David Rafferty

Would your system also defend against five-dollar wrenches?

We need an abbreviation: NYOTT (No Yanks On The Thread).

Take a bow. Your boys were fantastic. What a game.

That’s a helluva goal Bailey Williams. #AFL

Correct. Whether Oscar Allen follows that trajectory remains to be seen.

1999: an injury-prone captain from a struggling but once-proud club leaves to join the reigning premiers. His new club’s success soon ends and his old club becomes a powerhouse.

2025: an injury-prone captain from a struggling but once-proud club leaves to join the reigning premiers…

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And that his death is presented as the best outcome for everyone involved. He has caused so much damage that the world is better without him in it.

The Fall did something similar.

I grew up on the 90s reaction against an 80s TV culture where moral education was seen as one of the main points of TV. It’s weird to see that viewpoint return.

I take your meaning as being not “I think this is shit” but “Other people think this is good and they’re probably right but I hate it anyway.”

In that case: Ursula Le Guin. I didn’t like her beforehand, read the first Earthsea book, found it rubbish, and won’t read another.

He was right, Kels. We won’t be silly enough to be part of the US occupation forces, even if they give us somewhere easy like Nebraska.

Correct, he should talk in the traditional way: in his own language but very slowly and with lots of hand gestures to really make clear he thinks Jabba is stupid.

The Simon And Garfunkel 'Sounds Of Silence ' album cover except they're being chased by a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica.

Simon And Garfunkel next. #totp

A bit like when the Australian cricket team wanted the TV companies to turn down the stump mics between balls and so started giving free advertising to the sponsors’ competitors.

“C’mon boys, let’s do this one for Westpac.”

Them: So how do we get to victory?

Her, sucking teeth: Well I wouldn’t start from here.

For some reason Condoleezza Rice is in Trump's "Saving College Sports" roundtable and she looks delighted about it

The other question: does their presence make Australia a belligerent? Are Australian forces now legitimate targets for Iranian forces?

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

Geelong taking the Carlton approach to kicking inside 50. Not sure that’s the right model. #AFL

Incredibly early, but Petracca looks like he’s setting himself for a 2016 Dangerfield-level first season at a new club. #AFL

This is the picture you get if you mash up Matt Berry and Ange Postecoglou.

Is it perhaps that the US hasn’t been on the defensive in any war it’s fought since Korea and so just doesn’t think about how to do it?

Generic dress up or, if there is a nod to books, it’s mostly manga.

This is an absolutely true statement, but they’re not in a position to measure effectiveness. They simply can’t know the extent of what they’ve achieved until after the war, and probably not even then.

Oh, cool. So we’re a belligerent now. 🙃

Screenshot from Guardian: Hürzeler had called out Mikel Arteta for Arsenal's time-wasting beforehand and he did not hold back after witnessing a game in which he said there was "only one team who tried to play football". He raged about how the Arsenal goalkeeper, David Raya, went down injured three times and insisted the authorities had to have stronger rules to help referees or the future of the game would be undermined.

On Brighton and Hürzeler: if there was only one team trying to play football, they did a spectacularly bad job of it. I saw a Brighton team which defended really well (more than Arsenal being crap) but which had no idea what to do with the ball.

One of the few places left in the world where “the festering labouring underclass will rise up and tear us limb from limb” would still be a genuine fear.

The crowd shots have been a highlight of the first half.

Spurs are the Essendon of English football.

a woman with long hair is standing in front of a window and says it 's me . ALT: a woman with long hair is standing in front of a window and says it 's me .

Sorry. I turned on the TV when Carlton was four goals up and now we’re behind. #AFL

Nineteenth-centuryists (#C19th) - I'm looking for novels in the first half of the century where the rural English poor are racialized as "savage", "dark" etc. I know English rural examples from journalism/non-fiction, and fiction about the urban and "Celtic" poor, but fictional examples useful!