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Surely the greatest cheer of every festive season is saved for when Ellis gets his bullet! Not all deaths are equal!

Of course you can have a Christmas movie with terrorists; they just can't win. Even your examples support what I'm saying. Home Alone has violent criminals, which is fine because they're thwarted by the good guy. In Elf, not only does Buddy end up reconciling with his Dad, but they also...

Absolutely. Unless you're going to say that a Christmas movie has to explicitly and only be about the nativity, Santa or elves, any attempts to argue that genre has anything to do with whether a film is a Christmas movie or not are totally spurious. It's a Wonderful Life is the greatest...

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Group 5: Peep Show The Simpsons Battlestar Galactica Lost Twin Peaks Group 6: Stranger Things Futurama Breaking Bad The Expanse Prison Break

Group 3: Only Fools & Horses Deadwood Mad Men Group 4: Black Adder Seinfeld True Detective Ozark

I mean, this is a wild exaggeration. For one thing, no cup final (we all pray) will ever match up to the unevenness of 1958. For another, this City team is excellent, sure; we're in rubbish form, sure. But it's both a cup final and a derby, so not only does form not provide a fair indication...

You're correct. Avariciousness is a lexical redundancy that was invented through a grammatical error (turning an adjective into a noun by adding the suffix 'ness', forgetting that there was/is a preexisting noun from which the adjective already derived). Sorry @Fortitude

Yes, I've openly made a single assumption which I've explained as part of a developed argument. You have made a declarative statement based on numerous implicit assumptions that you've neglected to discuss. And your basic statement, as I made clear in my opening response, has nothing directly...

You wrote an original comment in defence of the posters who were suggesting it was inevitable that Garnacho will move to Real Madrid. Of course I can't give you examples, because I have zero knowledge of the inner workings of the Real Madrid administration, now or at any time in the past. But...

The 2 halves of this sentence have nothing to do with each other or the argument. No team is able to stop a player who wants to join another club from eventually joining them. Obviously. Players are contracted employees, so if a player wants to leave, a club can either determine a compensatory...

To add to @oneniltothearsenal's post, but trying to limit it to books published in 2022, here are my personal favourites of the 52 I managed to read this year (apologies for the self-promoting links, but since I already wrote reviews on most of them, I didn't fancy summarising them again here)...

Pogba's debatable, but having watched almost all his sub-first-team football when he initially joined, I'd be amazed if anybody could say he was 'close to ready' when he joined from Le Havre at 16. The Fletcher point doesn't make any sense. He joined at 11, signed at 15. Just because he was a...