Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

My New Year's resolution is not to get apoplectic when someone refers to Gateshead's The Central as 'The Coffin' I 'think' The Coffin was actually The Forrester's on Askew Road I've lived here 30 years and the first time I ever heard it called that was in a badly written chronicle article

'Only 4 sleeps to the big day!!! ' 'I'm on my Holibobs!!!' No..Just No.

It's like Beer 17 Beer Bore, if you've got to go away I think I could drink another pint (Stay now) Won't you stay another round (Stay now)

I somehow managed to steer 17 Beer Brethren around 9 pubs yesterday.

Survived my 22nd Black Eyed Friday and I'm surprisingly hangover free, despite drinking #Budvar reserve in The Lost Wanderer.

The Printworks in West Moor (or is it Killingworth) has announced that it is closing 'temporarily'

Following the controversy over the edited Trump speech, the BBC has been lambasted for its negative and biased portrayal of the leader of a prominent right-wing government… An Evening with Private Eye 2025, out now on YouTube.

fuck sake have vault city started doing gravy

"Lily Allen if she Married Santa" is great. It's by Sam O'Leary who remains irritatingly resolutely NOT on BlueSky but IS in Earth Must Die so you'll have to let him off youtu.be/_CipyUTP6T4?...

Does anyone know when the Set Square was invented? I'm assuming it was after my 1920s house - not a single right angle in the small bedroom.

Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old tomorrow. I hope he's making the most of his finally night of Lego building.

Stealworkers

Bought a book from 1866 on Pub signage. I dunno why.

I have to fit another wood floor before Friday. I have bursitis( Housemaids Knee) Tomorrow is going to be very very sweary

It's not all bad news. Porn mags left in Towpath hedges has increased by 4000%

I've been using interfrastically for decades and forgot where it came from I also used 'Triqqa Pli'c' when I'm trying to hurry people up, which is from a Klingon Pizza Hut advert

In the Nine inch Nails song 'Gave Up' popularized by no-one why do they sing ' Cover the pope in gasoline, still cannot fix this broken machine'

I love 80/- as much as the next man but who would charter a coach to Chapel House

Having read bits of it , I'm astonished at the number of pubs that have actually survived, and weirdly how obsessed the guide is with coach trips and if you can fit a bus in the pub carpark.

I miss the early(ISH) internet

It's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.

Would never have happened in Tom Bakers day!🤬

It's only taken 29 years but I 'probably' have every book written about Tyne and Wear pubs #Newcastle #Toon #Sunderland

Went out for a 'quiet' nine pints last night. Didnt think I was that drunk but stumbled home , watched KISS Exposed and didn't get out of bed until 6pm I hate getting that pissed , it's dangerous and I could have ended up watching KISS Phantom of the Park

The Shed has been turned into a party bar for a 10 year olds birthday . It's going to be very very noisy

These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art

If you're a Pub/Beer history nerd, this seller on eBay has recently inherited 100s of quite hard to find books I've just, managed to get the Newcastle Inns 'Inn Guide to The North east' Which I have been after for decades.

Breal bought a slew of unloved brands and then engaged in a damaging race to the bottom. This was the inevitable conclusion and the only surprise is that it has taken this long. My thoughts are with the blameless employees that will be affected by their failure. www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/breal-b...

Not enough credit is given to the safety feature of switching off the lightsaber if your hand has been chopped off.

The Balloon pub, A hellish knife shed in Denton/Fenham, has closed. Looks like I'm gonna have to move my cannabis farm AGAIN.

Be STILL my beating heart. The Cack opens on the 2nd of December! Just in time for me not to go to it over xmas

Wetherspoons are taking over The Cookhouse and Pub at Holystone. It might be a good thing, or it might get all the loons in who used to go to the Blue Bell/ Northumberland Arms #Newcastle

If anyone heard any shouting and swearing in Heaton, it was me after I dropped a pallet on my foot If anyone heard any loud cackling in Heaton, it was my wife after I dropped the pallet on my foot.

How cool does testing look? If you want to wear a cowboy hat and wear shades in front of an Astral nursery.. then maybe we have the job for you. Apart from being an intergalactic traveller, you must be able to use excel

Keeping a woman out of Brew house seems easy enough, but keeping them all out of Estonia would be nigh on impossible

The #AussiePinkFloyd were on top form tonight

movie posters featuring the muppets: thread

The Troubles Snow Patrol May McFettridge gOOdStyle Steaklets The Northern Irish have an almost boundless capacity for suffering But this almost broke us 15 years ago, we were still reeling from Breo, #Guinness sensing weakness in an emotionally drained people unleashed this abomination

I dunno what a Bragget is ( or how to pour beer) But this is lovely

FFS 😡😡😡 "UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape. The group's founder and chairman Tim Martin was a strong advocate for Brexit."

This may very well be an accurate representation of the "modern software stack".

Remember with every Beer Bore Hat you get a free - yes FREE - punch in the goolies

AI ,as always, knocking it out of the park

The Shed has finally achieved the ambient temperature of a modern thermally efficient office.

Bar Warwick - Not to be mistaken for a character in the Star Wars expanded universe - was an ill fated rarely open pub The Shieldfield bar is reopening as 'Ultra Lounge' - not to be mistaken for a shit Combiner Autobot

Free the Night statement on NI licensing review, they are irked and are going to be raising it with the Competitions and Marketing Authority.

The NI Assemblies response to the independent licensing review has been published In what will surprise absolutely no one , they have decided to reject all the reports findings and gonna stick with the surrender principle Hospitality Ulster will be overjoyed

Today in "big breweries fuck things up when they buy small breweries" (via @everypubindublin.ie): www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

Aerial Ashes-offer drone dispersal of your mortal remains I thought that's a good idea,so made an enquiry Unfortunately they won't drop my decomposing body onto my old boss,I need to be cremated first They did recommend the less squeamish 'Corpse Catapult- Lobbing Your Loved Ones to Eternity'