I’m hardly the first to comment on this, but I can’t be the only one who finds the overuse of this trope a bit ick?

Still, at least now we’ve left the EU the British media will stop swallowing press releases from right-wing nutjobs about food regulations whole and regurgitating them without an iota of fact-checking.

It’s a pity international architecture practices don’t do TV adverts, as Herzog and De Meuron scans brilliantly with Jilted John by Jilted John.

Reminds me that I've been looking for an opportunity to use this far superior version of the Drake meme

Also, I am back on Bluesky. Hello again.

I dunno, you spend 40-odd years longing for the collapse and dissolution of the Conservative Party, then it begins and you’re stuck in a woodland cabin at a bizarre Dutch theme park without access to popcorn.

It’s Wayne Hennessy I feel sorry for. If only he’d tried this excuse he’d have been fine.

Oh my Shrubsole and my Brunt long ago #womensashes

I see Piers Morgan is leaving News UK. He’ll leave an enormous, gaping hole.

“Some people try to pick up girls, And get called an asshole, This never happened to -

Gavin and Stacey, then. I’d never watched a full episode, just lots of bits. The special was nice enough, but kind of showed why. A slightly less sneering Mike Leigh piece, with middle class theatre types trying desperately to show what uncultured proles are like, and failing miserably.

cowvid was right there guys

If you’re reading - unlikely, I know - apologies to the woman in Sainsbury’s Sydenham just now who was somewhat taken aback by what I had Mommie doing to Santa Claus while singing along to the tannoy.

Golden oldie time: this, from @garybainbridge.bsky.social in 2015 remains as true as ever, but I fear the battle is now more lost than ever. (Apologies for the Reach format unreadability) www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

RIP Terry Griffiths. You’re in the final judgment now, you know.

Games coming up against Real Madrid and Manchester-based rivals? PUT UP THE DOSSENA SIGNAL!

And when I got home Fell on its head This bird was dead So I took it back "No it's not true Norwegian Blue"

Happy Birthday to the love of my life, Tina Weymouth !

…and is probably the best follow for several of those topics, particularly Spanish politics for outsiders…

I think I’m getting too obsessed with the prospect of World War 3. I was in a shop today, they started playing ‘Last Christmas’ and I thought ‘yeah probably’….

BlueSky really has replaced Twitter now.

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

So, then, BBC Sport - about this headline.

Right, well. I left Twitter for a while, then went back for professional reasons, with a personal sideline. I do wonder if I’m over the requirement to have a Twitter-shaped thing in my life. But I’ll be on here a bit more often from now on. Threads is awful.

@thegrumbler.bsky.social apparently this is worthy of a headline on BBC Sport. The times we live in.

Hard to believe this was only ten or so weeks ago.

The vote on VAR has gone 19-1 in favour of keeping it. Unfortunately they left a ref in charge of the count so it’s been abolished and it’s too late to do anything now. Good process.

comedians love stand up because they can have an idea in the morning and say it out loud, on stage, in the evening. comedians love podcasts because they don’t even have to have an idea.

Tory pundits yesterday: ‘if Sunak can get flights to Rwanda taking off before the election, that’s a major boost to his chances’ Sunak today: ‘no Rwanda flights before the election’ He’s so Bad At Politics he can’t even do client journalism right.

Have returned to Bluesky after a while to stumble upon an old Twitter favourite: Americans saying Mexican food = tacos, that they pronounce Spanish really well, and that tacos as produced outside Mexico are some sort of bellwether of culinary brilliance rather than mediocre nonsense.

God, Stephen Bush is a national treasure.

“Don’t eat that cheese, you bastard! Don’t eat that cheese!”

I regret to inform you all that Nigel Slater is at it again.

I think Twitter was bad enough for long enough and then intolerable for just long enough that it broke the habit for a lot of people. In other words, I haven’t felt the need to be on here in a while.

When I lived in Spain, just every now and again you’d get a moment of pure Chanel 9 joy from the TV. I don’t think this caption, from four years ago today, was ever bettered.

Can I just say that I would think about the Roman Empire about once a decade, unless it comes up in quiz questions, which is constantly?

Joni Mitchell’s first draft needed a bit of work, etc.

Right, deleted Twitter. Have kept a burner account for reading links.

I bet she shocked him more.

doing this cool thing in my house where I replace mundane words to sound more fun! For instance, "chores" have been replaced with "quests" and you "level up" when you complete a "quest" I am currently at level 0 and have done 0 quests

I watched that press conference on mute in our work canteen, and it was obvious Sunak was tetchy and snappy throughout. What a rum cove.

Faith No More's Falling To Pieces came up on shuffle on the way in. It's not the first time I've thought this, but take Big Jim's guitar away and it really is a post-Let's Dance blue-eyed soul chart-botherer, isn't it?

Use of 'SPOOK-TACULAR' after 1 November. That's a paddlin'.

An absolute killer of a last par.

I've been saying this since yesterday and the reaction has just been 'Lol, though'. Hopefully some people will listen to an actual Greek.

Yes, that Sunak headline is very funny and everything, but it’s in a massively racist, anti-Semitic, generally awful paper and has more than a whiff of oh I give up.