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Miracle
Looking at last night’s finish again I take back every bad thing I ever said about Casemiro. The layoff to Mainoo was perfect, then he dropped the ball on Big Harry’s forehead.
Whatever Ratcliffe still owes on his transfer fee, he paid it off in under five minutes.
Liberty
‘Give us your poor, your huddled masses …’
And we’ll send them somewhere even worse.
Wow
Two nations
Nobody gave one about the Scottish steel industry back in the 80s.
Nightmare
I watched Mobland episode 2 on Paramount fairly late last night, then had a dream in which a scary guy was wanting to kill me with a hammer.
Love this one
Sharks can talk: Batshit things Trump probably thinks but just hasn’t mentioned yet | The Daily Mash
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Aerosol
Never could spell.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce3qnyr7y94t?post=asset%3A21aead1e-ebc4-4f80-9dbe-d9efaa79919b#post
Helen Shapiro
This is a quote from the Conservative Party online newsletter:
‘And Labour’s Jobs Tax came into effect yesterday, meaning every working household will be £3,536 worse off over the course of this Parliament.’
Okay, I would prefer it if Keir, Angela, Rachel, (especially Rachel) etc, weren’t running the country, but when I read simplistic crap like that, I question the ability of their would be successors.
I am part of a working household. I don’t recognise that blanket averaged out figure, but I do realise it’s the biggest number that some newly graduated kid in Tory Central Office could work out. I realise also that in annual terms, it’s £707.20.
So my message to Kemi and her Boy Scout Troop is this: don’t talk down to people who have been involved in politics for longer than any member of the Shadow Cabinet has been alive, smarten your act up and show me you’re serious or …
Macron-esque
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/property/house-prices/labour-wants-house-price-fall/
I believe that the same thing happened in France when Macron victimised second home owners. Eileen and I had our Spanish place on the market when he did that. Every single person who viewed it was French.
I hate politicians who penalise success then pretend that it’s socialism.
Rhetorical
Question for my American friends. Did you vote for higher prices and declining export markets?
No?
I didn’t think so.
Seems so
Entire global economic system depended on America not electing mad king | The Daily Mash
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Clear and present
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/what-is-the-smithsonian-institution
I have never understood why bedbugs should be seen as crazy, as the saying goes. POTUSes, on the other hand, that’s obvious.
Jurgen
Watching the Trivago ad, okay I know it’s scripted but I’m wondering whether Coote might have been right.
Covid five years on: the serenity of lockdown.
This might seem odd, but I look back on lockdown with fondness. In 2020, Eileen’s condition was such that we had been living a cloistered life, to an extent. With the constraints, things happened that worked in our favour, best of all the home deliveries that kept me out of socially distanced queues and the like. Exercise was no problem either in a place like Gullane, easier in a way with fewer people around as I pushed the wheelchair.
We had a carer, for a few hours every week, the sort of person who lights up everywhere she goes. My Friday evenings with the guys went on too, onscreen using Zoom.
We were happy, blessed and very lucky in comparison with the misery of millions. And every Thursday we clapped
Question
What idiot at Old Trafford authorised the sale of Scott MacTominay?
Things that PMO
There is a growing practice among TV drama producers to include a shot of a character reading a text on a phone. Usually they contain relevant information. Usually they are on screen for only a couple of seconds.
I have a Godzilla sized TV and good vision, but the only way I can read such images is by going back and freezing the frame, hardly conducive to an enjoyable experience.
Think on, folks.
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