Typical French.
Cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Greatest sports come back ever/worst bottle job in sports ever.

I watched it with a level of bewilderment that bordered on stupid, a heightened WTF state of mind. It took a couple of hours to unwind & come down from.

It sounds ridiculous but Barca actually didn't play that well! PSG were just THAT bad, just fucked up that badly, kept gifting Barca goals. Then the ref got duped by Suarez. But it was crazy defending from PSG they just panicked & every decision they made was the wrong one & everything went wrong.

Even still at 3-0 I felt PSG just needed a goal & the tie would be over. And once they got it I was willing to give up and stop watching, I thought it was over. & in fairness so did most of the Barca players - Messi pretty much stopped trying & went into a sulk for example. & PSG had two 1-on-1's before Neymars free kick they should've scored from.

Football. Fucking hell.

What a world..

I disappeared down the rabbit hole this morning after reading your & apex's posts, combing thru articles all the way back to '87. Fuck. Total waste of a morning.

No, I get that. I'm just saying that I think that was actually part of it, part of the reason for CD's gestation. In fact I think it was part of the plan - part of the point of [him] wanting to be a rock star is to live on his/your own terms. It partially explains the lack of momentum.

One of the reasons I was trawling thru interviews this morning is because I vaguely remember Axl saying something along those lines way back. I'm pretty sure it was about AFD & how he wanted to make one album that would have a lasting impact. I thought it was from a Sylvie Simmons interview but the closest thing to it I can find is the Mick Wall piece from '91 where he says if things go right "we won't have to make another album for 5 years". 5 years!

My point was he had maybe/obviously(?) reached a level of success/financial comfort that contributed to the problems, & that was in his nature from the get go.
The fire's long since gone out.
Makes me doubt his sincerity: if he'd really cared he'd have found a way to get music released.
Easy to point fingers and blame record companies and suits. But if the energy is dulled then you're already on the backfoot.

All part of the game. Democrats call for harshest punishment & paint it in worst light possible to gain some leverage, probably with aim of recusing himself from the inquiry & not actually resigning. Republicans don't want to give an inch or surrender any power or admit any wrong doing.

Be very surprised if he is forced to resign tho. Doesn't seem to be an awful lot in it, not much grounds for the controversy. A storm in a teacup. Or vodka shot. Doesn't seem close to grounds for dismissal, in fact it seems more likely the question during his hearing was worded in such a manner as to predict & cover this very issue i.e. he wasn't asked did he have contact with Russian officials, he was asked did he have contact with Russian officials with relation to the election. Plenty of leeway there.

Every wedding I've been at ^