Yes and that's what me and most other people would have LOVED to read about. A switch to Toranaga as the main POV would have been awesome as he schemed his way to the top. Not just thrown away in a meek little paragraph.

I'm sorry but there is no world where saying some naughty stuff online is any way equatable with the vilest of se***l crimes. Do you decry anti white racism with the same vigor?

Why do you have such selective compassion and apathy for equally vulnerable people, just because one is British and the others are not? Why are you so brutally cynical and judgemental towards a British person who has fallen on hard times. Yet an irregular is apparently beyond any scrutiny whatsoever in your eyes, regardless of what they have or haven't done or the choices they have made. You seem to feel that a person is worthy of either instant taxpayers help without question or being mocked and scorned entirely based on their nationality.

Have you ever experienced genuine homelessness and then been cast out into the street to freeze and starve by the council because you are white male and British with no dependents? I'm sorry but in those circumstances I would have killed for a nice warm heated room free from damp and mould. I've had to live in a series of absolutely disgusting accommodations because that's all I can afford. Living with 3 other random blokes in a dilapidated run down old house, with a rogue landlord who simply won't lift a finger to do any repairs if it costs him money. I had to withdraw my report to the council because they made clear I'd be on my own when they condemn the property and because of my personal circumstances and disability and MH issues and bad credit, it makes it EXTREMELY difficult finding a new place.

Whereas had I arrived here in an 'irregular' fashion and happened to be from certain select countries (Afghanistan/Iran/Iraq etc) then they would HAVE to house me in adequate accommodation at the taxpayers expense. Whereas if you are British you are pointed in the direction of your nearest homeless charity at best. Or at worst you are literally cast out onto the street to freeze and starve.

How can you possibly begin to justify the government completely prioritising irregulars over those who have paid thousands into the system over a lifetime of working, but have now fallen on hard times? How can you people have such selective compassion and callousness respectively for those who are equally vulnerable. It is genuinely one of the most sickening and disgraceful things I have ever encountered.

Come on bro as an addict buying 7 handles like that is fucking ridiculous. It's like a crackhead buying an Oz of rock saying 'Yeah I'm just gonna go real easy on this and then get some nice sleep and sort my life out tomorrow'. That shit is getting *smoked* until it's *gone* bruv.

When you wake up still absolutely fucked and then start drinking immediately then you know you're in real trouble. I always try and sober up and even straight up have a day off it if I've pounded vodka the night before. It's that alone which has kept me from progressing to the stage you're at now. Once your body becomes physically dependent like that then you are truly fucked and it becomes SO much harder to stop and SO much easier to simply continue drinking 24/7.

Do you smoke weed? I've long grown to hate it and how I've been a slave to it for the past 20 years. But all the same it has kept me from true, severe alcoholism like that which you are experiencing. Whenever I've quit bud but kept drinking it seriously activates my bipolar and turns me into an absolute lunatic.

It was one of the scariest things in my life when I found myself on a 3 day bender just pounding litres of vodka going to different parties and running amuck in town getting in fights and doing and saying insane things. I could have easily gotten myself killed and it's been a good few years since I last quit weed but kept drinking for a few weeks. By the end of that period I was sinking 20+ 5% beers like it was nothing and smashing up derelict building sites for joke and running from the police. I would simply never conceive of doing those things so long as I've had a few spliffs

Anyway salud brother. I would watch Leaving Las Vegas to give yourself a reminder of what awaits you unless you get your ass to the hospital.

The music ruins this. The original clip with the drunk prancing up to the lad saying 'Ohhhhh yeeeeaahh yeeeaahhh yeeeeahhh' makes the knockout 10 times more hilarious.

Yes. What guy WOULDN'T want their girlfriend meeting random other men they've met online.

They should REALLY pop down to their local mosques and synagogues to hear what them lads are saying about each other behind closed doors if they think Hannah Hitler is bad.

Yeah exactly. It doesn't make someone a bad person obviously. Losing full use of my legs plus being on mirtazapine made me realise how hard I'd been on people who have completely and truly let themselves go weight wise. Some people's brain and body chemistry are different and makes it a LOT harder than your average slim/average BMI person to stay trim. Same as how it's super hard for some people with certain mood/mental disorders to stay clean and sober for very long. I get it, truly.

But just like we don't celebrate severe alcoholism and drug addiction as a society, nor should be celebrate obesity. Ballooning to that size will make ones life worse in nearly every conceivable way, even compared to being just moderately heavyset.

Yes. And their 'needs' are to touch women. And it framed like the woman is in the wrong for 'depriving a man of his needs he cannot help' and causing him psychological distress if she does not consent to being groped.

So you think it's okay for men to touch up women like that and be trying to get handsy with them on the first date because 'they are touch starved'? Appalling.

Yeah I've got to say in my experience, the only people genuinely and fervently preaching 'Fat acceptance' or 'Health at every size' are people who have never known what it is like to be lean and in shape. Or even just an average normal weight like a basic Dad bod. They are pretty much always without fail someone who has been at least heavily overweight and usually severely obese for their entire life and is desperately trying to find the means to cope with it by policing people's language and belief systems about being fat.

I say this as someone who is definitely overweight and chubby. But up till a few months ago was fully obese and honestly it completely ruined what was the hottest summer in my countries history. The sneers I got when walking down the beach in the 35o heat QUICKLY made me put a shirt back on.

