Tried to go niche with a present for my wife. Turned out I over-niched and had to explain it.

Can't wait for the Toby Jones drama. BBC News - AI tool helped recover £500m lost to fraud, government says www.bbc.com/news/article...

It's a way of saying paracetomol (acetaminophen) that turns your reckless medical 'advice' into libel.

Yes, that is how inflation works.

Also, when you actually read the article, it's a projection of current polling in which six Labour MPs lose their seat to "left wing candidates".

Labour don't have a 411 seat majority.

Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).

“Pull up, Maverick, pull up! You’re coming in way too fast! Christ, I don’t think he’s gonna make it. Clear the runway! Clear the runway!”

TIL: My birth (came out facing up rather than down, 36 hour labour) was so complicated that at the moment of my birth, 23 medical professionals were in the room.

My favourite late 90s WWF Diva.

Somewhat missed the moment but taking two days to remember the name... It's a Faraday Cage Match.

In what sense is "ex-state school pupils" a meaningful subset?

How about Novocaine for the sole?

It was presumably when they realised they hadn't done quite enough to make "wrestling fans paying to watch wrestling matches" a small enough part of their business.

Amazing work by the government in copying the one part of US tax that is universally recognized as the shittiest and the one that makes other countries laugh: www.gov.uk/guidance/fin...

I've seen less ambiguous headlines.

This is so mental, the Electoral Calculus seat projection makes Ed Davey Leader of the Opposition with the SNP in third place.

World Cup 2026 cricket tickets finally on general sale and we still don't have assigned seats but instead now have "Gold - general admission" and "Silver - general admission." But when you choose a ticket you're told "You will be assigned the exact seat closer to the tournament."

At the risk of creating a new 93,173, I just saw a YouTuber claim to have counted the seats in the Pyongyang MayDay stadium (presumably from photos) and put the capacity at 114,000. Which is a bit less than the 190,000 claimed for the WCW/New Japan shows.

I mean, either this product is bullshit, or WWE are admitting that everyone outside the ring, including the audience, is in significant physical danger.

At the start of the pandemic, the state pension was £8,767 a year. The current plan is that next year it will be £12,535 a year. And I'm meant to be outraged at pensioners losing £200 or £300 a year in winter fuel allowance.

33 years later, it just occured to me that USA by Jim Duggan lifts from Something Good by Utah Saints, released earlier that year.

Well done to NHS Blood for texting me 9 minutes before my donation appointment to tell me it's been moved to a venue an hour away, on the day of a bus strike.

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[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

If you watch Spinal Tap II, it's well worth rewatching the original to fully appreciate just how grounded a lovely letter the sequel is.

The tendency of people with low political appeal to overestimate the importance of their political appeal is known as the Danny-Kruger effect.

Catching up with WWE Clash in Paris. Reigns and Reed kicked out of each others finisher then Reigns won. Reed and Breaker jumped him after the match. Somehow this took 52 minutes.

How do you write this for a national newspaper and not at any point mention the existence of site fees: WrestleMania 2027: Saudi Arabia beats London to host first-ever international edition of WWE megashow | The Independent share.google/ZyG6asPWSK0W...

Why do people in Coronation Street say "Dev's is expensive but you pay for the convenience" when there's a Sainsbury's that can clearly open late in the very next street?

A) I didn't know you were allowed to do this. B) This is the type of thing that should definitely be allowed and done. C) It should have been 21, just on the principle that it makes it longer than a T-20.

I think the word you're looking for is "raw".

These are the stories I want from social media 👇

Cricket. The only sport where you can finally play to your full potential, absolutely thrash your opponents, and then have your season end anyway because it rained in Durham in September.

Groundstaff dog!

Currently wearing a hoodie and a straw hat. I love September.

Piss off, rain. It's too early in the day for me to do "net run rate under DLS adjustment" maths.

I'm calling it now. AEW All Welcome at Jacksonville Stadium on WrestleMania weekend in 2027. Live on TBS. The Collective, including Effy's Biggest Gayest Brunch, at Daly's Place.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Happy 4th anniversary to the time this happened on Twitter.

I'm not 100% sure that's Letchworth's ground.

If you think there's no need to worry about a Reform government because a large majority of people despise Farage and his politics, you clearly don't understand how our electoral system breaks with more than two "major" parties.

Louis Theroux viewers know.

Has there ever been a UK ambassador to the US from Bootle?

johnlisterwrestling.com/books/ to read Slamthology where two guys from England... erm Britain... come, 5000 miles just to see this show.

The same show that combined the Japanese ring announcer's pronunciation of Nailz and the Department of Corrections abbreviation on his ring gear and called him Doc Nelson.

Calling it now: Bridget Phillipson wins deputy leadership, becomes deputy PM after David Lammy becomes ambassador to US.