Today we remember our former captain, Doug Loft, who represented our club between 2014-2016. Doug was a much loved figure at the club and he will be sorely missed by everyone associated with Gillingham FC. Rest in peace Lofty 💙 #Gills

Disney has somewhere between 16 and 30 hours of Robin Williams riffing as the Genie that never made it into Aladdin. His will keeps nearly all of it locked up until August 11, 2039. And the reason goes back to the $75,000 Disney paid him for the part. That's him in the booth in this clip, and you can see why the tapes piled up. He kept going off script, and the animators more or less had to animate whatever came out of him. Eric Goldberg ended up building the Genie around Robin's old standup bits, and a former Disney exec later said that when he was on, he was doing about 30 jokes a minute. $75,000 was union scale. His normal rate back then was around $8 million a movie, so he took less than 1% of what he usually got. He said he did it to make something for his kids, and he asked for one thing in return. Disney couldn't use his voice to sell toys and fast food, and the Genie couldn't take up more than a quarter of the ads. Aladdin made over $500 million. The Genie ended up in Burger King promotions and plastered across bus shelters all over LA. When Robin complained publicly, Disney sources told the LA Times it was sour grapes over the paycheck, and the studio's line was that he'd signed off on the marketing. At some point a Picasso showed up as a peace offering, reportedly worth around $1 million. He still refused to do the sequel. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, played the Genie instead, and Robin only came back after Disney got a new studio chief in 1994 who apologized in public. You'd think that was the end of it. Then his estate plan went public in 2015, a year after he died. His trust gave his name, signature, photo and likeness to a charity and blocked anyone from using them commercially for 25 years. Lawyers back then wrote about it as a way to stop somebody from making a Robin Williams hologram or dropping him into a new movie with CGI, which sounded a little out there in 2015. A former Disney exec later said that clause is why all those Genie outtakes never got turned into another Aladdin movie. When Disney made a short for its 100th anniversary in 2023, the family okayed exactly one unheard Genie line. Then Sora 2 came out in October 2025, and suddenly anybody could make a fake Robin Williams video in a few minutes. People flooded TikTok with them, fake ads, fake award show bits. It got bad enough that his daughter Zelda posted, "Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad." Those Genie tapes are going to sit in Disney's vault for almost 13 more years, because a guy who got paid $75,000 in 1992 made sure of it.

Doug Loft | 1986-2026 Rest in peace, Captain. 🖤🤍

I actively refuse to believe Star Wars fans watched this in 2005 and thought it was straight pungent slop dogshit

We live in a time where ladies with a $40,000 kitchen can't cook for 30 people without 24 hrs notice, and almost every guy i know could do it on a $100 grill half drunk with zero notice

#OnThisDay 2/10/21 PORT VALE 3 LEYTON ORIENT 2 Wilson, Politic, Proctor A dramatic finish at Vale Park as a late O’s goal seemed to have won the game but Vale had other ideas as two late, late goals from Dennis Politic & Jamie Proctor won the game for Vale. Att 5,667 #pvfc

🚨 MCDONALD’S JUST ADMITTED THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING TO THEIR OWN FOOD — AND THE INTERNET IS GOING CRAZY A guy noticed a bizarre spot on his McDonald’s bun and posted it online because he genuinely wanted to know what the hell it was. Then McDonald’s showed up in the comments. Their response? “Ran to the comments because idk either” That’s when people lost it. Because if McDonald’s doesn’t know what’s happening to its own food, who the hell does? Another man has been documenting a McDonald’s cheeseburger for 515 DAYS and says it still hasn’t visibly rotted or molded. The original receipt sitting next to it has literally deteriorated more than the burger itself. He also has a 119-day-old Quarter Pounder that still appears largely intact and a 25-day-old McChicken sandwich where the lettuce is visibly deteriorating while the chicken patty barely seems to have changed. If McDonald’s can’t even explain what’s happening to its own food, why the hell are millions of people still eating it without asking questions?

Did they really just find Noah’s Arc 🤯

turns out Gen Z was right about those baggy pants

LMAO — Just when you thought you seen it all 😂 another lunatic Democrat shows up OMG 😜

Lidl has started adding PEA PROTEIN to beef mince… and calling it “High Protein Beef Mince.” No, seriously. Apparently beef wasn’t protein enough. This new range landed in Lidl stores across Britain on 18 September. It mixes British meat with plant based pea protein, and Lidl says the products contain at least 20% more protein than their traditional versions. Lidl has committed to increasing plant based protein to 25% of the protein it sells by 2030. And Lidl itself says this new hybrid meat range helps bring its “Planetary Health Diet commitments” onto supermarket shelves. So we’re taking beef, one of the most naturally protein rich foods humans eat, mixing pea protein into it, then putting a massive HIGH PROTEIN label on the front as though we’ve somehow improved meat. That’s quite a marketing trick. If I pick up a packet labelled BEEF MINCE, I want beef mince. Not beef mince quietly helping a supermarket hit its plant protein targets. How long before finding a packet containing just beef becomes the premium option?

MEET KIMBERLY. If you’re using “11-1” to argue the lone juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial must have been wrong, watch this. Kimberly served on a statutory rape jury years ago. Eleven jurors believed the defendant was guilty. One refused. After hours of deliberating, the eleven eventually changed their votes to NOT GUILTY. Did the evidence change? No. Kimberly says they were tired. They wanted to go home. They didn’t like the teenage victim. A man they believed was guilty walked free. She still considers it one of the biggest regrets of her life. THAT is why I won’t dismiss the Clancy holdout simply because eleven people disagreed with him. Eleven people can be wrong. Eleven people can cave. Eleven people can just want the deliberations to end. The entire purpose of requiring unanimity is that the twelfth juror is allowed to say: No. You haven’t convinced me. And refuse to move.