Eddy Smyth

Aleksander Gierymski Gritters, labouring, the hard way

@NoContextBrits I always used- Suffix ache.

Can anyone answer this?

@SalfordMe2023 She checked in her mirror when she got home and thought it just said 'tortap duorp

'Yeah he was foreign but he offered me a cheap price' 🤦‍♀️

Europe, take note.

@NoContextHumans By the list of what was served, l would expect a free stomach pump too.

Fair or foul?

@greg16676935420 And the nurse in the green scrubs is holding up an intravenous drip.

How did people not know this was Trump as a doctor? 1) There’s a hospital in the background 2) He has one of those lights the doctor sticks in your ear 3) He’s checking the patients fever 4) His nurse is below him 5) There’s a patient with 6 fingers 6) He’s wearing a doctors gown 7) Has a blanket on his shoulder to warm up the patient 8) Everyone’s looking up at him because they’re sitting in the chairs in the operating room

@NoContextBrits The waste bin

What’s missing from this breakfast?

@Pollypo04698734 Gets my vote for winning the moto 2 championship this year 💯

Fabulous

@BladeoftheS Not a chance from me.

Everybody else seems to have bought a blue tick. There is only me left. Shoutout if you haven't soldout either.

@archer_rs Be sure to play the full version of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" while the miscreants are taken in for questioning.

Update to this from earlier, within the rubbish we found a receipt from a shop where we know the owners, it's time stamped and they have been kind enough to cross reference it with their CCTV. We have film of the people and their car.... including their registration number.

@archer_rs So, not an American then?

Americans, listen up. Once Trump is gone you people really need to do better next time. Don't choose from second rate reality TV, find an academic, a successful businessman, a credible politician anyone with a good brain, some empathy and critical reasoning who will do the work

@JasonBassler1 @percyridesagain It took a bit longer to pick him out from the wildlife that live in these remote spaces. Mountain goats, wolves, bears, birds of prey, migrating birds, lizards, beetles, goat herders, snakes, rats, bats, cats and twats who believe all this.

🚨 Reports claim a new CIA system called "Ghost Murmur" just found a downed U.S. pilot in Iran by detecting his heartbeat from 40 miles away. Yet the same surveillance grid of drones and satellites somehow can’t identify a girls’ school from orbit? Make it make sense...

@edwinhayward He must have a nervous tic. he keeps hitting caps-lock

According to Trump, the US military are looking forward "to their next Conquest". Sounds like he's itching to pick another target to wipe out.

Absolute class.

@IghoThony @shanaka86 OK, you pay it .

@shanaka86 An extra dollar per barrel would not make the Strait of Hormuz less of an "international good", would it?

JUST IN: Japan’s Prime Minister just called Iran’s President. Twenty-five minutes. The first top-level contact between Tokyo and Tehran since the war began. And every word Takaichi chose was a weapon disguised as diplomacy. She called the Strait of Hormuz a vital artery for global logistics and an international public good. That phrase, international public good, is the most precisely calibrated language any leader has used since the ceasefire was announced. It is a direct legal rejection of Iran’s toll system without naming it. Under international law, a public good cannot be privatised. A public good cannot charge admission. A public good cannot require a secret code from an IRGC intermediary, a yuan payment to a military contractor, and an armed escort through territorial waters near Larak Island. Takaichi did not say this by accident. Japan imports 94.2 percent of its crude oil from Arab nations, nearly all of it transiting Hormuz. In February 2026, Japan imported 74.13 million barrels of crude. The effective closure of Hormuz forced Tokyo to release 80 million barrels from its national strategic reserves, enough to cover 45 days of domestic demand. The Nikkei has fallen 11 percent since the war began. The yen weakened to 20-month lows. The Bank of Japan warned of oil-driven inflation and markets are pricing a 70 percent chance of a rate hike this month. Japan’s entire economic stability is tethered to a 34-kilometre channel that an IRGC military council now controls through a toll booth it legislated on March 31. Takaichi’s call adds Japan to the coalition that is forming against the toll precedent. Oman’s transport minister told parliament today that international agreements prohibit Hormuz fees. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain called the tolls unacceptable. Trump offered to help with the traffic buildup. And now Japan, the world’s fourth-largest economy, has formally defined the strait as an international public good on a direct call with the Iranian president, creating a diplomatic record that can be cited at Islamabad on Friday and at every international forum thereafter. But Takaichi also spoke to Pezeshkian, not to the IRGC military council that actually runs the toll booth. Pezeshkian is the civilian president of a regime where the civilian president does not control the military, the intelligence apparatus, the provincial commands, or the strait. Takaichi’s statement will be filed in Tokyo. The IRGC’s clearance codes will still be issued at Larak. The gap between what diplomats say and what military operators do is the gap the ceasefire was built on, and it is the gap that will determine whether the toll precedent becomes permanent. Japan released 80 million barrels of reserves because it could not access the strait. It will now pay tolls to access the strait, or reroute around the Cape of Good Hope at $5 per barrel in additional shipping costs, or rely on US naval escorts that Trump described as “hangin’ around” to make sure everything goes well. None of these options restore the status quo ante. The strait that was free before the war is now either tolled, militarised, or both, and Japan’s 94 percent dependence means it absorbs the cost regardless of which option it chooses. The Strait of Hormuz was an international public good. It is now a contested chokepoint. And the distance between those two descriptions is measured in yuan. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@MrBonMot Woody Guthrie playing an acoustic set in the bar.

I would have paid good money to see The Carpenters,MC Hammer & Nine inch nails on the same bill.

@GazTheJourno Perhaps she asking to add the creature on to her car insurance policy as a named driver?

Sister in law bought a guinea pig for £30 and is looking at pet insurance. She's been quoted £15/month. I have suggested she simply replaces the guinea pig every 8 weeks. Apparently this is "cruel".

@archer_rs Trump can tell the world the moon has been cleared of Iranians

Dissapointing that the Artemis II mission did not make contact with the Moon creatures when they travelled around the dark side. An opportunity lost.

@cleckylad Might be the best outcome. The crew are of mixed gender and none of them are Man Utd supporters. 😆

America Do something before the only people left alive are the crew of the Artemis 11

@JamesBlunt I ain't cutting back no matter the threats.

I’m not sure I get enough alone time to achieve this.