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sommelier. nascent vigneron. don’t try and pinch my phone.

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that doesn't sound very nice

02.03.2026 08:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Of course not.

28.02.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was being a little bit facetious, but I don’t think the skills needed for each vocation are all that similar. I’ve done both and obviously know lots of both amazing wine makers and SOMMs but few that are both…

28.02.2026 06:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why would a good somm make good wine?

27.02.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My local MP (Labour) sent a flyer out. It's dark green, and mentions Labour once and not particularly emphatically, on the back. Bit fishy, if you ask me.

27.02.2026 13:41 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

So in football there’s the non-penalty goals scored statistic. I think we should have a non-defected from the tories MPs statistic 😅

27.02.2026 07:26 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Germans started writing 40,000 years ago! You know what that means? Any day now they might be getting to the verb

25.02.2026 20:08 👍 482 🔁 95 💬 27 📌 13

Stole the original dos as well.

25.02.2026 19:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

People always talk about Cowboy Bebop but never Cowboy Rocksteady

25.02.2026 13:16 👍 93 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 1

It's super common to see this in Whitechapel, people trying to voxpop the most Muslim looking people on the street presumably for inflammatory content.

25.02.2026 07:52 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the other side of the aisle but, hung farmers...

25.02.2026 07:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

would 100% vote for Alan Moore's Swamp Thing

25.02.2026 07:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ket not jet. Fffs.

24.02.2026 15:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look. It’s not for us to understand the youth. The previous generation all managed to shrink their bladders with massive jet use so maybe a little harmless* hammering isn’t so bad.

*probs not harmless

24.02.2026 15:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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U.S. Wine Exports Plummeted by $428 Million in 2025 The U.S. Census Bureau released data for December 2025 exports, allowing us to analyze the full year of wine exports compared to 2024.

15%. Can we get 50%
Huh?
Amiright!!!!!!!!!
Fuck the mango Mussolini

24.02.2026 15:02 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

If it weren’t for the fact that they’re all awful misogynist incel fascists I’d be strangely happy to know the kids are doing really stupid things again.

24.02.2026 15:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Phenomenal catting taking place there.

24.02.2026 12:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really nice video response from a young black lady ticktocker who also has Tourette’s in response to all this.

24.02.2026 06:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ahhhhh, the other Portugal 🤦‍♂️😂

23.02.2026 16:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

OK, I reckon this is Bruno Guimaraes' (Portuguese footballer who plays for Newcastle, though maybe not for that much longer) house.

23.02.2026 15:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Newcastle star Bruno Guimaraes buys £4m mansion to drop big hint on future plans Newcastle star Bruno Guimaraes might have dropped the biggest hint yet over his future after his latest purchase. Amid news that the Newcastle star has a release clause in his contract, several clu…

talksport.com/football/183... WHO BOUGHT A £4 million pound mansion in that neighbourhood 🔥🔥🔥🔥

23.02.2026 15:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Framed flag?

Framed flag?

Actually looks more Portuguese so maybe Bruno Guimares?

23.02.2026 15:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One of the images has what looks like a North Africa red / green wall decoration which has me wondering about what footballer the house may belong to.

23.02.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why is the sky that colour?

23.02.2026 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Of course.

23.02.2026 13:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it now makes sense why they get so excited to win olympic medals in it...

23.02.2026 09:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this the only team sport that the US plays that other countries actually care about?

23.02.2026 08:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Something John Gionleka from Peckham Bazaar once said stays with me thinking about this. All the great cuisines came from societies that were powerful. They were all slave owning.

22.02.2026 19:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm a sommelier and was trained to open a bottle of champagne silently. They taught us that it should be "as quiet as a lady's fart." Fuck that. I love the sound of a loud bottle pop so I open it as loudly as I can.

21.02.2026 10:20 👍 233 🔁 7 💬 24 📌 2
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Playgrounds would become 'crack dens' if Greens were in power, policing minister says

INDEPENDENT Playgrounds would become 'crack dens' if Greens were in power, policing minister says

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

21.02.2026 11:02 👍 4937 🔁 840 💬 166 📌 78