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Imagine watching telly on New Year's Day and your boss pops up to remind you you've got work the next day. youtu.be/MAR8aAVhX0s?...

Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵

Brand new on Dirty Feed: I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/01/ever...

I remember hearing Lloyd George's daughter Olwen interviewed on Women's Hour c.1980: "I always thank the old boy when I go to collect my pension."

Happy New Year 🍾

I thought they were specifying visible ink as opposed to invisible ink

"YOU MAY NOT CONFER" The words of ultimate shame, whatever your age #universitychallenge

Top tip for tonight: If you hit play on Who Framed Roger Rabbit at exactly 11:36pm, you will miss the chimes of midnight because you will be engrossed in one of the best films of all time. 👍

Well that's Holiday on the Buses watched

This episode of the Darling Buds of May is asking me to believe that a family from Kent on holiday in France would be the ones bringing glamour, better cooking and sexual awakening TO the French

Corfe Castle, the model of Corfe Castle in Corfe Castle Model Village, and the model of Corfe Castle in the model of Corfe Castle Model Village in Corfe Castle Model Village.

Begging the children on this bus to be 70% less dramatic

Lot of people on hinge seem to have misread the prompt "two truths and a lie" as "three things that make me sound like an arsehole"

Stared at the translation of this for so long thinking "how does manuscrit mean "handwritten", surely it means manuscript...?" Then it hit me in the face, what "manuscript" breaks down into. I swear learning another language heavily involves learning your own at the same time

Watching “Brian Pern: A Life In Rock” - full of fantastic little cameo jokes & this has to be my favourite…

If you repost something that later goes viral there should be a little marker showing the post's numbers at the point you reposted, so people know you got in early so are cool/a leader/"kingmaker"

Reformer Josephine Butler (1828-1906, b. Northumberland), died on this day 1906. Arguably most effective campaigner for women’s rights of her time. She ended coverture (whereby woman’s legal rights were subsumed by her husband’s), criminalised child prostitution and human trafficking.

Ultimate throuple WG Grace/Gracie Fields/WC Fields

I once shared a house with a guy who was friends with the actor who provided the male policeman's legs for the original title sequence of 'The Bill'

When the bell went at the end of playtime, everyone had to immediately stand still. For a while, when we were about 10, me and two friends would immediately create a pre-arranged tableau based on that week's episode of Bread.

Diana Dors was married to Richard Dawson. Dawson divorced Diana because she was fucking about. One person she was fucking about with was Bob Monkhouse. Dawson moved to America and found mega fame as the host of ‘Family Feud’. When that came to the UK as ‘Family Fortunes’ the host was… #TOTP

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

More on the genius of the Asterix translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge (the “rather, old fruit” exchange is one of my favourite gags) auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/a...

'Still life of asparagus.' (1697) Adriaen Coorte's still lifes set against a plain dark background, are enormously appealing to the modern eye, his work fell into obscurity in the 18thC and 19thC; a reappraisal about his career was published in the 1950s.

As a time traveller trying to blend in on meeting Clement Attlee in 1945 "Clement Attlee! Put it there! Down below!" [We expertly do a low five] "Up above!" [Attlee and everyone in the room correctly look alarmed as I extend my right arm upwards, palm forwards in 1945. I am instantly arrested]

Can't get over the concept of Young WC Fields, so looked him up and his juggling act was frankly nsfw by the looks of these pics. Pictures and more info from juggle.org

Everyone on a train who already has a cold/flu should go and sit in a special carriage, like the Quiet Coach but for quarantine. One sneeze and the conductor escorts you there in a hazmat suit

guy who invented whichever one of these came second: fuck it just call it a compass too. i'm so bad at naming things... fuck! i'm angry. fuck my life. i'm going for a walk

Getting some great lyrics inspo for my rap about finding love on the District Line

Just watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the first time since reading this brilliant article on Tom Stoppard's fantastic rewrites to the script. Not only showing what they were, but why they worked so well www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

I do indeed follow fesshole

Like I’d be anonymous about something like this. It would be a waste of good copy.

The three types of UK online person 1) Lets the random US names and talk wash over them (me) 2) Looks up those names to satisfy their own curiosity (fine) 3) Looks them up then talks about them to other UK people (nightmare scenario) even irl (get out)

"i'm not sleeping!!" - the sleeper's lie

This wouldn't work for me as I'm very sophisticated and watch loads of b/w stuff. If anything I'd look at my phone more, buzzing with the thrill of perhaps seeing a still from Jules et Jim or Casablanca, but it turns out to be one of you posting pics of Emu on Parkinson

WHAT A COINCIDENCE THAT'S WHAT I'M HAVING

Explore Charles Booth’s maps and notebooks online ✍️🏻 This is a brilliant resource for those interested in social history 🔎 booth.lse.ac.uk/map #London #History

Watched some Tipping Point and I reckon Ben Shephard must now surely have a superhuman understanding of the fluid dynamics of falling metal discs

Went to the Harris in Preston to see their Wallace and Gromit exhibition and it was brilliant. Especially if you're a fan of the jokes hidden throughout the sets

Was at the Harris Museum in Preston today and I think everyone who's ever been there would agree their radiators are phenomenal

W.C. Fields Juggling Top Hats (1900)

Omg. I like my films like I like my men - short, funny and surprisingly old (This page promises at least two of those criteria!)

We have ranked the counties of England from top to bottom, starting with the best, and ending, of course, with the worst. www.the-fence.com/the-ceremoni...

A bit macabre but if you happen to be a set designer looking for original examples of 1870s American domestic wallpaper, there are loads in this book, all digitised in full colour collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:...

Alert! Al Roberts (Al from Stath Lets Flats) is in ep 2 of the new series of Mammoth on BBC

Am in a house with indoor cats. On a landing carpet I just found a large, alive and seemingly unhurt earthworm

Need to marry someone with the surname "Tulliver" because I've just thought of a fantastic name for my business selling different sorts of gravels

Just listened to someone's profile voicenote on hinge and he uses the words "bilateral" and "effective"