Dan

Dan

@cratesofhippos.bsky.social

Villa ST holder - likes games but sucks at them - likes movies and TV and animation but never actually watches them - from Yorkshire

227 Followers 406 Following 1,473 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 days ago
My huge yoshi plush wearing flight safety equipment with graham crackers and jack daniels

Flight attendants had to move my giant yoshi plush to an empty seat in the back because it was taking too much room in the ceiling compartment, look a what they did to him 😭😭

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11 hours ago

Was just trying to find this. I knew the draw was today but they are so bad at publicising it. The draw isn't on any of their social medias that I could see.

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22 hours ago

Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like.

And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.

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15 hours ago

Seeing a fox in a zoo is so funny. My man really lucked out. This is going to spark mass migration of street foxes if they hear about it.

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1 day ago

Good first half performance. Keep it up! Taking a draw from the away leg would not be a bad result at all

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4 days ago

Thank you, it's been dreadful, but feeling like I'm past the worst now fingers crossed.

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4 days ago

Appreciate Channel 4 playing old Simpsons episodes in the correct aspect ratio, back to back, at 3AM for all the people on their second night of no sleep from food poisoning.

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6 days ago

Castor oil is a powerful laxative. So effective that mechanics working on British planes in WW2, where castor oil was used due to shortages in other oils were constantly stricken down with diarrhea. I'm guessing it's the age old "if something has an obvious effect on yo, then it must be healing you"

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1 week ago

Maybe, but Lucas Digne also lives in London so it's not a deal breaker. Just means you have to get out of bed early for training I guess lol

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1 week ago

I just don't get how it's not an open and shut case. FIFA administrate the England U17 team. They allowed him to play for England U17. He was born in London. So I don't get how they can now go "Actually, he's not English".

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1 week ago
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Aston Villa still in process of registering January signing Brian Madjo Madjo joined in a deal worth in the region of £10million from Metz but is yet to play for any of Villa's teams.

Completely bizarre that FIFA consider Madjo English enough to allow him to play in England youth internationals. But not English enough to be registered with Villa as a non-international transfer.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

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1 week ago

I'm honestly not sure he's that much better than Douglas Luiz - so I don't think it would have made an awful lot of difference to our results. But you never know. Certainly he would be in a better position though.

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1 week ago

I know Villa are in poor form right now, but Conor Gallagher rejecting a contract at Villa to join Spurs in January was a generational fumble.

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1 week ago
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Sorry, We Need To Talk About Fabrizio Romano YouTube video by HITC Sevens

I think agents and clubs give him stories because of his social media following. But anything that he posts that isn't transfer related I 100% think he's been paid to post or he's chasing clout. HITC did a very good video about it a while back. youtu.be/QNjSGjafngA?...

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1 week ago

Never trusted him since he obviously took money to promote Mason Greenwood. I follow the mirror account on here because he does undeniably get transfer exclusives, but even then, most of the time he just copies and pastes Miguel Delaney or David Ornstein without crediting them.

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1 week ago

*lost 4-1 obviously

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1 week ago

I have a 2 hour drive back from every home game and I'm never upset by a loss by the time I get home. Always already excited and optimistic for the next match by the next morning. Wouldn't have survived the relegation season if not.

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1 week ago

I am not someone who gets upset about Villa losing. I thought the reaction of the fans at the final whistle, applauding off a team that won 4-1, showed that there is an appreciation there by most people for the position we're in. We're not in the Top 5 by accident. We'll finish where we deserve to.

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1 week ago
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@mondomascots.bsky.social every time i see the East Midlands Railway mascot here in the UK i think of your account! his name is Miles, because the train travels for miles... and he is purple because that's the colour of the train seats! i think he's cute...

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1 week ago
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]
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1 week ago

Yeah, a win would be huge. But my feeling every week is that we need to match, or do better than one of the three teams Liverpool, Man U and Chelsea. As long as we match at least one of those teams, then we're on track for at least 5th.

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1 week ago

Not convinced that tonight's match is "must win" at this point. But it's certainly "must not lose".

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1 week ago

Made a really nice beef stew in a slow cooker, with veg and herbs and things and mixed it with some mash potatoes and it went just exactly the most grey that anything could be. But it tasted nice, even if it looked like sci-fi slop food.

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1 week ago
A cat in a train station wearing a tie. A cat in a train station wearing a tie. he is showing his undercarriage to the camera in a manner most diabolical.

NSFW: Station manager shocks commuters by showing up to work in tie but no trousers.

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1 week ago
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1 week ago

Never noticed before that Richard Masters looks like if Sam Allardyce and Kier Starmer had a kid.

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1 week ago

So, even after the worst performance for several years, we're the same distance from being out of the Champions League as before the weekend. Need to put things right on Wednesday.

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1 week ago

The league have done everything this season to try and drag Man U up the table ffs

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1 week ago

That's a shocking decision.

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1 week ago

No way does any other team than Man U get a pen for that.

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