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Chap originally from Cambridge. Tech geek. NUFC/CUFC/49ers fan. Love Bond films (not you, Craig).
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I will be fully prepared to change my position on amazon Bond if they give me my 26-part 1950s-set series on the Parisian detective adventures of Achile Aubergine.

Just been blocked by Gary Barlow. Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn’t mean it!

In January 1986, BBC1's Jackanory, for years stuffy and staid, briefly felt like the coolest thing ever when Rik Mayall performed (it's much more than a reading) Roald Dahl's GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE! For me and my mates, this was Event Television, constantly quoted for weeks on end.

I've heard Kay Burley be called a few things…

Tell you what you don’t see much of these days: spiral hats. Forty years ago, if you wanted *anything* promoted, you put it on a spiral paper hat.

Thank God email got bedded in before the piss-awful modern tech era. Oh no, you can’t Zapmail me because I’m on Mailr. Oh, you have Nvelope? If you send me an e-byte then I should pick it up on my Feedribble bytecatcher.

I don't know if this was a shoot or if someone has just shopped them all together but it is quite impressive that none of them look quite right.

'Sir, I wish you godspeed as you assume your second term in office.'

It was his reflection in the window.

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

A dating app for cockneys in trilbies called Mindr

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 The new John #Wicked spin-off was a decent (but long) watch

I’ll tell you who likes to hoot a nanny

2025

There was that game on here recently 'Name a non-Tolkien character who could resist the One Ring', and a lot of people said Kermit, which is valid. Which led me to thinking, is there a Muppet who would be an absolute nightmare if they got hold of the One Ring? Which led to this.

as they change manager yet again, it’s surely time to dig out the ‘Stoke have never had an overall positive goal difference’ chart

The BBC: 'I'm gonna hit you with so much Gavin and Stacey you're gonna beg for Mrs Brown's Boys.'

20 years ago the Mufasa movie would have been a direct to dvd animated prequel that looked kind of cheap but sold 3m copies, made disney 80m dollars of pure profit and given 200k budding furries sexual awakenings, in 2024 it cost 200m and is coated in a substance that makes it blur in your memory