Glad I stuck to my guns on the away PSG win but it was risky. Shame I missed out on the correct score by one goal though. Not sure how Fred got away with just a yellow card for that pussy 'headbutt' players seem to like doing. Normally that's a straight sending off. I didn't watch the game but apparently VAR got involved and changed the card but didn't show that in the highlights so not sure if he initially gave the red or didn't give anything as it looks like he didn't see it. If he viewed it on the VAR monitor though I'm not sure how it wasn't a sending off. He got sent off in the second half for a second yellow but looked like he might have got the ball to me.

Just quickly put mine in as well, provisionally though. Still a lot of teams to play in the Champions and Europa leagues and of course any injuries or positive covid tests picked up from them. Looks like the Villa/Newcastle game is called off due to a covid outbreak at Newcastle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55151090

Apparently 5 Newcastle players and 2 staff have tested positive, but it doesn't say if they were symptomatic or not. I still don't really trust those tests. Doesn't seem like any professional athlete has suffered with the disease other than testing positive either.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9009619/Mikel-Arteta-defends-Arsenals-handling-David-Luiz-head-injury.html


Not sure I like the idea of 'concussion substitutes'. If there's doubt then just sub them off or keep them off pitch whilst the medical team decide whether they're ok or not. Teams would probably take advantage of this and claim any old flick to the head is possibly a concussion so they can get an extra sub out there and we all know how easy players go down when any part of the opposition team goes anywhere near their head.

There's nothing I'd recommend on the upcoming December 5th card but UFC Fight night on December 19th has a few good fighters taking part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_Fight_Night:_Thompson_vs._Neal

Welterweight    Stephen Thompson    vs.    Geoff Neal             
Heavyweight    Marcin Tybura    vs.    Greg Hardy             
Bantamweight    Marlon Moraes    vs.    Rob Font             
Light Heavyweight    Misha Cirkunov    vs.    Ryan Spann             
Bantamweight    José Aldo    vs.    Marlon Vera             
Preliminary card (ESPN+)
Welterweight    Michel Pereira    vs.    Khaos Williams             
Flyweight    Alexandre Pantoja    vs.    Manel Kape             
Welterweight    Belal Muhammad    vs.    Dhiego Lima             
Catchweight (195 lb)    Deron Winn    vs.    Antônio Arroyo             
Women's Bantamweight    Sijara Eubanks    vs.    Pannie Kianzad             
Bantamweight    Aiemann Zahabi    vs.    Drako Rodriguez             
Middleweight    Tafon Nchukwi    vs.    Jamie Pickett             
Lightweight    Rick Glenn    vs.    Carlton Minus    

And then of course the return of McGregor in January vs Poirier.


Interesting. Dana should probably try wrangle another fight out of him as part of the deal to broadcast the shows. Seems Khabib is more interested in trying to get MMA accepted by the Olympics right now though:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-9009259/Khabib-Nurmagomedov-unveils-grand-plan-MMA-included-Olympics-2028.html

Has the Khabib press conference happened yet? It seems that it was planned for today but can't see any confirmation of that and there's nothing on his Instagram. Hoping there's more than just the announcement of his MMA company he's apparently just bought.

Well you certainly called that one. It was the highest scoring game of the night at 2-3. Didn't expect Inter to win though. Surprised Shaktar beat Real as well. Only got a mere three points for the exact Liverpool/Ajax score.


I've got three draws for the games tonight. Not sure what to go for the Man U game though. Had a PSG win away win but might change that to a draw. United will probably fall apart at some point like they usually do.

If you want something changed then petition the admins. This can be done both for requesting new mods and rule changes. Just create threads in Meta about each issue and maybe theymos will take note or act on them. Theymos doesn't like to have rules set in stone anyway and hence why they're the "unofficial" ones. With that being said, rules are always open to interpretation by each staff member as well. One mod may see them as unsubstantial and unnecessary whilst another may not be bothered by them and either ignore them or mark them as bad (though the latter probably wouldn't be appropriate unless the rules are changed). I see both arguments as valid though and mprep didn't do anything wrong by the rules, but I do think it's harsh removing them and maybe there are certain rules that should be amended or changed. At the end of the day it's common courtesy to thank someone and not doing so could seem rude or ungrateful. I think people should be allowed to thank people for something without writing an essay also, but I also see how it could be an issue if there's just pages and pages of people just writing 'thanks' etc and we saw this abuse in the alt coin section with aidrops and giveaways etc. Maybe there needs to be more discussion on this topic or a thanks button or something implemented. I think that would be a better solution personally.

