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Share your favourite black and white movie: “If I had all the money I’ve spent on drink…I’d spend it all on drink.”

I said very nice things on here about Dom Joly’s music choices after stumbling on to a Trigger Happy TV playlist a couple of months back and he was gracious enough to reply. I mean, my mind associates them with a hooded figure of the reaper on an empty station platform, but worth it for all that.

Was #therapture just Dickie Bird? Makes sense… #thecricket

I’ve just come by a lot of photos from a line-crossing ceremony aboard HMS Albion in the 1950s, and I’d like to do a blogpost about them. Is there anyone in my circle who’s RN or ex-RN who’d be willing to answer some questions about the tradition of line-crossing, and talk about their experiences?

#farageferries is fucking genius, and should be used by every politician responding to a question about immigration. We used to have a return agreement with our 27 neighbours, and #Brexitwreckedit.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

BBC R4 listing all the things the Lib Dems would tax: banks, tech companies, water companies, tobacco companies, oil & gas producers. Ed Davey sounding pretty good.

Found myself watching a load of this guy’s cricket videos this week. He’s an American, starts from knowing nothing about cricket, and gradually absorbs more and more by watching cricket videos on YouTube. It’s lovely watching his growing appreciation over the weeks. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNj...

Enjoying the drama of the close-fought “Big Clubs (and Brighton) Mid-table Mini-league”. #lufc

No wonder the prisons are so full. I’m sure lots of fraudsters fell foul of the rigorous pursuits of their profiteering and got their just desserts.

That Stach goal. What was the last free kick #lufc scored that was better? I’m old, so thinking various Harte & Kewell efforts, but any others since of that quality? Pablo?

#lufc 3:15pm - Farke out! Typical underachievement, no threat, Okafor adrift, DCL toothless, terrible transfer window. 5pm - Where’s the 2027 CL final*, and is it too early to book hotels? DCL clinical, Okafor a generational talent, Stach transfer bargain! (*It’s in Madrid! Fookin’ Madrid!

Not sure about this T-shirt from The Tank Museum; three British tanks and an M4 with a British gun on it. Why not a Churchill? #tanks

Look at this, listen to this #lufc

Ain’t nobody loving’ me better anymore, and that’s sad.

The Onion seems to have realised that in a post-satire world (reality is regularly more peculiar than would be convincing as parody), they may as well just print believable headlines.

“Pull the trigger… …I’m a hippie.” Hadn’t thought of this in decades. Thank you algorithm, you’ve made my evening. m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_C...

I feel that troll marketing is definitely a thing - although I have to admire their targeting skills.

Didn’t make the watchalong last night, but echoes of #thesignalman on here across the day encouraged me to look out for it on the iplayer. Felt like I’d fallen into an Armada Ghost Stories book.

“Who had starters? Me & the wife only had one main, a rice and a couple of poppadoms, so there’s no way we’re just splitting this lot equally”.

Developed a show with the BBC for so long that we gave up, quit, and later ended up making it for Sky. When it went down well and won some awards for Sky, the BBC got in touch and asked if we possibly had anything in a similar vein for them. Oh yeah. Not just the BBC. The *same* exec.

See Robert Redford’s still dead then…

Spits out coffee

Kemi Badenoch will fight the next election for Reform. So nailed on it isn’t even a hot take.

If you see this, quote this post with a gif you can hear

Much-valued teenage employee left us for Uni last week. Settled in halls on Southbank a little before term, keen to explore London from her new home. She spent Saturday marooned in this new home, besieged by flag-waving fascists, because guess which colour she isn’t. Horrible bastards.

This is awesome, but there’s top work in the replies to enjoy too.

Not wanting to beat up Gudgoodmunwhatwereyouthinkingdsson too much for the OG yesterday, but how did he look the rest of the match? I’m wondering if Justin gets a runout at some point? #lufc

Make a band singular 1 Maniac

Made it all day without knowing the #lufc score, turned TV on 10pm, and a little YouTube preview window for Sky had the result on it. Fuck Sky, fuck London, and fuck my luck.

Very glad international break is over, but now it’s that difficult bit of match day where I have to decide whether to go all Likely Lads until MOTD. It just feels like whenever I Schrödinger an #lufc match in progress by opening the social media box to have a peek, the #lufc cat always dies.

Street countdown y’all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fly him here, he can get to work on the motorway bridges

Come on Cymru, get into these maple syrup-drenched bear-loving lumberjacks. #cymcan #walcan #lufc

Ooooo….bookmarks are here! Time to amass a huge collection of #lufc posts ready for lots of “aged poorly” snark at the end of the season.

I remember their fans singing “There’s only one team in Tallinn!” when Scotland played in Estonia (the Estonians had boycotted the match). www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Should be right up @scarredforlife.bsky.social ‘s cobbled street - cheery little Ladybird book where winter in the park means kids playing on thin ice while Peter Sutcliffe in a sheepskin coat watches over benevolently,

Slightly diminish a book À la recherche du clefs perdu

“Koch blocked” #gernir #lufc

Merguez in the Rue Morgue Nduja really want to hurt me? #SausagesVarietyInASongOrMovie

Just had a look on the BBC site to see when #engand kicks off - earnest comments from armchair managers “…really test their keeper”, “…want to see our wide players running at them”. Who cares? I just hope none of our Welsh get injured on Tuesday and we batter Marsch (sorry Canada). #lufc

“Miss Rayner has fought hard to keep her private life private, including the fact that her son is blind and has lifelong disabilities…” BBC R4 adding those utterly irrelevant facts without any sense of irony or shame.

First concert: The Mission Last: Wet Leg Worst: Meatloaf Loudest: My Bloody Valentine Best: Motörhead Seen most: The Sisters of Mercy Most surprising: The Cropdusters Happy I got to see: Bowie Wish I’d seen: Beastie Boys Next:

This could only have been better if he’d ended with “Hey, but enough of my yakkin’…”

The legends who fed the @thesquareball.net charity walkers this summer have had their van nicked from outside their house. Keep your eyes out please, it's incredibly distinctive and obviously means the world to them. Share far and wide too. #lufc

Been offline this afternoon - I see there may be opinions about the transfer window… #lufc

Raphinha is still Leeds 👌🏻

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Elsewhere on that front page, a rejected Smiths album title