I bought a French duck I was going to cook in a Cantonese-style barbecue sauce; but the duck escaped, covered me in the glaze, and forced me into the oven. I was hoisined by my own canard

A shopkeeper shaking his fist at a young urchin who has absconded with a bag of stolen liquorice

This is fucking fantastic. Please give it a read.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Is there going to be any club (maybe Everton or Wet Hams?) in the prem who's not going to be looking for a new manager in the summer?

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

I didn't eat the entire Vienetta last Tuesday.

Someone please please please shoot Donald Trump in the fucking face.

@bobbyllew.bsky.social do you know of any cost calcs for weighing up running costs of UK EVs? I'm recently car-less, I can't charge at home, so want to understand cost of public-only charging

Oh, there's a new series of Pilgrimage on BBC. I really like these and this time is traversing the Northeast, which is great.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

A different perspective. Always helpful.

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This new martial arts thriller starring Xie Miao and Joe Taslim looks insane. Watch the exclusive trailer for The Furious:

The British phrase to "go round the bend" as a way of saying someone has gone mad comes from the strait. There used to be a telegraph relay station on an island at the bend in the strait that was so legendarily isolated people posted there allegedly often lost their reason.

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

It makes more sense if you realise he's working for Russia.

Right, I am planning a couple of days in Sheffield to visit breweries and pubs. I know where I want to go, but which places should I have on my list? It will be good to see what I’ve missed and over looked.

I've just had an amazing idea

Oh, this sounds like a fantastic boozer, another place added to the visit list for next time I'm over in the smoke.

Lol Spurs, but ideally we don't want them to shit the bed so spectacularly that they change manager *just yet

The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD… Can we STOP with this ‘special relationship’ BS And also…can we wake up to the treachery of our right wing press?!

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Spurs is funny. But Forest being relegated by Nuno shortly after sacking the guy who he fell out with...

God, this is an album.

I wonder if, and hope that, the Green Party and their message is given an equal weighting to Reform, given their broad equal polling. Slim hopes, merited.

If you fuck off to another country to avoid paying tax, should we (the taxpayers) pay for your flights back when everything goes pop? 🤔🤔

Minnesota would like a word.

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Call a plumber, we have some racist shit to flush 🪠🚽

Imagine if the Green Party got even slightly close to the levels of fawning coverage reserved for Farage and his dipshit chums.

Nonceferatu

When Gordon Brown makes any intervention into public life, it’s always about doing the right thing or standing up for the vulnerable. Compare that to the motivations of any other recent former PM.

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This is not rational and I accept that but people who pay for things with their watch are cunts.

I’ve not really spoken about the BrewDog situation yet because honestly, I’m just a bit over them. Perennially bored of the headline-hogging and resultant pile on when there are infinitely more interesting beer stories out there that continue to go uncovered.

BIG AIR

People have actually been throwing dildos at ICE in Minnesota The Great Dildo Rebellion is here.

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

For some time now I’ve been worried that the UK is being colonised by Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

Wow, Jim Ratcliffe. What’s with the billionaires and their bigotry? It just goes to show you have to be a sociopath to take that much for yourself. And then Farage is all ‘he’s got a point…’ He hasn’t. He’s got racism bolstered by lies. Despicable men.

I wouldn't be against West Ham sending Forest down. Marinakis is a crook and it's quite funny Nuno having his revenge (I say as a Forest fan)

Just tootling back from work after a stressful week, but god Riz Ahmed talks a good film, great interview on @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social

Oh no, not John Virgo. RIP

Yes lads.