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Thanks for the heads up about OM, Mrs H has been wanting to go for a while.

I’m still enjoying it, but fully agree on traitor choice. Maya is a total nonentity, zero charisma and will probably go quite far because she’s such a bag of nothing. Great for her, but not exactly compelling television. Although having said that, every time they show her talking with a faithful in the castle, she looks so guilty, though maybe that’s just me. And the you’ve got James and Hannah who don’t like being traitors and just want it to be over already. Where’s Paul from S2 when you need him?

I’m praying my role survives the current AI mania into the bubble bursting, but once that happens, we’re into the economic downturn to end all downturns, so getting through that intact seems even less likely. Everything feels incredibly bleak at the moment, I wish all ‘keffer jobseekers the best.

This is probably a knockoff of someone doing it better etc, but here’s a guy purporting to be in a job interview with an AI recruiter. The idea is that his career started in 1994, working at an island attraction off the coast of Central America. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dc_OK8vQNCc/?l=1 (dunno how to embed instagram, sorry)

I just kept seeing Ambassador Kosh in my head after seeing Maya’s yak hair jacket:

Are you 100% sure they’re not talking about Red, Breen and Glue?

Couldn’t get on board with it at all. Apparently it’s a black comedy, but I laughed about 3 times and I was praying for the end after about 10 minutes. I’m sure there will be people that say it’s amazing, but it felt like a film made for filmmakers and nobody else. Reminded me of Amsterdam, big name cast, looks brilliant, but zero heart. Fantastic film. Laugh out loud all the way through. Loved it.

I was disappointed with Wessel, he got in pretty well overall and looked good getting it back to 1-1. But then he just fell off in the next two sets. He has timed his form all wrong, as you say. “Bobbin’” Niels Zonneveld through, though. He was brilliant against Rock, but Humphries looks in very good nick so I can’t see him making the SF. Great to see Anusol sponsorship on the hoardings. Hopefully they can sponsor a whole tournament and we can have an Anusol Champion. Becci knows.

Gates is tough to watch as he always takes about 4 hours from 201 due to his lack of counting. But, great dancing. So it’s swings and roundabouts. I’ve heard Dan Dawson mention a few times this year that they might change up the format for the next PL. I hope they bin off the nightly tournaments.

£900m worth of ‘sham’ accounting.

Haha no way! Dreadfully boring to watch and stupid. What a combo. Littler looks burnt out at the mo. I think the crowd at the WSOD finals has got to him. They were proper bellends though, I didn’t bother with the final session. Also please let’s never have Barney on commentary again. Nice to see Nijman through, even if it was an absolute grind. Pretty sure he would have lost to anyone else and I can’t see him getting past Clayton playing like that. Speaking of conspiracy theories, note how MVG isn’t on the poster/advert for Premier League 2027…

Given the legal challenge succeeded, I feel like the Premier League must be thinking that any nuclear-level punishment just sends City packing to the Super League with Barca and Real Madrid. Not that I’d miss them.

Pierluigi Collina as someone’s sporting hero is a highlight.

I needed to undo a hex bolt at work, and after a couple of minutes of cautiously cranking the tool in a standard anti-clockwise/lefty-loosey manner, it turned out to need a non-standard clockwise/righty-loosey operation. This has reminded me of the taps in the toilets at our old building which were lefty-tighty/righty-loosey, at which I tutted in annoyance every single time I used them.