Alan

It was inevitable that people like Simon were going to start migrating over here, so I started a blocklist for these types of weirdo. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm sorry but you cannot make me hate this daft pantomime character

Nice things.

At the Futebol.

There was a time when I'd be angry about the slow death of the BBC.

Eating a Francesinha. It's a stupid amount of pork meat of various types and cheese in a toasted sandwich covered in more cheese and a beer and tomato sauce. I ran 6k this morning and walked 4k here to justify eating one.

Imagine facing nine man-bees. One would be bad enough.

"Crank magnetism is the idea that cranks—science denialists, conspiracy theorists, and contrarians—do not simply believe one wrong thing: they tend to believe many wrong things"

Perfectly normal baseball scores.

They're just called "Rovers" now.

Well it's nice to see Federico Chiesa if nothing else.

Time to watch a very normal, low key, uncontroversial game of football.

Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919. It’s a topic that appears to have fascinated Wadsworth. I love every single one of his takes on the subject.

My dad had shoes with a compass in the heel and tread that looked like pawprints. Kids today get this. And what did we have? "You can inflate the tongue a bit." We were robbed.

Standing up risks falling over. Turning on the TV risks hearing from Wes Streeting. So what? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Erm

I'm not saying my luck is bad right now but I had a tenner on under 0.5 Scooby Doos on the pitch in the first 10 minutes

Cursed

Translating for Munetaka Murakami looks like a fun job, you translate the reporter's questions and Murakami just bellows one of the few phrases he knows in English, usually "100" or "I am drunk". www.youtube.com/watch?v=9far...

It's definitely Autumn.

Didn't hear a word of the new Scotland manager's interview because I was distracted wondering what height hair needs to be before it's technically a beehive.

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Tutting at every review that uses "fog" instead of "haar".

The Chicago Bears logo is good because it can look like it's roaring in victory or agape in horror at how badly the team is playing, depending on what's needed.

Make Treymaurice Nyoni use his full first name.

I'm glad I saw the "closed for filming" signs a couple of days before they built this and put "Internment Camp" signs around it.

nimbys remained unmatched

Thank you TNT for posting this gem on UCL Draw Day 🙏🏼

I guess that means I've been "into football" rather than "yes dear I'll watch the football with you" for three years.

youtu.be/p54KZhxv_00

@scully1888.bsky.social I'm fairly confident you'll be aware of this film but wanted to make 100% sure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ76...

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just started with fright and dropped my fireworks in the barbecue.

The Path of Totality would be a good name for one of those Serious Novels. An academic has an affair with a young student who ends up blinded by staring at the sun, maybe.

"I tried on my friend's glasses and it made everything look all blurry!"

To the tune of Tullycraft's The Punks are Writing Love Songs.

In days gone by they'd be asking a question that might seem obvious.

It's always a "wake up call for the left", and never "why did no one believe the weirdo bigot when he was right for once".