Once-I-Was

@henrywinter Evidence indicates he isn't good enough, or wanted, at this top level. What does he deserve?

The crazy situation that has put Harvey Elliott’s promising career on hold - stuck at nine games for Aston Villa on loan - is deeply frustrating on a human and professional level. It looks even crazier given the struggles of Villa’s squad players against Spurs. And also Liverpool’s need for some invention and energy, including a stronger option on the right against Manchester United. What a sad waste of a year for Elliott after a terrific Euro Under-21s where he was Player of the Tournament. He just wants to play. Last summer Elliott was looking forward to the season and hoping to force his way into the England senior squad. This loan with obligation to buy after 10 games has proved a millstone given Unai Emery doesn’t want to buy. You have to feel for Elliott. Clubs, PL, PFA and FIFA (because of the two-team rule) have to work to ensure a young player’s career isn’t put on hold again. Elliott deserves better.

@AlexTaylorNews Doesn't matter really.

This is what euro notes could look like in the future with prominent Europeans such as Maria Callas, Beethoven, Marie Curie, Cervantes, da Vinci etc replacing the current anonymous bridges and vaults that are basically there so as not to offend anyone 🤡 The European Central Bank is currently choosing between this idea and pictures of birds and nature. Let's hope they go with actual 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 like these who have left their mark on Europe's history, and who people all over the continent can be proud of 💪🇪🇺

@roguewealth it's *important*, right.

Had a family teenager come over during bbq Sunday. Told him I got a few new PS5 games. One of which won GOTY. His eyes widen: “Expedition 33?” “Yes,” I replied. He races towards the thing, starts it up and then proceeds to… skip every single dialogue in the game. “You do know it’s important you understand the story, right?” I said. “Nah. I just want to play. I’ll find out what it’s about on YouTube.” I left him to do something else.

@pastarchive to *retirement* ...

On 21 February 1967, Charlie — widely regarded as the last working shunting horse on British Rail — retired from Newmarket station in Suffolk. After 18 years of moving railway wagons and horseboxes, his final job was almost poetic: he shunted the very wagon that would take him away to retirement. The end of an era on British rails.

@DanDeFiEd *per favore

Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied. In Italy: - Walk into a bar and look at the guy - Un caffe - 30 seconds later it’s ready - Shoot it - Leave €1 - Walk out In the US: - Join a line - Wait - Order coffee - Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it? - $12.34 - Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip - Tap phone - ask where to send the invoice - Wait again on a different line - Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine - get the coffee - too hot, can't drink it - finally at temperature taste like shit

@AiaAmare By 'was like', do you mean 'said'?

Airport security pulled me over after scanning my backpack and was like “you can’t carry scissors in your bag”. I was kinda confused because I do carry scissors, but they’re tiny little cosmetic scissors about the side of a pinky and I’ve never had issues with it in airports before😅 I open up the bag and present the scissors to the officer and this large uniformed man just looks flabbergasted while holding my comically small scissors. He shoots a “what the hell” kinda glance to the scan operator and tells me I’m good to go 😂

@AlanSalonEsq @CasaDupre *mashed

@CasaDupre Mash potato between his ears

@MattWhitlock *mashed

Are California Democrats really going to try to swap out predator Eric Swalwell for abuser Katie Porter? The boiled mash potato wielding, staff-abusing psychopath is not the answer.

@NehaCha47089936 @sciencegirl *mashed

@sciencegirl Remove the rice and add some salad , The grilled chicken goes well with the mash potato i think it's enough!!!

What’s missing from this dinner

@anishmoonka So there was only ever one take?

Brando was paid $250,000 for this performance. Won Best Actor. Refused the Oscar. Then six years later, he used the exact same cue card technique on Superman and walked away with $19 million. Paramount didn't even want him for the role. By 1971, his last few movies had bombed. The studio said no. So director Francis Ford Coppola had to trick him into a screen test. He showed up at Brando's house with a camera, told him it was to "test equipment." Brando grabbed some cotton balls, stuffed them in his cheeks to look like a bulldog, put shoe polish in his hair to darken it, and just started acting. Coppola put that tape in with other auditions. The executives loved it. But they made Brando take a pay cut (he'd been charging $1.25 million per film since the early 1960s) and put up his own money as a guarantee he wouldn't cause problems on set. Now the cue card thing. Brando trained in something called the Stanislavski Method, which is an acting technique where you try to react as naturally as possible on camera instead of reciting rehearsed lines. His argument was that in normal conversation, nobody knows what they're about to say next. So when an actor memorizes dialogue and performs it, even if they're talented, it sounds slightly off. Brando said memorized lines had the rhythm of a nursery rhyme. So he'd read them fresh, every take. And you can actually see it in his face in The Godfather. He looks like he's thinking, choosing his words carefully. Because he was. That $6.5 million movie made over $250 million at the box office. Highest-grossing film ever made at the time. Paramount's parent company quadrupled its yearly profit off one movie. When Brando refused the Oscar, he sent an activist named Sacheen Littlefeather to the ceremony instead, to protest Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans. Then Superman happened, and the numbers get absurd. Brando's own agent described him to director Richard Donner in two sentences: "He hates to work and he loves money." So Brando got $3.7 million upfront plus a cut of every ticket sold, for 12 days of work. Twelve days. He appears on screen for less than 20 minutes in the finished movie. When the ticket money came in, Brando's total take was $19 million. Same cue card setup, just on a bigger budget. In one scene where his character sends baby Superman away from a dying planet, Brando's lines were taped to the baby's diaper. He looked down at the kid with what seemed like fatherly love. He was reading his dialogue off a prop infant. He even pitched that his character should appear as "a green bagel" with just his voice, so he wouldn't have to show up on camera at all. Meanwhile Christopher Reeve, the guy who played Superman and carried the whole movie, was paid $250,000 for both films combined. I love that Brando turned not memorizing his lines into the most profitable acting decision in Hollywood history. And both performances still hold up as some of the greatest ever put on film.