Yes, mods can see who reported the post, but we cannot see who handled it. Only an admin has that info. Reports can only be handled, marked as bad or 'ignored' but ignoring them is just for that individual mod and the others can still act on them. If they're left in the queue for a while eventually they're expunged and the report will be left as unhandled to that person. The only way to remove reports from the queue is to mark them as handled or bad. Personally I would just ignore these sorts of ones but others may not. I can see how they could be considered bumps but they have relevant information to be left up as well so I guess you're going to have to try find the mod that removed them and state your case. Try PM the mods of that sub and the other globals or wait for them to hopefully post here.

Ah, very good point. I wasn't aware teams were already through. I'll probably skip the Bayern game then unless they surprise me with the line-ups. They're playing second in the league RB Leipzig on Saturday as well so they might rest a lot of players. Liverpool/Ajax it is then since they're fighting it out for first place and Atalanta are join third with Ajax on 7 points so it's pretty close in that group.

LTU_btc & famLFC have yet to make their picks and there's two early kick offs happening in less than an hour.

This is even worse in my opinion and it's what we saw when campaigns started requiring minimum character counts on their posts. Users will just fluff their posts to meet the minimum making their posts even more unsubstantial and spammy when it should be analysed on the content of the post.


I doubt that this is the case. Staff aren't paid on a per deleted post basis and you could probably delete a thousand posts and it wouldn't make a difference to their pay. It's more about how many reports you handle and given that these weren't even reported then it's a moot point. There's more than enough reports to handle and staff really don't need to go looking for extra things to do. I agree that these sorts of thank you posts should probably be left alone though as they're not doing any harm. I don't think just giving them merit is ideal either. Not everyone has that much merit to go around but anyone could build up a lot of merit just by doing giveaways and I'm sure people do that already, but it would become more prevalent if merit became the common way to thank people for a giveaway. Maybe we need some sort of thank you button or something here instead.


A self-moderated thread wouldn't exclude it from being moderated by staff or abiding by the forum rules. Self-modded just means that the thread started can moderate it how they want and to be aware of that, but mods can and will enforce the rules there.

Well I got the Villa loss prediction right but nobody saw Leicester losing. Only one person backed the draw as well.

Ridiculous round this week. 6 people sharing the last place with a mere one point seems unfair to give the wooden spoon to trofo  . Luckily VAR gave me some valuable points on the West Ham game. I didn't watch it but when I got the notification that Villa had scored and equalised in the last minutes of injury time I was pretty annoyed that I'd be robbed of some well needed points from this round then good old VAR cancelled it. Just watched the highlights and looks like another tight VAR controversy:



I'd love to see the view from the linesman. It looks like another one of those that if you were looking straight down the line it might actually be onside. The VAR always looks from behind and often it's a bad angle.

Can you believe west Ham are now fight in the table? They snook up there. The league is still really open so far. No team has overly impressed me so far.

tomahawk9 still in first place and looks like he'll be the first person to break the 100 point barrier.

Don't forget tonight's games. A few decent match-ups tonight, but don't know whether to watch the Liverpool/Ajax game or ATL Madrid/Bayern one. I was gonna back Liverpool to win at home as they won 1-0 on the reverse fixture away but but they've been a bit shaky recently so not sure now. I think it will be narrow either way. Could be goals in the Bayern match. I'm looking forward to the Man U / PSG game tomorrow the most though. Man United surprised me with the 2-1 away win but not sure they'll do it again even at home but they're so wildly inconsistent it's hard to predict what team will turn up.

I don't know what you define as an exit scam but if that was his intention from the start he probably wouldn't have paid the other loans back or made some repayments on this one. As for the account, I don't really know how much they go for these days but I'd assume a decent Legendary with a bit of trading history and feedback could get upwards of $1000. Taking out loans is probably easier and safer than selling your account though.


