When I lived in the US I thought they did sports really well for the fans. In hindsight - they do their sports really well. They blow at ours.

Now the Americans who haven’t the first clue about football have thankfully fucked off, we must deal with the English equivalents tonight.

We’re lucky Sorloth is shite.

There’s 3 and a half Norwegians in this house (2 of them cats) and me. Outnumbered in my own home.

I enjoyed watching American sport when I lived there, but the attempted Americanisation of football just doesn’t work. Plus - the fucking nerve.

I had zero time for Belgium. I was glad they were shit. Now they’re effectively football Ukraine.

USMNT has the opportunity to do the right thing and not pick Balugon and earn the respect of world football. Or pick him and be labelled as cheats indefinitely. Wonder which they’ll do…

Well. Next Saturday night will be fun in this household. The daughter strategically straddling both Norway and England camps like a colossus. (Aka. Keeping her options open).

Americans who’ve watched 3 games of football and are now apparently experts on the rules cheering on the corrupt overturning of a red card because it helps them. American exceptionalism runs deep.

Can anyone can find a way to identify an authentic Indian (Bangladeshi) restaurant via reviews. My go-tos no longer exist locally. One thousand 5 star reviews from people like Trevor who enjoyed the biryani or Maureen who thought the tikka masala was great, are useful but not in an acquisition way.

Pickford clearing his lines

Have we got any more South Asian xenophobes for Home Secretary lined up? Any party seems fine. They all seem equally hateful.

I lived in the US for nearly 4 years and what the World Cup has confirmed is how lame US sports fans ‘chants’ are. You can have your own team songs, you know. Let’s go…..*insert team here* and ‘Defence, Defence, Defence’ doesn’t really cut it.

A reminder that saying “Well *insert traumatic childhood experience* never did me any harm” is clear evidence that it did.

I see boiling other people’s children is the opinion du jour.

That was a cool goal. Time for bed.

Think I might just be watching the first half here.

Musk’s empathy musings are a modern-day fox who lost his tail fable.

Like watching Liverpool last season, this.

Just had a 10 minute monsoon in St Albans. Incredible.

If Trent wasn’t picked for not being able to defend….ummm.

Seen today: “The White Trash House”.

Jesus. The pearl-clutching on here today has been desperate.

He’s so bad at being PM. Not evil or corrupt like the last lot. Just really really shit at the job. What a waste.

My team. Not any more. Fuck The Giants.

Haha. Love it.

We’ve all been there. Finding out the CEO has been raping children, booking the boardroom and workshopping ways of covering it up as a leadership team. Normal stuff.

Be nice to have a liberal leader who actually believed in something and had a vision rather than whatever the fuck this abject shit is.

We’re at the stage where they shot their own helicopter down (accidentally or on purpose) seems as legit a claim as anything that goon claims.

As a rule of thumb we should probably avoid giving the World Cup to a country that doesn’t even name the sport correctly. That and the out-and-out fascism. 🤔

Sporting bleeding knuckles. A tear up in the street? Punching through a car window to save a puppy? Brushing my knuckles past a cheese grater whilst emptying the dish washer?

What’s with all the dead dog posts?

I think it’s clear the US presidency is far too important for Americans to be allowed to vote on. If it just fucked them (like Brexit did us) then have at it. But it doesn’t, does it.

They’ve dialled the white victimhood algo up to 12 across the media board I see. FB is genuinely appalling, frothing up the hard of thinking. Dangerous racist fucks they all are.

My observation of the super rich is they don’t seem very happy, do they? Nothing seems to be enough.

Live by the set piece…

Got attacked by a seagull this morning. Then Slot was sacked this afternoon.

Noticing a lot more Arsenal shirts in Norway where prior mostly Liverpool and Man U. The Ødegaard / winning effect.

That CGI MGM lion, eh? Fuck me. Like advertising ice cream with a picture of a dog turd. Who signed that off?

Blair could be our Giuluani.

Whilst we’re banning under 16s from social media, how about we ban politicians too, so they can work on the actual challenges we are facing rather than the confected billionaire bigot-baiting bot-army bullshit.

Beer over 5%, wines and spirits are sold in govt controlled stores. It’s a bank holiday here. Said stores are shut till Tuesday. I remember why we left now.

Back in Norway and the inflated beer prices in the UK mean it’s not quite as much of a shock buying one here as it once was.

This whole thread.

Seeing so many laid off. Being a top performer, making it to C-Suite, hell - even being young won’t protect you now. It’s not you; it’s them is scant reassurance. Tough times ahead. And no, not everyone wants to fucking ‘hustle’.

Agency AI evangelists giving off very strong ‘pick-me’ vibes.