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Undoubtedly the greatest application of the Mission Impossible theme, written by Lalo Schifrin whose death was announced today, was as background to this item on Newsnight in 1997. Jeremy Paxman (and me) both looking so young! #Newsnight #Paxman #euro

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Half Man Half Biscuit have a track record of killing off people who are mentioned in their songs, so I fear for Jeff Bezos, who seems to have got the full album cover treatment. #HMHB

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Nice! Mystery screening at the cinema tonight was Jurassic World Rebirth, not due for release until the start of July. Nothing unpredictable, but it was pretty decent.

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british fan chat

submitted 45 days ago • 31 comments

I found a website where you can specify a tiny bit of dialogue and it'll find a clip of someone saying exactly that for you. I have no idea what to use it for but…

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Because of [waves hands at the state of the world] there's been a bit of discussion about how difficult it is to sink oil tankers. As this account firmly approves of the empirical method, ie the boffin lingo for fucking around and finding out, let's look at an example. Meet Torrey Canyon.

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A new Half Man Half Biscuit album is always an event. The brand new one (All Asimov And No Fresh Air) has a song on it called McCalliog And His Hens. The explanation on the back sleeve shows just why HMHB are a national treasure. #HMHB

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Oh FFS how are you meant to make this more ridiculous?

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Hey, A.I., when is the fireworks display near here?

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"Hi I'm the Standard Gazel and I'm furious about it"

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Wake up kids, Nigel Blackwell just released a new song about complete bellends! open.spotify.com/track/2nrYYW...

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A new London Tube map is out and map grumps* everywhere (including me) are huffing and rolling their eyes about the latest changes. Here's my attempt from a few years ago to redraw the map along original Harry Beck-esque principles. Not perfect but a fun experiment. www.behance.net/gallery/1458...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Happy National Donut Day!

submitted 21 days ago • 69 comments

There’s been another Tweet Chris! But from who?

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Delighted to report it's an absolute doozy. Current favourite couplet: 'Here's to your Native American name / Great Big Whopper With Shit For Brains' Neil's bass pleasingly more prominent. No mention of Mrs Nige's suggested lyric that I passed on to Nigel B, but there's always next time. Buy!

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Ooh yes please. Now on streaming, and in Dolby Atmos on Apple Music.

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Woo hoo. WhatsApp on the iPad at last.

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"Your key takeaway from Ukraine's audacious June 1st attack ...should be 'wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part.'" little-flying-robots.ghost.io/ukraines-aud...

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I love this (from the Yarmouth Independent 1929). Great Yarmouth vs Ipswich Town. The column ends "May the best team win and may the best team be ours." #itfc

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

And there it is... the greatest header in modern history.

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

To cheer everyone up, here is an anecdote about when David Bowie was filming the video for Ashes to Ashes.

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

If online marketing is your bag, here are my daily blog posts from May, all in one handy LinkedIn newsletter... www.linkedin.com/pulse/icymi-...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine

submitted 27 days ago • 51 comments

Ukraine used $47,000 in drones to inflict $7,000,000,000 of damage. War changed today. Forever.

submitted 27 days ago • 72 comments

Wayfair's aggressive search engine optimization is having some unintended side effects

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

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did NOT expect that ending #doctorwho

submitted 28 days ago • 23 comments

to the man in the NHS car who saw me running along the pavement and drove deliberately slowly in the middle of the road so I could get to the bus stop before the bus did: I hope today that your coffee is hot, your lunch is delicious and your meetings are short and productive 💫

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

What a time to be alive

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.

submitted 32 days ago • 87 comments

This is why today (25 May) is the true Star Wars day, not the silly May The Fourth thing.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

This is a terrific idea. It sounds a little awkward at first but quickly wouldn’t be. And it has a ring of pride to it that other suggestions have not had.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Why tomorrow is a big day for geeks, Terry Pratchett fans, Douglas Adams fans, Star Wars fans, and more. And a very big day if you’re all of those! chrisrand.com/writes/2022/...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Clicked the unasked-for "Polish" button which now appears in GMail, because I was curious why Google would think I needed to translate my emails in the first place, and why Polish was the default. Turns out it's an Ai thing that's supposed to "polish them up", FFS.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

I'm reminded of how much I miss the Bigmouth/Culture Bunker podcasts now that there's a new Half Man Half Biscuit album out and I'm not going to hear Andrew Harrison get justifiably overexcited. halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/new-half-man... #HMHB @nndroid.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Sad to hear St Etienne are calling it a day, but they're going out on a high if their new release is anything to go by: youtu.be/h5fWxY9IHkw?... #banger

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Nooooooo……..

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I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

submitted 37 days ago • 76 comments

You get some interesting dinner guests when you’re up in the Highlands.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

It's that time of year again.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

So we’ve gone for (our favourites, not a prediction)… 1. Finland 2. ⁠Austria/Estonia/Armenia 5. Netherlands/Sweden/Luxembourg #Eurovision #ESC2026 #GoErika

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I love it when something appropriate comes on a random playlist. On a train up to the Highlands. “Scottish Pop” by Spearmint. Joyous.

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