James Speakman

I note I’ve been blocked by Gary Lineker, so let’s just be crystal clear on one thing: Gary Lineker has profiteered from human misery more than nearly every single one of us on this app He received millions from Qatar for his World Cup coverage Qatar is a country that supports the rapist, antisemitic terror organisation Hamas It is a country where being gay is illegal It is a country where women face discrimination in law It is a country with pitiful workers rights It is a country where freedom of expression is persecuted and where press freedoms are severely restricted But in exchange for money Gary Lineker was happy to ignore this - help to launder these abuses - and park the virtues he likes to signpost to his friends in The Guardian So please be mindful that Gary Lineker is a vanity moralist A rich poseur A hypocrite and a fraud, one might say

@GolfDigest The tweet isn't what the article says... Also, the guy in the photo isn't doing a hammer curl.

Hammer curls are likely doing more harm than good for your game.

@fesshole "Poo do you think you are?"

I recorded several long chats with my dad and my uncle, talking family history and yarns. My uncle died and then my dad got terminal cancer. He asked about the recordings, and I couldn't bring myself to tell him I dropped my phone in the toilet having a piss and lost the lot.

One tweet biography of every English & British monarch since Alfred the Great in 886: 1/63

@davidcrosss Haha, so funny. Dickhead.

Omg. You two get a room already!

@kattia_olsen1 @dcostar83 And Sanchez cost zero in transfer fees (swap with HM). United could 'afford' to pay him stupid money because of that. Agree that the sell-on issue is a problem due to wages, but there's always the option of letting him go for nothing after his contract expires - ala Pogba.

@Witterbird84 My favourite ever player. People laugh when I say that, but he was a beast - with incredible technique, and hard as nails. You weren't getting him off the ball.

@AP_dreamchase @erev25 @LouStagner Turned pro off 4, but then was deemed to be off plus one in the last six months (according to him on his podcast). Scratch golfers don't always shoot par, though. I get what you mean about 'Break 75' - not the best example of his abilities, I agree.

@Jimred75 @erev25 @LouStagner That’s a good example but Rick never got to scratch, he turned pro with a 4 handicap. Plus he has a video series called break 75 which he rarely does. I would say he would be about 6 or 7 handicap based on his videos of full rounds because there are a lot he doesn’t break 80

I have about 45 minutes to kill. Ask me anything.

@erev25 @LouStagner youtu.be/YJoJvkuTkEk

@LouStagner A 0 index golfer at home course with a 74.5 rating would have to give a touring pro what to make it competitive???

@DPapegaai @waitbutwhy As in 'The hand of God'? That's not even up for debate. We all saw it, and he admitted it.

@waitbutwhy Maradona - was it hands ?

If you could ask one question to any person, dead or alive, and be guaranteed an honest answer, who would you ask and what would the question be?

@LouStagner 0.6

For amateurs with a 10 index: What percent of their tee shots with driver are over 300 yards (total yards)? Give your answer to one decimal of precision (e.g. 10.7%). Curious how many guesses before we get a correct one.

@donnams63 You don't know adrenaline until you're facing a tight pin over water - all whilst nursing a hangover...

@Jimred75 @practicalgolf Oooh you adrenaline junkie 🤣

@practicalgolf I've ordered it, anyway! Really looking forward to reading it. 👌

@Jimred75 you're going to have to reverse, unfortunately. I know lefties will hate this, but the book would just be too long if I had to do the explanation twice.

When people ask me what it took to become a scratch golfer, my answer is usually the same. "I learned to control the clubface." Let me explain why face control is THE skill all golfers need to lower their scores 👇

@Witterbird84 Six Degrees

@panagis21 @_DHOTYA

Daughter told me a boy asked her out in school. Me: What did you say? 8 yo: I said I can speak 3 languages and was the lead in my camp’s play. What can he offer. Me: 😳

@Le__Monde @Emmyjewel

@Emmyjewel Brave?? 🤣😂 What’s brave in this futile exhibition? And I don’t know about stunning and paper planes either. Where have our vocabularies gone??

Stunning and brave

@Jillian_nSmith @_DHOTYA

Grabbing a drink at a bar. Guy next to me starts talking to the bartender about Ukraine. I’m bored, so I listen. He pauses, turns, smiles at me and says, “You’re so pretty, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, do you?” It did not end well for him.

@ASoftstar Sean Lock. A massive loss.

@rickygervais Absolute perfection. Never to be topped.

BBC2 are repeating #TheOffice starting tonight at 10pm A good idea is a good idea forever- #DavidBrent So...