In a bit of trivia that just popped into my head because I'm supposed to be doing something else, Douglas Adams created the name "Slartibartfast" to be as rude-sounding as possible but still broadcastable, after crafting it for acceptability from the name "Phartiphukborlz".
"I had that Spanish actor in my bar last night, the one from No Country For Old Men."
"Javier Bardem?"
"No, not at all, he was actually really sound."
JESSE PINKMAN: IT’S HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST NIGHT, BITCH!
WALTER WHITE: That’s exactly right, Jesse.
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy
But here's my labyrinth
I stole your baby
Taylor Brown is set to become the first openly trans woman to lead a New York City office.
Zohran Mamdani has appointed her the Director of his newly-announced Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs.
How's Operation Fatal Choad going then
In hindsight, it was unwise to group the world's entire strategic reserve of influencers in one concentrated area, Dubai. Amateur mistake. Sun Tzu would never.
oh no it's the hun bus
"I hear you're a homophobe now, Graham. Should we all be homophobic now? I'm so busy down on the farm, I won't have much time for the oul' homophobia."
@magnets.bsky.social
I watched it for work a few years ago, think it was on Channel 4
Had a look for the final split-second shot of 'Saint Maud' but I guess it's too recent to have become infamous
I can tell you, it's quite a challenge doing live subtitles for the new season of F1 when you don't understand half of what they're going on about
maybe instead of continually carping about how it’s not fair that the greens are cool and everyone voting for them is stupid, labour could simply do better things and have better policies
OUTRAGED that those hornets would launch an UNPROVOKED ATTACK on me after poking their nest with a big stick
wholesome content: these are Chico and Coco, my mum's new dogs. They are both very good wee girls and enjoy snaffling biscuits and perching on your shoulder like a parrot
This week: send help pls we are too smol to get the big nasty Strait of Hormuz open again
"Why do Glasgow's historic buildings keep catching fire?" asks BBC News. I dunno, maybe decades of under investment with a wee dash of corruption?
it's weird, they totally passed me by in the late '80s but that pic of Paddy on the cover is pretty much how I was dressing at the time 😁
“Fuck! I’m dying!” during a press conference. “Fuck! I’m fucking dying! Oh God, it hurts! Ahhhhhhh!” Trump said in response to a question about the ongoing war in Iran
#cursed
so much love in the room at the Cardiacs gig. "My brother would have been very proud of you," said Jim. ❤️
was he at the Cardiacs gig or were there just lots of guys who looked like him
Morrissey is such a mad old ham. I love it. He’s like a Victorian- on those posts he does he always sounds like a consumptive aunt in 1896 writing back from travels ‘they presented me with an entirely indigestible mess of stewed aubergine and a wine so rough as to be vinegar….the train was vile’ etc
BREAKING: Conservatives "outraged" over what they claim are plans to replace all pictures of Winston Churchill in history textbooks with pictures of a small but belligerent water vole
Hegseth says Mojtaba Khamenei is "likely disfigured".
OK, hang on - so you killed a guy's dad while bombing his country and now you reckon you've messed up his face as well? Have you not seen ANY fucking films whatsoever
There's a really nice pub in Newcastle that I wanted to go to when I was there, right underneath the Tyne Bridge - only its main boast is that it's Depp's favourite pub in the city. FFS
"Covid will be over in two weeks. Gone by Easter"
"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks"
"They’re dying, Russians & Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours"
Based on his record, this isn’t ending anytime soon.
