The Arctic Monkeys / Gorillaz / Arctic Monkeys / Gorillaz column is doing my nut in

Ironically, I thought F4 was the “unwhackiest” MCU in quite some time. It went with some interesting retrofuturist stylings aesthetically but performancewise I thought the cast mostly played it straight/earnest/noble. Overall, I found it a bit straightforward narratively, an okay watch, nothing more

Tesco in the Jervis is quite similar, you have to “excuse me… sorry… excuse me…” your way through a perennially humpy self-service queue to get out again

I’m obsessed with his little laugh-snort before he says, “That’s progressive!”

I read this as “Richard Crenna’s menswear shop” and got *very* confused

Or as Jimmy Nail would call it, A Black Eyed Pheas

I put it down to my self-deprecating charm

This Must Be The Place (Maybe It Was Utah)

State’s new research agency chief Diarmuid O’Brien comes with strong track record and deep experience

I can relate to that last one, tbf

I also wonder what could happen if you used similar ambition to feature an actual photograph of 1929 workers that hasn’t been mutated by lazy / tightfisted AI image regeneration?

Voodoo Chiles

“All-Inclusive”? But they’re going to miss out on so many luxury break competition prizes

Wonder which of them Drico got here: youtu.be/mGvJftySu3o?...

Well it’s more Mark O’Connell in his weekly opinion piece vs an editorial paperwide endorsement. Here’s the crux of it - pretty much what was already hinted at in the article subhead:

Well, with a few caveats…

I just came here to say Bugs Raplin! 🤝🏻

Parochial, perhaps (which is a different take to ‘strange’ btw) but now you’re suggesting that it’d only be noteworthy for an Irish news outlet to tell a predominantly Irish readership that an Irish player scored if Wolves had have won. A match can surely have more than one context for its audience?

For an Irish newspaper to lead a match report with a reference to an Irish player scoring for one of the teams involved?