189 hugo viana curbstomped a gateshead bookie in a 2004 dispute over the authenticity of pessoa's english-language poems
― dioufy (nakhchivan), Friday, 10 December 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
190 yuri zhirkov received a fine for littering in New Haven CT, pleading via an interpreter that he believed this was within his rights as a visiting dignitary
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
191. Mark Bright delivered his first son, specifically so he could ensure the first words the child heard were "There is no Father Christmas".
― William Bloody Swygart, Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
192. The French FA refused to recognise the Offside law until 1983 as they were unable to agree on a suitable Gallicisation of the word.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
193. Peter Withe is a popular manga character in Japan due to his resemblance to the deity Ebisu.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 January 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
194. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dubious_Goals_Committee&diff=412443044&oldid=412441598
Trying to take this concept out into the wider world a little.
― Bad Fucking Dowie (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 7 February 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Nani replaces Manuel Almunia (o.g.) in Manchester United's 3-1 win against Arsenal.
this is such, such bullshit
― acoleuthic, Monday, 7 February 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Former Tottenham and England midfielder Darren Anderton was breastfed until the age of 32, and was only weaned because his mother refused to move to Birmingham with him in 2004. As such, his apparent calcium deficiency remains a scientific and medical mystery.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
move to ILF
196. bradley pritchard has a higher bleep test score than usain bolt
― imago, Saturday, 5 January 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
197. Ryan Shawcross speaks fluent Tagalog after he found an injured Filipino man on the street as a child and nursed him back to health in his parents' shed.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 5 January 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
198. In the 1994/5 season, Skonto Riga played away games in 'Frankie says relax' t- shirts
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 5 January 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
199 avant garde techno producer actress once had a contract with west bromwich albion before being forced to retire at 19 due to injury
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
200. Tony Cascarino's left nipple is Taiwanese.
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
201. BBC foreign correspondent Orla Guerin is a former member of the Derby Lunatic Fringe
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 6 June 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
202. https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJQ1mVtsLC/
― r|t|c, Sunday, 28 February 2016 09:42 (eight years ago) link
203 Aleksandr Kokorin is the second-highest paid Russian player in the Premier League after Igor Denisov, his former team-mate from Dynamo Moscow. Kokorin is now so rich and famous that his bulldog, Rony, has his own Instagram page.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:46 (seven years ago) link
204 Ansi Agolli has played for Qarabag since 2010 and has become a fans’ idol there while winning in three league titles, and two domestic cups. His status as well-loved player in Azerbaijan was boosted after Albania’s qualification for Euro 2016. Agolli will be part of Azerbaijani football’s history books, through being the league’s first player to take part in the competition.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
205 Razvan Rat is an avid wine collector, a hobby he began while playing for Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine – where he met his wife, too. He grew up in a small Romanian town, Piatra-Olt, where he watched the country’s legendary 1994 World Cup campaign at his neighbours’ house because his family did not have a television.
― nakhchivan, Friday, 3 June 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
Despite being affectionately nicknamed "Thor" by Aston Villa fans, Birkir Bjarnason's name is actually the Icelandic for "Bucky Barnes". The Captain America sidekick is by a significant margin the most popular Marvel character in Iceland, with 8% of Icelandic men being named after him.
Bjarnason himself credits his 2012 transfer to Standard Liege to feeling more motivated as a result of Marvel's early 2010s revival of the character.
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 6 August 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Javi Martinez is a World Cup champion and multiple Bundesliga title winner, but the Bayern Munich man also claims to have come up with the concept for ‘The Hunger Games’.
Suzanne Collins is the published author of a series of books which have been turned into Hollywood blockbusters.
The first instalment of her trilogy was released in 2008, with subsequent offerings hitting the shelves in 2009 and 2010.
‘The Hunger Games’ focuses on a futuristic world in which the inhabitants of impoverished ‘districts’ fight for survival in a compulsory televised battle royale.
By the time the books became movies in 2012, over 26 million copies had been sold.
Bayern star Martinez claims he missed out on a piece of that profit having come up with a similar idea in his youth.
The 30-year-old Spain international told German magazine Socrates : “Writing is a great pleasure for me, even as a teenager I started to write a book.
“And believe it or not, the plot was pretty much the same as 'The Hunger Games'.”
When Collins’ version of events hit the big screen, Martinez admits he found it difficult to watch.
He added: “That was strange, I was sitting in the cinema and thought: ‘It does not exist, that's my idea, which I had years ago, the creators must have stolen my computer’.”
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 9 February 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
Marvel Cinematic Universe mainstay Sebastian Stan was given a custodial sentence in 2009 for the aggravated stalking and subsequent attempted kidnap of then-Birmingham City midfielder Sebastian Larsson. The Acocks Green native, born Jordan Scuggins, later adopted his stage name as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the incident, quipping to Tim Lovejoy that it "might help me remember about the restraining order."
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 19 September 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Disgruntled former romantic conquests of Rohan Ricketts at one point organised into a support group named "The Riders of Rohan". The collective's efforts to raise awareness of the former Wolves midfielder's apparent shortcomings in the bedroom ultimately floundered amid confusing legal action from the Tolkien estate and New Line Cinema.
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 23 January 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
I had read that separately tbh
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
1. Claudia Caniggia doesn't sweat.
― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:12 (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
more sinister now ofc
This thread is very funny. For some reason I am particularly enjoying “Jerome Boateng is a wiccan”
― the article don, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
210. Declan Rice exudes a unique pheromone which makes him sexually irresistible to English commentators and pundits
― a spectre is haunting your mom (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link