528 votes, ffs
One day I’ll work out what I talk about. Some green stuff, some nature, some cities, some wonkish stuff.
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528 votes, ffs
Windy day
I don’t know if I’ve seen a clip before, but to me he’s being incredibly nakedly partisan there.
What’s the small boats crisis?
The plates with the stick out letters and the incredibly stupid name apparently are legal.
Get in loser we’re going to end the Keir Starmer government
Labour haven't been centrist for a long time moreso Tory Times Two still this tweet sums up this sentiment remarkably
Wow, not even slightly close.
Rain services working OK here, you’ll be glad to know. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I love the video for Imitation of Life youtu.be/0vqgdSsfqPs
That’s me. The inexperienced DJ. You might be wondering how I got here. *record scratch* Shit.
Is For Tomorrow by Blur too obvious?
Do-badders: actually worse than do-gooders
youtu.be/MQ6J4xHuMgc
Now I want to write an Autistic Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.
anecdotes that raise further questions
Also Matt Chorley’s on 5 Live? Oh man :(
Do they explain how Putin was unaffected?
Someone must’ve mentioned the woolly elephant in the room.
I’ve never heard the Brummie origin story before. Are you confusing it with baltis?
But surely the step distance on the treadmill is different, especially if it’s shorter.
My friend Richard who's not on here (sadly) made this six years ago and every year it pops up on my Facebook memories and every year I howl and share it again here.
Less isolated than yours (in e.g. percentage of the population born in a different country)
And all the Romans went home.
As an example, ask literally anyone who’s ever tried to walk down Exhibition Road in Kensington with me.
Most people have been trained from the age of 2 to cower away from a moving car. There’s no chance of drivers ever being slowly moving guests.
Why are you posting at 3 am your time?
I tell you what, throwing paint all over an office is a lot less destructive than calling for a policy likely to restart the Troubles. Would be fab to know who is paying for such dangerous nonsense, wouldn't it?
Oh yeah, that’s fair enough. Totally agree their bullying is unpleasant and exhausting.
I think you don’t need it for that: www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you... “You don’t need a TV Licence if you only ever watch on demand programmes on any TV service apart from BBC iPlayer*.”
Which is to say I’m tempted to get both.
I see a PS4 is under £100 at CEX, too
You didn’t need to suggest it to me. I changed over from Google a year or so ago. I just noticed you being unpleasant in someone’s replies, and tried to moderate things so that people don’t think that only judgy and unpleasant people avoid using Google
What did you suggest?
No, I use a non-Google search engine. I just think it’s counterproductive being unpleasant to people for using Google.
But it seemed too much effort to think of a polite follow up.
No. Actually I pulled you up on your rudeness specifically because you were being rude in a cause I support.
Britain uses the Chorleywood process. I think American bread uses high gluten wheat, but has the sugar for fast rising instead en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorley...
I was about to correct someone on the difference between American white sliced bread and British white sliced bread, but then decided against it.
OK, but how many times did you try to invent a ridiculous name for a Telegraph columnist then find that they actually existed anyway?
100 Februaries’ worth!
If they worked, they’d be much harder to sell, though
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Apparently the T&Cs for this are pretty explicit. (It’s a stupid hustle economy platform, not a professional rental company) help.turo.com/en_us/vehicl...
I mean, if you want to use machines, easier (trivial, pretty much) to make ones that check the driver’s paying attention than ones which drive the car themselves.
You realise it’s foisted on every single Google search user, right?
We could have had one of these up to Fox Hill, Bath
Was Ethiopia the first country to ban new fossil fuel powered cars? No one ever suggested a 2025 deadline that I remember.
True Toryism has never been tried.
I mean, if they said it, surely they are “fundamentally” a bad person, whatever that means.
L shaped Macs
I am delighted to say that I predicted this reply before I read it.
I think they should get director Gus Van Sant to pointlessly remake Life Of Brian shot-for-shot like he did with Psycho in 1998. Benedict Cumberbatch could play Brian but with a Graham Chapman AI face.
Yeah, it’s not to be confused with Portishead.
