Me watching all disciplines of snowboarding, a pastime I have never tried 👇

*looking at the Mona Lisa* there is no way a turtle painted this

Is it a Rangers match if you don’t see the phrase ‘Tavernier (Pen)’ on the scoresheet?

Done my best to scroll past the dreadful looking Aronofsky AI slop. Will say this - it still looks better than Mother! IMO That film was absolutely crap.

‘Have you ever seen anything like this?’ Still incredible that, as a Carlisle fan, I get to say - ‘yep, I have mate’.

Djimí Gláss

Grindcore is taken guys

Got SSN on at my in-laws. Breathless reporting that ‘a Saudi club’ would like to sign Dembele. Aye, no shit. I bet they do. I want Carlisle to sign Bukayo Saka. Absolutely laughable nonsense.

Rachel and Stephen eh? Listen, fair play. #TheTraitors #TraitorsUK

Roxy a genuine worst of all time player. In the same breath as S2 Ross. Two days in a row she’s gone in hard on someone who’s annoyed her at breakfast whilst claiming she’s always thought they were off. Dismal #TheTraitors

Spot on. Casting this season has been excellent. Format wrinkles have been fun, but - much like a good Traitor - that true success is hiding in plain sight. Series 3 was good because the format is good, but there was a lot of self centred wallies who had forgotten it was a game. #TheTraitors

I’m not ant-VAR at all. I am anti whatever this palaver is. There’s no ‘right’ answer, just give the bloody goal #NEWMCI

Here’s a note from back in 2025 when this take was current: The Geese album is properly, properly good. Also great that something this uncompromisingly weird has got both critical and mainstream plaudits.

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No Richard Thompson on any of these lists. All great players, but he is absolutely near the top of my pantheon.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

A perfect 90's LP? Here ya go:

Honestly think sending in Carse as a ‘pinch hitter’ is the worst thing England have done all series, despite the win. Just taking the piss out of everyone - ‘we know best’. Unlikeable morons, entirely lacking humility #TheAshes

5 reasons why The Shining is a Christmas movie; 1. Snow 2. Red rum 3. Hyperactive kids 4. Big snuggly jumpers 5. Huge family row ending with someone putting an axe through the door

I've been meaning to write about the glorious/disastrous Futbology app since 2019, when I found myself at a Danish second division game for no real reason, other than the app told me there was a match close to where I was. So here it is! www.nytimes.com/athletic/690...

The most obvious example of this for me is that people no longer say ‘excuse me’ - literally wide eyed when I hear it. Instead people sprint up behind you and huff or try to cut past you without warning in a shop then grizzle when you nudge them due to lack of warning. Just be polite ffs!

Craig is spot on. It’s a good song. McCartney knows exactly what he is doing! ‘Happy Christmas’ - as with all Lennon solo work - is absolute guff, though.

It’s a really dated opinion to write off Spielberg, without question one of the best to ever do it, as a hack. If you put a Top Ten list of his work you’d leave 5 bangers off of it

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

‘Few small beers’ is one of the greatest line deliveries in cinematic history. Literally etched on my brain.

Mine is performatively saying ‘excuse me’ when I am stalked along a narrow pavement and then nudged past without acknowledgment. I don’t even walk slowly. Just say I’m in the way and I will happily move ffs!

Carlisle United’s Nacho Novo

Mostly concerned what this means for GB at the WBC. Don’t let us down Nats!

Ollie Pope is merely a Gen Z Mark Ramprakash. Awful stuff. #Ashes

Lot of championship rings on that stage. And also Aaron Judge.

My most Boomer opinion is that this is genuinely a tragic way to experience live music. You cannot surrender to music if you are videoing it.

the best album of 2025 is Slayer’s 1986 classic “Reign In Blood”

A playlist for curry lovers… 🎵 It’s My Chapati (and I’ll Cry If I Want To) 🎵 Jalfrezi Little Thing Called Love 🎵 Paneer There and Everywhere 🎵 Knockin on Heaven’s Tandoor 🎵 Don’t Peschwari, Be Happy 🎵 Naan, I Feel Like a Woman 🎵 Poppadom Preach 🎵 Tears On My Pilau 🎵 Paperback Raita 🎵 Nessun Korma

That is an absolutely ludicrous decision. What the hell is the ref doing? #MUNEVE

‘Skid block’. Good luck to anyone trying to explain to me why this is a real sport #F1 #Formula1

Some batting from Head this. Fair play. #TheAshes

Not to get all winsome and nostalgic as an aging millennial but no Ashes opening will ever top Harmy’s wide. Stayed up with a mate and we both just fell about laughing. Iconic.

Made the point earlier that Mani played on two all time great records by two different bands - The Stone Roses and Xtrmntr by Primal Scream. Just clocked that Kevin Shields and Bobby Gillespie managed the same with that second album. Pretty mad.

Important educational content

Sleeping Shepherd, by Titian, 1500–10

you're wrapping up your meet-and-greet with Pope Leo XIV. as you shake his hand for the photo op, you surprise him with a Birminghamton Rumble Ponies Spicy Meatballs On-Field Cap. His Holiness accepts with grace, but you are struck with a bone-deep revelation he just asked God to send you to Hell

AMERICA, I'm going to bed now. If you're doing baseball again tonight, can you please have it done by the time I wake up, the other morning was weird, cheers x

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

ROOFMAN - Hell of a fun time. Channing Tatum is amazing and should be in everything. Kirsten Dunst magical as his foil. Top, top film.

Welcome to Dorktown Mayor, Shohei Ohtani

The GOAT. Just absolutely ridiculous.

Living in UK has aspects that are way better than US (NHS, no guns) but on the flip side you can’t watch October baseball live and the sun sets at 2:30 in the afternoon in the winter.

Laughed at him the whole way through. Absolute hoot. #CelebrityTraitors

Loved this piece on the enduring, singular brilliance of Rachel's from Alex Deller. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Baseball is the best because a guy who looks like this and wears this kinda tee can be the best player in the American League.