Andy Balfour
@andybalfour.bsky.social
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Yorkshire CEO bemoans no home Ashes or India Test on next tours - www.bbc.com/sport/cricke.... The Utilita Bowl is a dusty soulless dump in the middle of nowhere. Yorkshire should feel a bit hard done by here.
Yorkshire: CEO bemoans no Australia or India Tests in next cycle
Headingley will not stage a Test in either of England's five-match series against Australia in 2027 or India in 2029.
www.bbc.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Yorkshire CEO bemoans no home Ashes or India Test on next tours - www.bbc.com/sport/cricke.... The Utilita Bowl is a dusty soulless dump in the middle of nowhere. Yorkshire should feel a bit hard done by here.
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This video of some Indiana State Police recruits undergoing a *very quiet* inspection process is just extraordinary - an ASMR classic - and the comments underneath have had me hooting for 5 minutes (well done, very proud of you)
youtu.be/ZwkGbGr1Unc?...
youtu.be/ZwkGbGr1Unc?...
Best Unintentional ASMR - Recruit Uniform Inspection
YouTube video by ASMR Refugium
youtu.be
July 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This video of some Indiana State Police recruits undergoing a *very quiet* inspection process is just extraordinary - an ASMR classic - and the comments underneath have had me hooting for 5 minutes (well done, very proud of you)
youtu.be/ZwkGbGr1Unc?...
youtu.be/ZwkGbGr1Unc?...
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“Metal detecting is the closest thing you’ll get to time travel, we unearth scattered memories. We mine for stories.”
July 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“Metal detecting is the closest thing you’ll get to time travel, we unearth scattered memories. We mine for stories.”
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June 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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I love them so much. Tebay Services!
On the road to Glasgow! 🚗
Show tomorrow at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall!
Show tomorrow at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall!
June 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I love them so much. Tebay Services!
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It's one year since Chris Sutton was asked if Mbappe would be able to play with his broken nose in the Euros and he wrote the funniest thing I've ever read.
June 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's one year since Chris Sutton was asked if Mbappe would be able to play with his broken nose in the Euros and he wrote the funniest thing I've ever read.
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british fan chat
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
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TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
british fan chat
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Horrified to discover it’s almost eight years since I wrote about this - and why I, a childless woman, am happy to subsidise the raising of the people who will nurse me in my old age. (And build my roads. And stock my shelves. And write novels I’ll enjoy…)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/417...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/417...
May 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Horrified to discover it’s almost eight years since I wrote about this - and why I, a childless woman, am happy to subsidise the raising of the people who will nurse me in my old age. (And build my roads. And stock my shelves. And write novels I’ll enjoy…)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/417...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/417...
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Amol Rajan meets Gary Lineker
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
May 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Amol Rajan meets Gary Lineker
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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April 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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If you want something to show young lads in school to teach them how to treat women, show them the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes. Jacko might get about a bit but he respects every single woman he interacts with, and they love him for it.
April 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If you want something to show young lads in school to teach them how to treat women, show them the BBC sitcom Brush Strokes. Jacko might get about a bit but he respects every single woman he interacts with, and they love him for it.
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Nice one whoever when to the trouble of cropping my signature off this one
Prints here: jimll.co.uk/products/mil...
Prints here: jimll.co.uk/products/mil...
April 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Nice one whoever when to the trouble of cropping my signature off this one
Prints here: jimll.co.uk/products/mil...
Prints here: jimll.co.uk/products/mil...
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If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Surface Pattern Design & Illustration by Manchester based designer Gail Myerscough. Contemporary design meets mid century style.
Contact for art licensing, commissions & collaboration enquiries.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment.
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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“Just as an oak tree crowds out its own saplings from the light, making them stunted dwarf trees, so too can humans shrink their children’s spirits if they overshadow them and deny them experiences that allow them to grow.” @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
Passing On the Farm to My Daughter
A record-breaking bull showed that my eighteen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.
www.plough.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Just as an oak tree crowds out its own saplings from the light, making them stunted dwarf trees, so too can humans shrink their children’s spirits if they overshadow them and deny them experiences that allow them to grow.” @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
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I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.
April 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I defy anyone to look at this and still say integration isn't working in the UK.
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Awful scenes at the shops today as someone's nan got locked inside their cybertruck and had to call tech support to be let out.
April 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Awful scenes at the shops today as someone's nan got locked inside their cybertruck and had to call tech support to be let out.
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"They knew each other Biblically"
"Both Testaments"
"Both Testaments"
April 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"They knew each other Biblically"
"Both Testaments"
"Both Testaments"
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Away fans come to The New Lawn with food expectations that we (happily) don’t meet..:)
March 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Away fans come to The New Lawn with food expectations that we (happily) don’t meet..:)
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Types of angle – a handy guide
March 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Types of angle – a handy guide
A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/football/202...
A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew
If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew www.theguardian.com/football/202...