This year I started ina new office and had exactly this. Eventualy people settled more on "Rob" which is fine... ...Until we just got a new guy, who is only "Rob". I've got to change back haven't I?

I'm not overweight, I am underheight.

Don't drop phone! In fact put it to one side - a bath is sanctuary, not a time for scrolling (And besides, you're just bragging)

Caught two minutes of the BBC stuff on the news and feel sick at the idea of this pillar falling. Farage and the other cunts chomping at the bit will take the NHS next and we'll be sat listening to Third Reich FM hoping our minor injury infections take us sooner than later.

open.spotify.com/track/3qvMgw... How did I make it this far, as someone who owns Four Tet tracks on vinyl, and had never heard this absolute banger before??!? Glad I have. Now on repeat.

I keep on remembering some of the beautifuly delivered lines from #ThePhoenicianScheme and giggling to myself. "Help yourself to a hand grenade" I think it may be vying with GBH as my favourite Anderson.

Busy day for the dogfight training over North Yorkshire. I'm in the middle where the Eurofighters come up from Coningsby meet the training jets down from Leeming. Noisy buggers all of them*. (*I am completely jealous as it loks great fun up there)

Saw this #RareButNobodyCares beauty on my walk down to the supermarket this evening.

Honestly if Putin can fall out with Lavrov then that must be the beginning of the end. This consummate bastard has been the rock of Russian foreign policy for years.

Earlier I checked what date it was today and thought to myself "That rings a bell for some reason. Must check my calendar later in case there's some school thing on." So, it seems as if I didn't "Remember" after all.

I don't have a record player, but my 16 year old son does. As a result, I wouldn't put it past him to buy records for me this Christmas.

Me liking posts in other peoples conversations that concern me not

This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts.

I got accosted earlier by a Cuomo canvasser. Politely declined as I don't get a vote (damn Soros hasn't paid me enough!) but ventured I wouldn't lend even a hypothetical vote to a sort as rum as Cuomo. Got followed to the Subway platform by an irate guy asking why instead I'd "support a communist!"

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

This reminds me of the true tale that the US Air force measured thousands of airmen to find average measurements (leg ,arm,body, etc) to design the best cockpit. It turned out that the aggregate of averages simply didn't exist in real life. Positively this led to the development of adjustable seats.

Not defending him but I'm not sure what they're supposed to actually do with him now? He's unemployable, too old for retraining, everything he does have currently is from the public purse so the cries are to cut him off. Is there some sort of "washed up aristos" sinking fund in Country Life?

Betteridge's law: any headline with a question should be answered "no" Godwin's law: every internet argument subtends to an accusation of Nazism Blundell's law: when you finally have a zinger of a post, it will inevitably have a typd

My other half has the initials SS She is setting up business as a sports therapist and is looking for branding. I have of course suggested a skeleton (for the therapeutic bit). Maybe just a skull and some bones. Combined with her initials. (Maybe like lightning!) Oddly she isn't keen.

I'm in tonight. Just me and daughter (17) so need film recommendations pls (pref that are actualy available on streaming services*). (*not that I have ever been able to persuade her into the All Night Peter Greenaway Retrospective Marathon)

Irony klaxon on latest episode of #therestispolitics that those two, lovely, reasonable, handwringing centrists discussed the new Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi for five mins, including discussing the inherent sexism in Japan... ...yet never actually said her name once.

Selling something on the internet (a bicycle since you ask). Wake up to an email from someone with a very ethnically English name. Amazing how a scammer can cock it up in such short sentences.

Anyone who has stayed in an "Hotel Formule 1" will be jealous.

I'm reading a book about a massive printer for architectural plans and I think there's just a big plot device.

@show-me-magic.bsky.social Ah, in Insomnia Club too!?

If you're hunting for 90s first-person-shooter computer games it's Doom-scrolling! (Oh... Damn.)

If you're hunting for convicted politicians it's Huhnescrolling

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Over 111k followers and yet Daphne losing by 53 votes. This is an easy, no sign up, click people!

Also paging @barristersecret.bsky.social as Daphne is posing with your book this year lawpawcalendar.com/vote-here-fo...

Will there be a new rash of UTBAPHs? usedtobeapizzahut.com

It has been annoying me all morning but I finally realised (probably after everyone else) that this is obviously Billy Drago from The Untouchables. He got the lip

I watched this tonight. Was good, but essentially three films in one. I can't bring myself to be any more critical than that of Powell and Pressburger. Slightly annoyed that Amazon Prime insisted on getting voice out of sync too.

Trying to get Alexa to play bands with foreign names and repeatedly having to chime in with "Alexa Stop!" when it plays some other shite

Are we going to be allocated a book to prevent too much doubling up? Also, we shouldn't be discriminatory should we? But this means someone has to go and memorise Mein Kampf, but also some poor sod gets something like Mallory Towers. Can I bagsy "Mr Bump" before I get given Gravity's Rainbow?

You know those posts where someone takes a line out of context amusingly, and attaches a funny picture, then the next person quotes it and does the same? Ha. Also, how far back can you get on the posts before you get a "blocked" so can't find out what the starter post was?

Lovely article by Sarah Ditum here about my local town. The locals for years have been refusing to tug forelocks at these awful people who seem just seem bored enough to let a nice market town go to waste. Yorkshire Capital of Food was always a claim too far. unherd.com/2025/10/what...

I'm currently heading down to That London In news that is probably of no interest to my followers (!) tonight we are hosting the 10th Anniversary Party of my law firm. Even though I only count one of those years personally, I have known my founding partners since before this even started.

No idea about hospitals, but I met a nice attorney from Edmonton called Eugene Phoa whilst studying in Limoges, France in 1995 He was on holiday and I helped him with a launderette machine This is my only interaction with Edmonton, but oddly as a result of meeting Mr Phoa I've always wanted to go

I once acted for a dredging company that landed a load of aggregate cheaply in Horsens, putting the local concrete boys' noses out of joint. So they came into the site at night and pushed all our heavy lift equipt into the sea. (It worked. We didn't go back. Discretion>Valour an' all.)

Cub camp! Fun and hijinks in the countryside! Oh, and an educational trip to Chew Valley sewage processing facility.

My primary school class outing at the end of the year - and we went to the agricultural college. To learn about crop rotation. The other class went ice skating.

une sollicite de piques

This weekend Pickering in North Yorkshire is holding its 1940s weekend, where boomers born in the 1950s and 60s get to cosplay to atone for their triple locks.

Wakes up Stupidly clicks on this place Reads Transatlantic crap from overnight. Feel glum. Posts a couple of daft joke responses to other posts. Get silly replies and likes from usual gang. They're all here. Nice. This Saturday should be ok.

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