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
Reposted by Chris Rand
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
@simonmayo.bsky.social – Dr Feelgood the only band with a song having "Mayo" in the title? Not even the best song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdwF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdwF...
The Saw Doctors - Green and Red of Mayo - Live In Galway
YouTube video by sawdoctorsofficial
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@simonmayo.bsky.social – Dr Feelgood the only band with a song having "Mayo" in the title? Not even the best song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdwF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdwF...
Doctorow: “Meta’s depravity and greed in the face of truly horrifying fraud and scams on its platform is breathtaking.”
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Facebook’s fraud files
10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads.
doctorow.medium.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Doctorow: “Meta’s depravity and greed in the face of truly horrifying fraud and scams on its platform is breathtaking.”
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Reposted by Chris Rand
I’ve seen a few extraordinary set designs; U2 at the Sphere, McCartney’s channeling of intense collective memory, all sorts of heavy metal tomfoolery. Rammstein on fire on the stage of the O2.
This is better than all of those
This is better than all of those
Spoke to someone tonight who was at his 200th Half Man Half Biscuit gig. I suggested it must be something of a record, at which he nodded to the guy next to him, who coughed “221…”
Respect! #HMHB
Respect! #HMHB
November 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’ve seen a few extraordinary set designs; U2 at the Sphere, McCartney’s channeling of intense collective memory, all sorts of heavy metal tomfoolery. Rammstein on fire on the stage of the O2.
This is better than all of those
This is better than all of those
Spoke to someone tonight who was at his 200th Half Man Half Biscuit gig. I suggested it must be something of a record, at which he nodded to the guy next to him, who coughed “221…”
Respect! #HMHB
Respect! #HMHB
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Spoke to someone tonight who was at his 200th Half Man Half Biscuit gig. I suggested it must be something of a record, at which he nodded to the guy next to him, who coughed “221…”
Respect! #HMHB
Respect! #HMHB
£750 billion in £1 coins, laid flat and tightly packed, would cover about 357 square kilometres — roughly the size of the Isle of Wight. Just saying.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk reut.rs/4orsEZN
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
£750 billion in £1 coins, laid flat and tightly packed, would cover about 357 square kilometres — roughly the size of the Isle of Wight. Just saying.
Reposted by Chris Rand
Four decades on, I think I find Ted Chippington's Pebble Mill At One performance funnier than ever.
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
“Well, I find that quite shocking actually that you have to say that” – Ted Chippington vs Pebble Mill At One. | Pete Paphides
Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Four decades on, I think I find Ted Chippington's Pebble Mill At One performance funnier than ever.
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
www.patreon.com/posts/well-i...
Reposted by Chris Rand
I wonder who the winner will be 🤔
FIFA introduces the FIFA Peace Prize - an award to recognise exceptional actions for peace and unity
FIFA has announced the introduction of the “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” to reward individuals who have taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace and by doing so have united people across the world.
inside.fifa.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wonder who the winner will be 🤔
Reposted by Chris Rand
Thames Television weatherman Francis Wilson did the dry run for Parklife in 1979
youtu.be/zo6qNsxmqJY?...
youtu.be/zo6qNsxmqJY?...
September 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Thames Television weatherman Francis Wilson did the dry run for Parklife in 1979
youtu.be/zo6qNsxmqJY?...
youtu.be/zo6qNsxmqJY?...
Reposted by Chris Rand
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
Reposted by Chris Rand
The rebrand really is somehow even worse in the flesh, is someone doing some elaborate short selling / asset stripping scam here.
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The rebrand really is somehow even worse in the flesh, is someone doing some elaborate short selling / asset stripping scam here.
Reposted by Chris Rand
Anybody who has spent any time as an editor will be familiar with The Editors' Curse. That's the thing where any typo, no matter how fleeting, leaps out and demands attention. Tonight I'm watching an old episode of Andromeda, and this is on the opening credits. I'm embarrassed for Eric.
November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Anybody who has spent any time as an editor will be familiar with The Editors' Curse. That's the thing where any typo, no matter how fleeting, leaps out and demands attention. Tonight I'm watching an old episode of Andromeda, and this is on the opening credits. I'm embarrassed for Eric.
Back at the Cambridge Corn Exchange? With my reputation? 🤗
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Back at the Cambridge Corn Exchange? With my reputation? 🤗
Reposted by Chris Rand
It’s the only American sport I watch. Americans can ruin anything with money and hyperbole, but despite that, baseball just about retains the occasional sighting of energetic innocence and ingenuity. It’s still about the talented ‘everyman’ metaphorically and literally playing the angles.
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
It’s the only American sport I watch. Americans can ruin anything with money and hyperbole, but despite that, baseball just about retains the occasional sighting of energetic innocence and ingenuity. It’s still about the talented ‘everyman’ metaphorically and literally playing the angles.
Reposted by Chris Rand
The World Series did make me like the USA a bit more, there was quite a lot of the energy that Walt Whitman describes in his line about it being "America's game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere."
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The World Series did make me like the USA a bit more, there was quite a lot of the energy that Walt Whitman describes in his line about it being "America's game; it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere."
"This is just one of the more brazen attempts to sidestep a new law requiring restaurants to pass tips to their staff in full. No matter what senior management call it, customers will assume that this charge is a tip that should go to workers but it won’t..."
www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...
www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...
Goodbye service charge, hello 'admin fee'
Plus: The difficulty of sourcing live snails for a London restaurant and a tribute to one of London's leading American candy shops.
www.londoncentric.media
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"This is just one of the more brazen attempts to sidestep a new law requiring restaurants to pass tips to their staff in full. No matter what senior management call it, customers will assume that this charge is a tip that should go to workers but it won’t..."
www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...
www.londoncentric.media/p/admin-char...
Whenever something like a sports result makes me grumpy, I restore my faith in the joy of humanity and Being British by watching Crackerjack do "Making Plans For Nigel". Always, always worth a rewatch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Lr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Lr...
Crackerjack team take on XTC's Making Plans For Nigel
YouTube video by Paul Putner
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Whenever something like a sports result makes me grumpy, I restore my faith in the joy of humanity and Being British by watching Crackerjack do "Making Plans For Nigel". Always, always worth a rewatch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Lr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Lr...
Reposted by Chris Rand
Beer named after a Half Man Half Biscuit song demands to be drank.
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Beer named after a Half Man Half Biscuit song demands to be drank.
Reposted by Chris Rand
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
1
NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
3
NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
4
MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
5
NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
7
NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
10
MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
11
[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
12
[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreib7lt736b6rmzinml5s7kxjdaapo2a36xp4d4lssypimx3taqicdm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Reposted by Chris Rand
Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.
Reposted by Chris Rand
I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
Reposted by Chris Rand
Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Was just reading about the history of BST, clocks changing etc, and discovered that the dude who campaigned for it in the early 20th century, a builder called William Willett, is the great-great grandfather of Chris Martin from Coldplay, which is what the song “Clocks” should be about, but isn’t
Reposted by Chris Rand
The Guardian report that All Tech is Amazing
October 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The Guardian report that All Tech is Amazing
Reposted by Chris Rand
I normally can’t stand quirky toilet signs, but seeing as this is The Carpenters Arms in Cambridge, I will allow it.
January 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I normally can’t stand quirky toilet signs, but seeing as this is The Carpenters Arms in Cambridge, I will allow it.