Chris Barraclough
avonduke.bsky.social
Chris Barraclough
@avonduke.bsky.social
The ultimate junk male.
I started to scroll through and then saw where Wayne's World and The Jerk were and stopped.

A Hard Day's Night is one of the best British films ever made. It has a few jokes in it. It's not a comedy.
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
'Shit' is shorter, better understood and more accurate than 'shonky.' 😏
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Perhaps, but he should be doing it from the ground, not London.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Liz Truss ratings are never not funny.
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The one that gets me is the football stadium in Milan.

It is constantly referred to as the San Siro. It's not. San Siro is the area it's in but the stadium is called the Giuseppe Meazza. I mean, you don't say "the Wembley" do you?
July 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
So not the ratio of death?*

*52:48
June 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Formula 1 engineering
Biosciences
Pubs
Creative industries
Relative absence of religion
Rule of law
Zebra crossings
Television and radio
Comedy
... and to paraphrase the famous ditty, many countries are still - despite everything - envious of our police.
June 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Lovely man, Claudio, and he's done an incredible job with Roma.

Met him once on a flight back from Anfield. Told him that I'd actually seen him play in 1979 against Juventus in Turin. He replied instantly "We lost 1-0. Causio 65th minute."
May 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Was it a terrier-ist incident.
April 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Maybe there should be 'noisy' carriages, like there are quiet ones, where anyone who wants to blast music or watch videos on full volume can do so in...er... peace?
April 24, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Villa were superb second half, but a touch of naivety right at the end of the first leg and at the beginning of this one did for them. Great game for the neutral, though.
April 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
John Lewis, shirley?
April 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
No-one should visit a country that doesn’t know what cheese is.
March 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Many years ago we had a similar issue with someone in the office. He used to bring left over curry in for his breakfast and eat it at his desk.

His colleagues found it hard to live with at 9am and had a quiet word with him. So he started taking it into the toilets to eat instead.
March 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Not true, though, is it?

Many UK firms are excellent (often in areas the Japanese are not), whilst many of our universities are badly run, and by a semi-feudal hierarchy offering a poor student experience.
February 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Spotlight, shirley?
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Spinal Tap has jazz nailed: youtu.be/PYSEQImJnNw?...
Spinal Tap Discusses Jazz
YouTube video by foodadventures
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February 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Enjoy! Something I've done in the past... London to Paris, Paris to Zurich (overnight stay), Zurich to Milan, Milan to Venice.

That way, you travel through the Alps during the day and can enjoy the incredible views as you wind through the passes.
February 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
As ever, Austin Powers was years ahead of his time on this: “Allow myself to introduce…. myself.”
January 30, 2025 at 8:53 AM
True. But Heseltine at the massive Remain demonstration talked powerfully about the EU bringing peace in Europe after he and his youthful contemporaries had witnessed the horrors of WW2.

It was the first time I'd heard a major figure present a truly emotional rationale for being part of the EU.
January 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
For me he was about the only individual who made a passionate appeal to Remain based on emotion, rather than trade statistics.

The Remain case was so badly made. Heseltine was the only one articulating it in language that Brexit voters might relate to.
January 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Too cowardly and unimaginative to target the oil companies directly, they think it's a clever idea to alienate an audience who were probably generally sympathetic to the cause.

I mean, how dumb and pathetic can you get?
January 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is very good knowledge.

The Squeeze song is a lot better, too.
January 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
British Rail was none of those things.

Massively inefficient, unpopular, dirty and starved of investment.

The part that went wrong this morning is already nationalised. LEt's not pretend changing ownership is going to change much.
December 6, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Network Rail is nationalised.
December 6, 2024 at 8:55 AM