@neilscotting.bsky.social
Floppy 😂
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Floppy 😂
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To cheer everyone up, here is an anecdote about when David Bowie was filming the video for Ashes to Ashes.
June 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
To cheer everyone up, here is an anecdote about when David Bowie was filming the video for Ashes to Ashes.
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63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell
Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]
Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
8% of people think it fell
Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]
Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
August 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell
Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]
Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
8% of people think it fell
Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]
Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
Agile development in a nutshell
August 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Agile development in a nutshell
@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social @simonmayo.bsky.social @kermodemovie.bsky.social Can you guys raise awareness on the pod?
The deliberate destruction of Picturehouse Central - London’s best cinema and social space - by its rapacious landlords (the same guys threatening the Prince Charles) is an ongoing disgrace. So upsetting to witness. This place used to be thronged with people working and chatting and socialising.
August 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social @simonmayo.bsky.social @kermodemovie.bsky.social Can you guys raise awareness on the pod?
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A mate on WhatsApp shared this meme and it’s utterly sublime.
I’m a Wednesdayite and what’s happening at Hillsborough is an utter shitshow.
I’m a Wednesdayite and what’s happening at Hillsborough is an utter shitshow.
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A mate on WhatsApp shared this meme and it’s utterly sublime.
I’m a Wednesdayite and what’s happening at Hillsborough is an utter shitshow.
I’m a Wednesdayite and what’s happening at Hillsborough is an utter shitshow.
@coeliacuk.bsky.social are you going to write to correct Kemi Badenoch? We can’t even get gluten free bread on prescription, yet she seems to think we all get free cars! x.com/BBCPolitics/...
x.com
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
@coeliacuk.bsky.social are you going to write to correct Kemi Badenoch? We can’t even get gluten free bread on prescription, yet she seems to think we all get free cars! x.com/BBCPolitics/...
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Guys I need to share this Amazon review of Veet Cream cos I don’t know who to talk to about it to…
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Guys I need to share this Amazon review of Veet Cream cos I don’t know who to talk to about it to…
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Happy World Porcupine Day! For those wondering what a baby porcupine is called, it’s a porcupette. For those wondering what a group of porcupines is called, it’s a prickle. And for those wondering what porcupines sound like, turn up your volume for this smol guy called Kemosabe nomming on a banana…
July 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy World Porcupine Day! For those wondering what a baby porcupine is called, it’s a porcupette. For those wondering what a group of porcupines is called, it’s a prickle. And for those wondering what porcupines sound like, turn up your volume for this smol guy called Kemosabe nomming on a banana…
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Timothy Spall looks well.
June 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Timothy Spall looks well.
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Sheffield Wednesday are dying, either slowly or quickly. A change of ownership might be the only way to save them. Nothing else will do.
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Sheffield Wednesday fans have suffered enough - now there is only one solution
This grand old football club is in full-blown crisis mode
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June 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Sheffield Wednesday are dying, either slowly or quickly. A change of ownership might be the only way to save them. Nothing else will do.
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Interesting visit to Weston Park to see @petemckee.bsky.social in action for the 400 crisp butties installation
June 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Interesting visit to Weston Park to see @petemckee.bsky.social in action for the 400 crisp butties installation
@kermodemovie.bsky.social @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social Time for a best of Mel Brooks?
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@kermodemovie.bsky.social @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social Time for a best of Mel Brooks?
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Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?
May 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?
April 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Myth: Coeliac disease is just a stomach issue.
Reality: Oh no, it’s an all-inclusive nightmare—joints, skin, brain fog, and a VIP pass to exhaustion. #glutenfree
Reality: Oh no, it’s an all-inclusive nightmare—joints, skin, brain fog, and a VIP pass to exhaustion. #glutenfree
February 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Myth: Coeliac disease is just a stomach issue.
Reality: Oh no, it’s an all-inclusive nightmare—joints, skin, brain fog, and a VIP pass to exhaustion. #glutenfree
Reality: Oh no, it’s an all-inclusive nightmare—joints, skin, brain fog, and a VIP pass to exhaustion. #glutenfree
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Henderson’s Relish.
What in Britain is there to be proud of?
February 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Henderson’s Relish.
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13,000 signatures and counting – thank you! Our petition to protect gluten free prescriptions for those with coeliac disease has passed a key milestone. Next month, we’ll deliver it to Number 10. Haven’t signed yet? There’s still time to make a difference: www.change.org/p/act-now-to...
February 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
13,000 signatures and counting – thank you! Our petition to protect gluten free prescriptions for those with coeliac disease has passed a key milestone. Next month, we’ll deliver it to Number 10. Haven’t signed yet? There’s still time to make a difference: www.change.org/p/act-now-to...
34 years ago 🤪
Released on this day in 1991.
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Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
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February 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
34 years ago 🤪
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I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike
January 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike