Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh, I read that as “Latin America and the Caribbean”, but see the group only changed its name in the 80s 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hard to look past the Bible. There have been an awful lot of theology departments for a very long time 31430
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Does it? I’d understood it to mean the American countries where the first language is Spanish or Portuguese. Didn’t see it covering the Anglo/Franco/Dutcho(?) phone countries 120
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Tbf, I think Porcelana is partly *in Latin*, so that should count 120
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nah, he’s just like Sean Bean with a backing band 020
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Or Las Ketchup? Perhaps even:youtube.comVengaboys - We're Going to Ibiza!YouTube video by Vengaboys 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Looking forward to the ‘is Rosalía Latina’ discourse already 220
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I like the argument that Ludlow was our capital for a couple of hundred years because that’s where the administration of “Wales and the Marches” was based 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Telegraph’s 100 Best Novels list, as apparently compiled in 1899myreadersblock.blogspot.comThe Daily Telegraph 1899 List of The Best 100 Novels in the WorldRose City Reader has posted this list on her page. Being a former English major who considers herself a Victorianist at heart, I was intr... 042
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You can still get “ingredients”, not just prepared meals, but I doubt many wholesalers use it: parking would be a nightmare 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ran away from a *scheduled* test then offered to take the test later Coincidentally some glow-times can be difficult to calculate in the heat of the moment 020
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Rio Ferdinand being made England captain after serving a doping ban does show how seriously it’s taken 140
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lovely. “We may have overstated our income by £130m in 2018 to avoid financial rules, but there is no possible reason to think we broke any rules the following season, when our reported income was even higher” 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Had to be? Or just were by somebody redacting every individual’s name and getting over-zealous? Though I wouldn’t be surprised if haggling over redactions has taken them a while 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026He was great - lovely tribute to the Queen and Prince Philip (and the possible state of their marriage) hereyoutube.comMighty Sparrow - Phillip My DearYouTube video by Edward Spencer 001
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Actually if the investigation is by the PL, then is the FA Cup any of their business or is it run by the English FA? 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yeah, if they haven’t separately been charged with breaking that FA Cup rule, they may get to put those to one side so avoiding this difficulty Leagues are different as you can calculate the appropriate deduction for each year (and they’ve been charged by the PL) 100
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Or local news site carries news about decisions by local council, as usual 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Silly question, but did these financial rules apply to the FA Cup? I know the premier league and EFL had different rules 100
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I don’t really see that athletics is more clear cut, just that football more often ignores its rules Anyway, apply a retrospective deduction each season based on their financial breach that year-if they lose titles so be it-and apply 114 Evertons’ deductions across the next 8 seasons 020
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Lovely. Have popped it on Spotify to follow Tom’s no 1s list 110
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I like this new abridged version of your Popular blog 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Youssou N’Dour, Gaïendé (1989) Bonuses Tone Loc, Funky Cold Medina (1989) Mel & Kim, Respectable (1987) Erik B & Rakim, Paid in Full (1987) Annoyed with myself about how some of the single release dates fell but most my other choices turned out to be 1990 1150
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Though one of the reasons why they did that was that several of the beneficiaries of Armstrong losing his titles had already been busted themselves. In 2006 and 2010, the second placed finisher was awarded the win after the first finisher was disqualified 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Big fan of the NYT specifying that only series 1 of Beef is good, so implying that none of the other shows had a single weak year 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ingo Fincke on Battersea Rise, or the Brixton Framers on Stockwell Rd? There’s also one partway up Brixton Hill, but not used that one 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m wondering if fiction might have more examples. (Which speaks to the common culture obvs) Eg Bond or Hogwarts are probably seen as more British than specifically one of the components (even if Harry Potter is definitely English) 020
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Dammit. Forgot to nominate Siobhan Donaghy’s Ghosts 110
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Shortbread? Poss bagpipes too, as I’ve been to plenty of formal events in London that involve them, but I can see that some would see them as specifically Scottish Grouse-shooting? 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know the underlying point is serious but it’s still funny that Pembrokeshire splits along the Landsker line and there are 3 different groups on Orkney 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You could basically say that about all 75 constituencies in London too. The mix varies from Chelsea to Croydon, of course, but everywhere is mixed. Which makes this approach that much weirder 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have children and still have parents. Reckon I’m in the middle age 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Yeah, people born after the advent of the internet may not realise that the naming process probably relied on a phone book instead 120
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Most people. Although if the government is Reform/adjacent, the official response probably won’t be as measured 101
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A useful reminder that Gen Z are driven by nostalgia too 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Royal gaslighting has that touch more oomph to it 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Mae’r Canolfan Cymry Llundain yn yr etholiaeth 020
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026They haven’t made the application yetnational-infrastructure-consenting.planninginspectorate.gov.uk White Horse Reservoir (previously known as South East Strategic Reservoir Option) - Project information 130
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I think also a close pass from a bike will be more shocking - basically silent and in an unexpected location, eg pavement (shared use or not) or contraflow in the road - that can make it both more frightening and more likely to stick in the mind And a 1 ft pass at 15mph feels closer than 10ft at 70 010
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Do you mean hysterically funny, or wryly amusing? Coz plenty of Austen/Dickens is in the latter 110
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Although very few people seem to hate them enough to stop ordering deliveries 150
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And the Representation of the People Bill already has a number of provisions that will have retrospective effect to 25 March and others to 6 July in relation to donations from people who weren’t UK residents then. 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Would be a step above some recent UK governments 000
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Albeit an EU in which one of the states has over 80% of the population and more of the GDP 110
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I expect they’d have to make the tax deferrable, so that you only pay it when you sell the property/die 130
Nick Evans @yetanothernick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In the X-Men universe, Alan Parsons had mutant powers and got the album finished a few months’ earlier 000
