Rob Manuel
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Look I've got shows on sale ok? Hawking them is embarrassing. FESSHOLE TOUR 2025 W̶o̶l̶v̶e̶r̶h̶a̶m̶p̶t̶o̶n̶,̶ ̶P̶r̶e̶s̶t̶o̶n̶,̶ ̶L̶e̶i̶c̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶S̶w̶a̶n̶s̶e̶a̶ ̶ DONE Leeds - Hifi Club - 24th July Diss - Corn Hall - 10th Sept Worthing - Factory Live - 15th Oct Liverpool - Hot Water Comedy - 12th Nov
sites.google.com/view/fesshole
5 months ago
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This McCartney song from 2020 just caught me unawares and made the hairs stand up on my arms.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQnZ...
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Deep Deep Feeling
YouTube video by Paul McCartney - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQnZrdbXicg
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B3ta newsletter 962, out now "ASDA was named after its founders: Agnetha, Senny, Djörn & Anni-Frid" * PIGEON SONG - Yes, a song, about pigeons * IMAGE CHALLENGE RESULTS - Happy B-day Mario * 90s GIFS - Would it be B3ta without them?
b3ta.com/newsletter/i...
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B3TA : NEWSLETTER : "ASDA WAS NAMED AFTER ITS FOUNDERS: AGNETHA, SENNY, DJöRN & ANNI-FRID"
https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue962/
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I might have written a
@b3ta.com
newsletter on time for once. So sub ok?
b3ta.com/subscribe
1 day ago
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ASDA was named after it's founders: Agnetha, Senny, Djörn & Anni-Frid
2 days ago
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A way to note why I followed someone "said something amusing" A way to note why I muted someone "gave me notes on a throwaway joke"
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2 days ago
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Jus noticed that the last Fesshole show was reviewed, always makes me panic when I hear that, someone's random opinion then, stuck to me like glue, to haunt my every anxiety. But actually it's a perfectly good review. So that's a relief. I'm a "lord of misrule for the digital age"
archive.ph/qUvDc
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https://archive.ph/qUvDc
2 days ago
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Roll the clocks back to about 1985 where we in the UK thought about the US President about once a week, when Spitting Image would do a sketch where he set off nukes with his TV remote control.
2 days ago
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The one billionth richest man owns B3ta
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3 days ago
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This David Bowie / Kate Moss pic from 2003 popped up earlier as part of the promo for the Bowie doc she's presenting and it totally suggests an alternative casting for Tennant/Piper era Doctor Who, complete with a strong hint of a Tardis in the back.
3 days ago
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Quote tweet this with some swearing to see if we can collectively tilt the data. Fuck. Piss. Shit. Cunt. Fuck. Piss. Shit. Cunt. Arseholes. Fuck. Piss. Shit. Cunt. Knobend. Fuck. Piss. Shit. Cunt. Bollocks. Fuck. Piss. Shit. Cunt. Testicles. Fuck. Piss. Shit. Cunt. Bastards. Nonces. Tossers and Poo
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3 days ago
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This request came in and I thought, I'd give it a go. Not a tour, just book a couple of nights in a tiny club and have a go at it. I think getting the audience to gently row about trivial opinions could be fun. Anyway - grab a ticket. Tufnell Park.
www.designmynight.com/london/bars/...
3 days ago
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I’m ready for my audition, Mr. Burton
4 days ago
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🎵 A hearse is a hearse, of course, of course And no one can talk to a hearse of course That is, of course, unless the hearse is the famous Mr. Dead! 🎵
4 days ago
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This came in as an opinion submission, and it's not really an opinion, and I don't think I can move it to a fess either, but it does deserve publishing as it it does sound quite terrible, so out it goes, here.
