Bellend Sebastian

Ordered a looper pedal, thanks Black Friday

Read a few of her pieces recently. Part of me wants to say it's a bit dramatic (and who can blame her for that given what she's been through) but I think I'm probably in denial and she's basically right

Well it IS that, but it's the same as any sale and there are bargains to be had amongst all the stuff that is discounted down to the same level it was at various points in the year. If you're as tight as me you spend disproportionate amounts of time not buying things because "I'm not paying THAT", so when I do eventually detect a genuine bargain, the inevitable disappointment that accompanies most purchases at least didn't hurt me as much financially as it would have done

It feels like they've made them ever so slightly shorter and wider, which is really not very helpful of them. Still, early days and they were much better the third time I wore them than on the first two occasions

Completely relate to this. Probably too early to say, but any good? I wear super cheapo MoreMile socks, and the one time I bought a more expensive pair, whilst very comfy they wore out so quickly it really didn't justify the cost. My new shoes are shredding my feet (despite being an updated version of what I had before) so might look at this again

That's almost exactly what I did yesterday, but rather than it being because of the wind it was because I felt like crap. Full marks for braving this though, I'm still in bed

I took my son who tried to get himself put up for adoption midway through the first half, which I respected, before he remembered we're going bowling later and perked up a bit. I mean, it was crap, but probably slightly less crap than I expected, given the team we're able to put out. For me it just looks like a squad of average players putting in average performances - it's a situation where you really need things to be greater than the sum of their parts, for players to be playing out of their skins. Instead, they're playing very much within their skins and the result is literally the sum of its parts and nothing more

Psyching myself up to do 10k now. Weather not quite as shite as predicted, should probably just get on with it

I've read very little, I've just been going on vibes and general fan sentiment that I'm very hopeful I've not wildly misinterpreted!

When my dear, dear parents gave me this name I don't think for a minute they'd have guessed people would read things into but it just goes to show you can't plan for everything

I'm a bit up against it mood wise and the weather forecast and prospect of a veritable festival of football should give me just the boost I need

My first game since August, cannot wait to witness the progress the Steve Cooper project has made since then

You know me too well 70%! Following a long old period of under investment in agriculture, and presumably exploiting the Empire and bringing stuff in on the cheap

That reminds me of my fun quiz question, and it sounds like you might know the answer. In the run up to World War 2, how much of our food did we have to import?

Well if gilt markets can be woke then surely it's not a push to say a sandwich can be woke. From Wikipedia: "Woke, the African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans, often in the construction stay woke. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used to refer to a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT rights. Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and reparations for slavery in the United States.[1][2][3]" I mean, I read all that and it just made me hungry. When I went to the website a pop up appeared that congratulated me on being the very first visitor to that page, and therefore presumably also the very first person to actually check the meaning of the term in all history. Bearing this in mind, it's a real relief that it hasn't been misappropriated in any way or rendered completely meaningless. That said, I can still get behind the plan to save time and money by nominating a coloured shape (yet to be decided) that can be displayed in order to trigger an instinctive hostile response when required. Yes it may put some journalists and commentators out of work but hey, that's progress

Ideal figureheads for the campaign as far as I'm concerned. The former freely admitting in public to buying agricultural land to avoid IHT and famous farmer James Dyson apparently owning 35,000 acres of it, for some reason

Feel a bit sorry for the bloke that had to write this, imagine how it feels inside? Also, presumably there come a point where the target readership cottons on that they're basically having the piss taken out of them and the terrible, dawning realisation triggers a lot of them to just walk into the sea

350k likes for it ...and that's why you were let go from the Blue Sky User Engagement Team

I'm being trolled by the wildlife. Squirrels trigger the rat traps without getting caught by them, seemingly just for a laugh, the rats ignore them (apparently they suffer from neophobia, a fear of new things), dumb mice that I don't actually want to catch get caught in the traps and then a cat or fox carries it away, dead rodent AND trap, into another garden. Absolutely f*** these guys

Just under 56 minutes 10k today. Need to get some speed back but felt pretty good

I went there but it never felt like it got going despite the numbers. A lot went back to Twitter. Blue Sky is basically Twitter before it went to shit. The "Starter Pack" thing seems to be super charging the old networks being set up, and for now it all seems very jolly. Whether it'll stay like that remains to be seen but that it's actually moderated has got to help

It already feels more established than that ever did

I was doing pretty well and I'm not sure what I did but suddenly I started getting lots of hapless Russian soldier having grenades dropped on their head videos. I was also starting to get a lot of atrocities from the Middle East which I don't recall asking for either. I could cope better with these than the sheer numbers of honking c***s replying to tweets on pretty much any subject, though. Blue sky seems to be mainly cat pictures for me at the minute, like the internet used to be

I've been on there for a week or so and I've yet to see anyone use the term "narrative", which is an encouraging sign

That's exactly how I've found it so far, and for me it just underlines how bad Twitter had got. Happy to leave that to all the Incel Pied Pipers and flags in bio possible bots calling everyone a 'melt', whatever that is