Kelis! That's better than the dross so far #totp

I remember this. It was terrible then and it's terrible now #totp

Just discovered one of the household's young people has never heard of Quantum Leap. Not just not watched it, never heard of it. I am astonished.

For reasons unknown, my Mum bought me Twister for my 21st birthday. I've schlepped it around ever since for the rare moments it's required at a party. The teens have decided that moment is now. Their initial concerns about "skill" (overheard, again) had me chuckling

The house teen is having a low key party. We're relegated to the garden. Just overheard: "I want to make a cocktail: what would oat milk with vodka taste like?" I fear we're on the verge of the invention of the Gen Z white Russian.

I just learnt that Taka Boom (who was on that Joey Negro track) is the sister of Chaka Khan and that is how you chose stage names. Incredible commitment to family vibes #totp

Very much the chart of attempted follow up singles for one hit wonders. The double standards about "manufactured" also coming through strong on Daphne and Celeste Vs Hepburn #totp

The authoritarian community of pure Welsh society run by the very purest men is gone, hence the retrospective title. It’s probably Britain’s most overtly fascist novel. Obviously the much-loved 1939 film cuts all of this and just features every Irish actor in America singing a lot.

Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.

We're all suggesting the ref take the opportunity to red card the rest of the Argentine side #ESPARG

"delighted to say a version of the Mexican wave just tried to start, and it didn't go far" Turning in to the grump on BBC

Highlight of the tournament for me

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

2030: Muppet World Cup final with each team allowed to choose one human player.

No, this is terrible. Why is this happening. It's a bit like someone vomited pop culture on the pitch after eating a very non-nutritious meal #ESPARG

At the "cheering fouls on Argentina" stage of spectating.

England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation

Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’

Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network

theguardian.com

Bruce Willis can sing, I am sure of it. This definitely isn't evidence of that #totp

They are extremely charming and likeable in this recent interview: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘People in the scene would sometimes be mean to us. They’d forget we were teenagers’: Daphne and Celeste look back

The 00s pop pair on their enduring sisterhood, an embarrassing encounter with Brian Eno, and somehow ending up on a tour of the UK’s Asda supermarkets

theguardian.com

Lizzie Reed@lizziereed.bsky.social · 3w ago

Daphne and Celeste, then as now, can get in the bin #totp

I see I'm once again wildly out of step with Bluesky; I cannot stand this or any other REM song (and this was never off the bloody radio) but enjoyed a sing along to Andreas Johnson 🤷 #totp

My recollection is that the 2000s were not a high point for the charts but I've been distracted by remembering the Britney-Spears-has-had-a-boob-job discourse #totp

Does Dawn not get any extra time on these challenges? Feels a bit punishing #GBSB #SewingBee

Finally finished watching TipToe (delayed over my distaste for images of extreme violence in any fictional media) and I'm not sure it's any good? Lots of lovely acting from David Morrisey and Alan Cumming but plot wise? Feel like it missed the mark on who is most vulnerable right now

Everyone talks about how you can watch brilliant tennis and athleticism when #Wimbledon is on, few people talk about watching a doubles player slam a 90mph serve into the back of her partner's head

There comes a point in every major international where I think "why shouldn't I watch an England game, just for a little treat?" And then I remember, again, why I should not in fact do that. It's the England experience distilled to a single match. Very efficient of me.

I just don't understand why you'd go to #Wimbledon and not go and watch the wheelchair tennis. I can't understand why there's never any spectators. Perhaps there will be for the men's semi final later as it's Alfie Hewett, plus it's got to be cooler than being on centre court!

If you are researching mental ill health and mental distress, and aren't acknowledging things like depression and anxiety are constructed in a RADICALLY different way compared to psychosis, compulsive behaviour etc, then you have failed to offer a meaningful analysis

Conference presenter says "I won't quote the lived experience experts here because the language they used is perhaps not appropriate" Um. No. You aren't meaningfully engaging with experts by experience if you censor their words because their response is too strong.

World number 2, Brit Alfie Hewett is currently playing on court 3 and there's about 30 people in the stands. Appalling turnout. #Wimbledon

Is it possible to go to spectate at Wimbledon without getting up at 5:30am/consenting to sit in direct sun for length of a match etc? I would love to go but I'd have heatstroke by midday and I can't understand how we medically-heat-sensitive types can manage it.