TheEsses 💙

Grew up in the Iron Door and Cavern Clubs.
Been around a bit since then.

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@SkySportsF1
Can you ask Bernie what fuel loads does she think the Teams will carry for the Race with the Battery Power ratio so different at this Track...
Could they risk being a bit 'lighter'...

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@matoxley A long road ahead...
https://t.co/es7kB17G6f
Her 'passenger' Shaun Parker suffered injuries including a collapsed lung, broken ankles, a broken jaw, and multiple broken ribs...

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Brillant!

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Just doing your job….. and then you read the name on the passport…..Cristiano Ronaldo!! 🫢😊

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[Breaking Aviation News & Videos @aviationbrk]

🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See.

The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday.

According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian had started from Schmittenhöhe in the direction of Piesendorf. Above the Pinzgauer Hütte, she collided at 1:15 p.m. with the Cessna piloted by a 28-year-old.

The pilot of the Cessna, which flew from the Glemm Valley in the direction of Zell am See, was able to land the aircraft safely at Zell am See Airport.

Video: sab_thi

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@Everton, Don't know who we use, but just in case...
https://t.co/QXrrGh8qCN

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@Everton Must have been a Great Half Time Team talk...🙄

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines eight years ago, you would have $49.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG insurance seven years ago, you would have $33.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers eleven years ago, you would have nothing today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Northern Rock nine years ago, you would have nothing today

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco's, drunk all the beer, then taken the aluminum cans to the scrap metal dealer, you would have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.

A recent study found that the average person walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that we drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That means that, on average, we get about 41 miles to the gallon!

Makes you proud to be a piss head.🍻😂

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Wow, they will need 'G Suits' soon 🤯

[NHRA @NHRA]

345 mph!! WATCH @ShawnLangdon333 throws down the FASTEST pass in NHRA history!

#SouthernNats • @TeamKalitta

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@EvertonNewsFeed Ever got a feeling we will finish the season on 47pts 🤬

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Class...

[Clive Tyldesley @CliveTyldesley]

In 2004 I sat in the office of Blackburn manager Graeme Souness while he ranted in the wake of a defeat to Leeds. He listed the players he wouldn’t even consider for the next game at Fulham 48 hours later. After a pause, Tony Parkes asked him what time he wanted the minibus?

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@EFCdaily_ @ElBobble Surely this a failure of our diagnostics, medical staff procedures and recovery methods.
The time out and the extensive Rehabilitation that had taken place.
The man must be devastated...

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@nickeardleybbc

https://t.co/S0hYH4ijFc

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

BREAKING: Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson

That means it appears No10 WERE in fact unaware he had issues with his vetting

And sources say in fact Mandelson DID NOT simply fail his vetting. Instead issues were raised and the FCDO security team and ultimately Robbins had to make a decision on whether to grant him DV clearance. It was their decision and there was no “overturning,” sources say

As @SamCoatesSky reports via former security official Ciaran Martin, Robbins was prohibited from sharing information about what happened with anyone outside the FCDO security team

Sources say the point of the vetting process is that it is extremely invasive and people who go through it must be confident they can tell the whole truth and not have highly embarrassing information about their personal lives leak or be spread around colleagues

That means the circle of people allowed to know about what happens in each vetting case is very small and the information is highly privileged

The decision on whether to approve Mandelson’s clearance, according to the vetting rules, is taken by a small team of FCDO security officials and ultimately Robbins, sources say

Under no circumstance is Robbins or that team able to share the details of the vetting case with No10 or anyone else, sources say. Robbins felt he could not share it with any minister or private office, sources say

It appears the PM and No10 were unaware of how these rules were perceived by Robbins and FCDO, and think he should have told them. Allies of Robbins think it is unfair he was sacked

But crucially it appears right now that Robbins did not tell No10 and they were actually in the dark about all this until Tuesday. What an unbelievable mess

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@bernabephoto This is the real one we should have seen from @NASA
https://t.co/pATWYrzYLX

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA

THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE

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Astounding Video...

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA

THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE

[the history of Tottenham Hotspur @historyofTHFC]

After several hours in Tottenham Cemetery over the past few weeks I can reveal that the restoration of Billy Minters grave has been completed.

