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This thread will function as a kind of omnium gatherum for the melange of dissenting observations and opinions I have about MMA, MMA bouts and fighters, things I find humorous, and essentially any other thing. Why? Because sewage warrants proper curation as much as anything else. Arguably more.

Toshers and specklebellies welcome. No mutton-shunters, namby-pambys or needy-mizzlers. Pull up a stool and smother the parrot.

* Edited at 11.01.2021, 6:47 PM ET *

Police in Sussex were shocked to discover a shark-infested pool slap bang in the middle of someone's living room.

Oh and if that mental image isn't quite surreal enough for you, there was also a Christmas tree in the middle which the sharks were happily swimming around. It's a bit early for that, guys.

Officers from Sussex Police were called out to a disturbance at a house in Haywards Heath but were surprised to find the home was also shared by numerous sharks, which were swimming around in a 8-foot pool set up in the living room.

Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Policing Inspector Darren Taylor posted about the bizarre call out on Twitter, writing: "Just when you think you have heard it all!

"Team attended a premises over the weekend, only to discover a 8ft swimming pool in the front room.

"In the swimming pool (apart from water) were small sharks swimming around and an artificial Christmas tree in the middle! I kid you not!"

In a statement released by Sussex Police, the force assured people that none of the animals in the 'children's paddling pool' were dangerous.

It said: "Officers were called to a neighbour dispute and not a disturbance as has been reported.

"Several types of goldfish/fish commonly kept as pets, were found in a children's paddling pool fitted with pumps and filters, not a swimming pool, and none were sharks.

"The property landlords were contacted over concerns about the volume of water in the property, but there were no concerns over the welfare of the fish.

* Edited at 11.10.2021, 6:36 PM ET *

* Edited at 11.10.2021, 7:42 PM ET *

I'm willing to accept a slight National Insurance increase if I can be assured that it would be spent on training police officers and other emergency workers in the art of differentiating between different forms of aquatic life.

They don't look like sharks but they don't look like goldfish to me either.

@Pillory that's just a generic picture of a shark in the sea, so...y'know....

Pepe and pasta senpai share great chemistry

Lmfao

ROASTED 

I had horse meat (they didn't try to hide it was horse meat) in Malta... It's unreal, pure protein. There were a few of us there, I felt bad for my vegan friend who was also there

* Edited at 11.12.2021, 6:38 AM ET *

is this not just girl scouts?

 For those who didn't see it, White was asked about what he thought of Kamaru fighting Canelo in the post-fight conference folling Usman vs Covington. He said: "I watched Canelo fight tonight. You (Kamaru) don't want to fight Canelo".

Usman maintained after beating Covington that's still a fight he wants. In Boxing. In my opinion, that would be professional suicide.

Mayweather vs Mcgregor was one thing. Floyd is a very good salesman, and is technically so much better than these money fight opponents, especially defensively, that he can make circus fights look somewhat competitive, and ensure they don't finish too early so the fans get their money's worth. He's an incredible point fighter, even in his dotage, understands the difference between a pro fight and an expo ( someone should explain it to Vitor Belfort) and knows how to carry a show without letting his ego or instinct get in the way. He's not a power puncher. He's a relatively safe fight in a boxing match for an MMA fighter. Especially when he's hugely outsized by them which he generally is, and is basically retired and just ******* around.

But that ain't Saul Alverez.

Canelo just isn't like that. He's a straight-up ******* murderer in the prime of his career. Now, I don't particularly like the guy and refuse to watch his fights since the GGG robberies, but the fact remains that whenever he fights, he only has one objective, and that is to ****  his opponent so they stay ******. He is a really, really bad ************.

I personally do not believe Canelo is any more capable of putting on a mayweather-style exhibition boxing event than a greyhound is of resisting chasing and eating a rabbit that has accidentally wandered into a dog racing circuit. He could never do what mayweather does. He's not turning up to put on a song and dance. He's turning up to erase people's souls from reality. Even if he wanted to do it differently, I doubt he could.

And what he would do in a boxing match, to Usman, who was getting pieced by Covington who probably wouldn't even take Golden gloves anywhere, doesn't even bear thinking about. I will say with absolutely no hyperbole whatsoever that that fight would be about as competitive as Cynthia Cavillo vs Francis Ngannou. The divide  would literally be that great.

And I don't want to see it for any reason, ever. You're the greatest WW of all time, Kamaru. For the love of God, stay in your lane.

* Edited at 11.14.2021, 3:51 AM ET *

Because  it's truly getting embarrassing at this point.

It's patently obvious that whatever models they're using are complete insufficient in making accurate predictions about anything climatological in either the long, medium or short terms. The hit rate is incredibly low, and if you look at a trajectory of predictions coming out of that field of science since the seventies, it reads like a schizophrenic flat-earther's note pad.

In the 70's, they predicted an impending ice-age. In the late eighties, the UN  stated that roughly 2000 Nations would be wiped off the earth by the year 2000 due to rising sea levels, and that the majority of beaches on the US East cost would be completely submerged by 2020. None of those things happened. In the year 2000, British Climatologists predicted there would be no virtually no snow in England within 5 years. Also didn't happen.

There are still Glaciers in Montana. Snowfall still persists. And on and on and on.

The disclaimer that climatologists have to excuse their ineptitude is twofold:

A) The science changes
B) The reason the climate Apocalypse hasn't happened is that climatologists saved the day by issuing warnings, which were heeded, and thus mitigated disaster.

On the first point, no; I'm sorry, but you don't just get to excuse the failures of your models by issuing retractions. This is no different from a weather report which reads 'mostly sunny with a possible chance of showers clearing'. Not only is that not a useful forecast, it isn't one at all. It's a Horoscope. Predicting every possible outcome is and being right 100% of the time isn't science and neither  is getting it right 50% of the time. I could get the same rate of success sans millions of dollars of instrumentation by flipping a ******* Penny.

The second point is very easily disproved, to a certainty. The world population has more than doubled since 1970, and CO2 emissions alone have increased by over 90%. 78% of that total is attributed to fossil fuels. In the US alone productivity increased nearly 300% from 1970 to 2021. That means a lot more people have been doing and making stuff, and burning dirty energy to do it.

So no. Just no. Whatever warnings ecologists issued way back when have not been heeded. They have been utterly ignored. And moreover, if the projections they made in the 70's were based on rates and levels of atmospheric particulates present atmospherically at that time, which they were, then they were categorically and disastrously wrong, because if they weren't things would be far worse than was presumed by those predictions.

TL:DR: Al Gore is a clown, and the only time I'll ever be reading an ICC climate change forecast is on the ****ter, shortly after printing it out, and before wiping my ass with it, in the event I have run out of toilet paper.

* Edited at 11.14.2021, 8:42 PM ET *

How the **** are polar bears gonna hunt with no ice? Tell me this. This is all that matters, the polar bears. I'm seriously. 

The thing is we can't trust these science ******* 

* Edited at 11.14.2021, 8:07 PM ET *