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Richie Brown

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Web monkey / children’s writer. Likes 80s comics, 90s indie, rave, athletics and Sunderland FC. Here to get away from antisocial media. Currently writing a 5000 entry singles club. Used to run This is not a Song about pre-Britpop indie, 1989-1994.

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Angulo a 6 for effort. Diarra a 3. Very poor from him.

08.03.2026 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A disgrace. Defeated ourselves. #safc

08.03.2026 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know what I’m watching now. Are we trying to get knocked out? #safc

08.03.2026 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At least we get to attack the slightly less brown half of the pitch after the break. If Port Vale get to Wembley they’ll need to take a tractor with them. #safc

08.03.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Think we’re screwed. Every bounce on this tattie field is a lottery. #safc

08.03.2026 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nope, Disco 2000 is the worst. Only Pulp song I can’t listen to.

08.03.2026 13:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely. The dish he’d changed considerably but was still “based” on it! 😆

07.03.2026 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not happy at all at Rick Stein being moved from Rick Stein time on #saturdaykitchen

07.03.2026 10:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

04.03.2026 11:14 👍 4004 🔁 1262 💬 17 📌 40

There were feature length cartoons made from 1980. I think I remember The Raccoons on Ice being on TV before the series began, maybe The Lost Star. Definitely remember thinking, “oh I’ve seen these characters before” when I was 10!

05.03.2026 04:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

See the ref’s got the same wonky watch as the guy last week #safc

03.03.2026 21:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How many games on the trot has the ref been awful? Mind you, at least he’s consistent. Luke got away with a Jiminez in the box. #safc

03.03.2026 20:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is ridiculous. The huge tech firms should pay per word every time “content” is accessed. Yeah, it’d mean ChatGPT would cease to be “free” but it would be right.

02.03.2026 18:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, but no other smaller party needs to be held to account like they do. Was the interview very pro-Reform?

02.03.2026 09:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

An interview is a two-way conversation not a single person diatribe. I’m guessing they didn’t just allow him to advertise his policies. Did they? If not, that’s just a push of new content you’re seeing there.

02.03.2026 08:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The sad thing is it’s almost exclusively the news arm of the BBC that is getting this kicking. I could be wrong, but it’s the people put in place by a decade of Tory “culture secretaries” that are still there? We stand to lose so much more than news if we pitchfork our way to the institution’s door.

02.03.2026 05:09 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Their errors are “news” in privately owned outlets and the BBC happens to be a news outlet too so, in line with their own impartial stance, they have to report it. Unlike privately owned outlets, who have a very partial stance, the BBC has to report from both sides. I think they do it well.

02.03.2026 05:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eight sausages?

01.03.2026 23:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Spoiler. She’s 1.61m - easy to look up on IMDb.

01.03.2026 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Someone buy this ref a ficking watch!! #safc

28.02.2026 14:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He got as much of his head on that as Maradona did in 86 #safc

28.02.2026 13:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Getting sick to death of referees in this league. Brobbey touching a shirt sleeve last week given, Le Fee elbow smashed to the floor not given. #safc

28.02.2026 12:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unlucky though it may be, I do love mine!

28.02.2026 10:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So did that bloke from the Saw Doctors

28.02.2026 06:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

John has worked for decades representing others with his affliction. Others who cannot appear in public at all. If ONE person learns this and retracts their public condemnation then he’ll hopefully see a positive to this. The film is ironically called “I’m sorry” for a reason. His life has been one.

23.02.2026 06:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Having watched John Davidson’s life with Tourette’s for years in documentaries, I feel so bad for him this evening. Having to voluntarily throw himself out of biggest night because, once again, of his disability. Feeling sick reading some of the comments on here about him.

23.02.2026 00:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There will be no-one in that room or watching across the world who feels worse about that than John Davidson. He literally cannot help crossing those lines. The film that Robert Aramayo won the best actor for has shone a light on his lifetime of living with this and BAFTA have responded correctly.

23.02.2026 00:07 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reminds me of Jerry in Rab C Nesbitt’s Seasonal Greet where he comes across as nice and enthusiastic. What happened between then and the Pall Bearer’s Revue?

21.02.2026 00:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You’d think he’d have thought of ripping off a different set of terrorists for his plutonium, rather than taking chances with the vest?

20.02.2026 12:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I’ve always thought of the John Humphreys bbc news report about Blur v Oasis as the watershed of indie. Pretty much everything before was good, pretty much everything after wasn’t. A few exceptions either side, of course.

20.02.2026 11:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0