Alex

Tooj told me this was great but I forgot about it. Plus I’ve only just found out I’ve got Apple TV as a perk from my bank account. Going to give it a go. Thanks for the reminder

By the way, to be slightly serious, it’s listed on companies house but it’s a publicly owned organisation. Miliband is the person with significant interest because he’s the Secretary of State whose remit it falls under. So he’s the person who can appoint / get rid directors. It’s not a private company owned by Miliband. I would say it’s right that an elected politician has that power over something publicly owned of this scale. It was set up under legislation by the previous government, and its previous incarnation was owned by the National Grid, which is an investor owned company.

William Storey?

Take no notice of TDS, if he had his way Grainger Town would now look like Killy flats

Piss poor - The earliest known use of the adjective piss-poor is in the 1940s. OED's earliest evidence for piss-poor is from 1945, in the writing of M. Kantor.

I’m always dubious about these. My sister bought me a book about the origins of sayings years ago. And I subsequently found out a lot of them were probably bollocks. Like ‘dead ringer’ and bells in coffins. The phrase wasn’t in common usage until much later than its supposed origin. It probably referred to ‘ringers’ in horse races, with ‘dead’ in the sense of true or spot on. Back from the days when a horse would be entered in a race under a different name to fool the bookies. I suspect daylight robbery is the same. It mentions a 17th century tax but the first usage according to the OED is not until the 1800s. You can never be sure but the phrase not being found until a lot later is about as sure as you can be. I guess it was literally about a robbery being committed in broad daylight. Lots of phrases do have interesting origins though. And loads still in common usage came from Shakespeare’s work

Bellew will be wanting to ‘fight’ him in the future

I woke up at 5. Realised it was about to start so watched it. Just a pathetic, boring spectacle really.

When Tyson fought Lewis Ritchie Woodhall on the BBC commentary said that Tyson isn’t even a shadow of his former self. That was 22 years ago

They fucking hate her because of a perceived favouring of NUFC. Meanwhile Jeff Brown is a proper dyed in the wool Mackem and does anyone give a shit about him presenting the sports bit on Look North. It’s proper pathological hatred with some of them

Why didn’t they use Cluedo? That way they could’ve sent them guns, daggers, rope, etc.

They bang on about us being obsessed with them but there’s people on RTG who would murder Dawn Thewlis if they had the chance I reckon.

The bit where the lass was embarrassed?

Surprised bookies are taking bets tbh. Smells like a fix. It shouldn’t be happening because amateurs shouldn’t box professionals and people shouldn’t box at all at Tyson’s age in a competitive fight. I saw some footage of Jake Paul ‘sparring’. The other bloke wasn’t even trying to hit him and he looked shite. I’ve never seen a proper boxer lead with their head. Any half decent amateur would fucking murder him

Both!

Trump poking the hornets’ nest

It’ll be less packaging and/or space taken up. To save money

He’s a rotter who looks like an otter

I would say that, as a player, he’s about as good as Beckenbauer’s hair was at Italia 90.

I was pretty convinced he was the killer anyway but I think part 3 finally put any doubts to bed.

Reads a bit like that time they made Chez Given a moderator

Still don’t see where he’d have fitted into the system Howe plays. And he doesn’t strike me as being good enough to make the manager change it

It’s become a bit like rugby union after they allowed multiple subs and certain players are specifically ’finishers’ ie purely in the squad to play the last 1/3 or 1/4 of the match. He seems to be in that category.

Two two-legged European ties in their entire history, man. But a cup final and Champions League qualification = achieving nowt

The Armies by Evelio Rosero is a good read if you like that Colombian magical realism style like the above