How have your weeks been?
I’m heading to the Emirates for the first time next month for the stadium tour. Although I’m super excited, I also have horrible travel anxiety and I’m really worried that I’m going to be a nervous wreck during my short time in London so I won’t be able to enjoy myself.
It’s a really shitty thing to have, everything that should be an enjoyable leisure trip becomes a frightening challenge. Nonetheless, I need to face my fears and maybe things will turn out okay and I’ll have a blast.
The stadium tour is a religious experience. Have fun!!
Hey mate, I live in North London, not too far from the Emirates. London can be an overwhelming place for everyone, and if you need any help with traveling from a to b, advice, or just someone to catch a drink with and chill for a while let me know
Your kindness makes me want to come to London to just hang and see the Emirates as well.
London’s a great hang city, tonnes of great pubs and little neighbourhoods to explore without having to venture into the city proper. Also, it’s where Arsenal are so that’s something too
I too want to go to London now to have a beer with @[email protected]…
It’s a very nice gesture :)
Thank you, I really appreciate that!!
Good luck my man. The Ashburton Grove is magnificent in person and the tour is definitely worth it.
Great job facing your fears! The Emirates is beautiful, you will definitely enjoy it.
That sounds quite debilitating. But, I really hope you manage to push through and have some fun on your trip!
Maybe focus on how much you are looking forward to the tour? :D
(Have some fun for me while you’re there too, please 😁)
First week in a new role at work, birthday this weekend, going on a holiday soon, Arsenal having all the important business done before the start of preseason? It’s a good week!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday
Happy birthday (if it’s still the same day xD). Hope you had/have a wonderful day :)
Also all the best qith your job and enjoy your holiday! I’m enjoying mine so far
Happy birthday!
Sounds exciting! Best of luck for your new role and happy birthday!!!
So now that we’ve got the generally known targets done and key players mostly tied down, who do you think we’ll be going for next if we are doing more spending this summer?
@MHPengwingz @throbbingpens a midfielder (Lavia or fofana) and an opportunistic winger (diaby)
If we got Lavia and Diaby on top of the signings we have already made I think I’d have a fucking heart attack. That’s not the arsenal I know.
Are there any truths to the Tchouameni links? I wonder if that would be more of an opportunistic signing depending on whether Mbappe moves to Madrid
@hangonasecond but paying £100+ for a single player is??
Mbappe.
Okay I couldn’t even type that without laughing.
Lmaooooo heck no
Fucking hell every time I load up Fabrizio’s twitter and see a tweet with a red picture I get my hopes up. The one I saw just now was Enzo Le Fee moving from Lorient to Rennes.
If rumours are right, today’s a big day for our club… I hope it is actually going down.
Yeah I hope it’s all three. Starting with Saliba’s extension.
Loss my sense of smell the last two days and just finally started to smell hints of stuff today…sinusitis is unreal.
@MHPengwingz @throbbingpens I get it a lot. Nasal Salt wash and/or steam help soothe it for me.
I’ve been doing the nasal rinse but I don’t think it was helping much. Did get an insane amount of mucus out. I think what did work to get the smells going again was trying to get a whiff of eucalyptus and camphor. Could also be the sinusitis was already running its course. It’s pretty freaky because I’ve never had it this bad before.
@MHPengwingz Good luck. I hope you get some relief from it soon.
Least it ain’t covid?
True. I think it was compounded with inhaling the wildfire smoke that came down over the weekend and I was outside for a bulk of it. So just insanely inflammed in my sinuses.
@[email protected] no daily discussion today?
We’ve not been doing Daily Discussions when there’s Free Talk lol
Didn’t really notice. I guess this thread becomes kinda like a 2-in-1 then
Changed the post title to reflect it. A little late but it’s cool anyway.
I finally got myself a library card. I brought home two books and started one of them. Can’t wait to restart reading as a hobby.
The two books for anyone interested are I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin.
Libraries are one of the greatest things in the world. A free hub of knowledge and entertainment and so much more.
If you’re looking at science fiction, might I recommend 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson?
Oooh thanks for the suggestion! I will look it up.
For more KSR, good “hard” SF, try his Mars trilogy. If you read that first, you could then try his Aurora, in which he basically says “the whole concept of the Mars trilogy was stupid and wrong” - not many authors would do that.
Another big read you might enjoy is Peter Hamilton’s Commonwealth Saga. I’ve only read books 1 & 2 - *Pandora’s Star *and Judas Unchained , but both were fabulous. They’re effectively one huge book split into two, book 2 starts exactly at the point book 1 ends.
Will do thank you for the suggestions!
Very nice! I sometimes find it difficult to stick to reading regularly (like currently…). But, I mostly read of a night time before sleep, since I find that the most convenient time.
I’ve been currently reading through The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and illustrated by Chris Riddell
Do you mostly read scifi books or a bit of everything? The Lathe of Heaven sounds interesting.
One of may favourites is Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
If you haven’t seen them, yet. Chris Riddell’s illustrations of Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass are beautiful. Just reread both books with my 5 year old for the first time in years.
Ooo! Ill need to check it out! I love his illustrations and I think that would work fantastically with Alice in Wonderland
I bought another copy of Neverwhere illustrated by Chris Riddell earlier this year 😅
I read a little of everything to be honest, and right now I’m making an active effort to read more sci-fi/fantasy because I love the genre.
I haven’t read those yet. I will!
Also gonna recommend the Hitchhiker’s Guide Trilogy of Five if you haven’t read Douglas Adams’s masterpiece; different kind of book to what’s mentioned but it’s still nominally science fiction and is more importantly just huge fun.
I’ve read those, I agree they are so fun.
Neverwhere is awesome. I’m a huge fan of Gaiman. American Gods may be one of the best books I’ve ever read.
I’ve heard a lot about American Gods and I’ve wanted to read it since the first time I heard about it.
It’s a really good novel. Another Gaiman classic. It was disappointing to see what they did to the short-lived TV show.
I watched the show before I knew it was based off of a book. I’ve been wanting to read it for a while, but it’s been in my backlog since. I’ll need to try get around to it… I’m flying to Norway on the 17th, I might try nab it before then
