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I love the story, told by Richard Osman so don’t think it’s apocryphal, that George would watch daytime quiz shows and if the contestant lost the big prize would quite regularly phone up and pay the prize to them himself anonymously.
December 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I love the story, told by Richard Osman so don’t think it’s apocryphal, that George would watch daytime quiz shows and if the contestant lost the big prize would quite regularly phone up and pay the prize to them himself anonymously.
No alternative candidate. 🙄
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
No alternative candidate. 🙄
I don’t know how I knew this from the first image, brains are weird.
Cardle 2/5
Streak 20🔥
Total Score 262
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Cardle 2/5
Streak 20🔥
Total Score 262
🟢 🟢 🔴
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www.playcardle.com
Cardle
Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I don’t know how I knew this from the first image, brains are weird.
Cardle 2/5
Streak 20🔥
Total Score 262
🟢 🟢 🔴
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www.playcardle.com
Cardle 2/5
Streak 20🔥
Total Score 262
🟢 🟢 🔴
🟢 🟢 🟢
www.playcardle.com
Cardle
Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.
www.playcardle.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Very much. Although I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to just say BMWs of the past decade are simply unattractive.
December 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Very much. Although I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to just say BMWs of the past decade are simply unattractive.
I think of that whenever someone does something annoying/stupid on the road, it acts as an instant diffuser of any frustration.
December 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I think of that whenever someone does something annoying/stupid on the road, it acts as an instant diffuser of any frustration.
This was going to be my answer. Absolutely fucking superb film. One of the very best. But I never, ever want to see it again.
EVERYONE should see this film. Once.
EVERYONE should see this film. Once.
December 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This was going to be my answer. Absolutely fucking superb film. One of the very best. But I never, ever want to see it again.
EVERYONE should see this film. Once.
EVERYONE should see this film. Once.
In no particular order:
Sinners
Warfare
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
In no particular order:
Sinners
Warfare
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Flow
Nosferatu
One Battle After Another
The ‘necessity’, real or perceived, is surely linked directly to the cost of gas.
3/4 years ago we lived in a house with a wood burning stove installed. Burning free or cheap wood all evening (chimney internal, backing onto two bedrooms) was far cheaper than putting the central heating on.
3/4 years ago we lived in a house with a wood burning stove installed. Burning free or cheap wood all evening (chimney internal, backing onto two bedrooms) was far cheaper than putting the central heating on.
December 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The ‘necessity’, real or perceived, is surely linked directly to the cost of gas.
3/4 years ago we lived in a house with a wood burning stove installed. Burning free or cheap wood all evening (chimney internal, backing onto two bedrooms) was far cheaper than putting the central heating on.
3/4 years ago we lived in a house with a wood burning stove installed. Burning free or cheap wood all evening (chimney internal, backing onto two bedrooms) was far cheaper than putting the central heating on.
Nothing new, but a few slightly leftfield ones:
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Nothing new, but a few slightly leftfield ones:
Racism and class snobbery. Welcome to British life.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Racism and class snobbery. Welcome to British life.
You’ve invaded their territory, what did you expect.
They’re there each and every week come rain, sun or snow. You rock up in December and expect to be treated as an equal?!
Know your place young ‘un.
They’re there each and every week come rain, sun or snow. You rock up in December and expect to be treated as an equal?!
Know your place young ‘un.
December 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You’ve invaded their territory, what did you expect.
They’re there each and every week come rain, sun or snow. You rock up in December and expect to be treated as an equal?!
Know your place young ‘un.
They’re there each and every week come rain, sun or snow. You rock up in December and expect to be treated as an equal?!
Know your place young ‘un.
All three have a nice wedge line and stance that really emphasises ‘sports saloon’, that I think has been lost by most (all?) in this sector since.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
All three have a nice wedge line and stance that really emphasises ‘sports saloon’, that I think has been lost by most (all?) in this sector since.
I think you could argue that E36, first gen Lexus IS, W204 C Class show more linearity in design than any of the manufacturers managed themselves across that period.
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I think you could argue that E36, first gen Lexus IS, W204 C Class show more linearity in design than any of the manufacturers managed themselves across that period.
Somehow a blatant BMW 3 series copy that manages to look better than the original.
