Daniel Webster

When is a Potato not a Potato? when it's a sea Potato!

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Team suspected of spying on training sessions - EFL conducts an investigation within a week and kicks the team out of a competition immediately

115 financial charges - PL will get back to you on that in a few years

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Daniel Webster @danmacweb]

@paulinaplazas @ATRightMovies This is the film I instantly thought of, simply stunning!

[Daniel Webster @danmacweb]

Racing with the Moon: Enjoyed this. Sentimental story with enough plot and decent acting from everyone. Cage very good and had a good drunken scene. Low budget but was filmed well. Sean Penn decent in an early role. 8/10 #NicolasCage

[Daniel Webster @danmacweb]

I have decided I would watch all the Nicolas Cage films back to back over the course of 2025. Starting with Valley Girl all the way to whatever releases last by the end of 2025. I will add a mini review to this thread each time I have watched one.

#NicolasCage #NicCageAthon

1/4

[Daniel Webster @danmacweb]

Rumble Fish:Strange film, interesting filming techniques,not much story.Could have been a 10 minute short.For a film about gangs,there was little fighting.Cage not in it much but was solid when he was. Dennis Hopper the standout.I wouldn't bother watching again, 6/10 #NicolasCage

[Daniel Webster @danmacweb]

#DeltaForce #DeltaForcePCOpenBeta #OperatorsPhoto

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Come on world media… stop being complicit in the charade? No males no matter what they call themselves in sport for females… they’re welcome in sport for other males. They have always been included. Just not where they get an unfair dangerous advantage. It’s not hard.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Men don't belong in women's sports #IStandWithAngelaCarini

Let's get it trending 🔥

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered. #Paris2024

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well, @jk_rowling is absolutely right!

Almost every child goes through some kind of identity crisis during puberty. It is deeply wrong to make them permanently infertile with “puberty blockers”.

If they still wish to transition as adults, provided they are fully informed of the risks, they can then make decisions as consenting adults.

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

We did it 🥹

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

Quick update 📲