The Methodist minister and Labour peer Donald Soper was a committed teetotaller. In a back-and-forth with a London docker about the merits of drink, Soper quoted Proverbs to him: 'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise...At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder'. The docker replied, 'I've been looking for that sort of stuff for the last 10 years!'

A classic old-fashioned Turkish-style toasted sandwich... 🎥© milliyiyici

When her husband actually gets the joke😂

The great DEREK JACOBI — one of the all-time great speakers of Shakespeare — sends himself up something rotten as an appalling Shakespearean Actor in a classic episode of FRASIER (2001)

You probably think this dance is ancient Greek. It isn’t. What Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates are doing on that stretch of Cretan sand in Zorba the Greek looks older than the rocks behind them. Arms on shoulders, feet dragging, then the music lifting and the steps tightening until the whole thing seems to have been passed down for centuries. It wasn’t. The sirtaki — the dance the world now treats as Greece itself — was assembled for a 1964 film. Giorgos Provias built the choreography from pieces of existing Greek dances: the slow pull of the syrtos, the changing pulse of the hasapiko. Mikis Theodorakis wrote the music that made those steps feel inevitable. Then the cameras rolled on Stavros beach, and two actors finished a story that had already gone badly. A mine collapsed. Plans failed. People were lost. And still they danced. That is the second surprise. They were not performing a national ritual. One man is Zorba — restless, physical, allergic to theory. The other is Basil, the young writer who thinks too much and moves too little. Zorba does not give him a speech. He puts a hand on his shoulder and starts moving. No lecture. No consolation. Just dance. There is a smaller, more human accident inside the scene. Quinn had injured his foot late in the shoot. The leaping steps first planned for the sequence were suddenly impossible. So he dragged the injured foot through the sand, and that limitation became the movement everyone remembers. Sometimes a broken thing is what gives a scene its shape. Watch it again with that in mind and the clip changes. The joy is not triumph. It is not even hope, exactly. It is the decision, after everything has gone wrong, that the body still has something to say. Basil asked to be taught. Zorba laughed, then taught him. The camera stays with them as the rhythm quickens and the two figures, one weathered and one still learning, keep going against the sea. The rest is aftermath. Tourists would later ask for “the Greek dance.” Tavernas would play the theme until it felt eternal. Greece acquired an image the film had invented on a Tuesday in 1964. But the scene itself is simpler than the myth it created. Two men on a beach. One of them cannot jump. Both of them refuse to stand still. They were not trying to invent a country. They were trying to stay alive in it. The world joined them later.

🇺🇸 Levon Aronian on the hardest skill to teach in chess: "The hardest skill to teach, I think, is a feeling of harmony. Because quite often, you look at the position and you don't know how or why, but candidate moves that you have that appear in your mind make total sense. They're filled with purpose. But it's something you cannot really teach or explain. I had numerous times when I would be analyzing with a young player and I would be telling them, 'Okay, what are the moves that you're considering here?' And all the moves that would come to their mind wouldn't be the moves that I would feel are natural. And then I would say, 'Look, you have certain issues with your general feel of harmony.' So this is something I don't know how to teach, but this is something that comes naturally, I guess, like in music."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Inglaterra: 4-2-3-1 en rombo, Kane de falso 9, Bellingham llegando desde segunda línea, Pontas invertidos, Presión alta, Rotaciones en el mediocampo 🇦🇷 Argentina: El que no se la pase a Messi es gay

🎯 I have an aversion to excess chess analogies, but England going up a goal and then pulling back against Messi instead of continuing to attack was like going up a pawn and then trying to play passive defense against Mikhail Tal!

Me tomé la libertad de hacer el mismo clip con mejor calidad. Poesía pura.

Laurel And Hardy singing "On The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine", from "Way Out West"

Nothing compares to British humor.🤣

In Finland, libraries lend out tools, sewing machines, musical instruments, and even sports equipment, not just books, so everyone has access to things they might not be able to afford

در تابلویی به نام «کیش و مات»، شیطان با لبخند به صفحه شطرنج نگاه می‌کند؛ گمان می‌کند بازی تمام شده و انسان شکست خورده است. اما پشت سر آن انسان، فرشته‌ای آرام ایستاده… چون می‌داند هنوز یک حرکت باقی مانده است. می‌گویند روزی یک استاد شطرنج مقابل این تابلو ایستاد و بعد از دقایقی گفت: «این کیش و مات نیست… هنوز یک حرکت مانده.» شاه هنوز استوار ایستاده ! #KingRezaPahlavi‌

Remember this pensive 12th century Chinese general's poem the next time someone shits on small talk

Historical Figures as Regular People

Rebinding old book into a treasure

This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

RT @ElhamOmidvari: بترسید از مادری که بر جنازه فرزندش می‌رقصد! #IranMassacre #R2PforIran