It begins!

Behold the only time I’ve ever found even moderate leg room on a 777-300ER (because I had the row just behind the toilets).

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Someone, 41: Hope nobody thinks my clothes are youthful and trendy… Me, 41: Wouldn’t it be ace if my Bluesky posts required a Viewing Card like old analogue satellite TV? They’d have to plug it into a decrypter to decode them, or they’d just see wobbly lines! Ha ha ha. That would fucking rule.

So looking at it, the HiAce and Hilux are exclusive to the 5-car set, whereas the Supra/Jimny/Beetle/Civic are single pack only.

It seems there are more Majorette x Care Bears cars.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

My exploits in buying toy cars tend to be “I just like it”, but Majorette have inexplicably paired up with Care Bears and are producing various cars including this, which has started appearing in Thailand. I can’t really explain why, but I absolutely must own the Care Bears Cefiro.

Board of Peace Members unveiled: Skeletor, Beef Bonk, The Hooded Claw, whatever that cat was called in Rude Dog and the Dweebs, George Jetson’s boss, Clarence Boddicker, Oscar from Short Circuit 2.

I read an opinion piece that people shouldn’t ignore AI, but should engage to help shape it. No! I just ignore things I don’t like. I ignored modern diesels, Harry Potter, template-based memes, Ken Block Gymkhana, TikTok, Elf on the Shelf. Ignoring stuff I don’t like fucking rules. Always do it!

I was in Lidl and one of the bottles of pop had a mysterious silver top. None of the others did on the entire pallet, so I bought it. Nothing happened.

Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my โกปิโก้ ลัคกี้เดย์.

Best way to respond to US Tariffs are to put a reciprocal 10% tariff on kiddy-fiddling.

The detail level on this one is really nice. Long live toy cars, something where you can pay £1.50 to make your trip out for dehumidifier boxes and aspirin less miserable.

My toy car buying technique is that if I see one and it’s cheap and I like it, I’ll buy it. Then every so often I’ll bust them out of their packaging and have an impromptu tiny car show.

Haven’t tested this phone’s camera so here is a test.

Bought a “new” £50 phone and whilst doing my usual joke of renaming it to something obsolete/stupid so people go “huh” when they see it on Wi-Fi, but to my surprise it also shows the names of several predecessors.

Nobody made this, it just turned up.

Deadbert, more like.

I washed my old rally jacket that I’d not worn for years and people keep thinking I’ve got a new coat for Christmas (I got it in the mid-2000s and I think it is from about 1998).

Hey @blacktopmagazine.bsky.social check these out.

Yes! Just managed to find a picture of the knock-off KITT I had as a kid that was my favourite toy, I never knew the brand name and only remembered the MAGICAL CAR bit in red font. Been trying to figure it out for years! Going to source one and stare at it moving about a bit like I did then.

I love films, but as somebody who isn’t American I’m finding it increasingly difficult to watch American films because it means I have to think about America and I don’t want to have to think about it any longer than I already do.

If you wanted to know the panels we rattle-canned: Bonnet, passenger side front wing and back door. Also driver front door bottom and rear arch dogleg.

I’m not going into detail about America, but I thought the whole point of folks having guns there was to stop this kind of thing. Not just to keep around because the jerk next door was revving his Firebird Formula while you were trying to watch Celebrity Hot Potato and you spilled your Big Gulp.

Wikipedia template for every prominent right wing businessman

I wish bland work software would stop having splash screens with aspirational images. I don’t think “wow, an ice skater jumping across the sky, can’t wait to look up some bank details” or “hey some people are putting a rocket together, I love sending documents to print”. Just fuck off already.

Picture of the staff who operate my account.

In the mid-1990s I was in Scarborough (about 75 miles away) and saw my mate’s mum. We mutually disliked each other so both pretended we hadn’t seen each other, even though it was very clearly her walking around with her expensive but hideously ugly clothes and stupid Princess Diana haircut.

It’s Christmas, time to kick back and relax with that Raymond Briggs classic.

It works with scenery too.

Still, got access to a colour printer so I can make quick fire dioramas using Google Streetview.

Just waiting for the last few stragglers to leave the office so I can push this around on my desk going brum.

AI is shit, I wanted to double-check that the Challenge Anneka beach buggy burnt down and typed it into Google to be told what I was asking wasn’t that and was instead about the repair of some building that burnt down. A few results down, a simple explanation that the beach buggy burnt down in 2001.

I like toy cars.

So what?

This specific shot from The Truman Show where they’ve not only removed the head restraints but covered the mounts over with an ill-fitting piece of fabric.

Talking of holidays, I’ve created a massive spreadsheet of all the Thai-exclusive Majorette diecasts so I can buy the ones I haven’t got and push them around on my desk.

If I seem like a miserable and angry person during winter, it’s because every single time it causes my psoriasis to flare up and I feel like I’m burning but also makes me feel like I’ve had about 3 hours of sleep. Then I go on holiday and the humidity sorts it all out within 2 days.

Generative AI is basically only good at two things - stealing anything it sees and drinking loads of water. They spent billions to create my mate’s dog.

They all look like something off a royalty-free Clipart set you’d get on the cover disc of a PC magazine in 1997.

You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now here’s fuck right off.

I’ll never stop doing this.

Found this Majorette Escort RS 1800 for £3 in the supermarket, then found (insane) people are buying them for anywhere between £30-70 on the Internet.

I keep seeing news along the lines of “(some rich guy) leaves the UK to live in Dubai” and I’m wondering what kind of reaction I’m meant to have other than indifference. I’m never going to see them, unless I’m transiting through Dubai Airport and they’re in the line when I buy a carton of smokes.