Matt Penny

#EdBallsDay

An opinion.

It’s okay for @Conservatives to call themselves ‘Tories’, but the word ‘Tory’ sounds ugly and off-putting in the mouths of liberals and lefties

#GTTO

#TodayILearned that Cristiano Ronaldo was named in honour of Ronald Reagan

Via @paulsinha on @BBCRadio4

RT @YvetteCooperMP: Still? After 11 years? Seriously? #EdBallsDay

RT @pauleggleston: I’m running a Beatles pun contest, and I’m getting Paul McCartney to heyjudicate.

My word of the day today is ‘dunk’.

Doing some Linux-ing after quite a while….why are the slashes the wrong way round!!!

:)

#TodayILearned that basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar only ever scored one three-pointer www.npr.org/2021/06/2…

“Does the Prime Minister agree with me that everyone needs to vote Conservative?”

Regardless of party, @FelicityBuchan wastes parliamentary time, and our money, asking questions like this at #PMQs

#TodayILearned

Tbh, I didn’t know there was #BathBlitz twitter.com/VictoriaA…

Listening to this, and was reminded Bob Marley was only 36 when he died

His last LP, ‘Uprising’ had Redemption Song and Could You be Loved….as good as anything he’d done imho

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

I think I would pay a (very) small subscription to use twitter, but my worry would be that some of the more interesting people that I follow wouldn’t

Starting to learn about Ansible.

There seem to be about 103 places you can put variables.

“A driver on a 45-mile journey from Manchester to Leeds, using an average car, can save around £4.30 if they go at 50mph, rather than the national speed limit on a motorway of 70mph”

www.theguardian.com/money/202…

My word of the day today is ‘gravel’.

Vive la France!

www.theguardian.com/world/liv…

I thought Tommy Tuchel was daft to bring off Werner, Havertz and RLC just as we were starting to look dangerous….but then one substitute won a penalty, and the other scored

I guess that’s why Mr T is in the dugout, and I’m sat at home

#CheWhu

Highlight so far was doing a bit of weeding at half time

#CheWhu

When I eventually get the call to manage a Premiership football club I will make anybody who is sitting on the bench in the sun wear a cap

You don’t want someone on £100k a week coming on with a headache

#OldManTweet

#chewhu

The winner of this year’s Ultimate Elvis Competition is a chap called Paul Fenech.

The only other time I’ve seen that surname was P.Paul Fenech, who, I guess coincidentally, also sang rock and roll with psychobilly band the Meteors m.youtube.com/watch