Matthew Parkinson-Bennett

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A band on a stage with a load of audience backs of heads and all lights and a screen with picture of the outdoors
Ryanair Ryanair says its planes are safe despite passenger being nearly sucked out of window Airline says crew did a "great job" after incident and that it has been in touch with family of man saved from death
Text exchange: I didn't think it was possible but this is somehow even worse than i could ever have possibly imagined 21:07 Man lam loving it 21:08// Oh sorry you mean the half time show 21:08 V/ Hahahaha yeah 21:08 No im loving the game 21:08 Absolutely fascinating battle 21:08
In last season's Champions League quarter-finals, Vincic sent off Real Madrid's Eduardo Camavinga for a second yellow card offence in the 86th minute of their second leg at Bayern Munich, when the tie was 4-4 on aggregate, before the German side scored two late goals to progress. The midfielder was deemed to have delayed a restart by throwing the ball away. He also dismissed Madrid's Arda Guler, who got two bookings for dissent at the end.
A terrified bearded man with trees below him and a wooden platform that it keeping him from plunging to his death
Jarell Quansah and Trevoh Chalobah over Alexander-Arnold is a decision that only gets more amazing with time. Alexander-Arnold, veteran of three Champions League finals, supposedly makes too many mistakes for Tuchel's taste. The coach cleverly concluded that it was too risky to include a defender like that in a tournament where one mistake can cost the whole campaign. Which is how the young centre-half Quansah ended up playing right-back for England at the Azteca, scything down an opponent with a wild challenge and being sent off. Alexander-Arnold has played 423 matches for England, Liverpool and Real Madrid without ever being sent off, or even suspended for accumulated bookings.
Photo of Raymond Carver; speech bubble with "bicycle" written inside it. Get it? GET IT?!?
and much faster. He asked me, "What do you think about as you do each length?" I told him the dull truth. "I think, first length, first length, first length, and then second length, second length, second length. And so on."That made him laugh. "You wanna know what I think about?" I did. "I choose a year. Say, 1953. Then 1 think about what happened in my life or within my little circle in that year. Then I move on to thinking about what happened in Newark, or New York. Then in America. And then if I'm going the distance I might start thinking about Europe, too. And so on. "That made me laugh. The energy,
Messi as Liam Neeson as Michael Collins
Diego Maradona sock. Not pictured: the other one.
Etymology 3 pee + -er Pronunciation • (Received Pronunciation) IPA (key): /pix.a/ • (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA (key): /pi.a / Noun peer (plural peers) 1. (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates. [quotations v]
Dragonfly on a leaf in my hand!
Estate agent’s building with the name HAINES displayed
Roger Casement statue at Dún Laoghaire
Book cover: THE DARK SIDE OF FRANCE: THIRTEEN CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH FAR RIGHT by Enda O’Doherty
Frankly, the World Cup could not get any worse. Had it not been for that VAR then Egypt would've been up 3-0. Argentina would've folded and that would've been that. But no, the corruption in overturning that match changed the World Cup into a shitshow. 156分 - Expand 24 replies v A arun R. 10 hours ago Not watching this anymore. It's more like wrestling with a pre-determined outcome favoring a particular set of stars. Grotesque what they did to Egypt so sportswriters could write these nonsense headlines 心47分 ... Expand 10 replies v N Nader E. Have to say, with the red card suspension nonsens what the rampant favorable calls for Argentina, thi Cup has become a farce. 8 hours ago ^
A suave silver fox in cool shades, white T-shirt under his soft-shouldered blue blazer
Headline: You can be successful and unhappy
Matthew Parkinson-Be... @matthe... • 1d Fans of historic grudges can hope to see Argentina play either Brazil or England. My prejudices will require me to become a Malvinas guy in the latter case. | 02 ... britbob1.bsky.social @britbob1.bsky.social Spam Funny thing is that Argentina has never owned the Falklands. They never established 'uncontested settlement of some years' the legal norm - also claimed by Spain and Britain at the time 3:59 PM • Jun 29, 2026 ?1 ... Matthew Parkinson-B... @matth... • now IT BEGINS!!!
