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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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best way to prevent this breaking through the crust is to put Thames Water in charge of it.

04.08.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There 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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is God having a clear out of 90s Celebrities You Haven't Thought About In Years?

04.08.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Scottish term for a woman who tends to young owls is a Hootenanny.

04.08.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One 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€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Tombs are usually haunted

04.08.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only saw the TV show in the late 80s/90s.

04.08.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do they really have a theory of humans controlling the weather?

04.08.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It'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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Traffic cops are struggling to ketchup.

04.08.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

30 billion Tesla shares - that's worth what, ten dollars?

04.08.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is just stingbait.

04.08.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You don't miss anything by not reading about Aztecs in the Guardian. It's no sacrifice.

04.08.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nigel 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€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

VDU

04.08.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Hells Empire: Tales of the Incursion: Amazon.co.uk: Grant, John Linwood, Rutledge, Charles R, Edwards, S L, Willis, Matt, Pitman, Marion, Baxter, Ross, Steadman, Ian, Bond, Charlotte, Breach, Phil, Co... Buy Hells Empire: Tales of the Incursion by Grant, John Linwood, Rutledge, Charles R, Edwards, S L, Willis, Matt, Pitman, Marion, Baxter, Ross, Steadman, Ian, Bond, Charlotte, Breach, Phil, Coffman, F...

If anyone unfortunate enough to see the Amazon Prime War Of The Worlds would like a palette cleanser, might I recommend Hell’s Empire, an anthology I was involved in a few years ago? The brief was, broadly, β€˜what if War if the Worlds but demons instead of aliens?’

www.amazon.co.uk/Hells-Empire...

03.08.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Just try buying a *drink* in the West End, now that's a robbery.

04.08.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I have no qualities".
"Like the guy in that book?"
"Yeah."

04.08.2025 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An 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€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m now over 1/3 of the way through Marguerite Young’s 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 β€˜No, love, we don’t stop there. This is the 74, you wanted the 73.'

04.08.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

LGBTQ+ rights will never be a priority then

04.08.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Nigel 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€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Has DVD of the Tinker Tailor film"
Vs.
"Has DVD of the BBC Tinker Tailor"

04.08.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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