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gwsimmers.bsky.social
@gwsimmers.bsky.social
Books, comics, history (the older the better), movies, bit of telly, bit of art, some nice grub and perhaps a bevvy or two.

Aotearoa NZ.
Now that's what you call a temporal pair-o-docs.
December 28, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Surprised it didn't make the cut in the 'Ecky Thump' episode of The Goodies - no doubt bowing to the pressure of the Big Black Pudding lobbyists.
December 22, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Very high up in the Imperial Japanese Army, obviously.
December 20, 2024 at 11:05 PM
"Beam me down, Jamie!"
December 20, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Wait till you give "physiognomy" a whirl...
December 20, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Another NZer here, just wanted to add that 'half a scoop' is also an option here, though this varies from shop to shop. What you received may have been 1 scoop's worth, a basic dollop of chips, and some places are just more generous than others.
December 20, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Read the 2nd Excalibur omni earlier this year.

I've recently been on a grand tour of all my Judge Dredd Complete Case Files TPBs and currently on Vol 3 of Judge Anderson.

Also just finished Neil Hanson's The Dreadful Judgement, a terrifying blow-by-blow account of the Great Fire of London.
December 18, 2024 at 7:02 PM
A sandwich, a bag of chips... and two forks - sounds like the recipe for a stunning conclusion to an episode of MacGyver!
December 17, 2024 at 12:25 AM
"You Ought to be in Love" has been earworming since I posted it.
December 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale
December 11, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Variations:
The Goodies, "The End": Tim, Bill & Graeme are cemented-in thanks to loony Graeme's own Brutalist architectural designs.

Are You Being Served?, "Camping In": Transportation strike sees the staff sleeping in the dept store with gear from the camping dept.
December 5, 2024 at 12:22 PM
BBC's The Brittas Empire did a snowed-in Christmas special in 1994. Set in a staff reunion 20 years in the future, it recalls via flashback the titular Mr Brittas insisting on keeping his leisure centre open during a snowstorm on the off-chance a member of the public might want to use it.
December 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Cumulonimbun 🐰
November 27, 2024 at 9:37 AM
With great pie-weather comes great responsibility.
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
I have a similar power - if it is cold and overcast, I only have to think the phrase "oooh, good day for a mince pie for lunch" and the clouds will evaporate, the sun switches to high beam and the temperature shoots up to 21°C.
November 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Any of the women from Last of the Summer Wine would be formidable adversaries but the Spartacus and Crixus of the ensemble would be Nora and Ivy.

They won't put up with any nonsense from their shiftless husbands, they'll put up with nowt from any overgrown scampi.
November 25, 2024 at 9:45 AM