloon, were out of their depth in the middle tier rather than the bottom league.
At least in 92/93 internal club politics meant that a pish squad of wee boys sitting their highers and wayward mavericks, managed by a clueless balloon, were out of their depth in the middle tier rather than the bottom league.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
cheers for the book recommendation
i'll have to get that
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
What do you mean not related to the Guardian? This is one of the top all time tackle videos.
https ://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2017/oct/30/cowdenbeath-head-first-tackle-penalty-berwick-rangers-scotland-video
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https ://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2017/oct/30/cowdenbeath-head-first-tackle-penalty-berwick-rangers-scotland-video
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
no it isn't
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
"Bobo" Bollan was at the centre of Berwick Rangers' social media "manager" being sacked a couple of years back. The man tweeted that Bollan had invited the Beriwck manager to "away n take yir face fir a shite", which garnered thousands of likes, but also his jotters on Monday morning from the puritanical Shielfield board.
'At the time Dore was in her early 20s, a poet with a communications degree working as a publicist at a publisher of self-help and psychology textbooks. She had been struck by how the research she encountered through her job could help people to gain new insight into their thoughts, feelings and behaviours – if only they knew to seek it out.
Tarot, she thought, could be a similar conduit to awareness and introspection. These two strands – barriers to self-help, and tarot as a path to it – travelled together in Dore’s mind, culminating in a “strange and unlikely marriage”: she became a licensed social worker and full-time tarot reader.'
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'Tarot is among a range of mystic practices to have seen a mainstream resurgence in recent years. Most obvious is astrology, now almost adjacent to psychoanalysis in our shared lexicon – but there’s also psychics, reincarnation, supportive spiritual energies (such as with manifesting), and even witchcraft.'
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Tarot, she thought, could be a similar conduit to awareness and introspection. These two strands – barriers to self-help, and tarot as a path to it – travelled together in Dore’s mind, culminating in a “strange and unlikely marriage”: she became a licensed social worker and full-time tarot reader.'
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'Tarot is among a range of mystic practices to have seen a mainstream resurgence in recent years. Most obvious is astrology, now almost adjacent to psychoanalysis in our shared lexicon – but there’s also psychics, reincarnation, supportive spiritual energies (such as with manifesting), and even witchcraft.'
When the mystical goes mainstream: how tarot became a self-care phenomenon
Tarot used to be seen as the domain of the credulous. It’s now seen as a means of coping with the present, thanks to psychology-minded practitioners like Jessica Dore
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