Who said Belgium has had no impact on global culture

Me finding out the third place playoff is now called the bronze final

All this talk of the England-Argentina game possibly kicking off in the stands reminds me of this iconic photo of a fight at the game in the Azteca in Mexico '86

Unrelatedly, not exactly upset with the verdict

As far as political compasses go... fair enough britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Every day we stray further from god's light

"There was no hard sell of mobile phones in the 90s" Literally the 1990s:

Seen a lot of this performative ignorance lately and it's simply not true. 1999 was literally when the entry-level price of a mobile dropped and everyone under 25 was now in the target market. We all got marketed to very hard

I'm sorry but we can't be calling storms names like Dave

The reaction to the removal of 4o from the ChatGPT interface is genuinely one of the strangest things I've ever seen. This community might be relatively small but there is a level of unprecedented fanatical devotion here

RIP. Iconic in Falling Down, itself hugely underrated as a film

Seen a spate of these stories lately. This one sounds like perfect ragebait but it's just so unrealistic, something an AI finds difficult to judge

Can't think of the United Strand guy without thinking of

Even if this did ever get the go-ahead successive governments would pare it back until it's just a guided bus on a brand new motorway between Liverpool and Manchester

The rest of the world: Just use the letter J, it's right there Italy: No

"The deals you want to be involved in require discretion, trust, handshakes, privacy. This book announces that you are willing to sell all of these for a farthing" is such a perfect summary of Mandelson. The world's most notorious sex trafficker was a better judge of character than the current PM

Gene Roddenberry: I invented Romulan Ale as a cautionary tale Pakistani distillery: At long last, we have created Romulan Ale from the classic Star Trek episode "Don't Drink The Romulan Ale"

What's wrong babe? You've barely touched your stained glass England shirt

After reading this all I could think of was this Tweet

Did it actually sink? Or has it been secretly towed to the Gare Loch, where it is now lurking?

Might have to bring the Daily Mail Headline Generator back

Big fan of whichever sub-committee at the Met Office went "for the new app design, let's put our logo in three different places on the screen, so people know what app they're using. And let's put the bottom one floating over actually useful info, that makes perfect sense"

There was a similar case in the UK. I keep a scan of this newspaper article about it on my phone, to cheer me up with a quick laugh whenever I am down

He used to have some very interesting critiques of the system, and I still wonder what made him go off the deep end

My answer is Ballard. Not only the perversity of "Crash" is chillingly parallel to that of LLM-generated atrocities, but this passage from "High Rise" describes a strain of sociopathy all too present in the narcissistic strain of people who are Very Online

Ballard, surely

Absolutely top notch WTF paragraph from a footballer's Wikipedia biography

What is up with the thumb on the middle hand. What is it doing up there