#NowPlaying Soulsavers, It's not how far you fall it's the way you land. Mark Lanegan does an excellent version of Spiritual from Blue Moods of Spain on this.

A fun* thing to do is to play a 25kHz tone through a set of massive speakers and slowly turn the frequency down, as people say "What the hell is that?!" in increasing order of age. *Your mileage may vary if you don't happen to be an office full of acousticians.

If, like I did, you could benefit from chasing all the annoying buzzes and resonances out of your PC / TV audio set-up, this ton generator is EXTREMELY useful. www.szynalski.com/tone-generat...

A Shaftesbury chemist, eh? That HOVIS ad’ (you know the one everyone erroneously thinks is Northern), filmed on Gold Hill suddenly takes on a totally different complexion.

On a train to my first job interview, nervous as you like. A drunk guy gets on and takes a dislike to me, shouting in my face spraying Special Brew spittle. A little old lady stands up and says "I think everyone just wants to mind their own business", giving me time to escape to a different carriage

We're watching The Eagle Has Landed, where a fascist regime hatches a plan to kidnap the head of state of a nearby nation. What a preposterous idea.

Seven swans a swimming (and two more swans, and some coots and a tufted duck and and...)

Sunsets over village cricket pitches, an occasional series. Number 2: Avebury CC.

Frost hides from the sun in the long winter shadows cast by standing stones

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

live rolling news was a mistake

People seem to have stopped posting screenshots of the twitter GrotBot, which is nice.

I am curious as to who the "stakeholders" are who are preventing the UK government from acting against a white supremacist pornographer?

WOW!!!!!!!

Maybe I should stick to bananagrams or something, but today's Minute Cryptic is a bit of a stretch.

I enjoyed this piece from the @wsc.co.uk writers' competition about doing The 92. www.wsc.co.uk/stories/spre...

This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.

The most memorable lesson, should anyone ever find it useful: Once the fire you're trying to put out is bigger than a waste paper basket, it's too late; get the fuck out of the building.

SCANDAL: SO CALLED SOCIALISTS PAY A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR WELL MADE CLOTHES INSTEAD OF CHEAP GOODS PRODUCED UNDER TERRIBLE CONDITIONS

Let's go! #STFC

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Adrian throw shade on bike journalism. Everyone knows that 1500 words on spokes is really just a good first day’s work.

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

[sing among if you know the words] 1930s racing aeroplanes are the best aeroplanes.

Happy 78th birthday to Jeff Lynne of ELO.

🎵”Suss-suss-sausages”🎵

After this part went ping! from the tweezers, I found it quicker than I might have done all things considered.

Why do people keep depicting cyclops with a nose under the eye? the olfactory nerves would have to go all the way down and round and up behind the eyeball and get all caught up with the optic nerves. If they had evolved the nostrils would surely be more on the cheeks. Welcome to my TED talk.

The hill I will die on: Pigeons are working-class heroes and deserve some respect | Toussaint Douglass

Enjoying this so far.

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

#NowPlaying The Miners' Hymns, Jóhann Jóhannsson

Watching World's Strongest Man (because it's not Christmas until etc), but they appear to be putting sandbags into a cybertruck rather than throwing a 2CV over a wall.

I think there's a ballad about that.

we had podcasts done by nobodies for about 10yrs and it was great, before out of work tv presenters started doing them and then it just became tv again

Sorry, I don’t know when your bins go out

"Just need to not do anything silly"

Difficult to sleep with all this going on. #TheCricket

My favorite customers, hands down, are obsessive, weird little kids who had fun doing a research project about some country once and now go absolutely NUTS for maps and flags. These kids are just forces of nature.

JUST REALISED THIS IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE AND MY GOD THIS IS HAPPENING NOW.

Photo reconnaissance with a hangover

Saw these guys on the way back from the pub.

This cat's opening the batting for Australia on boxing day.

Merry Christmas, weirdos. You're alright x youtu.be/UQCMyChBiSU

Final cruise home this Christmas Eve, with the crew aboard Helimed 60. Spotted Santa getting ready for this year’s run. Wishing you a Happy Christmas from all of us at Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex. Time for bed kids HE’S ON HIS WAY 🎅