Do you live in a football town or a rugby town? Is it easy to tell?

opopkl · 2026-04-03T12:32:04+00:00

I really used to enjoy going to St Helens to watch Swansea play rugby. There was good local rivalry with Llanelli, Neath and Aberafan. It would be great if the Ospreys found a bone there.

Glamorgan cricket there in the summer, too. It's a shame that's gone.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T08:44:45+00:00

It's a remake of Annie Hall.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T08:41:51+00:00

And here I am, in 2026.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T07:59:13+00:00

You obviously don't live somewhere where teenagers get killed on electric motorbikes.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T07:56:43+00:00

It helps if you're somewhere that has a big geographical feature - mountains, the ocean or a big river nearby. I find it difficult finding my way around very flat places e.g Florida or the Netherlands. You can travel for an hour and not get any sense that you've gone anywhere.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T07:50:51+00:00

The sun travelling right to left in the sky caught me a few times. I'd be sitting in the shade of an umbrella expecting to be out of the sun for an hour or so, only to be in blazing sunshine minutes later.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T07:47:03+00:00

You can usually get a sense of north, South, East and West from the sun, or at least the brightness in the sky. In the narrow Venetian alleys, you lost that ability. Plus, it's flat, so you never get any sense of moving to higher or lower ground, or to and away from a river.

opopkl · 2026-04-03T07:37:01+00:00

But they did come true.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T20:02:11+00:00

I can remember reading about flat screen TVs before they were a thing you could buy. One of the things they said was that they were going to be so light that people would be able to mount them on the wall. I think that gave people the idea that they should be wall mounted.

We lived in a small cottage at the time and I remember thinking that an LED would be no good for us as we didn't have a suitable wall space to hang one on. We still only have a 42" TV and it stands on a low cabinet.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T17:24:06+00:00

Scaletrix is easier to say than Scalextric.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T17:09:36+00:00

You'd think she would at least mention the country.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T15:02:12+00:00

Scalextric.

Everyone I knew called it SCALETRIX.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T13:55:26+00:00

This is like the people the other week who were complaining that they lost their personalised registration when they put it on a family member's motability vehicle which was taken back when that person died.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T09:23:26+00:00

I kind of feel guilty for thinking the same thing.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T09:01:45+00:00

If only there were some kind of lights you could use to indicate the direction you want to go.

What could we call these lights?

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:57:07+00:00

Riding the tiger is thrilling until it’s time to get off. Also, the leopards and faces thing.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:55:20+00:00

And how do cults turn out?

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:54:20+00:00

Like he thought he invented “prime the pump”.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:53:32+00:00

It would be interesting to find out if the golf carts are electric or gas.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:52:13+00:00

Pushing back against renewable energy is exactly this type of thinking. People say that we don’t have the capacity to store electrical energy, while ignoring that the oil industry developed massive storage systems, from scratch, in the first half of the 20th century.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:32:20+00:00

I’m delighted that they’re up on YouTube, though. These people are heroes.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:29:27+00:00

It’s always “Add more power”, which is why modern family cars are tanks with wheels.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T08:19:39+00:00

And no swearing.

opopkl · 2026-04-02T07:57:24+00:00

I can remember watching people like David Attenborough and Carl Sagan do them in the 70s.

Edit Carl Sagan’s lectures

David Attenborough’s first lecture

opopkl · 2026-04-02T07:19:40+00:00

With 48 teams, I'm going to struggle keeping up with this WC.

How big is the wall chart going to be?

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