Ben Darlow

That’s right.

All true, but I’m still trying to work out what word deserved 3 letters of censorship when c**t only deserved two

Yesterday I had no internet for a few hours and ate an apple. It felt like an extremely minor insight into what it's like to live as a horse.

One of my favourite idioms from my mother in law is ‘he didn’t lick it off the ground’: Andrew didn’t spontaneously become a monster. He is the natural result of the rotten, privileged, entitled DNA of the royal family.

I mean, what do you see? A boomer being a dick, living off the back of a younger person…

I have a feeling it might have been intentional…

The Frog and the Genocidal Regime

I saw that, and lol. I’ve been assuming they’ll pull out of it (unless their deduction is increased) but this is giving me heart!

Behold the Kickmen on Steam BEHOLD THE KICKMEN is a football game made by someone who has no understanding of, or interest in, what is affectionately known as "The Wonderful Game". Start at the bottom of the Big Boring...

I think it’s a surprisingly popular pastime (although perhaps not always as knowingly). This was the game he made, in case you were curious! store.steampowered.com/app/529440/B...

a screenshot of a tweet: Rene Magritte @artistmagritte- Dec 9, 2021 Automated The hesitation waltz, 1950 #surrealism #magritte an image shows a rene magritte painting of two large apples on the ground with a cloudy blue sky background, the apples have each on a blue face mask and a red face mask like the teenage mutant ninja turtles

teenage magritte ninja apples

These two privately educated luvvies taking a guess at what socialism is reminds me of that guy who made a football videogame having never watched a single match

was just on a website that has somehow figured out how to force a video advert to forcibly go fullscreen and I don’t think I’ve ever been more angry in my life

Picard: It's a computer simulation of thoroughbred horse racing called Umamusume Pretty Derby. The program was quite popular in the 21st century.
Riker: Mm. 'Pretty' is accurate. That Goldship is quite something.
Picard: I hadn't noticed. I enjoy the simulation's tactical qualities.
Riker: Yes, sir.

Editor: did you finish the illustration for the article about boomers?
Artist: sure did boss, real phallic just like you asked.
Editor: what

Katy Perry was born on October 25, 1984. Actor Luke Perry was born on October 11, 1966,

So this would be…

that we call Tol Brandir. There it casts its arms about the steep shores of the isle, and falls then with a great noise and smoke over the cataracts of Rauros down into the Nindalf, the Wetwang as it is called in your tongue. That is a wide region of sluggish fen where the stream becomes tortuous and much divided. There the Entwash flows in by many mouths from the Forest of Fangorn in the west. About that

Wetwang

My favourite part of Wrexham vs Chelsea so far was Ryan Reynolds facetiming Paul Rudd to let him know they’d scored

Watching the Bristol City vs Cov highlights #pusb

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Pink Guy and an Orange Guy are sitting in the cinema. Pink Guy is munching popcorn and Orange Guy is slurping fizzy pop. Pink Guy points up at screen and says “is that guy cool?” Panel 2: Orange Guy pauses drinking and replies “he just blew up a school full of kids” Panel 3: Pink Guy says “No, I know“ Panel 4: We see the anti-hero on screen. He is wearing a purple t-shirt and a baseball cap facing backwards. Pink Guy continues, “but his cap is so BACKWARDS”

media literacy 2026

Taking Bad

20.30 FILM: THE FAST & THE BI-CURIOUS Car chase/experimental romance, much like the original film it is based on to be honest.

Starring Vin Diesel, which means it's an extra £18 if you watch it inside the congestion charge zone.

Succession mastered this as well. Even Logan Roy has his charms, and we find moments of sympathy with his otherwise obnoxious, entitled children.

It also helped me that the ending I first believed to be ambiguous has since been clarified as meaning, yes: he’s dead. There was no happy ending for him or his family.

I finished a rewatch of The Sopranos recently and I think it does the same as BB, just perhaps with a little more subtlety. We also have Melfi running alongside, charmed by this sociopath: she is us, trying to see the positives. But ultimately she realises he is beyond redemption, as do we.

This is the most important take-away for me: he was always this person, he just never acted on it before. Why this is so important as social commentary is that people like this exist *everywhere*

Breaking Bad is a powerful commentary on ‘normal’ people, much like Lord of the Flies: it shows that ‘normal’ people can become terrible under the right circumstances.

Much is made of how if BB was set in a country with universal healthcare, the story would have been over before it started. But cancerous Walter Whites exist throughout society, waiting to Break Bad and metastasise.

I wonder if anyone would have the chutzpah to claim Catcher In The Rye was a bad book because of Mark Chapman?

This whole media illiteracy leading to bad takes thing isn’t new. Before Breaking Bad, some people saw Michael Douglas’ D-FENS in Falling Down as an antihero, when actually he’s just representative of a generation of bigoted, emotionally stunted man, looking for an excuse to lash out violently.