Some people just do them because it makes their life a bit easier in the real world, and some people probably take them because they're a gambling addict, but I reckon most of the loans taken here aren't needed at all and people just do them to easily build up feedback by taking them out and repaying them straight away. Some people will do it for legitimate reasons (if you can call it that) because they want to appear more trustworthy and others will do it for the long con. Taking out small loans to gain trust is probably the easiest way to scam someone as you build up trust with the person bit by bit, slowly but surely and they're lulled into a false sense of security. I don't know whether that happened here or not but as I said before lending money, especially in bitcoin, is a very risky business and if they run into issues in the real world or the price rises as it has done it will become next to impossible to pay it back and the only ramifications for disappearing are a ruined account.

We'll he's certainly the strong favourite but so he was for the Ruiz fight and look what happened there. I'll be watching the fight for sure. Luckily it's on Dazn so I don't have to pay the £25 for PPV.

In related news the WBC has seemingly given the go ahead for the Fury/Joshua fight: https://www.skysports.com/boxing/news/12183/12145775/tyson-fury-can-pursue-undisputed-world-title-clash-with-anthony-joshua-says-wbc-president-mauricio-sulaiman

But that would probably be invalidated if the appeal still goes through in favour of Wilder. No idea what's going on with the mediation though as it's been pretty quiet on that front.

A pretty unpredictable round this week. I'm on a mere 2.5 points so far but it seems about 3.5 was the average score this week. Might even be able to get the yellow cap though if I get tonight's two game's scores right (and the ones above me don't). I thought I was going to get the 2-1 Southampton win but then they went and blew it. Looks like Ollie is saved yet again. I think Arteta might be the first to go the way Arsenal are playing right now.


Didn't watch the game but caught the highlights. They didn't even show the incident or comment on it.



Luiz probably shouldn't have been allowed to play on looking at that, but seems they took him off at half time. Turns out Jiminez had surgery for a fractured skull:



https://www.wolves.co.uk/news/club/20201130-update-on-raul-jimenez


Half the table could get the yellow cap right now as he's only on 7.5 points.


Leicester should easily win but not sure about Villa. Not sure what I'll go for on that one yet but probably won't be an away win.

Lending people money in bitcoin can turn honest people into dishonest ones pretty quickly. They might have every intention of paying it back but if they're unable to or the price rises significantly then it's all too easy to just disappear as there's probably little to no real world ramifications and the only damage done to them is a ruined account. That's what it looks like has happened here as he popped back to make repayments when he could have just disappeared but if he's under financial difficulty in real life then its going to be very difficult to make repayments back and would be far easier to just go awol.

Lending people money here is incredibly risky and doesn't really seem worth it in my opinion because all it takes is one person to run off with a decent chunk and your business will probably be in the red overall. You have to remember this question: why are they lending it in the first place? It's either because obviously they don't have sufficient money, which is already a red flag, or they're just borrowing to pay it back and build feedback up. Some will do this for legitimate reasons and others will do it for the long con

The accounts that have been spreading the 'Ethereum pill' malware. There's hundreds of them. You might not have noticed them if you haven't gone in the alt coin board though as they mainly seem to post in the eth thread there. They're all very old accounts that have been inactive for years so they probably just targeted ones with weak passwords and bruteforced them. Kinda stupid really because they get banned straight away and they could have probably made more money just by selling the accounts as there's a lot of decently ranked ones there.



I really doubt that nullius is lauda's alt. I don't think lauda is gone though. I'm sure he's on another account. Nullius just seems the same sort of autist that timelord is, but more pretentious.

Thought the Leeds game was gonna be another 0-0 thriller like it was with Arsenal last week but Leeds went and got the goal late on. I thought they dominated the first half and deserved the win, even though I backed them to lose. At least Leeds aren't conceding a ridiculous amount like they were, but these last two games shorelines really haven't been indicative of their performances.


I didn't watch it but just checked the highlights now and again it's one of those decisions where they've used a bad angle. Had they had a 'birds eye view' or one directly down the line it might have been onside, but either way who cares about these millimetre decisions. I seriously think they should consider allowing them if one part of the body is onside... or preferably getting rid of VAR  .



