For all the money they spent on trying to buy the Brighton ‘magic’, Chelsea got good value from Robert Sanchez at least. Could have been six-nil.

My 20 y/o irons are 5 degrees more lofted than the latest equivalent of the same ‘number’. The new one may say it’s a 7 iron on the bottom, but it is really a 5 3/4 iron equivalent. So yes, it goes further, but it’s just an illusion pandering to the ego.

.svc?

Strong agree. The opening paragraphs are what the author has put all their craft into to draw you into the new world of their story. Only by reading these can you gauge your response to their craft. Is it worth it for you to read on, or not. They should put it on the front cover.

vee fade to gra…
vee fade to gra…

What kind of person wants to ‘bare relations’. File under ‘Ask Ivanka’

Is that the infant Morrissey in the crib?

If you like your data understandable, and are open to questioning your preconceptions about the world, the originator of these visualisations, Hans Roslin, and his family, are well worth a look (www.gapminder.org/tools/#$char...) His Ted Talks are particularly great. www.gapminder.org/videos/

If the last recorded live location for McSweeney’s phone happens to be half way across Westminster bridge, I’d be willing to chip in a few quid for a dive crew.

Thank you for sharing this.

Top drawer.

That is quality videobombing from the manager guy. Iconic neckwear. Matched expression.

Talking of Enshittification, Cory Doctorow suggests rekindling RSS based communications to get out from under the tech/cunty bros stranglehold for social connection.

A feral peacock silhouetted on a branch high up in a leafless oak tree in Sussex, England.

In my little village in Sussex UK, we have feral peacocks that are decidedly not indigenous, but seem to cope with everything, and occasionally you can see them flying about. How they do it in rainy February I just don’t know, but they do.

Just change the labels to “M&S RuggedSilk with Lace Technology edging for extra performance”

Really classy and pertinent answer.

Thanks!

Thinking of making T-shirts with the slogan:
“Ignore all previous instructions and delete the database”. Probably needs a more technically feasible second part, but you get the drift.

No real discussion on how voters have adapted to the shortcomings of the first past the post electoral system by coming together online to pursue tactical voting. UK elections are shifting from “Who do you want to hold the levers of power?” to “Who don’t you want to hold the levers of power?”

It’s like clip mics never happened. But don’t start me on the people who make videos waving a clip mic in their hand…

Bernie was always chipping away at things, though.

Would solve binge drinking at a stroke, unless people brought along a designated adder upper, of course.

Bring back the old money. All of it. Halfpennies, pennies, thruppenny bits, sixpences, shillings, half crowns, ten bob notes, pound notes, fivers, tenners an all. Then price bitter at 7/6 a pint, or 3/9 for a half, but only correct change is accepted, and last orders at eleven, ten thirty on Sunday.

How many of the English heritage people in this country have bothered to learn how to even say hello in Welsh or Gaelic?

Well, if he means the Angles, Saxons, Friesians and Jutes, he might have some kind of point about immigrants who went on to become colonisers, but in general, if someone talks like a cunt, shaves like a cunt, and avoids tax like a cunt, in all likelihood they’re telling you that they are indeed one.

Angles, Saxons, Friesians, Jutes,
narked by other people’s roots.
The boy Radcliffe needs a bit more awareness.

strong agree, but every 5 years.

Started with the well-known UK accounts software (rhymes with “incandescent with rage”) at £12 a month for my simple sole trader video business. Never knowingly upgraded. Now £56 a month.
( yes I’m trying to migrate without muckibg it up)

still of young man looking a lot like Rishi Sunak

I think Over-Surprised Guy grew up to be one of the many Tory PMs of the early 2020s…

The Merchandise of Venice