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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4m

There's an old Simon Munnery gag where somebody heckles him and he consults his notebook on how to deal with it and reads out "Be spontaneous".

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 13m

Omid Djalili making it easier to get to the next Riyadh gig by digging a hole in the ground directly there.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 14m

"Let me gaze upon your curves
Instead of Ipswich Town reserves".

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1h

a close up of a man 's face with the words maybe i like the misery above him

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words maybe i like the misery above him

media.tenor.com

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1h

Keeping in touch with an old standup friend which led to me getting a literary agent which led to selling my first book which led to me becoming a writer full time which led to me moving to Costa Rica.
So...yes.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1h

This is when social media is great. People just building on a gag for the sake of the gag.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2h

Astounding work.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 2h

FAO @tomjam.bsky.social

This is art.

Carl @carlsalter.bsky.social · 3h

Although I prefer this!

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

It's good but not the bit I was thinking of. Specifically, it's 2:12 into the track 'First Encounter'.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

When there's a beetle flying around in the room when you're trying to sleep so you use the light on your phone to find it and your cat appears out of the gloom like a feline phantasm on one of those 1970s haunted photos:

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

Perfection. 10/10. No notes whatsoever.

Headline saying 'Portland frog is back after getting pepper sprayed in the ass."

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

Somebody please dub on the Arrival soundtrack moment where it goes 🎶BWAAAAA🎶 to sync when frog guy steps forward and they all step back.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 4h

I can't remember who did it, but somebody pointed out that there's even a row of tulips in that photo.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

That doesn't feel like it's entirely road-legal.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder what younger readers of Viz make of it with no knowledge of the comics it's based on.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 5h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

I was thinking this exact same thing. You never see some numbnuts trying to sell handmade flipflops called Foot Solutions for £300 and think "I bet they studied medieval literature".

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

Any decent business degree curriculum would teach students that an economy based entirely on people who studied nothing but things like business degrees is completely unsustainable.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5h

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

"I can't tell people not to have a piss at one in the morning because their footsteps wake you up" is a conversation I had many times in my old ASB job.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

Amazon fulfilment warehouses staffed by people who have to get the bus there after their Porsche was repossessed during their AI-related bankruptcy.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.