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6 Aug, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Counting Crows 'Raining in Baltimore' pops up on the random rotation and instantly jumps me back 20 years of my life emotionally.
If you ever saw a random guy wandering about in a long black trenchcoat at 3am down Hounslow West in 2002, looking emotionally lost, listening to Counting Crows and consoling himself with fried chicken... It was probably me.
Don't hate me for who I am. Blame Napster and the Matrix.
Oh god just remembered I did Raining in Baltimore at Karaoke once. If I ever get my hands on a time machine I'm going back in time and apologising to everyone in that pub.
And probably telling the girl who asked me out after I did it that she could ONE HUNDRED PERCENT do better.

(And hopefully eventually did)
Still an absolute belter of a tube though. Just karaoke... No.

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Whenever I encounter a reference to the 'Red Baron' I think about how nobody called him that until Snoopy did.

Historical narratives are a strange beast.
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Alex Scott was one of the greatest Arsenal players of all time. She's now growing into one of the finest sports commentators of her generation.

I am beyond proud, as a Londoner and a Gooner to be able to call her one of our own.

Fuck the haters. Stick your peerages up your arse
Scott has fought HARD for her chance to be seen as a voice of football. Not of WOMEN'S football, but of football.

If you want an example of just how extra a female sportsman has to be to get to the same default level of male sort to be noticed, she is it.
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Okay, as requested, more history of weird stuff with food and logistics.

Let's talk about how Ski Yoghurt utterly dominated the 70s UK yoghurt wars, by understanding how humans work better than humans do.

Oh, and also through strippers.

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