At the opticians, I was getting the usual barrage of questions: Do you get regular headaches; How much time do you spend working at a screen? etc. Then I was asked “what’s your usual field?” That threw me.
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My friend kept quoting my description back to me. So now this is what it says, Gav.
Went to the optician's at lunchtime, for the first time in 2 years. "Your eyesight's really bad" they told me. "How bad exactly?" I asked "Well, this is Pret a Manger..."
This is clearly a novelty hot water bottle cover.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 5d agoEdinburgh Zoo's red panda goes to the vet for toothache
I could watch Benjamin Button over and over. Never gets old.
Travelling for work. A prize for the first person who guesses where I am.
Well, chief: looking at the half eaten carrot sticks around the body and the hint of garlic in the air, I'd say that the injuries were posthumous.
If this had been the rule when Clarice Starling joined the FBI, the lambs wouldn’t have had to be silenced
The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this
It feels like, in 2026, a white dude with huge social reach, wealth and power should by now have realised that being that guy and doing nothing is, at the very least, “complicit adjacent”.
When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music
Smokey Robinson has enjoyed unparallelled branding success, much to the consternation of his brothers, Streaky Robinson and Boiled Robinson
Not the cone of shame, but the airplane neck pillow of sadness.
Nadine Dorries interviewed by Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 last night at Reform Party Conference. Nigel Farage is absolutely fine and actually laughing, not even worried, definitely. Original can be viewed here, it's quite a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Et3...
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
Re Dover: It it just a stag weekend with a “middle aged ninja” theme?
Put a towel into the washing machine and it came out wet. Put two towels into the washing machine and they still came out wet. Have I broken my towels?
Me, seeing the amount of rain that has fallen versus what was promised.
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Movie idea: "Three". People start noticing that the What3Words code for a location foreshadows events that happen there. eg. a rural English retreat at reset.then.expiring
My Tim Curry playlist sounds very different to my Dolly Parton playlist What a week