Genuinely think you could pick two people completely at random in this country and they would still be funnier and more entertaining than Rob and Romesh

Bit mad this is the 2nd reference to Videodrome in the timeline

absolute filth on Antiques Roadshow

“Jed, I’ll level with you - I’m really scared.”

Part of the time it feels like you're going mad because journalists like Laura K get paid extraordinary amounts of money and can't even remember the very photos that got Mandelson sacked, which had the legend above "leaving you with some interesting friends to entertain" www.bbc.com/news/article...

For someone who apparently hates porn she seems to have done her level best to imagine a hackneyed porn scene rather than actual reality. Also she clearly hasn't seen enough videos/photos of ICE officer to realise most are err, not great physical specimens

Am now actively trying to get myself banned on the other place which given how lawless it is now whereas once upon a time calling someone a cunt got you a ban it might take me a while

J.K Rowling used to write middling books for children, Graham Linehan wrote sitcoms, you didn't have machines talking to you

You used to find jazz mags in the woods

I can only assume the complete reverse ferret on Musk and xAI is as per with this useless government that they had to focus group their response first, and surprise surprise it came back with this is fucking disgusting, despicable and beneath contempt, why aren't you doing something

I'm sure our European allies will see this as a good faith gesture, bigging up our huge bollocks in teaming up with the US to seize an *empty* tanker, and not as us making clear that whatever we might be saying now, we'll help the US annex Greenland in the same way as well.

I see the latest genius move by the 5d chess players is to piss off both China and Russia at the same time just days after kidnapping the leader of a sovereign state, and this time we almost certainly were either involved or the United States used our bases to carry out the ship seizures.

Again, a few of us said: we have to consider a world where the United States is no longer the guarantor of security it has been post-WW2, and all the smart people completely ignored us and carried on as though Trump hadn't appointed a whole cabinet worth of lunatics and fascists.

I don't think I can remember a technology in my lifetime that's prompted governments to basically suspend existing law -- copyright, obscenity, incitement -- like genAI/LLMs. they seem prepared to gamble everything on it. feels quite final.

The other thing about AI that seems remarkable: nearly every new technology has had an attendant moral panic along with it. Video nasties, the internet itself, new drugs, etc etc. With AI, which we know has helped teenagers kill themselves and made others mentally ill, there seems barely a murmur.

Put it this way: porn forums have put blocks on the sharing of AI material because they don't know where they stand legally, let alone ethically with it, and they would never have allowed anything of anyone under 18 to begin with. That's how fucked this is.

Maduro and his wife will stand before 140-year-old judge Mr Justice Cocklecarrot and the deceased will be formally charged on drugs and weapon counts.

I think we got the answer to the “why is Starmer hated?” question today. Someone who can’t stand up for his own principles even as he proclaims his lifelong commitment to them is just contemptible

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

What are we a bunch of Russians?!?!?!?!?!

You can always rely on the world's stupidest woman to come up with dumbest take of all

Not sure we've ever had the banality of evil so rubbed in our faces than Trump going on Fox News and the hosts cackling along with him saying how he hopes Maduro had a nice flight to USS Iwo Jima. They don't even do this sort of fawning in North Korea

The US Attorney General confirms Maduro is being charged with "conspiracy to possess machine guns" - something Republicans usually call a constitutional right.

Always worth remembering it was the lies the US and UK told the UN about the intervention in Libya, that it wouldn't be regime change, that led to Russia changing its foreign policy stance and intervening on the side of Syria. Now Trump has given an open invitation to China to invade Taiwan.

in 2010 an apparently very hungover joanna newsom delivered this ice cold read of lady gaga, music criticism and pop culture at large, and as far as i’m concerned she was on the money then and has only gotten righter over time.

When your hard to find fave dirty film is showing at your local cinema

God imagine if we still had some far-left groups that had some balls

It's not that the Great British public can't fall for the same scams over and over again, given they elected Boris Johnson, it's a combination of 1) a virulent right-wing press that with the possible exception of Blair's first term always portrays Labour governments in the worst possible light and

Can't believe it's already been a year. I miss you every single day Dad.

so many greats, I think about this one a lot

Indeed, please rail against because her music is terrible and she's another pop star you're not allowed to criticise in spite of that

I see the same people who think Lucy Connolly was a political prisoner believe a dual citizen should have his British nationally stripped in order to deport him

I do love stuff like this which just shows how insular and fucked up our discourse is. Oh no, this wrongly imprisoned guy reflected the opinions of the average non-Israeli in that he rightly despises Israel! What a bastard! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The virgin: Brigitte Bardot The chad: Brigitte Lahaie

Cockburn on the LRB podcast here, observing that the upshot of the War on Terror is that almost every independent state between Libya and Afghanistan has either been brought to heel, or smashed into an ungovernable mess that can’t defend itself. And that this was the entire point.

This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday! Except a non-Jet2 holiday, or indeed any holiday or indeed any advert for any holiday that doesn't use a song by that caterwauling cunt Jess Glynne

Don't think there are many films where you can say every single frame is brilliant in the way The Wrong Trousers is. Just an extraordinary achievement in every single way

I'm sorry can you take me through which services your law firm offers again

I see your mum has so many gentlemen callers she had a sticker made

Indeed, even if your husband is a fat slob Minecraft YouTuber, you're a bathroom obsessed weirdo and your kids have been nurtured with those qualities, as it will keep you away from the rest of us

Apart from anything else, Fulnecky is just a world class American name isn't it, which makes it sad it's paired with something as basic as Samantha. Has to be coupled with Kayden or Krystal or Starla or Neveah or Serenity for its full spectrum power to be unleashed

Story from Joolz Denby over on Facebook. A bad day at TotP in 1985 with New Model Army, and Chris Rea suddenly appearing and being compassionate and gernerally decent.

Right, Christmas is officially here

This must be what it's like to have been repeatedly dropped on your head as a child

Say what you like, but I reckon she goes like a fucking train