The sleepy southern town of Oxford Mississippi staged an insurrection when troops were put in there in the early 60sβ¦.
13.10.2025 19:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@smithy0364.bsky.social
Chislehurst councillor (it matters!) in London Borough of Bromley. Knows that the year consists of 2 seasons - rugby and cricket, with blues, jazz and cask beer all year round!
The sleepy southern town of Oxford Mississippi staged an insurrection when troops were put in there in the early 60sβ¦.
13.10.2025 19:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Weβre still at least three years from a general election, so why is anyone worrying about manifestos at this stage?
13.10.2025 08:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly βhumorousββ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
12.10.2025 15:56 β π 151 π 360 π¬ 3 π 13Deadly would hit a perfect length over after over. Only the very best batters of the time could get after him. In T20 theyβd tee off on him very quickly so he would have had to adapt and produce far more variation.
11.10.2025 16:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Most by an English spinner. By all accounts, not as intensely irritating to his teammates as Graeme Swann either!
11.10.2025 16:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I once got him mixed up with the Richard Cole who was Peter Grantβs enforcer in Led Zeppelinβs entourage.
That was confusing!
Same with local councillors.
10.10.2025 18:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.
09.10.2025 06:03 β π 1472 π 388 π¬ 40 π 2Demanding a Nobel Prize should automatically mean exclusion from ever receiving one.
If the Nobel committee award one to Trump, its credibility will be zero.
Itβs around Β£4 million, plus travel expenses.
09.10.2025 06:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Only for cross-breedsβ¦.
08.10.2025 16:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Happy Yankee Elimination Day should be tomorrow (here in the UK!)
07.10.2025 19:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Activist judges = judges who make decisions I donβt like
07.10.2025 18:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Funnily enough, the complaints from the right in the US about βactivist judgesβ ended when six activist judges on the Supreme Court abolished Roe v Wade.
07.10.2025 18:17 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And the ones who said England only beat Brazil 1-0 rather than 2-0 in 1984, because John Barnes scored one of the goals.
07.10.2025 18:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wait until the four cases of wine turn up from Majestic (again!)
07.10.2025 15:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0By night, punk rock singer. By night, molecular biologist!
06.10.2025 19:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Never seen a picture of the large stand before. Itβs not the one that was knocked down to make way for the current Bedser Stand.
05.10.2025 11:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are 25,000 other head teachers in the UK who Iβm sure would happily share their opinions with the BBC
04.10.2025 07:45 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Transitory
03.10.2025 19:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mushy peas though! π
30.09.2025 08:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Eels and liquor? Thatβs Pie & Mash shops, not chippies!π
How do you know Whitby and Barrow are better than the great ones Iβve been to in Brighton, Plymouth, Ashford and Dymchurch?
Jet Boy - NY Dolls
29.09.2025 20:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Or the enigmatic weirdness of Belle and Sebastian.
29.09.2025 19:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Before he went to New York to create some artwork out of Campbellβs soup tins and design an iconic album cover with a picture of a banana!
29.09.2025 19:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I suspect Trump would have been typically graceless when he was at the course on Friday - maybe tried some lame trash talk.
So this is probably karmic payback!
Just for 1986 aloneβ¦.π
29.09.2025 19:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pretty safe to say this is the first time that Trump and Neil Warnock have appeared in the same paragraphβ¦.
29.09.2025 18:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But this isnβt new behaviour. Remember Brookline?
29.09.2025 18:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Derek Jeter holding his right arm up while at bat, making the pitcher wait until he was ready.
God bless the pitch clock.