But, mi portuñol doesn’t stretch as far as knowing chisme, which makes more sense if you were in Montevideo

I thought it was going to be “fofoca, diz-me”, as in “gossip, talk to me”

I liked “lord on the board”

I quite enjoy the implied lateral movement

...and so compounded by being self-inflicted

One night at a festival this summer I saw a tennis ball on the ground. Drunk, decided to boot it as far as I could – turned out it was covering the protruding end of a pole anchor in the ground.

Still got a bruised section of my big toenail three months down the line

I remember being taken aback that their quant guy was doing better qual than anyone else in the room

I’d always wondered how employers turned it around so slowly until I was on the two-person shortlisting panel for a job with 80 applicants

Lad at my school made two grave mistakes. The first: he bookmarked a porn site on his family computer but renamed the bookmark to “Capital FM”, which his mum clicked on. The second, fatal: he told people at school, which led to “Capital FM” being his nickname and me recounting this 15 years later

I’ve just gone back and done some recent ones and not got above 8 – going along fine and then there’s some regional American thing that’s basically ungettable

When I watched it last year the word that kept coming to mind was “sumptuous” – such a rich mix of cinematography, set design and costume

Ooh that’s a good game

#460 - 9/10 🎉
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The caesura into “Sonst” is a big sonnet move, but the stumbling-over-itself rhyme scheme of the tercets and the short last sentence obscure its sonnetry

Good little sonnet that, by my reckoning the best I’ve ever read

I like the Standard’s Backlash vertical
standard.co.uk/topic/backlash

Waschbär is excellent though

I was going to bring up “Faultier” – and then remembered that we basically call them “Faulheit” so we’re in no place to judge