Gus Mears

Kyren is one of my favourites and I am truly delighted for him. Obviously, I know fuck all about him other than what's presented to the media and the words of his peers, but he seems like a thoroughly decent man who cares deeply about his family. In an age of nobheads, I'll take that.

It wasn't a great tournament, let's be honest. Still, take these precious Crucible moments while you can before it's in Riyadh.

Most open semifinal lineup in years. Want Kyren to win, but reckon Fred Elliott's experience might help against 3 who haven't lifted the world's before.

8 hours ago, I Bent My Wookie said:

I'm really looking to try and get back into American Sports this year just as I'm always looking for more knowledge in things and things to watch. 

A mate tried to get me into the Blue Jays a few years back when he moved to Ontario as he knew I could feed him the info he needed to learn for the now ex wifes family, but I was too busy doing Uni stuff to really take a great interest myself. I tried to get into the Mets being not the Yankees and being a New York Jets football fan but even that didnt do it. 

I guess I'll be making my choice on a team to follow by places I eventually want to visit or which logo looks the coolest. 

It utterly fails the place you want to go test, but Orioles have a cool logo, have an incredibly exciting young team and just got bought by a new billionaire owner who looks as if they will spend. Pains me to say, but could do a lot worse. East Coast too, so a lot of the games are at a reasonable hour.

We used to have a designated thread for this which I can't for the life of me find. 

The Big Man with the Big Voice plus many more.

12 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Any idea what Bo Bichette looked like as a toddler?

I still can't find Aaron Judge in that Yankees crowd.

2 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

Watched the White Sox last night. Twice they gave up back to back homers. Absolutely awful team. Their record looks like good bowling figures for a spinner. 

Wild that the high point for that core is going to end up being getting pumped in the playoffs with 90 year old Tony LaRussa at the helm.

At least we'll always have the White Sox Wizard.

3 minutes ago, FLips said:

Think about what you're saying here.

At least we got three variations of it!

Current Red Sox situation is spectacularly shit. Our roster was shit to start the year and we've now lost 3/5 of our rotation and all of our infield leading to brand new plateaus of shitnesss. Having to watch people like David Hamilton pretend to play baseball is making me want to cry. Inexplicably have a winning record at the moment but cannot see how that lasts and worst of all Casas is out for most of the season when i was excited to see his progress.

All of this pales into comparison with the MLB London Series advert which is played between every inning and features that other bellend who owns Wrexham. Makes me pine for Hall of Fame Connections and Bartolo hitting that home run for the 100th time.

I've long enjoyed the concept of robin's being loved ones. We had a particularly friendly blighter who turned up at the house shortly after my Dad died. Then he flew in through the bedroom window and took a massive shit on the bedspread, doing little to add to the charm and whimsy of the idea.

Melvyn Bragg with a fistful of chicken nuggets at Bracknell Maccy D's. Chose double ketchup as his dip options, the mad twat.

Just now, air_raid said:

He'd probably pay some young peoples' marketing agency to help get him up to speed with what all the kids are into these days, and end up deciding that for maximum "engagements" the matches will all need to be short enough to go on TikTok.

It's Vince, the same man who thought ZZ Top were at the bleeding edge of culture until about 2012. He'd probably end up hosting it all on Bebo.

Always thought All Things Must Pass had one of the greatest discrepancies between album quality and cover quality.  It's the best Beatles solo album and we've got George sat with gnomes. Rubbish.

Mrs Mears passed her driving test today. Very proud, especially as she's in her 30's and from foreign lands without roundabouts.

Deadly Derek Underwood has shuffled off his bowling boots at 78.

One of England's best ever. He'll be taking ten-for's up on that sticky wicket in the sky.

Maybe this ought to be posted in the dull man thread, but I'm enjoying this very long and very boring series of Farming Simulator videos. Perfect fodder for the last 20 minutes before I go to sleep. The person making them isn't particularly interesting and often doesn't have much to say, so there's nice long pauses while he bales hay and plants fields for me to drift off to.

 'Questionable priorities'. Apt.

Continuing the Deathrey trend of vaguely funerial scenes. Banging album. Banging cover.

22 hours ago, Gus Mears said:

Jumping out of an aeroplane tomorrow. Will cheer me up loads if I don't die.

I'm sad to report that I didn't make it. Was great fun until the parachute didn't open. Thoughts are with my family at this difficult time.

1 hour ago, no user name said:

I think statistically you have more chance of dying in a car.

Not planning on using a parachute. Will that impact my odds?

Jumping out of an aeroplane tomorrow. Will cheer me up loads if I don't die.

's are go.

11 hours ago, Joe Blog said:

I feel i’m being whooshed here

What were you buying there? Was it a lovely lumpy lumpy lovely chicken wrap?

Might be the filter but those beans look wrong. No tomatoey ruddiness. They've got the pallor of death.

A&W root beer in a frosted mug at one of their restaurants is a delight. Quart gallon of delicious diabetes.