From the summer issue of The Fence

90% of Hitchcock movies.

John Cleese as Dirty Harry. Um, ok. #mastermind

It's great that Burnham wants to end rough sleeping but to do that he needs to sort out affordable housing, mental health, substance abuse, domestic abuse, unemployment and prisons/probation. Good luck!

So these weren't strategic acts with any practical purpose. Purely performative. Good to know. #testosterone #bonespurs

"We Have A New Prime Minister" is now just a meh, whatever story. That, I suggest, is the real story.

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

Dreamed I was back in the hated workplace that I left three years ago. Everyone ignored me, except Dustin Hoffman of all people, who greeted me warmly.

This train reeks of post-vomit disinfectant. Which is marginally better than reeking of vomit, I suppose.

Objectively, this is the most important thing a British sportsperson did yesterday. But Bellingham's going to get the Sports Personality of the Year, isn't he?

😕

“He’ll drag us back to the 70s!” bellows newspaper that desperately misses the 70s.

This is where I post from.

Seriously though, if you support Farage and then say that Binface is somehow not a *serious* politician, take a look in the fucking mirror, yeah?

Sitting in Outpatients, being reminded that there are radio stations that make Radio 2 sound intellectually rigorous and austere.

Anybody else fallen in love with Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee? Gloriously daft.

A BBC journalist just said "6 a.m. in the morning." 😕

The music for #JustAMinute appears to have changed. #BBCRadio4

Tom really is a colossal bell end, isn't he? #TheArchers

A conversation class involving a mix of Italians, Omanis, a stray Argentinian, etc, went from climate change to Kantian deontology in the blink of any eye. Sometimes I love my job.

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS??? THE SUPREMES??? #UniversityChallenge

I think Wordle's running out of words.

The Norway rowing routine is just the Oops Upside Your Head floor dance, but whiter.

The Clacton by-election, as foretold by Alan Partridge.

Watching The League of Gentlemen (the 1960 movie, not the Royston Vayzey thing) for the umpteenth time and I've only just clocked that two of the main characters are meant to be gay (and that's before we get to Oliver Reed's mincing walk-on).

Paradox: if England wins the World Cup, then Three Lions, a song about England failing to win the World Cup, will top the charts again.

"She'll catch her death" moment #totp

Bros were rubbish after Ken left. #totp

Have Richard and Simon been puffing on the old jazz woodbines? #totp

I had a mad crush on someone who had a mad crush on Roland Gift. #totp

Did they put Richard Skinner on to make Simon Bates look cool? #totp

Oh God, the Damned in their comedy country goth mode. #totp

NINE WHOLE YEARS??? #totp

Eeeeww, those weird little headless guitars. #totp

Can't quite hear the guitar, Jase. Ask them to turn it up, yeah? #totp

Lots of talk along the lines of, "I didn't always agree with Ann Widdecombe, but she always spoke her mind" as if this is necessarily a good thing.

Damn, I thought it was going to be Andrew. #TheArchers

I’m thoroughly enjoying just how much Nigel Farage’s millions of pounds in gifts “for his security” have left him feeling in such a state of insecurity.

Where is the American Binface? Because you guys really need one.

RIP Bonnie Tyler. Remember her this way.

It's not funny any more.

It's not a publicity stunt and I'm going to hold my breath until you stop saying it is!

I've got Egypt in the office sweepstake. Just sayin'.

Ah, that's what it reminds me of....

Farage said "political tool" without smirking. I don't trust this man. He's not really British.

He's going to resign, then Trump will ask Infantino to let him come back.

Hugely famous, creative people with very ordinary names. James Brown. Michael Jackson. Paul Smith. Any more? (Both names need to be ordinary.)

Move on, nothing to see...