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'Evidence' people were happier 48 years ago - before Thatcher came to power, since for the neoliberals 'happy' was a Bad Thing:
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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[It is raining]
A printed BBC Weather symbol (1975) showing a jolly cloud disgorging great gouts of rain. It is titled 'Rain' and exudes all the heartening certainty of a dismal British winter.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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[Windy]
A printed BBC TV Weather symbol (1975) showing a hurtling black circle marked '30' in white attached to a broad arrow, together closely resembling fiendish explosive artillery devices and engines of the 17th century as used at sea. It is titled 'Wind speed in mph and direction'.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The cry once oft heard at wOLmas-tide,'OH, FLIP IT'S FoR ce 10 From Navarone'
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Sign: For A Few Dollars More
November 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Sign: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
November 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Sign: Crows for Snacks
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Sign: Owls for Tea and Buns.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Rain symbol (BBC TV 1975): a three-lobed blob of cloud rows o'er the sky with oars of rain.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Hm.
An authentic scene of frontier life in the only authentic cowboy western ever made, the entirely accurate and deeply researched Blazing Saddles (1974). Men in big hats and chaps eat their beans around a campfire.
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Windy.
BBC TV weather symbol for wind (1975).
November 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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[Those 'over paid' drivers...]
BBC News live report: The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph. It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds.
November 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This is how I’m going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts.
[An owl]
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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It is raining.
A friendly rain cloud: BBC TV Weather graphic from 1975, in best post-Yellow Submarine bulbous-whimsy style, a stylised cloud loosing two Fat-Man bomb-shaped raindrops unmenacingly. Labelled 'Rain'.
November 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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'A little party never killed anyone'...
[Trump's latest 'Gatsby' themed party.]
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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A sign, cast iron, 'FORMERLY TOWN DITCH'.
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Hm. To Hades, then.
Clytemnestra by John Collier (1914).
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It is a bit windy.
Either a drawing of a cannonball topped by a broad arrow, which has rolled over, or a BBC TV Weather symbol from 1975 lettered 'Wind speed in mph and direction (30)'.
October 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
A road sign 'Twatt', a placename or a warning. (photo by Nicholas Mutton)
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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"A golden age of ties" (but no indication of how to tie them).
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The proprietor (clearly French) asks Mrs Blennerhasset (ditto) to call the police (also French) while two raffish individuals (possibly not French) eat buns and drink tea.
October 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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[It is raining and windy]
Jolly rain symbol (BBC TV 1970s). Even jollier jolly wind symbol (BBC TV 1970s).
October 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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A detail of a poster for the cinematic entertainment 'Dick' (1999), 'the unmaking of a president'.
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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October 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM