LunchBreakInTheBookies
@lunchinthebookies.bsky.social
Government employee, details intentionally vague. Current affairs, toilet humour, Cheltenham Town FC and other bits of sport ... from the muddy banks of the Kennet
One observation on the Farage teenager racism story ... I am 15 years younger than him and was at secondary school in the early 1990s.
I grew up in a very white area but never saw or heard any open racism to the small handful of non-white kids in the playground.
I grew up in a very white area but never saw or heard any open racism to the small handful of non-white kids in the playground.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
One observation on the Farage teenager racism story ... I am 15 years younger than him and was at secondary school in the early 1990s.
I grew up in a very white area but never saw or heard any open racism to the small handful of non-white kids in the playground.
I grew up in a very white area but never saw or heard any open racism to the small handful of non-white kids in the playground.
Hello, I am a civil servant in a film. I am also old, grey and dull, and while my secret vice is something much more mundane and furtive (alcohol?, porn?) it still leaves me open to blackmail. However, I also have a dependability and stoicism which benefits the main characters at unexpected moments.
Hello, I'm a trustee in a film. I'm old, grey and dull, but it will emerge that I have a secret vice which means that I have been embezzling funds to fund my old, grey and dull lifestyle.
Hello, I am a writer in a film. I do most of my work at a tidy desk in my summer house overlooking a lake, although I am sometimes to be found at my impressive town house (it’s in Hampstead in the British version). My publisher is impatient with me but my agent seems to work for me alone.
July 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hello, I am a civil servant in a film. I am also old, grey and dull, and while my secret vice is something much more mundane and furtive (alcohol?, porn?) it still leaves me open to blackmail. However, I also have a dependability and stoicism which benefits the main characters at unexpected moments.
This is true and a great way to frame the key generational fairness point.
Full disclosure ... I am 46
Full disclosure ... I am 46
If you're around 35 or under in the UK, the government has never made anything better for you. Tuition fees brought in, stagnating wages from frozen tax brackets etc. An entire adult life of austerity with another decade ahead
July 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is true and a great way to frame the key generational fairness point.
Full disclosure ... I am 46
Full disclosure ... I am 46
I do not have any dog in the fight of Northern Irish politics but the Unionist bonfires are objectively a huge Health and Safety risk that would be banned without a second thought in any other part of the UK.
July 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I do not have any dog in the fight of Northern Irish politics but the Unionist bonfires are objectively a huge Health and Safety risk that would be banned without a second thought in any other part of the UK.
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My email from a few weeks ago. EU diplomats’ worst-case scenario was a “dirty Brexit” of Britain simply ignoring laws in a disorderly unwinding of membership. It would have been a bad idea - but one that, tellingly. never seemed to occur on this side of the channel
July 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My email from a few weeks ago. EU diplomats’ worst-case scenario was a “dirty Brexit” of Britain simply ignoring laws in a disorderly unwinding of membership. It would have been a bad idea - but one that, tellingly. never seemed to occur on this side of the channel
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Why hasn’t someone in Cerne Abbas started a fashion brand called Tommy Hill Figure?
July 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Why hasn’t someone in Cerne Abbas started a fashion brand called Tommy Hill Figure?
Made two minutes of small talk with Alexander Armstrong while our respective kids were on the same bouncy castle.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Made two minutes of small talk with Alexander Armstrong while our respective kids were on the same bouncy castle.
May 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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If Starmer was good at politics, he would have linked his fresh review of winter fuel payments with an expected dividend from the UK–EU Reset deal.
May 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If Starmer was good at politics, he would have linked his fresh review of winter fuel payments with an expected dividend from the UK–EU Reset deal.
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
One of the more baffling search engine outputs here ... doing a bit of research for a pub quiz round via Bing to find the UK's top-selling autobiographies ever, and I get
- Three random and very much not bestselling autobiographies
- A novel
- Some women's underwear
- Three random and very much not bestselling autobiographies
- A novel
- Some women's underwear
April 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
One of the more baffling search engine outputs here ... doing a bit of research for a pub quiz round via Bing to find the UK's top-selling autobiographies ever, and I get
- Three random and very much not bestselling autobiographies
- A novel
- Some women's underwear
- Three random and very much not bestselling autobiographies
- A novel
- Some women's underwear
This wasn't me but I heartily endorse the view that Stonehenge - globally significant ancient site and all that - is Britain's shittest day out.
There is nothing, but nothing, to do there. If you opened a bowling alley just over the down, you'd make a fortune.
There is nothing, but nothing, to do there. If you opened a bowling alley just over the down, you'd make a fortune.
