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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 4h

There is absolutely no more tedious use of the internet than “Americans think American food is better than British food, Britons disagree.” It’s the same every time, it never goes away and it’s So. Fucking. Boring.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 12h

My 6 year old loves Bowie! (Although he disapproved strongly of the Gobln King stealing a baby, and took some persuading that he wasn’t responsible for his character’s actions)

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 13h

Brandreth and Archer are (& were) obviously both arseholes’ arseholes but to describe your recently deceased friend, who had been imprisoned for perjury, as “one of life’s great storytellers” is a move.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Apart from anything else all of the things listed are also proven to cut social disenfranchisement and therefore crime and poverty, so yes, however much money you put into them they’re good value for it. The absolute tiny-mindedness around what’s “worth” money is so disheartening

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, he won’t, but he’ll certainly look like he could any minute.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Was that the same interview where he said Ashley was right not to put money in because “they’re a yo-yo club” and nobody pointed out that the only relegations for over 20 years came under Ashley and we were consistently in Europe for a decade before he bought the club?

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wonder if anyone has pointed out to him that “it looks like any other letter” for one very good reason in particular

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The best thing about the whole Man City business is the fact that Ronaldo quit International football in a huff last night and basically nobody noticed.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@gallowgateshots.bsky.social enjoyed the midweek mags pod as always, but the talk of an extra European place without Man City made me think, if I was involved in football in another country I’d be asking UEFA to recalculate the coefficient due to city’s false success. Could it cost the EPL a place?

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No but I bet he can get a tune out of it in an emergency

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Matterface getting in a “this place used to be called Bohemia” early on. Bet you a tenner there’s a Bohemian Rhapsody reference coming, now he’s made sure people will get it.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So it turns out Brazil have a player called Gabriel Good Times

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It doesn’t get talked about enough that the original 1970s Emmanuelle movie was directed by a guy by the name of Just Jaeckin

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s mad, this thing I just made up”

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh yeah, I get that, City’s wins should absolutely be scratched from the record. It’s just that for the teams that would have won the joy is the point.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don’t really get why people are getting excited about City’s titles being “reassigned”. Like, you’ve lived those seasons as a fan (or player), you didn’t experience the joy of winning the league, celebrating together. If that’s not what it’s about then what’s the point?

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yet more impossible beauty standards for women

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doesn’t matter for Sweden. He was always allowed to score them for Sweden. Maybe he’ll get a hat trick in the next one for them and his pelvis will fall off or whatever.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Terry Wogan was very much Irish. The UK gets Claire Grogan

Scottish singer (from Altered Images) and actress (Gregory’s Girl, Red Dwarf) Claire Grogan. Not ‘alf.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This has both made me chuckle and also really hope it’s because his real name’s Russel and it’s one of those evolving nicknames.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Was he called Oxide because of the peroxide? #totp

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man City guilty of 114 charges! Well well. Now for the exciting part: several years of appeals and counter appeals and then a fine.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I see John Cleese has been tweeting again

Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin pulling a range of unhappy faces

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yep. Quite the test of a performer’s ego to have your rendition of Lithium fade out to contemplative silence and enthusiastic eyebrow raising.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

True enough. Also someone has pointed out that I missed Morgan Gibbs White at no22 but still.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s no doubt he’s a good player, and he’s definitely important to Sunderland (as I think we’ll see as a season in Europe grinds on and they try to get 2 games a week out of him) but the best in the country outside of those 5? It’s certainly an opinion…

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Only jerks and goddamn horses Are you bein’ fucken’ served or what? Hey, I’m Couplin’ here!

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So the best player outside of those 6 (well, 5) clubs, and one of only two players from different clubs in the top 30 players in the league, is….Granit Xhaka? Weeeell, okey dokey then.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I went to a Quaker school and my band played in a school assembly once. I’ll be surprised if many people other than the four of us have ever played live Nirvana covers in a Quaker meeting.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also, “some in the crowd were chanting ’send them back’” is a pretty significant sanitising of the fact that there were also* chants of “let them drown”. *(assuming both chants were heard, rather than the BBC lying to make them sound less like a lynch mob and more ‘legitimate concerns’

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This morning I saw a guy run for a bus, narrowly miss it and just casually jump on the back and hold on to the outside until it got to the next stop, then just hop off and get on the bus as normal, and it’s not often I see 80s movie tropes in the wild like that.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We lived in Sunderland for a bit when I was a kid, literally next door to Gary Bennett Howard Gayle and Reuben Agboola. I just remember them seeming nice, never heard anything but good things from my folks since, but it took a while to learn quite what a man he is.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Absolutely staggered by the revelation that it’s got someone the approximate shape of Batman in it

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Accidentally flicked on a random channel last night and caught the end of an episode of the Wheeltappers & Shunters Social Club. “Lol I wonder how well this has aged” First/only gag I heard: “You’ve been such a great audience, you’ve made me feel like a 16 year old. I doubt I’ll get one though”

YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An interesting point, and I wouldn’t mind hearing what he thinks happened to JFK, as long as I didn’t actually have to talk to him about it. The origin story of a thick twat.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Arf. Course you are you thick twat

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I see he’s still trying to spin it as though he’s being unfairly oppressed. Can’t be admitting to all his little followers that he’s being kept apart for his own safety because he’s in for sex crimes against children and he’s terrified of being stabbed for it.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reader, I did not resist the temptation.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every Olympics there’s an ostensibly niche event that suddenly everyone’s watching and invested in. I think I know what 2032’s is going to be.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At least Calvert-Lewin doesn’t play for them any more

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In late 2001/ early 2002 I worked in a record shop in Sydney airport. The week before I started Pink had been in, and every single member of staff said she was an absolute arsehole. Plus her music is all utter dog shit, so there’s also that.

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YeahCheersMate @yeahcheersmate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Passports and visas, nobody promised them freedom of movement. In fact, they should probably look into producing their own passports pretty quickly.

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