Apparently these fellas consume 10,000 calories a day. If I cut down a bit, this could be the sport for me.
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Apparently these fellas consume 10,000 calories a day. If I cut down a bit, this could be the sport for me.
15.10.2025 20:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I thought Brisbane in winter was perfect. Melbourne, not so much...
15.10.2025 19:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0iirc, netball was invented by people who thought basketball was too rough for girls...If they saw how the best teams play it now, they'd have a fit.
15.10.2025 19:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One of the world's most popular sports, but as a nation we're consistently useless at every aspect of it.
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It's amazing how folk respond when they realise i) you Know Stuff and ii) you aren't necessarily going to say what they want to hear.
Plus the fact that you might want, you know, paying
I'm just a guy whose finances are good... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis...
15.10.2025 17:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An important reminder that rightly or wrongly it's governments that decide on visas, not sports - www.bbc.com/sport/gymnas...
15.10.2025 15:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0well, this looks an utter mess - www.bbc.com/sport/basket...
15.10.2025 14:47 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Every evening in the pub you can see him arrive
He weighs 400kg and can't see his thighs.
Big John
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Many blooms still linger there...
15.10.2025 09:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Muscat? Oh, man.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Oh look, the All Blacks are playing the Llantrissant 3rd XV again.
14.10.2025 20:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 042 years ago I went to a guest lecture by Celia Brackenridge. Her parting words were 'if you want easy access to kids, get involved in sports.'
I'm not sure things have changed very much.
Verily.
14.10.2025 17:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah sure, money insulates you from pretty much everything.
14.10.2025 17:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Honestly loves, chucking the Brits out was almost as big a mistake as letting Columbus in.
14.10.2025 17:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are a nation of cretins.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
You mean the toxic racists. A decent proofreader would have saved you half a dozen letters here.
14.10.2025 08:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0they brought about 14 fans to Chesterfield on Saturday. If you see anyone wearing this you'll think they're a Dundee Utd supporter who got lost www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
14.10.2025 08:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Today, I feel genocidal."
13.10.2025 19:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
13.10.2025 17:58 β π 23803 π 4889 π¬ 1543 π 1824The Backbone of England. With rice.
13.10.2025 17:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot of a post from some social media site (not sure which) from a user named "salt_bear". Text reads "I put a fried egg on my Croque Monsieur to make it a Croque Madame, and now JK Rowling is outside my house shouting at me." An accompanying image shows a Croque Monsieur with a fried egg on top".
Found on Facebook.
13.10.2025 12:27 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0If anyone knows PC Thorogood, buy him a pint.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Maybe destroying the evidence wasn't the most helpful move they could have made www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
13.10.2025 09:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We get plenty wrong but on this one, yes.
12.10.2025 18:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you want to support our development, the best thing you can do is acquire some of our merchandise. Our online shop is now open again for pre-order until end of October. There's the national shirt, famous northern lights fan jersey, bucket hats, tracksuit tops, & bobble hats.
19.09.2025 09:48 β π 22 π 9 π¬ 1 π 2Different in Scotland. I've got mine in a fortnight.
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