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@myunforcedera I actually think he’s quite average at tennis. His game is so basic and the quality of the field is the lowest it’s been in 40 years.

Sinner is an amazing tennis phenom, on his way to possibly becoming one of the all-time greats. There’s absolutely no denying that. But there’s also something else that’s undeniable. He’s not marketable. Some people have It. Rafa Nadal, Roger Federer, to a lesser extent Novak Djokovic (those of us who’ve been following him from the start know that he had to grow into It), Bjorn Borg, Johnny Mac, Carlos Alcaraz, Jimmy Connors, Marat Safin… I could go on but you get the idea. These guys ooze charisma, personality, flair, coolness, swagger, aura.. they have It, or they earned It (like Nole). Jannik Sinner doesn’t have It. He just doesn’t. Maybe he’ll grow into the role of The Man like Novak, but so far — it’s tough. He’s the socially awkward introvert who is forced to be marketed and propped up because he’s so undeniably brilliant at playing tennis, but you can just feel it’s forced. None of the tennis media have the courage to admit this of course, so it’s a taboo subject that no one wants to grapple with. Which only makes it worse because how will he grow into It? Novak at least had the media against him and he ended up savoring the villain role after that phase of wanting praise passed and that’s when he became The Man. But how will Sinner learn and grow into a charismatic personality if the tennis media coddles him all the time? For the sake of the game, I hope he grows into the role.

@kianrep De Gea

No keeper has ever had this save catalogue genuinely

@utdrobbo Get me Adam Wharton

Of the top 7 in this list, Manchester United: -had two of them -signed two of them -wanted one of them -distanced themselves from the other two Data, ladies & gents.

@DaygameCharisma @LlcPharm You sucked in bed

@LlcPharm Started in 2021, ended in 2024

I'm finally understanding "She’s not yours, it’s just your turn" In my last long-term relationship (3 years, about to get married) I did the exact opposite: I took ownership for everything She started with crooked teeth and got braces from an opportunist female dentist, supposedly for a year. After a year of no results, the dentist suggested to get 3 teeth extracted. I told her to go with my dentist, which is the go-to in my city so a bit expensive and I took care of all the expenses. Can’t have a gap-toothed future wife can I? Wanted to propose in the empire state (that was my first time moving to a metropolis and the attraction I went to on my first weekend there), but she had no passport and no visa. Made the paperwork and paid the fees for the passport, drove her to another city to collect it. Made the paperwork and paid the fees for the visa. Can’t have a future wife who can’t even travel to the US right? Plus almost all flights to Europe are cheaper if you go through an US airport Picked her up from work to go to the gym together everyday (actually made progress and got quads of the gods, she was a gym rat after all) Actually hired her to work for me part-time so she could make ends meet despite her having a full time job already The problem? She wasn’t reciprocal. One Christmas she got me a $5 diffuser thingie, on Valentine's day she told me "I owe you a gift" while holding a bouquet of flowers, cake and a handmade portrait (by me) of all the moments we shared the last year. Never got that supposed gift (happened multiple times) I made an annual budget for concerts and made it last for 5, but she wanted a 6th… without paying a single cent. Contributed a whole 5% to the wedding costs (with the money I was paying her). Plus the standard allergic to saying thank you or I'm sorry. I was making titanic amounts of effort while she was barely moving a finger. So when we broke up, I thought "well, if I'm gonna make all this effort for a woman, she’s gotta be worth it" WRONG. I had the same flawed mentality of putting in titanic amounts of effort for a woman, I just raised my standards That’s where "she’s not yours, it’s just your turn" comes in. At first, it sounds defeatist: "I can never hope to convince her to stay with me wah wah" that’s not what it means. What it means is you should not be taking responsibility for things that are HER responsibility You should not be worried that she had a bag of flaming hot cheetos for breakfast, she should. You should not be footing the bill to get her crooked teeth straight, she (or her dad) should. You should not be worried that she’s gonna be evicted if she doesn’t make ends meet, she should. She’s not yours. Your only responsibility is looking out for yourself and evaluate if she is good enough for you TODAY This one partied her whole youth, dropped out and now earns $5 before tax a year? Not for me. This one has never had a passport and visa and can’t even understand english? Not compatible with my lifestyle. Can’t cook but got a STEM degree and a habit of going to the gym? Works fine since everyone’s a work in progress but she already got the fundamentals right. The idea is not to be a nitpicker, but if a girl who has that AND also cooks comes along, I'm choosing her, since I'm looking out for myself and this means getting me the best deal I can get The idea also is not to turn the table and be the one on the receiving end for once. If the girl is reciprocal it’s ok to make titanic amounts of effort for her because she’s gonna make titanic amounts of effort for you. Don’t apply to linkedin in her behalf to get her a new job because she doesn’t like her current one when she’s not even applying herself. Do pay for an international trip together, she’s gonna wire you her whole Christmas bonus to extend the trip and spend a few more days together

FIFA have got a lot wrong in how World Cup but refusing to let players cover their mouth is top tier…clear as day see him say ‘150 million pound player’ hahahahahaha

@BonesawMD Dedicate? Posting Jesus crap on twitter

> Mcgregor dedicates himself to turn his life around, get out of substance abuse & make correct his recent horrific life choices > hopes to inspire everyone > unfortunately injures himself in front of the world on the biggest stage mindless baboon viewer: but what about ME?????

Weirdo behaviour to watch Mcgregor fully dedicate himself to fixing his life after serious mishap, then getting angry w/ him for injuring himself trying to perform at the highest level bc he didn't put on enough of a show to satisfy you at home Deep entitlement beyond words

Alright it must be asked but is Jude Bellingham now the best looking great athlete of the past twenty five years? (Not interested in discussing old dudes) it’s him or Brady.

