urban.spaceman

New "overpriced shite Christmas event scandal" just dropped.

Musk is becoming an actual Bond villain.

Potatoes?

He's busy summarising the Christmas Eve press conference so we'll have to wait.

Her macular is getting worse sadly so she was placed 99th.

4) Janina Leitzig 5) Peter Shilton 6) Pegguy Arphexhad 7) Zeljko Kalac 8) The Elephant Man 9) Daniel Lambert 10) Gok Wan 11) Richard III 12) Philippa Langley MBE 13) Peter Soulsby 14) Keith Vaz 15) Tom Hopper 16) Gregg Wallace (he's definitely available) 17) Neytiri off Avatar 18) Groot 19) Chris McCausland 20) Me ... ... ... 100) Ward

I'm so sorry you're so unwell Chris. Please stay with us. x

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-of-new-prison-places-to-be-built-to-keep-streets-safe

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/12/17/new-european-super-league-launched-unity/ European Super League re-launched as the ‘Unify League’ Sam Wallace17 December 2024 12:03pm GMT Florentino Perez remains closely bound to the project Credit: AP Photo/Manu Fernandez The European Super League is back, rebranded as the “Unify League”, and ready to challenge Uefa’s Champions League pre-eminence with a claim that it will be free to watch. The new proposal, which follows on from the original bombshell Super League proposals in April 2021, have scrapped the notion that certain clubs qualify automatically every year. Instead there is a proposed annual qualification for all four leagues within the Unify League by the organisers behind it, A22 Sports. A22 is the Madrid-based company established to advise the original European Super League with close links to Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez. The competition would be streamed via a branded “Unified” platform, via an app, with a similar model to Netflix. Subscribers could watch the games free with a relatively high level of advertising content, or pay for a subscription that would eliminate the advertising in much the way that the music streamer Spotify operates. The European Super league company and A22 will now ask Uefa for permission to operate the competition. A22 believes Uefa is obliged to do so under the Dec 2023 ruling from the European courts. The proposal is for 96 clubs to compete – fewer than the 108 that qualify for the group stages of Uefa’s three competitions including the Champions League. The Unify League champions would eventually come from the top two tiers, the Star League and Gold League. Both would feature 16 teams divided in both cases into two groups of eight. Those eight would play each home and away – 14 group stages fixtures. The top two clubs from each of the four groups would go through to a final eight. The final stages would begin with two-legged quarter-final followed by single game semi-finals played at a neutral venue in the same week as the eventual final. That would mean 18 games in all for the winner. The Blue and Union leagues would play a similar knockout format. The original breakaway involved 12 clubs, including six from the Premier League. The current version only has the explicit support of Real and Barcelona John Hahn, co-founder of A22, said: “We have listened intently to a broad group of clubs, leagues and fans and with these changes believe we have a lot of support. We are not expecting the public support of clubs at this time, logically that will come following the official recognition of the Unify League.” He added that the subscription would be “meaningfully cheaper than it is [to consumers] today”.

Was he? I don't know Jeff.

What's a nice one to have over Christmas?

Is the right answer.

Yes!

Companies that designed a labyrinthine customer service system to protect themselves from any sort of accountability whatsoever.

Here we go again... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdd6z85253nt

You’d have thought he’d have liked products his bestie’s favourite fast food company. Absolute fraud.

Bovril?

On what charge? Having milkshake? A succulent McDonald's milkshake?

Saw it last night and I pretty much agree with everything in this review. Never been a fan of anime and am generally uninterested in animation, so it took me a while to get into the film. Having a creative team who worked on Jackson's trilogy really helps you get back into the world of Tolkien that Jackson crafted all those years ago. It's also probably the reason this works for me, and why the Rings of Power has been a failure (IMO). I really loved it, and it made me excited for the Hunt for Gollum too.