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@sambeau.bsky.social

Specky, beardy, baldy. SVP Big Woke.

created September 24, 2023

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Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

*Glasgow *Kelvinbridge *Gibson Street (now Park road) www.shishmahal.co.uk/tikka-masala/

1/9/2025, 5:45:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

It is :)

1/9/2025, 5:44:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Write to your MP :-)

1/9/2025, 5:43:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Very fine it is too. Their Lamb Saag is also superb. www.shishmahal.co.uk

1/9/2025, 5:41:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

*cough* Beef Olives *cough*

1/9/2025, 5:40:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Actually … I think I *did* write this one.

1/9/2025, 12:42:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I once played in a game where a guy wanted to be a thief. He immediately robbed his friends and was killed by another player before we'd even left the tavern. He lasted around 15 minutes.

1/9/2025, 12:40:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Anyone who tells you which Hogwarts house someone belongs to is clearly a Hufflepuff.

1/9/2025, 12:37:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, this is Anon Opin; you want Anon Recip.

1/9/2025, 12:32:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't remember writing this one.

31/8/2025, 4:45:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There burning the planet for this slop

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31/8/2025, 4:45:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

They're Kids shows, Nigel.

31/8/2025, 4:12:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

See also: Channel Tunnel, The Eden Project, The Millennium Wheel, … etc

31/8/2025, 4:10:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is handy

31/8/2025, 4:06:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Now we have ²²⁄₇ we can get rid of π

31/8/2025, 4:05:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re trying to grow up. But you stuck them in a fruit bowl.

29/8/2025, 10:12:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I microwave mine so take pride in how long I can make them last.

29/8/2025, 10:10:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

A box of matches, however …

29/8/2025, 10:04:58 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe your wife didn’t like Ian Brown either; maybe she liked you? 🙂

29/8/2025, 10:03:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m just glad they only made one Alien and one Back To The Future.

27/8/2025, 10:54:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

There are no chavs in Glasgow. —Signed, Ned.

27/8/2025, 10:52:33 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Plus, it doesn’t expire or lose all value if the shop goes bust.

27/8/2025, 10:49:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I you actually took a GLP-1 it would help you cut down on the Cocaine too.

27/8/2025, 10:47:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I suspect this was the cause of the early 2000s IBS epidemic.

27/8/2025, 10:40:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

The solicitors who looked after me during both my redundancies were worth every penny. Especially as they insisted that the company paid for them 😄

27/8/2025, 10:38:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

If big corporations have siloed the internet into their big subscription based walled gardens, then the Online Safety Act is the guy going around locking all the doors.

27/8/2025, 9:55:05 AM | 57 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

How dare you. My Tarquin and Mimsy brighten any room with their amateur dramatics and virtuoso recorder playing.

24/8/2025, 2:56:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture fesshole 🧻 (@fesshole.bsky.social) reposted

I saw that George Michael gifted people anonymously and ever since then, I do the same thing. I can't afford IVF but will send a spa voucher or donate to friends' kids' football teams. I love it and no one ever suspects it's me.

24/8/2025, 2:20:06 PM | 579 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

This is one way to get sued

23/8/2025, 10:41:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture fesshole 🧻 (@fesshole.bsky.social) reposted

I have a senior role at my company, have attended many leadership training seminars, and learned all the leadership philosophies and buzzwords. None of them work as well as simply asking myself "what would an arsehole do in this situation?" and then doing the exact opposite.

23/8/2025, 3:20:05 PM | 1192 129 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahahahahahahahahahaaaa

23/8/2025, 2:02:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

The OED doesn’t accept words. It records words that have been used in the real world and notes their meanings so that, if you encounter one, you can find out what it means.

23/8/2025, 9:07:34 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

It's worse than that: their prices are set by taking the value of the houses divided by the average life expectancy. By the time you die, they should own your house.

22/8/2025, 4:07:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I've looked into this. It' not the tech that's an issue, it's coordinating with every supermarket—who like you to get a little lost. We considered whether you could crowdsource it, but no-one could be bothered with that while out shopping.

22/8/2025, 2:59:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel compelled to mention OCD.