@EndlessKnightST @engineers_feed Lift comes from air flow across the wings. No air flow, no lift.

@engineers_feed It will be strange but I think yes because it's the jet engines that make the plane fly. Not the wheels, so eventually there will generate enough life. But the problem is that the forces upon getting off the ground would probably rip the plane to shreds.

We should all get the same answer folks 💪🏼

@Freyy_is Nah, no imaginary deities were involved.

there is something in these photos that nobody is talking about. the earth, seen from the moon’s surface, is a crescent. the same shape we see the moon from earth. which means from where these astronauts stood, our entire world, every human being alive, every city, every ocean, every mountain, was receiving light the same way the moon does. dependent. reflective. not a source but a receiver. and God placed both of them, earth and moon, in a gravitational relationship so precise that if either one shifted slightly, the conditions for life dissolve completely. He did not just create them. He positioned them. He calibrated the distance. He calculated the tilt. He set the orbital speed. and then He rested. what that tells me about God is something i am still processing. He is not a God who creates carelessly and steps back. He is a God who creates with intention so deep that billions of years later, the greatest scientific mission of our generation goes out there and finds everything exactly where He left it. the craters on that moon are not evidence of chaos. they are evidence of endurance. of something built to absorb impact and remain. God put that quality into the moon because it is His own quality. He absorbs everything this world throws at existence and remains. unchanged. unshaken. still in orbit. still faithful. still holding everything He made in the dark.

@talksports45 Completed innings only? Context of match score?

Calculated the median scores for test batsmen who managed to score 8000+ test runs. Took some efforts to do this, but was a fun stat. Have divided the list in 2 parts. The 1st has players with a median score >=30 and the next with <30. Brian Lara-33.5 Garry Sobers-33.5 Rahul Dravid-33 AB de Villiers-33 Viv Richards-32.5 Sachin Tendulkar-32 Kane Williamson-32 Kumar Sangakkara-32 Jacques Kallis-31.5 Allan Border-31 Steve Smith-31 Shivnarine Chanderpaul-31 Virender Sehwag-31 Younis Khan-31 Kevin Pietersen-31 Matthew Hayden-31 Javed Miandad-30 Geoffrey Boycott-30 (1/n)

@Alarsenalnews_ Alcoholism is a disease. What is the point of telling this story?

When Ray Parlour and the rest of the Sunday crowd turned up at the pub, there were rules. You got there at noon. If you were late, it was a £50 fine. Then everybody had to agree what time they were leaving, and once that time was set, nobody left early. If the vote said 7 p.m., then 7 p.m. it was. Anyone who walked out before then got fined £200. Then one Sunday Tony said he needed to leave at three in the afternoon. That did not go down well. The rest of them looked at him and wondered what had happened. “Are you feeling all right, Tony?” “Lads, I have to.” “You can’t. The rules are the rules. You made them up. If anyone else wants to leave early, they can’t.” “Nope, I’ve got to go.” Nobody was having that. A few pints later, just before three, a car pulled up outside the pub. The driver came in to collect him. By then Tony was hammered. So naturally the first question was what on earth could possibly be so important that he was blowing up his own system for it. “I’ve got to go to do the FA Cup draw live on television.” This was a car from the FA. Sent from Lancaster Gate to pick up the England captain and take him to do the draw. So once he had gone, the rest of them stayed where they were and waited for it to come on. They sat round the television in the pub and watched Graham Kelly introduce it all. Then came the line-up. Terry Venables was there looking exactly how you would expect an England manager to look on television. Suit on. Tie on. Hair neat. Then the camera went to Tony. And Tony looked like he had just been pulled out of the pub. He was swaying. His shirt was hanging out. He had trainers on. He looked, in Ray Parlour’s words, “a right scruff.” The camera did not hang around on him for too long either. Tony had to pull a ball out. He put his hand in and started swirling it round. You could almost picture Terry Venables beside him thinking, just take a ball. Then Tony pulled one out and announced it. “Thirty-one.” The problem was there was no thirty-one in the draw. So they had to stop him and tell him to look again. It was thirteen. By then it had become clear enough that this thing needed supervision. They ended up with someone behind him checking he was reading the number properly before he said it out loud. Back in the pub, they were in bits. Then, after all that, the same FA car brought him back. By that point it was getting towards the original leaving time and the lads were ready to go home. Then Tony got out and walked back in. “Did I get away with that, lads?” He had also provided them with one of the funniest things they had ever seen. He paid the £200 fine for leaving early. And after that he changed the leaving time. One in the morning.

