Paul Breen

Almost ten years ago soon. Time flies. Book still available here - amazon.co.uk/Charlton-Men-P…

@mehdirhasan John Cleese's political illiteracy doesn't need to be criticised using historical illiteracy. Plenty of ways to criticise him without misinformation.

John Cleese is a perfect example of Dunning Kruger. Spends all his day tweeting incessantly about the evils of Islam, misquoting the Quran, attacking Sadiq Khan, and making points about comparative religion that are demonstrably wrong. Buddhist extremists don't kill their religious enemies? Go to Burma. Hindu extremists don't kill their religious enemies? Go to India. Catholic extremists don't kill their religious enemies? Go to Northern Ireland. FFS.

Footage from Mexico 🇲🇽; a ‘holy’ cat named Coco 🐱⛪ stands at the entrance of a church, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in to worship 🤲🤣 Locals say this about him: ‘Coco thinks he’s the pope of the church 🤣❤️

Our new bookshop, The Whistleblower, in Dublin city centre is almost ready to open to the public. We held a soft opening on Saturday. It was great to see so many amazing Irish writers, academics, actors, comedians, activists, politicians & more. It’s @30southannest - cannot wait

@narindertweets As one would expect of such a brainless gobshite, she has clearly never looked below the surface of places like Bradford with so much history in the architecture and the surrounds.

Can you imagine if a brown or black woman asked for a predominantly white city be bombed? This is utterly disgusting.

One of the most unpleasant aspects of armchair Premier League fans who never go to watch their teams play is that they will go into work/school on a Monday and ridicule proper supporters of smaller clubs who do actually go to watch their teams play. This is called banter.

C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.

Addicks have UNTIL 10PM TONIGHT! #cafc Get voting now👇👇👇

Can't wait to get stuck into this @NutmegMagazine, the summer countdown is on. Even more honoured to have been asked to be a part of it as well. You can read my story of how the 1998 Brazil game quite literally changed everything.

A wonderful day out canvassing in 🍃Greenwich Park 🍃Charlton and Hornfair! Very positive Green vibes on the doorstep! For real hope,real change, vote Green on 7th May! Join us! greenwichandbexley.greenparty.org.uk

@ValleyFloydFred Or maybe spoke too soon

@ValleyFloydFred Getting better now

The Charlton midfield is having one of its worst performances of the season. Not closing things down, not giving options and not creating anything either. Really bad. #CAFC

Sun making everything a bit fluorescent at The Valley #Charlton v #Norwich

Discussion at football today at #Charlton #CAFC - really hard for @CAFCofficial to control it but something needs to be done about vaping in the ground. Especially with #meningitis on the go.

Students at @QUBelfast have voted overwhelmingly to reinstate signage in Irish and English at the university's students' union. bbc.in/3PvowLN

You start to see AI predicted everywhere. Reading Infinite Jest recently, and now in this jaw-dropping, narrative-less chapter which comes out of nowhere hundreds of pages into Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. Gut punch

Since #beetroot is trending can somebody make the bloody jars easier to open?

On the same day as #ArleneFoster wants to ban Up the RA, Nigel Farage wants to ban Muslims from praying in public. Mass Rocks for Muslims and Croppies Lie Down?

There’s a Moroccan proverb about three bulls and a lion. The lion promises the brown and black bulls safety if they don’t interfere when he attacks and eats the white bull. They agree. But soon, the lion is once again hungry. He approaches the brown bull and promises him safety if he doesn’t interfere to protect the black bull. The brown bull agrees and the lion eats the black bull without opposition. Eventually the lion, hungry again, attacks the brown bull who now has no one to defend him. His last words are “I was eaten with the white bull.”

More than 1,400 school pupils from 75 local schools will join us at The Valley on Saturday 📚 Find out more about our Schools Partnership Scheme 👇 #cafc