Ms Smith
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Here for the humanity, good pictures, interesting science and culture stuff
Definitely better without so consider it a happy ending 🙂
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Definitely better without so consider it a happy ending 🙂
This episode brought back all those golden memories 😱🤬 #thearchers
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This episode brought back all those golden memories 😱🤬 #thearchers
Live-in partner dumped after his 'surprise' for me returning from trip away was that he'd hoovered the stairs
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Live-in partner dumped after his 'surprise' for me returning from trip away was that he'd hoovered the stairs
deactivated f***b**k last week - same rule applies
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
deactivated f***b**k last week - same rule applies
Read the last part as defecated
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Read the last part as defecated
"In 1986 Baudrillard was noting that in society “the scene and the mirror have given way to a screen and a network”. He predicted the use of the smartphone, foreseeing each person in control of a machine which would isolate them “in a position of perfect sovereignty”, like “an astronaut in a bubble”
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"In 1986 Baudrillard was noting that in society “the scene and the mirror have given way to a screen and a network”. He predicted the use of the smartphone, foreseeing each person in control of a machine which would isolate them “in a position of perfect sovereignty”, like “an astronaut in a bubble”
At the moment everything reads like a metaphor in which meaning might be retrofitted - in a desperate attempt to make it/anything make sense!
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
At the moment everything reads like a metaphor in which meaning might be retrofitted - in a desperate attempt to make it/anything make sense!
Tackling this has been set as a challenge to schools from the government, using the subtle art of fines. Causes are complicated though and often require deeper intervention, which requires funding, which isn't available so.....
October 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Tackling this has been set as a challenge to schools from the government, using the subtle art of fines. Causes are complicated though and often require deeper intervention, which requires funding, which isn't available so.....
'persistent school absence' since the schools were closed in the pandemic is proving difficult to recover from, I'm guessing this is what this part of the storyline is hinting at
October 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
'persistent school absence' since the schools were closed in the pandemic is proving difficult to recover from, I'm guessing this is what this part of the storyline is hinting at
I like live radio because I find myself listening to things I wouldn't pick from a menu, and then become enriched as a result.
But the schedules feel like podcast menus at the moment so I listen less, even to the programmes I enjoy.
But the schedules feel like podcast menus at the moment so I listen less, even to the programmes I enjoy.
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I like live radio because I find myself listening to things I wouldn't pick from a menu, and then become enriched as a result.
But the schedules feel like podcast menus at the moment so I listen less, even to the programmes I enjoy.
But the schedules feel like podcast menus at the moment so I listen less, even to the programmes I enjoy.
This is it, I'm sorry to hear that. Similarly, new radio drama feels very unusual. We've lost so much diversity, it's not much of a cultural eco system
October 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This is it, I'm sorry to hear that. Similarly, new radio drama feels very unusual. We've lost so much diversity, it's not much of a cultural eco system
I've always thought the same and don't disagree but I've always paid in principle for the radio; the world service, the programmes where I'm learning or inspired. Current schedules seem flooded with repeats of journos discussing being journos, with bonus podcasts of the same...
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I've always thought the same and don't disagree but I've always paid in principle for the radio; the world service, the programmes where I'm learning or inspired. Current schedules seem flooded with repeats of journos discussing being journos, with bonus podcasts of the same...
Switching from R4 to R6 to giving up on paying for a TV licence
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Switching from R4 to R6 to giving up on paying for a TV licence
I've been on the brink of this for ages, but finding it really hard to make the final cut. It's the illusion of being in touch with friends from past times - who I no longer communicate with anyway.
September 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've been on the brink of this for ages, but finding it really hard to make the final cut. It's the illusion of being in touch with friends from past times - who I no longer communicate with anyway.
On the brink of cancelling my TV licence but haven't (yet) - because it feels like that was always the previous government's intention 😭
September 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
On the brink of cancelling my TV licence but haven't (yet) - because it feels like that was always the previous government's intention 😭
Skip intro - Orange Alert Activate Rover
September 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Skip intro - Orange Alert Activate Rover
Very cool 😎 teenage progression from 1980s era Dennis the Menace fan club where you got a furry Gnasher Badge
September 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Very cool 😎 teenage progression from 1980s era Dennis the Menace fan club where you got a furry Gnasher Badge
TV perfection, all the little details; groovy font, scarves, umbrellas, telephones, paranoia, probably the most banging opening credits ever etc etc
(Apart from the hastily cobbled final episode......)
(Apart from the hastily cobbled final episode......)
September 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
TV perfection, all the little details; groovy font, scarves, umbrellas, telephones, paranoia, probably the most banging opening credits ever etc etc
(Apart from the hastily cobbled final episode......)
(Apart from the hastily cobbled final episode......)