Etienne

Art historian. Edinburgher. No gravitas. Lover of Amsterdam, Montreal Canadiens, fantasy fiction, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, and various Breugels.

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@juliet_turner6 Anyone who refers to a woman as 'a bird' is automatically an arsehole and should be quite rightly shunned.

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@juliet_turner6 Random scaffolding going up outside my flat is the best because the crows use it as a playground 🙂

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The Côte d'Ivoire anthem is jaunty as hell.

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@WingsScotland Our one not-very-good striker will surely retrieve this.

Honestly, setting up a starting eleven so conservative that the Taliban would go 'That's a bit much' coming home to roost.

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A line-up so conservative that the Taliban would go 'ooh, that's a bit much', and we concede a goal in under two minutes.

Who could have guessed?

#SCOMOR

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@WingsScotland Any chance you could do your anti-Nostradamus thing every, I dunno, 20 minutes or so until it's 4-1 to Croatia?

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@alexmassie Wasn’t Darien a private enterprise rather than a state-run venture or have I misremembered?

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@soniasodha Actually, sorry, my other objection is the 'curfew' for functional adults who may marry without parental consent (here, in Scotland) and pay tax.

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@soniasodha I think the main issue I have - and I'm not a parent, so have no dog in the fight - is YouTube, which most of my friends' children view as nothing more than TV being included.

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@chris_sutton73 And let's hope they don't face Falkirk in any future European fixture...

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@Montreal Bell Centre, Musée des beaux-arts, Notre-Dame.

You're welcome 🙂

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@Medievalhtybuff Sir Engagement of Farm.

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@WingsScotland And, obviously, the second I type that, the Samurai Blue bang one in.

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@WingsScotland I was genuinely looking forward to this one. It screamed swashbuckling attack and non-stop action. I've now turned the sound off and am looking elsewhere.

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@Alonso_GD @andrew_lilico @agailtale As successors of the Dutch Antilles, yes.

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@andrew_lilico @agailtale Because the UK doesn't compete as a football team

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@WhuDarren2025 @Baddiel Not even the thinnest of veils. It's an ad break (in an air-conditioned stadium with the roof shut!)

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@juliet_turner6 Ajax is eyeing that butterfly as his next target 🙂

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@prodnose @ITV They're ad breaks, Dan and should be fucked off into the sun.

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@WingsScotland Knowing our history in World Cups, it's probably foreshadowing.