duncan gates

Dickens' mate, maybe Wilkie Collins: would Scrooge REALLY drop 'more of gravy than the grave'?

Dickens: yeah!

WC: would he really? is he a right larf?

CD: he shouldn't be THAT much of a dick

WC: ......................

CD: yes, he's had some regrets/

WC: /just not 'missing this sick zinger', k

WHY ISN'T IT 'STEAK KNIFE'??????

White storks to make historic return to London in 2026 Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort

yaasss stawks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

*Balthazer drops mic in tomb*

Hello all! I'm not so active on here at the minute, but wanted to share that the first screening of my community pop-up cinema, Breeze Frame Film Club, is on Thursday at the Irish World Heritage Centre in Cheetham Hill!

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one of those where you should have asked yourself 'am i expressing my experience, or imagining someone else's? and if the latter, should i be doing it?'

bold of The Devil's Hour to go with the conceit that a heavily autism-adjacent character is a 'soulless husk' that doesn't belong in this world, very bold indeed

as apple crumble positions itself as the poshest dessert, a sleepless weekend begins for the Eton Mess Marketing Board

🎶 We ain't within' nowhere, we ain't witchin' nowhere, we can't be bad now, 'cause we're Wicked For Good 🎶

'where's San Francisco?'

#worldcupdraw

*Harpo voice* 'this draw goes on much longer, it'll be Old Caledonia'

whole lotta niche references to World Cup lore here, did Mark Gatiss write the draw

'WAITIN FOR THE GHOST OF FELIPE BALOY'

'WAITIN' FOR THE GHOST OF JOHN COLLINS'

Group H making an early claim for 'Group of Death'

'IN RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIELD OF FOOTBALL PEACE'

YouTube video by tfcoye Alan Partridge's World Cup '94

'...and this will be my World Cup 26, you can come too, join me!'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Ox...

never too late to nominate a 'Person of the Year'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

aye, fair

if you get off first, you're honour-bound to declare 'That'll do' when they announce your stop

but consider just how chaotic GM was the rest of the time, it clearly took a LOT out of him

Tom Stoppard was one of the first writers who made me want to be good at writing, and I therefore offer this as my highest form of honour:

Tom Stopp'd

As a Savoury person, it has now gone too far and must be stopped

Hooray for similies!

aww, good times

RIP this legendary chap, an honour to be in proximity

In 1918, Jack Grossman, assistant to magician aka William Ellsworth Robinson (aka 'Chung Ling Soo'), famously shot Robinson dead when a bullet-catch trick went wrong.

In 1982, the same Jack Grossman recreated the bullet-catch on The Paul Daniels Magic show.

All of this goes harder than necessary.

The most extraordinary aspect is the suggestion of a rivalry

I've been in some cursed af corporate reception areas, and this is up there

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )