Crash Hamster

@anon_opin Miss! Miss! Zack's said something stupid again!

We should have a government policy of 80% of journeys being by foot, bike, or public transport within 5 years. And 100% of buses, cars, lorries, trains, and vans being electric within 10 years. Everyone will be happier apart from the oil companies.

@TheCricketerMag @NickFriend1 I'm not sure this is how averages work.

Any pitch rated "below average" in this year's County Championship will result in the home side being awarded zero points from the fixture, regardless of the match result | @NickFriend1 thecricketer.com/Topics/county-…

@Scousebird Thought it was me for a second... ...then I remembered I'm retired and plain

And even worse…..he’s handsome as hell!

Don’t all fall over in shock but I am in a *checks notes* NHS DENTIST!!! With a bloody appointment! 😱

@SpeechUnion Sort out your VPNs now, kiddies, just in case.

X has filed an appeal against the EU’s €120 million fine issued under the Digital Services Act. The appeal has been lodged with the General Court of the European Union, challenging the first non-compliance fine imposed on a social media platform under the Act. In recent months, European governments have intensified their crackdown on social media platforms that promote free speech — particularly X. The Trump administration has criticised the Digital Services Act as a censorious law that unfairly targets US businesses and suppresses the free speech of citizens. The Act also formed the basis of a visit by the US House Judiciary Committee to several European cities last summer to investigate online censorship. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio banned five EU officials from visiting the United States shortly after the fine was issued in December, claiming the EU was attempting to “censor” American firms. We are seeing similar developments in the UK. The Online Safety Act was introduced as domestic legislation to protect children from online harms. In practice, however, Ofcom — the Act’s regulator — is asserting extraterritorial ambitions that risk encroaching on the First Amendment rights of US citizens. If a company is found to have breached Ofcom’s guidelines, it can be fined £18 million or 10 per cent of its annual global turnover — whichever is higher. The UK Government has even said that it would be willing to ban X from operating in the country and restrict access for British users. X’s appeal is therefore a significant test of whether the Digital Services Act is compatible with European free speech protections. The outcome could set important precedents for enforcement, penalty calculations, and the protection of fundamental rights.

@RugbyInsideLine And yet, at fly half...

Borthwick pulls the plug on Cowan-Dickie. Lineout has been abysmal... England desperately need to sort their hooker pipeline going into 2027.

@TheBarmyArmy Useful middle order batsman [winks]

Tell us who this is without telling us who this is.

@Scousebird Dammit, so he can't even follow the 'anyone can blag a marathon by limping round' plan? Now that's rough. Bum, tits and willies.

@Crash_Hamster It’s his seventh major and the worst thing is, it’s got tight cutoffs because it’s Tokyo. He’s currently in the hot tub feeling sorry for himself

Mr LB has just pulled up on his final run before Tokyo with a pain in his butt. Which isn’t me, before you say it. 😉 Send healing vibes. The marathon is next weekend 😱

@OutsideCricket I'll be watching this with popcorn and a beverage. The drama, obviously, not the hit and wish.

Remember when The Hundred was specifically designed to attract cricket fans from the British Pakistani community because it would shake off the "pale, stale and male" image of county cricket and the England team?

@SpeechUnion Done. Give 'em hell.

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@HJoyceGender Good Laugh Project to lose again? Surely not?

Hilarious to see this on the day that NHS Darlington lost comprehensively in the employment tribunal for precisely the policy that Virgin Active has sensibly introduced to avoid similar trouble! Par for the course for GLP I suppose goodlawproject.org/were-suing-vir…

@Scousebird I've always felt it does exactly what it says on the tin. 'With all due repect...' means absolutely none whatsoever, as no respect is due...

Nobody, in the history of the entire world has ever meant a shred of respect when opening with the words ‘with all due respect’.

@GeorgeDobell1 Bit harsh, mate, it's not as if they've ever toured Australia before... Oh.

England's four-year plan ends where it so often does: in Sydney, as a failed, ill-prepared regime | The Cricketer thecricketer.com/Topics/ashes-p…

@bbctms Bloke's lucky he wasn't pulled into the stands for six...

England's Harry Brook has apologised after being involved in an altercation with a nightclub bouncer the night before a one-day international on the tour of New Zealand that preceded the Ashes. #BBCCricket #Ashes

@SkyCricket So we're saying that Harry Brook can't deal with a bouncer..? Bloke's lucky he wasn't pulled into the stands.

Harry Brook has apologised for "embarrassing myself and the team" after an altercation with a nightclub bouncer in New Zealand last autumn.

@desjohnston @thefulltoss You'd think so, but apparently throwing them into Tests after watching the rain fall in some meaningless hit and wish in a completely different country (or dragging them off the physio couch before breaking them and returning them to said couch) is the way forward...

@thefulltoss Just one thing could be changed and we’d have had improvements. Warm up matches. You get better at match cricket by playing it, surely?

So a 1-4 defeat to the worst Australia team since 2010/11. Indisputable considering their injuries. I’ve never felt lower about English cricket. Could it have been different? Undoubtedly. Our poor prep & brain-dead batting lost us the key moments that swing games. Yet the ECB…

@thefulltoss Embarrassing shots by both Pope and Crawley, mistiming an on-the-up drive against a county trundler. They must play bowling like this all the time in first class cricket. Ah, I'm beginning to see the problem...

Consistency of selection is all very well, but what if you consistently back the wrong players? Crawley and Pope have both played 60+ Tests and average 31 and 35 respectively. We’ve long suspected the former is too flawed and the latter just, well, average. Yet England persisted.

@GeorgeDobell1 Starc might be a brilliant bowler, but there's one handy trick to avoid edging a full wide ball to the slips...

You'd think they looked at Joe Root and conclude 'Hmm, that works. I'll copy him.' Wouldn't you?

@fesshole They have failsafes on the drivers; there are are lockouts on the patient button, on the dose and the total dose over time. So rest assured you didn't.

Would fiddle with anything as a kid. Visited my uncle who was dying from cancer and saw a community nurse update what I would later find out was a morphine driver. Started pressing all the buttons when she left the room. Uncle died that evening. Think I may have overdosed him.

@AndyGoode10 Nonsense. What's he supposed to do when he's one step away, pull out, not wrap and make contact? It's a card if he does that. Flankers are always going to hit high numbers a fraction after the kick.

I can see why the Argentinians feel hard done by, Curry knows what he’s doing