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I started watching it a few years ago, I got used to the stop-start, and I even found myself a team.

We went to a game last month in a ghastly venue sited on the former death-strip. It was an invitation as another present for the Kreuzette's 60th.

My initial impressions were that this was the dullest evening in years, not aided by beer at eight bucks a pop.

Entering the final quarter on broadly level tallies, both teams really went for it and the final few minutes were actually quite entertaining. It's still a girls' game, nonetheless, and I would far rather be watching amateur football. Girls or otherwise.

Defection postponed

Well Glasman was on politics today so make of that what you will.

To compensate for the lack of a Labour defection Nigel Farage has posted a picture of himself welcoming z-list celeb Tom Skinner to the party. Before Tom was kicked off of 'Celebrity Strictly Come Dancing' he admitted that he had cheated on his wife weeks after getting married but he has now be welcomed with open arms by a party that claims to care about 'Family, Community and Country.'

Oh, this is rich.

satnav wrote: ↑Tue Jan 20, 2026 7:57 pm To compensate for the lack of a Labour defection Nigel Farage has posted a picture of himself welcoming z-list celeb Tom Skinner to the party. Before Tom was kicked off of 'Celebrity Strictly Come Dancing' he admitted that he had cheated on his wife weeks after getting married but he has now be welcomed with open arms by a party that claims to care about 'Family, Community and Country.'

There was so much twattery on this knobhead's Wikipedia page I couldn't be bothered with the rest.

Known for his use of the word "bosh",

He doesn't seem too bright and he's not very thick skinned. He once posted a picture of himself stood next to a white van and I replied to the post saying I'm glad to see that you have finally found the right vehicle for your talents. He then proceeded to post pictures of all the big posh cars that he owned at which point somebody else replied along the lines of men with big cars tend to have small cocks. He then eventually deleted his original tweet.

They are literally trying to fill in the cracks on a major road towards Spalding rather than address the issue that it is on shrinking, unstable Fenland soil and it is collapsing at the edges. This is how they are saving money.

They're papering over the cracks to prevent being sued. Cambs council have had a bodget and scarper squad out down my road carrying out barely adequate repairs. Everytime I go to 'hellhole' London the more it looks like Switzerland compared to this shithole of a town.

The last time I was in London (Westminster/West End, June 2024, so Westminster was absolutely dead), I was taken aback by how spotless everything was. Ditto around the museum district.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:45 am The last time I was in London (Westminster/West End, June 2024, so Westminster was absolutely dead), I was taken aback by how spotless everything was. Ditto around the museum district.

Don't be fooled, it's really a foetid shithole...

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:45 am The last time I was in London (Westminster/West End, June 2024, so Westminster was absolutely dead), I was taken aback by how spotless everything was. Ditto around the museum district.

Well, you'd always make sure the tourist traps looked nice, now wouldn't you? I remember downtown Atlanta looked spotless around the 1996 tourist drags but you didn't have to walk very far away from those to see just how rough and impoverished it really was; at the time it was the second poorest city in the US.

I'm pleased to see that Reform lost in the by-election in Horsely in Derbyshire. The by-election was called because the sitting Reform councillor resigned. Whilst Advance UK put up a candidate in the end it became a straight fight between Reform and the Greens and the Greens won thanks to plenty of Labour and Lib Dem supporters lending the Greens their votes.
Hopefully we will see more of this tactical voting in the future to keep Reform out.

I wonder whether Farage making a tit of himself with his Davos WEF buddies will have an impact.
Or his 17 and counting breaches of the parliamentary code.

satnav wrote: ↑Wed Jan 21, 2026 7:07 pm I'm pleased to see that Reform lost in the by-election in Horsely in Derbyshire. The by-election was called because the sitting Reform councillor resigned. Whilst Advance UK put up a candidate in the end it became a straight fight between Reform and the Greens and the Greens won thanks to plenty of Labour and Lib Dem supporters lending the Greens their votes.
Hopefully we will see more of this tactical voting in the future to keep Reform out.

A trend worth watching not only for increased tactical voting to keep Farage out but whether the Greens can take anti-politics dustbin votes from Reform.
Are Reform running Derby council?

My late father always said to me: "Please don't pass David Cameron's quotes off as mine, it will just look embarrassing."

Dare to fail but don't expect a safety net, you dole scum.

Not everybody can lose an election and run straight to Uncle Nigel for their next gig.

If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do what ever common people do
Never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view


* Other People's Words which pin the "not afraid to fail" caste.

At times like this I'm reminded of 2 men - who bear something of a resemblance. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Richard Curtis.

HFW once said that when he was out of work, rather than mope about, he wrote some articles and fired them off to the Waitrose magazine and next thing you know he's got a regular gig.

Curtis, I remember, said that after graduating, he wanted to write comedy for a living. So he rented an office in London and got to work.

With HFW, he knew the editor. He knew how to approach them, what sort of thing they wanted, how to format it, and so on. Likewise Curtis - he had the contacts, he was already inside.

Both of their tales of struggling before the shot at the big time presented itself got the same reaction from me, best summed up in a widely shared Brian Cox/Succession meme.