There's a time and a place. If someone had set The Wire in East Anglia back then, they would have come up with Lovejoy.

If they'd met my grandad, who got sent to Jersey from somewhere near Mitchelstown to pick potatoes aged 11, they would not have such a rosy view of heading back to the land. (Although to be fair, Jersey was probably the Hollywood of potatoes at the time.)

Let's not forget Google Glasses, as just about everyone already has done.

It's hard for me to imagine childhood without the smell of gunpowder.

Nice one, Bjork.

They have ruined headphones.

Bear attacks man in public toilet in Japan Incident north of Tokyo comes after a record 13 deaths from bear attacks in Japan since the start of April

Just be thankful that they're also bear-free (at least as far as the creature goes). In Tokyo they haven't been so lucky, but IMO if you use a public convenience you should expect to be a attacked by a bear. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Fuck windmills for taking away our liberty by making flour! (He's talking about wind turbines, isn't he, but trying to make Britain sound old-fashioned to please oil interests.)

It's a step on from those punishment boards some Americans wore as a punishment for shoplifting, I suppose.

Such a great live band.

This record spooked the fuck out of me as a 15-year-old hick who borrowed it from the record library.

Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual is strictly this.

I've only managed this by smoking lots of weed, but when I come back down again I've forgotten the answer.

Two of the most charmless men in rock.

I suppose it's on-brand to make it sound like the name of an MMA fighter who's been interviewed by Joe Rogan.

Not bad for 50p.

Sounds like a cage fighter's name.

That, and seeing the world as Star Wars with its Rebel Alliance.

I think of it as a very American thing. Pledging allegiance, bumper stickers declaring beliefs, the way they organise protest groups - all pretty different to the UK. But because they're running language at this time, it gets used everywhere.

The definition of getting the horns.

But he looks so wise with that beard.

With the British people who promote this guff, I do wonder if they're just auditioning to get that sweet Peter Thiel style money but failing to get it. I'm probably just trying to put a silver lining on it, but the culture war bilge doesn't seem to suit the arseholes of the UK.

To be fair, he might have stumbled across a point here.

It's mortifying, isn't it.

Sounds like they're catching up with the Noughties. Bound to be a success.

I didn't know about kitchen snakes before YouTube, and a life spent in very bad rented accommodation improved directly because of it.

I am shit out of luck.

Perhaps this is the closest they get to taking the risk of telling a woman they find her attractive. If so, good.

I miss the days when people whose stars dimmed in later life just drank vodka and slagged off their rivals in private members' clubs, instead of getting radicalised by Twitter.

It does sound a like the experience of being taught to read when you're a small child.