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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 1h

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Morbius (the titles have a slight Carpenter vibe imho)

🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 3h

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Paddington

James Hodden @jameshodden.bsky.social · 3h

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.

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David G-P @davidjgp1983.bsky.social · 2h

It’s getting bad to worse. It needs to be treated the same as smoking and vaping. Get caught doing it, removed from the train!

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 2h

IT'S LITTLE Giancarlo Giorgetti

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Italy ready to defend 'golden powers' against EU moves, economy minister says reut.rs/4h3GS09

Italy ready to defend 'golden powers' against EU moves, economy minister says

The Italian government will defend its golden powers aimed at shielding strategic assets, its economy minister said on Friday, as Brussels prepares to challenge the legislation.

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 3h

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Battlefield Earth

🎃 Agent Pumpkin 🎃 @agentpumpkin.bsky.social · 3h

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Paddington

James Hodden @jameshodden.bsky.social · 3h

Make a movie better by adding "John Carpenter's" to the title.

John Carpenter's Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 3h

Don't you realise the way you act is influencing millions of children to talk cockney and be insubordinate ?!

markraven1973.bsky.social @markraven1973.bsky.social · 1d

@cameronyardejnr.bsky.social Grange Hil is coming to That's TV! www.oldtimereview.co.uk/grange-hill-...

Grange Hill Coming to That's TV - Old Time Review

British Television Channel That's TV are to broadcast the 1970s BBC Children's Drama Grange Hill, starring Todd Carty.

www.oldtimereview.co.uk

Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 4h

Has Wotsit Face had an ALL CAPS shitfit yet ?

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 6h

And f***ing toddler strop in 3 .... 2....

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6h

Never mind Blur and Oasis - the real chart battle was between Tiswas and Swap Shop...

timworthington.org/2024/11/11/i...

I Just Wanna Be A Winner

Never mind Blur and Oasis – the real chart battle was between Swap Shop and Tiswas…

timworthington.org

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 1d

Claudia - The Goth Whizbit

#TheTraitors #TheTraitorsUk #CelebrityTraitors

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 7h

So seen something online and I want to confirm it's true (& Google is absolutely bloody shocking in giving a definitive answer) Was Slag from the Dinobots in #Transformers name changed because Slag also refers to something not very nice in the UK ?

Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 7h

The Mantum of Quenace
Did I get it confused (I got it mixed up)

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 17h

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

In 60 minutes I saw 172 cyclists run these lights – it’s a matter of time before they kill someone

The offenders included Lime bike riders, school children and a woman in high-heeled boots

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 8h

youtu.be/M1S5BvsTNSQ?...

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 9h

youtube.com/shorts/zeguv...

OTD in 1966, the Cybermen made their FIRST appearance in the Tenth Planet #DoctorWho

YouTube video by Doctor Who

youtube.com

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 9h

a crowd of people are sitting in a theater clapping .

ALT: a crowd of people are sitting in a theater clapping .

media.tenor.com

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 17h

Of all the many versions of the Time Scoop from 'The Five Doctors', my favourite is the 4K Claudia Winkleman edition.

#DoctorWho #CelebrityTraitors

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 9h

Hey remember when people got mad cos Obama said the UK would have to get to the back of the queue re: any deals if the UK left the EU ? Do those people will be complaining about this won't they ? Right ?

Right ?!

RIGHT ?!!!

F***ING RIGHT ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roger @rramjet.bsky.social · 12h

‼️Not content with dumping activities related to combatting climate change the US fascists are now trying to cancel EU climate change policies.
They want to extend their damage and destruction everywhere.

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal
www.ft.com/content/678f...

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

www.ft.com

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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 18h

Always with these fuckwits who think teachers would even have the time to do made up bollocks like this. I'd say they're beneath contempt, but contempt is embarrassed to be associated with them.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 19h

I miss real journalists.

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 20h

Doctor Who
The West Wing
Millennium
Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Dead Like Me
Six Feet Under
Star Trek Deep Space Nine (S1 -3)
Howards Way
Angel
Sapphire & Steel
Battlestar Galactica (Original & Reboot)
Dallas
Firefly
Alphas
Quantum Leap
Jamie & The Magic Torch
The Avengers (both versions)

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h

Name your fav TV Show Theme Song.

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 21h

Even though I don't like the man I find it interesting the amount of people on Facebook criticising Starmer publicly yet heard absolutely nothing from.them when the Torries were doing the excat same thing for 14 years.

Oh no not interesting utterly f*cking baffled by the hypocrisy of it

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 21h

Having got some boxes out of storage I can have a pick of Amelie, Run Lola Run or Joyeux Noel (I have the Millennium Trilogy somewhere too)

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

Still the greatest one-liner in television history.

Eric Morecambe on Ice Cream

YouTube video by Dave Byrne

www.youtube.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt not make AI videos of dead people saying what you want. You wouldn’t dig them up and use their skull as a puppet, would you?

The people doing these things must be shamed into oblivion.

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 1d

Burglars says asking permission of building owners to enter and steal stuff would kill the robbing industry

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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