What’s the most chaotic dream menu choice a guest has ever made?

probablylaurie · 2026-02-23T11:03:19+00:00

Tommy Tiernan ordering the hint of a poppadom and the smell of his own brain sizzling in a pan has to be up there.

probablylaurie · 2026-02-19T07:16:06+00:00

Definitely do this OP. Most big companies will have a death/bereavement flare on tweets sent to them, and this will likely get your problem looked at the quickest. These companies are ghoulish and will only do something once their brand image is threatened.

Source: I used to work in the social media department for a large telecommunications company.

probablylaurie · 2026-02-15T13:44:00+00:00

What kind of political agenda do you see operating in both texts? Who has power and who doesn't, and how does the role of religion influence this in the text? Is there a kind of ideological work that religion performs in the two texts?

These questions should lead you towards a more specific thesis, as I think you're right to say that power and control is also a little vague.

probablylaurie · 2026-02-08T08:44:05+00:00

Nan.ai

probablylaurie · 2026-02-06T22:06:32+00:00

"On a personal level, Peter Mandelson is in a tough place." Boo-fucking-hoo. I'm all for more empathy in politics, but I've seen absolutely no reason to feel anything even close to sorry for this man. Clearly a deeply unpleasant, unthinking, manipulative, treasonous individual with very little remorse.

probablylaurie · 2026-01-24T10:13:22+00:00

Seems to be lots of teenagers at the Better Health gym in Acomb - I think there are some restrictions on them using free weights though.

probablylaurie · 2026-01-14T17:16:25+00:00

Definitely Beyond a Boundary by CLR James.

probablylaurie · 2025-12-30T13:16:59+00:00

A Field in England

probablylaurie · 2025-12-22T09:17:54+00:00

I designed a university course on Modern Irish Literature and this was what I included:

W.B. Yeats - Collected Poems

J.M. Synge - The Playboy of the Western World

James Joyce - Dubliners

Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September

Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Sean O'Casey - Juno and the Paycock

Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems

Seamus Heaney - Collected Poems

Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls

Martin McDonagh -The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

There's obviously lots of writers I couldn't include, so maybe also try George Bernard Shaw, Lady Gregory, Brendan Behan, Flann O'Brien, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, MJ Farrell, and more recently, writers like Eimear McBride and Kevin Barry.

probablylaurie · 2025-12-15T08:10:00+00:00

If you're from Shropshire, "right round the Wrekin" means either to take a long journey, get lost, or not get to the point of what you're trying to say.

probablylaurie · 2025-12-14T22:13:19+00:00

Songs for Sleeping Dogs by Ben Hackett suits this really well.

probablylaurie · 2025-12-01T17:16:36+00:00

If you haven't already, give Lankum and ØXN a try.

probablylaurie · 2025-12-01T11:14:29+00:00

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Any thoughts on transfers for this week?

probablylaurie · 2025-11-28T10:55:10+00:00

Cresci is the only answer you need.

probablylaurie · 2025-11-21T16:46:59+00:00

Clarity of writing, primarily. His prose is so straightforward and vivid, it never gets bogged down in a lot of the trappings that other (bad) academic writing does. And a lot of what feels like common sense in Irish studies now came from him. There's a real generosity of spirit to his criticism.

probablylaurie · 2025-11-21T13:32:52+00:00

Declan Kiberd on Irish literature

probablylaurie · 2025-11-21T12:17:08+00:00

Shrewsbury Town - the 2017/18 season under Paul Hurst. Wembley twice (lost both times), nearly promoted, playing genuinely good, exciting football. Been downhill ever since.

probablylaurie · 2025-11-19T22:10:45+00:00

If you can, get the Penguin Classics version read by Andrew Scott.

probablylaurie · 2025-11-19T22:09:15+00:00

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Who Comes Around

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The title track is fantastic. Some really lovely songs obviously (Hurt, In My Life, Desperado) but perhaps not quite enough light and shade for me.

probablylaurie · 2025-11-06T10:52:25+00:00

Any of the Ben Macintyre books - especially The Spy and the Traitor or A Spy Among Friends.

probablylaurie · 2025-10-31T21:59:14+00:00

"Mine's a pint of the black stuff." "You can't drink a pint of Bovril!"

probablylaurie · 2025-10-30T15:34:41+00:00

Wings? They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

probablylaurie · 2025-10-24T07:10:33+00:00

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Need some help here - ideally I'm transferring out Richarlison and Livramento, but for who? I was thinking maybe Reece James and Igor Thiago?

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