I google-ized ‘England fixtures’…and as well as tonight’s fixture it gave me a little summary about our national team.
All good…except for ‘Fight Songs’, for which it lists both Three Lions and the Take That song ‘Greatest Day’
Neither of these seems much like a ‘Fight Song’….and what’s that anyway?
" “Processing fee”, “service fee”, “delivery fee” – truly it has 100 ways of saying “because-we-can fee”. If that feels like you accepting a wage for your job, then charging your boss a supplementary “doing my job” fee each time you feel you’re doing your job … try it, see how you get on! "
Since I’ve seen a few posts about people using or not using Linux, I thought it might be time to explain my personal IT strategy.
It’s this.
Buy a cheap Windows laptop, and keep using it until it can’t run Windows any more.
Then install Linux
It won’t work for everybody, but it works for me.
@nancywisser I bet chocolate works well too!
I’ve been creating a page of podcast episodes I’ve liked
I’ve extracted all of those I’ve commented on on Mastodon
@BestofTimes in case you wanted to listen to something related.... I just finished listening to the Origin Stories episodes about Orwell. I enjoyed them very much
mattypenny.micro.blog@explodingcomma.com I was wondering how long the phrase 'dad rock' has existed, and whether it could now biologically possibly be 'grandad rock'
I asked Alexa to play the Sisters of Mercy this morning (yes….I’m an aged Goth, I guess), and got this
I quite like it, tbh
@darby3 I did a 26 mile walk recently, and someone said whatever distance you do, whatever you're doing the last three miles is always tough
Totally agree about that last mile though!
If I watch enough tech videos at 1.75 speed, will I start dreaming in 1.75 speed? 😟😟
@hoppysensei I saw that too - it was one of my favourite ever gigs, I think. I was particularly pleased they did Straight to Hell. Where did you see them? Have you heard the live recording?
I’m pleased for fans of Oasis, but it’s triggered a form of Fear of Missing Out
They’ve reminded me that I’m never going to have the excitement of seeing any of my favourite bands reform.
Not in this life anyway 🎵
@cgrayson tbh I looked up the meaning of 'a Hail Mary pass' only a couple of months ago....but I probably am both extremely British and a Guardian reader
I’m not much interested in the Oasis reunion from a musical point of view, but it would be nice if the Gallaghers are reconciled…especially for their mum
Ruddy Arsenal ⚽
@TheMacPsych beautiful...are you on the cable car?
I always enjoy the annual list of top 10 one-liners from the Edinburgh Festival…but none of them are as witty as Barack Obama’s physical comedy when talking about Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd size”
I’ve started watching the 2009 Day of the Triffids
I don’t know what I was expecting, exactly….but I’m finding it a bit grim
Disappointed to discover that my favourite ever sports commentator, Barry Davies, is Spurs….but impressed that I never twigged
Rock sages Mark Ellen and David Hepworth discuss musical plagiarism lawsuits in the attached
At one point I think Hepworth refers to ‘ambience-chasing lawyers’….which I think is genius.
I enjoyed the 1970s Death Race 2000
It’s Wacky Races meets Russ Meyer, with shades of the Running Man and the Hunger Games 📽️
@pratik Best of luck to you
Chelsea v Man City
Potential title decider, obviously ⚽😃
#Cfc #Ktbffh #MastodonFc
I maybe need to get this tattoo-ed on something prominent
“The road to programming hell is paved with “best practices” applied too early.”
Winning is the worst thing that can happen in Vegas – Signal v. Noise
They are not having it back
“The six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of Stonehenge came from the far north of Scotland rather than south-west Wales as previously thought, new analysis has found.”
BBC News - Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales
I enjoyed Trap….but there’s very little you can say about the film without giving away some of the story 📽️
That was a terrific match. 🏀
A marvellous pub name
Johnson grew up in the Two Puddings pub in Stratford, east London, a Kray twins haunt before his father, Eddie – the landlord from 1962 to 2000 – turned it into a live venue that hosted the Kinks, the Who, Rod Stewart and many others.
Lovely
Department of Putting the Best Possible Spin on a Situation: high-jumper Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy, who lost his wedding ring in the Seine during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, says, “It will remain forever in the city of love.” 💯
He’d get my vote, just for this
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday [ in 2023] signed a bill into law that renames a stretch of highway to honor the late Minnesota icon Prince.
It’s not Barca and Bayern on the way to winning the Champions League, but it’s a start
⚽ #MastodonFC #ChelseaFC #CFC
These are fun
photographer Hector Vivas has created a series of astonishing images called Layers of the Games, which aim to show in one image the multiple moments that happen in a game or a day of competition in Paris
@JosephWatkins hooray for Tufty!
@nancywisser I hope not, it's awful
@jsonbecker how very dare you!!
Chip shop chips are really the only good ones imho
@toddgrotenhuis some consolation, I guess ! :)
@aleen that's interesting.
There was a thing in the UK where people used to refer to Boris Johnson as just 'Boris'
However, people told each other off on left-wing social media for just using his first name on the basis that 'he's not your mate', or 'some bloke down the pub' and referring to him as 'Boris' was endorsing that bit of branding....especially since it wasn't his actual first name.
@JdeBP oh right...fair enough
@nancywisser you did what you could. I'm sure you helped.
@JdeBP Thats interesting.
I did notice that about Ted Kennedy. Apparently, the water is a 'tidal pond'...so close to the ocean, but not quite the ocean as such
I can't quite understand what the reviewer would mean by 'taking Saville at his word' though. He takes the general view that Saville was a monster.I'll find the review.
I don't know enough about any of the 'heroes' in the book to really evaluate the general accuracy, but there was a lot that I'd heard from other sources
I guess it's not Robert Caro level biography but it was entertaining (I listened to it largely when walking the dog) and there were interesting points of comparison
I shall look up some of the reviews!
@panicx on behalf of the world, hello to you too!
@kaa Newcastle? :)
@spacenerdmo hello yourself!
@pratik it left home some time ago and it's never coming back :(
@jthingelstad what a marvellous thing!
@cgrayson very good - thank you for transcribing
@vazquez do you know these proto-goth bands? If not you might like them
My Friends Are Dead by Wasted Youth songwhip.com/wastedyou...
Walls of Jericho (2004 Remaster) by Virgin Prunes songwhip.com/virginpru...
@ayjay the portraits remind me of Cecil Beaton, but more so
@pratik I have felt exactly the same about various Chelsea forwards over the years!