Skinny
uncleskinny.bsky.social
Skinny
@uncleskinny.bsky.social
Chemistry and crossword nerd (Setting puzzles as Skinny in the Independent, Gumm in the FT). Loves music, chickpeas, Pixies best album is Surfer Rosa. Centrist liberal. Feminist. The green and the grey of the Pennines.
I've done some weird quizzing over the years. Many TV programmes, kissing Carol Vorderman, winning a series of 15-to-1, beating Anne Hegarty on Mastermind, but this was a weirder than weird highlight...
BTW @paulsinha.bsky.social , I read your book over two days on train journeys. It's bloody ace
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Hole farts.
November 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Someone's getting book tokens for Christmas
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A spoonerism is swapping the first parts of words. What is it called when the centre parts are swapped? See sports folk in the picture.
November 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Hello all. Following on from a previous post where I revisited old quiz questions from the past, here is another one.

What links the people in the photograph?
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I've been waiting all my life for this opportunity, and I took it.
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Superstitious airline
October 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I'm making burgers tonight. As such, the following image is going to be waiting for the missus on the door when she gets back in a couple of hours.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is taking the piss
October 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
*what* an innovation
October 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Bold move by this shop in Hexham.
August 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I think this is the longest journey in football this year. Is there any longer?
August 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is a physical impossibility, isn’t it?
August 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Well, that sign sure told them. Canal at Brighouse.
August 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Ok, I will, but where is he?
August 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Please, please tell me you’re all hearing what I’m hearing from the lady on the couch. Volume up.
July 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Context…
July 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mull of Kilt Hire was RIGHT THERE
July 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
As someone with autism in the family, I find this excuse highly offensive. Also paging @johnharris1969.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
As Wimbledon is on, here's something I did a few years ago...
July 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
There’s a wildfire raging near Marseille airport. Here’s the Daily Express’s UK-centric hot (sic) take
July 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Surely....SURELY...I cannot be the only one who, upon seeing something like this, thinks of Robert Mapplethorpe

#reformuk #whip #probablybestnottolookthisup
July 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A Streetcar Named Desire and…
June 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If your name is Morgan, and you chose a career trimming bushes and trees, what would you call your business?
June 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Something, something...Viagra...something
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM