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I first became aware of it on yesterday’s BBC lunchtime Politics Live programme where it was debated by the panel and a professor (the bar must be pretty low for professorships these days) - the prof suggested the ships could be seen as a celebration of slavery. I noticed Essex county has three...

Very upsetting - felt you knew the bloke through his posts and obvious concern in unravelling all the financial complexities for us lesser mortals to try and understand. Always a poster I would read.

Loved it.

It’s not hate it’s just the snob in me disliking women looking like toilet walls. I can’t help it, it’s aesthetically offensive to my idea of feminine beauty. A tattooed women with net curtains is beyond the pale.

If you’re the sort of house that has net curtains nobody will want to look in.

Net curtains always look grimy and dirty. Have nothing in your house that’s not useful or beautiful (William Morris). Well, it is about being snobby...

Tattoos on girls, earrings on men, spelling common names in different ways - saw James spelled as Jaimz recently, expensive over-the-top weddings, net curtains, primary school age children with jewellery and fancy haircuts.

Moved up into the next Parkrun age category recently - sounds bloody ancient. I have an ambition to do all twenty or so of the Parkruns local to me including the supposedly hardest in the country - Great Yarmouth on the soft sand. Done three locations so far and I find I need these kinds of...

Griezmann not calming and controlling as he normally does.

Have France actually strung three passes together. They look terrible so far.

The Argentina singing sounds just like a constant drone.

Yes love Cheers and currently watching all the episodes (alternating episodes with Frasier every night). Coincidentally just got to the point where her character takes over from Diane. Can’t find any recent decent sitcoms so well written as these. Apart from The Detectorists.

Hartson saying great saves but powder puff pens from Spain. Almost amble up and hit soft back passes.

Wingy. See me.

Football used to be a posh game played by the upper classes before it became culturally working class.

There are only three common words in the English language that end in ceed. Don’t google it, work it out.

Counting to a million (1 per second) is around 11 days, counting to a billion over 30 years.

Four thousand weeks is a pretty good life span for a bloke.

The average number of legs per person is less than two. Don‘t believe the dog factoid - my dog looks up at planes and geese flying over. She also looks up at her toy stuck in a tree with sad eyes...

Goals should be celebrated with just a firm handshake rather than all this effeminate European nonsense. Signals from corner takers should involve more complex hand semaphore, fists, finger raised etc to intimidate the opposition and entertain the crowd.