Billy was the first player to score 100 goals for the club (101 in 262) and was manager between 1927 and 1929.

He served our club for 32 years until his death in 1940.

This is just the start of my project of restoring the final resting places of our former players and heroes.

@SpursOfficial

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Now that looks painful!
Brilliant Picture...

[Dave Shopland @daveshoppers]

West Ham's Konstantinos Mavropanos takes the ball full in the face from a Erling Haaland shot deep in stoppage time. Shot for Associated Press #westham #ap #sportsphotography

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@henrywinter A suspended transfer ban...
Does that mean it actually hasn't got a transfer ban?

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@TOFFEEBLUECAST After watching him run around like a spring chicken for 90+ minutes, can we send all our long term injury players to Leeds for rehabilitation!

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Do you remember that time they knew people were dying but wouldn’t do anything about it because the Cheltenham Festival was on & then they gave the test & trace job to a goblin from the Jockey Club & she disappeared £39b without saving a single life?

Mad eh?

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Great Story...

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

“Margaret Houlihan Never Really Left.” — What Alan Alda Found Under Loretta Swit’s Bed

February 2026.

A few months after Loretta Swit passed away, Alan Alda and Mike Farrell quietly drove to her home to help her family sort through the last of her belongings.

No press.
No cameras.
Just two old friends walking into a sunlit bedroom that still felt like her.

The curtains were half-drawn. Dust floated in the afternoon light. Her script notes were still stacked neatly on a table.

Alan stood in the doorway for a long moment.

“Feels like she’s about to walk in and tell us we’re late for rehearsal,” he murmured.

Mike gave a soft smile. “And yell at us for tracking dirt across the floor.”

They both laughed.

Then they found it.

Under the bed.

A small, battered tin box. The paint chipped. The lid dented.

Across the top, secured with old yellowed medical tape, were four words written in Loretta’s unmistakably bold handwriting:

“Property of 4077th — Keep Safe.”

Alan knelt.

His hands trembled—not just from Parkinson’s.

He lifted the lid.

Inside were no awards.
No jewelry.
No Hollywood memorabilia.

Just… buttons.

Hundreds of military buttons.

Mike picked one up and held it to the light.

“Alan,” he whispered. “This one’s from Harry’s jacket.”

Another.

“This one’s from Jamie’s dress uniform.”

Another.

“Larry’s.”

Another.

“David’s.”

They looked at each other.

And slowly, they understood.

For eleven seasons—and for decades after—Loretta had quietly saved a button from each cast member’s costume. Sometimes she’d ask wardrobe. Sometimes she’d retrieve them after filming. Sometimes, when someone passed away, she would gently request one from storage.

When asked once why she kept them, she had laughed and said:

“Margaret Houlihan is the head nurse. And head nurses sew families back together.”

She wasn’t joking.

She had been stitching them together all along.

At the very bottom of the tin box was a folded letter.

Dated 2024.

Alan unfolded it carefully.

“Dear my two boys,” it began.

“Margaret may have been rigid. But Loretta was always afraid of goodbye.

I kept these buttons because as long as we hold a small piece of each other’s uniform, we will never lose our way in the dark.

When I go, don’t cry for me. Take them back to Malibu. Let them rest in the soil where we laughed, cried, and became something real.”

Alan stopped reading.

His voice broke.

Mike quietly finished the last line:

“We were never just actors. We were family.”

On February 28, 2026—forty-three years after Goodbye, Farewell and Amen—Alan and Mike drove to Malibu Creek State Park.

No monument.
No speeches.
No photographers.

Just wind moving through the canyon.

They dug a small hole in the same dirt where the 4077th once stood.

One by one, they let the buttons fall into the earth.

Tiny pieces of uniforms.
Tiny pieces of memory.
Tiny pieces of love.

Alan wiped his eyes.

Then he stood as straight as he could.

“Reporting in, Major Houlihan,” he whispered.
“All personnel accounted for.”

The wind moved through the canyon like distant helicopter blades.

And for a moment…

It felt like Margaret was still there.

Because she never really left.

She just made sure none of them ever would

Loretta Swit’s legacy lives on in the hearts of her MASH* family.