TheGrimRecapper

...do you think Donald Trump has ever gotten behind the wheel? How many times did he fail his licence test before they gave him one?

The only exception I will allow is "it is on brand to select Innsbruck, because Netta guessed Vienna".

When I woke up this morning, I didn't expect myself to find out [semi-notable Australian TV presenter] posed nude for an adult magazine in the 80s.

Mostly because I didn't know anyone who was alive in the 80s is still allowed on Australian TV.

It was my first thought when I saw your post lol

Even the things that were already gold in that room at the Palace of Ver-Sigh seem to have been repainted to look like that weird "neon urine" shade of artificial gold. Either that or he's stolen them and replaced them with plaster replicas someone's gone over with an airbrush.

Google Translate screenshot showing the English word "platforms" and its Spanish equivalent "plataformas".

I don't know, I feel like I could navigate the Spanish rail network pretty easily.

Well, that's not true. Zelensky seems only an appropriate level of vulgar.

Got room to sit next to you?

Created by someone with a notable lack of melamine, undoubtedly.

Wait, I'm being told "melamine" wasn't an autocorrect fail. Oh. That's unfortunate.

It's nice of Jelly Belly to bring back some of the classics.

I was so distracted by the godawful everything else that I didn't even realise they'd gentrified bisexual lighting. How dare they, after the last few years.

The new Eurovision logo.

A tub of Country Crock, an American brand of margarine. Note the R, O, and C are almost identical.

I *knew* it felt like the sort of font that should be used to advertise margarine.

Look, I'll give them this: I don't think the Eurovision fandom has been *this* united by something allegedly music-adjacent since Electro Velvet.

Debatable.

Generic is certainly the right word. Oooooof, it looks like someone submitted the first thing they made in a free trial of Canva.

"They did the right thing!"

Nah. This is what you do when you knew you were going to give it to someone and then realised it was going to kill your brand. It's total arse-covering.

Headline: "8 countries every introverted traveler needs to visit at least once"

Game show idea: Family Feud but instead of surveying people it's just the answers for a clickbait listicle headline.

For example, top eight answers on the board:

You know, it really is interesting that #SurvivorAU seemed to cast this season with the intent of forcing a specific player to win (it's all cannon fodder + people he has existing relationships with), only to fire the host and hire that player to replace them for next year before the season aired...

And they still have the gall to advertise themselves as The Inventors of Democracy.

Maybe none of them felt like reality TV was a good fit for them at the time? Two of the Sky One lot ended up on C5 Big Brother, and Hunter did eventually do The Circle.

But that would imply depth, warmth, charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent, precisely zero of which she appears to have.

I mean, she certainly *belongs* in a very very warm place very very deep down, but still.

Cover of "The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult" by Sol Smith.

Only about halfway through (just reading a few pages at a time on work lunch breaks) but holy shit this book is excellent.

Yes, it IS my lunch break. 😈

Work's sent out the annual "you have too much leave, take some fucking time off" email. So... late November. Perth or Gold Coast?

I'm not saying it's bone-chillingly cold at work, but I *am* currently standing in a walk in fridge trying to warm myself up.

I don't want to say this is the best show you've never heard of, but they once did that "pull the tablecloth out without the wineglasses falling off the table" as a game and had to stall for time while someone went to a store at 11pm because THEY RAN OUT OF WINEGLASSES.

Make a band food:

Bonbon Jovi

They're still everywhere in Australia, mostly because the big supermarkets have decided to only have one open register at a store and use the rest of the old checkouts for trolley storage.

@emilyoram.bsky.social Re other reality docs: Vice TV had a series a couple of years ago called "Dark Side of Reality TV" that did basically what you're looking for. Ten episodes on different shows, including ANTM and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Make a band food:

Ginandtonix