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Mustn't be wedding season.

They're trying to overpopulate the UK with migrants, but they're also trying to depopulate the planet with the pandemic. Fucking THEM.

The Greek word for "Georgia" is the same as the Greek word for "agriculture". Fun fact. Well, fact.

Okay, decent Georgian dive to win that pen, honours even

I see Conceição is a diving little shit just like his dad was #neverforget

Either the Netherlands or whoever finishes 3rd in the Romania/Belgium/Slovakia/Ukraine group, depending on nerdy permutations (surely the best kind of permutation).

Meanwhile, the view from abroad: "a medium-sized country with neither partners nor plans is only mildly newsworthy". Ouch. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/24/mood-among-british-voters-election-europe

Netherlands-Austria has been quite the giggle

FYP

That, dear friends, is where my partner comes from and my in-laws still live. In fairness, they do their best to avoid the town centre too...

In Soviet Russia, off fucks you.

I hope the chapter on the Wolves badge just says "It's because they're called Wolves"

He wishes 😘

I know this isn't the point of the story, but if you're ever forced to break at Peterborough services while doing that route, holler and I'll pop over and buy a coffee for you and whoever you've got tied up in the back at the time

I say it every time and I will keep saying it every time: The Liz Truss line

I have hated you on that very stretch of road so very many times, and I've only been driving regularly for a year. Mind, those same Audi drivers get just as peeved about my little Hyundai i10 daring to be in the fast lane even when I'm going... fast. Poor wee boys.

Fond memories of Parky always saying "quantum easing" in politics threads when he meant "quantitative easing"

Surveyors ✅ So it turns out our new house has a quite obvious problem with the air quality - you feel it on your chest/in the back of your throat almost immediately, which is just terrific. What's annoying is (a) we apparently didn't pick up it on multiple viewings, and more pertinently (b) the surveyor didn't notice despite apparently doing his job properly. There are no signs of visible issues so it's presumably hidden mould under the bath or the floorboards or something and will no doubt be an absolute sod to fix. We're not due to move in for a little while yet, so we're airing the place like nobody's business (when it isn't raining 😕), have a stupidly expensive air purifier arriving tomorrow to at least hopefully make the rooms halfway livable at the expense of raised leccy bills, and the local flaky-but-nice plumber should be round on Monday to see if there's anything immediately obviously wrong that doesn't require ripping the place to pieces (or, indeed, that does). Fuck's sake. Anyone been in a similar position? All bright ideas gratefully accepted...

I was hoping that would just lead to a blank page, Len Shackleton-style.

Françoise Hardy

Who knew Sunderland and the Tories had so much in common.

You mean avant-garde. #FishedYourPost