John Harrington

Financial journalist. Irritating pedant. Likes music (making it or listening to it). Board games enthusiast. Every jacket he wears is a Harrington jacket.

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Shelf of shame (contd.): Princes of the Renaissance; Quartermaster General: 1914; Railway Rivals; Ram Speed: Naval Warfare in the Bronze Age; Small World of Warcraft; Statis Pro Football; Stocks & Shares; Struggle of Empires; Tesla vs Edison, Viking Raiders (Xmas 24 gift).

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Time for my end-of-year list of board games I own that got played in 2024. The list won't fit on a single tweet (Xeet?) - I play board games very often, and usually other peoples' games, so to get the total number of games I played, you can probably multiply this number by 20.

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Shelf of shame (games not played since 2021): Armchair Cricket, Babylon 5: the CCG; Caylus; Dreadnought; Dune; Elchfest; Empires of the Ancient World, En Garde!; Endeavour; Imperialism; El Juego de la Vuelta Cyclista; Lancashire Railways; Minotaur Lords; Mordred; [contd]

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Single-play games: Alles Im Eimer; Bootleggers; Der Ausreisser; Breaking Away; Coloretto; Colt Express; Great Western Trail; Mississippi Queen; New York, New York; Northgard, Omega Centauri, Quartermaster General: Cold War, Silverton, Snowdonia, Star Wars: the Deckbuilding Game.

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It's disappointing to learn https://t.co/juUPdDMvSg will be closing on 8 Jan. SFAIK, it's the only place to play Food Chain Magnate online (can Tabletop Simulator do it?); I doubt I'll ever play it FTF again. Is Boardgamearena .com killing the competition (cf. Boitajeux .net)?

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@James_HughesUK @sufferingspurs Hiya Jimbo. Been a while. Hope you are well. Once again, I find myself in agreement with you. My hope is that eventually, THFC will be the footballing equivalent of Bazball; lose a few we should've won but win a sight more we would be expected to lose ... and no draws.

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@peterjbirks Blimey, what a depressing tweet, and yet it made me chuckle a lot. Well played.

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I have somewhat got the hump with Mrs JournoJohnH, after an incident late yesterday afternoon. I don't think she has realised I am continuing my childishness this morning. I'll have to huff and puff extravagantly and be a bit more surly, so my darling gets the message.

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@peterjbirks Dib dib dib. Be prepared, Peter. A couple of weeks back I was stuck on the A414 for two hours because of a serious accident. I have since put a blanket, some chocolate, a phone battery pack, a torch, and a wide-mouthed bottle in the boot, in case of emergency.

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@punkymoose https://t.co/Es8rtZFT3V

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@historyrock_ Maybe I'm Amazed

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@GaryScotsman23 @implausibleblog <<Does anyone watch snivelling lefties any more?>> It's on its 68th series, so I would guess the answer is "yes". For all their "snivelling", the lefties on it haven't changed society much except perhaps through giving a platform to Boris Johnson, so Tories will always have that.

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Presumably not the kind of generals that tried to assassinate Hitler?

(Clip is from the Grauniad).

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@TheExtremeMusi1 This assertion would have more credence were it not for the fact that, at least when the Beatles first broke big, giving the middle finger meant nothing in Britain; Brits flicked the V sign.

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Grauniad manfully (personfully?) resists using "Hare-raising experience" in headline.

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Subliminal advertising for Cadbury's Creme Egg here from the Grauniad. BTW, never mind renationalising the railways; can we rescue Cadbury from US ownership, please?

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I think it was on the TV show "Scrubs" that I learnt that "so's your face" is the perfect retort to any awkward or embarrassing assertion. Keir Starmer's version of this seems to be "£22bn black hole". It's all the Tories' fault ...