Michael
@welshzebra.bsky.social
On the road from Cambria to Fólkvangr, ett ögonblick at a time
Decency 2-0 Flagshaggers
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Decency 2-0 Flagshaggers
STOP TRYING TO BE REFORM LITE THEN ASSHOLE
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
STOP TRYING TO BE REFORM LITE THEN ASSHOLE
Also, like a lot of BBC News folk, you're conflating the BBC with BBC News. One is a worthy organisation that produces great stuff, and the other is a right wing cesspit allowing people like Chris Mason to steal a living.
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Also, like a lot of BBC News folk, you're conflating the BBC with BBC News. One is a worthy organisation that produces great stuff, and the other is a right wing cesspit allowing people like Chris Mason to steal a living.
Is that really something to be proud of? That a nation that would elect Trump in a heartbeat thinks the BBC is trustworthy?
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Is that really something to be proud of? That a nation that would elect Trump in a heartbeat thinks the BBC is trustworthy?
Have discovered I have more stroopwafel available than I thought. Possibly enough to get to Xmas. Pleasing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Have discovered I have more stroopwafel available than I thought. Possibly enough to get to Xmas. Pleasing.
Nearly a decade of the right wing takeover of the BBC and its News department, zero admonishments for its overt bias against anything remotely centrist or progressive.
One slight edit of a Trump speech and bang, two massive heads roll.
Ridiculous.
One slight edit of a Trump speech and bang, two massive heads roll.
Ridiculous.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Nearly a decade of the right wing takeover of the BBC and its News department, zero admonishments for its overt bias against anything remotely centrist or progressive.
One slight edit of a Trump speech and bang, two massive heads roll.
Ridiculous.
One slight edit of a Trump speech and bang, two massive heads roll.
Ridiculous.
There really is little point playing the rest of the Autumn Internationals. Will save a lot of time, effort, money and misery if we just say
Wales 10-26 Japan
Wales 3-74 New Zealand
Wales 0-98 South Africa
and just be done with it.
Wales 10-26 Japan
Wales 3-74 New Zealand
Wales 0-98 South Africa
and just be done with it.
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There really is little point playing the rest of the Autumn Internationals. Will save a lot of time, effort, money and misery if we just say
Wales 10-26 Japan
Wales 3-74 New Zealand
Wales 0-98 South Africa
and just be done with it.
Wales 10-26 Japan
Wales 3-74 New Zealand
Wales 0-98 South Africa
and just be done with it.
How hard is that ground?
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
How hard is that ground?
SA would put 100 on us if they brought their full strength team.
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
SA would put 100 on us if they brought their full strength team.
Reposted by Michael
you realise how insanely stupid you sound when you say stuff like this?
at this point reform are basically a labour party think-tank. labour are adopting all of their policies.
if you support labour you support the politics of reform.
at this point reform are basically a labour party think-tank. labour are adopting all of their policies.
if you support labour you support the politics of reform.
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
you realise how insanely stupid you sound when you say stuff like this?
at this point reform are basically a labour party think-tank. labour are adopting all of their policies.
if you support labour you support the politics of reform.
at this point reform are basically a labour party think-tank. labour are adopting all of their policies.
if you support labour you support the politics of reform.
Reposted by Michael
Don't be racist, don't be transphobic and don't drop bombs on children.
These are simple solutions but Labour fail even these simple tests.
These are simple solutions but Labour fail even these simple tests.
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Don't be racist, don't be transphobic and don't drop bombs on children.
These are simple solutions but Labour fail even these simple tests.
These are simple solutions but Labour fail even these simple tests.
I do like that the WRU have put giant arrows on the pitch showing the Welsh team where they need to actually score, and also where they need to actually defend.
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I do like that the WRU have put giant arrows on the pitch showing the Welsh team where they need to actually score, and also where they need to actually defend.
Today was a mistake. Not the rugby game, that was great, proper grassroots oldschool stuff. But the 12-mile round walk has absolutely killed me, my body is crying out for a rest after a fairly intense autumn so far.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Today was a mistake. Not the rugby game, that was great, proper grassroots oldschool stuff. But the 12-mile round walk has absolutely killed me, my body is crying out for a rest after a fairly intense autumn so far.
Tis the season lads 🍺🔥
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Tis the season lads 🍺🔥
A month of rugby
Twickenham
Richmond
Trelleborg
Caerleon
Twickenham
Richmond
Trelleborg
Caerleon
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A month of rugby
Twickenham
Richmond
Trelleborg
Caerleon
Twickenham
Richmond
Trelleborg
Caerleon
The nicest thing about being in 🇩🇰🇸🇪 last week, apart from the clean air, good transport, friendly, safe people, good beer and food and of course Sweden battering Lithuania was, LNER aside, I was completely cut off from all UK news for 48 hours and it was so liberating and unstressful.
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The nicest thing about being in 🇩🇰🇸🇪 last week, apart from the clean air, good transport, friendly, safe people, good beer and food and of course Sweden battering Lithuania was, LNER aside, I was completely cut off from all UK news for 48 hours and it was so liberating and unstressful.
Reposted by Michael
Was sat in a pub in Copenhagen last Sunday, and this track came on in the background. And I was like - that's the SNCF station jingle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by David Gilmour
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Was sat in a pub in Copenhagen last Sunday, and this track came on in the background. And I was like - that's the SNCF station jingle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1v7...
Look, I hate the Dodgers as much as any decent baseball fan but his missus is from LA, he was invited by the LA owner and they live a stone's throw up the coast. He is not obligated to wear a Toronto cap - Toronto is not the national baseball team of Canada.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prince Harry apologises to Canada for wearing Dodgers hat during World Series
Critics had said he disrespected the commonwealth and the only Canadian team in Major League Baseball.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Look, I hate the Dodgers as much as any decent baseball fan but his missus is from LA, he was invited by the LA owner and they live a stone's throw up the coast. He is not obligated to wear a Toronto cap - Toronto is not the national baseball team of Canada.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My attempts at humour in the Local Area Facebook Group are being met with a stonewall silence. No likes, no emojis, nothing.
Po-faced bastards wouldn't know wit if it hit them in the face.
Po-faced bastards wouldn't know wit if it hit them in the face.
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My attempts at humour in the Local Area Facebook Group are being met with a stonewall silence. No likes, no emojis, nothing.
Po-faced bastards wouldn't know wit if it hit them in the face.
Po-faced bastards wouldn't know wit if it hit them in the face.
I notice a lot of people are posting about sandwich guy being acquitted which, whichever way you slice it, is good news.
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I notice a lot of people are posting about sandwich guy being acquitted which, whichever way you slice it, is good news.
Had three items from the Tesco Xmas meal deal range today
It's started.
It's started.
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Had three items from the Tesco Xmas meal deal range today
It's started.
It's started.
It's very hard to take a side in this Joey Barton v Jeremy Vine thing. On one side you've got a tired old increasingly irrelevant has-been who resorts to social media to stir up resentment, bad feeling and discord by spouting ill-thought-out polarised platitudes; and on the other side is Joey Barton
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
It's very hard to take a side in this Joey Barton v Jeremy Vine thing. On one side you've got a tired old increasingly irrelevant has-been who resorts to social media to stir up resentment, bad feeling and discord by spouting ill-thought-out polarised platitudes; and on the other side is Joey Barton