4 days ago
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Sarah Manvel
21 days ago
I was talking to a bookshop owner yesterday. He said at the moment people are buying books as gifts instead of for reading, and then people are turning around and giving away the gifted books unread, and this is the entire literary market at the minute
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Anyone who writes *chef's kiss" needs to imagine Gordon Ramsay slobbering all over your face, his eager tongue exploring your teeth, every molar, the roof of your mouth, your nostrils, whilst his chest wheezes and the taste of yesterday's Beef Wellington fills your senses.
4 days ago
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5 days ago
B3ta newsletter 961, out now "A hill I'll die on is Muswell Hill, just after I've climbed up it, to buy cakes from the nice cake shop Dunns" * IMAGE CHALLENGE - Most popular one in yonks * SHED OF THE YEAR - We have a winner * GAME - Are you sure you're not a robot?
b3ta.com/newsletter/i...
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B3TA : NEWSLETTER : "A HILL I'LL DIE ON IS MUSWELL HILL, JUST AFTER I'VE CLIMBED UP IT, TO BUY CAKES FROM THE NICE CAKE SHOP DUNNS"
https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue961/
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Me: I’ll write a daily to-do list in pen to stop myself getting distracted Also me:
5 days ago
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Found myself reading "1995 In British Television" on Wikipedia and it's such an arbitrary selection of things, some mundane, some extraordinary, I feel I'm watching a whole Adam Curtis documentary in my head.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in...
5 days ago
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It still counts as listening if you read the book version of the audiobook.
5 days ago
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6 days ago
Bring back are fryd slice.
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Listening to the album Sunlight (1978) by Herbie Hancock and pretending Dafk Punk have reformed for one more banger.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyy...
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I Thought It Was You
YouTube video by Herbie Hancock - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyyaT8Tp8g
5 days ago
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Just stuck on Blade Runner coz, why not, it's late and it's a mind boggling achievement. Before Blade Runner nothing looked like Blade Runner, after Blade Runner about 20% of all sci-fi ever made looked like Blade Runner.
7 days ago
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Ryan Lambie
8 days ago
According to Prime Video's auto-generated subtitles, Leo the MGM lion's roar translates to "Love it."
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Deffo the nickname of a guy who brought this booze to a party once 30 years ago and his friends have never let him forget it
8 days ago
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Barry McGuire's Eve Of Destruction hits horribly hard at the moment. I'd never really felt the emotional power of the song before, it was just a song, that yes sounded great, but was from another time. Now it could be from next week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZV...
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Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction
YouTube video by The Best Of - Home Of Classic Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I
8 days ago
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I know it wouldn't solve the problem in a political sense, but for my own sanity, can some coder please write a hack for BBC Sounds that makes it play indie pop classics instead of the the news?
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8 days ago
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I hadn't realised Casio are now making classic looking digital watches but with some new shit in them, like step counters and bluetooth. I'm totally the target demographic for this and I've immediately ordered one. Will report back if I like it or not.
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...
9 days ago
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Invented a new meal last night. It's called Deconstructed Full English Breakfast For Dinner: Quattro Samwaggi Edition. Fried mushroom sandwich Fried egg sandwich Sausage sandwich Bacon sandwich Might sound a lot of sandwiches, but each one split in two, to serve two. It was fucking glorious.
9 days ago
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Dunno, seems ok. Play some cool guitar, go on tour, and 99% of media / fan hassle is elsewhere.
9 days ago
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My getting my talk show cancelled opinion is that Kirk's shooting happened because there's an absurd amount of guns in the US. They outnumber people. If all you've got is hammers, then everything looks like a nail.
9 days ago
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I've had this thought for a while, sort of as a joke, that the Trumposphere will froth themselves into declaring BlueSky a terrorist org and you're all going to have to go back to Twitter. But it sounds more possible by the day.
9 days ago
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Playing my cool vinyls
10 days ago
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Wow, a whole nest of baby swans
10 days ago
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Do YOU'RE reading the Wikipedia page on OS/2 and found this paragraph inexplicably funny
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
10 days ago
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Sting asks Roxanne to stop advertising her availability for sex work but he never suggest an alternative source of income, which suggests he's more about moral opprobrium rather recognising the economic realities of why people take this job. He's not, I need soup Roxanne, and I'll pay.
