Searched Spotify for an "Indie Landfill" playlist and it opens with Killers, Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys. What child made this. No respect at all
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I've got something to tell you. Something that may shock and discredit you. And that thing is as follows: I'm not wearing a tie at all.
One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
"Would you take £x or gamble it in a game with higher EV?", a question so fascinating that Noel Edmonds presented over 3,000 documentaries on the subject
Wayne Rooney has truly established himself as the voice of a nation tonight
"You will care about the results of both football and elections." - ancient curse
In Mario Kart World the Cow is a driver, an equal, yet the roadside food stalls still serve hamburgers and milk. Does that not get awkward. Does Cow not bring that up
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3w ago
Check this shit out motherfucker [I stutter step before my penalty kick and slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear how this was going to help me score]"
Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated
Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last mo.“Automatic” in the FIFA regs/code just means that there’s no need for additional process—i.e., an investigation or disciplinary proceeding—to determine the applicable sanction. It does not mean the sanction is unreviewable. It does not mean that Article 27 cannot be invoked to suspend the sanction.
Every single CONMEBOL/CONCACAF team would eagerly play as Oddjob in Goldeneye. "Of course he's allowed, he's in the game" they'd say
watched one of the early matches on the TV in the pub being streamed from prime video on a guy's phone he had on charge behind the bar which kept losing signal
Watched the England game in a pub where the TV in the next room was five seconds ahead. Pubs should have to pass an exam to get a 'showing important football' licence
actually 5-4, even theonion.com/supreme-cour...
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Supreme court rules against Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship – live
Seen a few pictures of cats lying in empty baths to keep cool so giving it a go, working pretty well, cheers cats for the excellent intel
Not sure why they didn't just put an aircon in the supercritical core of Chernobyl reactor number 4
To be fair it's 40C in England, it was always going to take time to adjust to a rainy 19C climate
People laugh at the English response to heat but the country just isn't built for it. "Just take off the 3-piece suit" they say. Uh ever heard of your social lessers laughing at you
There's just something cursed about an NYT probability needle standing at 99 percent
The Openreach have finally rigged up our block of flats to 21st century fibre internet, connecting every one of the 54 flats, with the weird and sole exception of ours
Livid. Five minutes into the Bond game and MI6 call him a liability as he hasn't "signed the Official Secrets Act". You fools! It applies regardless! Sack the writers
The Greeks have solved the single-use plastic straws thing, by giving out those same straws but in a plastic wrapper reading RE-USE 50 TIMES. Genius