The Dreaded Lurgy
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Cobblers. Sometimes found in Ecclefechan.
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This alone would be worth a year's licence fee.
the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This alone would be worth a year's licence fee.
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It was a Drake and Stormzy night.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It was a Drake and Stormzy night.
AC*AB
*Cats
*Cats
[interrogation room]
good cop: *sets coffee and smokes on table* here you go
suspect: thank you
cat cop: *slowly pushes coffee and smokes off table*
good cop: *sets coffee and smokes on table* here you go
suspect: thank you
cat cop: *slowly pushes coffee and smokes off table*
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
AC*AB
*Cats
*Cats
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This one made me laugh
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This one made me laugh
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Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has been branded a ‘shitshow’ by architects following a series of reported scandals at the Scottish government heritage body
‘It’s a shitshow’: Scottish heritage body engulfed by controversy
‘It’s a shitshow’: Scottish heritage body engulfed by controversy
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has been branded a ‘shitshow’ by architects following a series of reported scandals at the Scottish government heritage body
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Dog not included
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Dog not included
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Rosoman was a fireman in the Blitz. The men in the painting died. It haunted him. He painted the scene many times.
He was later an important teacher; David Hockney was one of his students. He died aged 98 in 2012.
He was later an important teacher; David Hockney was one of his students. He died aged 98 in 2012.
'A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4'
(1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman
(Imperial War Museums)
(1940) by Leonard Henry Rosoman
(Imperial War Museums)
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Rosoman was a fireman in the Blitz. The men in the painting died. It haunted him. He painted the scene many times.
He was later an important teacher; David Hockney was one of his students. He died aged 98 in 2012.
He was later an important teacher; David Hockney was one of his students. He died aged 98 in 2012.
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So that’s how those big balls from The Prisoner grow
Carnivorous 'death-ball' among odd deep-sea finds. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge is team's oddest deep-sea find
The unusual creature lurks more than two miles (3.2km) deep in a trench in the Southern Ocean.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
So that’s how those big balls from The Prisoner grow
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no matter what happens in this world i will never stop nurturing my scalp with tea tree botanicals
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
no matter what happens in this world i will never stop nurturing my scalp with tea tree botanicals
I'd forgotten about this
Every morning at 6am, he’s woken up by the radio playing this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN86...
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'd forgotten about this
No doubt the wider Anglican communion is *delighted* that the CoE has £40M to spend on renovating Lambeth Palace.
Stay relevant, always!
Stay relevant, always!
Ahead of becoming the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally will move into a newly completed £40m renovation of Lambeth Palace, its first major restoration in 70 years.
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buff.ly/0MSnUqG
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
No doubt the wider Anglican communion is *delighted* that the CoE has £40M to spend on renovating Lambeth Palace.
Stay relevant, always!
Stay relevant, always!
It was going pretty well until the last two words
Juroku Appurisu, a silly yet reliable squirrel, is the mascot for Juroku (16) Bank’s app. He likes chestnuts, walnuts, and asset management.
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It was going pretty well until the last two words
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If a lot of these ladies do not look as delighted as you might expect, bear in mind that this means they have overnight lost their jobs and will be unemployed, with no thanks from the nation whatsoever. Women will be told to go into domestic service or lose the tiny dole.
At 5am on 11 November 1918, an armistice was signed and hostilities on the Western Front ceased at 11am. Although the peace treaties that would formally end the First World War would not be signed until 1919. Celebrations, that day in the West Riding were often led by the women
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If a lot of these ladies do not look as delighted as you might expect, bear in mind that this means they have overnight lost their jobs and will be unemployed, with no thanks from the nation whatsoever. Women will be told to go into domestic service or lose the tiny dole.
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Oxfordshire County Council has clarified that the Ghostbusters hearse would not be exempt from the city’s Congestion Charge. A spokesperson told us “It’s not as simple as buying a hearse. In order to qualify for a permit, you must also be a funeral care business.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oxfordshire County Council has clarified that the Ghostbusters hearse would not be exempt from the city’s Congestion Charge. A spokesperson told us “It’s not as simple as buying a hearse. In order to qualify for a permit, you must also be a funeral care business.”
My post of the day
Eating a sundae with a long spoon is the height of decadence. The longer the spoon the more decadent it is. Ideally you shouldn't even be in the same room as the sundae
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My post of the day
Or 'Wilf' as we call it.
Wylfa on Anglesey expected to be chosen, rather than Gloucestershire, as site for new nuclear power station. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wylfa nuclear power station plans expected to go ahead
The site on Anglesey is understood to have been chosen over an area in Oldbury, Gloucestershire.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Or 'Wilf' as we call it.
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Our breeding-program research reports that the animals’ reluctance to mate is often linked to people like you standing around watching.
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Our breeding-program research reports that the animals’ reluctance to mate is often linked to people like you standing around watching.
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Smooth Dunk. Every time💜
Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Smooth Dunk. Every time💜
I see popular beat combo Nine Inch Nails have a new 7" single out, for the hit parade.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I see popular beat combo Nine Inch Nails have a new 7" single out, for the hit parade.
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Vvv vvvv’s Vvvv. Vvvv Vvvv.
- Sweep as James Bond.
- Sweep as James Bond.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Vvv vvvv’s Vvvv. Vvvv Vvvv.
- Sweep as James Bond.
- Sweep as James Bond.
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What's JR Hartley doing up a tree in the video for XTC's "Dear God"?
youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...
youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
What's JR Hartley doing up a tree in the video for XTC's "Dear God"?
youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...
youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?...
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'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump.
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them'
Winston Churchill, 1936
Winston Churchill, 1936
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if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
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Instruction to King Charles’ bodyguard.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Instruction to King Charles’ bodyguard.
BBC Soundz has once again put up this wonderful Patricia Hodge reading of Kipling's deeply moving, near-perfect short story. A great piece of work.
The Gardener by Rudyard Kipling - BBC Sounds
An Aunt's grief for a nephew killed in the First World War.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
BBC Soundz has once again put up this wonderful Patricia Hodge reading of Kipling's deeply moving, near-perfect short story. A great piece of work.