Mark Stradling

I guess they desperately needed to say, “you know that crappy dancing show we used to make? The one with the middle aged people with weird rictus grins? Well like that but totally not like that”. So the Strictly marked it as Come Dancing: The Next Generation

Sort of made sense in context. Come Dancing but with a tacit reference to the Baz Lerman film Strictly Ballroom. We’re come dancing but for the 2000s

Imagine if Surrey council had to provide him emergency accommodation.

Might have turned his head. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor fighter for the homeless

I mean, probably not. Spin his rollerdex of nonces and dictators and he’d be off to Saudi

There’s going to be a time when people are going to start going, “they even bought a vintage CRT. A working one of those cost thousands. Why don’t these scroungers by a cheap flat screen one?”

Nothing says “silenced” like being interviewed on national TV.

Now I’ve got a mental image of Truss with a huge codpiece. Wrong Cameo but still.

Word up

Yeah but most people, me included aren’t on a life long mission to persuade people of anything much. We use social media as something to do when we’re waiting for a bus.

Only so much ranting you can stomach before you turn off

I mean, it happens. Lithium Ion batteries can be volatile. Petrol car are full of petrol. Which is more volatile.

A massive slag heap precariously deposited above a school is yet more volatile

Nice bit of slander too. Live on TV

Your parents made the wrong decision then. That sucks. I think mine only went VHS because the player was cheaper

My friend works in a local electrical shop that initially got into video rental until they decided not to bother. But they never removed the wall of videos. So he borrowed an Betamax video recorder and we had free reign on the Betamax selection. That was a weird world of early 80s shite.

everything he ever built looks like a 80s steakhouse that got a deal on gold paint.

Those pictures of Prince William’s kids. They do dress them weird. It’s all a bit 1950s. It’s like the royal family are a weird offshoot of the Armish where they froze in the time during the filming of an episode of Poirot

YouTube video by comedyklips The Fast Show - Unlucky Alf 10 Bus

Inevitable fast show unlucky Alf bus moment: youtu.be/DoA6fAxo_Og?...

Well the bastard has no shortage of the bastards

To me big man came out in a Scottish accent, alreet there, big man

What do you do for a living? I’m a meeting specialist <slowly backs away>

I work with some Indian guys. Sent a photo of the river Thames near me. One of the said, “there are many yaw-arts”.

He was correct

But if McSweeny goes who’s going to protect the views of the three people* in Wigan their entire strategy is targeted towards?

*assuming they haven’t died of old age

yeah.. hi. We were just wandering by and saw you'd lighten one of them tiny barbecues from the Shell forecourt. Could we join you?

Googles 'irredentism', nods in agreement

Nanny Ogg will calm her down

but she'd miss The Rock though.

Espris de corpse (there needs to r a chefs kiss emoji)

The man’s an enigma

I never got over Mr Bronsen being an admiral in the imperial fleet. Become a teacher at Grange Hill was a bit of career change

I suppose having Darth Vader kill you will do that for you

I’m probably an extreme case but I’ve never fully managed to express how calm Covid was. I never realised how exhausting everything tended to be. I missed lots and I’m glad it’s gone. If only for other people. It’s not healthy. But by God I miss the peace

It’s not murder if you’re in charge. It’s a strategic assassination

high speed rail replacement service?

They don’t make heroes like you anymore