metterst.bsky.social
@metterst.bsky.social
Middle aged Brit, left of centre, despairing of the world's direction of travel
All my bins have been correctly marked, from the days when he was a grifter feathering his nest in the European Parliament.
January 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM
All my bins have been correctly marked, from the days when he was a grifter feathering his nest in the European Parliament.
My prediction before the match...wish I'd put a bet o it now!
January 11, 2026 at 2:10 PM
My prediction before the match...wish I'd put a bet o it now!
Disappointed no one asked if it was going "clip, clipperty clop on the stairs...."
January 10, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Disappointed no one asked if it was going "clip, clipperty clop on the stairs...."
What's really messed up is the modern day record producer's desire to make their medioca talented (but attractive) singers all sound like Alvin!
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
What's really messed up is the modern day record producer's desire to make their medioca talented (but attractive) singers all sound like Alvin!
It's never actually about nation-building or freeing people from oppression. Anyone checked on the current share price of Halliburton and their ilk?
January 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM
It's never actually about nation-building or freeing people from oppression. Anyone checked on the current share price of Halliburton and their ilk?
Looks like an ad for an early form of belgium mix.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Looks like an ad for an early form of belgium mix.
Wasn't Peter Firth also a Russian in "Letter ro Brezhnev"? Obviously where he learnt it...
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wasn't Peter Firth also a Russian in "Letter ro Brezhnev"? Obviously where he learnt it...
Where did he keep his Belgium mix?
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Where did he keep his Belgium mix?
I'd do a trial flight on 30th November. Any house with decorations up gets struck off, too.
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I'd do a trial flight on 30th November. Any house with decorations up gets struck off, too.
There is an excellent pod cast that mentioned the purloining of the radar systems. Along with totally ignoring an intelligence coup. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - WW2: How Britain Ignored the Mother of All Secrets - BBC Sounds
The story of one of the most extraordinary intelligence leaks in history.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
There is an excellent pod cast that mentioned the purloining of the radar systems. Along with totally ignoring an intelligence coup. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
It's a French engine, of course it shrugs
December 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It's a French engine, of course it shrugs
Read like the start of a Tom Holt novel, and there is nothing not to like about that.
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Read like the start of a Tom Holt novel, and there is nothing not to like about that.
Cheese and Skunk party, very late stage capitalism
December 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Cheese and Skunk party, very late stage capitalism
I would gone with zapf dingbats
December 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I would gone with zapf dingbats
Some weeks it feels like we aren't even concentrating on the league!
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Some weeks it feels like we aren't even concentrating on the league!
Does that mean that we have always been at war with Oceania now?
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Does that mean that we have always been at war with Oceania now?
Think of the grief a cyclist gets for doing that?!
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Think of the grief a cyclist gets for doing that?!
That's an unusual place for a Gormley
December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
That's an unusual place for a Gormley
Perhaps we should just leave the echr, then round up all the detractors, the trusses fhurages, waxey -lemons, murdochs, and their enablers. Lock them in a dark dungeon and throw away the key. We can then rejoin the extra and set about sorting out this country's real problems.
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Perhaps we should just leave the echr, then round up all the detractors, the trusses fhurages, waxey -lemons, murdochs, and their enablers. Lock them in a dark dungeon and throw away the key. We can then rejoin the extra and set about sorting out this country's real problems.
There is never a Golgafrinchan B Ark around when you need one!
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
There is never a Golgafrinchan B Ark around when you need one!
👍took me a second or II.
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
👍took me a second or II.
And why do they go to Brazil in monsoon season...every bloody year!
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
And why do they go to Brazil in monsoon season...every bloody year!
Another debt to be paid to Jackie Stewart and Prof. SID Watkins
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Another debt to be paid to Jackie Stewart and Prof. SID Watkins