I recently booked a car viewing via a dealer's website, and didn't even realise I was talking to an AI chatbot. And fair play, it was great! Apart from it booking us in to the wrong department, for the wrong vehicle, and not telling anyone we were coming, which took half a dozen people to sort out.

I had no idea The Hundred was designated as T20 for statistical purposes despite a full game being 40 balls, or 6.4 overs, fewer than T20 (as well as being an abomination)

Yes!! Hey Jude has about 3 minutes worth of "na na na na" too much (about 30 minutes too much if performed live by Paul McCartney).

Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 20h ago

Hey Jude is way too long at 7 mins 11 seconds. I Want You (She's So Heavy) at 7 mins 47 seconds is far too short.

It's always a good day when Mr Fingers releases a new video

Richard J@preachypreach.bsky.social · 23h ago

youtu.be/oINXyR5NPjU Anyway, enjoy the new Bobby Fingers; not quite as good as the Michael Jackson one but still pretty great as always

Jordan, if only you'd revealed this before the World Cup, you would have been the neutrals' favourite

10/10, no notes

It gets better - I was sent a code, but it was too long, meaning the delivery driver has once again left without giving my new phone to me. How difficult can this stuff be?!

Rev Darren Jalland@oldmacharrev.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well done to O2 who sent me my new phone, but didn't send me a PIN code I needed for the delivery driver who was unable to hand it to me when he arrived. According to the driver it happens all the time, so watch out for that if you get a phone through O2 and make sure you contact them in advance.

I will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy

Rob Jacques@knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is profoundly upsetting

There's a deadly shark in Morecambe Bay, and the local mayor hires Wallace and Gromit to catch it

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Social media platforms which largely attract right-wing or far-right users tend to be avoided and ignored by people on the left. Social media platforms which largely attract left-wing or liberal users are "echo chambers" which "need fixing".

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I watched the trailer for Wicker earlier and one of the comments on the video was simply "Fifty Shades Of Hay". That person deserves way more than the 400 likes they have so far.

Yes, that's how tax works. You pay for stuff you may never use - schools if you're childless, roads you may never travel down and so forth - because it's the right thing to do. Is there somebody who looks after you who can explain this to you?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Well done to O2 who sent me my new phone, but didn't send me a PIN code I needed for the delivery driver who was unable to hand it to me when he arrived. According to the driver it happens all the time, so watch out for that if you get a phone through O2 and make sure you contact them in advance.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Top quality typo in the slides for church this morning, which changed "And it makes me want to sing" to "And it makes me want to sin". Very good.

Nicely done!

My kids treat this house like a bloody hotel. Yet ANOTHER Gideon Bible in my bedside drawer this morning.

I just saw an image of this badge. I actually had one of these exact badges as a kid, around the time the album came out. I have no idea where I got it from, we had no Devo LPs in our house and I'd never heard of them when I was 5.

Spent most of my birthday writing a funeral service. I know, I live life on the edge.

Reading this sweet memoir by my favourite James Bond. Or, as his friends call him...

Ötzi the iceman had traces of the bacteria which causes Lyme Disease and he is around 5300 years old. What lab was releasing diseases into the environment before the pyramids were built?

Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 5d ago

I know I'm an old fart (I'll be 53 in a couple of hours), but I just heard the song for the first time and... this has had 19 weeks at number one? This?!

chart data {bot}@chartdata-bot.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean’s "Rein Me In" is now the longest running #1 hit in UK singles chart history (19 weeks). It breaks the record set by Frankie Laine's "I Believe" in 1953.

The votes don't matter for two reasons Firstly, the next men's World Cup is in Spain, Portugal and Morocco with a game each in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Unless Morocco is able to host alone they're screwed Secondly, without European or South American teams the financial worth is destroyed

Manuel Veth@manuelveth.bsky.social · 6d ago

Concacaf backing UEFA. Only ten votes missing now to shoot this down and potentially ouster Gianni or as Donnie calls him “Johnny” Not that it matters much. UEFA has already won. This will never work without the Europeans on board. Victor Montagliani knows this and has positioned himself

David Liti, the Kiwi gold medallist in the super-heavyweight men's weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games, was treated to a Haka following his win #Glasgow2026

Reminds me of an old colleague who emailed a customer who, importantly, was called Mr White. Literally as he hit send he spotted an unfortunate typo made possible by W and S being so close to each other on a keyboard.

Rob Davies@byrobdavies.bsky.social · 6d ago

I know these columns are a big funny joke to you people. But spare a thought for someone who, every time he sees that byline pic, recalls the day he tried to message a colleague "Something must be wrong, Allister is being nice to me" and sent it directly to him.

He's suing because the platforms will be fined each time it is found to have been used to do this. So either write your programs to ensure it can't be used this way or don't release them to the public. But no. Money is more important than preventing the sexualisation of children to these ghouls.

Adam Mockler@adammockler.com · 7d ago

WHY WOULD YOU SUE TO BLOCK THIS???