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Just landed from Sofia. Forgot we were playing the early kick off in all honesty. Go on social media, see the score. LMFAO.

I do that with most history books - the curse of growing up in the era of instant online answers I suppose. I think if you're reading microcosm you probably know enough about the main themes of Salonica - the collapse of multiethnic European empires and creation of nation states - and anyway the style of the book is very accessible and understandable while still including lots of great details from primary sources.

Love that pub. Used to go there loads. As you say, feels like a local with a good mix of clientele. Also opposite the best bookshop in London and just over the road from a great greasy spoon

Holborn Whippet is much missed

I once missed a game but I still wanted to post a post match comment on foxestalk so put "Perez was awful as per" and it turned out it'd been his one good game of the season. Mortified.

Much of the X Files was brilliant television, because the writing was often brilliant and many of the episodes started very good actors from American film and TV. Stranger Things seems to me to be all about the concept and I find it quite boring and repetitive.

I see a lot of Liverpool fans are now saying it's Jota's death effecting them. Which on the one hand is classic Liverpool but on the other hand seems perfectly reasonable and quite possibly true.

I like Spoons pubs in London because your typical spoons punters are usually only in the city as tourists and want to go to some shithole in Soho, and so in the spoons you usually just get students and workers who want a cheapish pint and grub. Plus they open late and serve inexpensive coffee which is more civilized than 90% of pubs in the UK.

Sam Smiths' pubs aren't too bad. Great interiors and I actually quite like the beer. Last time I was in one they had a pint of mild for like 3.50. Just remembered I recommended a Sam Smiths' pub to you to take the Norwegian LCFC fans to and you said you liked it, now I don't know what to believe anymore.

Looking at the photo above I agree and would quite like to change it, but am worried changing a profile pic to something recommended by another poster would be very awkward and cringey

I don't think this is necessarily an argument in favour of migration levels being so high. I also don't know how reflective it is of immigration to the UK since 2020

Told you! 😂 (You don't expect me surely to actually read links in posts I'm replying to?)

They'll spin the news as Brexit and Tory policy starting to have an effect and how it'd be even lower if it wasn't for migrant loving Kier

Hungary's TFR is still well below replacement levels and I think has actually declined slightly since 2020. I don't think government policy has actually managed to make much of a difference to this anywhere.

Jesus wept.

knife through butter

we're shit but looked marginally off the first time I saw it

Infantino makes Peter Drury compilations from his bedroom

Deeefence. Silly people

Route

Annoys me more than it should that hardly anyone in this country can use "reactionary" correctly

I only go to 1 or 2 games a season with my Dad who's getting too old to travel and go readily, so I enjoy every time. Last one was the 6-2 QPR game. Before that I went on my own to the Bournemouth win and I've probably never enjoyed a win less.

The internet is for hyperbole and spicy takes, enjoy it. Also I just noticed the quote in your signature, explains a lot

We're still living the long 2016. Even Leicester fans.

We're talking Parr era Henry VIII too, not Field of the Cloth of Gold era Henry.