The Bear

Ugh. Selby and his joyless, soul-sucking, coma inducing snooker and Rob Walker on comms. If it wasn't for Desi I wouldn't bother having it on.

7.5 magnitude earthquake just hit off the east coast of Japan. Tsunami warnings in place already.

I went to Villa Park once to watch Villa v Wolves. One of the worst 0-0s I've ever witnessed. I wouldn't bother.

Lol glorious.

Xintong v Highfield Ding v Gilbert Xiao v Zhou Murphy v Fan Higgins v Carter O'Sullivan v He Robertson v Pang Wakelin v Pullen Kyren Wilson v Moody Allen v Zhang Hawkins v Stevens Williams v Kowalski Selby v Jak Jones Wu v Lei Si v Vaefai Trump v Gary Wilson 2nd round winners Xintong v Gilbert Xiao v Murphy Higgins v O'Sullivan Robertson v Pullen Kyren Wilson v Zhang Hawkins v Williams Selby v Wu Vaefai v Trump QFs Xintong v Murphy Higgins v Robertson Kyren Wilson v Hawkins Si v Trump SF Xintong v Higgins Hawkins v Trump Xintong beats Trump in the final

Russell telling Verstappen to stop moaning essentially. --------------------- Russell said he believed Verstappen's complaints were influenced by the fact the Dutch driver's Red Bull team have not started the season with a competitive car. "I didn't enjoy driving the 2022 car when it was porpoising up and down, killing everybody's backs," said Russell, whose Mercedes team have won all three races this year. "The car was big, it was heavy. The high-speed corners, it wasn't very pleasant to drive around. But he didn't have the same complaint, because he was winning. "Now, the complaints that he has currently are different to the complaints of Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren, because we're at the front end of the grid. This is only natural, and you do understand and recognise the frustration."

Rock should have won that SF. Shit the bed on a couple of key doubles and the scoring at the start of the final leg.

I must have missed this story about Mark Williams' unusual phobia first time round. Bizarre stuff. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewzzkdzz55o

I always liked the raised par 3 with the big bank at the back. 16th? You can just smack one at it and use the bank if you catch hold of it too much.

I fancy Higgins to go deep in this tournament again. He'll beat Ronnie if they both get through Round 1 IMO.

Why? Seems alright other than a boring YouTube channel.

Six Hills is alright, nice steady course. It's a bit far away from me though at nearly an hours drive. Only play it once a year with the society.

Hamish walks into a Scottish bakery and says.... "Is that a doughnut or a meringue? Baker says" Nae you're right it's a doughnut."

I wish I was shite.

No doubt there'll be certain sporting and financial penalties for the LIV defectors who still haven't come back, but then again they took the millions offered to defect so can't complain either.

Didn't realise Moody was in hospital with tonsillitis the day before and could barely eat or drink. Fair play to him. I used to get bad tonsillitis as a teenager and it wasn't fun.

They still do world cup football cards for the players of all the teams going.

Yeah in the movie wasn't he also dooming her to eventual death as she couldn't be put back into cryosleep again?

Passengers I remember had some weird ethical thing that annoyed people. I think I remember what it was but it might be a spolier so I'll leave it. It was only ok as a movie IMO.

Higgins v O'Sullivan in the 2nd round will be tasty!

To answer my own question, it's Thursday morning. Here's the schedule for 1st and 2nd round matches too.

Great to see Pullen and Moody get through. When is the 1st round draw?

Eye test, blood test, hearing test, theory test, driving test, HGV test? If it's driving test then my cousins young son was on a waiting list too, but they rang him up at short notice and asked if he could do that day. I assume from last minite cancelations.

A hair pull is a clear yellow at least. I guess because it's a physical part of the body and not a shirt it has to be red. Should be a one match ban though not a three match ban. It's hardly violent conduct unless someone is yanked back hard.