David James

Also every time I see ‘we are adjusting our prices’ in an email

Just imagine what must be in the Epstein files to make it worth invading Venezuela, threatening a NATO ally and having your private army shoot civilians in the face just to distract attention from them.

There's another of these 'I went analogue' pieces in the Guardian today and in the accompanying photo, the journo is holding a CD Walkman

Oliver Glasner’s not here to stay
Oliver Glasner is on his way

I've been trying for 2 weeks to get a historical statement; a complaints letter of epic proportions is brewing in my mind. I've just retired from a 30 year career in customer self-service and 'Cora' is the worst thing I've ever encountered.

I see Apple has straight up nicked Reebok's "Belly's gonna get ya" ad from 25 years back, and made it less good

A biblical-sounding excerpt from the Beeb's match report of Wrexham vs Forest: "And keeper Arthur Okonkwo proved the home side's hero as he denied Jesus"

*distant sound of cock crowing*

I remember being astonished when the 'new' library (by which I mean 1988, but then that's only about 20 years ago, surely, right?) was demolished!

You beat me to posting this! (I come from a Cardiff cinema family in fact - my grandfather and great uncle owned the Splott Cinema Company; their big one was the Gaiety on City Road)

I spent 2 days of my three decade career in telecomms effectively being a comedy script writer for a huge phone manufacturer (Britishing up all the sassy, smartarse replies in the US version of an early Siri-alike)

And to you SWM!

Thank you for this Mark! Have saved your playlist on Spotify! I am very out of touch so this will be an enjoyable listen

Hopefully the other months will do that as well

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Happy Space Year 2026 everyone!

An excel spreadsheet with each cell filled with the word Gloria

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

JUDAS

As this is from Evri, one of Britain's most terrible companies, this is the online parcel delivery version of 'We've got your kids'

Chris'n'Bob www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgea...

Similarly one of my summer jobs was as a clerk for a mortgage provider and once had to scurry around a huge warehouse trying to find the deeds to Colin 'Wonderful Life by Black' Vearncombe's house.

Radio Kent on BBC Sounds: Walking from Tankerton to Whitstable

Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived

The VLC icon wearing its festive hat

Official start of Christmas

”Text: Stanley Unwin”

It looks like the makers of The Thing With Feathers didn’t even watch John Carpenter’s 1982 film before trying to do a sequel.

#sgtpepper2025

show me how your 2025 went

It does - 'Origins Of The Universe', which he pulls out to pass the time while trapped under some rubble and loudly criticises for being wrong