Richard J
@preachypreach.bsky.social
Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
Tangentially remembering my favourite page on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_m...
Heavy metal genres - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Tangentially remembering my favourite page on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_m...
Being called a “hoity-toity cunt” when I patiently explained at 1030pm that S’s flatmate would not mysteriously appear not matter how much the neighbour shouted and swore at S and I asked them to stop
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Being called a “hoity-toity cunt” when I patiently explained at 1030pm that S’s flatmate would not mysteriously appear not matter how much the neighbour shouted and swore at S and I asked them to stop
The MIL has bought the younger child possibly the largest squishmallow I’ve ever seen
December 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The MIL has bought the younger child possibly the largest squishmallow I’ve ever seen
Annual books what I read list in the year and liked list top ten forthcoming by year end, but just gathering the raw data having started logging as I go along.
(why yes, it wasn't the busiest year at work for a whole variety of reasons)
(why yes, it wasn't the busiest year at work for a whole variety of reasons)
December 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Annual books what I read list in the year and liked list top ten forthcoming by year end, but just gathering the raw data having started logging as I go along.
(why yes, it wasn't the busiest year at work for a whole variety of reasons)
(why yes, it wasn't the busiest year at work for a whole variety of reasons)
Only the link between Rokossovsky and George Washington left to get
An extremely nerdy Christmas quiz I did for the toy soldiers chat group I’m in for those similarly inclined looking to fire up the brain cells on Boxing Day
What links?
What links?
December 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Only the link between Rokossovsky and George Washington left to get
An extremely nerdy Christmas quiz I did for the toy soldiers chat group I’m in for those similarly inclined looking to fire up the brain cells on Boxing Day
What links?
What links?
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
An extremely nerdy Christmas quiz I did for the toy soldiers chat group I’m in for those similarly inclined looking to fire up the brain cells on Boxing Day
What links?
What links?
Introduced the kids to Die Hard. Somehow I’d previously missed the gay subtext to the ending
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Introduced the kids to Die Hard. Somehow I’d previously missed the gay subtext to the ending
Every so often I see a post that would be literally incomprehensible to anybody from before the millennium (not a criticism); even the idea that Korea could have fans worldwide alone would feel very odd
korean men becoming objectified by a worldwide wave of koreaboos is the funniest possible thing that could have happened to the korean incel movement
December 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Every so often I see a post that would be literally incomprehensible to anybody from before the millennium (not a criticism); even the idea that Korea could have fans worldwide alone would feel very odd
Forerib of beef with trimmings done. <collapses onto sofa>
December 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Forerib of beef with trimmings done. <collapses onto sofa>
Listening to 70s alternative stuff while making dinner and well, Hong Kong Garden *tries* to be anti-racist doesn’t it
December 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Listening to 70s alternative stuff while making dinner and well, Hong Kong Garden *tries* to be anti-racist doesn’t it
Reading the 2014 updated version of Kate Fox’s Watching the English and hello to my fellow English emotional incontinents
December 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reading the 2014 updated version of Kate Fox’s Watching the English and hello to my fellow English emotional incontinents
Not only does Floella Benjamin look amazing it’s nice to have a British 70s/80s TV presenter where you don’t open their Wikipedia page with a great deal of trepidation
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Not only does Floella Benjamin look amazing it’s nice to have a British 70s/80s TV presenter where you don’t open their Wikipedia page with a great deal of trepidation
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Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️
December 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Merry Christmas everyone, especially my #Playschool Babies. Be kind, considerate and compassionate as the festive season continues. Spread joy everywhere you go and remember the best gift you can give is unconditional love ❤️🎄❤️
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[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
The 14 year old had literally never seen alone of these before and was amazed when I pulled it to its full length
December 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The 14 year old had literally never seen alone of these before and was amazed when I pulled it to its full length
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My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day:
Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu
Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu
December 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day:
Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu
Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu
Sympathies to the people working in the porters lodges of two particular Oxbridge colleges, who must spend today wincing every time the phone rings
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sympathies to the people working in the porters lodges of two particular Oxbridge colleges, who must spend today wincing every time the phone rings
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Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
Merry Christmas and contemplating what motivated my beloved to buy the younger child a small goat toy that screams
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas and contemplating what motivated my beloved to buy the younger child a small goat toy that screams
Also, I think almost everyone in the country can unite around “an excuse to take at least a week off work when you’ve got three public holidays in a two week period is good”
No way to tell, but I can never work out if 'Christmas being Christian in the States' is downstream of 'Thanksgiving exists', 'there are many more actual Christians rather than Well I Think You Go Somewhere Nice When You Die, Hopefully Christians', etc. etc.
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Also, I think almost everyone in the country can unite around “an excuse to take at least a week off work when you’ve got three public holidays in a two week period is good”
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It's over, my younger child has been given the best t-shirt. No further t-shirts are necessary
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's over, my younger child has been given the best t-shirt. No further t-shirts are necessary
Wait, are wine gums something we’ve exported to the petrol stations of Europe?
December 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Wait, are wine gums something we’ve exported to the petrol stations of Europe?
Reading The Go-Between over the. break, and this, pace Orwell’s comments in The Road to Wigan Pier, reminds me that one massive class-signifier has quietly disappeared over the last century (the class system itself has not, sadly)
December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reading The Go-Between over the. break, and this, pace Orwell’s comments in The Road to Wigan Pier, reminds me that one massive class-signifier has quietly disappeared over the last century (the class system itself has not, sadly)
“ I don’t really need an axe but it is pretty”
“It’s an axe, I’m not sure nice and pretty go together and anyway what do you need an axe for?”
I am resisting, but you show this to a Neolithic man and their head would explode
“It’s an axe, I’m not sure nice and pretty go together and anyway what do you need an axe for?”
I am resisting, but you show this to a Neolithic man and their head would explode
December 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“ I don’t really need an axe but it is pretty”
“It’s an axe, I’m not sure nice and pretty go together and anyway what do you need an axe for?”
I am resisting, but you show this to a Neolithic man and their head would explode
“It’s an axe, I’m not sure nice and pretty go together and anyway what do you need an axe for?”
I am resisting, but you show this to a Neolithic man and their head would explode
This, to me, is the real Britain
December 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This, to me, is the real Britain