I'm going to watch #Strictly on iplayer tomorrow so I can skip through all the filler. Tonight's live show is over 2 hours, and that's just insane for about 25 minutes of actual dancing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddsO... When you get a spare 4 minutes, listen to the track that 99% of this was sampled from. It's brilliant. #TOTP

Play TIme Warp, you monsters! #TOTP

W.A.S.P. were utterly, utterly shit, weren't they? #TOTP

DEPECHAY MODE KLAXON #TOTP

Do the one about the Hazard! #TOTP

That reminds me: I must set a series link for #TheTraitors #TOTP

Yeah, but back in 1979 you could open most locked car doors with a wire coathanger. So how safe do you feel NOW, Gary? Hey? #TOTP

Celebrity Squares has really gone downhill #TOTP

The Police seem to have come as a cheap Flight of the Conchords tribute band. At least they don't have to be prostitutes.... #TOTP

It's the proto-Mavericks. #TOTP

Another old post that I totally stand by #TOTP

Kate Bush is quite deliciously mad, in a genius kind of way. And she backs up that quirky kooky image with an incredible voice and some of the best songwriting of the entire era. Living legend. #TOTP

This feels like we're going to hear a 15 second clip before cutting back to Mark Lamarr in the Buzzcocks studio asking "so which of our lineup was really in the Starjets? Is it #1, Starjet. Is it #2, Jumbo Jet?..." #TOTP

Prove me wrong, as that assassinated arsehole was fond of saying #TOTP

Almost hit the right note there, David. Careful now #TOTP

Darling, fetch the Kenneth Williams GIF! #TOTP

Where's Naté tonight? #TOTP

A soundproof room? #TOTP

Save Tonight by Eagle-Eye Cherry is an absolutely brilliant tune, and I will entertain no dissent #TOTP

Lionel Rich Tea sounding a bit dunked there #TOTP

I stand by both statements #TOTP

There's a line in this that sounds like "soundless, poundless, arse around you". So I've got subtitles on to find out after all these years what she's actually warbling about. #TOTP

Do the one about the chains! #TOTP

Rushed around to put on #TOTP, and it opens with this cavalcade of cunts. Wish I hadn't bothered!

Genuinely lost it at Alex's "you can't hurry slurry" #Taskmaster

Better (very) late than never, I guess.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/24/w... This is a great essay, ostensibly about Trump's unhinged rants at the UN, but also the wider implications of how the rest of the world now views the USA. A decade ago it was unthinkable that this global superpower could be diminished so much.

That's a straight up mafia style threat. From the president, no less. Look: Jimmy Kimmel isn't particularly funny, if you want my personal opinion. But he's got a constitutional right not to be funny. I'm glad he's back. I hope ABC / Disney tell Trump to pound sand.

Oh FUCK OFF Daily Mail. Haven't they already done enough damage with their rediculous MMR vaccine scaremongering, without now swallowing Trump and RFK's horseshit about paracetamol?

I didn't think I'd warm to Steffan Dennis, but he seems charming. Apprentice guy, however, can get in the bin. #Strictly

I don't know if it's just a bit of fatigue, or the quality of the celebs this year, but I'm struggling to get excited by the #Strictly launch show. Maybe once they trade the waffle for some actual dancing...

I feel seen.

Not Belinda Carlisle's greatest hit, but a banger nonetheless. She was always my slightly-under-the-radar crush in the 90s! #TOTP

Go WEST! AND JESUS WEPT FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO BE CONQURED! #TOTP #Community #SixSeasonsAndAMovie

I want to do a "when you order The Jacksons from Temu" joke, but actually I quite like Five Star and can't bring myself to be mean to them #TOTP

I know it's a cover of a cover of a cover, but the Communards Don't Leave Me This Way is an absolute belter of a tune. Jimmy's vocals are astoundingly good, and it's just funny now to see the Reverend Richard Coles whacking away on the piano. #TOTP

Oh we can see your weird thing, Larry, don't you worry about that #TOTP

Play Loose Ends, you monsters #TOTP

Steve Wright could be a bit much when he sung over the records or milked the "love the show" schtik, but he was a proper old-school DJ who absolutely lived and breathed music, his passion and love for the medium absolutely shone through. #TOTP

Mid to late 80's Eurythmics were pretty bloody awesome, weren't they? #TOTP

Saying "Timex" counts as advertising, apparently #TOTP

Oh joy. Twat Les. #TOTP

Park dark ghost toast man woman camera TV something.... #TOTP

BEST PART OF THE SHOW SO FAR!! #TOTP #Pulp

Well I've just discovered that Windows has a pitch shifter, and it's the first time I've ever enjoyed listening to a B*Witched track. #TOTP

The Travelling Won'tberries. #TOTP

This episode of #TOTP consists mainly of very famous artists doing songs that you've totally forgotten, or never heard of in the first place. Shania Twain, Del Amitri, Mariah Carey.... all HUGE acts but I don't remember any of this.

All well and good, but where were his principles when he sold out to a giant soulless corporate behemoth? What did Ben and Jerry expect?