Mystery Neil
@harryfreeze.bsky.social
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
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For over 20 years I have been keeping a spreadsheet recording the relationship between the amount of money the contestants on Bargain Hunt spend and their profit or loss. My conclusion: no significant relationship.
December 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
For over 20 years I have been keeping a spreadsheet recording the relationship between the amount of money the contestants on Bargain Hunt spend and their profit or loss. My conclusion: no significant relationship.
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Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Not rude things, a thread:
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Not rude things, a thread:
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C4 are showing "Nordic Train at Christmas", the Bergen to Oslo line - my favourite (done 6 times). But edited down to 1 hour, and narrated (why?).
However, there's a full 7h 14m version on YouTube. Fond of the hour or so from 1h 57m when it's up in the mountains:
youtu.be/xisVS_DKpJg?...
#Norway
However, there's a full 7h 14m version on YouTube. Fond of the hour or so from 1h 57m when it's up in the mountains:
youtu.be/xisVS_DKpJg?...
#Norway
Scenic train ride from Bergen to Oslo (Norway)
YouTube video by 1slowtv
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
C4 are showing "Nordic Train at Christmas", the Bergen to Oslo line - my favourite (done 6 times). But edited down to 1 hour, and narrated (why?).
However, there's a full 7h 14m version on YouTube. Fond of the hour or so from 1h 57m when it's up in the mountains:
youtu.be/xisVS_DKpJg?...
#Norway
However, there's a full 7h 14m version on YouTube. Fond of the hour or so from 1h 57m when it's up in the mountains:
youtu.be/xisVS_DKpJg?...
#Norway
November 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Letters A-C comprise only 11.5% of the alphabet yet teams starting with those letters comprise 40% of the English premier league. Makes you think really. #epl #PremierLeague
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Letters A-C comprise only 11.5% of the alphabet yet teams starting with those letters comprise 40% of the English premier league. Makes you think really. #epl #PremierLeague
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
October 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I'm rewatching Adam Curtis' latest, 'Shifty' again. It really is rather splendidly good.
It's all on YouTube too if you're not in the UK.
It's all on YouTube too if you're not in the UK.
BBC - Shifty
There is a twilight zone between memory and history. A time when nothing is yet fixed.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I'm rewatching Adam Curtis' latest, 'Shifty' again. It really is rather splendidly good.
It's all on YouTube too if you're not in the UK.
It's all on YouTube too if you're not in the UK.
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Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...
1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...
Sunset, or armageddon #photography #blackandwhite
October 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Sunset, or armageddon #photography #blackandwhite
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The series was based on the Oscar-winning short "Bob's Birthday." You can watch that here. (warning: Bob gets his dick out in a nonsexual and embarrassing way a little over halfway-through.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-it...
Bob’s Birthday (1993) | Oscar-Winning Adult Animated Short | Alison Snowden & David Fine
YouTube video by Backscattering Past
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The series was based on the Oscar-winning short "Bob's Birthday." You can watch that here. (warning: Bob gets his dick out in a nonsexual and embarrassing way a little over halfway-through.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-it...
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Think I'll read this once a week forever.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Think I'll read this once a week forever.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
Patricia Routledge, I love you.
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Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
August 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Ok folks: what is your favorite fact that you share with people (maybe a bit too) eagerly?
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When you clean for hours and then get reminded you have kids..
August 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
When you clean for hours and then get reminded you have kids..
August 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.
Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.
#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
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Right 1. If you go through the main door of someone’s house (and they have a kitchen door you could use instead) they’re not friends, they’re acquaintances. No exceptions.
July 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Right 1. If you go through the main door of someone’s house (and they have a kitchen door you could use instead) they’re not friends, they’re acquaintances. No exceptions.
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John Le Mesurier and Barbara Flynn in The Flight Fund (14th July 1975) youtu.be/wB8WJ7Un0kk?...
The Flight Fund - starring John Le Mesurier and Barbara Flynn (1975)
YouTube video by Classic British Telly
youtu.be
July 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
John Le Mesurier and Barbara Flynn in The Flight Fund (14th July 1975) youtu.be/wB8WJ7Un0kk?...
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"Pictures... showed a small group holding placards reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action"."
And they were arrested under the Terrorism Act. If this is accurate it should terrify everyone about what it means for peaceful protest.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And they were arrested under the Terrorism Act. If this is accurate it should terrify everyone about what it means for peaceful protest.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palestine Action: More than 20 arrested at protest, Metropolitan Police say
It comes after supporting the group was banned under terrorism legislation.
www.bbc.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"Pictures... showed a small group holding placards reading "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action"."
And they were arrested under the Terrorism Act. If this is accurate it should terrify everyone about what it means for peaceful protest.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
And they were arrested under the Terrorism Act. If this is accurate it should terrify everyone about what it means for peaceful protest.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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1. Don't snitch-tag.
2. Don't explain to people what they just said.
3. Don't "correct" people's jokes.
4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts.
5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts.
6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know.
The rest is commentary.
2. Don't explain to people what they just said.
3. Don't "correct" people's jokes.
4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts.
5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts.
6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know.
The rest is commentary.
People should have to pass a social media etiquette class before they’re allowed to purchase a smart phone.
July 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
1. Don't snitch-tag.
2. Don't explain to people what they just said.
3. Don't "correct" people's jokes.
4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts.
5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts.
6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know.
The rest is commentary.
2. Don't explain to people what they just said.
3. Don't "correct" people's jokes.
4. Don't respond seriously to silly little posts.
5. Don't respond trivially to obviously serious posts.
6. Don't "jocularly insult" people you don't know.
The rest is commentary.