*welsh accent*

Things are getting strange, I'm starting to worry

This could be a case for

Change UK ABSOLUTELY had a brand. It was designed to be abbreviated as "ChUK," and capitalise on the popularity and electoral power of its young and photogenic leader Chuka Umunna. While they clearly overestimated that popularity and electoral power, it was still an intentional naming.

I wish Hollywood star Michelle Pfeiffer a long and healthy life, but you know and I know, @seamas.bsky.social , that when she eventually and sadly passes, she will be described as "Grease 2 Star Michelle Pfeiffer" in our family WhatsApp group.

Trading Places is both a Christmas film and a New Year film.

Why didn't he thank me for my attention to this matter? I gave my attention to this matter.

The evidence would appear to suggest that being "led by the strongest voice in the room" is less inimical to justice being done and being seen to be done, than being the ONLY voice in the room.

To be fair, absent any way to establish the best team in Europe every year, which as we know does not exist, this press release from a Nerds Website For Nerds seems to be our only option.

Slapping anyone on the pitch is violent conduct; it's irrelevant if they're an opponent or a teammate. He'll likely get the automatic one-game for a sending-off, and maybe get it upgraded to three for the exacerbating factors.

No, the other way around. It was an Everton player, Idrissa Gueye, who slapped his teammate. And it's not without precedent. Bowyer-Dyer for Newcastle, Le Saux - Batty for Blackburn in their Champions League season.

I have a theory that the invention of the smartphone is one of the reasons people stopped smoking. What else were you going to do when you were hanging about waiting for people?

When he was leading the line for Aston Villa and Manchester United at the turn of the millennium, you never saw him leading a Doomsday-cult spin-off of the Nation of Islam, but I suppose it was inevitable.

And the only way I'd know is that signs change to kilometres, and I keep getting text messages from my mobile phone company about roaming. Which are actually very annoying, and I don't think I can turn them off!

I think a lot of people from the UK don't realise that frictionless, passportless movement between the UK and EU happens in the United Kingdom. Whenever I'm home in Derry, I go on a 10k run which crosses the Irish border 8 times.

Mine is "Dabbareth Burke," on the basis that I've seen "Dabbasheth" before, just there, in your post.

Grok actually says all this about MY physique as well; he's just very optimistic and kind.

To be fair, he's less positive about my relationship with the kids, but he agrees with me that that's actually on them. They need to buck their ideas up.