Fackham Hall is 95% awful gags and a few decent ones. Wouldn’t recommend.

The bbc needs to make more straightforward basic history documentaries. I can’t imagine they’re expensive to make? Lock a historian and an editor in a room for a week

This is an argument that reduces Britain to complete vassel status. Is there *any* US action, no matter how deplorable or contrary to British interests, that he would opposed? This kind of cravenness only encourages Trump to go further and faster, confirming (accurately) in his mind his methods.

I’m completely out of the loop with this Venezuela stuff. Caught entirely off guard.

Farage, Polanski and Corbyn's choices are all good, Davey's is a typical boring dad choice, and Badenoch's response is characteristically unhinged

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

The reason is X right? I mean I assume it is? Radicalised by an algorithm.

Wearing a nice cologne again now that the guilt of losing my bag and its contents has subsided. I felt oddly naked without any.

Hmmm

Back to work.

Knives out 3 was better than knives out 2. But the comedy bits are awful.

Guys, I’m sorry, I know it’s vulgar to publicly gush to strangers, but I love my daughter SO much. I just cry a bit every time I think of her. I’m absolutely overcome.

Does anyone actually watch the ch4 Alternative Christmas Message?

Happy Christmas

Panettone is actually the perfect Christmas gift. As the temperatures drop, it is perfect loft insulation.

What privileged life I lead. I’m so lucky.

The trump plaque things are utterly mad.

"Trade with the rest of the world" is perhaps the worst aged Brexit mantra. "Free trade" in the era of sanctions, tariffs, trade wars and espionage.

I don’t like those things like cheese toasters in Costa that you pick out and they heat up. Even if it’s false, I like the illusion that someone behind the scenes is doing some cooking.

I think the accepted wisdom that the American orange cheese slices are the best thing you can put on a burger is just bad. We can do better

This is top of my Spotify wrapped youtu.be/C1UOIHsT8Ds?...

Formula is so much more expensive than I expected. I didn’t know ‘loyalty points’ weren’t applicable… how bizarre.

In theory I should love marmalade. But I just can’t. I associate it too much with the elderly

What does he mean by ‘immaculately consummated’? I know the words separately, and I understand the context of immaculate conception, but it just seems like an odd phrase to use, especially (presumably) pejoratively.

It’s a deeply unpopular view on here, but hardly a stretch, to believe that AI pictures in the ‘style’ of Van Gogh are worthless, whilst also seeing there are legitimate applications for it!

So I am being taxed but I think for the wrong reasons. Still.

Well? Is it a gudget????

Deeply embarrassing for domcum that he was once in the heart of government and now panders to the gargoyles for pennies.

Anyway, I’m watching Master and Commander. It does make me wish I’d bothered to read the rest of the Aubrey/Maturin books.

I think the worst thing about the Ukraine deal, apart from everything else, is that it clearly just sets Russia up to have another pop a few years later.

Has anyone seen Maurice Glasman smile

I know Goalhanger branding is stupid, but I mean, it clearly works. If I hear a podcast title preceded by ‘The Rest is’, I immediately know I’m going to avoid it at all costs

Nice rule that also worked on twitter: anyone who states - usually with pride - in their bio that they block people is both unpleasant and dull.

I see these far right people having a right whine about the current government and I really wish they’d done something for them to actually whine about

If mayonnaise disappeared tomorrow I would not miss it

This would be hilarious.

Not once did my local Police and Crime Commissioner commission any crime

It turns out I love those paradox strategy games - crusader kings, europa universalis et al - and it’s really good to switch my brain off after a stressful day at work (ie most days), but it’s just so all consuming.

The castle episode on grand designs is a classic of the genre

Just heard an American say Abba 🤔

Their disagreements were over whose surname was correct

I wish I could enjoy the traitors as much as others seem to. It just strikes me as incredibly silly and bizarrely sincere. I cringe too much.

Someone out there needs to introduce VCM to the BlueSky community, it's all basically the Only Connect community and nutter Americans you can easily avoid anyway. Quite sad reading.

Only this morning I thought to myself how little interest I have in US politics, and how provincial US politics matters to me even less.

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

Sorry, priority to whom??

I have so little interest in what views the featherweight Zarah Sultana has to say.

I really would like to watch some Star Trek. What a comfort it is.