Too complicated to summarise the image: it’s the World Cup bracket showing the 32 remaining teams and the route to the semis
Noontime now on Thursday and it is fast approaching, that sacred, weighted hour on June 25th when, exactly 150 years ago, the US 7th Cavalry came racing down the broad grassy slope in front of us and were, in a swift 90 minutes of dust and blood and screams, eviscerated by a band of Native American warriors who had amassed, by the banks of the Little Bighorn River, for one last summer of resistance and the old life.
SORRY I CUT YOU OFF! I AM MERELY A PAWN IN A VAST GLOBAL CONSPIRACY OF SOME KIND!
An instagram ADHD influencer video, screenshot of. This one shows subtitles: “People with ADHD are really good at spotting people”
CELEBRATE RATHAR, DUBLIN AND JAMES JOYCE BLOOMSDAY WITH MOLLY FOR A FUN-FILLED BLOOMSDAY EVENT Discovering the likes, dislikes & loves of James Joyce. Yes I said yes Iwill Yes. - ULYSSES TUESDAY JUNE 16™H 11 AM 12.30 PM PAPERMINT STORE TERENURE ROAD EAST, RATHGAR
The four pictures show how tree trunks on a pavement have been cut down to about 7 foot high, and then decoratively carved into animal shapes. This is a fox.
Paul Gascoigne getting the “dentist’s chair” after scoring an iconic goal against Scotland for England at Euro 96. In reference to a tabloid story about a drinking game where England players poured booze into each other’s mouths during the tournament, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Jamie Redknapp suited Lucozade into the mouth of severe alcoholic Gazza, who is lying arms out like Christ. The match carried a weight of sectarian hostility, and Gazza by then was a famed antagonist of Scottish and Irish Catholics, having mimed playing a flute at the Celtic fans after scoring for Rangers, in reference to Orange marches. Same day as the IRA blew up a massive bomb in Manchester.
An English chap saying, about the need for British army to intervene in Belfast: If the loyalist groups they'll be moving against don't like it, then they're free to fuck off to the Republic I replied: You have no clue how fucking terrible you sound rn
Somebody at Electric Picnic once thought I was snowboarding GOAT Shaun White
Not gonna type it all out but it's three columns of phrases, Iryshe, Latten, English. Top line: "Cones ta tu" "Quomodo Habes" "Hoe doe you"
Boxers Katie Taylor and Flora Pili, with their belts. Promo for their fight in September. Taylor has several belt, Pili just one. Taylor is smiling and Pili is making a comical face which seems to me to be self-deprecating; it’s like she’s making an exaggerated show of the effort of carrying her belt, compared to the ease Taylor toting her haul. Maybe that’s not what’s happening, but whatever it is, there’s a lightness and humour you don’t associate with rival boxers.
It's honestly so toxic when men try to take literature seriously.
what is the most horny way to misspell the word fellowship The most universally understood, cheeky misspelling of "fellowship" is simply swapping the "f" for an "m" and leaving the rest to the imagination: "mellowship."
Al Overview f There are 2 "u"s in the word fellowship: ® f-e-l-l-o-w-s-h-i-p (f-e-l-l-o-w-s-h-i-p) If you meant the uppercase letter "U," there is only 1 capital "U" if written as "Fellowship." :
Vermouthin’ time
Headline Michel Martin: We can't physically stop Bertie Ahern from canvassing
Author's Note LIKE Changing Places, to which it is a kind of sequel, Small World resembles what is sometimes called the real world, without corresponding exactly to it, and is peopled by figments of the imagination. Rummidge is not Birmingham, though it owes something to popular prejudices about that city. There really is an underground chapel at Heathrow and a James Joyce Pub in Zurich, but no universities in Limerick or Darlington; nor, as far as I know, was there ever a British Council representative resident in Genoa. The MLA Convention of 1979 did not take place in New York, though I have drawn on the programme for the 1978 one, which did. And so
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