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Makes sense now, it's 8 wine glasses of ESB

I don't have the constitution. What I love about these pub crawl posts is that they always end with "and then I got the train back to Leicester at [two hours before I'd usually even consider going out]". This is what I mean. This must be an ironic reference to my post because how the hell do you have 8 ESB.

I am very much a soft southern pansy but no idea how some people on this thread consume so many pints

So wonderful now in England every time a crime is committed we need to have endless internet posts on the perpetrator's ethnicity by people trying to get one over on other people with different politics to them. Great development.

I'm 40 and I feel I'm still trying to process leaving school.

Don't worry too much about the future and doing things in your life by a certain time. This is the one thing I wish I could go back and tell my younger self.

Don't react when someone is pushing your buttons, especially if that someone is your partner.

32,000 at Palermo vs Bari yesterday.

I was hoping for post war Evelyn Waugh

I wish I could paint. Must be one of the most relaxing things. I'd like to live in a flat in Bloomsbury overlooking a park and sit painting the view on warm autumn afternoons.

Looking for a sound engineer from central Europe if anybody can help out

There are some advantages to having an unelected, non political head of state who's interested only in gardening and being rich.

I actually think Vance is more ideological than Trump. He comes across as someone who's been quite radicalised by spending too much time on social media and is out for revenge against the libs that constantly occupy his mind.

Basically everyone is 'woke' in America, left and right. Very silly country that unfortunately poisons our own political and social discourse.

And they ****ing lecture the Europeans on free speech.

I remember watching the second half of Wimbledon v LCFC in 2002 on the ceefax page of a TV in a shop window between films when working at a cinema.

Yeah I'm quite pro monarchy but I'm not sure there's much point to it if you're rolling out the red carpet for someone who threatened to annex a country where you're head of state

I guffawed then felt very bad.

Rebel citizens protest visitor of Emperor to otherwise loyal satrapy.

A lot of these discussions on what reform will or won't do including leaving the ECHR really remind me of the run up to the 2016 referendum

One of the greats from maybe the greatest era of filmmaking.

I went through a very difficult period in autumn 2023 and wondered if I'd really be able to turn it around. It came after a period when I'd been drinking heavily. Quitting alcohol helped obviously. As mentioned above, jogging was a massive help too. Set myself targets to run a little further every day. Quit social media. Read a couple of books I'd wanted to for a while. Spent time with friends and family. And ultimately just tried to be stoical and reminded myself such periods are part of being human. Then 2024 was maybe the best year of my life. The first few months after I turned it round were amazing. You'll get through it and you'll be the better for it.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/10/does-america-now-have-a-woke-right

I was following the match day thread on a train from Edinburgh - Peterborough and at 0-2 people were complaining that Ranieri was destroying all the good work Pearson had done.