It is indeed a joke. Thank you for playing. I drink as much alcohol as I possibly can given the current state of our planet. (This is also a joke) (Sort of.)

It was originally to protect Champagne growers in the Champagne region of France. Sparkling wine, for that is all that Champagne really is, produced outside of that region cannot, under EU law, be called Champagne. It's protection for the brand producers who may all be independent farmers.

It's only fascism if it's from the Fascist area of Italy, everything else is just sparkling totalitarianism.

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social Hi Andrew, just so you know, you said on the podcast that "greentext" had something to do with iphones. I don't think this is right, a greentext is a post on 4chan, usually a short story, usually pretty right wing and self absorbed.

Funny how they went for the Black and Irish bands isn’t it (white Irish people: welcome back!)

It's a shite colour anyway.

Norm!

Same.

My doorbell keeps taking pictures of scantily clad children. I think it's a paedophile Ring.

Who's on first?

I'm with you, where do I sign up?

I wonder who came up with the phrase "Trumped up charges"? Maybe precognition is real.

Worst Muppet character ever.

Every time I get a news alert I think, "What's the fuckwit done now?"

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Well done you, if you don't mind me asking, how strong was the vape you used?

He can marry my sister, any day of the week.

Just some factual news reporting then?

Are we seriously calling it an "Elon Musk salute" now?
Because that's not what we used to call it.

The alternate ending, on the dvd, makes more sense.

Currently playing RDR2 for the first time, missed it when it first came out, had a young kid and no free time.

No, it's the same me. Just got an older face. #Jesslives #pshome #xi

Me: Watching Morgan Freeman narrated documentary.

Son: "Oh, Morgan Freeman, he's been in loads of good movies, like 'Seven'."

Me: "He's been in way more than that, son."

#dadjokes

I regret the silly "Sir" joke now that lots of people have seen it. Not as funny as I thought it was. (May have been well lubricated at the time of the post..)

Best of luck to them.

Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars for the classroom Blindboy Boatclub offers a fresh perspective on the legacy of early Irish Christianity in Blindboy: The Land of Slaves and Scholars. This edited version is for use in the Junior Cycle classroom.

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social It seems you are on the junior cycle curriculum.
Do we have to call you Sir now or what?
www.rte.ie/learn/junior...

The fact that I had to delete, edit, and repost the above twice because of typos should not be held as evidence of anything.

Used to work in a mine, walked into the workshop one Monday morning to find new health and safety posters up everywhere. Gory pictures of accidents etc. Banner in the middle read "Standarts are slipping!"
I was doubled over with laughter for ten minutes.

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.