Amazing to think there’s a whole generation of British men in their 40s with a completely unusable Tom Paulin impression in their back pocket. - ThreadSky

rufeydoof.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Amazing to think there’s a whole generation of British men in their 40s with a completely unusable Tom Paulin impression in their back pocket.

Well, what disappointed me was that it was so /conventional/, the lack of /ambition/, it just felt /tired/ and /perfunctory/.

/tawdry/

Ay laked it.

It was just so baaadddddd

fortunately some of them were able to adapt, and can now do more than serviceable Mark Cousins impressions.

Thanks to this post this now exists. I tried to look up the name of The Late Review theme tune but once again Google let me down. Does anyone know? https://www.dailyreckless.com/2025/01/16/the-late-review-review/

I used to have a columnist called Tar Paulin in the early days of the Daily Reckless. Amazingly this is from 2001! https://web.archive.org/web/20011121125847/http://tommymackay.tripod.com/tar.htm

Heh, we used to refer to my mate's band, Tompaulin, as Tarpaulin...

(Also, I was there the night Tom Paulin came to see Tompaulin in Oxford)

Haha. Marvellous. Had a wee listen to Tompaulin there. Nice. Must play them on the Daily Reckless radio show.

I agree - it's appalling, it really is

"That's a bag of boke" etc. etc.

I LOVE this observation.
I MADE this observation.
I AM this observation.

This is my most unexpected - but best targeted - OOOF - of the week. Damn, man. Damn.

Adam and Joe portrayed him in one of their toy parodies as "Tom Tortoise" and I've been unable to see him any other way

Ha, that was my first thought when this post made me think of Tom Paulin/Tortoise for the first time in years

“WHO IS SHE?!”

That has made me fucking howl. I loved doing a Paulin…..and you’re right….Ive had to drop it from my kids party set.

Who knew how unhinged that whole Newsnight review gang would become

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