@HannahIamthest1 Just nonsense.

I never knew this before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified. Isn't history more fun when you know something about it? Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew'). Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew! Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.' And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing. 😉😉

@kneerecon 'badly' means unwell, sick, in poor health, etc., in some dialects.

1 I’ve learned to accept Trump’s, “ feel badly,” which is grammatically incorrect. You can’t “feel” badly, unless you’re having trouble feeling or touching something. It’s a linking verb used to connect the subject with his or her state of being. But his spelling remains

@nazzobetweeting Low expectations met.

something i appreciate about my entire [millennial] friend group is that none of us are afraid to make a phone call to accomplish anything. yesterday we were trying to find a sports bar nearby that could accommodate our size party for the game and every person instinctively picked a bar and just called them up to ask. no doomsday attitude about talking on the phone, no hyperventilation at the thought of being on a phone call. just well-adjusted adults <3

@asanwal Look at the chart again. Both results are the same within error.

Great “trick” to get kids to learn Two groups read the same passage. * Group A was told they'd be tested. * Group B was told they'd have to teach it to another student. Nobody actually taught anything. They were just told they’d have to teach. Group B crushed it. Better recall. Better organization. Advantage concentrated on main points. So just believing they'd have to teach changed how they studied. The researchers' line that stuck with me: students have effective study strategies they simply don't use unless prodded to. So our kids already know how to learn well. They just don't do it when they're told to study for a test. The test framing makes them passive. While teaching makes them active. At @ForgePrep, the highest level of mastery students can demonstrate is teaching another students to competence. It’s part of why we have Montessori mixed age classes as this creates more opportunities for this type of teaching

@RowdyRick73 What a load of old bollocks! Ex-president visits TV show set. Nothing to see here folks.

Credit to Olden Heritage from Facebook This would never happen today. "In April of 1991, two years after leaving the Oval Office, former President Ronald Reagan — Hollywood actor turned leader of the free world — walked onto Paramount's Stage 16 at the legendary studio lot, and what happened next became one of the most quietly magical crossovers in pop culture history: the Great Communicator stepped into the final frontier, visiting the live set of Star Trek: The Next Generation during production of the Season 4 finale, 'Redemption,' and the crew could barely believe their eyes; Reagan had known Paramount producer A.C. Lyles since the 1940s, and it was through that decades-old Hollywood friendship that this extraordinary visit was quietly arranged, with Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and even Brent Spiner — who wasn't on the call sheet that day but showed up anyway just to witness history — all gathering on the Klingon High Council chamber set to greet him; when Reagan came face-to-face with actors in full Klingon warrior makeup and prosthetics, someone asked what he thought of them, and without missing a beat he grinned and said 'I like them — they remind me of Congress,' bringing the entire stage to laughter; then came the moment that truly stops your heart: the ailing Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, frail and using a cane, made his way over on his cart to welcome Reagan personally, and when Roddenberry accidentally dropped his cane, Reagan — nearly ten years his senior — immediately knelt down and picked it up for him, and Roddenberry, visibly moved, later said he felt as though he had been knighted; Reagan's own son Michael would later write in his 2004 memoir that even after leaving office, his father remained 'fascinated by dreams of a bright future for humanity,' and standing on that starship set, surrounded by a cast imagining a united Earth sailing among the stars, perhaps he finally found a vision grand enough to match his own optimism — proof that sometimes the most profound meetings between greatness and wonder happen not in the halls of power, but on a Hollywood soundstage dressed up like tomorrow." #StarTrekTNG #RonaldReagan #PopCultureHistory #HiddenHistory #fblifestyle

@MoviesThatMaher Even with a title containing a phrase that is little understood outside USA?

About a year ago I watched Sinners in IMAX and thought to myself that this was one of the most amazing movies I’ve seen in a long time, It’s a film that will never be recognized by the Oscars especially with it releasing in March…. Well didn’t that turn out differently. Jordan winning Best Actor was a great achievement. Today I watched #ProjectHailMary and I have to say that this film absolutely moved me and Ryan Gosling gave a career best performance, history can’t repeat itself again can it? I don’t know what 2026 will bring but it’s gonna be hard to top this.