When they made their initial approach to Rennes, they said “Jacquet, peut être?”
Tom Evans
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Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down (describes the past couple of weeks in unflinching and uncomfortable detail, making no attempt to fit any of it to the beat)
99% sure Trump thinks Greenland is much bigger than it is because nobody has even attempted to explain the Mercator Projection to him
Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet is a fucking banger, isn't it? My 20-year-old self would be horrified to hear me saying this, but then he was always a bit of a prick.
RIGHT YOU LOT. Time to fire up the pre-season preview machine. Big plans, and there's a few ways you can help me out... If you're a captain or club official, please fill in the pre-season survey which should have been sent to you all. The more clubs fill it in, the better.
My rules are if there’s nobody on an adjacent treadmill, or they have headphones in, I can give it some beans.
Tom Evans@tomevanscricket.bsky.social · 7mo agoDown bad, singing at the gym
Guy on the 79 bus is loudly arguing with his partner on the phone and even though I can only hear him, I’m on her side
The unseen episode of Desmond’s where their plane crashes and they run out of food
LAURELLA😻@xxhi-its-lauraxx.bsky.social · 7mo agoMust not eat pork pie 🥧
*Incredibly* excited for all the “they should walk off like Senegal” takes on here the next time a throw-in on the half-way line goes against your team
Does it count as being Recognised when someone says “you have the same name as someone (locally) famous” but doesn’t realise it’s you?
Girl are you a podcast because you're making me want to use an online therapy service
The abstract hell of memory; the pointlessness of poetry. Tuesday mood.
Spare me the curse of the incredibly on-the-nose song lyric
Yesterday (2019) but I’m the only person in the world who remembers Hey! Fever by Arab Strap
I thought the FA Cup had been ruined because minnows couldn't take big clubs to a replay any more?
You have to understand that they do not and will not ever play ‘fair’. They will distort reality in whatever way suits them. Their side are martyrs and anyone else killed by their thugs is just collateral.
Thought the writing was on the wall when Sam Smith was going through then
I know who it’s about but posts like this are so damn confusing to a British person
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 7mo agoSomewhere some billionaire is telling Jonathan Ross to retire on ptsd grounds and start a fully funded speaking tour for a shadow written book already locked in as a NYT bestseller called “My Story: One Mans Life Defending America”
England's away Ashes Tests this century, grouped by whether they batted third or fourth (to make comparisons easier) and in order from good result to bad result. The green ones are this series.
“If you want to see sexualized AI images of children, you have to pay us!” isn’t “turning off” anything.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo agoGrok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo agoGrok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
“These England batters are two of my favourites and I am unable to sleep when they are batting” “Wow you must be having a really fun time enjoying watching them bat” “You’d think, wouldn’t you”