Miller's Crossing (1990)

 

Sinners (2025)

 

Busted Ruinate *

Busted on 180. (I actually went for the 180.) I've been here before. I just didn't realised how many times before:

• Sep 7th 2022
• Feb 12th 2024
• Sep 20th 2024
• Nov 12th 2024
• Mar 12th 2025
• Apr 22nd 2025

The strange thing is that when I entered the score of 180 into the Russ Bray Dart App to acknowledge the busted throw, it recorded it as a 180 outshot. Did someone come up with a new rule change whilst I wasn't looking? 

So, either the app is busted ruinated fucked, or it is just another reminder that I originally opted the cheap arse bargain basement dart app all those years ago. Probably a combination of both.

94/50

*I realised I kept falling back on 'busted' as a post title for such 180s, so I broke out the online Merriam-Webster dictionary and plumped for 'ruinate' instead . . . it's just not the same. (In a Matt Berry voice.)

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)

 

'Have I seen you lately?'

Posted early morning August 17th.

First 180 in three weeks. First 180 of August. If you are going to slump, go in all the way, folks.

Back on the Target Carreras for this 180. (I've since reverted back to the Designa Dark Thunders again.) Me umming and aaing about what darts to use, where to stand, am I left eye dominant or right eye dominant?, what grip should I try? etc, etc, all add up to the fact that I'm totally down in the dumps with the darts right now. I should take an extended break . . .  but I won't.

I could have sworn the Van Morrison song was entitled 'Have I seen you lately?' Just another thing I'm getting wrong lately.

Van the Man. Half genius, half wanker.

93/50

Strangers on a Train (1951)

 

This pans out . . .

This is the kind of misinformation on the internet that I can get behind.

Should have posted this a month ago but I was too busy enjoying the football . . .

My kids don't like football . . . or Maths  . . . or History.

What do they like?

A screenshot from an old issue of Roy of the Rovers. I don't actually remember the strip itself. It was called 'The boy who did not like football'. Sod him.

Fake it till you make it

15 darts thrown (2 bounced out). There's a (fake) 180 in there somewhere.

Dicking around 'cos my darts' performance at the moment are absolutely shocking. It's my worst slump in at least a year. No cast iron explanation but a lot of bullshit theories. The least bullshit - and, therefore, the most plausible - is that I'm just winding down on the darts. A combination of age, health, indifference and just feeling fucking blah.

All melancholy aside, throwing multiple darts at the board in a random fashion actually serves some purpose. It's good for the dartitis . . .  if nothing else.  I even threw the darts without using the 'fake' throw. I haven't thrown darts like that for a while.

Counting backwards

Posted the 8th August (late morning).

Currently in a slump with regards to the darts. (I seem to start a lot of darts posts with that line . . . but this time it's even worse.)

Deliberating whether or not I should go to a local dart event this afternoon. Not because I'm playing well and I think I can get something out of it but because I'm playing badly and I need to push myself. I probably won't.

91/50