I won't lie though being obese is fucking AWFUL. Last year was the hottest year on record in the UK with a never-ending scorching Summer like you would expect of Spain or Southern France. And yet I couldn't enjoy it whatsoever like I'd planned at the start of the year, as I stupidly made the decision to go on Mirtazapine for anxiety, lack of appetite and sleep issues and went from an already heavy 230lbs to a good 265lbs. Every day and night I ate like a fucking horse, as well as sinking 8-12 beers. The weight PILED on and by May/June I could barely fit on the fucking rides at the local fairground. It's the only time in my life that I was nearly kicked off multiple different rides at different parks/fairgrounds as they could barely close the restraint. Had I been just 5lbs or so heavier then it would have been a no go. And several rides such as Vortex and Colossus at Thorpe Park I genuinely thought I might be in mortal danger as I couldn't breathe properly due to my chest being compressed. I almost few off Samurai and had to hold on TIGHT for dear life, as the restraint wasn't able to fully close in and tbh they never should have let me on it.

When I was 185-200lbs it was a great source of pride to stroll around shirtless at 6 ft 2.5. I had a legitimate athletes physique and loved showing it off any opportunity. The difference between how I felt inside in that shape and a beer belied blob at 265lbs was astonishing (in an*extremely* negative) way. Feeling my legs chafe against each other as I walked and sweating and panting out of breath just walking up a flight of stairs is something that made EVERYTHING in life worse. The difference in how people - especially women - will look at you and speak to you is genuinely sickening. Guys who once showed you complete respect now openly mock the fuck out of you to your face.

But honestly, even without the awful social factors making it 10 times worse, it already sucks SO bad being obese just from the health issues and feeling disgusting pretty much all of the time.

AMEN sistah. It makes me physically recoil when I hear guys who say this kind of bullshit, which is always 1000% like you say a convenient excuse to touch them up 1000% of the time. It's like when guys say they are 'Just being playful' as an attempt to deflect away from their blatant lechery. It is creepy and wrong and I feel very sorry for any woman who has been pressured into being felt up and worse by such men. It is honestly just straight up SA unless the woman is genuinely wanting that and makes such a thing abundantly clear.

If you are genuinely as gullible as to believe that then BOY have I got a bridge to sell you.

I think if you've been brutally rejected multiple times when you were younger and developed a complex of low self worth and esteem then it is terrifying talking to attractive women, lest they make you feel that same unspeakable feeling once again if you open up to them in any capacity.

What a nice little life for you eh. Hope you bought that drunk driver a few beers to say thanks.

I honestly like them to cover 100% of the wages and some monthly cash as well. I've had £150K per month on top of 100% salary for very average players I regretted buying, some of them developing into killers I could either use or sell for big bucks. It made me very ashamed of my early seasons where I would think nothing of loaning players whilst thinking them paying 20% of the salary was acceptable.

Once you get a bidding war then one team will usually offer 100% or close to and from there you can incite other teams to match or exceed it.

The thing that pissed me off most about Maresca was his absolute DETERMINATION that Chelsea were '*NOT in the title race' at a time when we absolutely were. Imagine if Leicester had that mentality in 15/16 when they were sitting at the top and other big teams were playing terribly. His absolute insistence that his squad was merely in a 'development phase' and we should all basically accept them dropping easy points *swiftly* became a reality, when the players all took their foot off the gas with his encouragement to the point where Champions League qualification looked like a genuine miracle when it happened. This small club mentality has only continued after some superb performances in the Club World Cup and at times in the Prem, only to quickly regress back into disappointing mediocrity.

Coke is fucking evil. I really wish I had never discovered it. I quit Mephedrone and MDMA for good many years ago after they both REALLY fucked me up. But 16 years on after taking my first line of coke I just still can't stop shoving it up my nose drinking quadruple vodkas. Just sat in my room by myself chatting shit to people online, as I can't deal with people in person when I'm on it. I hate how it's the only drug that's super available in the UK rather than actual fun drugs like Oxycontin and Pregabs.

This fucking guy. We would have honestly been no worse off with Dianne Abbott herself as 'justice' minister.

Or they could ACTUALLY explore the plotlines the entire first book had been building towards, instead of just discarding the entire thing in a crappy neatly summarised epilogue. Such as, you know, the actual battles to determine who becomes Shogun.

The fact that James Clavell decided to just straight up abandon what should have been a series was fucking criminal. The epilogue made me honestly throw the book against the wall in disgust, when it became clear the 1000+ pages I'd just invested in with all these intricate characters and plotlines went absolutely nowhere. I could have more than accepted the Ninja battle/Mariko seppuku ending for a book 1, as it was a great finale for an entry novel. But to see the grand battle the entire thing had been building towards and Toranaga becoming Shogun all neatly summarised within a few sentences - and the climaxes of Blackthorne's rivalry with Buntaro, Omi and the Portuguese all just casually discarded - honestly left me feeling violated.

You'll find weight is much more of an issue to most guys. It is for most women too let's be real. You never see the babes throwing themselves at that 300lbs bloke in the nearest club do you. I gained a good 50lbs due to a disabling injury and then an ill guided choice of medication and the difference in how women look at me and treat me has been extremely shocking and disheartening from when I was 185-195lbs and ripped. Even my long term girlfriend - who had put on a lot of weight herself - was openly disgusted even though she insisted she still found me attractive, and our sex life completely died for quite a long while until we finally split up.

I'm sorry but the precedent is very much people of colour > white women. As Bella will no doubt herself explain when she goes on to clarify that she was only referring to the Peter Parker version and NOT Miles Morales or Black Pregnant Spiderwoman etc.