Go round the outside.

"Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?"

Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬

Framed my fab Christmas present from the wonderful @xmorpheus.bsky.social

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com Thanks for reading them this year x www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential. Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?

This from @vizcomic.bsky.social will never get old.

Oral history of ‘Knowing Me, Knowing Yule…with Alan Partridge,’ now 30!My contribution is me saying I can’t remember very much from then because I had a terrible head cold at the time and just wanted to go to bed. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Jools Holland’s brother, this day in 1963

Once again there were some surprises in the New Year's honours list

Desperate to know how this man (RIP) ended up with this nickname

Coming out of a bagel place in NYC, was about to dig in to my toasted sesame and cream cheese but some guy roughly snatched it from my hand and took a big bite, then walked away backwards, giving me the finger as he wolfed down the rest (disgustingly). As you probably guessed, it was Kevin Costner.

I remember all too little of the interviews I did with rock stars when I was briefly employed as the music critic for a national newspaper, but there is this.

Stan Ogden, sicko

Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”

And! I’ve been looking all over for this and finally found it

I WON THE POSTCODE LOTTERY! I won BN23 6JH apparently, which means I now own a bit of Eastbourne

just emailed all my colleagues but instead of attaching the correct file with the pertinent details i seem to have sent all twenty of them this image of robin gibb:

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Today can fuck off

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BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...

I could not love this transport poster more.

This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago. This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Dear Roy, Before Christmas you had a Wheelie Bin pinched. I have just had a Satellite Dish taken from my garden. I used this as a Parabolic Reflector for recording Birdsong. So if anyone sees this at a car boot sale, be careful as it may be Radioactive.

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how many nuns could a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck nuns?

Not liking much on that list but I might go and see this one 2 times...

I would simply never watch a podcast. The ones I like are to enliven commutes and distract me from the misery and discomfort of exercising

Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock

Me: “Hey hon? How would you feel if I referred to you as “Autisthicc”?

Happy 8th anniversary to the Churchill Anus Society.

Imagine pouring your whole heart & skill into writing the most beautiful love song you can only to have it playing in Charnock Richard services

Oh no we shouldn't.

🚨 NEW SHOW ALERT! Our #Hogmanay appraisal of #KeithHarris drops early, for those of you who've gorra lot on! Press play on Dec 31 at 23:03:40 to count in the #NewYear with us, or listen right NOW on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0min... #NYE #NYEpodcast

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

this entire article is just a complete fiction. inventing a narrative of football deliberately screwing over fans by not having PL games today, when the truth is they were incompetent and messed up the contracts. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

It's the most wonderful time of the year

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Artist’s impression of an unbuilt section of the West Cross Route with Stamford Bridge on the left and Earl’s Court in the distance. The artwork is by John Dean Monroe Harvey, produced as part of Husband & Co’s consulting engineer’s report to the Greater London Council in May 1970. Merry Christmas!

The best of my writing in 2025. Ben Elton on The Oxford Road Show, tracing the history of an old joke in Porridge, how the Daily Mirror slagging off Love Thy Neighbour ended up in the show itself, and Fawlty Towers recording schedules. What more could you ask for? www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/12/dirt...

Friday

Me contemplating the amount of food I've eaten and the amount of food that still needs eating

Merry Christmas Earthlings!

A bonus door on #NeilsAdsventCalendar opens to reveal St Winifred's School Choir singing for the Co-op on Christmas Day 1981

New for Christmas Day on YouTube - from 1988 French & Saunders with Bros, Kim Wilde, Erasure, Bananarama, Eurythmics, Yazz and more in The Great British Pop Machine

Me contemplating the amount of food I've eaten and the amount of food that still needs eating