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Journalist. Don't believe in cod.
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And yes, that last one is from the programme with the greatest cover maybe ever.......

#Aberdeen #AberdeenFC
February 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News
February 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
THIS HAS GOT EVERYTHING.
2nd February 1977). Hilda's hopes that changing their address from No 13 to No 12a might halt their run of bad luck is short lived. Stan manages to lock them out, which means curtains for Hilda's leg of lamb ....
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Having a bath at half four on a Sunday afternoon like I’m Barbara Cartland.
February 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.'

Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Another cracking night in front of the telly.
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The Germans must have a word for this.
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Remarkable that my lovely four year old already knows how to draw an anus at nursery. Money well spent.
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Happy 45th birthday to Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads, released as a single on this day in 1981. Here's David introducing that video
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Huge, if true.
January 29, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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w.b. yeats died on this day in 1939. if, instead of dying, he had begun to age again but in reverse, he would have reached his birth - i.e. become 0 years old - in 2012. Assuming that he then began ageing in the normal direction again, he would currently be 14 years old and preparing for his gcses
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
As an erstwhile DIY gig promoter my advice would be to get roaring drunk and withdraw all your wages out of the nearest cashpoint to cover costs and worry about it all tomorrow.
January 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
January 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
These people who get married on a Monday; absolute cheapskates.
January 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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And yet the short-sighted impresarios of the West End still refuse to show any interest in my proposals for 3-2-1: The Musical
The Traitors is coming to the stage, with a theatre production in London in 2027.

It will be written by John Finnemore (Cabin Pressure) and directed by Robert Hastie (Operation Mincemeat.)
January 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
And I thought *I* was shite at Fantasy Premier League.
#Braverman
January 26, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I wish politicians would stop saying "psychodrama" like they're bloody teenagers, or something.
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Really looking forward to Labour’s masterplan for winning the next election. Sure to be a good one!
January 25, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Got the big guns in for the Traitors final later on.
January 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Is this bellend at it again?
January 22, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Aberbyejarn? Is that in Wales?
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"I'm a 100% Scottish and 100% German". Thick orange wanker.
January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM