Wait, Tobias “author of actual books I have purchased, read, and enjoyed” Buckell? That Tobias Buckell? This is not someone I expected to find telling me about off-brand robot toy traumas on IO9.

American sports are broken, and reward losing. You people should institute leagues with promotion and relegation like pretty much every other country in the world.

Is that the new Quattroporte up there? If so they’ve made it uglier, and now I am sad.

Nice try, but I’m a neutral. I’m from Scotland, so I don’t have a monkey in that space race.

Sure as hell looks like CGI from that gif. I’m out.

Actually, this “this will be their year” might actually be Spurs’s year. Their inevitable choke is looking a lot less inevitable - although Pochettino’s brand of football is going to put a lot of strain on their wee whirring legs between now and season end, so we’ll see.

It’s not a mullet over there, Pibbs. I’m not sure what it is in Hungary; closest I can get geographically would be Germany where the haircut rejoices in the name “Vorkuhila” (vorne kurz, hinten lang ie short in the front long in the back). I don’t want to insult mr Máté Petrány by suggesting that Hungarians just call…

Did they make this a 25 hour race so it would be longer than the 24 hour ones and you could call it “one of the longest in the world”?

I think Jackie Earl Haley is pretty charming. Best thing about that Human Target show, for me, although Chi McBride also tends to be likeable.

Although Yojimbo was heavily based on Dashiel Hammet’s (excellent) prohibition-era story Red Harvest, which was then ronin-ised into Yojimbo, cowboyised into Fistful, and finally full-circled back to Prohibition.

Leonard knew those words and chose not to use them. You have to beef up your vocabulary before you can make the choice to pare down your prose.

Do you have some sort of blog or fanzine to which we could subscribe in order to be exposed to further excellent takes like this?

I think the best Leicester can realistically hope for is one of those “buy now, play later” deals in the winter window, where they either sell him now and immediately get him loaned back til summer, or do the deal now but the actual exchange of player and money takes place in July.

Ranieri gets a little unfair derision as “the tinkerman” after obsessively chopping and changing his Chelsea squad the last time he was in English football (was it really 2004? Man I’m old) and getting the boot from cuddly new owner Roman Abramovich despite the fact he seemed to be doing a good job. His most recent…

Canadia, eh? A country where “loggersports” is a thing, and a Canadian football team can have a partnership with a lumberjack team.

hee!

Spirit of charity and repeatedly turning the other cheek. That’s how christians are supposed to play basketball.

“I’m going for a shit”

But I’m not sure any intro anywhere, even Taxi, beats the great Mike Post theme and answerphone messages from the Rockford Files.

You are being watched. (this one’s mirrored but I’m sure you’ll cope). I also liked the slight changes to the monologue as the seasons progressed.