Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.
16.10.2025 13:15 β π 573 π 66 π¬ 35 π 4@chrallen.bsky.social
Freelance Vocal Coach in Staffordshire and the West Midlands. Lover of cricket, history and Tolkien. Cannock Chase Under-14 High Jump Champion 2007.
Just popping out to LIDL, or 50-1-500-50 as the Romans called it.
16.10.2025 13:15 β π 573 π 66 π¬ 35 π 4Bram Stoker 1847-1912 A PENGUIN SINCE 1979
This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
07.09.2025 21:20 β π 2553 π 780 π¬ 59 π 54Oh you absolutely useless wankers
06.08.2025 18:34 β π 3209 π 544 π¬ 5 π 70A genuine post here, but Abide With Me before the cup final is one of football's best traditions.
17.05.2025 15:17 β π 50 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0I've invented a new word.
Plagiarism.
My mum wanted a baby seal for Motherβs Day so we all clubbed together
30.03.2025 11:32 β π 141 π 16 π¬ 4 π 1Since Trump fired most of the National Park Service, the bears have to pick up the slack.
βAlaskan bear corrects a fallen roadside coneβ
Credit @gunsnrosesgirl X
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Howay the lads!!
16.03.2025 18:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How did I know theyβd cast me as Quasimodo in the school play? Letβs just say I had a hunch.
14.03.2025 11:04 β π 44 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0βFree speechβ latestβ¦
06.03.2025 16:51 β π 1034 π 313 π¬ 98 π 15Zelensky's finest achievement to date may be in not lamping these cunts
28.02.2025 17:55 β π 1353 π 240 π¬ 25 π 11Did Dave Chappelleβs Rick James come up with this ad?
16.02.2025 18:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Regardless of who loses tonight, at least youβre not Drake.
10.02.2025 01:42 β π 547 π 81 π¬ 7 π 6Smith should retire. 9999 is Bradmanesque. #AUSvIND π
05.01.2025 01:18 β π 31 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0Happy new year everyone. Youβre all great, in some way. Each one of you has a weirdness - a superpower if you want to see it that way - that no-one else has. Thereβs no perfect, archetypal human. A species is the sum of its parts. And yet, as just one human, you are: special.
01.01.2025 01:44 β π 1560 π 139 π¬ 83 π 6Hypothetically, of course, if one does a good deed (eg, giving directions to a confused elderly man, say), does that deed retain the quality of βgoodnessβ even if it subsequently emerges that the directions given were inadvertently completely wrong by about 180 degrees or does the deed become bad?
18.12.2024 14:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If Time must name a 'Person Of The Year' they ought to show their working by ranking all of us on earth from one to eight billion. Like the world rankings in tennis or snooker. We'd all know where we stood.
12.12.2024 13:21 β π 187 π 25 π¬ 23 π 3Cartoon: two men chatting. One, holding something in his hands says "I've made a model of Mount Everestβ. The second asks "To scale?". He replies "No, just to look at".
Thereβs a version of this going round on Facebook. Hereβs the original. Itβs byβ¦ me!
Furthermore, if you like it, I can draw one for you!
https://www.worldofmoose.com/products/everest-cartoon
Lord of the Rings and Christmas Lights with a beer = perfect
08.12.2024 20:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ah. Knew that would do it.
07.12.2024 22:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You really do run out of words to describe Joe Root
07.12.2024 22:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Since the start of 2023, only 9% of balls bowled to a number 11 by England would have hit the stumps. I feel thereβs a quick fix there.
28.11.2024 22:33 β π 33 π 5 π¬ 7 π 1I love watching snooker. It's the only sport where the crowd don't know how to react until the commentator tells them. Imagine in football if a goal went in and the crowd sit in silence until they hear a commentator say what a great effort it was.
28.11.2024 20:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Round round get a round I get a round.
Tray tray need a tray I need a tray.
The Beach Boys down the pub.
Jacob Bethell has more T20I fifties than Ben Stokes.
16.11.2024 21:31 β π 67 π 10 π¬ 3 π 3Jacob Bethell has made the step up to international cricket look easy and itβs so fun to watch
16.11.2024 21:34 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Full Moon tonight. Beautiful to look but remember to wear moontan lotion to prevent moonburn
15.11.2024 20:30 β π 102 π 14 π¬ 8 π 0