Sam Fletcher

A box of delicious looking hot chips from Chook & Co in Cabarita (22 Cabarita Rd, Ph (02) 9743 2325) that has the words “Hot Food 2 Go” emblazoned across it that I’m deliberately misreading for the joke in the post.

Trouble is I haven’t seen the first Go Hot Food film.

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

The performative mourning driven by social media, was from blueprints sitting there in large conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, waiting to be deployed

The alleged outrage was at its core, manufactured recreational grief-bait

My latest in The Shot

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A picture of two identical “earth choice” brand dishwashing liquids sitting next to each other on a kitchen sink, both of which arrrrrrgh GOD NO AAAARGH SOMEBODY HELP ME

Straight after reading something about John Carpenter’s The Thing, I just noticed for the first time that apparently we’ve had two identical dishwashing liquids open for a while now.

a 4 panel comic. Panel 1 - A baseball player swings mightily with a big CRACK sound effect. Panel 2 - A fielder runs past, shouting "Oh my God what did you do!" Panel 3 - The fielder crouches near the ball, which has been torn open with its guts (?) spilling out. "Are you all right man" - The ball only coughs and gasps terribly Panel 4 - The batter looks shocked. "Why does the ball have entrails. What IS this sport." Another fielder scowls at him. "This is a sport to yout?!"

Here's my contribution to #makeaterriblecomicday2025

A hand-written version of the NYT Connections puzzle with options (L-R, top to bottom) TTUTTP, POOP, PTERODACTY, BRHNX, FAECES, MACROBIOLOG, E, HAIRSPRA, J, NZPP, XQKKL, CRAP, PHENOMENO, M, DOODIE, F.

Made a ‘stupid’ Connections puzzle for my son.

A photo of a joke written in a child’s book about ponies with the text “Q: why couldn’t the pony sing?” and the upside-down answer reading “A: Because its voice was a little hoarse!” thereby butchering the actual pun “because it was a little hoarse” (a pony is a little horse). The joke may as well be “why couldn’t the pig sing? Because its voice was a little hoarse” haha get it? Because when your voice is a little hoarse, you can’t sing! Imagine, having a sore throat and trying to sing! Hahahahahaha. I’ll be doing twice-daily standup on the Star Princess all week folks.

Look how they massacred my joke.

The kids just had this bit of banter on a train.

8yo: you’re the ugliest sister I have.

5yo: well you’re the ugliest person I’ve ever seen.

And the New Texas, featuring Big Timmy.

Today's new album releases include new stuff from both Alien Boy AND Alien Chicks.

Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers

A supine stuffed lion and a stuffed bunny (and slightly off-frame, a stuffed triceratops) sit on a tiled floor next to a paper sign that reads “Donate some money to charity and racism. Put money here” with an arrow pointing to an empty cardboard box.

I’m not sure I want to contribute to that second thing, but I’m not the type of person who disobeys signs left randomly on my kitchen floor by sentient toys.

I was very drunk.

I can be hired as your brother for a very reasonable price.

Picture of me with my #1 beer of GABS25. Details of what that is forthcoming…

I have no idea what you meant either but like Mum I assumed it was some kind of game involving butt plugs.

5yo: Daddy, why was 6 afraid of 7?
Me, feigning ignorance: I don't know.
5yo: Because 7-8-9.
Me: Ha. Good one.
5yo: Yeah, I told that to some kids at school.
Me: Oh, did they get it?
5yo: No. I don't even get it.

The exact same order receipts from the exact same places in the exact same food court. Today’s order numbers though are respectively 66 and 03.

Today, if you add my order numbers together…

Two food court receipts of different sizes from different shops, both bearing the order number 69 because I have the maturity of a 13 year old.

Ordered from two different places in the food court and hit the order number jackpot.

Long overdue for reasons that are complex and nuanced (I forgot) but I've finally posted a blog on the (very few and mostly very long) books I read in 2024. Ping @nettyf.bsky.social @jezfletcher.bsky.social seansbeard.blogspot.com/2025/02/book...

Here's every David Lynch movie

[sodie pop shop, everyone is laughing and having fun]

[zoom in to extreme close up, a severed penis on checkerboard floor]

[nine minute slow cross-fade to a blonde singing alone on stage]

🎵 Open
🎵 Your eyes
🎵 To the power
🎵 Of LOOOOOOVE

Lyrics by David Lynch

*chefs kiss*

Me: um, sorry to interrupt but we're all really hungry out here?

Selfie taken several feet in front of Putricia the corpse flower, whose fronds are teasingly open on the brink of blooming. John the horticulturalist is attending to the base in the background.

We went to worship Sydney’s queen today

We are currently in the queue

Corpse Flower livestream: A plant to die for YouTube video by Botanic Gardens of Sydney

I'm spending an inordinately large part of today at work watching the livestream of Putricia the corpse flower. I highly recommend you do the same: www.youtube.com/live/mrylcCA...

Define ‘too much’.

Two guys in a non-seedy establishment who are definitely not drunk and are probably studying for their pre-med exams or something

For @nettyf.bsky.social

As opposed to your non-errant sons?

If you read to the end of the posts, you’ll see I tell you when to expect them.

And of course if you're less inclined to read and more to listen, here's a link to my playlist of 178 songs that ended up being cut down to the top 100 songs of the year:
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