Twlldun
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Terrible what passes for a ninja these days.
POP FACT: Everyone who watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan noot noot noot noot due to CBS accidentally booking John, Paul, George and Pingu
POP FACT: Everyone who watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show died one week later, due to CBS accidentally booking John, Paul, George and Ringu
February 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
POP FACT: Everyone who watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan noot noot noot noot due to CBS accidentally booking John, Paul, George and Pingu
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Actually I've checked and I think this is a personal Mandela Effect and I am being confidently wrong, my apologies!
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Actually I've checked and I think this is a personal Mandela Effect and I am being confidently wrong, my apologies!
Roses are Red
Violets are blue
And Americans are perfectly able to use the plural present tense conjugation there without making a fool of themselves but if it was a musical group called “Roses” then they’d say “Roses Is” and that really fucking annoys me
Happy valentines to you
Violets are blue
And Americans are perfectly able to use the plural present tense conjugation there without making a fool of themselves but if it was a musical group called “Roses” then they’d say “Roses Is” and that really fucking annoys me
Happy valentines to you
February 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Roses are Red
Violets are blue
And Americans are perfectly able to use the plural present tense conjugation there without making a fool of themselves but if it was a musical group called “Roses” then they’d say “Roses Is” and that really fucking annoys me
Happy valentines to you
Violets are blue
And Americans are perfectly able to use the plural present tense conjugation there without making a fool of themselves but if it was a musical group called “Roses” then they’d say “Roses Is” and that really fucking annoys me
Happy valentines to you
I never played the Witcher and wasn’t aware of this but this makes the ubiquity of the modern translation *so* much more comprehensible
You're possibly alluding this already, but on the off chance you're not, it's used in the opening cut scene of The Witcher video game
February 14, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I never played the Witcher and wasn’t aware of this but this makes the ubiquity of the modern translation *so* much more comprehensible
Yes. The body politic is suffering morbid symptoms!
Yes. And it doesn't just sound better - analytically, it clearly *is* better. "Monsters" just sounds vaguely bad/scary; "morbid symptoms" is just obviously a much more accurate yet succinct summary of what Gramsci meant (and what is actually happening now!)
February 14, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Yes. The body politic is suffering morbid symptoms!
Article sound on the quote being wrong, but loses points for not saying the original translation was infinitely better
February 14, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Article sound on the quote being wrong, but loses points for not saying the original translation was infinitely better
This is a fantastic piece
February 14, 2026 at 8:53 AM
This is a fantastic piece
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
One job is about containing feral threats to life and limb…and the other is working for the prison service!!!
It never fails to amuse me how teacher recruitment and prison officer recruitment adverts have exactly the same script and look
February 13, 2026 at 9:23 PM
One job is about containing feral threats to life and limb…and the other is working for the prison service!!!
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Would probably fail the drugs test for Burning Man, tbf.
February 13, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Would probably fail the drugs test for Burning Man, tbf.
Nothing but respect for *my* gold medalist
February 13, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Nothing but respect for *my* gold medalist
I’m not saying they are grasping at straws re Mamdani but this story is literally “5 years ago a bloke he has since employed complained about customer service online”
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I’m not saying they are grasping at straws re Mamdani but this story is literally “5 years ago a bloke he has since employed complained about customer service online”
You say wether, I say end
Putting the 'bell' into bellwether
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
You say wether, I say end
There are MPs on this list I expected better of.
Then there’s Clive.
Then there’s Clive.
I have joined nearly 100 parliamentarians to call on the Government to reconsider its rejection of compensation for 1950s women for maladministered state pension age changes. The Ombudsman was clear: injustice occurred, compensation should follow.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
There are MPs on this list I expected better of.
Then there’s Clive.
Then there’s Clive.
Lots of opinions on this news story and these uh individuals but I am most impressed by the way the story is illustrated by Andy Burnham, but with Keir Starmer’s 1980s hair do
February 13, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Lots of opinions on this news story and these uh individuals but I am most impressed by the way the story is illustrated by Andy Burnham, but with Keir Starmer’s 1980s hair do
The perfect Spectator article doesn’t exi…
February 13, 2026 at 10:18 AM
The perfect Spectator article doesn’t exi…
Ah fair.
No they're quoting the Speccie - so it's not quite that bad, they're just giving a quote to Tim Shipman (who is pretty well sourced as far as I can tell)
February 12, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Ah fair.
I mean I don’t know whether he does hate being prime minister or not but I don’t really think an unnamed Labour source giving a silly quote to *the national* is…evidence
Keir Starmer spends his weekends 'complaining' about how much he 'hates' being Prime Minister, reports say, as his Government faces relentless scandals
Keir Starmer 'spends his weekend complaining he hates being Prime Minister'
www.thenational.scot
February 12, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I mean I don’t know whether he does hate being prime minister or not but I don’t really think an unnamed Labour source giving a silly quote to *the national* is…evidence
The early Birdald catches the Wormald is this anything it isn’t anything is it
February 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The early Birdald catches the Wormald is this anything it isn’t anything is it
I don’t know whether it’s particularly a valleys thing but every single crew of workmen I have encountered has one beefy fat lad, one whip thin lad and a jovial supervisor who looks alarmingly like Fred West.
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I don’t know whether it’s particularly a valleys thing but every single crew of workmen I have encountered has one beefy fat lad, one whip thin lad and a jovial supervisor who looks alarmingly like Fred West.
Coincidentally there’s that election in Manchester coming up and coincidentally there’s that mayor of Manchester making waves
Is it my imagination or a week ago would no 10 have taken three days to eventually put out something about how Labour is committed to cutting immigration and Sir Jim is a valued and important business voice www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Coincidentally there’s that election in Manchester coming up and coincidentally there’s that mayor of Manchester making waves
I’m not saying I’m a proper working class man but I unplumbed a washing machine before 8am. After visiting a builder’s supply merchant for a vital part at 7.30am*
*my proletarian cred does dip somewhat when I point out that this was to repair the thing I had broken when I plumbed it in 6 years ago
*my proletarian cred does dip somewhat when I point out that this was to repair the thing I had broken when I plumbed it in 6 years ago
I’m moving house tomorrow.
I don’t want to scare people but the last time I moved house was three weeks before lockdown and the time before that, on contemplation, was eight weeks before the 2008 crash.
I guess what I’m saying is “buy gold, guns and water”.
I don’t want to scare people but the last time I moved house was three weeks before lockdown and the time before that, on contemplation, was eight weeks before the 2008 crash.
I guess what I’m saying is “buy gold, guns and water”.
February 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM
I’m not saying I’m a proper working class man but I unplumbed a washing machine before 8am. After visiting a builder’s supply merchant for a vital part at 7.30am*
*my proletarian cred does dip somewhat when I point out that this was to repair the thing I had broken when I plumbed it in 6 years ago
*my proletarian cred does dip somewhat when I point out that this was to repair the thing I had broken when I plumbed it in 6 years ago
Jim Ratcliffe there, proving that even when the neighbours are owned by authoritarian tyrants, United are still the worst Manchester club
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Jim Ratcliffe there, proving that even when the neighbours are owned by authoritarian tyrants, United are still the worst Manchester club
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You know it's rounding errors, I know it's rounding errors, but still: That's how damned certain we are when it comes to banning things, you reach 101% 🇬🇧
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
You know it's rounding errors, I know it's rounding errors, but still: That's how damned certain we are when it comes to banning things, you reach 101% 🇬🇧