"I think that as a moderately intelligent women who has a slight public platform (and also as someone who had just run for a train, in the hail, in a mercifully flat pair of shoes) I owe it to others to stand up to this nonsense and I'm delighted that the awesome Twitter community was with me".
The holders, who hail from a rugby league stronghold, are now preparing to begin the defence of their crown against one of the most unloved teams in British football, MK Dons, on Saturday afternoon.
You could try and join these muffin-topped revolutionaries (all hail Madonna), but really, life's too short.
The Storm Prediction Center said Wednesday's storms in an area from northern Oklahoma to western Illinois could be significant – defined as having 2-inch hail, 75mph winds and tornadoes rated at EF2 or higher.
In fact, they hail from a land far too sun-baked to have developed much of a taste for rich, starchy rice dishes.
Instead the gleam faded, he sighed wearily and asked me to hail him a cab.
At Morebattle it was raining so hard, and there were occasional flashes of thunder and lightening, and brief outbreaks of painful hail that, very reluctantly, I decided not to continue over Wideopen Hill, but instead to take the B-road on towards Yetholm.
Some of our most engaged readers hail from Australia and this is a significant step for us on our journey to develop a global community, connecting readers around the world to the conversations that matter, and introducing them to fellow readers who share our values of press freedom and open journalism".
The years under study saw several high-profile homicides by law enforcement of unarmed civilians, such as the 2009 shooting of Oscar Grant in a train station in Oakland, California – an episode that would become the subject of the award-winning film Fruitvale Station – and the 2006 killing of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 bullets outside a nightclub in Queens, New York.
The conditions are ripe for a series of storms to gain strength and buffet middle America over the next two days, with hail and tornadoes possible in parts of the nation's geographic heartland, forecasters warned on Wednesday.
