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An advert for Sea Monkeys like you used to get in old comics, but it's Sovereignty Monkeys instead. Copy reads: Enter the FANTASY WORLD of AMAZING LIVE SOVEREIGNTY MONKEYS Get your very own BOWL-FULL OF INDEPENDENCE! Just ADD BREXIT—that’s ALL! And then in ONE SECOND, your AMAZING Sovereignty Monkeys actually TAKE BACK CONTROL! Yes, the illusion of autonomy hatches instantly, right before your eyes. Now, simply watch as they swim in circles, wave tiny flags, and celebrate a victory with no actual tangible benefits! SO EAGER TO PLEASE, THEY CAN EVEN BE “PATRIOTIC”! Always clapping at empty promises, these nostalgic creatures thrive in their own reality, convinced they’ve won! Watch as they trade with themselves, sign imaginary deals, and blame each other for everything that goes wrong. And raising Sovereignty Monkeys is so easy even a Tory Prime Minister could do it. They cost very little (just your economy and global standing), keep their tank pure, and require only a minimum diet of nostalgia and slogans to survive. FREE! 1 A One-Year Supply of Misinformation! 2 Rose-tinted Fishbowl! 3 Water Shittifier! 4 A full, illustrated manual of excuses, betrayals, and finger-pointing! 5 Our famous FAILURE GUARANTEE in writing! 6 A limited-edition "magic trade deal" that never materializes! Watch as your sovereignty monkeys spend years pretending it’s just around the corner! Order now—before reality sets in! ONLY £350 MILLION PER WEEK!

Thank you hive-mind.

YouTube video by KEXP Factory Floor - Two Different Ways (Live on KEXP)

Excited to see that there's a new Factory Floor LP on the way. Here's a reminder of how great they are
youtu.be/GmQ0OTy3dRs?...

It has been suggested the future might lie in Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. I'd love to see Melon Husk's even more distorted face should some form of FALGSC (or even just straight-forward FALC) ever came to pass.

Since your post I've seen reports of lots of nasties going round post Rockaway, including Novovirus so you're not alone.

Should have used protection, perhaps? GWS.

(Other sites have the release date as 20-12-2024, so still a bit ahead of it's time)

Wow that really is futuristic - according to Rough Trade it's not due to be released until 31-12-2025!

Now that's what I call a clue!

YouTube video by The Dickies - Topic Sounds Of Silence

I doubt even the creators of this version would seriously argue that their's was "better" than the original but it definitely does "add" something (humour?). I must have heard it at least 10X more than the S&G release, and I think I'm better off for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B3I...

"That lamb's perfectly cooked" (not noticing the hand over the mouth to stop the bleating).

On tonight's Masterlogician chefs cook a meal and then serve it to guests sitting in a greenhouse 1 km away, on the hottest day of the year.

When is a clue not a clue? I too found it easier getting the answer (assuming I AM right) than the Portsmouth connection.

YouTube video by I Like Trains - Topic The Christmas Tree Ship

That link just appears to be be the first track. This should be all 5:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ce...

So forget 'baker's dozen' - 13 is now a 'Wallace handful' .

YouTube video by I Like Trains - Topic The Christmas Tree Ship

iliketrains' Christmas Tree Ship is wonderful. I played it on repeat at a pre-christmas family do and there wasn't a peep of dissent, even from my wife who doesn't usually like iTrains.

youtu.be/b1cee4-pEb8?...

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To my incomplete knowledge there have been famous, and sometimes philthy, Phil Taylors in the fields of rock, football (association, rugby, American) darts and quite possibly something like curling - too many to count on the phingers of one hand.

Weirdly that link now seems to take one to a different random FB page every time you click on it.

Yup. Thought you were being suitably 'respectful' of his known touchiness on the subject.

Photo of Gregg Wallace How do famous names spend their precious downtime? In our weekly My Saturday column, celebrities reveal their weekend virtues and vices. This week: Gregg Wallace

5am I wake up at the same time every morning. I'll read for an hour - right now it's A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - then I'll make myself a coffee and check emails. I'll also look at the sign-up numbers for my health programme. 7am I work out five days a week. I'm down at the gym half an hour before it opens. They let me in earlier, so I have a swim and sauna by myself. Then I'll review my to-do list while walking on a treadmill, no sweating. I aim for 50,000 steps a week - I do about 7,000 a day. I'm now 12 stone [having lost five stone] and I have less than 18 per cent body fat and a six-pack, but I have a belly that bloats. I guess we all have our imperfections.

10.30am Meet my PA Helen at the local Harvester for breakfast - bacon, sausage and fried egg. People say to me, 'I didn't expect to see you in here.' Look, they do grilled chicken, there's a salad bar, and I've never been disappointed. It's all about expectation when it comes to food. I've regularly been disappointed in three-star Michelin restaurants around Europe but never in a Harvester. I manage MasterChef filming, my wellbeing business and now there's also my new health and well-being podcast, A Piece of Cake. I love chatting to the experts, but I'm quite the expert too, having been journalling, manifesting, goal-setting and reading self-help books for years. 12pm Back home for lunch, which my wife Anna [Anne-Marie Sterpini] will have ready on the table. Her white bean soup with a crust of bread is a family favourite. 1.30pm I like to spend time with my four-year-old son, Sid, who's non-verbal autistic. He used to be in his own world but he's starting to seek company and show eye contact. We'll potter in the garden and play with our two dogs, Wally and Bella. I'm a much better father now I'm older, although another child isn't something that I would have chosen at my age. I was always very honest with Anna, but it's what she wanted and I love her. I just requested two things - that we had help in the house (so her mum moved in), and secondly that we had at least one week a year when we holidayed just the two of us.

3pm I'm an amateur historian. I spend two hours by myself in my home office playing Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia, set in 878 AD. I prefer turn-based strategy computer games to fast ones that require reflex. 6pm I cook dinner for the family once a week - grilled fish from the fishmonger at the local farmshop, Hartley in Cranbrook, Kent. I like bass, sole, or crab to make sandwiches with chips. I never eat takeaways now - I make my own healthy cheeseburgers instead. I only drink twice a week, either for a rugby game or dinner with Anna. I'll start off with a pint, then have a wine, then maybe a whisky or brandy. I don't drink excessively any more. I've never, ever regretted not having a drink. 8pm Bed. I've tried sitting on the sofa eating biscuits but I don't find it fulfilling. We read or watch a film on my laptop. I'm normally asleep by nine.

Has everyone seen Gregg Wallace's My Saturday, from the Telegraph earlier this year? It went viral on the other site. Still worth reading.

"Greg Wallace" : ) (assuming that was deliberate)

..in other words like No2 in The Prisoner (with either the reigning monarch, or indeed the superior power always being No1).

It's cats I'm afraid, but at least this shows them in quite a different light: www.facebook.com/share/r/15ZQ...

Surprised to have just seen something about the British Origami Society on Antiques Roadshow. I knew they were struggling during Covid and I thought they had folded.

Oh, well here's hoping 'it' goes as quickly and mysteriously as 'it' appeared. Will Dave be putting in an appearance or is he stuck down here for the moment?

..but with a lower budget.

I've heard rumour that the next Bond film will also be a John Lewis advert.

Love to Lilly, hope you are both doing OK.