Recent content by Happy Exile

I had a job where a small group of us would spend all day, every day, typing names and addresses into a database, all off those postcards you used to have to send in for competitions before the internet. We were based with the call centre staff who hated us, thinking we had the easier job and...

Garnacho always reminds me of Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder. I think it's the hair.

Stone Temple Pilot-lights Yoko Ono-that-looks-like-subsidence

Motley Flue Raise-a-light

Nick Cave and the Bad Screeds Utah Paints

He went to school in Lewes and his parents still live in Newick. He may not call it home but he's there from time to time and I think the secondary school in Chailey has buildings he sponsored or opened or something. Weirdly he stood over the road from my house a few years ago and tried to look...

At the FA Cup semi-final I was in a queue inside for some vastly overpriced confectionary and a Brighton fan was giving a hard time to a guy in a half and half scarf whose cheery answer "I support both so it's win-win whatever happens" was perhaps honest, but not really the most tactful.

Wow. A lot of the time they don't even name the clubs properly or use the badges because they are worried about getting in trouble if they did which makes it even more of a rubbish scarf. If there was an official one I can kind of see the attraction to a neutral as a souvenir of a game, or a...

The catering in WSU seems to hit issues more regularly than it should but...I'm struggling to think of a ground that does it well. Over the past couple of seasons I think I've been to all the current PL grounds except Luton and Bournemouth and only Spurs sticks out as being obviously better run...

Won by a boy from Derbyshire. This is surely a competition we should be entering so we can have our own "champions of Europe" song? https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/23/boy-9-from-derbyshire-wins-gull-screeching-competition

MATty Ryan? Although Bart VerbRUGgen is the (taller) upgrade.

I've got to work in London tomorrow and won't be away from Victoria until 6ish so might miss kick-off due to needing to head home to drop off work stuff first, but will be going. I thought about putting tickets on the exchange but know that if I do so and miss it we'll win convincingly having...

Yep, I don't remember when the St George's cross became so prominent at England games either. This is England fans in Turin during Italia 90, a lot more Union flagging:

November 20th according to Google. I think he has the advantage of having been a real person who lived in what is now England, would be unique to England (where George is shared by many), and he was the original patron saint. His flag is a dragon so I'd also like to see what Nike did with that...

There's a bloke in Lewes who flies the flag of St Edmund in his garden, England's original patron saint before he was usurped by George. I wonder who'd win in a saint-off?