21/8/2025, 8:34:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to get yourself one of these bad boys. It's faster *and* quieter than any kettle I've ever owned. I can;t remember the last time I was so impressed by a new appliance! (sad, I know)

17/8/2025, 7:23:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Naomi Alderman (@naomialderman.bsky.social) reposted

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

17/8/2025, 7:18:14 AM | 1514 424 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

The best interviewer, by far, is Kirsty Young. Her Desert Island Discs are a master-class.

17/8/2025, 1:30:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

They know

16/8/2025, 10:04:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

If local councils can’t keep the streets free from piss and shit, then what the fuck are they for?

16/8/2025, 10:00:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

That's not 'petty', that's sociopathy.

14/8/2025, 9:47:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Now *that's* a fess 🤮

14/8/2025, 9:44:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Diane Messias (@comedywriter.bsky.social) reposted

The minimum qualifications for joining the MET need looking at…

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Profile picture floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸 (@flootzavut.bsky.social) reposted

AI is trained on us; as such, it replicates many of our biases. Yet it's treated as objective & unbiased. Dangerous shit.

11/8/2025, 9:07:47 AM | 281 157 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

-∞ to 0. Every other film made.

11/8/2025, 10:19:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Cutting state pension and healthcare will make it worse. We are a rich country. We can easily afford to look after our old, sick and disabled. We choose not to.

11/8/2025, 10:17:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Name, year of birth and exclamation mark isn't *that* bad. Add a unique pair of letters for each website and it's pretty good. Even better, put the full date of birth. If need be, go and write it down, too. Just don't use the same password on more than one place—especially your email account.

11/8/2025, 9:59:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I believe this is the best that man can get.

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11/8/2025, 9:56:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooooooooooooooooooh!

9/8/2025, 3:40:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Ew. Pale boiled meat in sauce.

4/8/2025, 1:21:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If boys and girls weren't brought up as separate species then the capitalists wouldn't be able to sell us two of everything for no reason.

2/8/2025, 12:14:02 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

If boys and girls weren't brought up as separate species then the capitalists wouldn't be able to sell us two of everything for no reason.

2/8/2025, 12:14:02 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christa Mrgan (@antichrista.bsky.social) reposted

*nervous at a party, straightening my skirt* "uh, so have you been in the neighborhood long?" *a third raccoon wriggles free from under my sweater and tears across the kitchen, pots and pans clattering after it* "I love these dish towels"

30/7/2025, 12:08:58 AM | 40 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

The big acts employ people to be entitled for them. They did their job weeks ago.

30/7/2025, 9:31:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sure the Tommy Robinsons of this world will get right on that.

29/7/2025, 4:31:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave (@sheepfilms.bsky.social) reposted

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

29/7/2025, 10:47:53 AM | 4776 1530 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

See also, anything designed by Philippe Starck.

29/7/2025, 11:12:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

COVID was a bastard.

29/7/2025, 11:10:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Turner (@cbturner.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Let's just clear this up once and for all... youtube.com/shorts/oUccS...

29/7/2025, 12:23:52 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

What if you can't remember how he pronounced it. It's not like you can ask him.

29/7/2025, 11:08:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

My 4 year-old had a wasp land on his willy. I told him to just stand still and it will fly away in a moment. He stood still. The little bastard stung him for no reason. Luckily, my sister remembered VW: "vinegar for wasps". A quick soak in some Sarson's and he was off playing happily once more.

29/7/2025, 11:07:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

No, inheritance tax isn't a double tax on your already taxed, hard earned money. You're dead. You don't pay it. It's paid, to all intents and purposes, by the people receiving the inheritance, who absolutely did not earn it, and don't deserve a massive tax free windfall.

27/7/2025, 8:55:05 AM | 619 96 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Ha! Me too. But not for long.

28/7/2025, 5:34:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s house prices compared to wages. Everything comes down to that.

19/7/2025, 3:53:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

Everyone has harebrained schemes and silly projects that are a waste of time. Spouses, friends and family chuckle, roll their eyes, and we all move on. The problem with billionaires is that their vast resources mean they inflict these random stupid ideas on the entire world.

18/7/2025, 8:55:05 AM | 128 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

That bomb went in the hold.

19/7/2025, 3:45:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted

The word is 'shoot'

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19/7/2025, 2:18:21 PM | 1245 393 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Canada eh? 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 (@canadaeh14.bsky.social) reposted

Worth a watch! Watch to the end!