At peak ‘lexus lights’ era for Max Power types on Saxos et al, I wanted someone to retro fit more reserved rear lights to an IS.
At peak ‘lexus lights’ era for Max Power types on Saxos et al, I wanted someone to retro fit more reserved rear lights to an IS.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Somehow a blatant BMW 3 series copy that manages to look better than the original.
At peak ‘lexus lights’ era for Max Power types on Saxos et al, I wanted someone to retro fit more reserved rear lights to an IS.
At peak ‘lexus lights’ era for Max Power types on Saxos et al, I wanted someone to retro fit more reserved rear lights to an IS.
Put a banana up the tailpipe of any ICE vehicle he encountered?
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Put a banana up the tailpipe of any ICE vehicle he encountered?
That one isn’t, but I did see this last week:
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
That one isn’t, but I did see this last week:
It says everything that we’re petitioning for parliament to debate doing this, rather than the govt deciding to do so off their own back.
I fear it’s a pointless petition (which I have signed).
I fear it’s a pointless petition (which I have signed).
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It says everything that we’re petitioning for parliament to debate doing this, rather than the govt deciding to do so off their own back.
I fear it’s a pointless petition (which I have signed).
I fear it’s a pointless petition (which I have signed).
Absolutely.
And sure, if you’re wealthy you don’t want to acknowledge this, but when normal people believe this, rail against such taxes etc because they think ‘that might be me one day (and I want to be able to then avoid contributing tax too)’ I find it really depressing and infuriating
And sure, if you’re wealthy you don’t want to acknowledge this, but when normal people believe this, rail against such taxes etc because they think ‘that might be me one day (and I want to be able to then avoid contributing tax too)’ I find it really depressing and infuriating
November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Absolutely.
And sure, if you’re wealthy you don’t want to acknowledge this, but when normal people believe this, rail against such taxes etc because they think ‘that might be me one day (and I want to be able to then avoid contributing tax too)’ I find it really depressing and infuriating
And sure, if you’re wealthy you don’t want to acknowledge this, but when normal people believe this, rail against such taxes etc because they think ‘that might be me one day (and I want to be able to then avoid contributing tax too)’ I find it really depressing and infuriating
AKA a striver as far as the Daily Mail is concerned. 🤬
Perpetuating the disgusting myth that it’s lack of effort preventing the rest of us living in £1.5m+ homes.
If only you, I, everyone else would just work hard to do well instead of being feckless wasters. 🤬🤬🤬
Perpetuating the disgusting myth that it’s lack of effort preventing the rest of us living in £1.5m+ homes.
If only you, I, everyone else would just work hard to do well instead of being feckless wasters. 🤬🤬🤬
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
AKA a striver as far as the Daily Mail is concerned. 🤬
Perpetuating the disgusting myth that it’s lack of effort preventing the rest of us living in £1.5m+ homes.
If only you, I, everyone else would just work hard to do well instead of being feckless wasters. 🤬🤬🤬
Perpetuating the disgusting myth that it’s lack of effort preventing the rest of us living in £1.5m+ homes.
If only you, I, everyone else would just work hard to do well instead of being feckless wasters. 🤬🤬🤬
Me too! Yew Tree is forever an operation in my head, not something found in a woodland.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Me too! Yew Tree is forever an operation in my head, not something found in a woodland.
I followed one yesterday, they’re a stunning design, although I may be biased as an i3 owner.
I really wanted to get an i3 in this colour, but they discontinued it at the same time as the first battery upgrade, which I needed so I had to settle for Protonic blue.
I really wanted to get an i3 in this colour, but they discontinued it at the same time as the first battery upgrade, which I needed so I had to settle for Protonic blue.
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I followed one yesterday, they’re a stunning design, although I may be biased as an i3 owner.
I really wanted to get an i3 in this colour, but they discontinued it at the same time as the first battery upgrade, which I needed so I had to settle for Protonic blue.
I really wanted to get an i3 in this colour, but they discontinued it at the same time as the first battery upgrade, which I needed so I had to settle for Protonic blue.
I’m intrigued! If I remember I’ll come back tomorrow to ask what that guess was.
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I’m intrigued! If I remember I’ll come back tomorrow to ask what that guess was.