Bethan 🦥💜

Ooh fun!

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Might try it again with a clean phone screen and clean glasses 😂 What's My JND? 0.0031
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Map of the Glasgow subway showing that it is in fact a single circle

somebody just stuck their head into the subway carriage and asked where this train was going, which caused some bafflement

Politics FACT: In the House of Commons, the Chief Whip is the one with a walnut on his head

Friends FACT: Matt LeBlanc's full name is Matthew LeBlanckety Blanc Blanckety Blanc Blanckety Blanc Pause Blanckety Blanc.

MUSIC FACT. During the late 60's, The Monkees ran their own veterinary practice but it had to shut down because they were too busy singing

Food FACT: The crispbread Ryvita is just a nickname. Its correct name is actually Ryva Perón.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Beyoncé liked my coffee table so much, she didn't use a coaster.

Was shocked to learn from my doctor that I was colour-blind. It came completely out of the green.

when I worked as a restaurant critic, I wrote under a nom nom nom de plume.

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade

“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”

Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

one of the things you’re supposed to learn in your english class is “how to spot what someone is really saying when they’re saying something else” but instead people deride their high school english class with the tired trope about “the curtains are blue”.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

Too bad, slopguy

Being Bill Bryson

robin gibb

just emailed all my colleagues but instead of attaching the correct file with the pertinent details i seem to have sent all twenty of them this image of robin gibb:

Beaker in Die Hard.

xmas movie posters but with muppets: thread

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”

* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

This is a great line, I want to start using this

I’m a single issue voter and my issue is that those busses that bend in the middle should make accordion noises

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip