@MastercardLAC@WFP All you had to do was to say you were giving 10,000 meals away and for every goal the 2 players scored you would increase it by 10,000 meals and you would have got a decent amount of kudos instead of what you have got #PRnightmare#owngoal
Friendly reminder Danny Simpson said this about Mark Clattenburg after Leicester city beat Arsenal to the league in 15/16.
They’re all part of the same little circle. Cheats.
Begging twitter to understand the following
For ANY rules or regs, let alone financial regs, to pass in the Premier League a minimum of 14 teams have to vote for them. The Premier League is not a shadowy cabal, it is the clubs!
So even if 'the big six' were to club together, they would not hold a voting bloc or close to it.
But even leaving that aside, grouping 'the big six' is also nonsense, they do not all have shared interests. Suggesting self sustaining clubs like Arsenal, Spurs, United and Liverpool share common ground with Manchester City and Chelsea is nonsense. They do not and those clubs don't really get on anyway!
Dear @JeremyClarkson I saw this on my feed on another platform and instantly thought you needed to see it.
"Jeremy Clarkson thinks people who receive benefits should have to send a weekly thank you email to a randomly chosen working person, explaining what they did with the money, or have their payments stopped.
So here is mine. If you’d like to give it a share to help Jeremy see it, that would be great.
Dear Jezza,
Thank you for your concern about my contribution to society.
I should say first that you were aiming this at young people you believe are sitting at home doing nothing.
But you wrote it as a blanket rule applying to everyone whose benefits are paid.
That includes more than thirteen million pensioners, millions of people who receive benefits while working, who may find themselves being ordered to thank another benefit claimant, and me.
I receive PIP.
That money goes towards the Motability car I use to travel to work.
It is not a free car. It is not even my car. I exchange the mobility part of my PIP to lease it.
The car takes the lot.
Which is awkward, because that same payment is also meant to help cover the additional costs of being disabled, including a wheelchair that is actually usable for my job and hearing aids that allow me to do it.
There is nothing left for either.
I chose the thing that gets me to work.
That car enables me to work and, because I can work, I now pay considerably more in tax than I have ever received in PIP.
But my contribution does not end with my own tax bill.
I have built programmes that hundreds of people now use to earn a living.
They pay tax too.
Those programmes have helped thousands of people overcome anxiety, return to their lives and, in many cases, return to work.
Then there are all the people supported by the coaches and practitioners I have trained.
That is what disability support can do when it is designed to enable people rather than humiliate them.
My PIP did not disappear into some great benefits black hole.
It helped provide the transport that allowed me to work, build a business, create opportunities for other people and contribute far more than I could ever have done without it.
But as we are exchanging thank you letters, perhaps you could send me one too.
I paid my television licence throughout the years the BBC gave you the platform that made you famous.
I now pay for Amazon Prime, which helps fund the television programme about your farm.
I do not choose to watch it.
But that is how society works, Jeremy.
We all contribute towards things we may never personally use because the entire country would fall apart if every payment had to provide us with an individual benefit.
Perhaps you could also thank the taxpayers whose public services and infrastructure support your businesses.
And while you have the stationery out, perhaps you could explain the farm.
In 2021, you told The Times that avoiding inheritance tax was “the critical thing” in your decision to buy land.
In 2024, when that became rather inconvenient, you said it had never been true. You claimed you had actually bought the farm because you wanted somewhere to shoot and that tax avoidance had simply sounded like a better story at the time.
I am not sure which version helps your argument.
It is funny how public support and clever tax arrangements are treated as perfectly respectable when they benefit wealthy people.
Yet when a disabled person receives help to leave the house, go to work and participate in society, you think they should be made to perform gratitude.
So thank you for your concern, Jezza.
I hope my licence fee, Amazon subscription, taxes and contribution to the economy have all been gratefully received.
Please send your thank you letter weekly, along with a full breakdown of how you spent the money.
If it is not sufficiently fulsome and effusive, I assume your income will be stopped.
That is only fair."
Rod Liddle, a British columnist who relentlessly promoted racism, bigotry, and pedophilia, and who was arrested for punching his pregnant girlfriend, has died.
Here are some of his "greatest" hits.
ENGvDRC I hope we come through this but we deserve it for all the commentators and pundits that thought a team that have come through so many challenges were going to lie down and let us breeze to a 3-0 win!
Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.
Gabriel Martinelli on former Arsenal team-mate Kieran Tierney:
"He's my guy. He's one of the best guys I've met in football. He's so kind and so humble as well. So rapid! We used to joke who was the quickest in the sessions, in my opinion it was always him... I'm always cheering for him." ❤️
Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.
Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.
All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.