Madeley

People who don't give up their train seat to pregnant women are a 👏superstitious 👏 and 👏cowardly 👏lot

Ponty doesn't get lumped into a greater area because no-one else wants it.

FILL IT WITH HEAVY STONES

I think I'm reposting this every time some yankee criticises anyone else's food.

That item's stayed with me for years. They should dig up his garden just in case.

Years ago on a political show, I forget which, they visited party leaders' homes and during the Nathan Gill bit he stood creepily and too close to the reporter, speaking in an odd whispery voice. Anyway I'm not surprised he's facing jail time, I'm just surprised it's not for being a serial killer.

The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson

Am X post from Suella Braverman that reads: "The SAS has the support of the whole country against this shameless government of cowards and Sinn Fein sympathisers." She is quote tweeting a post from the telegraph that says, "New laws could see former soldiers hounded through courts over alleged crimes, say veterans."

Once again, we are way too relaxed about the fact that "shooting Irish people is good actually" is a mainstream political position on the neighbouring island.

The Man of To-morrow's Lament I have to wear these glasses - otherwise, when I caress her with my super-eyes, her lungs and liver are too plainly seen throbbing, like deep-sea creatures, in between dim bones. Oh, I am sick of loitering here, a banished trunk (like my namesake in «Lear»), but when I switch to tights, still less I prize my splendid torso, my tremendous thighs, the dark-blue forelock on my narrow brow, the heavy jaw; for I shall tell you now my fatal limitation ... not the pact between the worlds of Fantasy and Fact which makes me shun such an attractive spot as Berchtesgaden, say; and also not that little business of my draft; but worse: a tragic misadjustment and a curse.

I'm young and bursting with prodigious sap, — and I'm in love like any healthy chap - and I must throttle my dynamic heart for marriage would be murder on my part, an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights a woman's life, some palmtrees, all the lights, the big hotel, a smaller one next door and half a dozen army trucks — or more. But even if that blast of love should spare her fragile frame - what children would she bear? What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down, would waddle out into the awestruck town? When two years old he'd break the strongest chairs, fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs; at four, he'd dive into a well; at five, explore a roaring furnace - and survive; at eight, he'd ruin the longest railway line

by playing trains with real ones; and at nine, release all my old enemies from jail, and then I'd try to break his head — and fail. So this is why, no matter where I fly, red-cloaked, blue-hosed, across the yellow sky, I feel no thrill in chasing thugs and thieves - and gloomily broad-shouldered Kent retrieves his coat and trousers from the garbage can and tucks away the cloak of Superman; and when she sighs - somewhere in Central Park where my immense bronze statue looms - «Oh, Clark ... Isn't he wonderful!?!», I stare ahead and long to be a normal guy instead.

Just when I think I know everything there is to know about Superman, I learn that Vladimir Nabokov wrote a poem about him in 1942 that got rejected by the New Yorker.
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

Kathleen Stock sharing a nonsense article on the ‘sex based abortion conspiracy’ on X with the caption ‘Sex-selection seems to be only aspect of abortion that progressives feel confident in objecting to. Aborting a baby because it's a baby = silence. Aborting a baby because it's a girl = howls of outrage. From baby's perspective, there isn't much difference though.’

Good people of Bluesky, I know you will be as shocked, confused and discombobulated as I am to see a “gender critical” parroting religious right, anti-abortion talking points. I am shooketh I tell you!
WHY DID NOBODY WARN US?

Narrator: trans people & allies have been warning us for years…

Cymru: "daliwch ein cwrw!"

Jez from Peep Show saying "That wasn't very Slaaneshi excessy."

Fucking hell that is succinct and completely on the button. This needs to be on posters in the street.

The Mandalorian saying "This is the way."

Don't blame a nation for the poor judgement of one fool.

We just need a Nigel!

Bagsy St. Hubbins.

Generally received wisdom, but doesn't make the song less fun. It's just the verse which sucks.

Friend Norm says "absolutely" while dearest Andy says "No. This is the first time I've seen you be so wrong."

Mixed reaction so far.

Check one for the "heresy" column.

It's not a bad song like, it's just a bit... meh. You hear the riff and you think OH YEAH BRING IT THIS IS GOING TO BE MENTAL and then it's just, oh. OK. Less good Van Halen.

Because I'm not in the metal community I have no idea if this is heresy or if it's actually a widely known point everyone agrees with, but does anyone else think Rhoads' riff from Crazy Train, unquestionably an all-time nuclear-powered banger, deserves to be in a much better song?

I think I'm getting a rep in work as the anti-AI guy, but it blows my mind how uncritically people are looking at these things. If I can throw another article in here, one of my best friends did a quite scathing review of AI use in education recently www.tom-richmond.com/educaition-e...

This tiny baby has never done a single wrong thing in her life.

"take down this AI art, it looks like it's being empathetic towards refugees!"

This country is deranged.

We need a way to better differentiate all our Andys.

So say we all. Couple of minutes in a sink of warm water to warm it up is what I do.

El Bandito, Legendary Welshman.

Madeley whenever anyone anywhere achieves anything:

Frederiksen’s unhappy birthday: Danish PM’s party suffers election shellacking For the first time in 122 years the Social Democrats will not govern Copenhagen, which will now have a left-wing mayor.

www.politico.eu/article/dani...

Left-wing mayor elected in Copenhagen, another in the wave of progressive victories triggered by Lindsay Whittle's Senedd win in Caerffili.

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