Overheard;

And he’s got a girlfriend. Carole with an E. He even irons her fitted sheets. I don’t see the point in that.

Overheard

“We lost 26-10”

I think I might start using Bluesky mostly as a place to record things I’ve just overheard without context.

I need an outlet for this and this feels like it might be it.

war seems to be going to plan!

A woman and a horse, the woman looks like she has a horse's head, and she's wearing a helmet. #fbpe

It's Friday Be Postin' Equines #FBPE

THE CURLING! #TheCurling

Oh no!

Or do both

Just can’t imagine how mortally embarrassed sensible Americans must be.

The ‘What’s Up’ thing is new, isn’t it?

I don’t have a strongly formed opinion on it yet but will release a statement if that changes.

I am a lapsed listener although I do love the pod. Will there be a specific lapsed listener week or should I use this one?

I am here for this banter

“In maths, what is 90 take away 4”

A real Good Samaritan One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry

merry christmas xx

on the tramway in Nantes and a pretty old woman gave her seat to a very old woman so I gave my seat to the pretty old woman then a man gave me his seat then a teenager gave a man his seat and then we all laughed, aren't people fantastic

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

In 1988, whilst carrying his baby daughter Lauren, Kenny Dalglish interrupted a post-match interview Alex Ferguson was having with "You'll get more sense out of her". Proper animosity, proper beef.

Now they're sharing Dairy Milk Buttons like two kids at nursery. Game's gone.

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London.

I said:

"No. It'll be ULEZ."

(The low emissions zone)

All sorts of Chimney Sweep drama playing out in my emails.

Another reason why I exclusively use Dick Van Dyke.

All my comics have happy endings!

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

“Yeah we definitely need the big tech bosses”

“And the media moguls”

“Politicians, royalty, ok. So anyone else we’re missing?”

“The winner of the US PGA tournament in 1992”

“Of course, can’t believe we nearly forgot him”

Nick Faldo?! Hahahaha, fabulous.

X post by Milo Yiannopoulos: "28 pilots have been suspended or fired so far after I made their airlines aware of gruesome remarks made about Charlie Kirk’s death. Of the big three, Delta has the biggest problem by far; United the smallest."

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

Wow. Has nobody got any backbone anymore?

Fouls and handballs in the box should result in an indirect free kick from where the incident happened - not a penalty. Penalties are too big a punishment for a lot of minor offences especially given how specialist a lot of takers are these days.

Also Brighton are just really annoying, sorry.

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

Well either way I’m not renaming the cat :)