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Worst buddy cop movie ever

12.03.2026 11:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In the olden days you'd have to sit around all day waiting for a parcel to arrive. Now, thanks to technology, you can see the exact time window a delivery driver will pretend you're not in so he can not deliver it. What a time to be alive.

12.03.2026 10:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Filthy weirdo creep.

12.03.2026 00:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They abso-fucking-lutely know what they'd be saying I'd a creepy weirdo reform guy had the same history.

12.03.2026 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've just seen someone on the other place insist that they want to put badgers on the banknotes to erase our national identity and to be inclusive towards the foreigners they're importing to replace us. Starting to think we were a bit too hasty making lunatic asylums unfashionable.

11.03.2026 18:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OK, OK, and they've not done James Clerk Maxwell either. So one more run with you, Jimmy, Margaret Rutherford, Beatrix Potter, and then the animals.

11.03.2026 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How many of the greatest Britons *haven't* been on a note by now? We must be rapidly getting down to Norman Wisdom.

11.03.2026 18:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bit disappointed in him he didn't ask for a round million.

11.03.2026 14:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FIFA could do something good for once and announce that they'll be replaced by a ROTW side from all the players that didn't qualify or, even better, didn't make their country's squad...
bsky.app/profile/thet...

11.03.2026 14:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FIFA could do something good for once and announce that they'll be replaced by a ROTW side from all the players that didn't qualify or, even better, didn't make their country's squad...
bsky.app/profile/thet...

11.03.2026 14:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good people take the good bits of the bible and ignore the bad bits. bad people take the bad bits of the bible and ignore the good bits. Almost like they don't need the bleddy book in the first place.

11.03.2026 14:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it would make me almost certain to not vote Labour is this happened, but as astonishing as it is, they'd be much better off electorally right now with Corbyn as PM than Starmer.

11.03.2026 13:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I realise you're just supposed to say that "X party would be so much more popular if only it did what I always wanted it to do", but if Labour shift to a radical program to get back the left wing vote, even at the expense of the centre, it'll romp the next election.
bsky.app/profile/rmcu...

11.03.2026 13:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I realise you're just supposed to say that "X party would be so much more popular if only it did what I always wanted it to do", but if Labour shift to a radical program to get back the left wing vote, even at the expense of the centre, it'll romp the next election.
bsky.app/profile/rmcu...

11.03.2026 13:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

11.03.2026 12:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1325 ๐Ÿ” 332 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

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11.03.2026 12:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Campaign starts here to get Winnie on a banknote.
bsky.app/profile/news...

11.03.2026 12:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Campaign starts here to get Winnie on a banknote.
bsky.app/profile/news...

11.03.2026 12:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I want him on the ยฃ50

11.03.2026 11:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 39 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/john...

11.03.2026 11:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tomasz Radzinski (Lierse) red card against Gooreind VV
Tomasz Radzinski (Lierse) red card against Gooreind VV YouTube video by HanskeVD

To be fair he did catch him late.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dq5...

10.03.2026 21:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
10.03.2026 18:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 122 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

That's interesting to know, genuinely, but it's certainty not as clear cut as "opera was beloved by the working classes all over Europe, except in UK". In the stuff I've read (which admittedly I self select for its parallels to my background) I honestly got no hint opera was for or of the masses.

10.03.2026 18:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's as maybe, but it would I think be hard to argue that Zola isn't himself part of the European cultural canon, and even harder to argue that someone rereading him doesn't partake in it because of reverse snobbery.

10.03.2026 18:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm re-reading Zola's Germinal at the minute, the good people of Montsou don't seem all that fussed about opera if I'm being honest.

10.03.2026 15:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cambridge has another university that's actually called Cambridge University? Every day's a school day.

10.03.2026 10:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cricket has always had strong working class roots. Every pit round here used to have a cricket team, and local cricket leagues might not be thriving as they once were, but they're still there.

07.03.2026 21:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Agreed. As a football fan nothing, but nothing, has angered me more that when we've been beaten by cheating. Nobody talks about the fact that diving, and pretending you've been struck, still very prevalent in the championship and below, have been almost entirely eliminated from the top of the sport.

07.03.2026 21:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Football tactics chat is basically blokey astrology. "The thing about United is they had Mars in Aries, bound to struggle playing Mars in Aries. They should definitely play a Saturn conjunction tonight." Cue the game being decided by some fella randomly skying one from 6 yards.

07.03.2026 20:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, I get that, they give a vibe. She's incredibly smart though, the CEO running things day to day, and they've invested sensibly and sustainably, recruited well, shown patience when it's been needed, and improved all the infrastructure tremendously. Attendance av. from 2k to 8k under them.

07.03.2026 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0