Ellen

Happy Ash Wednesday to those who celebrate

I know nothing about it beyond this screen shot but I always assumed he was just talking about lent and the TV show people thought he had invented the idea

Screenshot of Mark Wahlberg on the Today Show with ashes on his forehead and the title card says "Mark Wahlberg's 40 day challenge"

Next time my rent is due I'll hit the landlord with the old "there's no magic money tree"

I need to start using this excuse at work. "I cannot just wave a magic wand and complete the routine tasks assigned to me"

If I go see Hamnet and people have popcorn I'm throwing punches

Most sensible thing she's ever said

I don't think January's the best time to try to change your life. Start your resolutions the first day there's a tiny bit of light in the sky when you finish work

Also amazes me when people go to see an art house film and munch and rustle louder than you would think humanly possible all the way through. The term popcorn movie exists for a reason

Amazes me that people go to the cinema with their hair piled up as high as possible on their head

I love it when when you go to the cinema and they have an ad for ~cinema~

I feel like some Christmas music can penetrate through noise-cancelling headphones in a way that shouldn't be possible

They need to add hi vis paint to the centra, lads.

How can they say she's unlikely to offend again when they apparently didn't establish why she was driving on the wrong side of the road?

They should call it Bet You Wish This Was Cork Airport

Why do people keep calling this Soviet when it's pure Celtic Tiger plazafication?

€100 could be a reasonable price for a meal, but if was awful you'd absolutely say 'I can't believe this cost €100'

I think complaints about the timeframe are the same. Two years with the park closed could be reasonable with a different result

It also looks like the whole thing was designed to keep maintenance costs to a minimum, when a bit of maintenance would have been a better use of money than a botched redevelopment

I don't think people would have a problem with the amount if the result wasn't significantly worse than what was there before

While we're at it, can someone explain Strictly Come Dancing to me?

The intercounty, surely?

Seeing generated signs and posters everywhere has made me wonder was it also really irritating when people first started using clip art everywhere?

Ya know, I would watch the hell out of a song contest consisting of Spain, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Iceland and Ireland

If you've no affection for pigeons, like not even a bit deep down, I don't think you should be let live in their cities

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Photo of a fat little corgi with a golden retriever's face and coat

I'm glad I saw pictures of corgi mixes before gen AI was a thing. They look so fake

Nooo, not Tilted Axis! I didn't love all their covers but they were so eye-catching in bookshops

Slop machine parts salesman says slop is as important as oxygen

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

Germany tries to deport two Irish, a Pole and an American - over objections from its own officials - because of activities in support of Palestinian victims of Israel. None has been convicted of a crime. One acquitted of a charge over calling police 'fascist'.
theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...