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Do you ever think about how long you’ve got left?
at 09:43 7 Feb 2025

Interesting fact alert:

If you look at the back wall of the old Odeon/Bingo hall in Lloyds Avenue (so it's the greybrick one you'd see next to Debenhams) - you'll see a single white brick.

Apparently that marks the spot when some poor bricklayer fell from and died when it was being built 90 odd years ago.
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Do you ever think about how long you’ve got left?
at 09:57 6 Feb 2025

Let's say I'm aiming for at least 80. That'll be 2053, so 28 years time.

And you think "Meh, that's MILES away"

And then you realise that 28 years ago was 1997. Diana. Tony Blair. Starship Troopers. Air Force One. Song 2. Barbie Girl. The black and cream stripes away kit. Losing to Sheffield United in the play offs.

And then you say "Hang on that was only a few years ago, wasn't it?"

And then you spend the rest of the day in a fetal position, whimpering.

Happy Thursday, everyone!
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Any other weirdos like me...
at 12:58 1 Feb 2025

There's various bus/car ones as well, which are fascinating.

Try https://youtube.com/@eurasiatransportexplorer?si=7XHXpB94-iE5KSbR for example which has dozens of playlists from all over the world including trips from the Old Cattle Market to Manningtree and Aldeburgh.

But for possibly the ultimate, there's this playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEedjALaSi5f7qS5glvDJMBmbYdeldmYV&si=TNAp which is a couple and their dog driving around the UK coastline in their campervan. In real time...

They start from Weston Super Mare and go clockwise, avoiding motorways where they can - the drive through Suffolk is on Day 23 from 2h 23 onwards - there's normally a breakdown of times in the comments.
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David Coote...
at 11:25 28 Jan 2025

It wouldn't surprise me if The Sun pulled the same trick they did with the late Stephen Gateley of Boyzone - "We're going to run the story that you're gay whether you like it or not. You can either give us an exclusive interview and we can paint you in a sympathetic light, or we'll run a negative story about it, and trash your reputation.

Of course the drawback with that theory is that Coote's reputation is in the dirt anyway.
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Guthrum's Calculated Final Table
at 14:05 14 Jan 2025

Congrats to Bournemouth for that Europa League spot as well.

As for Southampton...ouch.
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Malen confirmed for Villa
at 13:17 13 Jan 2025

Postcode? I'm expecting a picture of him driving past Copdock Tesco.
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Happy 60th birthday to David Linighan
at 11:50 12 Jan 2025

Yep, remember the second Whelan sending off against Arsenal at Portman Road. Gives away a clear foul, and whilst running away, says something.

Problem is, it was during one of those moments when the stadium is pretty quiet, and the ref can hear it clear as day even though Whelan is running away. Whistle blown again, and a massive groan goes around the stands, because we all know what's coming. Memorable for Simon Milton yelling "Phil! PHIL!!!!!" to get Whelan to come back.
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Phil O’Gene
at 11:22 12 Jan 2025

Ah, but if he is there, who is to say Villa haven't accepted a £100k offer from Bristol Rovers, and he's taking a massive pay cut to head off west?

Wibble.
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Everton account on X says Philogene there to meet Moyes today.
at 22:42 11 Jan 2025

Probably not even Philogene related after all that. Birmingham to Ipswich via Brent Cross is not exactly a sensible route. And even less so Birmingham to Liverpool.
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Everton account on X says Philogene there to meet Moyes today.
at 22:35 11 Jan 2025

Yeah, just noticed that. Was preparing there to be a statue of me on the Cornhill for my detective prowess, tempered by visions of the headline PHILOGENE DEAL COLLAPSES DUE TO BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY FROM IPSWICH FAN, followed by Ashton kicking my head in.
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Everton account on X says Philogene there to meet Moyes today.
at 22:27 11 Jan 2025

Found it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/EawFSVrHY5Kn497g9?g_st=ac

It was the A502. They're on the North Circular eastbound at Brent Cross between the M1 and A41 junctions. The bridge carries Templehof Lane.
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Couple of things I noticed about Philogene last night
at 11:08 9 Jan 2025

Ooh, you are awful.
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Happy 60th birthday to David Linighan
at 09:09 9 Jan 2025

I always remember how either Dribble or A Load Of Cobbolds did a player review at the end of, I think 88/89, had the following comment next to Linighan.

"Biff! Pow! Splat!"

Summed him up perfectly. You did not mess with him.
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Players I’ve uniquely loved over the years as much as Janoi
at 12:58 8 Jan 2025

Basically it's players you liked, but don't get mentioned so much, isn't it? The unsung heroes

So, off the top of my head

Ian Redford
Ron Fearon (if only for the "Heeeeeere's Ronnie!" chant every time he took a goal kick)
Steve Palmer (Went on a Donacien like journey from being someone who was falling short to a vital cog in the 92 team. His display in the 3-2 win against Newcastle at Portman Road which put us ten points clear was magnificent)
Paul Mason
Mich, Mich, Mich D'Avray
Bobby Petta

There's probably loads more if I think about it.

