#TodayILearned that for every 100 calories of animal feed you give to an animal you get back 12 calories of animal meat
#meatfreemonday
The Pogues “are a roaring, stumbling band. These are the dead end kids for real. Shane’s voice conveys so much. They play like soldiers on leave. The songs are epic. It’s whimsical and blasphemous, seasick and sacrilegious, wear it out and then get another one.….” - Tom Waits
RT @Clonehenge: Alert friend of Clonehenge, Matt Rich, says: “Henges have made it onto the Mrs Browns Boys BBC TV show.”
And indeed, it lo…
RT @StopFundingHate: In the final speech of his life, Dr. Martin Luther King called for consumer boycotts of companies with racist employme…
Well DeMilo’s Venus was a beautiful lass
She had the world in the palm of her hand
But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match
To win a brown eyed handsome man
#PostASongLyricYouLove
A middle-aged bloke examining photos by random Twitter people at a pop festival to see if he can get a glimpse of one of his offspring in the crowd
Pretty tragic
Maurizio Sarri:
“Anybody who plays a game started doing it as a child for fun and the child in us must be nurtured because this often makes us the best.
To create play that is fun is the first thing to obtain a style for a high-level squad.”
#cfc #utc www.theguardian.com/football/…
“Rooting for the underdog is a form of moral weakness”
RT @NancySinatra: Finally, a (not retiring) Republican Congressman admits Trump is being manipulated by Putin www.dailykos.com/story/201…
I scored 9 out of 12 on a BBC Quiz
A bit disappointed, to be honest
RT @ruskin147: Wonderful article- does anyone seriously believe life was better in the 1950s? If so I’m coming round with a can of spam to…
It wasn’t me, but my best friend he asked
#PostASongLyricYouLove
I hadn’t noticed before but the jolly fellow on the label is possibly a reference to the green (ish) man above the Wyndham Arms, where the Hopback started
I must admit…if someone says the words ‘crop circle ' I tend to think of this
It’s perhaps also a nod to Regards Presley of the Troggs, who was local and into crop circles
#TodayILearned that the pattern of the carpets in Andover Wetherspoons is inspired by the crop circles that proliferate around here
“The lesson of that story is that only a fool accepts the evidence of his own memory as gospel
The lesson of this story is…we are all fools”
Britain’s seaside shelters – in pictures
One magical, slightly drunken old evening we stumbled into the courtyard of what was then the Chough Hotel in Salisbury, and found one of the McGann brothers singing the hits with an acoustic guitar
Would have seemed rude to ask which McGann he was
My word of the day today is ‘scamper’