@sashayanshin @cobainbronson This was claptrap

@cobainbronson You’re inadvertently supporting my point. How is “wealth” going to be measured? Who values the business and how? What is an acceptable P/E to use? At 10 P/E, this example still pays over 20%.

Imagine you build a successful business in the UK. It makes £10 Million profit. First you pay 25% Corporation tax = £2.5 Million. Your net profit after tax is £7.5 Million. Average UK P/E ratio for public companies is ~15.4. Let’s use that as a proxy. This business is worth £7.5 Million x 15.4 = £115.5 Million. UK Government wants to tax you 2% wealth tax on your net worth above £10 Million per year. 2% x (115.5 - 10) Million = £2.11 Million. So you have to pay yourself a dividend of £3.48 Million which will pay 39.35% dividend tax to pay the wealth tax. Remaining Company profit = £4.02 Million. If you want to have that money, you have to pay dividend tax again. After the tax you have £2.44 Million. So the net effect is that if you make £10 Million, the UK Government will take 75.6% of it as tax. Almost half of this tax comes from the 2% wealth tax. It’s an extra 35% tax on profit in this example. Problem is dimwits who were “good at maths at school” and politicians don’t understand basic maths. This will mean absolutely nobody will take the risk to invest or start a business in the UK. What is the point? If you are lucky enough to succeed, you will get punished hard. Jobs will not be created. Investment will dry up immediately. Anyone starting a business who is young enough will move. The power of FAFO will lead to a collapse in living standards and a collapse in economic growth. This will destroy the UK economy and be the biggest own goal in a generation. Why are we blindly walking into a self-orchestrated financial disaster? But hey - it sounds good because an idiot YouTuber who has no clue said so. It has good vibes. Tax the millionaires! What is so bad about a 75.6% tax exactly?

@ZiaYusufUK Jenrick 😂

The Tories imported 6 million net new people in 14 years and added just 455 net new prison places. They released over 10,000 criminals early, including violent ones. They are sick arsonists offering to rebuild your house having burnt it to the ground.

@andreajenkyns @toneyq73 @reformparty_uk And now justification for the £5m arrives. Et viola.

@toneyq73 @reformparty_uk What absolute rubbish. I had 8 threats and very little was done, including my child been threatened with rape. But your own hatred only likes to believe what is convenient.

Incredible leadership from @reformparty_uk, who are now funding personal security for me. Throughout my nine years as a Tory MP, even facing severe threats against my young son and eight death threats, I was left with zero support. Reform stands by its people and takes the safety of its public figures seriously. The media and other political parties must stop the sniping and adding venom to an already hostile situation for those in the public eye.

@nw_nicholas @andreajenkyns @reformparty_uk They now have the justification for the £5m donation. Et viola

@andreajenkyns @reformparty_uk Who's paying for it?

@unjected @dbs0127 Ahhhh you’re a retard

@dbs0127 hahahaha love it, so you literally have no idea what you're talking about. that's cool.

It literally takes like 20 minutes of actual research to determine that vaccines are a scam and an instrument of death. If you can't figure it out, don't get mad at us.

@Jo_Marney @Socket1Sophie Why do they have to call the press first?

@Socket1Sophie Why should the leader of a political party laying flowers for a murdered spokeswoman be done privately? Please explain that to me ?

Shame there was nobody there to capture such a private moment.

@LawrenceElliots I mean, it’s obvious advice. Take washed up, coked up ex pro fighter who has one win in a decade and is 5 yrs out from snapping his leg in the ring. Make his near 40yr old ass repeatedly practice a mental, useless kick for months (when he’s never KO with a kick) Smart

Guys with a couple of bar fights to their name giving advice to professional fighters will never not be funny

@BonesawMD Most of the people in charge are there for every other reason than competency or intelligence. Because the outcomes they’re in charge of don’t require those things, nor control for them.

Brutal post. This is a fact, and you realise the people who do run it trend towards the highly intelligent with a cold blue flame ambition. Most did exceptionally well in school. Even if they dropped out, it’ll be from the best schools in the world. It’s not really a “grind w/ solid work ethic and hypnotised with delusional belief” — the inkling of doubt is so tiny and foreign it hardly crosses their mind. They legit just think of big things, then sequentially get them done. Body and mind are disposable vessels to them just the vehicles of mass production. C student thing or school drop out hyper successful thing can obviously be true. And if your algo knows you well enough that you’re reading a post like this then it’s WAY more likely to be a reality for someone like you - but it’s not the majority of the demographic for those at the top. At all.

Amen

@bondy_inx Tax avoidance

Hagerty just sold a record Ferrari Enzo for $15 million with only 249 miles on it The CEO of a $1.5B collector car insurance empire says that's basically a sad car "I would rather have the twenty thousand mile Ferrari Enzo that I could go drive. I congratulated the buyer - wonderful buy, sir, but I would like to please drive it" His data is revealing something bigger about the entire hobby: an estimated 12 million enthusiast vehicles, worth roughly $570 billion, will pass from baby boomers to the next generation over the next 15 years - and it's reshaping what "collectible" even means. Automakers noticed too. When manual transmissions started disappearing, auction data showed manual versions suddenly commanding a massive premium. Now Ferraris and Aston Martins are getting manual swaps, and Porsche brought the stick back, for $300,000. His blunt advice for anyone getting into vintage cars: "buy the car you want to drive, then buy the best example you can afford" bookmark & watch the full conversation ↓

@ZiaYusufUK PR ghouls.

The memory of the righteous is a blessing.