Really not convinced by "Carol on Pluribus is the same character as Kim on Better Call Saul", but I'm all in on Fred Melamed's agent character on The Morning Show being the same fella as Bruce Ben-Bacharach on Lady Dynamite

I've got an song idea, it's about a Picture of Dorien Green. Don't have the energy to write it

If you enjoy drinking cask ale then I heartily recommend Southern Strong by Three Acre should you spot it about. Just does what it needs to. Extremely "seasonal" and "warming" but it's really balanced, it isn't potent for the hell of it

I scrolled past this too past and thought I saw "Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bruce" and wasn't surprised! Would that be the weirdest thing that's happened in the last few years? Swapping copies of their books

I was thinking this earlier, not so much the old American stuff but the newer ones. It's like we haven't had the imagination to come up with anything likeable in twenty years so just import the template American pop songs instead

Mad how Little Saint Nick isn't the best Christmas song even though it's by the Beach Boys and Christmas songs are generally bad, isn't it? I think it might be the depressed sounding "Christmas comes this time each year" that does it

Our Homicide: Life on the Street

How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?

His rage at people saying things like "I just disagree with you" says so much, right? Also there is only so long the whole "I fell out with my comedy peers" thing is going to run before people just don't remember who any of them were anyway

Distraught about missing Barry Scott turning on the Leytonstone Christmas lights. Hopefully the Wanstead ones will have a live performance of the I Love Horses song or something

She wasn't really a person of many words so it feels like a big "could", and also is there a specific point in our lives that I'd be talking to her at? Like am I getting her on her last day revisited or is there a particular date where they've made a kind of granny save I can revert to?

It's not even the beginning of the end, is it? It's the middle of the end. Where this goes now, regardless of whether you want Israel in or not, is a competition that basically isn't fun. And why will people be interested if it's not fun?

Got a bizarre week over here, there was a bit on Monday where I got a new job (from the shit interview last week) and then a pretty unenjoyable case on jury service in the space of 25 mins and it hasn't really cooled down since. I have Thoughts on the court experience that are not Blueskyable

🎵 the Pluribus is coming and everybody's jumping 🎶

The thing with all this "London is worse" stuff is that there'd be a point in it if what they were really saying wasn't "London isn't as white as we want it to be."

Have been following the "is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot a 2001 or 2002 album?" discussion. I figure that since it was released by the band in 2001, it's a 2001 album, but it all reminds me of the time In Rainbows won an office 2007 EOY poll and they changed the rules because it wasn't 'physical'

This is close enough to Christmas to make it a Christmas song, surely?

If the Sunderland fans don't have a song for Brian Brobbey to the tune of the Mr Blobby song then they bloody should

Got an idea - shall we just let Australia keep those fucking ashes and stop doing this every other year? Just seems easier

East 17 were one of the best pop groups of all time imo. Four guys called Brian, Terry, John and Tony, one of whom looked like he would cut you if you looked at him funny, being handed a) boyband rave-pop?, b) an awkward go at US-style R&B, c) ballads that didn't work but one will endure for ages

We might have to do some actual work in the group at least? Like some actual games against Croatia and Ghana and then trying to avoid injury in the Panama one, unless they've calmed down since the last time

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

The fun game everybody's playing is billygeddon, where you have to avoid hearing BLK XMAS by billy woods all December up until Christmas. You should be safe in Tescos

A vote has got to be more useful than ESC just going "each bot can only vote ten times rather than twenty, yeah that'll fix it"

First job interview for an age, and I only spent about 80% of it talking absolute churb, a decrease on the 90-99% in my last few. It's progress. Like how about you people cut out the nonsense and just give me your job? Must be easier for everybody surely

Ouuuuuuch

Love when people say "sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt" after clearly interrupting. Like what did you mean to be doing if it wasn't that

Wonder if this has anything to do with the possibility of jury nullification in trials involving pensioners holding placards? No idea but it must have crossed somebody's mind

The fun idea I had the other week was you could do this sort of thing with films that clearly were Christmas films. Like constructing some long and angry argument that said why Santa Claus: The Movie was or wasn't a Christmas film

I feel like it could be fun to go so far around the Whamageddon loop, beyond even the "if anything you should be listening to Last Christmas twenty times every day, it's the greatest record ever and George Michael is Christ" kind of stuff, that you end up joining in with the game and anticipating it

Reminder that the Intel Inside jingle has words and they are "you are a cunt!"

Everyone has absolutely lost their minds.

Still thinking about Kate Beckinsale's daughter's boyfriend laying eggs. Her daughter must be very loyal because a man laying eggs like a hen would give a lot of people the ick

Bohemian Rhapsody, right - imagine a two-and-a-half minute edit that was just the good bit stretched into a whole song

The thing with this is that Kylie can be number one all she wants, but whether her song is taken into the public's hearts and added to the Christmas song canon, that's a democratic thing innit

I love when old people get on the tube and make sure they sit far away from the graffiti. Like they think they're going to catch crime off it if they get too close

maybe we’re not talking enough about kate beckinsale’s daughter’s boyfriend laying two eggs (he is a human man, afaik) ew.com/kate-beckins...

Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Pasta (1998-1999): Canned pasta in a tomato/cheese sauce from Franco-American, shaped like weapons, a castle, and a dragon from the short-lived Fox Kids action-fantasy series from Saban, which was set in ancient Ireland

I mean, it won't, obviously if he's replaced by the Gants Hill Hamburglar that's going to improve nothing, but this opinion smells a bit Sensible doesn't it?

Me when I go to one of those London festivals where every stage is sponsored but at least there's somebody good on

I've slept on the Tubs, this sounds like something I would have ordered if I'd been asked. It's all in there youtube.com/watch?v=IvJ0...

Reading so you don't have to: the "trigger" bit seems to be Chortle's addition, so Peter Kay isn't a numbskull who doesn't understand what a trigger warning is

Thinking about the idea of somebody from the US coming over here and calling Nisa Express or the F&M Food and Wine type shop with a Lycamobile branded sign "the bodega"

37 🎄

"I went there on a scholarship"

Do the three faces men pull in photos instead of just smiling (the open mouthed one, the straight mouthed one that says "guess I'm in a photo with this woman", the one that is expressionless and seems to mean nothing at all) have names? Feels like they should do

I always knew it was my Factor Fexcectorn

First weekend of Christmas basics who take over the city centre pubs while not understanding what pubs are and how to behave in them! Feels earlier than usual

Being tempted by the Black Friday day/week/month thing of "you know that thing you didn't previously want or need? Well you can get it cheap while stocks last!" but holding firm, just about. Keep deleting shit from my basket. No, I do not need this box of 16 Biscoff flavour protein flapjacks

Not sure it was the best idea for Tottenham to approach the first half of this game in the manner of a non league team away to a Premier League one in the FA Cup. Also they're not even doing it properly? Bound to be better second half surely