8/10. Phobia, the movie. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

Dirty old bollocks klaxon #forgotten80s

Get your sublime tokens out for Madame Butterfly (& Malcolm's accent) #forgotten80s

Goodbye Mr Mackenzie. Good band, rubbish name. Which mattered when you had to ask a hard-pressed & often quite judgemental man at the record shop counter for a single & you didn't want to appear a dick #forgotten80s

Extraordinary that all this talent could make something so forgettable it's on #forgotten80s

Lots of podcasts about Venezuela incoming. A lifetime's research behind most of them, assuming you're a mayfly.

You forget that the pandemic had a long tail. This popped up on Facebook Memories from Jan 2021.

Naive by The Kooks on in pub. If ever a defining example of landfill indie is required, look no further

Just binned my X account. All those words & all that lovely interaction gone because a billionaire wanted it as a safe space for paedophiles

Made a new playlist

It's called paying tax, The Mirror

9/10. Did the maths & pffft. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

A chunky 8/10 Civilisation & POTUS (strange bedfellows these days) #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

Reminds me of when I changed the all phones alert sound on the new fancy work phone system to Chef singing 'Suck on my chocolate salty balls'. Briefly. #TOTP

ADVERT : Wandsworth hairdos needing a glow up? My daughter's salon wants you 🫵 www.instagram.com/stories/glow...

3/10. Just horrible. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

This has set me thinking back to rubbish Xmas presents of yore & my ma's tendency to get the HK knock off rather than the 'right' toy • The fake Johnny Seven gun that exploded in a miasma of springs on Xmas morning • The space station that ate C batteries so quickly it was quietly 'disappeared' ...

7/10. I meant the one element & chose the other, my maths failed me by a factor of 10 & Plato done me like a kipper. Happy New 2026, folks #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

They always show a video of a poor person narrowly avoiding being run over

Why didn't this hit big in 2025? An AI musical of Ian Rush's long fight with a Surrey scaffolder & a small Wigan law firm vimeo.com/1084401817?_...

Wilmer McLean's house near Manassas, Virginia, was hit during First Bull Run, the first Civil War battle in 1861. He then moved 143 miles to Appomattox, Virginia, to escape the war, only for the war to end in McLean's front parlour 4 years later when Grant received Lee's surrender there

New Year's Eve. Only the miniature Milky Ways & toffee pennies are left

7/10. Capital, painter & dynasty. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

6/10. Cities got Kirk's boxers in a twist. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

This is bonkers & brilliant

6/10. Dot's constantly wrong on baseball team's ethnicity. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

@matthewjrudd.bsky.social Top man. More power to your elbow in 2026 #forgotten80s

Toothbrush on bottom bantz #forgotten80s

Papers leading with Bardot's passing all acknowledging (a) it's silly season & (b) newspapers are solely for people who still use landlines, keep cardboard boxes 'just in case' & keep tissues up the sleeves of their cardigans

Come On Home mentions Christmas Day & has been included on Christmas CD compilations for that reason, despite not being a festive tune. Probably a nice little earner for EBTG. Certainly a fabulous record #forgotten80s

Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning. Another Phil Collins ditty for piano & paint tin & brush #forgotten80s

8/10 Ultra magical realist #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

I've been there. North Wales. Not sure what cricket's got to do with it.

Cricket Australia losing the revenue from 3 days of 90000+ gates will have the MCG ground staff expecting interviews without coffee

6/10. Dosh, old master, scientist origin & composer ID. You could get a bus through the gaps in my knowledge. #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

A tale of rubbish Christmas presents. Particularly triggering for me was the tale of a Welsh lad the same age as me who asked for 'a suit', being too young & not having the vocabulary to specify a cowboy or spaceman suit. Readers, he got an Acker Bilk suit. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The son has been on Insta

If I were him I'd bring the Ukraine under-16 netball team along as my (heavily chaperoned) guests BBC News - Zelensky plans to meet Trump on Sunday for talks on ending Russian war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Prog on Radio 4 Extra about Christmas presents. One chap had pestered his family non-stop for an accordion & eventually got one. His accordion teacher told him, 'You're never alone with an accordion'. The chap observes, 'This is true until you start playing it'

7/10. #quizoftheday has regained its marbles after yesterday quizoftheday.co.uk

Harry Brook charging Mitchell Starc first ball at 8 for 3 would suggest lessons haven't been learned here

A real Christmas story. What fantastic people. BBC News - We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At first glance I thought The Oldie was being a bit on the nose about Rachel Johnson until I realised they mean Page 19

It's #duvetknowitschristmas night. I wouldn't be out in the weather tonight so it's only right to help people who don't have much choice gofund.me/e912ed756

I've discovered a sticky tape that avoids the issue of losing the end by sticking to itself - Morrisons own brand. The downside is its near-total absence of adherence to anything at all. I've used an entire roll wrapping 10 presents. It's been a exhausting evening & I'm now on a Baileys drip.

9/10. Got the booze one wrong. The shame. Merry Christmas all #quizoftheday quizoftheday.co.uk

Woman berating already embattled staff in my local Peacocks, demanding advertised 10% off her shop despite the automatic system not working. Two staff dealing with her as she became ever more abusive & entitled. Queue of 10 behind her. Discount finally applied she stomped out having saved £3.60.

Bought myself a cool We Are Rewind Bluetooth cassette player for Christmas. It comes with a neat accessory - a rewinding pencil

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party.

Christmas Eve Eve spent waiting for the thumbs up from my customer's Chinese arm that their stock take has started without glitches. Such is the lot of the freelance data analyst. Have one for me if you are. Still, kerching.