Thought for the day: is it a mid-life crisis if you do what you always did, only now less often?

In my occasional series titled Things You Didn't Know about Sikhs, pretty much all the parmesan you get from Italy is made by Sikhs...

Woo. Going to see The Prodigy twice this year. Yeah yeah I know I'm 54 but they're older! 😅

Schools and establishments closed in Barcelona today due to severe wind warnings. Streets clear, cafe empty. Now, I don't want to say I'm harder than the Spanish because I grew up in Bangladesh and lived in England, but I've experienced stronger farts in Leamington Spa

Big love going out to the trans community who are bound to get their unfair share of backlash from this tragic incident, conveniently moving the focus away from America's gun out of control problem...

FWI, current shit reaffirms we are balanced people. Por ejemplo: ME: Hate fascism. Love diversity. Not really keen on centrism and Bad Bunny's music So why can't MAGA say Hate woke. Love Trump. Not really keen on billionaire pedophiles in charge and 5-year-olds being sent to concentration camps 😑

United States of Auschwitz

Post a banger, not in English Have some Indian slumdog hip-hop x

In dream wife left me - someone younger, more exciting, traditional insecurities... But it went on for so long, I moved into one-bed, got office job, even had Xmas dinner with him for sake of kid. I swear years went by. Never been so happy to wake up to find none of that was real. Morning everyone x

So Epstein operated a sex-trafficking ring for weak men. Glad we got that sorted.

ALT-TEXT CARTOON OF THE DAY: (1985, no internet) MAGA TYPE: BORN IN THE USA! GO BRUCE! (1985, with internet) *Turning Point type condemns song as anti-American woke protest song MAGA TYPE: Go to hell Bruce. GO TED NUGENT!

In all this endless wall-to-wall superbowl coverage, I totally forgot there was a game that got played

I'm not the biggest fan of Green Day, can hum a few of their songs, but their fans are amazing. Check out this audience singing Bohemian Rhapsody while waiting for them to come on. Stick with it till the bounce!

Re: #KillAllBillionaires When a person can get anything they want, whatever they get stops being exciting, and so their needs become more beyond the pale (buying a stolen painting, eating endangered animals, going to space) and their desires more perverse (fucking children)

I'm not going to post this as a response to the follower who shed a tear over the passing of Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down, it's crass to piss on someone's grief... but I don't abide the "dead can do no wrong" thinking.

Or such mad and dangerous religious people are in a position of power...

It's always been about the "I hate foreigners" ticket but BNP, UKIP were useless... Brexit showed Reform types they can win so they keep voting that way in the hope that one day they might actually win. Make no mistake, they see ICE on the streets and immigrant concentration camps and think "good"

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars" "Dr Who", or "Transformers"

Happy Chinese New Year from Barcelona x

Okay, I can go to bed if not happy than not unhappy now

Please don't be this guy. Hate on ICE because he's ICE. Period To notice he doesn't appear to be "all American white" actually makes you just like them Something to consider x

As a Muslim heterosexual man who entered the rave generation at the age of 17 and believes ecstasy to be a force that united a generation far more profoundly than the hippy white middle class lot did with the first summer of love, none of it would've come about without the gay house=techno scene x

Random gossip I can offer as part of the expat (*glorified immigrant) community... Norwegian friend revealing why princess Mette-Marit is known as snow white... Because everyone knows she's always on cocaine. See also:

I might be the only lefty alive that doesn't want Trump to die but to live long enough (ideally from behind bars) to see his perceived legacy burn to fucking dust

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

So this is why Bezos is sacking so many already lowly paid Amazon workers. A warehouse for slave labour right there for the taking 😟

I could win the lottery, get a message saying Penguin will publish my book, and have Lisa Bonet announce her undying love for me in one single day, and then this song can come on and it will still break me... What's the song that does that to you?

Morning musing: when you consider a favourite movie, do you list the one you think is a classic piece of genius but rarely watch, or one that may not be but you watch often? Also, contenders for fave gangster movies?

Trump thinks wars are still fought with rifles??

This cartoon below reminded me of an old gripe. As an old raver, I'm still pissed off the coppers stole our acid warehouse smiley face insignia to spearhead their bastard Big Brother we're watching you campaign 😑

I always thought ads during popular events actively put people off, but was shocked to hear some American acquaintances in our international group say they only watch the superbowl for the adverts. One insisted "some of them spend a million dollars for one commercial!" like that would sway me! 🤷

It's true, when the public get to decide who to shun, we often stick to it. Kevin Spacey, Louis CK, Woody Allen... They never got their career back. Why doesn't the same apply to disgraced politicians?

Maybe happiness doesn't come from funding fascism and fucking underage girls

It's like there's a global elite running the world and they're all white supremacist pedophiles

Manchego with red grapes, yes. Gruyere with a glass of Alabrino? Certainly. Feta with watermelon? Divine, my dear. Taleggio and chilli jam? Oh la la. Pecorino shavings on ice-cream? Bring it, darling. Wookie cheddar with kimchi? Why absolutely! But Valençay goat cheese with gummies?? Also yes.

I had this convo about "least favourite song" on FB years ago and he was like 'surely anything by Westlife is worse than Plans for Nigel' and I explained, even though English is my third language, that "least favourite" is superior to "most hated". You hate songs in the genre you like What's yours?

Is "the president believes in the constitution, however..." the new "I'm not racist, but..."

As someone who used to run a parody site (to my eternal shame, my old channel Daily Racist was responsible for the Muslims Hate Peppa Pig fake news), I've come to fucking hate unfunny straight up bullshit like this

I watched Breakfast Club at too impressionable an age and now I can only get off by joining book clubs to admit "Moe-lay really pumps my nads"

Do they go onto say what this Brexit 'Freedom' was exactly? Was it the freedom to cry "we won you lost get over it" while jerking off over salty lefty tears? Because there isn't another one

Fuck you Feds. I'm the leader of Antifa

Bands are just not hot like this anymore

I genuinely believe the White House has had the hacks at CIA construct a special computer in the Oval Office where Trump can only access Truth Social and every other site is AI generated to say amazing things about Trump. Same with his TV only playing Fox on loop

The irony of those saying Billie Eilish should stick to music, Mark Ruffalo to acting, Gary Lineker to football is that their loudest critics aren't politicians. So these artists who use their huge platforms to highlight injustice should leave political opinions to basement incel keyboard shaggers?

What happens when hateful idiots are promised a unicorn, be that brexit or america first, is that when they get their unicorn, they don't say "this is a just a donkey with a carrot glued to its head", they focus on the bad invisible elephant that they've been told is what's stomping on the unicorn

It's at times like this I appreciate no longer being on xitter and knowing there's no one on bluesky who will need explaining why there isn't a white history month 🙏

Remembering the last time I stumbled upon a far right march and just happened to be wearing my Wonderful Bangladesh tshirt 😂

You know, for all the "Epstein files will reveal these billionaire fuckers as pedophiles" there's almost a sense he's the martyr, even in death, that can unveil them. It's so important to have posts like this to remind ourselves he was the biggest fucker of them all