The last penalty was harsh, even though there was minor contact. Had he not purposely gone down with the amateur dramatics it wouldn't have been given. Not surprisingly nobody backed the draw but two people did go with the 1-0 home win.

This forum isn't a museum. A 16-man gangbang is a place of work but it doesn't belong in the office, nor do images of it even if they were painted by Courbet or any other French painter. You can certainly browse as many pictures as you want in your office if that so pleases you, but a lot of people here don't work in a museum or the Vatican and a lot of users likely won't want to be caught with vaginas on their screen - art or not - not to mention a lot of bosses and co-workers probably wouldn't appreciate it either. Sadly, I'm sure just calling them 'ignorant, uncultured rubes' wouldn't save them from their jobs or a disciplinary warning either.


Have you heard the fine works of William Frederick Durst? I particularly like the third movement of his seminal work: Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water entitled "My Generation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE9CXWV1alg

The entire album is a masterpiece of nu metal and I would recommend it when reading my posts. 128kbs mp3 is available if you're interested.


Have you thought that some people might find it unnaceptable to look at pictures of vaginas too, regardless of who they were painted by? It looks like people have differing standards. Who would have thought not everyone thinks the same? So just to clarify, the word Cunt bad, but pictures of painted cunt ok? Gotcha.



And in professional and social contexts a lot of people probably don't want to see vaginas either, just like you probably wouldn't browse this forum in those circumstances. What would your associates say if they saw you looking at vile pictures of street-walkers and the evil devil's lettuce/dust? How ghastly! I'm not sure why you're even wasting time here wallowing in the mire with all us mere peons since this is all obviously below you.

Interesting. Nicely spotted. I think he should return, but I'd assume that his account is more likely to be hacked given the recent wave of inactive accounts that have been taken over.

Edit. Didn't see that he'd announced his return. I doubt he ever went away fully and always assumed he would return:


I'm sure lauda will come back at some point or he's still probably here somewhere under one guise or another.

You can't have been round here long or haven't paid much attention in Meta. People cry about muh freedom of speech after they've had their ref link removed or their general shitposting.


In your fantasy, I bet. I almost married the girl who introduced me to Limp Bizkit, Jaegerbombs and anal sex. She was an unclassy stunner in some pink velour sweatpants with 'juicy' printed on the arse. We spent hours, day and night, discussing fine literature like 50 Shades of Grey, pole dancing and classic nu metal. She was the living encyclopaedia of the Kardashians and the fine works of Banksy. She even posed nude for PlayBoy's Amateur Sluts of the month section and came in 23rd place that year!   Where's the barf emoji? You sound like one of those unsufferables who pretends to like things they think posh people do just to sound cultured, cos posh people just love classical music, fine wines and entry level 19th-century French painters.





Did she post the images to an unrelated internet message board?

It's not against the rules, but trolling and being a nuisance is so you can't just start screaming racial abuse at people just to try rile them up. It's probably an ad hominem most of the time and likely off-topic in most threads anyway. Abusing people based on their race tells me a lot about them though and these people usually aren't worth your time and if this sort of thing offends someone they should just utilise the ignore button and problem solved. This whole cancel culture trying to silence anyone who says something they don't like is getting out of hand and it's a very slippery slope (hope I just didn't offend Vietnamese now: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slope).


I think most of the abuse here is generated towards groups or nationalities with derogatory terms like pajeet etc and most forum member's nationality probably isn't a secret most of the time.


I wouldn't waste any time worrying or arguing with these idiots. It is quite worrying though how they've started redefining words and language to suit their beliefs. It's seemingly become quite a generally accepted term amongst them now that only white people can be racist, which is obviously completely moronic but suits their identity politics and victim mentality. Slavery is as old as mankind and Africans were enslaving themselves and then Arabs long before the Europeans got there, but nobody wants to hear about that or all the attempted genocides that happened within Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_central_Africa

I think most of us can generally accept that racism is bad and slavery was horrific, but unless you're out marching in the streets screaming Black Lives Matter some people will still call you racist, but you have to remember that these are the sorts of hypocritical idiots you're dealing with:




If someone uses terms like this is says a lot about them more than anything else. I mean, if you're going to be racist at least come up with something witty or original.


Woah there, you don't want to get negative feedback from gaylord2067 for being transphobic homophobic.