Nice that they put most of the really terrible take-generators in the Observer so you can easily ignore them all apart from the rare occasion something floats into the social media feed.

Thinking maybe Elizabeth (1998) for tonight's next instalment of Period Drama Season.

Between every song on this bus I hear this slurring voice from somewhere behind me, just one guy, no reply from whoever he is speaking to and it's just a series of "Saka is like Romario... only a London player could... basically Arsenal need... a Ronaldinho... I remember Gnabry man..." with burping.

Bringing Bundee Aki off the bench 🧨🔥🧨🔥

Tadhg Beirne tho 👀

@brewin.bsky.social see your Ian Curtis and raise you Terry Wogan 😀

Tee hee.

Wasn't expecting this deeply unsettling bagpipe improv on Night Tracks, yet I can't say it's devoid of charm.

when did robbie keane start looking like a troubled contract killer?

Can't think of a record that suits being inside on a stormy night more.

"no, it is about that"

These blokes Louis Theroux is meeting are some proper knuckle-draggers.

"the men grow weary and mutinous. we will die here."

Every few months I go to the barber and get a beard trim and it's a ritual I really enjoy. A bald man can visit a barber!

Someone once told me that Arnold Circus is Suggs's favourite place in London. Can't remember who and don't know if it's true but I think of it every time I walk around it.

I often describe bad/false tech promises at work as "magic beans" and today it's led to me learning that the Jack And The Beanstalk story is indeed told in Romania 🪄🫘

Holy shit I can't believe you did this! An actual builder! How did you even get it on the plane?

Irish amateur jockey called Declan Queally riding a horse called I'll Sort That says he was racially abused by English pro jockey Nico De Boinville riding a horse called Act Of Innocence. No fiction writer would dare to create these true names.

Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation in the taxi 💃🏻♥️🪩

Been keen to speak a bit of Irish again, but even trying to keep an open mind I looked at one event in London and it was wall to wall Guinness and Tayto T-shirts and Irish chain pub music. Felt a step away from people dressing up as leprechauns. Shouldn't it be possible to speak Irish without this?

The more serious she tries to be, the more ridiculous she becomes.

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I see the annual videos from Cheltenham are doing the rounds again, a load of coked up lads dressed like extras from Peaky Blinders grabbing and swinging at each other. This is far from the majesty evoked by Foster and Allen's classic horse ballad Dawn Run.

What the hell is he doing here?

Hartbroken.

Hard to watch Mo Salah playing like this.

"I mock your value system."

There are some kids shouting abusive and quite unpleasant sexualised slurs at my neighbour's kid who is unseen somewhere indoors. I never feel old enough to go out in my slippers and wave a newspaper around but it seems this would be merited.

All good anyway just some muscular thing, doctor has prescribed Voltarol, which my parents use 🙃👴🏻

The days of drying our banknotes on radiators may soon be consigned to the past due to rising energy costs.

Cue mutual evil laughter/cigar smoke.

This has never happened before but I seem to have hurt my back/side so badly that I'm honestly wincing and shouting in pain involuntarily as I try to do any basic movement. Sitting here trying to psyche myself up to tie my shoelaces.

DTF St Louis is p great so far.

Never actually flown Jet2 but it has an option for a flight I need to take. Is it any better/worse than the others?

Well, this story is completely mad.

Some good moments but a bit of a slog at times.

Getting into period dramas lately, lol. Last week watched The House Of Mirth, tonight I'm thinking A Lion In Winter.

The smell of garlic frying is one of the best.

Victoria Park Market is the greatest overheard conversation spot in London. Today a posh voice in the crowd is heard saying "society today, it's... as if we are living on a volcano... and it could explode"

Was wondering who has the gumption to knock loudly on my door twice even after I ignored it the first time. It's... The Labour Party!

I'm crying reading this. There are still people out there fighting for what's right.

This country is hilarious.

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Mark Pougatch, what is your life like when you're not hosting two minutes of sport between ads on ITV? Mark Pougatch, what are your hopes and dreams?

Listening to a podcast and the presenter read the scripted line "tourists come to drink in the incredible views" without emphasising the in. Prob a more honest statement.

People might get mad here but I absolutely can't stand Stevie Wonder's Superstition, despite liking a lot of similar music and accepting it is a classic piece of music. Just the annoying cheekiness of the melody, the sense that someone is slyly wagging their finger at you with every line.

A bizarre piece, this. The one-sentence paragraphs make it feel like a bad, wistful poem.

Raining again anyway, hope you're happy.

"Oh, you're a user-centred designer. Well I'm actually a human-centred designer. You probably haven't heard of it? It was important to clarify I'm not designing for dogs."

It's bad, but it's not that bad, Glenn.