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26.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 10 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
Through the wine haze, though, I dimly remember some Chip elder statesperson saying gravely, 'No-one ever beats Herron's team - no-one.'
05.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, lot of presumption there Lev, lot of presumptions.
05.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Clue us in please?
05.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Haha! WE WERE SO CLOSE TO VICTORY, NICOLA.
05.10.2025 17:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I've not read this and in view of Rick's critique feel slightly uncomfortable that an agent once said my first novel was like it.
05.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Yes. They share a box with the actual scalps.
05.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hahaha. AIN'T GOING TO NO NETWORKING RECEPTION, FOOL.
05.10.2025 12:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My small son wearing six different lanyards.
My son has raided my lanyard hoard and is now dressed like a sort of litfest Mr T.
05.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 50 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 0
Your organ is magnificent.
05.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
With the heft of the Albert Hall organ behind them... oofff.
05.10.2025 10:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
He was right, it is a piece of shit. Our local ice-cream van (John's Ices) used to play it. What the fuck, John.
05.10.2025 10:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This was quite good.
05.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
You're gonna need a bigger mug.
05.10.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lot of takes out there this morning. LOT of takes.
05.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
I'll be the judge of that.
05.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
what a fucking halfwit
05.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
DON'T YOU START
04.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fair.
04.10.2025 10:48 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Rot from inside out" is a deranged way to describe a successful and talented person who now does mediocre work.
04.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
Can report that the Albert Hall is fucking massive.
03.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
ALIEN logo being build and the E has no middle line
The ALIEN logo
Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.
20.09.2025 14:35 — 👍 2582 🔁 494 💬 26 📌 16
Banville's Copernicus, Hoban's Pilgermann, Golding's The Spire, Eco's The Name Of The Rose, I see now that these are all far too obvious, I'll stop now
03.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
no more, no less.
03.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A happy pineapple with arms and legs (pencil on paper, 2025).
commissioned by my small son to draw "a happy pineapple with arms and legs".
03.10.2025 07:23 — 👍 57 🔁 3 💬 8 📌 0
Red wine. Glass.
Goodnight.
02.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My AI assistant:
02.10.2025 17:34 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
(tbftB, he didn't write it)
02.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[gently, like a vicar] Irene you must PUT IN to the orange before you can TAKE OUT of the orange
02.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's a cruel ordeal.
02.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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