The second most important thing in a pub is that you can walk in on your own at any time and have a conversation with a stranger. The most important thing is that you don't have to.

Ooh a magazine. Maybe I'll buy a magazine and support print media. I wonder how much magazines cost these days...

Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined. - I've played them and enjoyed them - They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history - They were within the first 25 I thought of...

Buying tickets at Lords timetable: 1) Enter the ballot. Tickets will go fast! Get first chance. 2) Join the priority list. Tickets will go fast! Beat the public sale. 3) Tickets on public sale. They'll go fast! 4) Hey, did you notice we only ever put half the stadium on sale.

Just need to add a link/incorporate it on the main site, but I'm declaring database.itvwrestling.co.uk officially complete. Any remaining errors are probably getting manually fixed at an unspecified date.

Just need to add a link/incorporate it on the main site, but I'm declaring database.itvwrestling.co.uk officially complete. Any remaining errors are probably getting manually fixed at an unspecified date.

This would allow for two possible coalition governments: 1) Literally every single party other than the SNP, no exceptions. 2) The SNP and literally any other party they choose.

I do love building apps that will literally be used once by one person.

Would be lovely if that BBC Sport app waited till after the VAR check before sending goal alerts.

Raising a newborn without ChatGPT has only been done an estimated 117 billion times before.

Reminder that this kind of thing could happen in 2030 when Reform turn on Farage. The person who then becomes PM is currently yet to consider the idea of running for council next May.

When the headline doesn't quite match the story.

This woman was Prime Minister barely three years ago.

That's a perfectly cromulent fess.

Is it temporally possible to watch Lord of The Rings films six times in one lifetime?

BBC New Comedy Awards has regional heats and a national final. The crowds are different. It's not a problem that the heat winners do literally the same routine, word for word, in the final. Well, except for the fact the heats and final were both shown, in consecutive weeks, on national TV.

To recap my understanding: AEW is running Cardiff six days from now. It's not sold out. It's theoretically possible there'll be 2-3 Continental Classic matches with top stars/great workers having potentially excellent matches. There's no word yet on what CC matches are on the show, if any.

The FA Cup 3rd round draw is on TNT Sports. Surely it should be a listed event like the cup final itself.

I realise Facebook is not designed for the benefit of its "users", but is there any way you can set it/override it so that you see posts people have written themselves, but not pages/posts they have shared?

Play it again, Samwell Tarly

That sound you just heard is wrestling promoters rescheduling next summer's events now the England games are out.

In the 80s scanning under hedges for porn mags was known as privet browsing mode.

One week later this is still the case, implying a deliberate change.

Below The Belt just added to Amazon Prime UK. It's not, as I thought, the same as California Dolls/All The Marbles (which ends with what's effectively a **** match in movie form), but does include some WWWF footage and a guest role for Mildred Burke.

Interesting WON HOF stat from Peter Edge: Spyros Arion is the second inductee to be born outside of the USA, Mexico, Canada, Japan or the UK, with Konnan being the first in 2009.https://www.socialsuplex.com/retro-11/

This sequence of events concluded when I ragequit because my browser (not the web page) was showing a pop-up window suggesting I install Google Chrome. My browser *IS* Google Chrome.

Posted on this on Reddit. Tried to find the post to copy the text to a Google forum. It won't let me view my own profile without verifying my age. Then went to the official Google support forum. It wants me to create a user account despite the fact I AM LOGGED IN TO GOOGLE.

My Google smart speaker has been updated. Ask it what time my local library shuts and it no longer uses web search results to give you the (correct) answer. Instead it uses the Google AI Overview results to give you a made-up answer which is wrong. This is apparently progress.

Bullseye revival was a viable idea for a one off but I'm not sure about it as an ongoing series. It would be a bit like if Peter Kay took his successful routine and just repeated it over and over.

FIFA appeae unaware that "can't have two teams from the same continent" is their arbitrary choice and not a law of physics.

"England's first game will be in Houston or Toronto." Come on, let's narrow it to the nearest country.

I honestly thought the World Cup draw couldn't get any more over-complicated and drawn out, but god bless, they did it.

So Netflix will own what was BT Sport?

Thanks for the clarification.

In case you’re wondering about the state of the coalition talks in the Netherlands… (pictured the five parties talking and the look on the face of the ‘informateur’ says it all)

I have just seen a jumper in Marks & Spencer for £100. I think this is the first time I've really accepted we're getting a Reform government at the next election.

@00childpodcast.bsky.social Just checked and none of the dates Somerset have TBC are on the same day as a men's game at Taunton (and all at least two days clear of a county championship game). So fingers crossed.

The UK version of this is that a grand total of five broadcasts (1996 World Cup Final, Diana's funeral, royal family documentary 1969, apollo 13 splashdown, diana charles wedding, den/angie divorce) were watched by a majority of the population. Anything else - most people didn't watch it.

Just seen an article which noted "nearly half the country’s population at the time" watched the last every episode of MASH and the next day "If you hadn't seen it, you were the outlier." That is mathematically untrue.

TIL, in an amazingly weird coincidence the 100 best TV shows this century were all made in English and almost entirely in the US. www.theringer.com/project/best...

43 years on, Jim Breaks still getting heat.

Sometimes Christmas being full of repeats is a good thing.

It doesn't matter how many times you explain basic astronomy to me, I still don't understand how you can sometimes see the moon during daytime.

My 40-year-old wife went to buy champagne for our wedding anniversary dinner. I phoned the off licence after she left, gave a description of her and what she was buying and requested they ask her for ID. She came home absolutely beaming. It's the simple things.

Also, just some idea of why only about a third of the ground is on sale and whether the rest is getting opened up later would help. As would an explanation of whether the World Cup Final is actually sold out six months early (in which case they should be boasting about it) or more tickets coming?

I'm a massive fan of gender equity in cricket, but I was thinking more "womens test match goes five days" or "womens T20 final is also on a weekend" rather than "womens test match tickets go on sale at exactly the same time and through the same system as mens test match tickets."

Oh, so the AJ Styles/Dragon Lee tag finish everyone was going apeshit about was just the thing Leon Cage does by himself.

I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS