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Why, I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse!
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Even ignoring Nick Park, Holly Washington, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Pete Postlethwaite etc it's sort of magnificent that the culture secretary hasn't noticed that Sally Wainwright has made "drama set within ten miles of Halifax" a standalone TV genre.
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Even ignoring Nick Park, Holly Washington, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Pete Postlethwaite etc it's sort of magnificent that the culture secretary hasn't noticed that Sally Wainwright has made "drama set within ten miles of Halifax" a standalone TV genre.
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none of you are prepared for what this house is like
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January 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
none of you are prepared for what this house is like
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Sorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing “Highway to the manger zone.”
December 10, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Sorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing “Highway to the manger zone.”
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Really enjoyed it recently when "why do Japanese and Mediterranean people live longer?" was answered by "pension fraud"
December 10, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Really enjoyed it recently when "why do Japanese and Mediterranean people live longer?" was answered by "pension fraud"
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I think this will forever be my favourite tweet from the other place.
December 9, 2024 at 12:32 PM
I think this will forever be my favourite tweet from the other place.
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Relatedly, what is mithering me about a lot of the commentary around the “six milestones” are the comparisons with Sunak’s 5 pledges that proceed as if the shortcoming of the pledges was that voters don’t like numbered lists anymore rather than “you do actually need to achieve the pledges”.
Rishi Sunak was not a technocrat.
Revealed: Only half of checked asylum decisions now meet the Home Office's internal quality standards
Figures have plummeted after processing shortcuts were introduced for Rishi Sunak’s backlog pledge, and appeals are rocketing
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Figures have plummeted after processing shortcuts were introduced for Rishi Sunak’s backlog pledge, and appeals are rocketing
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
December 8, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Relatedly, what is mithering me about a lot of the commentary around the “six milestones” are the comparisons with Sunak’s 5 pledges that proceed as if the shortcoming of the pledges was that voters don’t like numbered lists anymore rather than “you do actually need to achieve the pledges”.
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The people saying this are broadly just addicted the drama of recent years and only understand politics through the prism of the Tory party. The Labour Party mechanism doesn’t work in the same way and even if it did there’s no equivalent discontent or political split in the current Labour party.
Have read a few pieces saying Starmer may not survive as PM & don't think people are appreciating the consequences. I can't stress enough I just don't think the public will tolerate 'one more switch of PM' instead will conclude the system is not just broken but unfixable
December 7, 2024 at 3:54 PM
The people saying this are broadly just addicted the drama of recent years and only understand politics through the prism of the Tory party. The Labour Party mechanism doesn’t work in the same way and even if it did there’s no equivalent discontent or political split in the current Labour party.
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finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
December 4, 2024 at 9:11 PM
finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
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JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription
TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription
December 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM
JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em
TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription
TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription
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We've left those awful people on Twitter behind. Now, I feel, is the time to turn on each other.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
We've left those awful people on Twitter behind. Now, I feel, is the time to turn on each other.
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Twitter: a social media website started and then abandoned by Jack Dorsey
At what point can we just call this app “Twitter”
November 26, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Twitter: a social media website started and then abandoned by Jack Dorsey
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Just heard on the radio that 'the King is celebrating his birthday' and, now we've had time to get used to it, I still definitely think having a king somehow makes us sound like bigger weirdos than a queen did.
November 14, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Just heard on the radio that 'the King is celebrating his birthday' and, now we've had time to get used to it, I still definitely think having a king somehow makes us sound like bigger weirdos than a queen did.
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obsessed with everything happening here
November 13, 2024 at 7:37 PM
obsessed with everything happening here
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In his splendid autobiography 'A Moment Towards the End of the Play', Tim West suggests the following for his tombstone, in memory of many terrible detective thrillers from his early days in Rep:
"Is he...?" "I'm afraid so"
"Is he...?" "I'm afraid so"
November 13, 2024 at 11:48 AM
In his splendid autobiography 'A Moment Towards the End of the Play', Tim West suggests the following for his tombstone, in memory of many terrible detective thrillers from his early days in Rep:
"Is he...?" "I'm afraid so"
"Is he...?" "I'm afraid so"
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So, no stranger to unevidenced faith after all! #politicsofthegaps
November 13, 2024 at 1:05 PM
So, no stranger to unevidenced faith after all! #politicsofthegaps
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1. When prices go up, incumbents go down;
2. A small but electorally significant number of Americans won't vote for a female president;
3. A lot of voters pay little attention to politics and thus weren't really aware of/don't believe the bad stuff.
2. A small but electorally significant number of Americans won't vote for a female president;
3. A lot of voters pay little attention to politics and thus weren't really aware of/don't believe the bad stuff.
November 7, 2024 at 12:13 PM
1. When prices go up, incumbents go down;
2. A small but electorally significant number of Americans won't vote for a female president;
3. A lot of voters pay little attention to politics and thus weren't really aware of/don't believe the bad stuff.
2. A small but electorally significant number of Americans won't vote for a female president;
3. A lot of voters pay little attention to politics and thus weren't really aware of/don't believe the bad stuff.
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I love this terrible chart of high school cliques and love the author’s assumption that the imagined reader will go “ah, yes, a completely undifferentiated Black clique, seems legit!”
August 28, 2024 at 12:09 PM
I love this terrible chart of high school cliques and love the author’s assumption that the imagined reader will go “ah, yes, a completely undifferentiated Black clique, seems legit!”
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I wasted my best years of imagination on that three titty chick from Total Recall
August 28, 2024 at 11:32 AM
I wasted my best years of imagination on that three titty chick from Total Recall
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POV: you’re an c18th gent with your hands on this snuffbox covered in nudey ladies, excitedly open it up hoping for more gilded erotica & then ….
August 28, 2024 at 10:48 AM
POV: you’re an c18th gent with your hands on this snuffbox covered in nudey ladies, excitedly open it up hoping for more gilded erotica & then ….