Manchester United fans this morning:

Mitchell And Webb Are We The Baddies

ALT: Mitchell And Webb Are We The Baddies

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Do any of the Brentford players NOT have a huge throw?!

Not necessarily posh, but a Korean restaurant in Manchester. Order. Attempt to eat using chopsticks. After five minutes of utter incompetence, a waiter silently walks up to the table, puts a knife and fork on it, and walks off.

Professor Peter Matthews@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 6d ago

The hubby and I are off to a posh restaurant (Michelin starred) for our wedding anniversary tonight. So, in the spirit of making BlueSky slightly more fun, what's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done in a posh restaurant?

I refuse to believe Bruno Fernandes is Portuguese. Argentine all day long. Same plot armour as Lisandro and Romero, despite being outwardly a complete dickhead and absolutely unconcerned who knows about it.

I cannot imagine Bardella twerking for Reform is going to play well for his French audience, surely?

The core BBC bias is one against understanding. It’s not that Chris Mason is a Reform plant, it’s that the whole organisation has decided that explaining things is BORING and policy is DULL and everything drifts down from that.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 3w ago

BBC website on this story is OK-ish. Which makes the Today Programme's coverage so far all the more odd. They seem to have decided that it's all a bit complicated, that the only guy that matters is Dan Jukes, that Orr and Johnson and the polling don't really matter, and that Farage is peripheral.

I have never disliked an England player as much as Ollie Robinson. Send offs to Pakistani batters when he's bowling on a pitch tailor made for him when the series is already won. I'll never forget him backing away from the Aussies down under. He's a toad.

Tim Curry's Home Alone 2 is about a concierge who's assaulted by two ever-neglectful parents for trying to stop their child's credit card fraud.

RIP Tim Curry, a person I feel very positive about despite the fact he haunted my childhood nightmares not only from Legend, but also IT. Born near Warrington, I find out today.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports

Enjoyed this. It is really difficult to convey just how big a star Russ Abbot was in the UK in the 80s. My grandparents were besotted with him. I remember in adulthood being sincerely confused that he wasn't well known worldwide.

Rob Corp@robcorp.bsky.social · last mo.

This is a really lovely interview with Russ Abbot. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

There were worrying signs Carrick was on the right track last year, so this is terrific stuff

When you've developed a long career watching football, you realise when you need to be selective. Life's too short to watch the 'Community Shield', any England qualifier, or the EFL Trophy.

Came back from holiday in Italy yesterday, 36 degrees last day so was looking forward to cooling down a bit when I got back. Cheers, Climate Change.

RIP Franco Baresi! Called 'iconic' today and rightfully so - particularly impressive given how unassuming and normal he looked. Football Cliches have a running joke about people describing things as the 'Rolls Royce' of their category - Baresi really was the Rolls Royce of central defenders.

I don’t think you get to make the call on what’s “harmless banter” from a man who goes round secretly filming people and acting like this, BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.

Okay one more odyssey post. Really loved the movie. But I for one am willing to stop rescuing Matt Damon. At some point we’re just going to have to collectively agree that if Matt Damon gets lost again we just have to let him go.

Would you rather have a guaranteed naan or flip a coin for a 50/50 shot at one million baguettes

nicky woolf@nickywoolf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

since this is pleasingly becoming today's bluesky discourse, chalk me up as a vote for frisbee naan going further than javelin baguette

As ever, there's nuance. I suspect I could throw the baguette further but in the populace at large, someone's going to have the right technique (that I lack) to discus that naan absolute miles.

Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally, someone asking the important questions

Correct on all counts

Stephen Graham@stephengraham.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Accepting Dalton as the best Bond is the same part of maturing as when you accept that Paul's the best Beatle and the best Carry On actor was Kenneth Connor.

BBC Sport is a shadow of its former self but they never miss with a montage. The 2014 with Woodkid is the greatest though.

Chris Scullion@scully1888.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...

Me at kick-off / Me at full-time

Half-time has made me long for the immediate heat death of the universe so well done to everyone involved.

Wut

Decreeing it now, this game like this guarantees a 0-0 and a shootout tomorrow

I'm not nationalist in any way, quite chilled about England losing at anything - I was chortling away at the Stokes idiocy a week or so back - but right now I wouldn't even let Barco, Romero or Lisandro Martinez back in the country. Seriously. They should be pelted at every PL game next season.

Rooney and Hart very good here

Not sure going nine at the back was that wise a tactical move, but what do I know

Rupert Lowe might find it more difficult to deport Djed Spence if he has a World Cup medal in his pocket