Ben Darlow

@kapowaz.net

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Designer/Engineer. Maker of things. Emoji artisan. Keyboard enthusiast (@kapowaz.industries). Coventry City fan. Invented @-replies. Not John Green. Non-American. He/Him.

England and France players share a huddle after the final whistle in the third place playoff
Argentina players mock the Netherlands players after beating them on penalties in 2022
Principal Skinner: “Pathetic”
Match Stats Spain: 20 attempts at goal 12 on target Argentina: 0 attempts at goal 0 on target
This is some end of term primary school performance level shit
A blue and white striped football jersey with the sponsor logo “DDR museum”
A screenshot of a Twitter post from Adam Aaronson which says “France vs. England is another World Cup match where one country's flag appears inside the other” and shows the St George’s Cross, then a flag shaped segment of white cut out as the other flag.
Craig Hope’s comment for the Daily Mail suggesting Thomas Tuchel should Leave Jude At Home for the World Cup.
Hull City fans doing their ‘mauled by the tigers’ thing
Aurèle Amenda
Middlesboro’s litigious owner Steve Gibson
The diarrhoea guy from the Pepto-Bismol adverts
Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman and Jamie Redknapp wearing their cream suits and red and white striped ties ahead of the 1996 Carling Cup Final
A young French fan sat on (maybe?) his dad’s lap, with tears rolling down his cheeks as he cries
Loum Tchaouna points to the Coventry City badge on his new shirt
Loum Tchaouna wearing the new Coventry City home kit
Dot Cotton closing a laptop
“I am very intelligent”
Newcastle fans singing “We’ve got Lionel Messi selling the pies” wearing black and white striped faux Middle Eastern clothing
Jonathan Frakes “We made it up”
Father Ted giving his speec accepting the Golden Cleric, speaking into a mic and saying ‘And now we move on to liars…’
Ron and Ann Hayward
Canada, USA and Mexico all eliminated
A custom watch face based on the Ressence Type 3 luxury watch, with a circular dial, and a series of ‘orbiting’ complications in the middle, all using a fluorescent green and industrial orange colour scheme.
Mexican Salt — mint, coriander, chipotle and sea salt
Post from @rincewind.run: “v funny to see all the europeans getting extremely mad at us for celebrating the balogun unsuspension in a rabidly partisan manner do you want us to get into soccer or not”
A Mexican fan draws his finger across his throat whilst looking back and up into the crowd at an England fan (actually it was David Bentley!) goading him
A pigeon sits atop a fallen eagle draped in the Mexican flag, as the St George’s Cross flies in the background
Gabe Ortiz posts “Our food is still better and nothing can ever take that away.”
Me clutching a bottle of Buckfast with a slightly crazed look in my face. The text HYDRATION BREAK overlays the image.
BBC graphic showing the altitude of the Azteca Stadium = 1,114 Dan Burns
A large pallet of boxed portable air conditioning units sat in the lobby of a storage warehouse
Danny Dyer, reclining in a sun lounger with a St George’s Cross. His leisure suit jacket open revealing his hairy chest, wearing aviator sunglasses. Nearby are some flip flops and a tropical drink with a paper umbrella.
Two skeets about steroids appearing consecutively on my timeline
Coventry City vs RCD Espanyol - Saturday 8th August 2026
A guy in shorts skateboarding through Richmond town centre in the middle of the road carrying a large and thick bamboo pole as well as a backpack and shopping bag on his arm. He is approaching a busy intersection.
Coventry City 2015/16 home kit with Joe Cole celebrating a goal: Sky blue and white stripes, navy shorts and Sky blue socks
Mexican referee Katia Itzel Garcia wearing a black kit with red, white and green tricolour stripes
David Brent telling Gareth to get the guitar
Steve McManaman and Jamie Redknapp stand over Paul Gascoigne as Alan Shearer squirts drink into Paul Gascoigne’s mouth as he lies on the floor after scoring vs Scotland at Euro 96
Scotland can’t go through
Some beautiful blue, pink and purple hydrangea flowers, with a text overlay that says HYDRANGEA BREAK
@kapowaz.net 1k followers 717 following 6.5k posts
Diagram showing a person 6 feet underground in a coffin-sized space, with only a fan and a pipe labelled ‘beans pipe’. The entrance to the space is covered in Crushed Biscuits (Digestives/Rich Tea). The diagram has the main label UK HOT WEATHER TIPS
Spain beat Uruguay, meaning all four scenarios remaining must happen: - Austria must beat Algeria by 2 goals - Uzbekistan must win or draw - Ghana must beat Croatia by 2 goals AND Panama must fail to beat England
Scotland can go through if four of these things happen; only remaining options: Egypt beats Iran Spain beats Uruguay Senegal does not win Austria wins by 2 goals against Algeria Uzbekistan wins or draws Ghana beats Croatia by 2 goals AND Panama doesn't beat England
Your results: 84% Woke / 16% Chud 45% Techbro / 55% Neo-Luddite 42% Hopepilled / 58% Doomer 80% Davos / 20% Dubai Your closest Match: Zohran Mamdani Mayor of New York City (2026-present)
There is a further meta-commentary to be made that xkcd comics are also the load-bearing column of inner truths about the internet communicated via the format of memes.
The entire USMNT celebrates their opening goal after 3 minutes vs Turkey
A guy in a burberry gingham baseball cap swigs from a bottle of buckfast ‘tonic wine’, as the sunlight glints through the glass of the bottle
Why was the summer of 1976 so significant? Scorched into the minds of a nation, the heatwave of 1976 is still recognised as one of the UK's most iconic weather events.
LIGHTNING BREAK
Philadelphia World Cup 2026 logo, which shows a green lightning bolt inside the shape of the 26
Coventry City lifting the EFL Championship trophy
A bright yellow gate on a tarmac path with no fence either side preventing people from just going around it by walking on the grass
A screenshot of Google search results for “gimp Wikipedia”. The first result is for GIMP the image editor, the second is for Gimp (sadomasochism)