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Darren Rigby-O'Neill

@mrdazbear.bsky.social

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From Granadaland. Still misunderstanding for comic effect. Cats. Saint Etienne. Left-ish. All Doctor Who and TOTP is great. More cats. MUFC. PSB. Did I mention cats? Threads: [email protected] X: @DazBear1969

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 40m

Well I'm glad I ignored the reviews for TRON: ARES. Bloody good entertainment especially in IMAX and 3D. Loudest film I've seen in ages as well.

Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 6h

Most of the 9pm dramas shown have all episodes available on either ITVx or iPlayer, so that viewer appointment for the next episode is lost. Same for comedies. Documentaries tended to be a BBC2 or C4 thing at 9 so the two main terrestrial channels also broadcasting them at that time is no help.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

It seems with have an 80s obsessed situational artist doing the rounds near me.

A few weeks ago, Keith and Orville. Now Scott and Charlene.

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 19h

Mitchell & Webb thing doesn't get any better does it?

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Charlotte Michelle @lottielonglegs.bsky.social · 21h

#TOTP

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 21h

Howard Jones is back. #TOTP

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

Well on the channels named, all the time.

Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

"Thank you very much.... black fella walks into a pub...."

Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 1d

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

I did. No response. There's no context for that screenshot, and of course, everyone takes it at face value that it's correct.

Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

Well where's this, because if you look on Ticketmaster for UK dates, none of them are priced THAT high.

Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

What venue is that? There's nothing priced liked that when I look. 100 quid each of the O2 Apollo.

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

"Rattle and Hum" by U2 released the same day denied them their UK number one album.

Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

What we did on our holidays. Neil and Chris have been travelling, clubbing and hanging around with a bloke from the Buggles. This is their postcard.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 1d

🟦 CLEAN FEED | It's being reported in the press tonight that MTV is planning to close all but one of its linear channels in the UK.

MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and Live HD will close on 31st December.

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 1d

Shrewsbury, you're doing the country proud. #bbcqt

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Paul Burley @paulburley.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s how they made Paloma Faith. #TheTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Greene on the Epstein files: "I can't conclusively say that's why the House isn't in session, but the House should be in session...there is a new Democrat that's been elected that deserves to be sworn in...if it's to avoid the discharge petition, why drag this out? It's going to have 218 signatures"

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 2d

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sooty and co, of Sooty & Co, enter a local talent night MC'd by a depressive Jim Bowen. Back at the shop Scampi shows off his unexpected saxophone skills.

Sooty & Co. - 03x06: Talent Night (1995)

Once word about a talent show breaks, Sweep seems awfully eager to enter, and insists on his talent resulting in... telling the gooseberry joke. ©ITV

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 2d

"Stardust" is the only Menswear record I feel is really good, albeit a little too generic Britpop. And the only one I bought at the time.

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian there, having checked which way the wind is blowing.
Just a couple of days after printing the excuse for an article by Omid Djalili.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappelle. How have they reacted?

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Darren Rigby-O'Neill @mrdazbear.bsky.social · 2d

The middle guy's face seems recede more and more into his head the longer I look at his pic.