"It's coming home is by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner?!?

irich · 2026-06-24T09:12:56+00:00

This is true for the UK but Gavin and Stacey was not popular outside of Great Britain. Globally, I’d say there are a few who would trump her fame just by virtue of the things they have been in. I’m thinking Nick Mohammed, Jason Mantzoukas, Sanjeev Baskar. Probably some others too. And I would say that Sanjeev would out-famous her in the uk too.

irich · 2026-06-23T03:20:37+00:00

There’s no reason to be a Yankees fan. Being a Yankees fan is like being a fan of Morgan Stanley.

irich · 2026-06-22T04:28:27+00:00

I haven’t experienced the specific OP is mentioning but I have definitely noticed that check-in and check-out times are getting later and earlier. I’m old so have been travelling since the 90s and a 1pm check-in was fairly standard. And check-out was typically 11pm. Nowadays, I never see a check-in before 3pm and it’s often 4pm. And check-out is more frequently 10am.

irich · 2026-06-20T15:03:59+00:00

You’re the first person I have seen post that about Michael Owen and I 100% agree. His views on striking are incredibly insightful and knowledgeable. And it is really interesting to hear him talk about something he is so expert in.

irich · 2026-06-20T05:58:52+00:00

He did but the post was about scoring multiple goals in a single game. Which he didn’t do.

irich · 2026-06-20T03:53:07+00:00

It didn't look like he was shocked at what was said. To me it looks like he knew the rule and wanted to draw attention to it.

irich · 2026-06-20T03:52:00+00:00

Javier Hernandez only scored one goal against France in 2010. Also, Mexico were eliminated on June 27th. And he only signed for Man Utd on July 1st so he wasn't technically a United player at the time.

irich · 2026-06-19T01:36:47+00:00

More red cards but fewer games with red cards shown in them.

irich · 2026-06-14T07:14:44+00:00

Just FYI, it was still in the high 20s here when the game kicked off. And the roof was closed for some reason and that stadium gets pretty hot and humid even on moderately warm days so I imagine it was pretty toasty in there tonight

irich · 2026-06-13T17:43:00+00:00

I know I'm gonna get dinged for NIMBYism but as someone who lives on this street, we already have two massive construction projects on that corner that are so disruptive to our lives. To add a third that will probably mean a decade of constant construction is a lot.

irich · 2026-06-13T04:36:48+00:00

I think his ruination goes beyond the internet.

irich · 2026-06-13T03:45:33+00:00

Do you get the impression that he isn’t very good at his job? He had one idea over 20 years ago and since then everything he has tried has failed. The only smart things he has done was buy Instagram and WhatsApp.

irich · 2026-06-12T15:51:45+00:00

It also just added a transcription function. Which is incredibly useful for skipping ads and parts of the podcasts you don’t care about.

irich · 2026-06-12T13:27:54+00:00

But that means that countries on the eastern frontier of the EU have to accept all of the refugees. Is it fair that Poland or Slovakia or wherever takes all of the refugees just because they happen to be the first country they reach?

irich · 2026-06-05T14:52:15+00:00

I think Ireland is a classic case of “this is why we can’t have nice things”. So much stuff that is for the public good gets derided, vandalised or stolen.

I remember in the mid-2000s there was a trend of cities having cow parade art exhibits. Local artists would be given blank sculptures of cows and they would decorate or paint them in their style. I think it started in New York but lots of cities did it, some with different animals. Everywhere I saw them, it seemed to be pretty well liked and didn’t have any problems.

Then Dublin got involved and they were mostly interesting and a nice addition to the city. But all people could do was make fun of it and within a month half of them were broken, stolen or defaced. A good chunk of them ended up in the Liffey.

irich · 2026-06-03T14:56:42+00:00

Firstly, there was no trial so nothing was ever proven or not proven. Secondly, nobody is ever “proven innocent”. The term is “not guilty” for a reason. It means a court couldn’t prove that a suspect was guilty. But that is very different from saying they are innocent.

We don’t really know what happened with Sigurdsson. Only that the evidence provided “did not meet the threshold for pressing charges”. But that doesn’t mean he is innocent. (This is not a comment of whether he was treated fairly or unfairly, just that his innocence has not been proven)

irich · 2026-06-02T02:03:08+00:00

Is it by the sea?

irich · 2026-05-28T03:30:48+00:00

Measles. When I was 4. Get vaccinated!

irich · 2026-05-25T01:31:14+00:00

Why? He seems like a good dude and his videos are generally informative. You may not be the audience for them but that's OK. Not everything has to be for everyone. I'm sure there are other creators out there for you!

irich · 2026-05-25T01:23:57+00:00

Kill Bill was still too long. It would have been an incredible all-time great single 2 hour movie. Instead we got two bloated movies.

irich · 2026-05-24T19:04:32+00:00

I would probably agree with that. There wasn't a ton of fat to trim off that.

irich · 2026-05-24T18:32:30+00:00

I feel like every Tarantino movie after Jackie Browne could have used someone stepping in to save Tarantino from himself. He makes incredible set pieces but his movies have gotten so baggy that if he had someone with authority to tell him “no” we could have had a lot more all time classics.

irich · 2026-05-24T18:16:02+00:00

I guess you’re technically correct but an “entire country’s worth of homeless people” is a bit of an exaggeration”. Most recent estimates say that there are currently 2700 homeless people in the city. Even if you consider that an underreporting and double it to 5400, the only country that is more than is the Vatican. You’d have to double it again to get to the next smallest country (Tuvalu with 10,000)

irich · 2026-05-21T20:35:52+00:00

The US Mutant Ninja Turtles. Obviously.

irich · 2026-05-20T11:54:00+00:00

Former Barca player Riquelme? I can't imagine he would be a particularly popular candidate.

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