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tough #WhenTaken #206 (20.09.2024) I scored 764/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 8858 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 103 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 47 km - 🗓️ 12 yrs - ⚡ 177 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 16 km - 🗓️ 10 yrs - ⚡ 184 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 3436 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 135 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 1124 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 165 / 200 https://whentaken.com

If Sinatra has sub 800 you know it's going to be difficult.

Elgoods beer festival tomorrow. Always a highlight of the year although it means I have to go into Wisbech which is never great.

They can often be shit if you go to the wrong place. If you specifically want pizza you need to avoid the old town centre restaurants that don't specialize in them. If you find a dedicated pizzeria in some out of town new-build next to a housing estate tourists don't usually go to, run by southerners (or in the South itself), with disposable tablecloths and football posters on the wall, where they keep the beer glasses in the fridge and the side dishes are basically just chips or croquettes, you will get the best pizza of your life. There is no food I would less willingly give up than real southern Italian pizza.

I had just moved back to the UK from Italy which I think explains the first one. Not sure what possessed me to write the second one though, maybe I'd just watched Ahmed Musa play up front.

Brexit is like the world without zinc Simpsons scene but it's not a dream https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/19/revealed-far-higher-pesticide-residues-allowed-on-food-since-brexi

Wtf was I smoking when I posted this

That's easy though because the art is shit

I always alternate between fiction and non fiction which perhaps is a little autistic in itself.

I think a lot of 'irrational' fears like spiders, storms or flying awaken some kind of genetic memory within humans. Like our body is telling us this is a bad situation for us to be in.

#WhenTaken #205 (19.09.2024) I scored 903/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 175 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 189 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 761.3 metres - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 2584 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 143 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 442 km - 🗓️ 8 yrs - ⚡ 175 / 200 https://whentaken.com

#WhenTaken #204 (18.09.2024) I scored 959/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 2 km - 🗓️ 0 yrs - ⚡ 200 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 261 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 184 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 502.4 metres - 🗓️ 12 yrs - ⚡ 179 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 2 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 18 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200 https://whentaken.com

iirc loads of people. Europhiles were constantly denigrated as out of touch liberal elites who didn't have the best interests of the British working class at heart. I think we've memory-holed a lot of what was said in 2016 because it's so embarrassing looking back that so much of the population was taken in by it.

Football 'shithousery', especially from official club channels. Totally understandable and fair when it's a player (e.g. Vardy) who's been given stick throughout the game, but when it's from e.g. a club twitter account it's just cringey and without wishing to sound like an old bastard, totally disrespectful.

It's been said a million times before but considering that Brexit was supposed to punish the 'elites', it just punishes working people. Almost as much as austerity which Labour also tacitly supports.

#WhenTaken #202 (16.09.2024) I scored 861/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 2386 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 143 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 268 km - 🗓️ 8 yrs - ⚡ 180 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 333 km - 🗓️ 4 yrs - ⚡ 185 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 1243 km - 🗓️ 7 yrs - ⚡ 156 / 200 https://whentaken.com

My sister used to live in beeston and I'd often meet her at the Victoria. Miss that pub massively.

if we're thinking of the same rankings, I think was last but one for actual health outcomes ahead of the US.

Puel and Maresca are foreign and a bit aloof, which imo was one (I stress one) of the reasons many Leicestershire folk didn't like them. Rodgers was from the UK which perhaps stopped those same folk criticising him too much, although he was still a bit flashy and cringey which was always held against him. Cooper has the shield of being British and very ordinary (that's as kind as I can be without getting quoted to oblivion by people telling me I'm a **** and also, ironically, that I need to be nice on the internet).

I don't necessarily hate him personally although he seems like a pretty charmless person with few redeeming features. I hate the fact that he is our manager. I suppose if we'd spent 23 years of futility outside the top division I'd see him as an ok appointment but we're not coming from that position of course. He personifies our decline.

#WhenTaken #201 (15.09.2024) I scored 868/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 5786 km - 🗓️ 11 yrs - ⚡ 99 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 3 km - 🗓️ 2 yrs - ⚡ 198 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 1 km - 🗓️ 3 yrs - ⚡ 197 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 627 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 176 / 200 https://whentaken.com

It's a beautiful city with a lot of art and history. Some very interesting towns nearby and beautiful landscapes especially in the Nera valley. Where's the wedding?

They tried to tempt me to come down at the weekend with a post on Facebook offering tickets for "only £15"... for an FA cup 2nd qualifying round vs Cheshunt