Chris Rand
@chrisrand.com
Ipswich, England.
"In a Venn Diagram of one" – The Guardian.
• Curator of the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project. #hmhb
• Supporter of Ipswich Town FC. #itfc
• Expect to see mainly stuff that amused me.
https://chrisrand.com
"In a Venn Diagram of one" – The Guardian.
• Curator of the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project. #hmhb
• Supporter of Ipswich Town FC. #itfc
• Expect to see mainly stuff that amused me.
https://chrisrand.com
British TV is obsessed with US comedy. Strange.
BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
December 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
British TV is obsessed with US comedy. Strange.
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The most streamed 80s songs. Any theories as to why Madonna has dropped so sharply off the cultural radar? (Cyndi Lauper, by contrast, has two entries)
December 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The most streamed 80s songs. Any theories as to why Madonna has dropped so sharply off the cultural radar? (Cyndi Lauper, by contrast, has two entries)
Made it! 🎉🥳 – one hundred newly released films watched in a calendar year for the first time! Nine got a five-star rating. Might try to do this every year now.
Full list: boxd.it/Cf4AA/detail
Full list: boxd.it/Cf4AA/detail
My 2025 Film Report
All the newly-released films I’ve seen in 2025.
boxd.it
December 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Made it! 🎉🥳 – one hundred newly released films watched in a calendar year for the first time! Nine got a five-star rating. Might try to do this every year now.
Full list: boxd.it/Cf4AA/detail
Full list: boxd.it/Cf4AA/detail
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The intercrimbonum
December 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The intercrimbonum
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Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...
Kate Bush (BEST MASTER) 1979 Christmas BBC TV Special #katebush #christmas #petergabriel
YouTube video by Classic Rock Facts
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December 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Making sure everyone knows that Kate Bush's 1979 Christmas special is available to stream on YouTube and it's VERY worth your time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BP...
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It's starting... bsky.app/hashtag/Duve...
bsky.app
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It's starting... bsky.app/hashtag/Duve...
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This begs so many questions... Not least: "who is Dipstick? And why does he only do tyres and exhausts? 🧐🤔
December 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This begs so many questions... Not least: "who is Dipstick? And why does he only do tyres and exhausts? 🧐🤔
Always one of the funniest things about Christmas. Follow Rhodri and the #DuvetKnowItsChristmas tag on Christmas Eve night for photos of hilarious holiday sleeping arrangements and even better captions. 🍿
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Always one of the funniest things about Christmas. Follow Rhodri and the #DuvetKnowItsChristmas tag on Christmas Eve night for photos of hilarious holiday sleeping arrangements and even better captions. 🍿
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A little list of some of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A little list of some of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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Is there anybody out there who hasn’t got their Half Man Half Biscuit Map yet?
No. I thought not. xx
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No. I thought not. xx
www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Is there anybody out there who hasn’t got their Half Man Half Biscuit Map yet?
No. I thought not. xx
www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
No. I thought not. xx
www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
No, Guardian, no. You can argue that using “gift” as a verb is becoming more common usage, but we’re still not in Kansas and it just makes you look tragic.
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
No, Guardian, no. You can argue that using “gift” as a verb is becoming more common usage, but we’re still not in Kansas and it just makes you look tragic.
Australia’s ban on social media use for under-16s comes into force today. It can only be a good thing. Of course it’s easy to circumvent, but it’s about not getting the next generation addicted to it in the first place. If most kids aren’t on it, there’s no critical mass and the rest won’t bother.
December 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Australia’s ban on social media use for under-16s comes into force today. It can only be a good thing. Of course it’s easy to circumvent, but it’s about not getting the next generation addicted to it in the first place. If most kids aren’t on it, there’s no critical mass and the rest won’t bother.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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I get that it’s quite satisfying to tell other people what music you’ve been listening to, but why wait for Spotify to tell you to do so?
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I get that it’s quite satisfying to tell other people what music you’ve been listening to, but why wait for Spotify to tell you to do so?
Most unfortunate consequence of being 10 ½ hrs ahead of most people on my timeline? I’ve just failed #Mariahgeddon before you’ve even got up. Rundle Mall, Adelaide, 16:21, 1/12/25. 😡
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Most unfortunate consequence of being 10 ½ hrs ahead of most people on my timeline? I’ve just failed #Mariahgeddon before you’ve even got up. Rundle Mall, Adelaide, 16:21, 1/12/25. 😡
To all traditionalists who celebrate it, happy Unthanksgiving.
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
To all traditionalists who celebrate it, happy Unthanksgiving.
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Well done Scotland.
The Tartan Army vs ICE on the streets of World Cup America next summer is going to be box office.
American blowhards used to beating up kids are about to face having the piss mercilessly taken out of them by men in skirts. Lovely stuff.
The Tartan Army vs ICE on the streets of World Cup America next summer is going to be box office.
American blowhards used to beating up kids are about to face having the piss mercilessly taken out of them by men in skirts. Lovely stuff.
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Well done Scotland.
The Tartan Army vs ICE on the streets of World Cup America next summer is going to be box office.
American blowhards used to beating up kids are about to face having the piss mercilessly taken out of them by men in skirts. Lovely stuff.
The Tartan Army vs ICE on the streets of World Cup America next summer is going to be box office.
American blowhards used to beating up kids are about to face having the piss mercilessly taken out of them by men in skirts. Lovely stuff.
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The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The BBC Scotland commentary for Kenny McLean’s halfway line goal is glorious. Stuff of dreams. 🔥
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
Congratulations #Scotland, see you at the World Cup.
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‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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Analysis from Cambridge Lib Dem city councillor (their spokes on Finance and Resources.) Interesting. (Seriously.)
Well... with my first attempt at a Youtube video, I've also had my first complete rewrite of a script after recording:
youtu.be/CxqwNNaTCCk
youtu.be/CxqwNNaTCCk
Rachel Reeves and the faster budget U-turn in history?
YouTube video by Jamie from Accounts
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November 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Analysis from Cambridge Lib Dem city councillor (their spokes on Finance and Resources.) Interesting. (Seriously.)
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If your church clock isn't working, then I suppose is-there-honey-still-for-tea-o'clock is quite a good time to leave it set to
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If your church clock isn't working, then I suppose is-there-honey-still-for-tea-o'clock is quite a good time to leave it set to
Just subscribe to this and all Twitter screens posted in your timeline get blissfully hidden. Works beautifully for me.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Just subscribe to this and all Twitter screens posted in your timeline get blissfully hidden. Works beautifully for me.
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Thank goodness. Every election, it's been a complete toss-up whether the P&CC that uninterested electors voted in (solely on the basis of rosette colour) was someone who had any interest or ability in the role or – more likely – some time-serving party clown who could finally be given a Proper Job.
BREAKING Home Office is about to announce that police and crime commissioners are to be scrapped..
Established in 2012 by Theresa May, Labour has never been a fan of the PCC system…they’ll be replaced in 2028 by policing mayors & local policing boards ..
Established in 2012 by Theresa May, Labour has never been a fan of the PCC system…they’ll be replaced in 2028 by policing mayors & local policing boards ..
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Thank goodness. Every election, it's been a complete toss-up whether the P&CC that uninterested electors voted in (solely on the basis of rosette colour) was someone who had any interest or ability in the role or – more likely – some time-serving party clown who could finally be given a Proper Job.
Locomotive on the A14.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Locomotive on the A14.