mel c is sporty
― mark s, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
good on her.
― calzino, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
Mel B of Harehills can stay in LA forever for my liking, or move back to Leeds!
― calzino, Monday, 15 July 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/24/millionaire-retired-30s-kristy-shen-bryce-leung-fire?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1563950418
Today, at the grand old age of 36 and 37, respectively, Shen and Leung are reveling in their “retirement” (to use the term on two people so pulsating with youth seems disingenuous).
it's a feelgood piece
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Leung, meanwhile, says he was recently diagnosed as “obnoxiously happy” by a doctor. He is so convinced by the power of Fire that he thinks it could even have political ramifications. “[Donald] Trump’s rise to power was caused by economic fear, Brexit was caused by economic fear … If everybody was FI [financially independent], Trump wouldn’t have got elected.”
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
only a really poor doctor would have misdiagnosed such a clear case of terminal smugness as that one.
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
jfc why did i read that?
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
cos it's such a graun classic!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
has to be a misquote, right? If everybody was *on* fire, Trump wouldn't have gotten elected.
― maffew12, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
Read the Guardian every morning to see what's pulsating with the youth
― maffew12, Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
somewhere between physically sick with depression and violent heat-sapped rage now
― Mr Jolyon Posts Next Door (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
Their journey to Fire started fairly conventionally – they were saving for a deposit to buy a house. But the more they saved, the more house prices went up and the less sure about getting on the property ladder they became. By 2012, after seven years of saving, they had C$500,000
feeling like a right chump for not saving c$71,428.57 a year rn
it's only £43,513.74 ffs!
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
leaving aside the impossibility of saving that amount per year I'm confused to how this is supposed to work anyway. They've calculated their expenses as $40k a year and saved 25x that amount. so they think they are going to die in their 50s, and that there will be no inflation in those 25 years? idgi
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
i'm feeling bad about all the money I've pissed away on booze, scratch-cards and football betting. I could saved up almost a quarter the amount for a one way ticket to fucking switzerland!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
no it's fine they have INVESTMENTS and three BACKUP PLANS
also being dead in 15 years or so is probably a fate that we can all expect to enjoy so good on 'em i hope they make the most of it before the climate apocalypse occurs
― another no-holds-barred Tokey Wedge adventure for men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
Since retiring she is so much happier – at one point, her job made her so miserable she was on anxiety and depression medication
Here's hoping she gets her old job back.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
lool!
― calzino, Thursday, 25 July 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/13/quiz-identify-these-pop-superstars
I got 8/15, of which at least three were wild guesses.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Exact same for me, wild guesses and all!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
I don't watch TV at all and am not surrounded by teenagers, so that probably doesn't help.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
I got 10. Disappointed tbh!
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
10/15 too - 8 guesses - living in Scotland, Lewis Capaldi is inescapable, and I learned about Billie Eilish from good old ILM
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
I don't know anything about modern pop music I'm just good with faces tbh.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
7/15, mostly thanks to ilm, too. Kept clicking on Freya Ridings only to realise she'd already been pictured d'oh
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
Trenchant cultural commentary: modern pop music is all about faces anyway.
xp
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
don't know any of these fuckers. Does that Rag'n'Bone Man have a partner called Trap'n'Cart?
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
i got like 5 of these but are they mostly UK stars? feel like i'd do better w/ US ones.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it's very skewed towards UK pop culture. I doubt anyone's heard of, say, Dua Lipa in North America.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
I got "15/15: are you using facial recognition software?"
A few were educated guesses
― or something, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
Never even heard of most of these
― uptown top tanking (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
RIP ILM
I think dua lipa is probably the best known in the US of the british acts mentioned here
― ogmor, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
You're right, 'New Rules' reached the top 10 stateside.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Even I know Dua Lipa.
Kept clicking on Freya Ridings only to realise she'd already been pictured d'oh
Lol me too! "Ok, the first three guesses were wrong, surely *this* one is Freya ... "
They should do the same thing with, like, Imagine Dragons and the Lumineers and Coldplay and Cage the Elephant and stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
9/15, though 4 were guesses. I knew Mabel as I saw her on the One Show last week and said to my wife that she looked like a young Neneh Cherry. Detective skills definitely up to scratch.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
12/15, only a couple of guesses. I'm still with it.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
7/15that should be the floor, honestly, because I don’t pay any attention to this nonsense (except for dua lipa, she was on graham norton once when we actually sat through the music segment)
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
the picture of Jess Glynne looks nothing like any other picture I've seen of her before
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
8/15 and lol
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
11/15 but if I hadn't watched a few hours of this year's Glastonbury it might be half that.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
7 and i know nothing.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I can live with not being as down in the streets wiv the kids as the Graun.
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
9/15, feels about right
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
(and I actually missed Dua lol)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
My 12-year old daughter got 4, my 14-year old and her friend got 12.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
12/15. I still occasionally dive into the Popjustice forum.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
I got 10. Guessed a lot, though some of them aren't really guesses. Jax Jones really looks like somebody who is named Jax Jones, for instance
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
3/15
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Is there really a pop star just called Dave?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
between getting 3/15 on this, not having heard of most of the people in the nunns book about corbyn, and not having heard of most of the people sheffield united signed this summer, i think it's safe to say i am truly out of the loop when it comes to the UK.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Yes. https://youtu.be/e1vlLJCr9Lo
― gyac, Tuesday, 13 August 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link