Totally terrible

Quelle ambition !

Uh oh

Ah now

Is "being knackered" in the DSM? Because I've been down with a case of it all week 😴

What do you do with 3L of leftover Chicha Morada?

If "eco-socialism" ever existed in Brussels, it's definitely dead now. Vote Red, get blue! www.bruzz.be/brusselkiest...

Why is the national parliament dealing with local bin collection in Dublin?

📺STARTING SHORTLY - #EPlenary debate on the urgent need to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan and to achieve a sustainable peace WATCH - link.europa.eu/V6Rt74

I think we should probably suspend all car ownership until we get to the bottom of this money-laundering

So disappointed this is all sold out next week

I take issue with the "British" denomination

I guess it's time to stock up on Wrangler shirts and Carhartt jackets before it's too late

I hate that I watched the super bowl highlights this morning - a crap game of a boring sport pushed on us by the last dregs of American cultural imperialism. Anyway, how's your Monday going?

I am pleased to announce that I will not be writing anything of use until the Olympics are over.

A bad end to the weekend for men with ginger beards from Cork

All good things come to an end I guess 🤕

Looking at the dad bods on these Luge lads at the Olympics and thinking, I could do that

GOOD MORNING! Here's this week's edition of news, nuggets and longreads, with pubs, pub crawls, pub dartboards, more pubs, and a taproom. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2026/02/news...

Eeeeek! www.bruzz.be/select/muzie...

Just realised that as of today I have only had one verifiable migraine (with aura) since August - and that was after going a bit too hard on a Wednesday night in Madrid. Basically 6-ish months migraine free, after being a minimum-one-migraine-a-week man for the best part of 2025. God bless drugs.

Little ask for any of you interested in football, history or Dublin 8 and surrounds. @historystpats.bsky.social was a big success on Twitter but we left because it is the worst place in the world. Very few have followed us here. It would be great to get a few more follows and some amplification! 🔴⚪️

Brussels Notes #151: Matinal City A Saturday morning at Le Chineur & Le Clef D'Or - which, miraculously, is back open - on Brussels' (2nd) most famous square.

Brussels Notes #151: Matinal City A Saturday morning at Le Chineur & Le Clef D'Or - which, miraculously, is back open - on Brussels' (2nd) most famous square.

irish government to require all pedestrians and cyclists to dress like this so that drivers will maybe look at them

Best thing about this is that the new location (as well as being smack bang in the centre of town) is the HQ of an NGO working against isolation among older people

I've just seen that the best - and most ephemeral - Brussels café experience has just re-opened in the centre of town. Aux Trois Rois was a Schaarbeek estaminet, and before it was closed its interior was rescued & now lives again as a travelling pop up pub Details: www.facebook.com/BOp.brussels...

Damn - so many corduroy Road flares bought at this place, and now it's heading to the great halfpipe in the sky

Saddest thing about this is that only one of the children have inherited my invulnerable teeth. The other one's teeth appear to be made from clay

God bless my ironclad teeth. The rest of my body may be falling all to pieces, but I'm going into my 40th year with not a filling in sight. (Just as well, because I have a panic attack every time I force myself to go to the dentist)

Now, everyone say it with me! "Your scientists were too preoccupied..."

wow let me just check what the have in common

It's a shame to see that the Franciscan Well brand is going to disappear

I'm the last one to give parenting advice*, but parents letti g their 2-year-old scroll TikTok with the loudspeaker on full volume in a packed metro? That's bad parenting! (*not true)

When I transfer money from the joint account to my private account so I don't run out of money at the end of the month

Do these lads know where/what Puerto Rico is?

Meeting newsletter subscribers in real life - I love it but it also freaks me out

I tried to be Belgian Late to a reception but still ended up Irish Early

Carve it on my gravestone - "He had right of way!"

These signs have to be the biggest joke in Brussels road safety. But it's okay, the joke's on the guy who illegally overtook me while hurling abuse from his car: you're going to find a lovely scratch on your bumper when you get home, and it will be all your fault.

The kind of article you read at the beginning of a body horror film. Just leave the mysterious plague grave alone please

I am once again spending my Saturday afternoons judging the extremely odd behaviour of football parents and wondering, "if you're like this out of doors, what are you like at home?!"

Wonder Man is another show that proves the "surf Dracula theory" of modern TV

#150: Edible City The best noodle bar in Brussels is back open (and has been for a while)

And by best I mean my favourite but what's the difference

#150: Edible City The best noodle bar in Brussels is back open (and has been for a while)

Spot the odd one out (it's the one no one in Brussels voted for but still kepps turning up anyway) www.dhnet.be/regions/brux...

I'm sorry, but you're saying people don't take the tram to buy chocolates in the fancy chocolate shop, but need to be able to park outside the front door? Have the people that come out with this sort of car-brained nonsense ever set foot on public transport, or talked to their customers?

Brussels N-VAers: "Wij houden van Brussel, echt waar!" Vlaamse N-VAers: "Brussel? Yuck!"

Tja, politici in dit land duwen problemen graag richting Brussel en vinden het geen probleem ze daar te laten etteren, want ze denken dat problemen zich wel aan grenzen houden. En dan schrikken dat dat niet het geval is.