This should be in at least three forums.
It's always one of those strange things about following the news and sport at the same time. Feeling genuinely excited because your team equalises at Tranmere but then somewhere gets invaded and you hear about it at half-time and you worry about the world, at least until the impact sub scores the winner.
There will be votes in Parliament starting about 3 pm, so it should all kick off around kick-off. Rationally we can all distinguish between decisions that seriously affect millions of lives and will linger for generations and ones that really don't matter at all, except we only have one brain and it has to process all these emotions at the same time. Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch talked about the trade-off (Thatcher and Arsenal both winning) which I imagine most of us have made at some stage. I'm hoping to give a silent "Yeeesss!" shortly, for an Exeter goal or an All Blacks win or an amendment passing, and I don't like to think about those priorities.
I wonder what it's like for those of you at the games today. Will players be confused by a cheer in the stands when Johnson wins? Will Remainers chant "We'll see you all outside (the EU)"? Or will it be like the dark ages before mobile phones, when the tannoy didn't work and you could remain oblivious until you reached a shop window with a telly?
Saturday's kids they fight with insults ...
It's always one of those strange things about following the news and sport at the same time. Feeling genuinely excited because your team equalises at Tranmere but then somewhere gets invaded and you hear about it at half-time and you worry about the world, at least until the impact sub scores the winner.
There will be votes in Parliament starting about 3 pm, so it should all kick off around kick-off. Rationally we can all distinguish between decisions that seriously affect millions of lives and will linger for generations and ones that really don't matter at all, except we only have one brain and it has to process all these emotions at the same time. Nick Hornby in Fever Pitch talked about the trade-off (Thatcher and Arsenal both winning) which I imagine most of us have made at some stage. I'm hoping to give a silent "Yeeesss!" shortly, for an Exeter goal or an All Blacks win or an amendment passing, and I don't like to think about those priorities.
I wonder what it's like for those of you at the games today. Will players be confused by a cheer in the stands when Johnson wins? Will Remainers chant "We'll see you all outside (the EU)"? Or will it be like the dark ages before mobile phones, when the tannoy didn't work and you could remain oblivious until you reached a shop window with a telly?
Saturday's kids they fight with insults ...
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