It's not really much of a surprise that the MCU has gone thoroughly down the Glup Shitto path when there are hundreds of sites falling over themselves to spoil a film that hasn't even been out for a week.

Has anyone been described as an 'uncompromising voice' and not been a massive cunt?

Nothing much to say beyond Prince‘s Super Bowl halftime show is available in full on YouTube and it’s still as amazing as you remember. youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?...

Prince - Super Bowl XLI 🏈 | Halftime Show 2007 FULL SHOW HD

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Miss Gaston, my GCSE teacher. A woman so awesome that she showed us the Trevor Nunn version of Macbeth; something I'm grateful for to this day. (Of course, because I was a teenage boy, I took the piss out of her constantly)

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Who was YOUR great english teacher (if you had one)? For me it was Hugh Epstein at Richmond college (RUTC). I hope he's well, wherever he is!

Related to this is that you can download RTE's audio adaptation of Ulysses from the early 80s. www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Ulysses - RTÉ Podcasts

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is one of the most important works of modernist literature. The book chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904 (the day of Joy...

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KateW@kateweb.bsky.social · 5d ago

The BBC Sounds full cast audio of The Odyssey is now downloadable. (3 parts, 4 hours in total; ideal for long walks/train journeys.)

One of the best thing about working at The Bookseller was hearing about the ridiculous amounts of money being paid for books that were clearly going to sell fuck all. "But the general public are crying out for Kelly Brook's memoir!"

buy my book@nmamatas.bsky.social · 5d ago

"How could such a bad book, that reads like a machine wrote it, get a $2.4 million deal?!" A question asked by someone who has never read a book that got a $2.4 million deal.

An unintended consequence of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Maybe Ian Paisley had a point?

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 6d ago

Ed Sheeran sets up cross-Border project for young musicians in Cork and Belfast

Previously the most embarrassing thing to happen to football on US soil had been that Diana Ross penalty.

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 6d ago

It's kind of incredible. After all these years. Trump hosts one World Cup and the whole of FIFA is destroyed. What a thing

The "let's get the cute indie girls on the audience to dance with us onstage for our last song" schtick gets creepier every year.

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · last wk.

what is the world's most offensively beige band and why is it Belle and Sebastian?

They also got into a discussion about The Odyssey and it completely tore them apart.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · last wk.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

Does anyone have an opinion on The Odyssey? I'm seeing very little discussion of it online.

We all lost our minds in 2020 as we tried to cope with COVID. People thought they liked *sea shanties*. It's a sign things are getting back to normal if a bang average sitcom is finally being recognised as such.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.

The sight of Ted Lasso now makes me physically nauseous. Has anyone studied this

"You won't BELIEVE this guy's awesome takedown of awesome takedowns."

Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh how I hate “awesome takedowns”, even when they’re written by professors of classical studies.

Does anyone have an opinion on The Odyssey? I'm seeing very little discussion of it online.

Great but extremely depressing thread that underlines that the hollowing out of libraries during the 2010s was one of the biggest acts of idiocy (and there were tonnes of them, let's face it) that the Government of that time carried out.

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok, it's time for Finally Read The Longread Tabs I Have Open Sunday! This one's a LONG one...the edcuation select committee report on reading for pleasure. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm...

"We asked 100 people over 50 'have the British public always been so self centred?'. Their answers may surprise you."

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have the British public always been so self centred? I’m staggered by how many people I’ve seen saying ‘I don’t use buses so what good is that?’ Or ‘pubs aren’t for me so who cares?’ Millions of people do use each and they are both pretty vital for our economy and society

And crucially, it will be utter shite.

Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Relax. Ebenezer isn't a prequel to A Christmas Carol. Stop your moaning. No, it is another version of A Christmas Carol. youtu.be/A7lyvgnDuDE?...

The only right and proper follow up question is "can you give me that £50 then?".

Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w ago

'£50 doesn't even buy a meal': What people think of Burnham's electricity VAT cut

"I couldn't really be arsed with Futurama as while it looked good, I was more interested in other shows."

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

Does the UK finally have a culture secretary yet? We've been waiting years for one.

Although they completely messed up the Reed Richards casting as well so they will be well matched adversaries.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 2w ago

i like marvel comics exactly enough to never forgive them for ruining doctor doom with casting alone. dr doom is like. number one coolest guy marvel has. with a bullet. everyone loves him. and they fucked it

Colleagues and I had to open every single VHS cassette box at Our Price to search for firebombs. One had failed to go off properly overnight and we needed to make sure there weren't any left. It was planted on the Saturday, the day of the Omagh bomb, which killed 29 people. I was 18 at the time.

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.

what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.

The best thing to have happened in this entire match.

Contemplating just going to bed and watching the rest on iPlayer tomorrow if it somehow turns into a good match out of nowhere.

They need to pick 11 Spaniards and 11 Argentinians from the crowd at random and have them play because anything would be more enjoyable than this.

I would literally rather watch the first half again than this.

Ted Lasso was the Captain Tom of America. In this presentation, I will...

Honest to God, Tom going all "RESPECT. THE. COCK" would be the greatest ever moment in football.