@andyc The Irish lads are doing us proud so far.
Strong Irish backbone to this England team.
Pickford (born Logan), Maguire, Rice, Grealish and Kane.
Carsley should have said he won’t sing the English national anthem because he’s Irish.
Achievement unlocked.
@amerpie in the recent UK election a far right party that won 14% of the popular vote proposed a new law to put a stop to this woke nonsense once and for all.
Handed my four year old a slice of ham for his lunch.
“Yay! Pink chicken!”
Now we know what he meant yesterday when he turned his nose up at spicy chicken and said “I like pink chicken!”
I started reading the Kindle sample for this, but immediately felt anxious that I should spend the remaining weeks of my life doing something more fun, productive, insightful, useful, anything but this…
I had been planning to write about my impressions and such from listening to Four Thousand Weeks but I’m going to buy the book so that I can go through and make notes. While there was nothing that stood out as deeply profound, it was full of thought provoking points that made me want to go away and think a... strandlines.blog
Noel plays his guitar as if he’s scared it will break, and Oasis’s funkless, sexless plod is always carefully pitched below the velocity at which fluid dynamics dictate that you might spill your lager.
I like some Oasis stuff, the early stuff. I like some woke stuff. This quote and picture are true enough and funny, though.
Dead duck.
An unpleasant walk in the midday sun by the canal yesterday.
A few abandoned Lime Bikes (one with its front wheel missing).
Depressing.
Emptying my Feedbin and stumbled across this epic from Christmas Day 2022.
The one where Matthew moves out of Sawtell because it’s too posh and goes to live sober in a homeless shelter in Melbourne with a Croatian who speaks no English (or does he?).
davidmarsden.info@jsonbecker need plenty of salt and vinegar on them. Better also with some tomato ketchup, gravy or curry sauce.
@Denny Actually, listening back again I wonder if he said "I'm a Christian"? It would make more sense and fit with his style of speech.
Also, he did claim to be a Christian four years ago. Obviously not a practising Christian!
@Denny Unhinged, but still a dangerous fascist and wannabe dictator.
Odd that they deleted the "I'm not Christian" bit, claiming 'A part of Trump’s speech that was unintelligible were [sic] deleted.'
@Denny the UK courts just jailed five protesters for 21 years for saying much the same and "causing a nuisance".
Big Kids' Sports Day.
@val although now I wonder if the grass on the pitch is artificial?
England. Always different, always the same.
@val The football pitch looks like it's being looked after and in use?
@samjc Corbyn's policies were undoubtedly popular even with some of his most ardent opponents within the Labour Party.
But thanks largely to the media's portrayal of him (including during his many years as a backbench MP) as a "left-wing loony", he was deeply unpopular with voters.
Starmer successfully targeted Tory voters, and he's certainly more popular with them than Corbyn!
@Denny I read somewhere that more aid entered Gaza before the pier was built, too.
Labour’s self-imposed, arbitrary and “binding” “fiscal rules” are the same as the Tories' Austerity policies.
Political choices.
The same choices.
So much for change.
Original link to the article from 11 years ago:
@Miraz Almost like a Van Gogh!
My polling station was empty when I went to vote around 1:30 pm.
My nearly ten year old looked at the TWELVE names on the ballot.
“Don’t vote Labour, Dad”.
He looked some more.
“There’s Joe!” he said.
“VOTE FOR JOE!”
New e-scooter and cycle hire infrastructure in Southall Green.
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Not the ideal location.
@odd Eek! Must be nearly ten years since my last one. Luckily I don't miss them and now find the smell repulsive.
I used to be funny.
Bushmen came to cut the communal grass and fill my compost bin with the cuttings. #Winning
@ronkjeffries Does this help?
@ayjay Beautiful!
@andyc ETH OFF?
davidmarsden.info“…when you look at it on a personal level, if Nelson was your friend or your neighbour, you would absolutely agree that he should be given the immediate right to settle.”
You. Absolute. Bastards.
If anyone knows of a crowdfunder to support this man’s legal challenge, I would like to contribute to it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-69016539
@mattypenny Agree about VAR. It doesn't make sense to me to train referees to sit in VAR studios. Get some kids in (haha), or at least some experts in video and sports technology? The TV companies are usually very quick and good at telling viewers what the decision should be.
I'm a United fan, but that semi-final win over Coventry was a VAR disgrace, imo.
@Denny Domination and supremacy under the guise of "freedom and democracy".
@mattypenny Just read the transcript. What a superb read!
Roberto Rosetti has it about right, I think: 'Too often, said Rosetti, it’s being used to “investigate every single detail” of matches. Using VAR in this way is “dangerous”, he continued, because good refereeing means accounting for the “spirit of the game”, which technology cannot do. Once, when Rosetti experimented with using VAR to review every incident in a single match, he found seven penalties and three red cards, according to a strict reading of the laws of the game. “But this is not football,” he said.'
@ayjay The most Spurs thing would be to lose to City, but Arsenal win the title anyway.
The most City thing would be to beat Spurs and West Ham (and not have any points deducted).
The most Premier League thing would be if all the drama happens in the dying seconds of the final games.
One of the reasons we never visit the place where I grew up.
“I just have to share?”?
@exador23 I guess the really significant point is that Shireen was Palestinian.
@elmussol Fair comment, although, I should have made it clear that the words in my post preceding Starmer's response were actually put to him as a question by an ITV reporter (I paraphrased a little).
Natalie Elphicke said Labour can’t be trusted and doesn’t listen. She said the victim of her husband’s sexual assault was a liar even after he was convicted.
Does she really share Labour values?
Starmer: “I’m delighted to welcome Natalie Elphicke to my changed Labour Party!”
I’m so glad I ate my salad before reading about the Eunuch Maker.
@OliverNoble Labour postal votes here.
@steevc I'm sure that's exactly what it is. No one comes out looking good.
@steevc Anything to keep their jobs!