Greg D WordSmith

This makes my heart happy on so many levels.

“What do you want to do on your birthday Andrew?”
“I dunno - surprise me.”

Yes I saw this in an interview with a former Royal Protection officer. He said there was a photo in a drawer next to the bed of all the Teddies so the cleaners could make sure they were all in exactly the same spot to prevent temper tantrums from Andrew.

And today in 'things literally nobody fucking asked for'....

My water bill for this year, for one person living alone, is almost six hundred pounds. Water literally falls from the sky for free all the time. Thames Water takes that, fills it with shit, pumps it into rivers I can no longer swim in, then demands I open my wallet. Cunts.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Not sure there are any, but if there was one that's closest, Gears of War 2. Despite getting it some time after all my gaming group, I was still one of the first of us to get the Party like its 1999 achievement (helped by the fact they adjusted it to include Horde matches tbf)

Exactly 8 or at least 8? Because I rewatch stuff I like a LOT. That said I happen to KNOW I saw this one 8 times at the cinema (& many more since)

I had this starkly illustrated to me when I tried to teach my wife Marvel Champions. She is a very smart woman (way smarter than I am) but the whole concept was just impenetrable to her.

Can I count this absolute BANGER from 1989?

Age Verification?

Lawnmower Simulator being a joke product featured as part of Rich Pelley's Crap Games Corner column in YS (IYKYK)

On the subject of Robocop, I feel like the Joel Kinneman reboot gets a lot of undeserved stick. Is it as good as the original? No, but neither were the two sequels. Kinneman especially for me is an actor whose performance depends on his director. He is AMAZING in For all Mankind, for example.

Often massively misinterpreted but:

If I had to guess, I would say that the likes of Bezos, Zuckerberg etc are all rather 'new money' - unfathomably wealthy but with no familial historic wealth or power as a foundation, whereas the NFL is run by a dynasty & deeply entwined in American culture & history in ways that make it sturdier?

And now neither can I...

Quite a few tbh, but one that will never ever fail to stop me in my tracks every time:

Robbie is genuinely one of the best, most talented actors of her generation and this may be the best time I ever had in a cinema.

I don't think I have ever heard Kermode as genuinely angry as this. Sure, his rants on 'bad movies' are legendary, but it's generally delivered with an air of detached boredom and/or mild incredulity. This...you could FEEL the rage radiating from him.

As a Greg born in the 80s, I feel your pain...

Tag yourself.

I am T: Keep Clear of Me

There can only be one answer. Objectively terrible, clichéd, silly, poorly plotted & with literal caricature villains. But I absolutely, completely & unironcally adore it, always have & always will.

Exactly how the underhive *should* look! Amazing work

I'm old enough to remember when Angela Rayner had to resign her post & sit on the Naughty Step for 2 months because of a completely understandable mistake with her Stamp Duty that literal experts in the field could have and indeed *have* made, which she had immediately owned up to...

I wonder how people like Katie would receive the same sentiment reversed? 'Some men like to watch two women fucking so does it really matter who it was written by or for?'

£30?!? If the other fella doesn't take them let me know

The sheer frustration (and finger cramping pain) of accidentally putting the wrong digit towards the end of dialing a number and having to hang up and start all over again. Using a pencil to rewind your album and save the batteries in your Walkman. Sellotape over the tab to reuse a video tape.

Well, that saves me spending any more cash on Warlord stuff then...

Those look amazing!

K-Industrial Metal Llama Pursuers