Nic

Trio of Birmingham summer night sounds coming through the window of police sirens, fireworks and a dog barking. I'm enjoying thinking they're somehow all related.

Ps. Not imagining a bad thing happening to the dog, unless it is getting arrested for letting off fireworks in a comical fashion.

Nicely done! Will retroactively give myself "denaturation" if that's ok as I wasn't sure if that was the same as "denaturisation"?

My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge

Great contest this week from the two teams. Below par score from me with 16/95 #UniversityChallenge

Kill the sleep pig

N: Oulton Park circuit, or 2019 Rally Sweden (Likenas stages)
E: Monza
S & W: COTA

Reverse engineering what @hereliescorri.bsky.social said on @jackofallgraves.com that the Apollo 13 movie could well have been fiction: it's insane that it was fact. And Jim Lovell and the rest of them came back from space in a stricken tin can most of a lifetime ago. Wild.

A photograph of a taxi cab in Birmingham which is wrapped in the branding of the Tunnock's caramel wafer bar

Pls take me to my funeral in the Tunnock's taxi

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

Forget it, Jake. It's Splitsville.

I wouldn't tell anyone I won the lottery, but there would be signs, and it would be pretty fucking obvious I won the lottery.

My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge

Another nice Monday evening for a bike ride, another delayed watching of #UniversityChallenge. A consistent if unspectacular 20/130 with several guesses coming in.

4 Screenshots from the move "Demolition Man" (1993): First, in a futuristic control room, officers in dark uniforms look on as a seated Black man with a headset is identified by the subtitle, "187, Warden William Smithers.". Second, the scene continues in the control room, with the subtitle now reading, "...died August 4th, 2032.". Third, a woman with dark, styled hair looks down at a computer screen, and the subtitle says, "Access the cryopen's hearing schedule.". Fourth, a close-up of a computer monitor displays the "CRYO-PENITENTIARY MORNING HEARING SCHEDULE," with the subtitle at the bottom reading, "August 4th, active file.".

Aug 4th 2032 - Simon Pheonix escapes from the cryroprison during his parole hearing, killing warden William Smithers in the process. Old-fashioned cop, John Spartan, is thawed out to help catch the old-fashioned criminal

📽️📅 Demolition Man (1993)

Happy to be wrong on that one - go Lando! #F1

Annoying that the commentary team have to try and make this race exciting when Piastri is just going to breeze past Norris with DRS #F1

He's got enough going on in his head at the moment without having to deal with Max being Max. Can't see why it's not being properly looked at?

Photograph of Formula 1 driver Lando Norris with an out of context quote from him saying "In 200 years no one is going to care. We'll all be dead..."

Lando doing a pretty good job of summing things up #F1

Benson (fish) - Wikipedia

Learning about Benson (fish) via the Guardian weekend crossword
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_...

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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Love it when an egret/heron/whatever goes looooooong

Photograph of a large group of 200 lovely cyclists gathering outside a building with lots of Palestine flags

Getting ready to depart Birmingham on the 2025 Big Ride for Palestine 🇵🇸

Nice and relatable that the only remaining active #F1 driver older than I am is having back problems.

A spreadsheet for how many watermelons you need

Also, hello Rhonda!

Ah, tough one - Bison would've got it. I was trying to think of which IPL team Pooran played for after not listening to the question 🤦

My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge.

Delayed #UniversityChallenge so I could get a chilled summer evening bike ride in. Felt I probably should have got a few more here for a +30 score, but 29/190 will have to do.

What if god was goo like us
Just an ooze like one of us
Just a sludge pile on the bus
Trying to gloop his way home 🎶

4:20 race it #F1

Can't crash your F1 car as you couldn't see anything in front of you these days because of woke.

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now.

(Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Any news on the pit lane infringement for Lindblad?