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Paediatrician, choral bass, Dad.

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« ChatGPT aux poissons rouges »

07.03.2026 10:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I had a nice weekend in Yr Hmbl Crrspd't once. Best fried breakfast in North Wales.

06.03.2026 21:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Another man who identifies too strongly with the Roman Empire?

06.03.2026 16:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LED Storm Music (ZX Spectrum) - Title Theme
LED Storm Music (ZX Spectrum) - Title Theme YouTube video by explod2A03

I used to load this Tim Follin classic and then deliberately not play it, because there was no way the gameplay could live up to the title music.
youtu.be/9b9XjxK2RJc?...

03.03.2026 11:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Cheat's Playing Something on a LaserDisc
The Cheat's Playing Something on a LaserDisc YouTube video by junkrobotjimmy

Whatever happened to Laserdisc?
youtu.be/NtPUq3sX72M?...

02.03.2026 22:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lamb to the Slaughter - Wikipedia

Yes, but the story was published in 1953.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to...

01.03.2026 14:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With inflatable slides, like the ones on passenger aircraft?

22.02.2026 13:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Compatible with all types of ire, including #engvire

21.02.2026 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Error: not turtles_all_the_way_down

19.02.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you were the sort of person who asks, "Hang on, why does an earwig have a navel? ", you would have been met with "Repent, or burn!"

19.02.2026 21:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enough to sing "It's a small world after all"?

Coincidentally, yes. Hello. Small world.

17.02.2026 20:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is getting dangerously close to the much-memed sign from Northampton that allegedly said "Family Planning Advice: Use Rear Entrance".

17.02.2026 18:10 👍 46 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

Cancer is an intrinsically random process, and I think the human need to search for meaning and causation everywhere really struggles with that. 3/3

17.02.2026 07:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Notwithstanding Hank's previous cancer (and mine), most of the cancer in the world occurs in older people. To some extent, cancer is the expected outcome of a prolonged period of not dying of anything else. 2/3

17.02.2026 07:42 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's true, though unhelpful, to say that all foods are statistically linked to cancer, in that if you stop eating food altogether you are much less likely to die of cancer. 1/2

17.02.2026 07:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Futurama at the gym: The Kegelcizer.

Futurama at the gym: The Kegelcizer.

13.02.2026 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"People keep asking me if I know Tyler Durden."

10.02.2026 18:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess the real point is that it distracts away from what the article is trying to say, as evidenced by the fact that we're talking about it instead of the journalism.

Are there any decent non-sight-based metaphors for, er, vision that they could have used instead? English grads, help me out!

09.02.2026 13:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No, I don't really think they were trying to be clever at all, but I tried to give credit in case it was due. I suspect they didn't notice, which wouldn't matter for most people, but for a headline (or subhead) writer, choosing words carefully is the entire job.

09.02.2026 13:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Joel Veitch's bizarre spongmonkeys from 2002 yelling "WE REALLY LIKE THA MOON" (credit: rathergood.com)

Joel Veitch's bizarre spongmonkeys from 2002 yelling "WE REALLY LIKE THA MOON" (credit: rathergood.com)

Maybe not, but...

09.02.2026 10:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dear Guardian subs, I'm not sure describing one of the most famous sight impaired people in the country as "a man of exceptional vision" sounds as clever as you think it does.

09.02.2026 09:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"You can slice the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash any way you like and you will generally come up with something that someone will call home."

09.02.2026 08:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I see a complex multidimensional informationscape compressed into 2 or 3 dimensions just to pander to the limitations of the human visual system, it reminds me of Douglas Adams' characterisation of the set of all possible universes as the Whole Sort Of General Mish Mash (WSOGMM).

09.02.2026 07:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not Allmen!

08.02.2026 19:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Neuter your Ex this Valentines Day

We are providing funding for a trap, neuter and release programme for a colony of feral cats in the Barnton area.
For a donation of £10, we will name one of the cats after your ex and neuter them!

The donation can be made through justgiving. https://www.justgiving.com/rspca-altrincham-cheshire

Neuter your Ex this Valentines Day We are providing funding for a trap, neuter and release programme for a colony of feral cats in the Barnton area. For a donation of £10, we will name one of the cats after your ex and neuter them! The donation can be made through justgiving. https://www.justgiving.com/rspca-altrincham-cheshire

06.02.2026 14:33 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Glasgow "Live" experiencing a little lag, there.

01.02.2026 10:18 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

InvisiClues™️ ©️ Infocom 1984, 1991. All rights reserved.

27.01.2026 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Betteridge strikes again.

24.01.2026 08:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Those birds have the same digestive issue as the ones that nest above my car.

24.01.2026 08:30 👍 40 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

CATS: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN !!

24.01.2026 02:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0