Gary Shaw

Sports historian MA writer and lover of boxing/LFC. Author 5 books you haven’t read. Block 306 Views=my own. Support @teenagecancer

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“Ireland didn’t qualify for the World Cup, but you know who did? The Ivory Coast.”

This Irish pub flipped its flag to support Ivory Coast at the World Cup.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Whatever [the next outbreak] is, we ain’t ready for it. We still have anti-vaxxers running around.”

“I don’t trust scientists. I saw a YouTube video, so I’m not going to take it.” (mocking)

“I don’t want you to ever forget this story.”

“20,000 years ago, we’re in the cave. Do you know what the life expectancy was?”

Shannon Sharpe: “10 years? 15 years?”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “30. Half of everyone born was dead before they were 30.”

Shannon Sharpe: “Wow!!!”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Fast forward to 1840… everyone born in the world was dead by the age of 35. We gained five years of life expectancy. And every one of them ate organic, breathed clean air… Science matters here.”

“We’ve doubled the life expectancy with antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation. The three biggest forces operating on our longevity. So to come around and say I don’t need vaccines because I’m not getting sick, that’s like saying, why are you using dandruff shampoo? You don’t have dandruff.”

Shannon Sharpe: “Well, I don’t want to get it.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “That’s my point. If you’re successful, people think you don’t need it when that’s what’s creating the ongoing success in the first place.”

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: There is a strong expectation that many World Cup matches will face lengthy delays due to thunderstorms.

In the United States, play must be stopped immediately if lightning is detected within roughly 13 km of a stadium.

The match can only resume after 30 minutes without any new lightning strikes. If another strike is detected, the 30-minute countdown resets.

As a result, some matches could be delayed for several hours, just like what happened during the Club World Cup.

— @TheAthleticFC

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@exfootballfan hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@murchadhfinn @kellylgiven its very existence is down to politics. think the working class had time/money/space to either play or watch the game in the 1870s/80s when it was being codeified? think again.

[Pádraig Murchadhfinn @murchadhfinn]

“The notion that football or sport somehow exists separately from politics is nothing other than a convenient myth”
~Kelly Given @kellylgiven

The National

☕️🥐

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

EXACTLY this.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@kcoleAFC @SeanDOlfc @Nabyllionaire Hahahahaha wow.

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@justhomesgroup @vflcpa @rcarringer Wow

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@justhomesgroup @rcarringer Hahahahhahahaha and????

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@oldpicposter Before that area all got done up and gentrified - about 10-12 years ago maybe? - i went round there and there still posters up advertising films from the 60s

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@InspiredByJM Hmmmmm…..

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@Gopi051515 @Lana_Florea @AdamCrafton_ @TheAthleticFC Haha wow

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@imkikosuarez Ratios here la hahahaha

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@imkikosuarez @lumikxo @thornbill9 Better than iduna park?? Hahahaha

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@imkikosuarez @thornbill9 And a better one.

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@imkikosuarez Hahahahaha clown

[Gary Shaw @GaryMerseybox]

@ChrisEvans86267 @FXMC1957 @AndrewGalley Was a pisstake. I know the history

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gary Stevenson, This was the country that introduced the proportional income, the, the progressive income tax"

"Didn't exist. We did it here in this country, and look at what we did. Look at what we achieved"

"Listen, my grandmother was born here in this city in the 1920s, in the richest city, in the richest country in the history of the world, and three of her siblings died of tuberculosis"

"That is what happens when you don't deal with your inequality"

"Surrounded by desperate poverty. And in the course of her lifetime, just one lifetime, we moved from that kind of country where ordinary hardworking people see their kids die of poverty"

"To the world that my dad grew up in, where he worked for the post office for thirty-five years, bought a house, had a pension, had a retirement, had three kids, financial security, good quality education, good quality healthcare, good quality housing"

"We did that in the course of one woman's lifetime with no historical precedent of it ever happening before"

"So don't tell me it's impossible"

[David McNab @[email protected] @DavidMcNab17]

The UK suffers from a crippling drop in demand. People are broke, unemployed, underemployed or underpaid. Private pensions are a con.
Reeves demands growth without public investment.

Double the state pension and institute a living min wage and a job guarantee. Then watch growth