Jon

It's such a lazy song too, and why does the chorus have so many bloody words?

I've managed to avoid going the full Bergkamp, but being in a plane always makes me feel like I'm mocking God a bit. Being all the way up there

But it's all very lovely and grand, and for me Eurostar is so stress free compared to flying anywhere because I don't appreciate being in the sky. Also I like how the style of the old Métropolitain station entrances make them look like magical doorways

I can't figure out whether I'm a great person or a terrible person to be visiting Paris. I've never really thought about it before. Like even when the Notre Dame was on fire I was thinking "oh, is that what it looks like, is that where it is?" But that does mean I don't have any mad expectations

Disco cold has eased enough to let me go and wander around Paris, albeit for half the time I was supposed to have. Good place, haven't seen any posh cats or cats playing jazz yet but maybe I haven't been down the right street

Toploader doing DITM, I dunno, the other week I was moved to go "oh god" out loud when it came on while I was packing my bags in Tesco, there is worse music though

If I was going to try to torture information out of somebody by playing a song at them until they cracked, it would be that one

Least favourite is difficult, but Chubby Sexy by Robbie Tripp, AKA the Curvy Wife Guy, is the worst. Don't look it up, it's somehow worse than it sounds

Anybody else got a virus that's like, partly ordinary cold symptoms but with Covid-like waves of feeling generally unwell (tested negative), dodgy stomach, not the snottiest one you've had but really sore and watery eyes? Weird one

Remember reading a review of the song Turn by Travis that said it made "turn" sound like the longest word in the English language, and the Pepto-Bismol advert does the same for "diarrhoea"

Sometimes you have to do it that way to figure out if you really want to be it or not, I think

My dad often talks about people, usually men, being "too old" for things. I realised it was because he worries about getting to the stage where he is "too old" and so he sees other guys that way. That's what Trump does with Biden, I think

I was meant to be on a train to Paris this morning but have decided that I'm not feeling Parisian enough

Advertising works: I'm basically experiencing the full list of symptoms on the Pepto-Bismol advert and it was the first thing I thought of when it started happening

That's true. I guess we put this system in place when the climate and the way we lived was different and now we're stuck with it (a bit like GMT maybe)

I've actually got this idea that autumn needs removing from the seasons. It's not long enough

It's people whose social circle all do coke or have a smoke at the weekend so they think the rest of the world is doing it

Zack Polanski not drinking or taking drugs isn't that big or weird? Lots of people don't drink for one reason or another, including a load of young people, and the "everybody is on drugs" thing you hear a lot these days is such a bubble opinion - no they aren't

Also I can only eat it cold because it's so sweet

Chocolate! Like don't hit me with "but have you tried this incredible chocolate", I'm talking about your standard normal bar of milk chocolate. Just OK

I love how British sports teams playing sports big in North America all have these tribute band names. Can't be called something normal, it's got to be "Basingstoke Bison"

Bad luck, "Fife Flyers"

And being able to get served straight away if you skip the queue and walk up to the bar? The thing with that is it invites confrontation, and most people go to the pub to have a nice time, not to have a confrontation with a stranger

So like, some people are ditching the normal way of doing it because they've got one that they think works better for them, that's just what's happening

‘It’s ridiculous’: publicans bemused by rise of single-file queues to get served Bar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’

It's because with the traditional system there's always the possibility of unfairness innit. Some bloke muscling in or similar. And bars aren't all small counters - some of them are long, some are horseshoe shaped or L-shaped, some have multiple windows... www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This doesn't matter at all, but Liam Rosenior's glasses don't sit well on his face. They look like an accessory

I figure that getting in and then getting out of the playoffs of the (deep breath) Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties League Division One South isn't going to be about being the second best team. It'll be a bit of a scrap. But then winning it isn't out of the question

If there had been any other goals it wouldn't have been right. It was niggly but it was fair, both teams were equally niggly

Today's football was a proper old sticky pitch January battle of a game. I missed the goal because I was still in the pub tbh

Yeah, life is so short and your favourite song is probably something you haven't heard yet, why spend time on the ones that you didn't like?