Today I learned...

That today is national Kate Bush Day.

Mrs Jangle was down in Folkstone, where this was happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylL0W06vl9Y

That FES, ridden to many World and Olympic medals by German track cyclists, also make canoes.

I noted that as well.
My brain then went on an odd thought process of:
no Hope/Lotus canoes,
therefore,
no TeamGB competitors in the Canoe finals.

About the spinning throw for javelin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52rvqtiBoow

Dear gods. Thought it was a Channel 9 piss-take for a moment, but no.

Yeah and from what I read, the bit at 17 seconds is him rubbing soap on the javelin to get a better release.

"Isn't that new technique a bit dangerous?"

"Hold my beer..."

…that despite being a world leader in manufacturing, China imports the vast majority of their ball point pens, because their own efforts to manufacture them invariably fail.

...that the coffee thread of this fine forum receives about 4.5 posts per day on average, while the tea thread only gets about 0.1 / day.

Tea is less glamorous and aspirational

Our shape-shifting reptilian overlords may have fooled you into thinking that the above San Francisco building was only constructed in 1915 for a world's fair, but it's really a relic of a millenia-old, technologically-advanced Russian civilisation. Oh, and the pyramids were them, too.

Really disappointed that they had nothing to do with the sauce.

..that Canadian competitor Delaney Irving won the ladies race in 2023, despite finishing unconscious, and only learning of her victory in the medical enclosure
(while reading the Wiki on the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling event).

I wonder in what other sports it would be possible to finish unconscious.

Horseriding? Darts?

Drinking games

Track sprinting.

Sky diving?

Free diving

Local Rugby League. Occupied by coked up psychopaths.

You need to be playing Union and/or professionally to make sure there isn’t a frustrated scaffolder, hell bent on staying at HRH AirBnB.

Free diving onto a track from a light aeroplane while holding a rugby ball. Highlights now on Eurosport.

I'd rather be unconscious than consciously choose to play Union, mind.

Any particular reason? I’m League through and through, but don’t mind Union.

Hoping I can find it on demand.

I’m sure I've seen it on Transworld Sport, back in the day

That Epsom leather is only produced in France and Germany and has no connection to Epsom whatsoever.