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Nah, you'll beat us to 6th, but then we'll win the Cup and take the Europa League place anyway.

5 places sometimes happens already if the CL or EL winner doesn't finish in their league's top 4 (e.g. Spain had 5 this year). Used to be that if the CL winner didn't qualify anyway through league position they'd kick the lowest placed qualifying (non-champion) team from their country down to the UEFA Cup, but that changed in 2005 when UEFA realised there was no way they'd get away with kicking Everton out to let Liverpool in.

What's the reason the point deduction only applies if they are relegated, and not right now the way Everton's and Forest's did?

If they really wanted to break up with Adidas they should have gone all the way and switched to Puma.

Yeah, even when she went in they were saying she wouldn't return to "work" until after Easter, which is what makes the Mothers Day photoshop a massive own goal - they could have just kept pointing back at that statement and emphasising privacy, and while the circle-jerk of conspiracy theories would still have happened they wouldn't have got this big and crazy.

The Norman French ones tend to keep the French spelling but change pronunciation, e.g. Beaulieu (Bewley) and Belvoir (Beaver)

And people knew that at the time, hence the existence of abolitionist movements.

Note that the judge didn't rule on whether Fox is or isn't a racist, he lost on the basis that being called a racist by those specific people didn't damage his reputation.

Bound - the one with the Orion slave girls and their super-mind-control pheromones

Unless you're Lower Decks. Then you talk about both!

Enterprise got good in seasons 3 and 4 - from about midway in season 4 (the episode where the Earth embassy on Vulcan gets blown up) to the penultimate episode Terra Prime there's only really one bad episode. Although that episode is really bad.

Essentially it means that the current vice-president won the election to be the new president so they'll continue with the current policy rather than the friendlier-to-China stance of the opposition.

Fujitsu has started coming up today - there's questions being asked about whether they'll be contributing towards the compensation bill and how much, and whether they should still be getting government contracts.

Prodigy is up on Netflix now (at least in the UK) after it was removed from Paramount+ earlier in 2023

It's Doctor Who - if they say 15 years happened between 2010 and 2023, then I'll just assume some kind of weird space-magic phenomena happened and Earth decided to repeat a couple of years.

Quick correction on this - if you marry someone from overseas you have to earn that much in order for them to get a spouse visa.

The new patch has canonised the existence of Bing Bong, the fan favourite doorman imp from the BG3 cast play D&D livestreams https://www.polygon.com/23984165/baldurs-gate-3-patch-bing-bong-canon-dick-physics

He had many different ministerial jobs, yet he will always be most famous for how his eyebrows stayed black when the rest of his hair went grey.

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still no idea.

In the case we're talking about here, the assets aren't going to the Crown, they're going to the Duchy of Lancaster, an altogether different organisation run for the benefit of the current monarch. And this is the estates of all people who die without a will, even if they have descendants. Cornwall has the same system, but going to the Prince of Wales rather than the monarch. Everywhere else the estates of people who die intestate go to the government in the way you might expect.

Wilders' path to being Dutch PM appears to have got harder, as the VVD (mainstream centre-right, party of the current PM, came third this time) have ruled out joining a PVV-led coalition. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67517742

Most recently I've been reading the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus, (aka Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks). Prescient not just by being published over a decade before the meme, but also for the actions and motivations of the billionaire antagonist of when and why he switches sides in the Torment Nexus debate.

The analyses I was reading say the judgement was mostly focussed on UN refugee treaties rather than the ECHR, and so the plan would still be unlawful even if we weren't in the ECHR.

Drinking your own healing potion is a bonus action in D&D - it's giving it to someone else (which I haven't worked out how to do in BG3) that's a full action.

Part of that's going to be the actor's strike meaning that the actors weren't doing any promotional work they way they'd normally do for an MCU film.