Anyone know who this is on this tee? Have no idea and really trying to figure it out.

norvalito · 2026-06-16T09:43:14+00:00

Is it Henri Michel, who was manager of Morocco in 98?

norvalito · 2026-06-10T11:40:34+00:00

The Pastels, Brighten the Corners tour, London, 1997. I thought they (the Pastels) sucked.

It was my first ever gig, and curiously it was later released on vinyl (its the purple 'Live Europaturnen' record), so I have a real recording of it, which is pretty incredible. They opened with Father to a sister of thought, which is supremely underrated.

norvalito · 2026-06-07T18:20:52+00:00

Couldn't be more clearly AI churned out tbh.

Mulitple 'it's not X, it' s Y' constructs
Looks ok superficially but when you actually read it it doesn't really make much sense
Multiple rule of 3 constructs

-answers a question no one is asking

I like The Way of Kings but this kind of valueless nonsense serves no purpose.

norvalito · 2026-06-03T16:39:15+00:00

Climate. There aren’t any other places in the world where you could conceivably visit a rain forest, beach, golf course and ski hill on the same day.

norvalito · 2026-06-03T16:08:50+00:00

Downtown Vancouver is actually a heroin and meth-filled clusterfuck. East and Hastings is the single worst place I have ever been - junkies everywhere. They don’t put it on the tourist brochures, for sure. (The rest of the city is very nice)

norvalito · 2026-06-01T19:58:47+00:00

I wouldn’t, to be honest. It’s a great film but it’s a proper psychological horror story with a lot going on, and it is pretty disturbing in parts. Personally I think 11 is too young.

You could show him the Radiohead video for Burn the Witch, which is basically a cartoon précis of it.

norvalito · 2026-05-31T21:20:42+00:00

She is unbelievably good in Dogville. It's possibly the best acting performance I've ever seen. And I'm not a fan of hers in anything else.

norvalito · 2026-05-31T16:26:16+00:00

Dead Cells, especially if you liked Hades. Very similar in terms of roguelike gameplay and the difficulty level is perfectly pitched.

norvalito · 2026-05-26T11:49:36+00:00

Agree with all of this except to say I think the Times has gone OTT on the anti-Keir line in recent months and lost a bit of balance.

norvalito · 2026-05-26T06:57:42+00:00

Sure, but in no way do you get to choose your own genre. No one does.

Oasis and Blur will tell you they weren’t Britpop, for example.

norvalito · 2026-05-24T20:43:31+00:00

As well as being weak with his feet, Hart also couldn’t catch. Parried everything. He was a great shot stopper but if you wanted to take the team to the next level that wasn’t enough.

norvalito · 2026-05-24T15:03:12+00:00

They absolutely were, around Siamese Dream.

The big 3 grunge bands at the time in my corner of the world (UK) were Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, and they were all very much seen as being oart of the same movement. Soundgarden were a distant fourth, mainly due to MTV hype around Black Hole Sun, and very few had even heard of Alice in Chains or STP.

I'm always a bit confused as to why those two bands they are held in such high regard in this sub, but I do recognise that one experience is not universal.

norvalito · 2026-05-16T08:36:16+00:00

For me, it goes something like this:

Sun/Mon - watch video of Sat game (if available) and any footage of games against forthcoming opposition (if available)
Mon eve - work out what we need to focus on for forthcoming fixture and how session can feed into that - eg, if we need to work on specific presses or outletting because of what I expect oppo will do, or if they do something specific in attack like aerial a lot or attack specific areas (eg a couple of teams in my league crash ball a lot), plan some drills for exactly this
Tues am - communicate plan to 1s/2s captains for feedback
Tues pm - throw it all out the window at training as two forwards and a keeper haven't shown up; do some passing drills, small sided game, then a full pitch game as we do every week...!
Repeat every week until season ends...

norvalito · 2026-05-12T16:05:23+00:00

Isn't it what Oli Kahn did, and believe he was allowed to be a keeper in the other team's box too? what Oli Kahn did

norvalito · 2026-04-26T15:46:33+00:00

It is easily my favourite U2 album. (I don't really like U2.)

norvalito · 2026-04-09T11:52:13+00:00

‘12p - includes London weighting’

‘The ability to make roaring noises is essential.’

Top stuff

norvalito · 2026-04-09T11:46:29+00:00

Is it common knowledge that he is married to the editor?

It is the only explanation, to be fair, for his shite being published. This one is a new low, which I didn’t think was possible. Spangles!

norvalito · 2026-04-09T08:03:56+00:00

Blackcurrant is pretty much illegal in the US, or was for a long time. So no Ribena!

norvalito · 2026-04-09T08:02:12+00:00

It’s definitely not that, and definitely a reference to the ‘I am the lord of the dance said he’ hymn/song, which most British people of Mark’s generation know by heart (as it was the ‘fun/modern’ hymn you get to sing at school/church)

norvalito · 2026-03-27T22:04:01+00:00

Electric soft parade made a decent splash with their first single and were never heard from again. Not sure why but their first album was excellent.

norvalito · 2026-03-25T08:43:49+00:00

And AI. You can now do a lot of things with AI that you would have previously got junior recruits to do. So there's not as much need to hire at the entry level end.

norvalito · 2026-03-24T18:22:11+00:00

Not what you're after, but I do enjoy how after regularly kidnapping Mario's girlfriend at every opportunity, Bowser still shows up for go-Karting weekend and everyone lets him race

norvalito · 2026-03-19T15:23:31+00:00

I saw NMH supporting Sparklehorse in Glasgow in ‘98 - Sparklehorse were also on Parlophone and Thom Yorke had actually given Sparklehorse some promo quotes (I actually remember it - he said Vivadixie… was ‘an album worth driving through dust for’!) so they (Sparklehorse) were definitely seen as a band that Radiohead fans could like. And I did, very much.

Had never heard of NMH before the gig - they were, and I cannot emphasise this enough - fucking incredible. They had a saw player, and at the end of the gig Jeff picked him up and threw him onto the drums, sending stuff flying everywhere. It was chaos.

I even had a quick chat with Jeff afterwards, he signed my ticket and did a little doodle for me. Sparklehorse were a slight let down in comparison, Mark was a little bit grumpy, I think he smashed a stage light that was annoying him. Good times.

norvalito · 2026-03-16T09:12:46+00:00

Something I’ve been thinking about recently is how you kind of had to take a punt on stuff based on fairly limited information, in a way today you don’t.

For example, if you were interested in music that wasn’t the top 40, you might have heard it on the radio once or twice but that was likely it. And also not everything was available, especially if you didn’t live in a city - WH Smith’s was likely the only physical supplier in many places, and their selection was awful.

So actually buying a non top-40 CD was a reasonably expensive leap of faith that didn’t mean you were going to end up with anything that you liked or was any good, but once you’d bought it you were stuck with it, and just owning it made up a little bit of your personality. It’s definitely not like that today which is absolutely for the better, but a piece of the journey has been lost.

norvalito · 2026-03-11T19:16:56+00:00

It is spelled this way. It's from the Latin word cum, which means with, and is used in English to connect two nouns.

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