This comment is daft; I didn't learn the names of all the kings and queens of England at school either? I did learn to read and look things up in didn't know though

Let's give the special baby a special shiny special medal yes lets

And the animation is inspired by "what if 2 pac-mans, snogging?"

Google Gemini uses Grokipedia as a source, which is like carefully attempting to make a soup from various foods and then doing a shit in it.

I keep wanting to make very silly, very hyperbolic jokes about paranoid conspiracies on here but they just don't feel very funny these days. Also: would get a super-pile-on on from people who don't get the joke, people who think I shouldn't make a joke, and people who agree with the joke.

I think the thing is we all assumed the Pointy-Haired Boss was thick because he said stupid things and was ineffectual, but it turns out actually Adams thought he was a thick because he didn't sack Alice and Ashok for their clearly inferior genetics and didn't advocate genocide.

Right I want to know the furthest away people could get a watchable picture of the "wrong" TV region or channel. Could you get Tyne Tees in Birmingham? RTE in Cardiff??

Fucking hell

Remember when doom scrolling was despairing about how few files David Davis had on his desk

Good news about my job search: my lack of experience and interest in US cloud technologies finally paying off.

You could find things out using the internet

Looks like it's going to be one of those years again then.

turns out I have ADHD which makes sense given the number of job interviews i've had where they were asking questions and i was thinking about how if i was a burglar in home alone i would have just waited until he left the house to go shopping

To be fair to them the characters on Friends were unable to watch the TV series Friends so had more free time

If I were Keir Starmer I would simply not have become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Not a beef about neo-pronouns or whatever but this many options on a job application form is a bit silly when "Use name only" and "Custom" are on there, right?

Just reminded of the time 2 of my mates took some old chairs out of a skip on the way home from a night out but they got stopped by a passing police car. 10 minutes later, I saw them being questioned, sat on the chairs, coppers in front of them like some kind of impromptu interview room kit.

If not heard him speaking before, I didn't realise he was Screech from Saved by the Bell after Zach hit him on the head to make him more confident

I do really want to get a job but today I bought some new windscreen wipers from a shop and once I've fitted them I will have achieved more than I did in a week at my last place

When you decide the halting problem is because of potholes

I think they are slightly better than assumed at this - I rarely think "wtf?? Who do they think I am??" at my recs though I also rarely an recommended anything great. This is, I assume, commercial stuff. Push the new stuff to seem exciting & please creators.

Queen, there. #TOTP

"first time listening to" reaction videos are always weird because of the weird lies they tell for no reason 1) they never go "oh wait yeah I have heard this one" half way through 2) they declare someone their new favourite artist but then only listen to their songs one at a time 3 weeks apart

Dial of Destiny much worse watching it again. Clever trick to make the digital de-aging and CG stunts look more realistic by making the whole film look like shit. 11th most expensive film of all time!

Film review: Elvis (Baz Luhrmann, 2022) Elvis just loves his mum and wants to rock and roll. But he's too sexy & Tom Hanks makes him join the army. Then Tom Hanks makes him appear in shit films. But he's too sexy & has to have a comeback. Then Tom Hanks makes him get fat & die. Good soundtrack 6/10

Lines from the Peter Serafinowicz Show that are stuck in my head: "Mince pies.... Mini mince pies!" "Christmas Man." "You'll love the weird taste of Internet Ham" "Poison sockets are full of poison. Switch them off"

TV guys panic about YouTube but people watch it because they don't stretch 12 minutes of content into an hour. They just go to a big building and say why it's cool without 25 minutes telling me why I, an idiot, should care

I started James' experience. Post-pandemic a lot of my weekly rhythms and looser commitments disappeared and/or changed. Then my wife wasn't well and I had to do more in the house, and this affected my mental health... And when you're in your late 30s/early 40s change is harder anyway...

Ten years ago today.

I saw Jarvis Cocker at St Pancras station in pre-smartphone times. I had my digital camera with me cos I was going to a wedding so asked for a photo but I'd forgotten to put a memory card in. He said I could shake his hand and I ran off deeply embarrassed. Nobody at the wedding believed me!!!

Grok is this real

Him: Dad! [Me comes into bathroom covered in weird white foam] Him: Sorry dad I just wanted to see what would happen if I made a hole in this squidgy ball and squeezed it. Me: [suppressing laughter] what did you think would happen Him: this?

Recently a lot of British podcasts I've listened to have had American ads on them. One had one telling me I should not vote for the democratic candidate for governor of Puerto Rico because she tells lies about trump.

Happy birthday to me I am now 43 My beard is greying It takes longer to pee

At my mum and dad's for Christmas. Someone is missing. She's too ill for us to visit the hospital today, but my niece, just turned 4, has been fun. I wonder how aware she is.

That's me that is

When I was in 6th form in 2000 we would leave messages to eachother in text files on the shared network drive

I keep laughing about how they've just added "the Donald J Trump and..." to the name of the Kennedy centre

Sick of steampunk and 50s stuff. There should be a retro futuristic aesthetic based on mid-90s computers, with huge walls of serial ports, CD ROMs in caddies, and turbo buttons

That actress from Good Will Hunting was on the telly and I said that "in Italy, she's called Fiat 500 Driver" and all I can say is look, you're watching Emily in Paris, don't talk to me about quality ok?

It's always the ones you most expect

Lambert is the most rational and human character in any Ridley Scott film. Certainly any he's made in the last 25 years anyway

Watching Alien. Thoughts: - they don't mention that androids are a thing (I guess otherwise we'd be guessing one of the crew was one) but that means they have to ADR Yaphett Kotto saying he's a "goddam robot" so we don't think he's been possessed by alien yoghurt

Job interview this afternoon!! Yay!!

Ah ha ha ha ha

"Afro textured hair"; is Google getting Paul Simon's hair mixed up with the album Graceland?

Had some pretty terrible family news this evening bringing this incredibly shitty year to what I hope is a climax.

Do any of my followers or friends of followers do temping? How does it work these days?

Do any of my followers or friends of followers do temping? How does it work these days?

One thing that keeps our politics and religious conversation relatively sane is that there are Christians of all types in all the parties, generally respecting the sincerity of the others convictions. Lots of reform-adjacent types do not hold this view. This is bad for the country and the church!!