Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

Never pay any attention to ManU...may be worth doing so this season. They managed to win last season with a poorer side than usual...allowed to win by no other team really putting up much of an effort. Will be a transition phase for them.

 

Croatia officially joined the EU today. YAY.

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Not very politically savvy, but isn't there a danger that the EU will get too cumbersome. I'll probably regret even starting that debate.

 

Saves Nicola the effort of getting another work permit for Lovren. Yay.

 

they still didn't explain why it's called 90 mile beach .... and it's only 55 miles?????

 

Still cannot understand why our Groundsman hasn't picked up any awards.

 

Agreed. The pitch looks fantastic!

 

We always seem to come close, then they give it to Arsenal.

 

Clyne has just said he's shopping in Paris, I suppose he's off too.

 

Suppose the players involved in Internationals have been given some extra time.

 

Massive wildfire in the States - 19 firefighters dead (the largest number dead in one incident since 9/11.)

 

Also a massive fire in the Midlands.

 

Massive, drought-fueled fires are becoming an annual occurrence in the American Southwest as conditions get drier and hotter with each passing year. But don't you dare suggest that it's climate change.

 

US firefighters have a high death rate than ours do when fighting similar fires (obviously not massive wildfires as we don't have many of those). Apparently it is due to a more gung ho attitude, especially when other lives are at stake. Admirable on one level, but they carry on trying even when it is sensible to back off.

 

you may have got the wrong end of his message Dan, he may well be "in Paris" .... I recall a video made public about that a few years back

 

at a plastics factory

 

CCTV show that it was started by a Chinese Lantern.

 

Well drought is to do with El Nino/La Nina which is affected by climate change. Sorry.

 

They weren't regular firefighters, they were "hotshots". Their job, apparently, was to go into the fire and create a "fireline" (which I think something they do to control which way the fire will spread and keep it away from towns), and they apparently miscalculated their escape route. That's pretty much what their entire job entails and it's dangerous as ****.

 

Very sad.