11 days ago
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With doing the Fesshole gigs it's made me realise that travelling around to work is actually more fun than travelling for a holiday, partly as it's easier to meet people. Venue people are your new colleagues for the night, and the audience, there's always a few who want to hang around and talk.
11 days ago
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From hard won experience running votes on B3ta - how to do it in a way that's untrollable: 1. First round allow public to submit anything 2. Second round, have competent editor pick a shortlist where it would be ok if *any of them won*, then public vote Doubt they'll do it right but it's possible
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11 days ago
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To shock you with my political opinions: Reform and the Tories suck and I believe in voting for whatever to-the-left-of-them candidate is likely to beat them in your local constituency, based on up to the minute polling. Watch my video where I walk around a hedge coz ooh, looks spiky.
11 days ago
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In the event of my death Vance isn’t allowed to write the B3ta newsletter
12 days ago
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Bollocks. My new(ish) favourite YouTuber has come out for Reform. I'm not saying I'll never watch his videos again, who knows, but I was genuinely thinking about joining his Patreon and that ain't happening now.
www.reddit.com/r/GeoWizard/...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/GeoWizard/comments/1nhik68/the_irony_of_tom_supporting_reform/
12 days ago
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This is what they pay the big money for in media: being able to predict that a politician's career will end at some point in in the unspecified future, for reasons unknown, and we're not sure how.
12 days ago
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A shout out to the clever people who put their glasses through the combo washing machine and dryer and bent them. I mean me.
12 days ago
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b3ta
13 days ago
B3ta newsletter 960, out now "MySpace Tom doesn't call for *anything*, as he's a chill guy taking nature photos" * RELOAD CLICKER - Can you hammer a million F5s? * CYRIAK - Now making videos for Adam Buxton * NEW CHALLENGE - Kids TV at the movies
b3ta.com/newsletter/i...
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B3TA : NEWSLETTER : "MYSPACE TOM DOESN'T CALL FOR *ANYTHING*, AS HE'S A CHILL GUY TAKING NATURE PHOTOS"
https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue960/
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Twice today I've had sexual nudity in the discovery tab. Made me wonder if the political pressure on BlueSky to be more accommodating to fascists has made them fiddle with whatever algorithm powers that and it's having unintended consequences.
13 days ago
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This at some level answers why the Gov have been so weak on this. They want to use it to appease the US with a "no, we're very good on free speech actually, look". Obviously a stupid idea coz the US isn't after free speech, it's after everyone becoming more racist & fascist so they're not an outlier
13 days ago
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Rory McCarthy
13 days ago
The sheer eeriness…it should be a bang barge, and it should slither down the canals of England, arriving with a fog as obscure as stone and bone-chilling cold. A single hooded gondolier pushing it along with a stick should summon young men within with a curling, skeletal finger in deathly silence.
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Walked past one of those BOSS number plates earlier and it was such a mangled attempt at it, it basically said BBOOOGGGSSS. Like Gollum asking to go to the toilet. I took a photo, but I figure it's owned by the kind of guy who might come round an thump me so you can't see it.
13 days ago
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Whilst I think yes, fine, MPs talking to people they represent is a good thing, the maths of this would be insane. Each MP represents on average about 100k people, with 80k being adults. That's 4.5 years of chat with no breaks or sleep.
13 days ago
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Tom from MySpace calls for absolutely nothing because he's just a chill dude who's happy that he got rich enough he can spend his days taking nature photos.
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Elon Musk calls for change of UK government at Tommy Robinson rally
Elon Musk spoke with Tommy Robinson via a video link to the thousands of people at Saturday’s ‘unite the kingdom’ rally
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elon-musk-tommy-robinson-london-protest-b2826032.html
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