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I always get "Judeo-Christian" mixed up with "Greco-Roman" and assume they're on about that weird Ivy League wrestling

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

No exaggeration!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Rose Royce. Full of eastern promise, apparently. #totp

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Darts look like an AI creation. God alone knows what the input prompt was. #totp

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Ringing the school bell too vigorously. The matter was even elevated to the headmaster. Mumbles Junior Mixed School was like that.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I see that Sarah Brightman’s follow-up to I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper has got a fairly bleak, Rogue Traders vibe to it.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

The decision to aim the axe at modern languages is depressing, yet unsurprising. Just 242 people - adults and 16-18 combined - sat A-level French in Wales last year. My class in sixth form would now account for 5% of the total learners in the whole nation.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

'Welby’s iron tendency emerged at various intervals, from his days as an oil man in post-colonial Africa to his reluctance to meet with Smyth’s victims and refusal to bless same-sex civil marriages. To understand this streak, you have to understand Welby’s life, past trauma and inherited privilege'.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

"If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery."

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the deal. Elon Musk now has to go to Berlin and hang out with Iggy Pop and record Low and Heroes, or we simply have to assume it was actually a Nazi salute.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

It's a wonderful book, and I wish I still had a hard copy for my daughter.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

If you hired some media kids to make you a spoof 1970s maths programme, and they came back with Make It Count, you'd take them to one side and give them a sharp lesson in the subtle art of parody. But there it is, Fred's tank top, maths afro, stripped pine and all. open.substack.com/pub/historyo...

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

Hoping they don't ban sausage skins. That would be the wurst case scenario. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Always a chuckle at seeing a "Pat Fisher" in the #totp credits, as that was the name of a dinner lady at junior school we nicknamed "The Ayatollah".

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Beginning of the imperial phase for those Bee Gees. #totp

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

"I'm Emperor Rosko, so I just sign Rosko..." #totp

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Kevin Godley's Kevin Godley sweater is a magnificent touch. #totp

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

They actually did install these at the Daily Telegraph almost 10 years ago.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

"Four And Twenty Virgins Ltd"

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I've just read that the Troy Club has shut down, which makes me very sad indeed. Hanway Street really is on last orders.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Me at the start of 2024 / me at the end of 2024

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten

submitted 66 days ago • 99 comments

Santa came up trumps with the festive reading. Merry Christmas, one and all!

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Escape to the shag carpeted, analog world of Golden Sands with Programme 4 and Easy AM 66, now broadcasting from Programme4.tv (and more of both coming soon)

submitted 111 days ago • 18 comments

Not sure about a specific story, but I certainly knew the phrase "The conciliation service ACAS" from about the age of three.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

'AND HITLER'

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments

Happy Bunglesnitch Day to all who celebrate

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: business documentary Commercial Breaks watches Imagine Software launch their industry changing 'megagames' plans, which promptly disintegrate and the company collapses. This inspired the Bandersnatch episode of Black Mirror.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

submitted 81 days ago • 46 comments

No supposed educational outcome is worth inflicting misery on kids.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Advertise your account with just one image.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Whoh-oh Black Betty

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

With family members having left the gas hob on three times this week, a reminder is now in place.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment