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London Irishman in Nottingham. Podcasts: the Last Exit Show, Pex Lives, Pop Could Never Save Us, We Learned More From a Three Minute Record.

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Man, you lads are way off.

06.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Laundry slung haphazardly over an old clothes horse, balanced precariously on a recycling bin to catch the precious sunlight in a built up area

Laundry slung haphazardly over an old clothes horse, balanced precariously on a recycling bin to catch the precious sunlight in a built up area

Avoiding the tumble drier in the inner city.

05.03.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blind Date - Series 13 Episode 1 - Saturday 20th September 1997
Blind Date - Series 13 Episode 1 - Saturday 20th September 1997 YouTube video by ChrisVHS89

Anyway, I watched an old Blind Date last night and I've never sped run a person into TEC territory as bachelor number one here. I was so mad at how he looked at the envelope.
youtu.be/e1s_zusXf_8?...

04.03.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Innit weird how when ye hate someone everythin they post pisses u off like they tweet "i love soup" n ur like aye a bet ye fuckin do

Innit weird how when ye hate someone everythin they post pisses u off like they tweet "i love soup" n ur like aye a bet ye fuckin do

04.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. Richard Nixon

I've shared this before. Since then, I've never allowed my distaste for someone in my life to cross over the Toast Eating Cunt (TEC) threshold for my own sanity. It's a useful metric. If you get to the point where every microexpression and movement someone makes fills you with fury, it's bad for ya.

04.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've only had one flatmate. We started civil & then, over six months, we gradually fell out. Everything they did started to irritate me. I remember seeing the guy having his breakfast. "Look at that cunt." I thought, deeply & sincerely annoyed. "Eating toast." An emotional rubicon had been crossed.

04.03.2026 10:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

When Trump was farting on about English cities, I realised he was wilfully misinformed in the same way as a English retiree who never visited those places. A panglobal xenophobic disconnection from reality.

04.03.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They were just ripping off the similar two parter of the Sweeney. Watch it guv, he's got a space shooter.

04.03.2026 09:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Having seen what a complete arsehole did with my mates' selfies, I'm advising that people delete old posts too. Pity.

02.03.2026 13:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Obituary: Rob Grant – Ganymede & Titan Pioneering comedy writer, best-selling author, and co-creator ofΒ Red Dwarf, Rob GrantΒ has died, aged 70. Rob was born in Salford, Greater Manchester in September 1955, and grew up a stone's throw fro...

www.ganymede.tv/2026/03/obit...

That'll be the definitive obituary for Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant

01.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The right's messaging on defeat ("this is illegitimate!") is in fact the same as their messaging on victory ("You lost, we won, get over it.") It's the pursuit of power, only.

27.02.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

27.02.2026 08:50 πŸ‘ 2733 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 6

I find Northerners to be good, salt of the earth folk and I enjoy their company whenever I find myself as far up as Luton.

27.02.2026 08:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You know what, never mind. On closer inspection that's clearly Geoffrey Palmer aftet guesting on Benidorm.

26.02.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I like to pay exactly Β£4 for tops with 90s Rap Albums on them, so I tend to open AliExpress emails.

This was in today's. I wish Puzo had written an incident where Vito sat before a Citizen Kane like image of himself, an arm on the floor in front, and the suspicion he might be an auton ever present

26.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In honour of Rob Grant, here's the bonus episode @danielharper.bsky.social & I did with @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social on the Red Dwarf novel.

26.02.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Charming. Cheeky!

26.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Heebie Jeebies-Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
Heebie Jeebies-Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five YouTube video by DRAGUNOFF

cut in Chicago 100 years ago on this date: a wonderful, joyous, swinging record. Armstrong was far from being the first to scat, but he did it masterfully here. Nothing would be the same afterward for Armstrong, for jazz, for US pop music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmG...

26.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5

I gotta respect that you've done this. It's both totally natutal and very funny.

26.02.2026 18:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mail headline is prince of darkness up to old spin tricks

Mail headline is prince of darkness up to old spin tricks

It's weird, isn't it? That there was a man who enjoyed the closest possible proximity to power and everyone basically knew him as The Evil Guy. For years.

Who's that?

Oh, that's Mandy. We all call him The Evil Guy.

What? Why?

Tsk. Cos of all the evil, silly!

26.02.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Milo's been working for Ye since the first Presidential bid.

26.02.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember seeing them in Crystal Palace Park as a kid. This checks out so far.

26.02.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New CEO put in place purely to be accountable for the crap pulled by their predecessor? We call that a DΓΆnitzing.

24.02.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We buried my Uncle Jimmy a few weeks ago and its been so long since I'd hung with anyone from Norn Ireland, I froze at the usual greeting of "What about ye?"

"...What about my what?"

23.02.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm named after my Uncles, who were each named after Irish Republican martyrs. James (Connolly) Michael (Collins) Charles (Stewart Parnell) Murphy. I like 'em fine.

23.02.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Dark Tower is clearly huge for Stephen King and very few others

23.02.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Obsessed with that Andew photo. It's a man seeing every load bearing stone of the way he fundamentally understood the universe to exist ripped violently away. The only way I could achieve an expression like that is if I'd woken up on the Planet of the fucking Apes.

20.02.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Young man just cycled fast past me on the street, on the phone. Beautiful patois influenced working class accent.

"Pick you up at what three, fam? Three pm?"

(Beat)

"How do you not know what three pm is?!"

20.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How you doing with the century or so of semi purposeful misunderstanding of "wherefore" in Romeo & Juliet?

20.02.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Just think: guy got about twelve minutes on a show watched by tens of millions of Americans and now I can only find vague obituaries. Easy to see how we know fuck all about Shakespeare and Robert Johnson.

19.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0