Emsworth. Feeling a bit worn out, might leave the Anschluss until tomorrow.

Half the country owns its own home because of a pub in Birmingham. 🇬🇧 A buttonmaker on Snow Hill couldn't afford a house. Nobody like him could. So the landlord of the Golden Cross had an idea. 🍺 None of you can build a house. All of you can. A few shillings each. Every week. 🪙 When there's enough, build a house. Draw a name out of a hat. One of us gets the keys. 🔑 Keep paying. Build the next one. Until every man in the room has a front door. Nobody gave them anything. They built it out of pennies and each other. They called it a building society. Within 50 years there were hundreds. 🏘️ The idea went round the world. Every mortgage you've ever heard of descends from a hat going round a pub table. The pub's gone. The idea isn't. There are still 42 building societies in Britain, owned by their 26 million members, no shareholders, no landlord. If you've ever had a Nationwide account, you were in Ketley's pub. They teach you the Industrial Revolution. They never teach you that the men in it clubbed together and built their own front doors. 🧱 That's what Proud Of Us is for. We're passing the hat for the story. Paid for by people like you. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. They passed a hat round and built a country's homes. Will you put your name in? 👇 proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

When you understand this, stress becomes meaningless. [📹 Kim Emerson]

The lovely people at Fabulous Films have given me one of these to give away. You will get it a couple of weeks before it's released. All you have to do is retweet this tweet & I will select a winner at random. Good Luck!! fabulousfilms.com/products/m…

This is why I pay for the Internet. Pure talent 👏

The baby doesn't just imitate Grandpa… he's a carbon copy.

Are you happy now you racist f***ing bastards? You hounded a gorgeous, talented young man to his death. I cannot put into words how disgusted, angry and heartbroken I am. 🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬💔🤬 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j1…

10 years ago, we were gifted this absolute classic. 😂 “He’s got a Cagoule?!” Football content at its finest. 👏

New Order’s “Blue Monday” played entirely on vintage Casio instruments. Polaroids of the Pyramids cooked this one. Insanely good! via: youtube.com/watch?v=h9mm0YlM…

In 2003, the most hated team in the NBA did the kindest thing anyone has ever done on a basketball court. April 25, 2003. Rose Garden, Portland. Game 3 of the first round against Dallas. The Blazers are down 2-0 and facing elimination from the moment they wake up. That Blazers team had a nickname. The Jail Blazers. They were, at the time, maybe the least likable team in professional sports. Arrests. Suspensions. A roster full of guys the national media treated as villains. Portland fans were exhausted by them. Before the game, a 13 year old girl named Natalie Gilbert walks to center court to sing the national anthem in front of 19,980 people. What nobody in the building knew is that she was sick. She had the flu. She later said she just didn't feel like herself at all that day. She gets a few lines in. And then her brain goes blank. She sings "star's last gleaming" instead of "twilight's last gleaming," realizes it instantly, and stops. She looks around. She puts her hand to her face. Thirteen years old. Twenty thousand people. National television. Frozen. There is no worse feeling available to a human being. And then a man walks out of the Portland huddle. Maurice Cheeks, the head coach, minutes away from a playoff elimination game, leaves his team, walks across the floor, puts his arm around her shoulder and says, "C'mon." Then he starts singing with her. Now understand something. Maurice Cheeks cannot sing. At all. He is not remotely trying to rescue the performance. He's just refusing to let a kid stand there alone. He keeps his arm around her the whole way. He feeds her the next words. And within a few seconds, all 19,980 people in that building stand up and sing it with them. A moment that was going to define a little girl's life in the worst possible way became the exact opposite. Dan Patrick wrote at the time that Cheeks' simple actions had become the defining moment of the entire playoffs. They went on Jay Leno together. CNN. Good Morning America. It became one of the first truly viral NBA moments, years before that word meant anything. Portland lost the game. They lost the series. Cheeks finished his Blazers tenure with a fairly ordinary record and was eventually let go. Now here's the ending. In March 2025, almost 22 years later, Maurice Cheeks came back to Portland as an assistant coach with the New York Knicks. The Blazers found Natalie Gilbert. She's 35 now. Married. Goes by Natalie Zito. She's also, as it turns out, a Blazers season ticket holder. They brought her back to sing the anthem again. She nailed it. The whole building erupted. And the camera cut to Cheeks on the sideline, beaming like a proud father. The two of them met before the game and hugged. What she said afterward is why this story matters. She explained that she'd been made fun of a lot as a kid, and that in the moment she felt most helpless and hopeless, a stranger walked right over with no hesitation. "This moment changed my life." And then she said something even better. That she wouldn't go back and change any of it. That seeing him again and finding out he's still the same standup guy proved it was all real. Twenty two years. One arm around a shoulder. Follow @thesportsontap, we post a story like this every day.

Polish pianist Waldemar Malicki seamlessly incorporating the interruption of a Nokia ringtone into his music during a live performance.

Just a guy having fun with his job.

A travesty to see that this summer banger only reached #52 in the UK charts

The frustrating trap of the deep block. (Englands nemesis) pompeypost.blogspot.com/2026…

Dear England fans. The ache of loss will fade in time, but the scar will always remain. Go home, drown your sorrow, hug your families and lament on what could have been. 60 years of hurt (and counting) Carry it like a badge of honour, but remember. T'is only a game.

Does anybody know how long to World War 3? youtube.com/watch?v=VpfcPe_a…

Almost 40 years ago and they still have beautiful chemistry. For 3 minutes the world stops and we revisit the 1970s in this video. Bless them both.

I’m absolutely dying 🤣 Old Australian newspaper ad gone wrong. Guy selling his house writes what he thinks is a normal line at the bottom. Reporter sees it, shows up to confront him… and the interview is pure gold. You’ll see what I mean 😂😂

One of the most BBC articles that ever BBC'd Men die at greater rates than women in times of extreme heat, women most affected. 🤣 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy…

Hey @MoneyyyMikeee - you now have chants!