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uh I won't be putting that bet on us winning the CL I guess

My friend was asking me to go potholing for years. Eventually I caved.

fuck off, spambot

I mean there was fake basketball, of course, the Harlem Globetrotters. I didn't get it until a friend took me along to a show and it clicked instantly: it's pantomime / circus / soap opera. Nobody thinks it's real, they're enjoying the skill involved in pretending, the spectacle and storylines.

putting the ‘late’ in etc

don’t make me unguly, you wouldn’t like me when I’m unguly

My sponsorship ended with the donkey!

you don’t want me involved with ungulates

some years back I went to the Isle of Wight and because it’s one of the only things to do on the Isle of Wight I went to the donkey sanctuary. I decided to sponsor an appealing donkey and shortly after I got home I received the first donkey update email which informed me that my donkey was dead

couldn't be Spursier. I know we can go one better than last season on both counts

2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery' News By Kristina Killgrove published 29 minutes ago The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to pay a 1950s transport fare.

Rory Pond off Doctor Who in his Last Centurion gear

it would be my first bet since 1987, when as a nine year old I was given a pound to put on the Grand National. I chose a handsome grey horse called Dark Ivy. Lost sight of it early on in the race, asked my mum what happened, she informed me my horse was dead now

might put a fiver on Spurs to win the CL and get relegated

it obviously takes a lot longer but only about 40 mins - 10 to soften any woody stir fry veg at about 220 with a splash of oil, then push the veg aside and 15-20 more with cooked drained fine egg noodles added to one side, tossing it together about half way through

I may have mentioned this before but you know how you can’t really get fried noodles at home the way you get at the Chinese restaurant, crispy in places etc, because you likely don’t have a 5000W wok burner in your kitchen or a tolerance for big flaming woks? You can do it using an oven sheet pan

this sounds a lot like Keir Starmer except with the addition of nice speeches

I am sensing a market niche for a HEATED RIVALRY-style steamy romance about rival Eurocrats

yep I just went through this same thought process

JUST DIE

Football Old Firm fan violence branded 'completely unacceptable' by Scotland's first minister 1h ago

once again a politician passes up the opportunity to say football violence actually very cool and acceptable

given that the text is obviously AI generated too I’m not sure you’d be punishing an actual reporter!

Panel 1: Man at his computer, his phone vibrates Panel 2: Man looking at a headline on his phone that says “Endless hell grows again!” Panel 3 & 4: Man puts his phone down and continues working, looking perturbed

Morning all

A Kākāpō chick being weighed in a bag. Credit: Andrew Digby

A Kākāpō chick being held during a health check. Credit: Andrew Digby

A health check for #kakapo chick Tiwhiri-A3 two nights ago. This is a genetically valuable (rank = gold) chick, so it gets more frequent health checks. It’s doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

is it too much to ask that I don’t have every decade of my adult life blighted by some dipshit politician making some epic blunder that destroys the economy or indeed the planet

I don't know anything about oil/the oil markets/the oil trade (be warned: I am not asking you to explain these things to me) so would say my life online right now is "child of probably divorcing parents senses that maybe the vibes are becoming increasingly off at home?"

FUN FACTS:
🍖 the animatronic Paddington consumes forty pounds of raw meat per day!
🪄 Before every performance, the warding circle around the stage must be carefully re-engraved!
🔪 After each matinee one lucky theatregoer is randomly selected to meet Paddington!

In retrospect changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War was a bit of a red flag

the actual plot of the sequels is just 'can we possibly escape from the trap of prescience and live in a world where stories can exist again', Herbert strenuously trying to write his way out of the most carefully-constructed anti-writing machine yet devised in fiction