There's just no point in having a film called Eddington unless it's part of a trilogy with Hawthorne and Fowlds.
04.08.2025 17:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@casmilus.bsky.social
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There's just no point in having a film called Eddington unless it's part of a trilogy with Hawthorne and Fowlds.
04.08.2025 17:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Best way to prevent this breaking through the crust is to put Thames Water in charge of it.
04.08.2025 17:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There is no confrontation on BlueSky, it's an echo chamber. Haven't you heard? If you haven't, just wait a moment and it'll come back again a bit fainter.
04.08.2025 17:14 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is God having a clear out of 90s Celebrities You Haven't Thought About In Years?
04.08.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Scottish term for a woman who tends to young owls is a Hootenanny.
04.08.2025 17:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of the odder moments of the dying days of the Major govt was seeing Jerry HayesMP (remember him?) cavorting about on an edition of JW.
04.08.2025 17:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Tombs are usually haunted
04.08.2025 16:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think it started as yet another C4 youth show but rapidly evolved into the post-pub style. Terry Christian did a vociferous NME interview circa 1993 where he argued back that it was the 1st show to give the audience what it actually wanted.
04.08.2025 16:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Only saw the TV show in the late 80s/90s.
04.08.2025 16:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The little I saw of it must have been his later period, because he seemed like a rather joyless bargain bin Noel Edmonds (quite likely his original ambition) with not much patience for some of the edgy wannabes he had to work with.
04.08.2025 16:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Do they really have a theory of humans controlling the weather?
04.08.2025 15:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's so cool when the Left fight each other. It's not like the Right matter - what are they gonna do, hold on to power?
04.08.2025 13:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Traffic cops are struggling to ketchup.
04.08.2025 13:11 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 030 billion Tesla shares - that's worth what, ten dollars?
04.08.2025 13:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is just stingbait.
04.08.2025 12:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You don't miss anything by not reading about Aztecs in the Guardian. It's no sacrifice.
04.08.2025 12:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is the real issue for some of them: the unbearable sense of not being the biggest thing at the centre of the universe, and rationalizing that into "these places are dangerous".
04.08.2025 12:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These are small men who've been given a megaphone and if they stopped talking into it they'd hear how quiet it is in the hall.
04.08.2025 12:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nigel should best understood on the model of some indie band that signed to a major and still haven't quite broken big despite endless touring and increasingly cynical moves. He doesn't know what it means anymore, it's just... the thing he does.
04.08.2025 12:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0VDU
04.08.2025 12:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If anyone unfortunate enough to see the Amazon Prime War Of The Worlds would like a palette cleanser, might I recommend Hellβs Empire, an anthology I was involved in a few years ago? The brief was, broadly, βwhat if War if the Worlds but demons instead of aliens?β
www.amazon.co.uk/Hells-Empire...
Just try buying a *drink* in the West End, now that's a robbery.
04.08.2025 12:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The real issue as far as I can see is that no one's done a new version of Wiley's "Watching My Rolex" with Nigel added to the video. Poor show. Very poor show.
04.08.2025 11:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"I have no qualities".
"Like the guy in that book?"
"Yeah."
We should start referring to Scottish independence as "the two state solution", to focus minds on what problem it's supposed to solve.
04.08.2025 09:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An intellectual property developer is someone who takes a modest, unpretentious hypothesis or model and builds a huge estate on it, then sells it off before anyone notices all the structural problems and subsidence issues.
04.08.2025 09:40 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm now over 1/3 of the way through Marguerite Youngβs astonishing MISS MACINTOSH, MY DARLING and Vera Cartwright is still on the bus she was on in chapter 1. I really hope that, in 850 pages time, it ends with the driver saying βNo, love, we donβt stop there. This is the 74, you wanted the 73.'
04.08.2025 09:38 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 2 π 1LGBTQ+ rights will never be a priority then
04.08.2025 09:39 β π 78 π 13 π¬ 6 π 0Nigel usually only bothers with the billionaires these days. Seeing someone with only 325m counts as going back to his humble origins.
04.08.2025 08:31 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Has DVD of the Tinker Tailor film"
Vs.
"Has DVD of the BBC Tinker Tailor"