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Frankenstein's Jacob Elordi reveals why his monster has a Yorkshire accent Not what we were expecting!

Ahhh - apparently this is old news! Glad I spotted it though ☺️ Frankenstein's Jacob Elordi reveals why his monster has Yorkshire accent in Netflix movie | Metro News share.google/q0KRZUKUPZE8...

If I'm not mistaken there are definitely some Yorkshire vowels going on in Jacob Elordi's accent in @realgdt.bsky.social #Frankenstein If that's deliberate because he learns most of his vocab from David Bradley then that's a genius decision! And the film is superb. LOVED IT!

Just seen the sad news about Dave Ball from Soft Cell. The soundtrack to my student days. My best mate Liz had Non Stop Erotic Cabaret on cassette and we'd play it while she did my hair, then I'd go off to the Phono and she'd go off to the Lesbian and Gay Soc disco.
Happy days. RIP Dave

Replace the oats in your overnight oats with grape nuts. Delicious! We buy them regularly 😆

Weather good, we are gradually working our way north in search of the Loch Ness Monster.

I’m sorry but these sound like vintage esoteric euphemisms for “homosexual”

Delighted to have found a cinema near me showing @realgdt.bsky.social 's #Frankenstein this weekend. I've read it's a must see on the big screen so very much looking forward to it.

Small hospitality businesses (micro pubs etc) are already struggling, and forcing them to take cash would push up insurance premiums, increase admin costs and make staff more vulnerable to robbery etc.

Black cats for this October #ThursdayTheme.

1. 🖼️’The Wine of Circe’, Edward Burne-Jones, 1863 - 1869.

2. 🖼️’Early Days’, John Everett Millais, 1873.

3. 🖼️’The Love Potion’, Evelyn De Morgan, 1903.

With this and #RiotWomen the Beeb are really spoiling us at the moment

Anyone want to start a punk band?

Watched #RiotWomen in two nights. Absolutely LOVED it

Keira Knightley is a shit investigative journalist. I worked out what was going on in this Netflix film about 45 mins before she did 🙄

England need to get going a bit in these last few overs #cwc2025 #thecricket #engsl

"We hate each other but we were offered a lot of money to do this."

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.

Hoping I get the opportunity to make the choice about Rush!

I didn't go and see Prince in Leeds in 2014 as I refused to pay over £100 for a ticket. Then a couple of years later I wished I had :(

YouTube video by ukcomedy Patricia Routledge Kitty

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

“So, I tapped her on the cleavage with my cake fork. That got her attention.”

RIP Kitty

#CWC2025 What's is going on at #thecricket ! Amazing stuff England

NT Independent: Blow jobs report finally released into questionable NT Police senior appointments by Christopher Walsh | Oct 2, 2025 |

Meanwhile in Australia’s Northern Territory, Justice Blow has published his report about dodgy employment practices in the local police, and a local journalist has just spuffed all over his keyboard.

My Dad used to tell us he once took Sandra Dorne on a date. She was plain old Joan Smith from Keighley in West Yorkshire then.

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

tbt the time a drunk was trying to insult one of the bouncers on the high street and got the devastating response "oh look, someone who doesn't matter has said something that isn't true". I often think about this when not replying to tweets

The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees [The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: a comm n pr ble  whe  writin p ems in the shape of decid o s  trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of  he new aut mn breeze,  he   oems will begi  to shake  hemselves  ge tly  ntil their letters loos n d  like leaves, an    they  start                                     to  float  down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.

Rachel Reeves at the Labour Pary conference looking like she is giving a nazi salute

Unfortunate choice of photo there BBC 😳

It's a shame the BBC website doesn't even mention his passing (the 'Culture' section tells us Selena Gomez has got married though 🙄)

UK now recognises Palestinian state, Starmer announces.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cpw1qkyke4nt