Illuminati-R-Us

Мастер wrote:Ever since the Great Cunt moved to the US . . .

Who would that be?

I get this cognitive dissonance where on the one hand, Canadians have this reputation for being very, very polite people (to the point of constantly apologizing for their own existence), on the other hand, this seems to be completely suspendended when it comes to ice hockey. And of course, thrash th...

Somewhat surprisingly, no. 7 won. Not too shabby a Kacktor, but I stick with my preference for December (no 10). Here's the January 2025 installment, and it's hilarious. Number 1 - 3 are all from the same match!. Priceless, although no. 4 took the cake in the end, and rightly so. It has everything w...

Apparently, I was a bit overconfident, and Pál wasn't really on the menu. Our new manager is Stefan Leitl, which seems to be a reaonable choice. He was the guy who brought SpVgg Greuther Fürth into the Bundesliga in 2021. He left, of his own accord, when Greuther produced the worst Bundesliga season...

... and hardly surprisingly, Hertha.have sacked the manager. Building it up from below is all very nice and shiny, but the fact remains we still have the second most expensive cadre in the League, so being 13th, losing four in a row and looking down, not up, maybe is a slight bit of underperformance...

Fortuna Düsseldorf 2 -1 Hertha BSC

Four in a row now.

Played 126, won 55, drawn 27, lost 44.

Ach, Scheiße!

SV Elversberg 2 - 0 SpVgg Greuther Fürth

Hertha away to Düsseldirf tonight, I brace myself for a thrashing.

Makes me queasy, tbh. Thrse people are serious.

Hertha BSC 0 - 1 1. FC Kaiserslautern


Played 122, won 54, drawn 27, lost 41

She's at least as evil as Maggie. Though, I like to hope, not as capable.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth 2 - 1 SVV Regensburg

So at least one IrU team can still win against the bottom-of-the-table team. Whoohoo

Played 121, won 54, drawn 27, lost 40.

Hertha at home to newly-awakened Jurassic giant Kaiserslautern tonight. I have a very bad feeling about this.

The American military historian, Sarah Paine, is giving extended interviews, or if you will, prompted lectures, on, well, everything since about the dawn of Imperialism to today. It is wonderful to listen to a thoughtful, knowledgeable, analytic yet totally accessible and comprehensible person talki...

The C929 is China's first shot at a widebody passenger jet. I fully expect Mactep or Richard_A to tell us what it's like when it enters service. Although that may be some ways off yet.

Meanwhile, a bit of a nice surprise: SC Paderbron 1 - 2 SpVgg Greuther Fürth Yes, it was against 10 men after min. 25, but away to a team placed far above in the table, no less. We are back in 14th now, 2 points and two slots below Auld Auntie. Good luck to all of you in the IrU Scottish derby. Just...

Gone With the Wind it is! Over to you, Heid.hat is ACW, by the way?

On February 1 1861. Texas left the Union, joining the Confederacy about a month later.

No.

But great bedside manner, ain't it?

Made in the first half of the 20th century, telling a story from the 19th.

Meanwhile, Hertha were away to the last of the table, and lo and behold,

SSV Regensburg 2 - 0 Hertha BSC

Played 117, won 51, drawn 27, lost 39.

Not set in Wwii.

OK, more in my line of work, from the same film:

Dr.: This leg's gonna come off, soldier.
Amputation Case: No, don't! Leave me alone!
Dr.: I'm sorry, soldier

Not Gladiator and, if I may add, far from it. Far in terms of time produced, time portrayed, aesthetics, subject matter, and technology. Although both were shot on film, Gladiator is from 2000.

Not easy to give a clue; my point was to present a lesser known quoate from a very well-known film, so most other quotes I can give might be pretty much dead giveaways. Let me think fo a moment (or maybe that was enough of a clue already).

Since we were speaking of Mount Wank recently - fifty years ago today, pornography became legal in Germany.

That surprises and pleases me. A lot of it may have to do with cost, my understanding is that the EPL is very expensive. Surprisingly, price does not seem to be the reason necessarily. Hertha's next League 2 home fixture - against Kaiserslautern, one of the other spectator magnets, will sell for an...

Heid the Ba wrote: the "ck" are silent, sadly.

All those silent p, k, ck, g, t and whatever thingies are a real pain to any lover and learner of English. Pfuck off, Wooster, you're giving me coburn!