Moi, un cinéphile français sophistiqué: "Un biopic really really bad sur Michael Jackson."

*Reel freezes, Kevin Feige voiceover*

"I have to go now. The other universe needs me."

The eternal conundrum: what birthday card to buy for an adult man who is not yet decrepit and hasn't made beer or farting a load-bearing part of their personality.

Disgraceful and disgusting behaviour. Solidarity.

ANGRY STARMER

Punxsutawney Keir. If he sees his shadow today, it's another six weeks before he makes a decision.

🚨 NEW: No. 10 sources say that "angry Starmer" was in fact "hungry Starmer" and the PM is feeling much better after eating a banana.

It does open a great opportunity for him to hitchhike sadly away from Downing Street after resigning. while the melancholy ending theme plays.

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TLDR? Let Woody Guthrie summarise:

"Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen."

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BAH GAWD, THAT'S ANGRY STARMER'S MUSIC!

Civil servants in the Starmer era trying to process the signal being broadcast from the principal:

My bloob group is typo.

Tfw they're still giving Henry the credit for your foreign policy ideas.

Me, seeing Alan Tudyk's name in the I, Robot cast list: "Wow, his American accent is very convincing given that he's from Wolverhampton or wherever, I haven't checked."

Though when I rewatch it now, there's always a flicker of embarrassment when I remember that, for several years after first seeing it, I was convinced Alan Tudyk was English.

A Knights Tale : Deleted Scenes (Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Alan Tudyk,Paul Bettany) YouTube video by Ghosts of Vermont URBEX / Sky's the Limit Videos

I understand why they cut it, but the herald's intro that didn't make it into the final film (from 3m45s) is a barnstormer. youtu.be/1dTGTKCioSI?...

A Knight's Tale. Endlessly rewatchable and has never once failed to lift my mood.

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway took a bet that he could write a short story in just six words and then won when he came up with "California bear suit insurance fraud scheme."

Matt Goodwin:

"RRROOOOOOOOAAARRRRR unaccustomed as I am..."

Simpsons screencap. Mr Burns reading a stock ticker in his office. Caption: "Oh, no ... oh, no. Oh, no."

Keir Starmer, finally getting round to reading Peter Mandelson's Wikipedia page tonight:

I don't know, man, "we ignored the security services to give a major diplomatic post to a guy who leaked government secrets to a sex trafficking paedophile" seems like a big deal to me.

"The prime minister has only just been told that it wasn't actually the wallet inspector" is not a defence that fills me with confidence tbh.

"After an extensive review into the national security vetting process, I am pleased to present my final report. It's one side of A4 with "DON'T IGNORE THE VETTING" written on it."