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@WG_RumblePants I would, but, sorry mate got band practice in Cumbernauld. Have a cracking day!

It’s my birthday on Friday and, despite the Tube strike, I’m determined to get to the Oval. It’s actually Sachin’s birthday on Friday too, but I bet he won’t make the effort. It’s also Barbara Streisand’s birthday. I’ll put her down as a “TBC”. Anyone else going?

@Jennifer_Jen06 Me

@oJaayCo Trossard doing a good job keeping Haaland back, there

Put him in any other shirt in the league and he’s seeing red. You won’t see a more clear red this season 👍🏼

@JVMonte2 Bizarrely I always felt Iron Maiden’s Powerslave had a tale to tell.

Some albums are exceptional at telling a compelling story and taking the listener on a majestic musical journey. Tommy by the Who is one of them. What’s another album-by any artist-that needs to be listened from start to finish?

@flaminhaystacks @Flaminhaystack Only because the jet-pack-tortoise has moved since you last used it. I hear it’s now in Melton Mowbray - it accepts mini pork pies as part payment.

If I'd said that the girl rode up on a giant tortoise with jets attached to its shell and offered to wash my car, I'd agree that the story seemed unfathomable to even comprehend that something like this could happen on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

A girl has just knocked on our door and asked to wash the car for a tenner. She's been out asking people for 3 hours and I'm the first one to say yes. She is saving up to buy a tortoise 🐢

@pitchblacksteed As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed professor of cunning at Oxford University

To many of us, #Blackadder is part of every day parlance. Which phrases from the show do you use yourself and when you do you use them? Example: When someone offers me a cup of tea, I say: "Yes, immediately!" You get the idea. Will RT the best ones.

@susie_dent I wonder if you could assist. Is there a word/name for the self-satisfied smugness evident in sports commentators’ voices when they remark upon an assumed prediction which comes true, often using phrases such as “And there it is!” or “That’s what they can do!”? Thnx

@kazzaloveslife Bush juice

What is he drinking?

@WG_RumblePants Brilliant footage WG. Nice music, too. I’m always fascinated by the batting & bowling techniques, compared with modern days.

There’s a lot of really fascinating silent footage of Silver Age cricket (1918-1939) available online, which I suspect hardly anyone ever watches. So I’ve edited together some of the Jack Hobbs footage and set it to music of the era. I’m pretty pleased with how it’s turned out.

@sharrond62 In retaliation, when American Foolsball is played over here, they should play for 90 mins (not 60) with only a 15-minute break halfway through, limited ‘subs’ (none of that offence/defence rubbish, just play!) & no timeouts. That’ll buckin’ show em! I’ll do basketball next!

Umm what do we think to this? 👇🏼

@PadraigBelton Other standard comparisons for size: Mini/small car Elephant Double decker bus ‘Olympic sized’ swimming pool (but good effort)

I write for British newspapers. The only valid units of measurement are: Wales, swimming pools, football pitches. Fight me.

@DailyMail Where’s the halfway point of a giraffe? Standard unit for that size is actually a Mini/small car. Anything bigger and we use elephants, double decker buses or Olympic sized swimming pools. Please read your ‘Standard Compendium of General Comparisons, Vol.1 - Size’.

Asteroid half the size of a giraffe strikes Earth + Just two HOURS after it was discovered by astronomers READ MORE ⬇ ⬇ trib.al/e3ixjHA

@PadraigBelton Where is the halfway point of a giraffe?

@anon_opin Yes I can.

You cannot call yourself a fan of a music genre if you only listen to artists from 20/30 years ago and have no knowledge of current artists of that scene.

@cjd11 @TheStingisBack I suppose we had The Day After Tomorrow which was close.

@ChiefGolfCat @TheStingisBack We're really missing an ultra-serious Funnel Cloud to go along with Twister. That would have completed the set.

Volcano Wars — Thread In 1997, two volcano movies went head-to-head like rival pyroclastic flows: Dante’s Peak vs Volcano Rushed shoots, brutal budget cuts, dirty studio tricks, and total panic as both films raced to beat each other to the screen Let’s dig into the madness 1/

@cjd11 @TheStingisBack Yes! Precisely. Volcano & Armageddon for me.

@ChiefGolfCat @TheStingisBack Very much a Deep Impact/Armageddon scenario. The more serious and scientific movie is the better film, but it's also less fun than the ridiculous over the top disaster flick. Volcano got way more watches in my house growing up, exactly because of how silly it is.

@TheStingisBack Exactly. Volcano, The Fugitive, Men In Black. Same guy. But we love him like that! 😆

@ChiefGolfCat There's a moment in Volcano (I think it's post 11 in the thread) when TLJ points at Anne Heche and says "You okay?" and it's like she's being court marshalled. There's no warmth in it, yet he absolutely makes it work because, you know... he's Tommy Lee Jones.

@DiaryofaSickGrl Good. Yourself? or Yeah I’m fine. How are you doing?

How do you respond to “how are you?”

@HeatherBo63 Same. Only found out when I read Enya’s post

I genuinely had no idea that Moyà was Enya’s sister. 🤦‍♀️