19/7/2025, 2:22:02 PM | 87 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

If your government is setting up concentration camps then you're the bad guys. It's remarkable that even needs saying in the 21st century.

17/7/2025, 7:55:05 AM | 812 173 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anon Opin (@anonopin.bsky.social) reposted

Modern world has had the feeling of a dystopia for a while now, but what swung it for me recently was when I opened the fortune cookie from my Chinese meal recently, and it had an advertisement for a gambling app on the back of the fortune. Grim.

17/7/2025, 5:55:05 PM | 86 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

McCunt

14/7/2025, 11:18:53 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Common, are we?

14/7/2025, 11:17:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

It's the snoring and the constant up and down to the loo that bothers me

14/7/2025, 11:16:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Human Rights Watch (@hrw.org) reposted

At least 31 people were killed and dozens injured during anti-government protests in Kenya. Kenya’s National Commission on Human Rights accused the police of using excessive force and abducting at least two protestors.

9/7/2025, 2:10:58 PM | 80 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

It makes sense when you realise he was completely pissed the whole time.

13/7/2025, 8:43:24 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I proudly presented my Dad with a pipe rack. He did not smoke a pipe.

13/7/2025, 8:41:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

You're reading it wrong. The X is a roman numeral. You are supposed to pronounce it "Intense".

13/7/2025, 4:21:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Do not tell her

13/7/2025, 4:18:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social)

MARMOTH!

10/7/2025, 8:52:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

HIs voting record says he's no centrist. More of a cruel fantasist.

10/7/2025, 12:21:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Let us not forget Rory Stewart's terrible voting record.

10/7/2025, 12:20:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Word.

9/7/2025, 1:41:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yes I would

6/7/2025, 9:02:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I bet you would have been okay with legs and legs and legs and legs and co., you sexist.

6/7/2025, 6:17:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

The Doors doing a 2 hour set despite Morrison and Manzarek being dead is frankly impressive.

5/7/2025, 1:38:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lev Parikian (@levparikian.bsky.social) reposted

Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner

RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING
3/7/2025, 10:14:20 AM | 1578 472 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I loved LocoScript. I'm convinced it was a huge influence on HTML and the WWW.

3/7/2025, 10:54:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

The Barenaked Ladies used to collect spoons. I think it might be a Canadian thing.

2/7/2025, 11:55:15 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2/7/2025, 11:54:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

"So, how is it possible that a group of humans who are so active and fit could burn about the same amount of calories as those who are sedentary? Doesn't that defy the laws of physics? Yeah. Absolutely. So, we were totally shocked as well."

1/7/2025, 3:39:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

This single graph shows it. Compare the orange and turquoise lines. The people who dieted and exercised lost less weight than those who just dieted. Surely you would have expected them to lose way more? Turns out bodies are complicated.

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1/7/2025, 3:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

You know, if you just read the article and followed the links to all the studies you would see that I'm not a nutter. Here's another easy-to-digest article that quotes 60+ studies

1/7/2025, 3:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

For a long time I told myself that I wasn't losing weight because muscle weighed more than fat. But having been very methodical about exercise and calorie counting I am now absolutely certain that exercise—daily skipping; swimming a mile & doing weights 3 times a week—made no difference to my weight

1/7/2025, 3:27:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

On a personal level, l I have tested this over months. It matches my experience exactly. If I ate less one day, I lost weight the next—less than 12 hrs later. If I exercised heavily one day it made no difference to my weight the next. Weeks of going to the gym and my weight went up until I dieted.

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Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

You must also have been reducing your calorie intake without realising. These experiments have been repeated over and over, using doubly labeled water, and the results are as un-intuitive as they are conclusive. Humans have a daily calorie budget.

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Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope.

30/6/2025, 10:55:59 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop making shit up and read what the hundreds of international scientists have provided for you. A little reading will show you that a) walking is exercise and b) the study has been repeated on all sorts of activities including running.

29/6/2025, 8:09:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

This diagram shows it. If you can’t understand why, a peer-reviewed study isn’t going to help you.

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29/6/2025, 8:04:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess you didn’t even read the article, then. Why would I bother getting you the peer-reviewed data if you can’t even read a decent summary of it in Scientific American?

29/6/2025, 8:02:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sam (@sambeau.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not just humans. The same phenomenon has been observed in other mammals, including the great apes.

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