BOF #AVFC, #FPL, #Sumo, #DenverBroncos, #F1 #F2 #F3. Sweary misanthrope. Occasional outbursts. Possible humour.

Joined May 2011
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So we're changing how we say Turkey now, yeah?
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Thinking about this cracking tweet today
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This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.
Replying to @DaleJohnsonBBC
"FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr Artan’s status will not be changed at present. 2/3
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FIFA removed Indonesia as host of the 2023 U-20 World Cup after officials refused to allow Israel's participation. bbc.com/sport/football… inside.fifa.com/organisation/m…
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RT @LibyaLiberty: The U.S. World Cup in one horrible photo:
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You forget how tinpot that league is until you watch it once a season.
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And corruption in Scotland.
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A reminder that Hezbollah will only get Champions League football if Al-Shabaab win the Europa League.
May 11
🇺🇸Here are your top 20 Terrorist Organizations. Can you see the pattern.🇺🇸
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RT @LibyaLiberty: Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.
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Matt Berry Star Trek = perfection (amazing edit by @Picardlooking)
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£47.5m is more than double Everton's breach that led to a Premier League record sanction of 10 points being deducted (it was recalculated to 6 on appeal) While this is a different charge, the commission said EFC "gained no sporting advantage" but still agreed a deduction.
Updated: Chelsea receive £10.75m fine from Premier League for secret payments to players unlicensed agents during Abramovich era. £47.5m spent off the books to sign Hazard, Ramires, David Luiz, Willian, Eto'o, Schurrle, Matic. thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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One of the best videos I've ever seen x.com/Pirellilowcost/status/…

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FPL managers - I need your help. I’m working with researchers on a project into the psychology of FPL managers. We’re first developing a measure of FPL motivations and need responses. ⏰ 5-10 mins ✅ No writing required Please complete & QT/share! mmu.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/for…

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically. Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture. Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously. This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page. Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is not going according to plan.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran just destroyed the AN/FPS-132 radar at Al Udeid with a single missile. One missile. That radar was not just a target. It was the nervous system of every Patriot battery, every THAAD launcher, every layered air defense architecture the United States has spent four decades and several trillion dollars constructing across the Gulf. Every interceptor in theater just went partially blind. The backbone of American missile defense in the most fortified US base in the Middle East — taken out by a single Iranian strike while they were busy stripping South Korea’s defenses, summoning Raytheon to the White House, and requesting $50 billion in emergency funds to restock magazines that were already hollow before this war began. The Air Defense shortage is worse than most imagined. Qatar claims to have intercepted 101 missiles during this conflict (likely inflated). Qatar claims two got through. One hit the only target that mattered. That is asymmetric warfare distilled to its purest form. Iran has to succeed once. The United States has to be perfect every time. And of course they weren’t. And now the US Navy — the force Trump promised would escort Gulf shipping through the Strait — has announced it cannot provide escorts in the Strait of Hormuz. No escorts. No timeline. But even if they do they're sitting ducks for Iran's coastal defence forces, no Iranian Navy presence required. The petrodollar runs through a chokepoint the United States can no longer credibly protect, defended by interceptor systems now operating without their primary radar, restocked by a Raytheon production line that makes 37 THAAD interceptors a year. 3,200 ships are sitting idle. European gas is up 50% and climbing fast. A global recession is no longer a forecast — it’s a Wednesday. The Gulf monarchs who rented their soil to Washington are watching their ports burn and their pipelines get threatened while the Navy says it needs more time. One missile just changed everything. This timeline is insane and cannot be distilled in a single post. History will need several volumes.
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See the Ukrainian banned from the Winter Olympics. Not the first helmet controversy of the games.
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Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important. #Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert
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Dear me. RIP ex NASCAR racer Greg Biffle and his whole family. Wiped out in a Cessna crash.
Ongoing: a Citation crashed in N. Carolina (US). There were 6 aboard, 5 confirmed death. First reports by state jet was trying to return to following an issue after take-off from Statesville Reg. Airport. Jet ("N257BW") was owned by former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle
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Note: According to international law, resistance to an occupier is legitimate. Israelis frame the resistance as "terrorists" & fool the Western press. In @sapinker's book, with non-Palestinians, it is insurrection, protest, uprising, etc. With Palestinians, it is "terrorism".
16 Dec 2025
If you’re an Israeli illegally occupying the West Bank, you can kill Palestinians, burn their homes and trees, throw stones, kill their animals and beat them with impunity. If you’re a Palestinian child resisting occupation with a rock, you’re executed. “Where’s the apartheid?”
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🏁 A Racing Legend Returns 🏁 MicroProse reunites with legendary developer Geoff Crammond to re-release his iconic racing simulation technology as the Geoff Crammond Racing series (GCR1–GCR4), coming in 2026. The original engine and simulation systems return, enhanced with updates and Steam Workshop support. 👉 Wishlist GCR1, GCR2, GCR3, and GCR4 now on Steam. MicroProse is back on track. 🏎️ GCR1👉store.steampowered.com/app/3… GCR2👉store.steampowered.com/app/3… GCR3👉store.steampowered.com/app/3… GCR4👉store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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St Andrews @ Dildo Park #BCFC #AVFC
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