Neal Rafferty
@nealraff.bsky.social
Celtic, TV, music, cooking / food. Also puerility.
um, i seem to recall *some* people questioning whether john barnes was english
Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 23h agoKemi Badenoch attacks Reform UK: “I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing. Nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn't have sitting MPs question whether they were English. We must not let these people take us backwards.”
Unless Scotland’s next match is against the Watford Long John Silver Impersonators, it’s not easy to see things improving.
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
Ben@cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 2d agoRIP Jeffrey Archer, not a day goes by when I don't think about the judge in his 1987 libel case (which Archer "won" by doing a bunch of perjury) summing up for the jury by going "would a guilty man have such a hot wife". one of the most insane legal moments of all time
Very powerful sense of this permeating the feed right now.
That's A Shame
ALT: That's A Shame
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Or, as the much-missed Linda Smith used to refer to him, Norman Stanley Archer www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jeffrey Archer: Best-selling author and former politician dies aged 86
His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.
bbc.co.uk
In a few weeks we'll be launching our new podcast where we look at British sitcoms using their 9th episode as the starting point. A curious conceit perhaps, but by the 9th episode of any sitcom the 'sit' is generally established and the 'com' should have bedded in. Well that's the theory anyway!
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…
Yorkshire Dads: Hot single radiators in your area are waiting for you to turn them down.
Crash Test Dummies at St Luke’s tonight - a tremendous show 👏🏻🇨🇦
"Thank God! We lived through it! The international break, September 21 to October 2."
SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave
TBT: Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson was given free drinks on the train to Glasgow for the first Old Firm match in ages, and got absolutely blitzed.
you can hold food poisoning to account and still admire the lasagne
CBS Sports Golazo@cbssportsgolazo-m.bsky.social · 7d ago"You can hold Man City to account and still admire what Pep Guardiola has done." @GuillemBalague weighs in on Guardiola's achievements with Manchester City as financial charges loom over the club's future 👀
That’s Life! was just incredible. Its two most famous moments are a man being movingly celebrated by the now grown Jewish children he got out of Nazi Germany & a dog saying “sausages”. No other programme has ever had that range.
they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · last wk.New reports reveal Meta has been classifying gigantic data centers as "pilot models" in order to secure a tax credit from the 1980s. The loophole has allowed Meta to avoid paying nearly $4,000,000,000 in taxes last year alone.
Conan O'Brien is both a very silly person and an extremely wise one, and more important than either, I've never heard anyone say a bad word about him.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...
![Is this how you want to go out, with a show that gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone?
Maybe that’s O.K. I think you have more of a problem with that than I do. [Laughs.] At this point in my career, I could go out with a grand, 21-gun salute, and climb into a rocket and the entire Supreme Court walks out and they jointly press a button, I’m shot up into the air and there’s an explosion and it’s orange and it spells, “Good night and God love.” In this culture? Two years later, it’s going to be, who’s Conan? This is going to sound grim, but eventually, all our graves go unattended.
You’re right, that does sound grim.
Sorry. Calvin Coolidge was a pretty popular president. I’ve been to his grave in Vermont. It has the presidential seal on it. Nobody was there. And by the way, I’m the only late-night host that has been to Calvin Coolidge’s grave. I think that’s what separates me from the other hosts.
I had a great conversation with Albert Brooks once. When I met him for the first time, I was kind of stammering. I said, you make movies, they live on forever. I just do these late-night shows, they get lost, they’re never seen again and who cares? And he looked at me and he said, [Albert Brooks voice] “What are you talking about? None of it matters.” None of it matters? “No, that’s the secret. In 1940, people said Clark Gable is the face of the 20th Century. Who [expletive] thinks about Clark Gable? It doesn’t matter. You’ll be forgotten. I’ll be forgotten. We’ll all be forgotten.” It’s so funny because you’d think that would depress me. I was walking on air after that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qnyq7wies2uc56bzqmfz4q25/bafkreief4hu7c6hd6ymgqnsaejlaipfuj7fq4ka2tkix72pionkb3dkkdy)
Well, there’s one thing for sure - if City want to continue to cheat on an industrial scale, from now on they’re going to have to do it in the Statesville Prison (along with Gunderson, Martin, and Sally Decker).
I’ve seen the pitch document for The Day Today and it’s about a paragraph long. I paraphrase but: “This show worked brilliantly on the radio and we know what we’re doing.” A world in which that is a viable pitch document is something that we surrendered without a fight, which is so sad.
Richard Sales@theblueacorn.bsky.social · last wk.After the revelatory excitement of On The Hour, the news that they were bringing it to TV and that group profile in the grey suits in the Independent, I was so nervous when The Day Today landed. We had a small watch party and by the time they got to ‘an old woman up a stick in a nearby field,’