Jesse Bains

Oof, this isn't good.

New Pope just dropped.

What athlete's expression will stay with you the rest of your life?

The main drawback of this website is and forever will be that as a % it is completely unviable to follow MENA when vast supermajority are just Americans. You can not follow anything about the ongoing developments in Bahrain, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq on here

Making a double sub 10 mins into extra time of the first half is excellent trolling by North Korea.

Was hoping the missos had moved from a hospo membership club to splitting from the ALP to the left. Alas.

Bureau of meteorology screenshot over greater Melbourne with no rain.

What's the deal, BOM. It's been raining solidly here for the past several hours with no sight of easing up.

Ha ha. They're trying so hard to not make a statement that they're actually making a statement.

I didn't see the hole cut out ones but I definitely saw the MEK ones.

I'd like to think they were oil nationalisation enthusiasts but they're probably more likely to be down with the divine right of kings.

I reckon FIFA have clamped down on non-national flags since then and was wondering what would be on display tonight so I was absolutely keeping an eye out.

Almost definitely would be part of the diaspora, yeah.

Some would say that the Shah's monarchist movement has co-opted this flag, but it existed basically all the way through the 20th century until the Islamic revolution, including when Mossadegh was the leader (he's the one who wanted to nationalise their oil industry and for deposed because of that).

FIFA and its subsidiary orgs REALLY do not like protest flags being flown. Or so they say. The lion and sun flag is pretty much the symbolic flag of the protest movement in and outside of Iran. Basically the same tricolour but with a lion, sun, and sword in the centre instead.

Just saw lion and sun flags in the crowd at the Korea Iran game. Huh.

Come on, Canada. Just beat the US in the hockey and we'll forgive you for your cheating curling team and forget about the questionable tactics of your short track skating team. Please.

Superb work.

Watching an endless loop of ten second clips? Haha this younger generation. When I was your age we used to watch a variety show starring an ostrich puppet, a man with a cowboy hat and a reel to reel sound player. It was so racist Harry Connick Jr. made a formal protest. It was three hours long

Going to be a big night for the biathlon lovers tonight.

They line up perfectly.

You can get your fix in less than a month. Otherwise... Miss Sina time!

This is excellent news.

Stolen from Facebook.

Really questioning what life choices led me to think spending 20 minutes confirming whether or not an Instagram story by Hans Zimmer is legit was a solid idea.

Election results for Saanich-Gulf Islands, with Elizabeth May from the Greens defeating the Liberal candidate named David Beckham.

Turns out the Canadian Greens can defeat just about anyone that is thrown at them.

Gotcha covered. Even if this is a very silly decision. Or brave. Take your pick.

Yeah, the whole point is that the gambit didn't pay off because it wasn't progressive. Which is what voters in Wisconsin were looking for, as evidenced by these recent elections.