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Darren Mackay

@dazmack1979

Works in criminal justice. Dad. Geek. Professional pedant. Leftie libtard. All views my own.

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My mate and I spent far more time than is healthy during our teens chuckling at the thought of a camping store using the advert slogan “Now is the winter of our discount tents”.

06.03.2026 13:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She’s done it again tonight. Fuck my life.

05.03.2026 21:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hullbridge death: Andrew McVicar and Colin Garrod jailed Andrew McVicar and Colin Garrod were jailed for life for the death of Timothy Smith.

Sorry, should have made it clear - I’m in Scotland, this isn’t a Scottish case (which is why I’m puzzled in case I’m missing something). Original sentencing article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

05.03.2026 21:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No Dolly Parton?

04.03.2026 16:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A monthly partwork that reprinted the hardback WH Allen novelisations (including the later and new Targets that only ever appeared in PB).

04.03.2026 16:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Musclebound killer back on streets as victim's family slams 'disgusting' parole Andrew McVicar murdered a stranger with a broken bottle when he was just a schoolboy and was caged again almost two decades later for killing a pensioner in a robbery.

@barristersecret.bsky.social I might be too used to Scottish sentencing, but how does someone become eligible for parole 6 years into a life sentence with a 12 year minimum term? www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

04.03.2026 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I won’t lie, I was thrown when I saw the size of the logs that came out of our toddler. She blocked the bloody toilet twice. Looked like Kong Kong’s thumb.

04.03.2026 15:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If only he’d been unsuccessful in dodging the draft, he might have learned this in Vietnam.

04.03.2026 15:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Is that you, Maureen?”

03.03.2026 23:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is that guy running at twice the speed of everyone else?

03.03.2026 23:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whither @smershpod.com ?

03.03.2026 23:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christ, the lemonade scene.

03.03.2026 19:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wouldn’t give that a twist, testicular torsion can be painful.

03.03.2026 19:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mincemeat?

03.03.2026 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What fucking planet is this fruitloop living on?

03.03.2026 18:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember that being the case when I was a nipper back in the 80s. Bloody Walden.

01.03.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

I think this is perhaps the episode I’ve seen the most. Love it. “A string of poloponies” indeed.

28.02.2026 19:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This remake of Threads feels a bit real.

28.02.2026 10:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The phrase “sore losers” doesn’t quite come close.

27.02.2026 16:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Didn’t he read The Welcoming Land at her memorial service?

22.02.2026 23:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That reminiscence of Hattie is so poignant - seems a beautiful moment of sincere love and tenderness. Tears me up every time. HJ always seemed to escape his ire in the diaries, their shared Christmases always seemed to give him some rare joy.

22.02.2026 23:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh yes, and happy birthday to my other half as well.

22.02.2026 08:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kenneth Williams.

Kenneth Williams.

100 not out - still endlessly entertaining, eternally fascinating, and heartbreakingly tragic. A master raconteur. Love him.

22.02.2026 08:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s damn-near perfect viewing - a genuine master raconteur holding the entire audience in the palm of his hand from start to finish. I wish it was longer!

21.02.2026 20:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dammit, absolute - not abject!

21.02.2026 00:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There’s an abject glee to his performances, at his most OTT it’s really quite something - I’m not sure he ever topped his Doctor Who performance in Timelash.

20.02.2026 20:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Never knowingly underplayed - but with Darrow it just *works*.

20.02.2026 19:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fucking. Hell.

20.02.2026 18:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dirty Dancing. Which I’m pretty sure was a 15 cert - not one of us in the class would have been old enough.

20.02.2026 17:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d have been shot if I’d ever put any new titles out ahead of release date (WHS Aberdeen). Think that’s just because the competitors used to snoop on a Saturday to make sure everyone was playing fair.

20.02.2026 14:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0