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@supernicebob.bsky.social

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Geriatric millennial in Birmingham (UK). Posting non-sequitur brain spam, bad jokes, and photos of things. Interested in music (mostly instrumental), movies games and videos, nature, space, weird stuff, hash browns, motorsport, cycling. He/him.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · Nov 21

Set up a spreadsheet to pick a random Simpsons episode from seasons 2-10 and the first one was S09E12 "All Singing, All Dancing" - a clip show of some of the musical numbers. Not a great start 😂.

It did at least include "See My Vest", "The Monorail Song" and "We Do (The Stonecutters' Song). 4/10.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 16h

Just shouted a letter when the buzzer went!

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 17h

Had a similar late run, and just pipped you. Good work though, felt like it was going to be a low week for a while. Good to see the pears in there too.

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olafurarnalds.bsky.social @olafurarnalds.bsky.social · 19h

Unknowing. I would love to hear you sing, play, dance, scream, live to this. Send me your duets ❤️

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 22h

Re-do the prequels with an inebriated Ray Winstone instead of Jar Jar. The character's name is also Ray Winstone.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Inspired and emotional: why a drunk Ray Winstone was exactly what the Star Wars prequels needed

The Sexy Beast star has said he was under the influence when he auditioned – unsuccessfully – for Attack of the Clones. George Lucas really missed a trick

www.theguardian.com

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 2d

Would not have had Lewis Hamilton down as a One Foot In The Grave fan but there you go.

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 3d

They said it shouldn't be done.

Self taken photograph of me, a 42 year old white male with beard and glasses, again wearing a cycle helmet looking pretty tired and unenthused about having arrived at Ness Point in Lowestoft, the most easterly point of mainland UK

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Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · 5d

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 5d

Got 100% saturated cycling to Northampton but I'm still down with this.

Black and white photograph mirror selfie in a Premier Inn elevator of me, a 42 year old white man with a beard and glasses, wearing wet weather cycling clothes .

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No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · 6d

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 6d

I'm so pissed off with my job right now that I'm actually looking forward to following through on my stupid decision to cycle from Birmingham to Lowestoft over the next three days.

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, gutted none of them were Muscovy. Also should have gone for the Observer.

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 9d

Nice work! Good duck knowledge. Felt I should have got two of the Mao ones having learnt them at various points.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 9d

Was going along nicely and then completely came to a halt after the second picture round - not sure why! 19/125 this week on #UniversityChallenge

My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 10d

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 11d

Get in loser, we're going to see the corpulent jazz band

Photograph of the rear end of a silver Vauxhall Corsa with a personalised number plate which reads M008 SAX

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Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah I support ID CARDS:

I f it’s
D anny John Jules
C hris Barrie
A nd Craig Charles in
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D warf and the man from
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😎

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 13d

Like, I don't wanna get into eugenics obvs, but if they identified a gene that makes you think it's ok to have a full blown conversation at a gig during the songs and it could be removed without negative impact I would be 100% behind that.

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 14d

Might join LinkedIn just to post that MBA stands for meaningless business asshole

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 14d

The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster

At the conference in Dubai, Ellison began with a joke about Musk before warning the audience that artificial super-intelligence was coming sooner than expected.
What, Blair asked him, should governments be doing about it? "The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed and used by the Al model, Ellison responded.
Ellison was also specific about which data needed unifying - and he had an example in mind: "The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data," he
declared, but it was too "fragmented" at present. Below him, the former prime minister nodded, clutching his Tony Blair Institute (TBI) notebook.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 15d

Is this... rapture?

Photograph of a single foot support strap boot thing on a pavement outside a shop

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 15d

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled

[Scene is a 1960s suburban sitting room, with a grand piano in it. The religious songwriter ESTELLE WHITE is sat at the piano, with a rotary phone sat on top of the lid. She is on the phone to her music publisher, someone I've made up called JERRY]

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ESTELLE WHITE:
OK Jerry
I’ve got another banger for you

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ESTELLE WHITE:
Listen to this!

[She slams the receiver on the top of the piano].

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ESTELLE WHITE [hammering on the piano]:

AUTUMN DAYS WHEN THE GRASS IS JEWELLED
AND THE SILK INSIDE A CHESTNUT SHELL!
JET PLANES MEETING IN THE AIR TO BE REFUELLED, ALL THESE -

JERRY [voice from the phone handset]:
Eh?

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JERRY:
What was that last bit, Estelle?

ESTELLE WHITE:
“Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled”…

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JERRY:
Is that a thing you often see in autumn?

ESTELLE WHITE [Smoking from a long cigarette holder]:
All the time, Jerry. Aaaaall the time....

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JERRY:
Nothing to do with it being the only thing that rhymes with ‘jewelled’?

ESTELLE WHITE:
No!

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ESTELLE WHITE:
It’s one of the high-speed, high-altitude feats of military aviation one often sees in autumn time.

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JERRY:
What about leaves and squirrels and -

ESTELLE WHITE:
Now listen, Jerry.

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ESTELLE WHITE:
Do you want a crap hymn about conkers…

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ESTELLE WHITE:
Or do you want an all-time earworm banger that everyone who hears it will sing in their heads, every single time they see a fallen leaf, until the day they die?

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JERRY:
OK… sorry… carry on…

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ESTELLE WHITE:
FROS-TY WINDOWS ON HARR-IER JUMPJETS AND THE SMELL OF NUCLEAR SUB-MAR-INES…

JERRY:
How about acorns?

[ends]

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 16d

Felt like I should've got that one - well done!

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 16d

Never mind the rapture here's the soup season

Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 16d

Was ticking along until the flags gave me a late boost for 22/145 on #UniversityChallenge this week. Also Han dynasty got my back again - I should really look those guys up.

List of my correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 16d

It's been such a Monday that I've not yet got round to sharing my morning insight. Which was that waking up from a detailed dream about not being able to get to sleep creates a severely odd sensation. Apologies and awareness to those who actually did struggle to get to sleep last night.