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@manton terrific value - thanks!

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The story behind Kingfishr’s ‘Killeagh’, which has now had 60 million streams on my streamer alone, is quite something

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In mid-2024, Eoin Fitzgibbon was asked by former hurling coach Phillip O’Neill to write a song for Killeagh GAA to which he agreed if the juniors made the east Cork final that year. Fitzgibbon believed it was unlikely as team hadn’t made the final since 2001. Fitzgibbon said, “lo and behold, October arrives and they get to the final” and he is contacted by O’Neill.

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The song was written in 20 minutes, with the group saying “It literally could not have been more of a slapped-together...

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I’m enjoying the Ribble game on Puzzmo

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Scores on the doors:

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25th June: 5:10

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Watching: Brazil ‘70: The Third Star 🍿.

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Possibly something for football nerds of a certain age….but I’m very much enjoying it

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@nancywisser I never knew there was such a thing as an American robin. Live and learn!

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The first ‘and rightly so’ from Alan Shearer came at two minutes 50.

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And rightly so.\n⚽ #EngGha

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@amerpie I only knew the Highwaymen version - thanks!

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@nancywisser that’s great! - good to get these things checked out

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In my line of work it would help if I didn’t keep spelling ‘subscription’ as ‘subsciption’.

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@JdeBP very good. When’s he going to be on Question Time?

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@nancywisser Larry the cat probably runs things anyway

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@nancywisser Thanks, Nancy. I’m pretty good really. I had a small skin issue, but it’s hopefully sorted now

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At least the new PM isn’t a Gooner ⚽

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@ayjay I broadly agree. However, personally, ‘soccer’ grinds my gears not because of nationality but because of class. I was a vaguely working-class child who went to a rugby-playing grammar school, and it was always referred to as ‘soccer’, as if rugby and soccer were alternative forms of football

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They used to say if you don’t like the weather in England then you can wait five minutes and it will have changed. Starting to feel its the same for Prime Ministers.

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Sad to see him go. I don’t know if anyone else will do any better

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I’m not much interested in Burnham vs Starmer. The significant story seems to me to be how badly the right did

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Reform is dying out there, absolutely dying on its arse - Ian Dunt substack (my retitling)

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Great bit of detail about Count Binface

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The man in the bin is a comedian named Jon Harvey. He used to stand in elections as Lord Buckethead, including in the former prime minister Theresa May’s constituency in 2017 so that she had to face down the dreadful results for her party alongside a man with a bucket on his head. However, after receiving a copyright complaint from the American film-maker Todd Durham, who created Lord Buckethead for his 1984 science-fiction film Hyperspace, Harvey had to rebrand as Count Binface.

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Binface, foxes and raving loonies: the UK’s proud history of costumed candidates

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P...

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Wondering whether I’d rather see Chelsea win the Premiership away at Tottenham or away at Bournemouth 😀

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⚽ #ChelseaFC #cfc
\nChelsea - Scores & Fixtures - Football - BBC Sport

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@samwhyte.bsky.social I enjoyed Ben Scott’s Jeeves and the Ace of Clubs…and I don’t have audible but I imagine Mark Steel’s book about trying to find his biological parents would be good.

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I’m back at Outpatients. Being a total wuss, I always feel a bit sorry for myself….until I see other people who are much worse off than I am.

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I enjoyed today’s Sun headline (although ‘massacre’ is a bit strong)

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Come on, England!

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Please 🙏

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There was a chap in the radio the other day who had bought a bottle of beer from each of the 48 nations in the World Cup.

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As each team gets eliminated he’s going to drink that country’s beer.

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It’s a nice idea. I wonder whether that last bottle of beer, of the side that never gets eliminated (England,...

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It’s a ‘no’ from me.

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Naked cycling: is it ever acceptable to ride a rental bike in the nude? - The Guardian

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It’s great that the referee’s signal for “hydration break” is the same as the mime for “do you want another beer?” ⚽

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@mattypenny.bsky.social yes, that’s another one!

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I was pleased to hear the first “and rightly so” from Alan Shearer in this World Cup.And rightly so. ⚽

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@JdeBP yeah, I think maybe wealthy people in fiction in general tend to be suspect - Gatsby, anyone in Dickens etc I guess fiction isn’t typically written by wealthy people? I think maybe Bruce Wayne seems particularly incongruous post- Elon, Epstein, Zuckerberg et al

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@amerpie reminds me of the series a few of us (mainly me tbh) did on twitter with the hashtag #PeopleIWouldRatherHaveAsPrimeMinisterThanBorisJohnson

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it was just photos, but I summarised it here

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mattypenny-tweets.micro.blog/2019/10/2…

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@dokem a great word ‘scrobble’. The internet has given us some awful words, but scrobble is lovely

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My very favourite comedy ever is a radio comedy set in a corner shop near Glasgow, called Fags, Mags and Bags.

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I just listened to an episode in which they mention Bensons for Beds, Salisbury.

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I might have to go and get my picture taken in front of it.

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I like to think I understand a bit about The Troubles and All That, but often something takes me aback.

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Celtic manager Martin O’Neill says that his dad was one of two barbers in their village…but some Protestants got their haircut by his dad, who was Catholic, too.

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The fact that this is worth mentioning,...

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@seanjones.org One of them was a Solent Kestrel with my youngest

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_…

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In my happy place

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Went to the pictures last night. I enjoyed Batman Begins, but I couldn’t help thinking of how odd it now seems for a billionaire to be the good guy

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Watched: Batman Begins 🍿

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I’m enjoying ‘Play Nice’. Sex and the City meets the Haunting of Hill House?

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Currently reading: Play Nice by Rachel Harrison 📚

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I’m trying, and on the whole failing, to do stuff with ansible.windows.win_dsc:

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To get the list of ‘parameters’ for the particular DSC resource you’re mucking about with you can do this:

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Get-DscResource sqlrs | select -expand properties\n\n\nName                         PropertyType   IsMandatory Values\n----...
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@govindajeggy.bsky.social Five alive!

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I’m walking the Clarendon Way from Winchester to Salisbury

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I’m collecting donations for Farleigh Hospice, who helped look after my dad at the end of his life. Link is below, in case anyone in Fedi-land fancies chipping in

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www.justgiving.com/page/matt…

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@bradleyandroos I read it as a teenager and didn’t really get in with it. I’ve been thinking I should give it another go.

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@dokem brilliant!

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@stamfordlola.bsky.social is it good?

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I’m slightly embarrassed that I’ve never been

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@matthewhurst 😂😂very good!

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@julieo25.bsky.social there was a bit of air-punching here

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@stamfordlola.bsky.social Sounds like fun - have a great time!

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@danherb10.bsky.social It’s amazing that something so small can make such a racket.

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Proportionally it’s surely as if we all spoke at Knebworth volume all the time

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@philpin.com I love that song. I’ve not listened to Hawkwind all that much, they’re not quite my cup of tea but I play that a lot

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@boffbowsh I’ve got a lot of sympathy with everyone involved tbh.

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As Bielsa said in the original case, it’s accepted practice in other countries, and it’s EFL’s Regulation 127. I can easily imagine a manager just not being across that many rules and reg’s

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@derekpeden true. I still think that he’s the best person for the job, except that I think he’s unlikely to get re-elected :(

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