Coates is Odd This Day

Thank you! I like to make an effort

I might post again when it's in a frame...

Thank you. Yes, a terrible person!

A big thank you to @jimmeruk.bsky.social aka @jimmer.art for making me the owner of an original artwork. Yes, that’s right! A drawing of telly’s Bob Holness with a pillar box growing out of his head. OBVIOUSLY

Oh no I feel awful for them

Screaming hairy armadillo - Wikipedia

Although...

Pink fairy armadillo - Wikipedia

Yes, only when I watched the advert again did I remember it's smooth on the inside, but never mind. These ones are my favourite, obviously

Glorious

YouTube video by ceilingsoldier Dime Bar Commercial [Armadillos] (Starring Harry Enfield) - 1995, UK

God, I loved this joyfully stupid advert

Hadn’t heard of that. Jazz is an area of almost complete ignorance for me, I’m afraid

Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. I likes armadillos

In the alleged words of an earlier PM, we never had it so good (and are apparently unlikely to see it again)

It suprised me when I first researched it

Yes, a couple of people have mentioned it. Intriguing

From a JRF report out this week. The following slide in the presentation said scrapping the two-child ‘benefit cap’ will help (poverty projected to fall back to that 20% line), but if nothing else happens, it will plateau there. More detail on the report...

Joseph Rowntree Foundation slide titled ‘Poverty rates rose dramatically under Margaret Thatcher’s administration, and have not seen sustained falls in over 20 years’ shows poverty rates fluctuating around 15% under Wilson, Heath, Wilson again, and Callaghan, then rising sharply under Thatcher and hovering around 25% under Major. A fall under Blair to 20%, but then rising again towards the end of Blair’s time in office and fluctuating around the low 20s ever since (apart from a brief drop towards 20% again during Covid, when Universal Credit was increased)

Not the cheeriest graph I’ve ever seen. Good work under Blair, at least in the first two terms, but not enough to undo the effects of one in particular of his predecessors

Haha, thank you! I think alt text should be accurate etc, but should also have a little added value of its own...

You've interviewed everybody!

Haha, thank you!

Righto! I'm going to watch a bit of this later...

Thank you!

Oh, thank you. Intriguing. 'Torrid' makes sense...

Thank you! I didn't know about the ballet (or the Omar Sharif/Catherine Deneuve film, which a couple of people have mentioned). Difficult to get the tone right when telling the story, so I'm intrigued whether either manages it (maybe it's easier through dance, being wordless?)

All the best brains are

Odd this day 25 November 1913

...and he almost got offed at a country house shooting party in 1913

Odd this day 25 November 1913

Franz Ferdinand nearly got shot in 1913, too...

*updates to-read list*

Directed by Terence Young, who did several Bond films, too. Intriguing. Not seen it

Oh dear. Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, and James Robertson Justice, too!

*good!