Right. Time to crack on.

Big wine is officially out.

Marvellous levels of Get The Badge In at the local. Perfection.

New books - I am always bafflingly easy to buy for.

“Awsoma Powah!” 🐠 💡

Got Cones a Niners hoodie.

Meri Crismasu to all who celebrate.

My favourite thing about this is just “tin foil is purely functional”. “Can we be arsed to say it symbolises, I dunno, angels or something?” “Nah.”

Christmas Run 👍. Champagne counts as an isotonic drink today, right?

Condolences as well to everyone getting a copy of the Led by Donkeys coffee table book by that uncle who “knows you’re into politics”.

I know I do drink a bit too much but I enjoy reading those Reddit threads about “times you ruined Christmas” and I confess that I’ve never come close to drinking enough for me to stagger home at 3am and accidentally shit all over the presents under the tree. Sorry folks, skill issue.

Present day, Present time.

“GDP per capita lol the UK has flatlined since the pandemic” bros? I like you but, seriously lads, have a day off. Just for today.

and Tiny Tim… …who did NOT die!

Father Christmas has been!

He’s making a list. He’s checking it twice. He’s checking it a third time. He’s having a fourth check just to be sure it’s all confined. Santa OCDlause is coming to town.

oh great its the vicar of dibley christmas special where she has to eat all the christmas dinners

I think the plural is Chocolates Orange, it’s a possessive noun, like Attorneys General.

Happy Christmas from Mr Forgot to Do the Fiancée’s Christmas Card.

Enthusiastically screamed “Enoch Powell” to one question I am not beating the allegations.

Centrist Dad fantasy football team.

Celebrity Mastermind.

Officially Christmas. 🎄

Reminded of the incredibly unsettling sign from the butchers in Staincross from 2021. The Covid sign next to it just elevates it to art. Proper League of Gentlemen vibes.

Going for a festive drink at The Fat Cat.

I love the idea that people think Bozza would give a generous Christmas present when he’s legendarily tight with his own money. He’d peel an orange in his pocket.

If you start watching Knowing Me Knowing Yule at 11:21pm tonight, Alan punches Tony Hayers with a turkey at the exact moment it becomes Christmas. Start the big day off right.

A coda to this is that the UK is pretty unusual in that we don’t tax winnings on the Lottery or game shows. John Carpenter (the first winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire) worked at the IRS and didn’t give his job up because after tax he got about $600k which is nice but not life-changing.

Happy Almost Christmas to all who celebrate.

I forgot how good these were. The Pokémon one is superb. “He was a Protestant man but he was very, very nice.” youtu.be/YCg0bl2frYM?...

"Get me Francis Ford Coppola!" “He's unavailable." “Then get me his non-union Romanian equivalent!"

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

We did doria.

Gone up to Yorkshire for Christmas and I will always love when some of the (TBF very limited) more obnoxious Trots at uni tried to pull the old “lol he resides in a mansion” gambit and had to go “oh, he actually does live in a terraced house in Barnsley shit”.

Another lovely Christmas with @coneshotline.bsky.social.

He is so camp.

One of those pieces of music that always puts me in a good mood. 🙂

A certain agitator, for privacy’s sake let’s call him “Prince A”, no, that’s too obvious. Let’s say “P. Andrew”.

Trainin’ home for Christmas.

By far my biggest issue with Asimov’s writing is that all his characters sound functionally identical. It’s a marked contrast with the likes of Heinlein.

SILKSONG MENTIONED ON CELEB UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

Great set of "restart the PC having had a drunk Sunday Night wiki-walk" tabs; Ed Reardon's Week, Bee Network, First Silesian War, 1799–1800 conclave, Calvados (department).

Never clicked on a link faster.

I don’t think I’ve had a more “touch grass” moment than when someone in all sincerity argued that Avatar had no cultural impact because it only had thirty fan-fics on AO3.

I still think that Bari Weiss sounds like a shit Italian wheat beer.

Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived

It’s got to the point where the subject of the “Alternative” King’s Speech is more predictable than the proper one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s funny how there’s certain animal welfare things that people really fixate on. I have a very reactionary, High Tory, acquaintance who is now basically a republican because The King banned foie gras from being served at state banquets.