Was gifted some sloe gin made by Jethro

I'm at the garden centre again

how your email finds me

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken https://theonion.com/heroic-dog-saves-family-of-5-from-herb-roasted-chicken/

Roland, this is a Christmas Dinner

*Fewer

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

I would write a book in which another character, delighted by Diot Coke's bracingly unfamiliar approach to navigating the Middle Ages, describes her as "so Refreshinge"

Stay safe out there y'all

so "logging in" now involves: - password - biometric login on phone - enter code into app - biometric login on phone again good to have those two extra steps

Ten years ago.

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large. I mean, if you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten

beautiful description of a university "Centre for" though

this. is cinema.

Tibetans: this is the mountain Chomolungma, Mother Goddess of the Earth Imperial Britain: crikey that's a big one, let's name it after George Everest he's a top bloke

Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...

our "we're not Enron" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by our shirt

but why deep fry the turkey in the first place?

Mouse midwives!!!

why make the right decision once when you can make the wrong decision four or five times!

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

Every ad now

how, on earth, does THIS cause the DG to resign

well I've seen K-Pop Demon Hunters now and given that it has been the talk of the playground and the topic of reenactments and singalongs I wasn't expecting there to be so much "cheerfully slicing people in half with agricultural implements" apparently the children yearn for the ultraviolence

So I watched House of Dynamite and I thought it was a fantastic pilot episode for the sort of big budget limited series that Netflix doesn't make so much any more Imagining that series is really the only way I can get over the disappointment the actual film creates

After reading this thread even the most committed hotel-shouting roundabout-flagger would conclude that there's room for Sheffield City Council to dial the Christmas stuff back a bit

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

At last we are recreating the Mad Men office environment from the hit TV show “don’t recreate the Mad Men office environment”

seriously, ban Excel

Oh and also JD Vance's brother lost the Cincinnati mayor race.

“That’s right - HS2 have been forced to build a two-lane, state-of-the-art, multi-million pound road bridge to join what is essentially an overgrown footpath to a sort of bridleway with delusions of grandeur.” Wow: martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu... m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPF...

This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire. www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Why is this made??? £62.99

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

Make sure you check your kid's Trick or Treat chocolate tonight. Last Halloween my son bit into a mini Mars bar and found a John Virgo ‘Gotcha' from Noel's House Party inside

I feel a "but over the weekend, the Chancellor's position became increasingly untenable, and following further revelations in the Sunday papers, it was clear the Prime Minister had to act" coming on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've taken the paywall off this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George - who died last year - in case anybody would like a read: www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...

Nobody in authority ever suggested that "Essay mills are just an inevitable part of modern life, you should change your teaching-methods to circumvent them". They fucking MADE THEM ILLEGAL.

Daughter spent some of her birthday money on one of those instant cameras that prints onto thermal paper, and she's used it to make Tele-Snaps of #Strictly

“Okay, okay, you guys have had your chance—the horses want another shot at it.”

what an auspicious day on which to go into Waitrose for some bits. they were celebrating by having absolutely no bananas

there are videos circulating of the Irish president being mauled by a ferocious hound, DO NOT click on them

Each one of those 98/99% of failed applications represents dozens or hundreds of hours of work for the actual applicant; a vast stack of emails about budgeting, cost-centres, reviews, approvals, HR, Finance Office, Research Support... Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".

If I were Bill Cotton, I'd retire Strictly at this point

Finally, a job opens up for Amol Rajan.