I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:
It's so wonderful and so very of its time. The glacial speed, pure character over plot. The whimsical, semi-dystopian nature of it. Very much of the mid-80s. cf. A Very Peculiar Practice. I just loved the Beiderbecke series with my adolescent life.
This, from @iandunt.bsky.social, articulates far better than I ever could what I've been thinking: iandunt.substack.com/p/taco-trade...
We have a large fan following because our players are secretly geniuses at cricket. Indeed, we were the only nation on Earth to beat Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine in three consecutive days in 2025. It doesn't get bigger than that.
This is absolutely fascinating. My beloved pal Sarah being brilliant about the effect of wealth on poverty.
This is very disappointing. Particularly as I learned it from a Viennese man. Not at a desk in the airport, that I grant you.
In the arrivals hall of Vienna Airport there is a dedicated desk for the aiding of people who thought they were flying to Australia.
Could be worse. In order to avoid controversy, all Euro notes feature bridges. In order further to avoid controversy, they're all fictional. Or they were until the folk of the Dutch town of Spijkenisse took it upon themselves to build them. Now all Euro notes feature bridges from just one Dutch town
11 March 1892 | A Pole, Tadeusz Tański, was born. An engineer & designer of the 1st Polish serially-built car, the CWS T-1.
In #Auschwitz from 1 February 1941.
No. 9455
He perished in the camp on 23 March 1941.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
Next Sunday! If you'd like your late Mum's name read out, looking over Morecambe Bay all the way to the Lake District, please PLEASE reply with her name and the hashtag #Mums26, to save me bog-snorkelling through my replies, cheers!
I am an enthusiastic but terrible and impatient solver of cryptic crosswords, who generally does very badly. But Bard’s alphabetical puzzle in Unch No. 2 was hugely, hugely enjoyable. More of those, please!
8 March 1883 | Norwegian Jewish woman, Sigrid de Lemos, was born in Christiania (today Oslo).
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was most probably murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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▶ The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://bit.ly/3MtiLwY
Go away, you silly, boring man.
No no! I was agreeing with you! Also: Do you really want to try and compete with the brilliance of Mischief?
The most perfect play in the English language. No notes, as they say these days.
The faux-chumminess is obviously designed to sound like it's how a mate talks to you, but if any of your friends were actually to talk the way such marketing guff is written you'd sit them down and ask them if everything was OK at home.
Please ignore the bonkers grammar in this important message.
The brilliant Beauty Banks, which fights hygiene poverty (as they say, imagine not being able to go to school clean, or with no sanitary products on your period) by supporting hundreds of charities up and down the country. They’re in a bit of trouble. Can you help?
www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
PARALYMPICS, BAYBAYYYY!
“Somerset”
it was the breast of times, it was the wurst of times
If you think the BBC should be impartial then this is the place to let them know.
If you don’t want to pay for the BBC or have to watch adverts then this is the place to let them know.
You can‘t complain about the BBC unless you get involved
"Children". They're called "children".
Incredible!
6 March 1942 | A Czech painter Jaroslav Král (b. 1883), an eminent representative of Czech Cubism, was incarcerated in #Auschwitz. He became prisoner no. 26452.
Král perished in the camp 16 days later.
Imagine being able to do this. It's just mindblowing.
How about a Friday afternoon pick-me-up? This is the best way you're going to spend your tea break today. My word.
youtu.be/SmO8UDmZdOI?...
Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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