Adam

getting really into it like a mid-day soap opera

This made me very happy

(Sidenote: I miss how batshit The Sims 1 was. The tragic clown, those terrifying prank phone calls, the burglar music. Clearly designed to give children nightmares)

YouTube video by The Masked Singer UK The Masked Singer: The Magic of Early Years Episode 3

I’m so baffled by this government funded campaign about training and careers in early years education through the lens of the Masked Singer youtu.be/1VT7AKNWeUI?...

This is true. The sheer cost of guided group tours to places like China for pensioners is astounding. Good market to be in!

Whicker at least made sense in an era where travel was a lot less common. Given you can now get a much better guide to anywhere on earth on YouTube, what’s the point of these?

Shoutout to this guy on Reddit for:

a) creating a detailed paper trail of his private vending machine business, and how he plans to install one on university property

b) getting caught by said university, which he's a student at, for installing said vending machine

I think your thread on insane millennium things was my favourite day on this website

Oh Pac-Man :(

I imagine they’ll also sell a boatload to schools

Oh yes, she has about 500,000 apologetic emails from the person she worked with showing the comms she was having with finance trying to get this sorted. It was insane but absolutely not their fault!

My mum finally got £50 out of redacted university after 2 years of them trying to figure out how to pay it.

Just remembered I stole this take off @nathanwylabour.bsky.social. He’s right though!

Also the Labour Party in those bits of London is weird in part because Labour has been so hegemonic that anyone who wants to be politically active joins Labour as it is/was the only way to get anywhere

The world being run by people with the instincts of 14 year olds but the life expectancy of men in their late 70s is going swimmingly isn’t it?

YouTube video by mwfunnybonez Not The Nine O'Clock News - The Ayatollah Song

The system is actually run by Pamela Stephenson and she doesn’t want her wordplay to stop working youtu.be/8iPgOBoqsaQ?...

YouTube video by andyserkis The Sims Soundtrack: Building Mode 2

Did anyone ever ask why The Sims 1 soundtrack is so deeply melancholic and downright sad sometimes? youtu.be/Mke9z4qfTFU?...

This is why the worst thing the BBC did in the last year was kill News Briefing on Radio 4. What happened last night, read out calmly, business, sport, quick paper review, this day in history, you’re done. I really miss it.

IIRC that only happened because the tape for the next segment was broken and he suddenly had to fill time. I guess it would’ve come together but it’s odd that fairly desperate filling became seen as a master stroke.

IIRC this came in shortly after ABC had decided that boxes full of free copies of newspapers at airport boarding gates didn’t count?

Here are the pre-election numbers

Reading this whole round of Trump interviews about Iran, it's like talking to 2024 ChatGPT. Non-deterministic answers that have little relationship to the truth or each other, catering to whatever the other person wants to hear as long as it makes everyone feel good.

We had similar in about 2006. Gathered in the local park, everyone got in two big lines face to face, nobody knew what to do next,
Few slaps exchanged, everyone went home

This is the type of thing that could do immense damage should it go viral on social media in the Islamic world. It’s basically all the untrue rumours that got whipped up around the Prophet Muhammad cartoons circa 2006, except this time the US government is stirring the pot.

I’m not for a moment suggesting this is going to revive Starmer but the extent to which the British right seems to think ‘deeply unpopular president mad at PM for not joining legally dodgy war that is spinning out of control’ is a line that helps them(!) is quite breathtaking.

They were also relatively popular in Korea a few years back.

The communal joy over seeing people who’ve spent the last five years posting smug TikToks from Dubai getting caught up in the Iran conflict probably comes close to what Starmer would call ‘real Britain’

“Being evicted from my flat isn’t an explicit aim of my decision to stop paying my mortgage”

If you’ve been through a biggish city in the UK at a weekend this year, fair chance you’ve seen a crowd of people waving that flag alongside American and Israeli ones! That might give you pause for thought?