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chthonicionic.bsky.social Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 23h
My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.
A drill shaped thing wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper Me holding a toblerone taped to a bottle of Baileys
December 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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causticcovercritic.bsky.social Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 10d
From William Donaldson's GREAT DISASTERS OF THE STAGE:
When Orson Welles gave his one-man show of Shakespearean readings in Phoenix, Arizona, only five people turned up. 'Allow me to introduce myself,' said Mr Welles. 'I am an actor, a writer, a director, of both films and plays, an architect, a painter, a stage designer, a brilliant cook, an expert on the corrida, a conjuror, a collector, a connoisseur, an enfant terrible and an authority on modern art. How come there are so many of me, and so few of you?' Then he walked off. The Least Successful Theatrical Dinner Party Nicol Williamson was invited to dinner by Kenneth Tynan. He turned up an hour early, catching his hosts unbathed and unchanged. He volunteered to pass the time hoovering the floor. Then he asked, 'Who else is coming?' Tynan told him that one of the guests was Jonathan Miller. 'Biggest phoney in London,' said Williamson crisply. 'Who else?' Tynan told him that there would be a pretty young actress who had been having an affair with Roman Polanski. When the guests arrived, Williamson aborted polite conver-sation by producing an LP of the Mamas and Papas and playing it at full volume. In the dining-room Williamson munched in silence before addressing his first remark to the pretty young actress. Placing his left hand on his right bicep and making a swift upward jab with a clenched right fist, he said, 'So you're the girl who was being fucked by Polanski.' 'Wrong, Mr Williamson,' she said. 'I am being fucked by Polanski.' This exchange seemed to annoy Williamson, and a few minutes later he got up and left the room. There was a deafen-ing five-minute blast of The Mamas and the Papas, then he marched out, slamming the front door. 'I enjoy baboons,' said Dr Miller, 'but preferably in zoos.' In the early seventies, Sir Richard Attenborough, as he then wasn't, arranged a charity performance in a church hall in aid of the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre. After the show some thirty of our most dependable middle-order mimes Frank Windsor, Stratford Johns, Geoffrey Keen, Rupert Davies, Barry Foster, Gerald Harper, Jon Pertwee, Pat Phoenix, Una Stubbs, etc - much pleased with their efforts and swapping anecdotes, left together by a side-door and walked into a septic tank. Mr George Maguire, who had installed twenty temporary lavatories for the occasion, said: 'That's show business.' Invited to dinner at Kensington Palace, Michael Holroyd was warned that Princess Margaret liked to set the table on a roar with her skilful impressions. At her first attempt, the celebrated biographer screamed with laughter and banged the table. She had been speaking in her normal voice.
December 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social spooling through this thread of Gary Larson cartoons and this one made me laugh so much thinking about James and his sleep procrastination…!
December 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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zeets.bsky.social Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 17d
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24d
Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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@jehc1403.bsky.social @cathhirons.bsky.social NOPE
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · Nov 8
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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nickkapur.bsky.social Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · Nov 2
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social oooh just seeing the chat about James’s Lego!!
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social OMG ask Durham if this is true!
fenken.bsky.social Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social · Oct 28
Today's piece of #PointlessPedantry is that these are not cannon. Artillery pieces on ships are known as guns (unless they are C17 42 pounders, when gun calibres were identified by name, not weight of shot).

The fact that these fire roundshot, not cannon balls can wait for another day.
View looking aft along the port side of the upper deck of HMS Victory, showing a line of 12 pounder Blomefield-pattern guns (actually fibreglass replicas - the deck cannot take the weight any more).
October 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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rhodri.biz Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · Oct 28
*Optometrist hands person glasses* - “now, you wear them glasses AND YOU KEEP THEM GLASSES”
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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beebrookshire.bsky.social Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · Oct 22
I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.
A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · Oct 5
Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.

joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
joelmorris.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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andrewmale.bsky.social Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Aug 19
Pretty sure I met Tweed Shacket and Patriot Gilet during my year in Oxford doing a PGCE. They were at All Souls and had just started a small "fun" business selling North African blankets at music festivals. They now both work for MI6.
wadeywade.bsky.social Ian Wade @wadeywade.bsky.social · Aug 19
Hahaha oh fuck off
August 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social oooh!
taskmaster.tv Taskmaster @taskmaster.tv · Aug 27
Klaxon! Taskmaster Season 20 is nearly here.

A fresh batch of victims - Ania Magliano, Maisie Adam, Reece Shearsmith, Phil Ellis and Sanjeev Bhaskar - take on the Taskmaster from Thurs 11th Sep at 9pm BST on Channel 4 and an hour later on YouTube for viewers around the world.
The Taskmaster S20 task in an American Gothic themed field. From L-R: Maisie Adam, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Alex Horne, Greg Davies, Phil Ellis, Ania Magliano and Reece Shearsmith.
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social 😆 is this the stuff I got you??
adhdogs.bsky.social mickey has fun @adhdogs.bsky.social · Aug 19
we stand for the flag in this house
August 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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doctorwibble.bsky.social Kate Prior @doctorwibble.bsky.social · Aug 6
It’s changeover day when the doctors start/move jobs, so here’s a belated reminder of this gem from @drphiliplee1.bsky.social #MedSky
August 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social RN thread (small one!)
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Aug 5
As I said on Twitter, back in the day, WW1 / WW2 is just an endless list of German battleships called something like the "Admiral Ripper von Murderboat" getting the shit kicked out of it by HMS Sunflower.
August 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social “Raines Shamburger”
nephstar.bsky.social Not a protein analysis system @nephstar.bsky.social · Jul 30
The lacrosse player names discourse is also amazing. From www.reddit.com/r/NameNerdCi...
July 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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techpriest.bsky.social Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · Jul 4
There will come a day when the NHS does not require me to complete "mandatory eLearning" to prove I can use the same ePrescribing system I have used for half a decade across multiple employers simply because I am moving down the road to a new workplace...

...it is not this day
July 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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geftokingmongoose.bsky.social Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · Jul 3
bluesky can we get this in the next update
A crop of the bluesky reply settings page showing two boxes. One labeled "everybody" with it checked and the one next to it labeled "only funny people"
July 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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@cathhirons.bsky.social @jehc1403.bsky.social I find this incredibly pleasing
levparikian.bsky.social Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · Jul 3
Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 2. NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS. RILEろ。 THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC. (REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA) RULE I. NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULES. THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER. ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT. RULE 7. ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION. RULE 8. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9. THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.
July 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM