Bloody cracking tune 👍

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A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

What has happened to the TV and radio listings? This week they're literally half what they were. Hopefully this is not a permanent change and Channel 5, BBC Four etc. will return next week! 🫣

It's as though I've fallen through a wormhole and gone back pre 1997!

Net assets of £660k? Suppose we won't be seeing anything near to £122m recovered then....

title card on BBC archive video: The INDUSTRIAL Grand Tour

Current obsession: Tracking down every last episode of the 1970s BBC series "The Industrial Grand Tour", in which the host visited various Victorian-era factories that were still operating with their original steam-driven machinery

(sadly there are only two on YouTube)

Somehow Friends managed to escape that category.

Did this. Plants died from overwatering.

Today in 1785, at the height of Balloon Mania, a couple caused a great scandal when they ascended in a hot air balloon & it looked from the ground like they became the first people in history to have airborne sex. ‬Their names were Mrs Letitia Sage and, um, a Mr George Biggin.

Copilot can get in the bin. It's wrong so frequently it's a time waster, not a time saver!

Wait until you see the scheduling for the the episode set on 24/05/2025!

I'm in the Midlands: north and south can both jog on.

YouTube video by DJ Cummerbund DJ Cummerbund - Semi-Charmed Sign

It's a 9/10 for sure, but I can't quite decide if the actual best is this one:
youtu.be/kY0gdlmXc0M
Or this one:
youtu.be/HJIIGpuuuYQ?...

(Both of those masher-uppers produce mashups of the finest quality. This one is also magical: youtu.be/rFZwi2Z9G7A?...)

Wish he'd been called out on the VAT part, especially when he was going on about US imports needing to be treated equally while essentially saying even a simpleton should understand such things. He, apparently, doesn't.

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There's easily more good TV than there is time to watch it.

Yeah, I know. Just feels a bit like it's not, is all.

Didn't realise it wasn't already not live, but it still feels like another piece of my childhood is failing to survive the 21st century 😟

There are bits from the media that ought to help that headspace now - 'Saints were toothless and Tigers were ruthless' from Tom's report above (should have been the headline, IMHO!), and The Telegraph went with the headline of 'Leicester condemn Northampton to utter humiliation and unwanted records'

For me we didn't get the prep right, and that falls on the coaches more than the players. They looked rusty (handling errors galore) and energy levels looked below what they could and should have been, a few exceptions aside.

It's not the first time this year we've looked undercooked after a break.

Agree with all of that apart from the second sentence 👍

Same for the West Mids (Warks/Staffs/Worcs), leaving Rutland the outlier, though sometimes (possibly hypercorrected?) it also looks to become a shire.

It's all Yorkshire anyway!

It's all about the contrasting textures 👍

East (Riding of) Yorkshire?

I see what you did there ;-)

But surely when it's universally applied it would ultimately trickle through...?

I want to know who these people are who have the patience to barbecue one of these things rather than just smash the biscuits and marshmallow straight from the packet.

The numbers suggest we could cut the rate to 17%

Or, a better idea, cut the rate to 18% and use the remaining £ in benefit increases and tax cuts targeting those on low incomes, so they're not our of pocket from the loss of the 0% rate.

Steady on with such madness!

Late January 2020. Son refused to go to Beavers one night. Turns out they were celebrating Chinese New Year and he was worried about this new disease he'd heard they had in China!

Would love to see Utopia wrapped up properly. It was criminal that Channel 4 cut it!