Louie Stowell

We were demonstrating the parts of the brain working together. Our band name for the night was The Neurons. (Dunno what happened to that t shirt...)

I am tempted to learn every now and then in case the apocalypse comes - it'll be harder to bike everywhere when you're dodging zombies, a car gives you more protection. But otherwise not interested.

One of my "two truths and a lie" I do in schools is that I played trumpet on tv with my band. And it's true. (I was 15 and it was my school jazz band on the yearly bbc science lectures but still)

I'm impressed!

Car-centric culture SUCKS. Trains, my friends, trains are beautiful! Let's all have more trains!

ok that would be a very adorable way to die tho

Mind you as a trumpeter myself I'm all for everyone playing the trumpet. That reminds me I need to find someone to fix it as one of the slides is borked (all my admin reminders come from social media posts...)

I think I saw them in glastonbury in the mid 90s

HAHAHAHAHA

I can't drive. (OK, I trot this one out at school visits and kids cannot believe I cannot drive. Adults who know I live in london are more prone to believe me)

Chotiner: How long did you stay with Calypso?
Odysseus: Seven years
Chotiner: As her prisoner?
Odysseus: Yes. I was bewitched.
Chotiner: And another year with Circe?
Odysseus: It's complicated.

Thank you all! Luckily nothing went wrong so I didn't need my joke stash to fill the time but I was duly tickled by the comedy brilliance. And if anyone need a kid-friendly joke on world book day, loads in the replies!

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

Hehehehe

It's the same when I'm writing - real 11 year olds often swear while fictional eleven year olds can't say much worse than "turds"...I'm hoping to work up to an "arse" in the final book ;)

One death is too many, but this feels like a lot in such a short time.

I feel like the jokes I liked as a kid are ones I cannot actually tell TO kids with teachers present ;)

"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans."
transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

I used to like "what goes black white black white black white red?"

"A nun in a blender"

Two goldfish are in a tank. One says to the other "How do you drive this thing?"

People like Goodwin hate Britain. They want to drag it to antiquity because a backwards, discriminatory society is the only society they can thrive in. Without discrimination and disadvantage for others, they are nobodies

'It takes more then a piece of paper to make someone British' well yes it does. It takes years and years, lengthty piss taking application forms, a test, qualifications, employment and £££££££. What did Goodwin do other than be born here?

HAAAA

Ah, of course:

'got any helicopter flavour crisps'

'no, sorry'

'no problem, I'll have plane'

I may leave that for later in the events season...

QUALITY

So good

Ok come on bluesky don't let me down, find me an academic that studies this!

The kids are spared that by the fact that I can't remember anything that long.

oh no matt, that's not fair.