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@arleneseesit @Oismur The ethos is supposed to infuse the life of the school. Nevertheless, I very much doubt it causes higher rates of bullying.

@Oismur 90% of primary schools are controlled by Catholic Church. A certificate of Catholic Education is required to teach in these schools.

I really think there's an overestimation by some in how much Catholicism is actually in Catholic schools today.

@MiguelDelaney Gyok was bought for those games where we just couldn't convert dominance into goals. We have had to play him in games he wouldn't have been intended for. City away is one such game, but Kai is back. I expect Gyok to come off the bench.

Tactically, can Arteta really play Gyokeres this Sunday - especially given how Guardiola responded to the Carabao Cup final Video piece: youtube.com/watch?v=xjkd_n…

@pmcweeney2 @alon_mizrahi ?

@askintoofew @alon_mizrahi lol 😄

Don't you just adore Irish culture?

@RetroMoviesDB This was my first erection

This scene from Superman 3 scared me as a kid. I can't be the only one.

@coldaslemonade @Whiledvid I count 19 disgraceful men. The population of Ukraine is bigger than that.

@askintoofew @Whiledvid “The good fight” – Ukraine

Ukrainian soldier records what he thinks will be his final video as his unit is surrounded by Russian forces

This is the correct way to think about the idea that 'Ireland was an imperial power'.

@coldaslemonade @Whiledvid I'm glad you are here, Wolf, so much smarter than we sheeple, able to really see the pattens, here to warn us that *ackshually* stopping imperialist Russian aggression is not the good fight. Thank you. You saved me from a terrible error.

It’s deeply saddening how many out there still believe that fighting for Ukraine is “the good fight.” They’ve been raised on Anti-Russian propaganda movies and media their whole lives, so it’s no wonder. The average human, though smarter than beast, is not smart enough to see through deception and recognize the patterns that emerge.

@Columned_ Correct

Holy fuck

@PaddyArsenal An anti-baller

Gyokeres has to be a sub. Worked in the Everton game. He cannot play football.

@Bruno_Constant Minimalist is the kindest way of seen for describing the shit we serve up. Barren.

Arsenal avait hérité de l’adversaire le + « abordable » et s’est qualifié logiquement (1-0, 0-0). Deux clean sheets (27 cette saison) mais un football minimaliste et ennuyeux. Ils retrouveront l’Atletico en 1/2 qu’ils ont corrigé 4-0 en octobre mais ça sera une autre histoire.

@gary_worden @ross_baglin @OliverKamm x.com/askintoofew/st…

@askintoofew @ross_baglin @OliverKamm 've is pronounced differently - uhv, not ov At normal speaking rates, it can be hard to distinguish between them; some people don't - and they plonk 'of' where it oughn't to be - both orally and in writing... both being cases of unthinking stupidity. This dame did that.

Sorry to be a pedant, but it's should 'have'. Not should 'of'.

@arse2mouse He's the anti-Ozil. No touch, no pass, no guile, big shot. Also: yes, his goals scored number is ok, but I'd wager the number of goals scored by those around him when he's playing is abysmal, i.e. those goals he has scored have come at a huge cost.

Appreciate his overall goal return will probably end up looking *okay*, but if I'm being honest I do not enjoy watching Vik. (This is the diplomatic version of the tweet.)

@YankeeGunner Actually, just had a thought: Gyokeres is the anti-Ozil. No touch, no guile, can absolutely cunt the ball though.

Halftime and we’re just about okay. At the moment this looks like a broken team white-knuckling their way through this game. No belief. No quality. Just enough application. Hopefully enough to see us through. The only thing that fixes this short term is getting players back.

@YankeeGunner Yeah, Noni and Gyok just don't have the quality at this level

@gary_worden @ross_baglin @OliverKamm It is an error to write 'of' in these cases. It is not an error to say /ɒf/ for contracted ’ve, even if it overlaps with how "of" is pronounced.

@askintoofew @ross_baglin @OliverKamm If, by 'educated', you mean 'holders of Degree-Mill certificates'; it does happen Best proof is usually seen in written form, but I do hear otherwise cleverish people audidly leave us in no doubt that they think 'of' fits Also heard: 'avaidable' - you can't unhear it

@ross_baglin @OliverKamm This sounds like an empirical overreach. I’m very doubtful that educated native speakers generally experience /ɒf/ for contracted ’ve as especially anomalous in speech. Devoicing and vowel instability are well documented features of weak forms.

@OliverKamm Sorry but that misogyny swipe was profoundly grubby and shameful. You have no grounds at all for assuming I would not have objected to that usage by a man (I certainly would have). What you reckon to be grammatical has not been accepted English usage since Johnson’s time.

@YankeeGunner Just finished listening and was going to make a joke about an a Elliot culinary podcast (what is the Giroud of the kitchen etc. etc.) but it struck me...the ultimate trigger for you: If we had had prime Giroud this year, would we be better off than we have been with Gyokeres?

Today’s pod with James

@_PhilCosta Hi Phil, I have really enjoyed catching you on the AVP podcast. Sorry to hear about your back/neck issues. I was laid up for a year with a lumbar spine prob. It's such an unmitigated cunt, but you'll get through this and it'll just be a memory before you know it. All the best!

📖 A little update on what's been happening. highburyhangover.substack.com/p/some-persona…

@karenvaites @mpershan What was the Heggerty mess?

True, and not just SaS. If you want to get really into the weeds, go see how EdWeek covered phonics vs other aspects of literacy during Loewus's tenure as an editor and journalist there. Hint: edweek.org/teaching-learn… This media imbalance issue was painfully easy to see in real time. I was briefly cancelled for critiquing the first EdWeek Special Report on reading after 'Hard Words' because 9/10 articles were about phonics. And then... Remember when Episode 6 of Sold a Story dropped, and I (who had posted Episodes 1-5 with praise) posted the last episode with my disappointment that a 4+ hour podcast found time to discuss Lucy Calkins's linens, but it couldn't give, I dunno, two minutes to a quick summary of all the other important aspects of literacy? And Natalie Wexler made a similar critique... and Emily Hanford wrote a thread punching back at both of us, which drew all of the SoR superfans into hating on us during our Main Character day here? And 48 hours later Hanford wrote another thread apologizing for her reactions? And then a few months later, the new Sold a Story Episode 7 featured Claude Goldenberg discussing other aspects of reading success, because so many people reached out to Hanford with the same critique? Good times. I will keep referring people to Sold a Story, because it was such an impressive achievement in explaining the problem with cueing, as well as the importance of phonics. Really masterful work. I wish it had been paired with coverage that was equally obsessed with what teachers should do instead, on dosage and classroom execution, beyond "phonics matters." Hanford could have personally prevented the Heggerty mess, as one example. Instead, it was left to others to give the prescription to teachers. And Reading Leagues and Other Influential Groups sent More is Always Better messages, loud and clear. And now we have a national conversation about walking back the overcorrections. Plus a bunch of states that wrote Orton-Gillingham (a bloated approach) into state legislation. All predictable in 2019. @alexanderrusso

I don't want to make everybody super angry but this overemphasis on phonics is a huge part of "Sold a Story."