Certain words do a lot of heavy lifting in online tributes: fearless, excoriating, uncompromising. I suppose it's not the time to say giant dog turd in an ill-fitting suit.
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli
Steve Martin: Non Je Pense Pas
ALT: Steve Martin: Non Je Pense Pas
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐@lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 6d agoFilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli
Describe yourself in three characters.
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 3w agoDescribe yourself in three characters.
Only two assessments of Starmer available - 1) enormous pile of dog shit covered in broken glass, barbed wire and more dog shit. 2) England's rose
Evening guest at a Tunbridge Wells wedding. The DJ is playing 'Fire Woman' by The Cult. A retired man has bought me a Madri. Everyone is sweaty.
Made a toastie with naan bread. There will be no turning back.
Guy who did an open mic once five years ago explains comedy
Harry Hill's castle designer joke is the most significant cultural achievement of the twenty first century to date.
Feeling nostalgic about childhood Christmases: looking out of window at world of dread and fear; clanging chimes of doom in shopping centre; trying to make tea with the bitter sting of tears and so on
I think if you're drinking Huel on public transport after midnight anyone should be allowed to punch you.
Just being performatively annoyed by the nine people being performatively annoyed by the Whamageddon thing
In the early 00s I set up a joke Friend's Reunited account for Simon MacCorkindale, with a profile stating that it was weird that Manimal only ever turned into a panther or a bird. Loads of people sent messages just saying "Hi Simon". I still think about it quite a lot.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 11mo agoManimal deserved a second series. I know it was cancelled over 40 years ago but I still resent it every time I turn on the TV.
A very happy Now He's Doing Horse Day to all that celebrate
The urge to microblog has long since escaped me, but here are some new songs I like from this month
Remembering with misty eyes the time when the music industry was a loose, anarcho- syndicalist collective run mostly by blacksmiths
Just visited a barber that does a 'silent' haircut, just functional questions about your hair, no chat. Feeling mildly euphoric.
The best album cover of my lifetime I think
Memorial Device@memorialdevice.bsky.social · 2y agoA design classic 🙏
Does anyone with any experience of Bavarian toilets know how to get the toilet paper out of one of these? It's reasonably urgent.
Dust slowly settling on this year's Christmas argument, in which I vehemently challenged my sister in law's assertion that capers and gherkins are "basically the same thing".
Had a dream where I disinterestedly watched a crowd of bishops going down an escalator, each getting their vestments caught in the mechanism and falling over. No idea.
If I wipe my hands on your decorative towels I'm trying to say I believe you can become a person of substance
