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Screengrabs from three BBC articles about the deaths showing identical language being used by the course spokesperson.

They've got standard wording. Identical in all three reports. That's vomit-inducing.

Two old French landscape-oriented comics featuring hero 'Jack Forgas - gang hunter'. One is called 'the gangster's daughter', the other 'the spy's daughter'. They are printed using only black and red ink on the covers (inside are just black and white).

Ooh, I've got a couple of old French 'BDs' in that format. Jack Forgas - chasseur de gangs! 🙃

How does my cat know that the vet is coming? Am now applying antiseptic cream while being yelled at. Pfff...

Unladen seallows carry oil past the strait of Hormuz

My favorite of the day (my kid laughed hysterically)

MULTIPLEX!!!!
Love a multiplex, me.
Nice one Strasbourg.

nigel farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Today Plume the cat has caught not one but *two* giant hoppy insects and brought them into the flat for the coup de grace. I am now armed with a dustpan and brush and a sense of impending dread.

Euch.

Third attempt from Rufus, differently incorrect from previous two attempts.

And now it's had a third go.
I know, I know, I should have known better, but I figured they'd have actually linked in the product details, not just made a wild f-ing guess. Hope nobody asks Rufus how to cook raw chicken.

Grocery order included lasagne.
Grocery order made via Amazon.
No cooking details online.
'Asked Rufus' if regular oven OK.
Yup, remove film, 180C, 20-25 min.
Grocery order arrives.
Packaging says microwave only.
Recheck w Rufus.
Pierce film, 200C, 25-30 min.

Wrong *and* inconsistent. Superb.

How has he got to a GDPR claim? That seems...deeply weird.

Neves, Mbappé, Sauzée... Avant Valverde, ils ont eu 10 dans « L'Équipe »Dans l'histoire de « L'Équipe », la note de 10 n'avait été attribuée que 19 fois avant le match parfait de Joao Neves avec le PS... Auteur d'un match parfait contre City, Federico Valverde, le joueur du Real, est le vingtième joueur à obtenir la note de 10 dans l'histoire de « L'Équipe ».

Valverde becomes the 20th player to get a 10 from L'Equipe. Only Messi and Haaland have received two.
#footylive
www.lequipe.fr/Football/Act...

𝐏𝐒𝐆 𝟓-𝟐 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚

We'd call that a 'ruthless' performance from the holders, scoring five goals from 0.87 xG.

Chelsea conceded five goals in a Champions League game for just the second time, after a 5-1 defeat to Barcelona in April 2000.

#UCL

6 teams, 2 points, GD -10.
Well then. 🙃

Well, that was tremendous fun.
Plus, imagine the swagger on that ballboy when he gets to class tomorrow.
"Yeah, provoked a fight at a Champions League game, no biggie..."

Seeing Mbappe celebrating Real's goals like any fan with his mates was rather joyous.

Not sure if it's been generally shown, Canal+ said it was exclusive footage - so they've sent their own team to Madrid, just to watch a guy in the stands? Standard. 😆

Well, that was a fun first half, although PSG's marking on the Chelsea goal made Barca last night look like close peronal protection.

So in recent crime news in Montpellier, BAC (like SWAT) were needed to stop a drunk bloke armed with a frying pan causing chaos on a tram at three o'clock in the afternoon.

OK...

Oh, and bum-shuffling back onto the pitch late on. That was hilariously blatant.

Obvz stuck to Newcastle v Barcelona for the last bit once terrible film was over, and are Barca always that bad at defending? Left Barnes entirely to his own devices for the goal, and then there were about 7 of them around Gordon in the box apparently playing ring-a-ring-a-roses. Weird.

Now, normally when I've moved to the sofa to watch TV, I don't come back to my computer.
However. Spurs. My word.
Also - CONCUSSION PROTOCOL?!

Gotta love the effort British men put into nicknames.

Iran women’s football team heads to airport as clock ticks on Australia’s offer of asylum Australia’s responsibilities for the welfare of the Iran women’s football team are not over, as advocates expect more players to seek asylum

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Golovine celebrates

*POD!!!*
Kris, Tom & Jez have some flowers for an improving Monaco as they take the points in Paris, Franck Haise returns to haunt Nice, Lyon slip up again & the CDF 'Final Four' step forward.
open.spotify.com/episode/66gF...

Also features the first episode of Ligue Un-iversity Challenge! Make sure to listen to the end...

MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE PRESS RELEASE 9 Mart 2026 * STATEMENT REGARDING THE BALLISTIC MISSILE NEUTRALIZED IN TURKISH AIRSPACE. A ballistic missile fired from Iran that entered Turkish airspace was neutralized by NATO air and missile defense elements deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean. Some ammunition fragments landed in empty fields in Gaziantep. There were no casualties or injuries in the incident. Turkey attaches great importance to good neighborly relations and regional stability. However, we once again emphasize that all necessary steps will be taken resolutely and without hesitation against any threat directed at our country's territory and airspace. We remind everyone that heeding Türkiye's warnings in this regard is in everyone's interest.

Iran has fired a ballistic missile towards NATO member Turkey.

I now have a mental image of you holding the jar against your shoulder and gently patting it...

Not a company, but always thought 'segue' was pronounced 'seeg'. So was even more confused when Segways came out because I didn't get the joke.

In my defence, we don't say 'leegway' or 'playgway'. I was using logic. Always a mistake with the English language...

That's on tap at the English pub in Montpellier, and I swear there's at least four different pronunciations in common use...

So many people in important positions around the world are still operating as if we are in an era of neoliberal guard rails where "don't mess with the money and crash the global economy" is a self-evident hard limit to policy decisions by the powerful.

Ooh.
Interesting extract in the G today about Mbappe's personal team.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...