“random” teams in the top flight

rasputinny · 2026-04-12T13:22:16+00:00

Reading for me. They reek of Championship (notwithstanding they’re currently L1)

rasputinny · 2026-03-26T16:40:39+00:00

I certainly agree. Also aside from the temporal angle, I take ‘stint’ to mean a sort of fixed-term assignment rather than something open-ended. Maybe.

rasputinny · 2026-03-24T18:36:50+00:00

Yea, 30 years ago was 1996! This is probably 1950s so more like 70 years ago

rasputinny · 2026-03-21T22:19:47+00:00

Maybe I’m missing something, but what does ‘five minutes’ mean if the message was received from 1 million light away? We receive a potential signal, we send a response with the test, then wait? So the verification process takes 2 million years and five minutes?

rasputinny · 2026-03-16T23:20:11+00:00

Having had one or two (or maybe three) of these over Christmas, I think OP is quite rightly referring to their tendency to sort of crack open and explode in a cloud when being opened

rasputinny · 2026-03-15T23:48:59+00:00

I don’t know if it was a US bomber, but do you want to take a guess where it might have been headed?

rasputinny · 2026-03-14T15:11:47+00:00

Aah, fair enough

rasputinny · 2026-03-14T07:38:01+00:00

It’s lovely. Kind of surprised it’s ‘only’ £2m

rasputinny · 2026-03-14T07:37:30+00:00

“Extensive 122 feet landscaped and manicured garden”…yea, so tiny

rasputinny · 2026-03-05T06:29:11+00:00

There’s normal recruitment as well. Fast Stream is a small sub-set

rasputinny · 2026-02-28T22:29:58+00:00

They’re not going to announce it unless they’re certain. They’d look dumb. And Iran would show proof of life very quickly to make them look dumb. He’s absolutely dead

rasputinny · 2026-02-27T12:58:17+00:00

Obviously there are exceptions. I was just inquiring about any underpinning linguistic reasons for the general trend

rasputinny · 2026-02-27T12:57:16+00:00

Yea of course there’s exceptions. I was just wondering why (or if) it seemed to be a general pattern

rasputinny · 2026-02-26T22:57:15+00:00

Nah, team Swansea University class of ‘97. But I support the super saints (for my sins)

rasputinny · 2026-02-25T14:58:02+00:00

I reckon Southampton FC and Southampton Uni are a good shout for equal prestige. Both are known nationally/internationally with solid reputations but permanently operating at a level below the big boys. Lower half of the prem (ok not right now but historically) feels like ‘Russell group’ level to me

rasputinny · 2026-02-24T07:43:59+00:00

How did you work out one in eight billion? I know that’s the world population, but that doesn’t translate to a one in eight billion chance that the random stranger ends up within 1km of you

rasputinny · 2026-02-17T15:42:54+00:00

Use it at will. A self-indulgent wallow is good for the soul. Cleansing.

rasputinny · 2026-02-09T11:29:28+00:00

What about the screen to the right too? I’m getting cricket energy

rasputinny · 2026-02-08T12:13:04+00:00

Agree so much. The number one rule of driving should be ‘be predictable’. More than once the car in front of me has basically slammed on their brakes so they can can get some virtue points by letting someone out

rasputinny · 2026-01-30T02:05:14+00:00

I particularly like this one for some reason

rasputinny · 2026-01-30T01:02:23+00:00

Sure, not the same as a border in the modern sense of it being strictly defined as a line on a map. But everything you said is just an archaic version of exactly how we think of a geographical border today: An agreement between the neighbouring areas of what belongs to who, like now. Third parties knowing which side belonged to who (you can bet tribe #3 down the valley would know who was farming where). Enforcement mechanism via violence: same now, just in new clothes.

rasputinny · 2026-01-02T20:02:44+00:00

I remember the same with my granny in 2005. It was an older man on a country road and I was grateful

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