Chris Gray 💙
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@dazlove70 Yeah mate part of the life promise being a Leeds fan
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Totally and utterly unacceptable.
Real Hater@22Hater_
City 4-0 Brighton 2-1 Gala 1-0 Gala 1-0 (again) Wolves 2-1 City 2-1 B’mouth 3-2 PSV 4-1 Forest 3-0 City 3-0 Palace 3-0 Brentford 3-2 Utd 2-1 Chelsea 2-1 Palace 2-1 Palace CS Brighton 3-2 Chelsea 3-1 Fulham 3-2 Newcastle 2-1 PSG 1-0 Plymouth 1-0 22 losses in 12 months.
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Dans la nuit fatidique du 14 avril 1912, lorsque le RMS Titanic heurta un iceberg et que le chaos engloutit des milliers de vies… un homme fit un choix totalement inattendu.
Son nom : Charles Joughin, le chef boulanger du navire.
Et son histoire est sans doute l’une des plus incroyables jamais racontées.
Au lieu de courir vers les canots de sauvetage… il donna un ordre surprenant :
👉 Remplir les embarcations de pain pour nourrir les survivants.
Puis, il retourna dans sa cabine… pour entamer sa propre “mission” 🍷😳
➡️ Boire une quantité impressionnante d’alcool.
L’esprit embrumé mais étrangement courageux, il remonta sur le pont.
Il jeta des chaises en bois à la mer, espérant que les naufragés puissent s’y accrocher 🪑🌊
👉 Un geste qui aurait sauvé des dizaines de vies.
Pendant que la panique explosait partout… cris, prières, chutes…
Lui resta calme.
Il marcha jusqu’à la poupe, enjamba la rambarde… et attendit.
Plus tard, il racontera :
💬 « Le navire a coulé sous moi comme un ascenseur. »
Quand le Titanic disparut dans l’Atlantique…
👉 Il se laissa simplement glisser dans l’eau.
💬 « Je n’ai même pas mouillé mes cheveux. » 😳
Et là… le plus incroyable commence.
L’eau était à -2°C 🧊
La plupart mouraient en 15 à 20 minutes.
Mais lui ?
👉 Il resta dans l’eau PLUS DE 2 HEURES.
Pourquoi ?
L’alcool :
✔️ Supprima sa peur
✔️ Le rendit totalement détendu
✔️ L’empêcha de paniquer et de gaspiller son énergie
Alors que normalement, l’alcool accélère l’hypothermie…
Dans son cas, il aurait atténué le choc thermique initial.
À l’aube…
Un canot le trouva… tranquillement en train de flotter 😳
Il monta à bord, se sécha…
👉 ET SURVÉCUT.
Sans séquelles.
Charles Joughin vécut jusqu’à 78 ans, prouvant une chose :
👉 Parfois… la survie défie toute logique.
🔥 Une histoire réelle, incroyable, presque irréelle.

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Jimmy Carr froze mid-show when a woman told him she was celebrating her “15 bonus years” — thanks to him.
At 15, she had planned to hang herself that night. While the house slept, she killed time on YouTube and clicked one of his clips. She laughed. Then another. The laughter quietly pulled her back from the edge — and kept pulling her forward, year after year.
What we often shrug off as “just comedy” became the fragile lifeline that held her here.
Carr later reflected how humbling it was: we make people laugh for fun, yet sometimes that simple spark of lightness becomes the exact thing someone needs when the darkness feels unbearable. In our lowest moments, it’s rarely grand advice or heroic rescues that reach us. It’s the sudden, ridiculous reminder that life can still feel surprisingly light — a small, stubborn act of rebellion against despair.
That quiet proof we’re not alone can change everything.
What’s one unexpected moment — a joke, a song, a random video — that once caught you (or someone you know) right before the edge and reminded you that staying was still worth it?
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In 2002, Quentin Tarantino, one of the most influential film directors in the world, walked into a secondhand clothing store in Tokyo, Japan. A track was playing over the speakers. He asked the man behind the counter if he could buy the CD right then and there. The man refused. Tarantino offered twice the retail price. The man eventually gave in.
The band was The 5.6.7.8's. Two sisters, Yoshiko and Sachiko Fujiyama, had been playing raw 1960s-influenced garage rock in Tokyo since 1986. They had a small but devoted following. Almost nobody outside Japan had heard of them.
Within a year they were performing in Kill Bill: Volume 1, one of the most talked about films of 2003, playing to millions of people in cinemas around the world.
Their song Woo Hoo, a cover of a 1959 American track they had never considered particularly important, became one of the most recognised opening riffs of a generation. It hit the top thirty in the United Kingdom. It appeared in television commercials around the world. Their tours went from Tokyo to North America, Europe and Australia. Jack White of The White Stripes, who became a fan, helped release their back catalogue through his Third Man Records label in the United States.
Interestingly, back home in Japan, almost nothing changed. Their profile there remained almost exactly the same.
They are still together. Still playing.
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@DeanoGorton @dazlove70 was expecting to see you on this pal
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If Joe Willock was bald, Newcastle would be 2-0 up against Spurs now 😂😂😂
george@StokeyyG2
Joe Willock’s goal against Spurs was disallowed as an inch of his forehead was offside 🤣
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