Jamie Douglass
@jamesldouglass.bsky.social
PR chap, martial arts enthusiast, oenophile, occasional musician & fanatical book-lover. Tweed and corduroy are the original performance fabrics
Frankly, compared to all the other stuff people do on public transport it’s positively innocent
Jamie Douglass@jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2h agoSome young lads in the train - 12? 13? - are playing that game where you each take it in turns to shout “penis” progressively louder and an exasperated commuter just told them to “grow up” but honestly, I like to see the old ways kept up
Some young lads in the train - 12? 13? - are playing that game where you each take it in turns to shout “penis” progressively louder and an exasperated commuter just told them to “grow up” but honestly, I like to see the old ways kept up
pretty comfortable this won't get the required likes so I'm safe :)
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
I think the mistake Peter makes here - & it is a common one, made, indeed, by the author himself* - is to compare them to realist literary fiction of the time, when they are almost a branch of fantasy *Fleming was a huge Somerset Maugham fan, & openly admitted he was often trying to imitate him
Professor Peter Matthews@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 11h ago10. I think the James Bond novels. They're....not awful.... but not good....and seriously odd. I read nearly all of them about 20 years ago
not all of the reviews of the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall were positive
Kate Bevan@katebevan.com · yesterdayWe had a few minutes of half-arsed spitting. Gone now.
read this too fast, missed the word "EVENTS" (yes, despite it being in big black caps) and temporarily thought Waterstones Kensington was one of the 31 inventions that built our world
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · yesterdayright, here's the current full list, JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WORRYING
Allied point; one of the greatest fallacies is to imagine that humanity is one long teleological march of progression - leading to an awful lot of people believing their views are informed by "accrued understanding", rather than "fashion"
Adam Roberts@adamroberts.bsky.social · yesterdayGeorge Orwell, 1950.
The *correct* answer is Pablo Honey, The Bends, OK Computer.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
Last month another of the guys came up to me & said “OI! Need a word with you!” & I didn’t know what was coming, he took me into the corner and leaned in and growled “you remember what you said to me the last time we met?” and I thought this could go wrong and he continued “well, it really helped”
Jamie Douglass@jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d agoMay be true in the US, but I’ve been doing BJJ for ~20 yrs here in the UK and they are the nicest, most supportive people I know. One of our guys is moving cities to live with his wife & we all saw him off & made sure he got a last roll each (admittedly I calfsliced him a *bit* but it was emotional)
May be true in the US, but I’ve been doing BJJ for ~20 yrs here in the UK and they are the nicest, most supportive people I know. One of our guys is moving cities to live with his wife & we all saw him off & made sure he got a last roll each (admittedly I calfsliced him a *bit* but it was emotional)
Padraig2112@isomorphism.net · 2d agoOne thing I have noticed about BJJ since 2012 or so: folks studying this are way more aggro than folks studying anything else. There have always been Cobra-Kai types running dojos but most good teachers across styles hammer it home that fighting is always the last thing you want to do.
If you’re going to talk about your family relationship woes SO LOUDLY on the train that I can’t read my book I should at least be allowed to join in
Lot of postings about Manchester this morning. Which I think is a kind of Spanish cheese.
Ha yes, they had cordage! But then the ‘moral of the story’ is rarely the moral of the story. EG anyone who knows anything about slings will tell you the moral of “David&Goliath” is not necessarily “even the little guy can be victorious with God on his side” but “superior military technology wins”
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 5d agoThere's a lot of reference to the Icarus myth recently, and people always assume the moral of the story is "don't fly too close to the sun". I think it should be "wtf are you doing using WAX for a job like that FFS?"
Duncan's post has been up 8m and three people have already referenced this entirely independently. It is possible Yes Minister is deeply woven into our national fabric
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5d agoAnd Heart listeners don't care who runs the country, as she long as she's got bi-*hook drags me off stage*
*Salted* Caramel getting 5x the votes of Caramel probably tells us something, not sure what
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d agoYouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
I once did a fairly detailed quiz on "what type of coffee drinker are you" and it concluded I just like caffeine. I have a suspicion my "summer reading list" will reveal a fairly cognate attitude
Neon Genesis Ewangelion@ewacat.bsky.social · 5d agothis piece is absolutely amazing. whole lot of words to say nothing new. i actually love it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Had half-guessed where this was and am....delighted? deflated?...to say I was spot on
Paul Clarke@paulclarke.com · 5d agoA salad, an open sandwich (piece of bread with some chicken on), 1 cup of tea, 1 apple juice, 1 pastel. £54. IN A STATION CAFE. London, I am finally done with eating out ever again. My Iranian beans and the 3.95 saino's sarnie lunch deal are all I need. Go out of business, all of you. It's over.
The Odyssey merch is getting out of hand
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d agoSainsbury's to sell Argos for £120m
I do, and they're mostly about animals. My stance on accessorising your pocket square to your tie is very, very strongly held, but even I would struggle to call it an ethos
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo agoDo you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
Pet cats are essential for survival. The dinosaurs didn’t have pet cats, and see what happened to them.
Make a movie from McGonagall‘s The Tay Bridge Disaster, you cowards.
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
For three minutes, we had a sense of patriotic unity that could have re-taken Calais
Jamie Douglass@jamesldouglass.bsky.social · last wk.Given we regularly discuss whether an alternative national anthem is required, and what it would be, I feel I should report that in this Corfiot hotel the DJ just played “Mr Brightside” and every single Brit, tho strangers all, went FULL ON BATSHIT, while everyone else looked on, bemused
Given we regularly discuss whether an alternative national anthem is required, and what it would be, I feel I should report that in this Corfiot hotel the DJ just played “Mr Brightside” and every single Brit, tho strangers all, went FULL ON BATSHIT, while everyone else looked on, bemused
