Philippe Auclair

Up there with Juninho Pernambucano among the best of the best at this exercise.

I had no idea - extraordinary that he should have written songs glorifying Hibs as well as Hearts! Those were different times, I suppose...

Surprised that Zeus didn't throw a thunderbolt or two on that blasted city.

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Arsenal win trademark case against Spanish milliner Spanish hat shop owner Alicia Simon has been forced to change the name of her shop Arsenale after the London club convinced authorities there was a "risk of confusion".

Something like that, yes.

In terms of pettiness and imbecility, this reminds me of Arsenal suing a milliner in Sevilla because she has called her shop "Arsenale". www.eitb.eus/en/news/deta...

Uefa orders Scotland fans to remove celebration videos from X European football's governing body claimed clips of fans cheering Scotland's World Cup qualification in front of TV screens breached copyright.

When it comes to antagonising fans for no fathomable reason, UEFA can beat Fifa at its own game.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new one on me!

Certainly beats "Blue Is The Colour"

YouTube video by CANARIO LUNA canario luna a los cuadros chicos

The 2007 Uruguayan "murga" song by the late Canario Luna which Marcelo Bielsa described in the extraordinary press conference he gave yesterday as "one of the best songs about football" he had ever heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ysp...

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There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Stop there
There are 110,000 of those...things living in that cave

Dear fellow arachnophobes, the Gates of Hell have been located.

There's a really interesting essay to write about thus, don't you think?

Vendanges Tardives Gewürz is a nectar which can be served with *some* desserts but is so much better with roquefort or, yes, roast chicken. And Chinese (not Szechuan) food as well!

He is and has long been the prototype of the useful smart idiot, used and abused by both sides and oblivious to it - which is the bit I find incomprehensible.

He is a *name* which resonates with many people.

In the hot seat I gather

Bertrand Russell would have disagreed. And, to me, what he said recently on Ukraine is 100% in line with his previous positions on the crimes committed by the guys he naively, foolishly, considered to be "anti-imperialist".

And that is absolutely fair.

I'll quote you on that!

Point taken - and accepted. I'll just add that his was (and remains) a revered name in academia and intellectual circles in France and elsewhere in Europe. Mine is a non-US perspective!

People have been seeking his opinion for decades, as he's considered a towering intellectual in some quarters. He hasn't moved an inch in his political beliefs. His cuddly view of Putin's genocidal assault on Ukraine is 100% in line with previous pronouncements, made way before he was in his 90s.

Chomsky has long been considered a great seer on all matters political. He is a Putin apologist. There is no attempt to discredit the "wider left", despite his pernicious influence on it. And he's in the news at the moment not because of his views, but because of his links with his "friend" Epstein.

We'll have a chat after class.

Definite banana-ey aromas on the nose, this much is true. But delicious when drunk slightly chilled, whatever the snobs might say.

They can be.
But Chomsky has never called Putin's genocidal assault on Ukraine a war crime. He is an apologist.

Oof
Decent call

“Take a look at casualties. All I know is the official numbers… the official UN numbers are about 8,000 civilian casualties [in Ukraine]. How many civilian casualties were there when the US and Britain attacked Iraq?”

To think this man is considered a hero in some circles. Not for much longer?

Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq The US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not an independent country anymore”.

As Noam Chomsky is in the news again, a reminder of the Great Linguist and Awesome Intellectual's considered view of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

I had not noticed

The RNIB will take them all and use the money to help visually-impaired people. Also take coins. No matter how old!

Donald Trump shaking hands with a beaming Cristiano Ronaldo in the Oval Office.

And it's a tie at the World Narcissism Grand Final.