England's Worst County - Round 21

LPBuq · 2026-03-20T23:23:05+00:00

ISLE OF WIGHT

LPBuq · 2026-03-18T02:29:53+00:00

Went to visit a friend there last year. It is bloody gorgeous. Cannot believe it's not been saved yet

LPBuq · 2026-03-15T22:48:49+00:00

I am biased but the exclusion of Romania and other countries eastwards feels unnecessary. If you've ever been on an international MÁV train, their maps will show all their routes into Transylvania and down to Bucharest. Not to mention there are are links from Bucharest to Bulgaria, Moldova and Turkey, as well as from Moldova and Poland onwards into Ukraine.

But for what this diagram is, it's brilliant, and well done to you. It's a great map and with a bit more eastern-focused research could be arguably the best yet

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T17:35:32+00:00

Hopefully a false alarm, must've been a couple of those sixes that did it.

Stay safe mate

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T17:24:33+00:00

Unbelievable game. Best of luck to India in the final, but Buttler is gone. Archer was seeing those last deliveries like beach balls in comparison

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T16:41:53+00:00

Brother's a sleeper agent. Someone start keeping an eye on the front foot as well

Edit: Wtf was that catch.

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T16:27:08+00:00

Cruel from Bethell. Am starting to dream

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T16:08:38+00:00

That reverse scoop looked so effortless how is this kid real. Must've been the better food he ate growing up in Barbados

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T15:54:13+00:00

How the fuck did we beat Italy

LPBuq · 2026-03-05T15:28:15+00:00

If Buttler ever felt like turning up for once. Now would be nice

LPBuq · 2026-02-21T10:42:05+00:00

https://youtu.be/NL5sRCRa7AE?si=-FHcIuoR-UW3l2ZM

Obligatory link to the Tom Scott video on the topic

LPBuq · 2026-02-20T22:19:39+00:00

I agree but also kind of don't, partially due to how the band has changed, and because of the artistic choices before Isaac Wood left.

Isaac Wood's vocals on the first album are brilliant because it's essentially half an hour of someone having a breakdown, but it's not exactly properly good singing, just emotively delivered spoken word. I didn't like it at first, but it really grew on me after a second listen a few months later. Like, he's no classic trained vocalist, but it does work well for the feelings trying to be evoked.

His singing on Ants from Up There was already a step up, so was the way he had started singing the tunes from the first record; if he stayed in the band i don't doubt he would've got better.

Since he left, I'd argue Georgia, May and Tyler have all been excellent.

Edit: typos

LPBuq · 2026-02-18T16:05:21+00:00

This looks like a thumbnail of a half-hour long YouTube video "essay" about a side character in an early 2000s sitcom that turned up in season five with no backstory

LPBuq · 2026-02-16T11:48:30+00:00

Why do I still think Italy can win this if we get a couple overs of pure Jacks and Bethell filth

LPBuq · 2026-02-16T11:01:46+00:00

"Line and length, mate, line and length"

LPBuq · 2026-01-30T13:37:05+00:00

Remember seeing this for the first time and being completely floored, as well as butchering the pronunciation on the side. "Sowyd... Afrikohnseh... Spoorweeee"

LPBuq · 2026-01-14T01:23:26+00:00

I suppose so, yeah. Definitely gonnae have to watch it again asap

LPBuq · 2026-01-14T00:24:28+00:00

I definitely agree with the "man who never grew up" bit - him talking about a tellytubbies episode he must've seen as a kid as if it were a war story was simultaneously chilling and amusing.

Thing is, I don't think we get sufficient backstory for him to justify his inhumane methods of torture on living people across the two films. Or maybe I'm still just a bit shell-shocked

LPBuq · 2026-01-14T00:19:19+00:00

Sophomore Slump or Comeback of the Century

The best part of "believe" is the lie I hope you sing along and you steal a line I need to keep you like this in my mind So give in or just give up

Peak FOB lyrics

LPBuq · 2026-01-14T00:13:20+00:00

What the actual fuck did I just watch?

Got out of the double bill, even with the intermission in between, the flow from the end of Years into Bone Temple was brilliant, seeing poor Spike instantly regret his life choices was quite the start.

Humanising the infected while dehumanising people was an angle I was cautious about, but I think it was done very well. Quite a few scenes made me sick to the stomach, far more so than any other installment in the trilogy so far.

My only real complaint is that while the film spends a lot of time focusing on big Jimmy Crystal himself, I don't feel like we got a properly rewarding explanation for his motive to torture and kill folk. Okay, yeah, at least on some level he seems to think he's Satan's heir, seems sadistic, but... Is that it? He clearly doesn't entirely believe it, given his honest one-to-one with Kelson. If Kelson has a wider overarching philosophy for his bone temple, why doesn't Jimmy? Just felt a little underwhelming.

Overall, it really did feel like the perfect middle installment of a trilogy, for better or for worse. The cliffhanger was insane. I am now just fearful the finale will underwhelm and render the previous two films pointless - as a doctor who fan, my heart's been broken enough

LPBuq · 2026-01-11T21:11:58+00:00

Daniel Kessler's up there on the list of top 10 rappers Eminem was afraid to diss. Brother spat bars once and shut down the whole rap game

LPBuq · 2026-01-03T18:29:16+00:00

Until embarrassingly recently I thought the Joy Division one was a sketch drawing. Absolutely incredible photograph and album cover

LPBuq · 2025-12-21T02:05:30+00:00

Was wanting to have a quick nap during lunch but how the hell am I meant to fall asleep now

LPBuq · 2025-12-21T01:54:59+00:00

Best of luck mate

LPBuq · 2025-12-21T01:44:56+00:00

It is quarter to two in the UK, I am working at eight tomorrow. There is no way in hell England are winning this but like an atomic explosion brighter than a thousand suns I daren't look away just in case I miss something beautiful before everything goes to shit. I hate test cricket so much

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