Simon Brown

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you've owned:

Ford Fiesta mk1
MG Midget 1500
Rover 3500S
MG ZT-T
Hyundai Santa Fe

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

Gomez
Oasis
Pulp
Reef
The Cardigans

After reading that article, I'm getting vibes of Eliza from Neal Stepenson''s Baroque Cycle: Courtesan; polymath; influencer.

Patrick O'Brian was apparently a bit of a dick: deserting his former family etc etc. But Aubrey-Maturin novels still float my boat. So to speak.

WHERE'S YOUR FUCKING POPPY?

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It sounds like (to this untrained person) many of the British colonies in the 19th/20th centuries: import Indians to run the civil service.

Location of my daughter on Vesuvius

I know that this is helicopter parenting at its finest, but I am "well jel" that one of my daughters is currently looking into the crater of Vesuvius

I loved Sleeper so much. They showed it on BBC2 in the 80s in a Woody Allen season, and it was an eye-opener: Lots of material to go over with my geeky teenage friends at school the following day.

With the non-celeb version you are always a bit "meh" about them at first, but 6 episodes in you are* completely invested.

*I am

KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?

SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.

that's a follow :-)

TIME TRAVELLER: Can't wait to visit the sane and advanced world of 2025!

(looks at screen)

*gently to my cat*: you cant be a little fucker. You have to be good. No more being a little fucker.

*My cat, purring*: the Being a Fucker hour draws near

If every single person who voted for this could line up so I can run at them and kick them in the nuts so hard they erupt out of the back of their necks, that would be really good, thanks. I want to make sure I get you all. Every single one of you.

Currently a 6.

Medieval stained glass illustration showing two adults lamenting over a recumbent figure.

Medieval parents trying to make their kid get up and go to school on the first day back after the summer holiday.

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As a Brit, the only reference to Smoot-Hawley is know is from "Ferris Beuller's Day Off"

Love old papers. Fancy having such a list today!

Tell me the most Tory vegetable

And in the middle of Ski Sunday, when they were showing the scores or whatever, they would play a section of "The Things that Dreams are Made Of" by the Human League. It took me years to find out what that music way.

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

Spaghetti hoops are basically Alphabetti Spaghetti for backing singers.

A pub, a pint of IPA, the second test on TV

Just dropped the girls to see Lana at Wembley, looking for a park to sit in....got sidetracked.

It's spelt "Raymond Luxury-Yacht", but pronounced "Throat-wobbler Mangrove"

Atheists everywhere having a rethink