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Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

submitted 10 days ago • 86 comments

Cryptic clue of the year, nominated for preservation in the Library of Congress.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Umm. I’d quite like a footnote to follow up here. Please.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The Busy World of Doctor Who

submitted 19 days ago • 43 comments

At least the Death Star's vulnerability was as sophisticated as a thermal exhaust port.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Why is it that only when you are ill, the streaming shitcannon that is Netflix content makes sense? For the other 360 days of the year, it feels like everyone has become time-rich and synapse-poor.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Were people confused that the nickname ‘Bad King John’ was awarded during one of those a more ironic useage eras?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

You know when you read something in a book which you know isn’t right and suddenly you feel like you have to question all the information you’ve been given.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating but also get those air miles.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is conflicting. The owner has deeply unpleasant views but it has underwater vikings. Although could a place like Bicester contain anything that French? www.thetimes.com/article/f4e4...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

A conversation on here earlier reminded me of a thing that I’ve always loved and occasionally bang on about. It’s the care taken by Mackenzie Crook to specify which bird species we can hear in the background for many scenes in Detectorists.

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

As I cyclists, it is good to see it is my fault that the ai car can’t see me. www.forbes.com/sites/tanyam...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure this stacks up - after all the world’s richest woman only got about 15 minutes every Christmas for her message www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe we could try replacing the 'green' in Greenland with 'Sudeten'?

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Why are women’s dressing gowns so insubstantial? I don’t want to look like a giggling ‘70s nymphet. I want to look like Great Uncle Bulgaria wrestling with arctic existentialism in a John Carpenter remake of The Wombles.

submitted 61 days ago • 26 comments

Todman does such a superb job in Britain’s War( pt 2) illustrating the logistics tail behind ops. The section on immediately post-D Day ENSA shows (309 July to August), sanitation, 5 mobile dentistry units and psychiatric hospital, is typically brilliant. #historybookchat

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Having pored over 18th/19th century Army Lists these last couple of years, I have kept a running list of some of the more interesting names of British army officers of that era. Here is just a selection. Yes, there was an actual Lt Johnny Rotten (47th Foot). #NapoleonicHistory #writing #britisharmy

submitted 63 days ago • 37 comments

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

submitted 65 days ago • 47 comments

Hugely disappointed that BBC Four haven’t opted for a midnight marathon of Detectorists. It was always a delightful way just to ease down.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, it is bit retro (well, 2010s) but given - Basque cheesecake a go for NYE. Looks promising so far.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

you have to admire how quickly The Spice Girls abandoned the format of naming themselves after a spice after Ginger If it were up to me Mel B would have been Cayenne (mild), Victoria would have been Saffron, Emma would have been Turmeric and Mel C? Dried Rosemary they'd have disbanded in a week

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

First they came for the green bins and I said nothing because I had forgotten to put them out. Then they came for the black bins and I said nothing because I had put out the green bins by mistake. Then they came for the brown bins and I said nothing because nobody knows when it's brown bins.

submitted 69 days ago • 14 comments

Hope everything is running like clockwork in your kitchen too.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

submitted 73 days ago • 24 comments

Mr Escher

submitted 73 days ago • 10 comments

Lasted less than 30 seconds of watching Only Connect live. Fast forwarding the talking really is the only way.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Great data journalism: people report “best times” is when they were 10-15 yo www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 79 days ago • 99 comments

On 24 March, scientific integrity consultant Elisabeth Bik noted on her blog that six patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine had been dropped from the study—one of whom had died, and three of whom had transferred to intensive care—which potentially skewed the results in the drug’s favor.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

World War I who was the major partner on the allied side on the Western Front? Below visualises the heavy lifting along a 700km front, one nation did from the excellent carto1418.fr French= Blue British & Other allies = Orange Remember that 🥀

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Ignoring the Proustian rush of hearing The Theme From Flood even in spoken form, but bloody hell, Fingertips makes sense once you learn about the US shuffle version. Well, some sense. Brilliant.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments