African AIDS cum posted:

This is your brain on d&d

African AIDS cum posted:

This is your brain on d&d

ZeeBoi posted:

lest we forget the general delight over seeing this

African AIDS cum posted:

This is your brain on d&d

Suntoucher posted:

Tortuga posted:

Just remembered that it's coming come

Alan Shearer posted:

There are a few things I’d like to say, Gareth, and I’ll start with this. Off the chest and from the heart: loving yes, well done, get in!

I’m smiling as I write this and when it comes to football, when it comes to England’s loaded history against Germany, when it comes to this diminished version of life we’ve been living, smiling feels pretty good. Thank you for helping us to smile again.

Fancy doing it again?

And I’d like to talk to you, Gareth, about the present and the past and the distance we all travel. I heard what you said on Tuesday night, pitchside at Wembley, when England had won, and you were asked about redemption. You speak so well. You always have. Your team were forging new memories, as you put it, but like it often does, your penalty and 1996 had come back to you and some memories are fixed and final. It struck me like a slap.


“I was looking at the big screen and I saw Dave Seaman up there and, you know, I can’t …” you said. “For the team-mates that played with me, I can’t change that. That’s always going to hurt.”

You know me well enough, don’t you? I would struggle to describe myself as a sentimental man. It’s probably fair to say that the older we get, the more those hard edges soften, but I don’t gush with emotion and I can’t see that changing soon. But now that I’m no longer a player, no longer forever moving forward to the next game, the next battle, I do have a capacity to step back, to see more of the world in its entirety.

Gareth, I have never once looked at you and blamed you. I have never thought of you as the man who cost me or who cost our England team a trophy and a winners’ medal at the European Championship 25 years ago. I have never considered you a failure for taking a penalty against Germany and missing. There is not a spark in my brain or an atom in my body that thinks in those terms, and I hate that you might suspect otherwise.

Do I think about it ever? Do I think about it at all? Jesus, yes. I think about that semi-final and how we could have won it in 90 minutes. I think about extra time, and how we could have done it then. I think about the players and the talent we had and I will die believing we were good enough to go the whole way. And although I prefer not to, sometimes I think about my own walk from the centre-circle to the penalty spot and how dark it felt.

NinpoEspiritoSanto posted:

Powerful stuff OP

the sex ghost posted:

Feel like Shearer's upped his pundit game recently. If I'm picking my BBC lineup he's getting dropped for wrighty every time but I don't feel the urge to throw my shoes at the telly when he's on any more

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Gareth, I have never once looked at you and blamed you. I have never thought of you as the man who cost me or who cost our England team a trophy and a winners’ medal at the European Championship 25 years ago. I have never considered you a failure for taking a penalty against Germany and missing. There is not a spark in my brain or an atom in my body that thinks in those terms, and I hate that you might suspect otherwise.

britishbornandbread posted:

yeah that Shearer quote has set me off. Fair play, Al.

I've got tickets for the final next weekend, I can't believe I will get to see it come home live.

Jakabite posted:

I really like Shearer, and him and Lineker have great chemistry. If you’ve not, check out the top ten things them two and Micah Richards have been doing this Euros. They’re really funny, clearly all get on well and are top guys. It’s like hanging out with your older brother and fun uncles.

It’s a shame so many people don’t realise that football can be pretty heartwarming and is actually mostly just full of good people doing something they love. It’s also one of the only ways working class lads can make it big so gently caress all the people who complain about their pay. Go complain about Goldman Sachs or someone who’s actually doing harm.

Jakabite posted:

I’m so loving jealous

britishbornandbread posted:

I get married in September, fiancé has asked me how much it would take for me to seriously consider selling it were England to get there.

For the record, it would have to be five figures.

britishbornandbread posted:

For the record, it would have to be five figures.

Jakabite posted:

Genuinely a possible once in a lifetime that, don’t let it go

Total Meatlove posted:

If I was watching England win a tournament from my new bought and paid for house I’d be fairly sanguine about the experience tbh.

CyberPingu posted:

Where do you live where you can buy and pay off a house for 5 figures?

Total Meatlove posted:

Local to me, if you don’t mind living in the worse parts of Southampton or Portsmouth, or moving to the Isle of Wight, there are places you can buy for £80-99k. Imagine oop North you’d get a fair amount around the tees valley and Sunderland?

CyberPingu posted:

I imagine we are talking 1-2 bed flats right?

Total Meatlove posted:

3 bed terraces

CyberPingu posted:

drat, is the area a shithole?

Ah yes you already mentioned Southampton and Pompey. I see

Total Meatlove posted:

Ryde’s not too bad if you can wfh all the time. They’ve got a Tesco and everything.

Bape Culture posted:

It’s coming home and brave lion raheem Stirling will buy us all a nice 5 bed detached house in the cotswolds

fat gay nonce posted:

GUN TERROR RAZEED will fill it with communist AKs

Total Meatlove posted:

Ryde’s not too bad if you can wfh all the time. They’ve got a Tesco and everything.

Rarity posted:

The best part of Ryde is you're right next to the ferry to get back to the mainland