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Worst Game Ever: Journeys into the Agonies of Defeat Worst Game Ever explores the rock-bottom moments in the histories of 19 disparate football clubs, with stories rich in colour and context that rarely have a happy ending, but which every fan can relat...

Official release day today! Thank you to @theshamrock1887.bsky.social, Alex Ireland, Michael Hamlen, Miguel Perreira, Richard Shaw & the Hardwicke Circus boys, Jonny & Tom Foster, for your wonderful contributions.
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Grandma: And sometimes you would be able to watch two or more YouTube videos in a row without seeing an advert at all. Carer: Sure, Grandma. Did you know that the Wix website creator has built-in AI functionality to enhance your brand...(skip in 20s)

YouTube video by Bob's Burgers - Topic Street Life

On a side-side-note, whenever I sing Street Life, it's always this style www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr6q...

(I am now singing it to the tune of Street Life)

Lamp post with "Fuck life" written on it in pink pen with a love heart.

The pink pen and the love heart has really thrown me. Did they mean it like 'thug life'?

In June 2025, Rolling Stone named "Back to Friends" one of the year's best songs so far, highlighting Sombr's ability to channel the nostalgic 2014 Tumblr grunge aesthetic era. The magazine also wrote that "the indie pop record plays out like an impassioned conversation that bleeds through the walls and captures the melodrama of teenage love".

I hated the song, though I must have missed the 2014 Tumblr grunge aesthetic era the first time.

37 – This weekend, 37-year-old David McGoldrick scored a league goal for the 20th consecutive season from 2006-07 to 2025-26, with Barnsley the 11th different side he has scored for in England’s top four tiers in this time. Timeless. #OptaOnEFL

Post by The Athletic about a Jaguars kicker hitting a 70yd field goal

Reply about there being starving kids in Gaza and Ukraine being a war-torn country which the idiot President is about to try and sell out.

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Best of luck to the Edinburgh charity shop that’s charging ten full pounds sterling for Genesis albums on cassette.

BBC Radio 1 newsreader said “the result at Ibrox left Dundee manager Steven Pressley feeling emosh”. I don’t think that combination of words has ever been used before.

I fear for his three young daughters as well, but for different reasons.

150 arrests for protesting the ban on Palestine Action. Zero arrests for haranguing hotels.

This country has a really crooked definition of ‘genuine concerns.’

(Turns out the restaurant opened in 1983.)

Family Fortunes sliding slats board with a pre-printed surround. One of the teams apparently has 69 points. Nice.

Name a fact about the Eiffel Tower. 57pts for In Paris. 21 for Very Tall. 9 for Made of Metal. 2 for Has A Lift.

Going through more old board games recently. This 1981 Family Fortunes game is impossible at times, due to changing social trends and facts, but I should have done better with ‘Name a fact about the Eiffel Tower.’ Over-thought it. No points for mentioning the Jules Verne restaurant.

Looks less Pro Evo than the digital mock-ups, but still think I'd like to see a pattern in the seats. A white EFC or something to break it up a bit. Sure some marketing firm found clean designs boost marketability for varied event use, social media, etc. Can't see the name sticking with the fans.

Rob Brydon and four flight crew in front of a private jet. I say 'flight crew'. Could be four RADA graduates.

Contestants on a bus. Because that's where the show takes place. On a bus.

The Destination X promo pics and show pics have a strong 'What I Ordered vs What I Got' vibe.

At least Rob Brydon got to have fun swaggering about like Richard Branson in the 1990s, or Richard Branson in the 2020s.

Pound And Beyond

Whenever I see this shop, it sounds like dirty talk from Buzz Lightyear.

I hate to be the 'Pre-season against the Panthers counts for nothing' guy, but...

(This isn't 'hating'. This is wanting sports media to maintain a bit of perspective. Which I know is a losing battle, but I'm going to keep fighting it anyway!)

Made my biannual mistake of ordering Domino’s, the most expensive way to suffer digestive discomfort. Or, to put it in a haiku:

I ate Domino’s.
It gave me bad plops again.
No lessons were learned.

I would probably say the single most annoying thing about LLMs is that "okily-dokily doo, I goofed when I gave you that ludicrous answer, it's my bad that I said cheese comes from cats, I'll do better next time, would you like to know what sort of cat it comes from?" tone when it gets stuff wrong.

Anna Lulis & @annamlulis Follow Pro-life NFL legend Tim Tebow shares a video holding his baby girl while working— humanizing fatherhood. Get married. Have kids.

Wow, holding a baby while looking at his computer. How does he do it all?

Can never decide if CeX calling their open WiFi ‘Unprotected CeX’ is great or awful. Depends on my mood, I think.

Having one of those weeks where any one of the hundred or so disappointments and niggles would be very minor in isolation, but combined mean I'm about ready to scrunch this week into a ball and punt it to the moon.

Don't think there can be another successful industry out there which has such a continuously miserable conveyor belt of news as the games industry.

Frasier. Even if it means learning to hate the character of Mel all over again 😀

Miss the 90s so dearly. Would do anything to go back to watching this on a Saturday morning with no stresses of what life has become 😢 (54 likes)

Honestly thinking of starting an account highlighting The Best of YouTube Angst, because it's in the comments section of absolutely everything. Want to listen to the old Football Italia intro? Hope you brought a hanky! No brief nostalgic escapism for you!

Just remembered the Radio Clyde competition I heard last night where two callers had to guess how many shows were listed at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Guesses of 35 and 57. A smidgen out.

"portrait of my father" oil on canvas. birthday gift for my dad

BBC article on the jailing of “Zoe Watts, 39, who is a trans woman”, who was also a gun-obsessed former community support officer who was trying to 3D print a gun at home, a point of fact slightly more key than her gender.

Doubt the BBC are going to take the effort to explicitly point out whenever a wrong ‘un is a cis woman.

It's a Knockout 7 August 1966

Bit surprised to see the BBC publishing a retrospective of It’s A Knockout. Assumed all mention of it would be verboten these days: www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthe...