I love how Chris Mason's picture on his Wikipedia page looks like he's watching an illegal cockfight in a barn in Essex. Horrified, but slightly aroused and unable to stop looking.

This, but Whamageddon. St. George of Michael did not die for our sins in order to see his greatest festive gift disrespected in such a tedious manner.

I am pleased to inform you that the German for "great save" is 'Glanzparade'

From the Far Side collection

@stphnaustin.bsky.social a niche Arsenal crossover

This, once I looked it up to see what it was about, looked interesting, but I saw some *very* interesting things before I added 'Utrecht' to my search

This is basically the same expressions me and my mum had when I persuaded her to take me to see Mac And Me at the cinema

Looked at deals on flights around my birthday next year, saw it was mad expensive, realised my birthday is right before the Easter bank holidays. Five 'free' days off in a row, but at the time of year when it's ££££ to do anything with them, rude

For that much money I'd want to be able to personally caress Marc Cucurella's luxurious hair; perhaps put both hands in it and wiggle them round going 'ruh ruh ruh ruh ruh' as I might on the back of a Highland Terrier

I've deliberately avoided ever having written about this album - which I bought when it first came out, credited solely to Mr McAloon - because there's nothing I could say that wouldn't cheapen the work's magic.

Put goat's cheese on a crumpet this morning as an experiment. Not sure it was successful.

Interesting development in the race for this year's UK Christmas no. 1, which counts streaming. Unfair advantage? Sharp practice? (Mentioned in this article on UK charity single for Palestine: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...)

Bono on telly, is he?

I could have been like Lou Barlow, but I'm more like Ken Barlow

At a Lou Barlow gig ('An Evening With', like he's an indie Richard Digeance) and just realised it was actually him complimenting me on writing a 'deep cut' on the requests page at the front. (Tomorrow May Be Another Day, if you're interested)

Feel like I should have just watched True Stories last night rather than the football, at least I'd have been able to join in with the songs

Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

Sending pictures of beer and schinitzel-in-a-bun as propaganda to @alan.cool to convince him that taking a train to see Dortmund v Leverkusen is a worthwhile use of an evening of our holiday (although the cost of the tickets would buy a fair amount of schnitzel in a pub)

20 Nov 2025

I wonder who the least famous celeb was to go to Epstein's Island. Unfortunately I'm too aware of libel laws to name those I think will be funniest, and there aren't enough amusingly incongruous dead people

Babe are you okay you've hardly touched your Diana, Princess of Hearts handbag

the moral of the story here is, after committing a serious crime, immediately google • how to prove innocence falsely accused • normal to feel deep empathy for others? • recipes that take four hours to make starting at 9pm • how to report legitimate windfall to irs reddit • best orphan charities

Had a dream last night that I found a chippy that did pineapple fritters, and I was trying to get everyone to try them, honestly, trust me, it's the sweet-sour of the pineapple and the savoury-sour of the salt and vinegar that makes them

Honestly if the Scotland games are in Toronto I'm going to be tempted to go just to hang out and vibe, don't really need two kidneys tbh

Have an urge to sing 'McTominay, McTominominay' to the tune of Major Lazer's Bubble Butt

Mc Salt'n'Sauce

I thought Ronaldo wasn't allowed to go to America because he lost his passport and doesn't really like driving everywhere; guess he must have found it in his old Juventus bag or something and is looking forward to finally getting to go and try one of those really big sandwiches

The double-take I just did at the third bullet point.

Gonna be in Cologne in a couple of weeks

Look at his sad little face, thanks GREECE

Greece are a bunch of KILLJOYS, feta no longer allowed in this household, only "Greek-style Salad Cheese"

Or, you know, that instead. #GRESCO

Regretting being Scottish by marriage now, my constitution is not built for this level of hubris and nemesis

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

Lee Hurst and Julie Burchill. The past was a different country

Steps have been stuck doing One For Sorrow on #totp for weeks now. Like a group of jaunty, Butlin's singer Terry Waites.

Labi Siffre disagrees.

Might be at home tomorrow instead of on a train, yet I can't watch the Netherlands game as a treat as it's in Bezos-vision, booo

Surprised this morning to discover David Shrigley is 6ft 5, as I tend to believe everyone is normal height (5ft 10) unless they're employed in a tall occupation, such as goalkeeper, giraffe feeder, or fire bobby

Getting through my work AND actually having the time to have a wee lunchbreak today, what a Thursday

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

I was once at Middlesbrough FC, and an angry fan shouted “for fuck sake, Boro! If you’re gonna do it, do it right!”, to which I sang “do it with me”. The bloke turned round and said “fair enough, you got me there”.

What is everyone cooking for Christmas? Bonus if it's suitable for two (albeit greedy) people.

Something I was thinking about yesterday: the institutions, publications and tastemakers that I largely looked to to get a handle on the world growing up, and which I expected to stay with me as I got older, have largely either disappeared or disappointed. (Or, in the case of Tom Hibbert, deaded.)

Me when I've had a v. stressful week and the Black Friday sales start pouring into my inbox

Badly Drawn Boy's house is up for sale www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

No it fvcking isn't you DICK