So that a group of citizens, united, can make changes to the country? Sounds flawless.
Did anyone call them fascists? You say (e.g.) ‘a spontaneous chant of “Nazi scum, off our streets”’ and refer to that as calling them fascists. Big difference in the level of taboo between those things.
I’d put the Tesco lunchtime meal deal on the flag if I could. They should enshrine it in law.
Maybe I’ve been reading too much @marthawells.com recently, but I think I’ve found where Murderbot lives
About 150GW worth, it looks like.
Happy The Beths Release Day Eve to those who celebrate
Well, right now I’m still sketching out the plans, so if you get in at the ground floor of the subterranean lair, prospects are good.
Just crazy, isn’t it?
Not great when (1 car journey/adult/day, 0.3% of people using at any given time*) there’s well over 15,000 offences a day. *I couldn’t find a per journey estimate. I’d guess it’d be at least 10 times as much.
Rachel Jeeves, however, disapproves of my cummerbund.
This is exactly the power plant that I intend to install 172 metres below Prague as a barrier on the Baltic-Mediterranean tunnel that I will be building when I become a Bond villain. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
That’s simply not true.
Isn’t that just causing drainage problems anyway?
No, you weren’t saying that. You might have thought you were, or you might have changed your proposal in response to being challenged*, but it would be very difficult to understand that from your first post. *which yes, absolutely is the point here
So what gives you the right to be lecturing other people about how we should believe people’s support for Reform is organic and entirely reasoned from first principles?
Jesus! Who’d have thought that people who kill animals the size of people would be like that. Oh. Thanks
Yep. Crowd behaviour is different to individual behaviour. And I’m not your mate.
They don’t have ‘concerns’, they’ve been frothed up into a mob by sociopaths because they’re bored
Maybe Eric Cantona’s trawler statement was actually an attempt to warn Man United about Grimsby
Man, Sunak was an absolute piece of work for doing that.
To be fair, these shops are under 100 miles away, and the shop I bought it from was 60 miles away.
That said, I have no idea what a US Company Picnic is, but it sounds like a pretty scary form of Mandatory Fun Day.
Totally forgot this absolutely fantastic “god forbid a man has hobbies” leaflet in the pub last week.
Ooh, I need that in poster form. Next to my “Life is short, always lick the bowl” poster.
226 Garages has been featured by The Guardian! 😁 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
You do realise how close we came to not getting a Brexit deal because the government of the time didn't care about the boring details that sustain our freedom and prosperity?
I can save you the effort. Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer. To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers. If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.
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I hate to physically intervene, but this is the same story from 10 days ago republished as engagement bait.
You have one latrine disaster and suddenly everyone gets squeamish. Like, who’s even heard of Erfurt?
*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.
Good point. Definitely
(Which probably does mean GMOs to match the right fats, yes)
Honestly, if we’re going to be farming salmon, we should be developing plant crops that can replace fish pellets.
The story is told by Alberto Grandi in this book which isn’t translated into English www.oscarmondadori.it/libri/denomi... There’s an interview with him in English here: www.ft.com/content/6ac0... (£)
I’m not saying that protesting to keep cooling towers is a good hobby, but golf? The land that’s practically ready to build on with nearly all facilities in place?
#MosaicMonday Floor of the Basilica " Justinianus " with peacock as a symbol of eternal life, Subrata, Libya. #ancientbluesky #art #History #artwork
I appreciate that “brutalist cube built directly on top of an interstate highway” is going to be a hard sell for a lot of people but I think the Fall River city hall is pretty neat
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I can’t help but notice that some of the pictures of this are in genteel Weoley Hill as well as the more robust Weoley Castle
Can’t believe how much better 70s hippies had it for overland transport! (Also, 70s residents of most of the Middle East.)
Oof, that’s a sad thought. And if/when it reopens, it’ll be ticketless, of course.
Did manage to sell a hideously out of date guidebook to Syria for six pence, but before boxing it I removed from it what is, I think, one of the last handful of Gaziantep to Aleppo train tickets ever issued. (It took some convincing of the Turkish ticket office chap to issue it at all, as I recall.)
