My word of the day today is ‘harbinger’.
My word of the day today is ‘harbinger’.
“young fans and viewers can be subjected to more than 700 gambling-related messages during a televised Premier League match.”
I think Qatar is perfect for #FIFAWorldCup and not homophobic at all
“Dozens of Dutch football fans at next months World Cup in Qatar will be expected to promote the Gulf state and report ‘negative’ coverage on social media in exchange for free tickets.” www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022…
#TodayILearned that one of the possible derivations of Yankee is “alteration of Jan Kees, dialectal variant of Jan Kaas, literally “John Cheese,” the generic nickname the Flemings used for Dutchmen.”
John Cheese is, I think, John Cleese’s original name
It’s not all bad news
My word of the day today is ‘piffle’.
Top anecdotage from Joanne Petersen, who was like a PA for Brian Epstein
Back in the ’60s girl talking to two Beatles at the Ad Lib club.
Playing it cool, says, my name’s Joanne, who are you?
- I’m John, this is Paul
It was George and Ringo
#TodayILearned that people who knew D.H. Lawrence used to call him ‘Bert’.
Whatever the question, the answer’s ‘Blah, blah, Corbyn’
#PMQs
My word of the day today is ‘chilly’.
Elon Musk at Twitter has very strong Liz Truss at No. 10 vibes
As a hippy vegetarian animal rights guy I don’t really approve of #ImACeleb, and as a leftie politics geek I don’t really approve of MPs taking time off in term time….but there is a bit of value in seeing politicians more human side on Prime Time telly
#TodayILearned
#TodayILearned
A new second team to follow - @KeralaBlasters ? twitter.com/90ndstopp…
I shall be using the word ‘Novembermass’ at every opportunity twitter.com/rockyorio…
My word of the day today is ‘muffle’.
My word of the day today is ‘muffle’.
Played football last night…still feeling damp around the edges