April 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This wasn't me but I heartily endorse the view that Stonehenge - globally significant ancient site and all that - is Britain's shittest day out.
There is nothing, but nothing, to do there. If you opened a bowling alley just over the down, you'd make a fortune.
There is nothing, but nothing, to do there. If you opened a bowling alley just over the down, you'd make a fortune.
If Shawn Fain has fellow union leaders named Fiona Fall and Finn Gale then the historic Irish influence on US organised labour may be more enduring than we think ...
UAW chief Shawn Fain, on market turmoil:
“.. You know, half of Americans don't even have stock .. So when I hear all the crying about the stock market, this is just Wall Street. They're people that are already rich .. working class people are trying to survive ..”
www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...
“.. You know, half of Americans don't even have stock .. So when I hear all the crying about the stock market, this is just Wall Street. They're people that are already rich .. working class people are trying to survive ..”
www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...
April 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If Shawn Fain has fellow union leaders named Fiona Fall and Finn Gale then the historic Irish influence on US organised labour may be more enduring than we think ...
One thing about the Trump tariff mayhem ... it probably upgrades the chances of Trump being impeached by Congress. Upgrades them from substantively zero to still pretty slim, to be clear, but upgrades them nonetheless.
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One thing about the Trump tariff mayhem ... it probably upgrades the chances of Trump being impeached by Congress. Upgrades them from substantively zero to still pretty slim, to be clear, but upgrades them nonetheless.
A rare Cheltenham Town post ... but I have two thoughts on this story
April 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A rare Cheltenham Town post ... but I have two thoughts on this story
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Possibly the greatest local news story Im going to see this year, and it’s only March
March 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Possibly the greatest local news story Im going to see this year, and it’s only March
Tasty old eavesdropping tale here ...
Havong my own personal version of the Signal hearings rn.
The young finance dudebro nepo baby in front of me on the DLR right is on his phone loudly admitting to crimes.
Sounds like it's coming crashing down on him. Which is fun.
The young finance dudebro nepo baby in front of me on the DLR right is on his phone loudly admitting to crimes.
Sounds like it's coming crashing down on him. Which is fun.
March 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Tasty old eavesdropping tale here ...
This is hands down the best news story of the year so far and these two squaddies-on-the-piss have added richly to the gaiety of the nation at a time when it's sorely needed.
These lads made the terrible mistake of not clocking that Paddington has transmogrified from "popular children's character" to "religious icon who holds the true values of Britain in his likeness".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paddington Bear statue: RAF engineers admit damage
Two RAF engineers damaged the statue of the
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is hands down the best news story of the year so far and these two squaddies-on-the-piss have added richly to the gaiety of the nation at a time when it's sorely needed.
Evidently The Shamen were right all along...
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Evidently The Shamen were right all along...
Whenever anyone is mentioned as having passed on - "X has died", "Y is dead", etc. - responding with "and he'd be the first to admit it".
What's the worst joke you're committed to? Mine is to say 'thank god you're charging more for that. Every year, thousands die drilling those little holes' whenever website tries to upsell me more memory on some form of device. A joke that a) isn't funny b) no-one but me can hear.
March 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Whenever anyone is mentioned as having passed on - "X has died", "Y is dead", etc. - responding with "and he'd be the first to admit it".
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@samcoatessky.bsky.social was expressing his astonishment yesterday on Sky News that the PM had singled out one judicial review applicant to blame for the legal challenges bedevilling infrastructure projects.
Let’s fix that 😈
Here’s a story that starts with a man shut in his cellar.
Let’s fix that 😈
Here’s a story that starts with a man shut in his cellar.
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
@samcoatessky.bsky.social was expressing his astonishment yesterday on Sky News that the PM had singled out one judicial review applicant to blame for the legal challenges bedevilling infrastructure projects.
Let’s fix that 😈
Here’s a story that starts with a man shut in his cellar.
Let’s fix that 😈
Here’s a story that starts with a man shut in his cellar.
This is one of dullest and most superficial thoughts that anyone can have on Current Events but I have been struck by just how old Trump suddenly looks.
All the slap and hair weaves are now really failing to disguise the march of time. It's a properly old man doing all this mad and spiteful shit.
All the slap and hair weaves are now really failing to disguise the march of time. It's a properly old man doing all this mad and spiteful shit.
January 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
This is one of dullest and most superficial thoughts that anyone can have on Current Events but I have been struck by just how old Trump suddenly looks.
All the slap and hair weaves are now really failing to disguise the march of time. It's a properly old man doing all this mad and spiteful shit.
All the slap and hair weaves are now really failing to disguise the march of time. It's a properly old man doing all this mad and spiteful shit.