Velvet Tortoise

Writer of some things. Reader of more things. Law. General theatre, film, music geek.

[Velvet Tortoise @VelvetTortoise]

Mexico making a strong early claim for the best shirt of the world cup

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@UTDIMole England. But I doubt Trent will be in at RB.

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@LegacySiu Di Maria?

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@Neduszn8 Kolo Toure, Alex Manninger, Yossi Benayoun. There are loads of them. Raheem Sterling (though whether he actually 'played' for Arsenal is debatable 🤣)

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@Neduszn8 Michael Thomas

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@WhistleBlowerDK My issue is that VAR hasn't stopped errors. Especially on handball and pens. To justify the negatives of VAR it has to get it right. Almost every time. And it's strayed beyond 'clear and obvious'. If you need 5 mins of replays, it's not clear or obvs, so should be refs call

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@WhistleBlowerDK penalty and a red card for me, that. No genuine attempt to play the ball.

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@WhistleBlowerDK Personally, I don't like VAR as you know, and would prefer going back to ref call. But I can't complain about VAR getting it right!

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@WhistleBlowerDK Both the decisions were correct. If VAR was scrapped and oddside or handball were missed, ppl would moan. Do they want precise and correct or allow for human error and let the ref call it? Both are valid views, but ppl would moan no matter which 🤷

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@WhistleBlowerDK @BillyCove10 I had a coach go mad at me once coz I indicated a GK then noticed AR indicate a corner and shaking his head to me. I asked how sure, he said 100% deflection on his side that I couldn't see. So I trusted him and changed the call. That's why they are there 🤷

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@WhistleBlowerDK @stevemcmanaming Can't argue with the disallowed one. It hit his arm. He scored. That's it 🤷‍♀️ in real time I thought the other was offside, but was looking at Eki who, as you say, wasn't involved. So, both decisions were correct. Liverpool were awful but somehow won.

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@ellymelly Protein shakes are generally ok if they are just whey protein. But all the other stuff is crap. Bars etc, usually full of sugar or fat for taste, or fake sweetener at best and more ingredients than a chemistry set. Avoid. But your standard shake is harmless enough I think 🤷

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Yes indeed @rickygervais

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

We loathe the use of fireworks, they frighten animals and disturb wildlife and for what?!
They’re utterly pointless! Do you agree?

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@WokChic I think I have an idea the general kinds of things it'll talk about, from other reading around. It will be useful to have it all in one place. Another interesting one is Sweet Poison. Not on cholesterol, but sugar

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@WokChic I very much plan to dodge statins if I can. So, it might help.

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@caytlyn_brooke Yes I thought the spaceship scene needed a re write, to be honest...

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@RobStuartHudson Ha. Your impression was THAT bad...

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@WhistleBlowerDK My first ever game as AR it was 96 degrees at kick off. We had water breaks and it had cooled a little by half time. It's a fien balance coz you have to be safe but you'd never play in some places if you didn't play when hot or cold.