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I read '£2,000 holder' there and imagined something like a very long one of those cylindrical pound coin holders that briefly, and pointlessly, appeared in the early 80s.

Yes, Dougal Drysdale,the father of one of my childhood friends appeared on that episode of QED. He was constantly being asked to appear on TV shows talking about the plausibility of it at the time.

I wrote a book called 'Butler to the World' about the UK's post-empire business model of selling kleptocratic services to baddies. I worry that butlerism has entered the soul of our political class, and they're geopolitically incapable of doing anything but donning white gloves and bringing drinks.

'Sinew Gardens' isn't the most attractive of names, wonder why they chose it?

This is what I want done with my skellybones when I’m done with them.

I think it would be a fairly appropriate name for one of those stupid NFT monkey pictures from a few years ago.

Oh Pac-Man :(

BIG BEN 🔔 word game A unique puzzle for each second of the day, with a satisfying BONNGGG sound that shakes the game when you find a long word.

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316 points ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Longest word: SPURNERS
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Finally broke through the 300 barrier

If only monkeys have been satisfied with food rather than wanting to get their hands on something to eat as well we wouldn't be in this mess.

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Longest word: DETESTING
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Getting so close to 300...

At the start of the wall coffee which in any case was usually chicory mixed with sugar beet became roasted nuts flavoured with coal tar later this became too expensive and was replaced by roasted beach nuts and acorns but latest still during the turnip winter of 1916 to 17 every spur acorn was used to feed pigs and coffee was made from carrots and turnips

If you think that sounds bad look at what the Germans were being offered as an alternative to coffee during World War I.

Half expecting to see Roy Castle's face in the crowd there.

Surely the misanthropic type of pensioner doesn't want other people having a day off? They'd probably prefer other people being made to work and extra day to 'honour' them.

I'll have to keep trying, no luck whatsoever today...

My mother somehow got roped in to being a counsellor for athletes at the 1970 Commonwealth Games. No athletes ever showed up seeking any help, so she got paid to spend the whole time watching the games on the first colour TV she'd ever encountered.

Old Age Pemmican

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288 points ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️➖
Longest word: FEELERS
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I've got addicted to this in last few days.

Absolutely, you'd think she had signed and then reneged on a bespoke contract with every anglophone journalist on the planet. Why are they so insanely proprietorial about this text?

bsky.app/profile/friz...

Reminds me of that Linda Smith line about a shop being located between PC World and the 'far less liberal' Kingdom of Leather.

God, yes JIIG-CAL! One of my friends was desperate to have it tell her she should become a doctor so she really tried to give the answers that she thought would produce that result. It told her she should get a job in a slaughterhouse.

They're an uninhibited bunch, skellingtons. I rather admire them.

I think it's the stiff, marionette-like gesticulations as much as the way he reads out the message that makes it seem so unconvincing.

Isn't it para sagittal or something similar? I can still remember our lecturer getting down and crawling around to try to demonstrate this method of locomotion many years ago.

I assumed it was taking the piss out of that French king who thought he was made of glass.

Imagine wearing a #jellyfish as a helmet!?!
Well, that’s exactly what this juvenile jack is doing! Mostly immune to its sting, the jack has taken the jellyfish prisoner.

Shot using #scuba, out over the deep abyss, drifting at night.
#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #scubadiving #gug

Language groups in Western Europe

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it.

The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT.

Let's talk about it.

I once worked with a woman who used a calculator to work out 10 × £0.80.

Finally some proper fucking news