Paul Goddard, there's another one. And Ivan Campo.
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Trump's counter terrorism appointee Sebastien Gorka on Radio 5
at 18:47 7 Jan 2025

Knowing how hopeless he is, expect to see him in a photo of him captioned "Great to be back in Clacton" whilst standing in front of the pier.

At Cromer.
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Trump's counter terrorism appointee Sebastien Gorka on Radio 5
at 18:20 7 Jan 2025

Just also seen that Nigel "Man of the People" Farage has been paid nearly £200k by a gold bullion merchant to be their brand ambassador.

He can put the money in the account he has at the same bank the Royals use.

How, in the name of Eddie Youds, can people not see through this cheap, grifting, xenophobic, treacherous, quisling, tenth rate snake oil salesman is utterly beyond me.
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Genuine question for the Faragets.
at 13:17 5 Jan 2025

Unfortunately, that would mean the Tories, many of their supporters, and certain parts of the media taking responsibility for their mistakes. And there's more chance of me partnering O'Shea in defence this afternoon than that.

Whatever goes wrong is the fault of the EU, of people coming here from elsewhere to try and improve their life, of the schools, of those who are LGBTQIA, of women generally, of anyone born after 1970, of anyone who isn't white, of anyone not in the higher tax bracket.

To be fair to Sunak, he did seem a bit contrite after the election, but I suspect that was more a case of relief that he was out of it. But the two PM's prior to him - the lettuce brained void that is Truss, and the broken garden gnome made out of mashed potato that is Johnson are incapable of admitting they did wrong. Which shows them for what they are - inadequate cowards.
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Genuine question for the Faragets.
at 11:03 5 Jan 2025

Because that's what they are told by these individuals - and by papers such as the Mail and the Telegraph. People simply do not do research, they don't question - they just blindly assume that what they are told by proven liars (See Johnson, B) is correct.

When the EU referendum was announced - the one hope I did have is that people would do proper research on it - I wasn't dumb enough to assume that everybody would think the same way I would - if people voted to leave having done research into it, then fair enough, you've just come to a different conclusion than I have.

But we know this didn't happen - swathes of people voted to leave because of what Farage said, because of the countless Express and Mail front pages, because they stood behind someone who was speaking Polish in the queue at Sainsbury's - they didn't say "Hang on, is that right?" and tried to take a closer look at it.

And that's why old Twitter was useful - you'd get people challenging the lies, and proving verifiable evidence that these claims were false - but of course now with the pathetic scrote Musk running things, the claims now drown out the rebuttals.

People need to understand that Musk, Trump, Farage, Johnson, Yaxley-Lennon - they couldn't give a damn about you whether you support them or not. They're only interested in themselves. They are bereft of morals and decency, and if you can't see that, if you are hanging on their every single word, then well, that's up to you, you're entitled to your choice.

But don't you dare bring the rest of us down with you.
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Genuine question for the Faragets.
at 10:40 5 Jan 2025

Ah, Farage, the self proclaimed man of the people who banks at the same institution as the Royal Family, and attended Boxing Day hunts.

"Stop the boats" comes the cry - ok then, presumably you're all for safe and legal routes into the UK. Because if you look at a graph of the UK birth rate, you note that the birth rate in the late fifties, so those who are now retiring and leaving the workforce, is far far higher than the birth rate in the mid 2000s that will now be those coming into working age.

So there's a massive gap.Even with full employment, you'd have this discrepancy. It's a simple demographic fact. And you'll get those who say the solution is for British women to become baby machines and have 47 children each or something. But even if you were to say "Righto, we'll get right on it" - any child born now isn't joining the workforce until 2043.

It's dimwitted short sighted nonsense designed to pander to sheep, as said above. And that's why Farage has formed this unholy trinity with a proven sex offender and a narcissitic man baby. And in answer to the question above, I give it six months before Trump and Musk fall out - see Cummings and Johnson for comparison - these people have massive egos and cannot stand to be seen as the junior partner.

The UK government needs to grow some cojones fast - Look at the things Musk has said about Starmer and Jess Phillips in the last 48 hours - we've got to do better than Wes Streeting's pathetic sycophancy yesterday in calling these things out, and calling these people what they are. Appreciate that the realism of international diplomacy means that as far as Trump is concerned, we have to do it through the correct channels, but Musk is not an elected official and shouldn't be exempt from people telling him some home truths.

One last thing - I note that Farage gave his "New Year message" the other day - now, I'll grant you, I wasn't expecting him to be delivering it strolling down the middle of Pier Avenue in Clacton, but he was in, of all places, Blenheim Palace. Obviously trying to pretend he's Churchill.

Which is ironic, because at the end of the day, Farage is no Churchill, he's a Poundland Lord Haw-Haw. A pathetic quisling. A plague on all their houses.
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Godfrey
at 23:30 4 Jan 2025

And of course, in best traditions of hilarity, the scene then changes to the confused coach of the Atlanta Falcons NFL team putting the phone down and saying "Who is Ben Godfrey?"
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