Vapour Trails

Well this can just fuck right off

@tftimemachine.bsky.social have you ever seen this clip? Its on Stuart Millard's brilliant YouTube channels latest video on Noel featuring him introducing a gurning feature. As if that's not enough the current champion of the time is Mr Ron Looney. Noel heaven.

@profanityswan.bsky.social this is a bit Noel adjacent so naturally I thought of you and Sam when I saw it.

@profanityswan.bsky.social hi Andy, just catching up on TFTM, I have the blu ray of Threads which has a great interview with the creator on it. He says it's called Threads because it's about the threads that hold society together and how fragile they are, so pretty much what Sam said.

Your wife does it cos she can get away with it, because she knows you're there as back up. In other words she's a bully. Stand back and leave her to it and watch her learn the hard way

Anyone who invokes the awful (and this is not mentioned enough) paedo-y Chris Evans or his equally odious mate Danny Baker gets no sympathy from me.

I thought that looked familiar then I saw the town and knew why. In 1985 Clowns was a top after school location to go into. The same shop is a poncy cafe now.

This is good but nothing tops the guy who helped his friend who was a Saturday waitress in a cafe write her resignation letter by telling her to write "my position had become untenable" because he'd heard that's what politicians did on the news and thought that just what you say

I once heard that scene brilliantly described by the guys on the YouTube channel Mr Sunday Movies thus: he goes through those embassy offices like an escaped gorilla from the zoo then just grabs a pen pushing bureaucrat and utterly ruins him for no good reason, it's brilliant.

Not as badly as the pound shop Pierce Brosnan one they had I bet.

Blimey I think you are incredibly preserved for 65. People age so much better these days and you look great.

About 25 years ago the area commander in The Bill was played by a middle aged black actor. I was a copper at the time and there was only one black middle aged officer at my station. One day in a ridiculous moment of mixing up real life with tv I addressed him as "Sir" as I said good morning to him

Was this sent by Martin Daniels?

Ah social media pedantry. Welcome back old friend. Ffs

If I point out something my 16 year old son hasn't done, a chore for instance, he clutches his heart, looks aghast and says "Terrance, please" in an Arthur Daley voice.

The US would be a better place if the turd I saw a dog squatting out in the park this morning was in charge.

Lovely stuff. Big fan here (as my account name gives away). Saw Andy at Bedford tonight. Beautiful show and he kindly signed albums for myself and my son afterwards. A great performer and generous man to his fans. Thankyou for the good times Andy xx

@tftimemachine.bsky.social it's a shame Sam doesn't have the vita modular anymore but perhaps one for you Andy as a man (like me) who lives alone and can completely make his own home design choices!

Yes, today I did the same walk in the rain and it was fine. Still it signifies the coming of Spring which is lovely!

Yes perhaps that's it. I was just on the home stretch back in residential streets when my eyes really started itching in that familiar way and I thought wow that's early, so seeing your comment today was nice in a way to know I'm not imagining it.

Yes! It happened yesterday afternoon after a walk through the country.

That literally is shoplifting.

Being right is completely irrelevant without power. I wish it wasn't the case but putting a black woman up as the presidential candidate in a hugely racist misogynistic country (outside of the major cities) was a tactically bad decision at this point in history when winning mattered more than ever.

Screw that. I want a Mr Kidd and Mr Wint origin story where they finally meet..... in the last 5 minutes.

There is no way to easily shake off a marriage unless the other person wants to leave you too.

First broadcast in 1979 Minder ran for 11 seasons on ITV, ending in 1994

Worse than number 9, he liked Toploader in that time too which I refer to as his "there's an olive in me 'elmet" period.

A colleague of mine was on there, she won and one of the other contestants had a massive meltdown, was incredibly rude to her and kicked them all out of his house when it was announced. It gets repeated on clip shows all the time much to her embarrassment! I hope Suzy is spared a similar fate!

I think that's probably a blessing in this case