Posts by Bethany Elliott
All three also share a talent for making enemies!
“Chris from Accounts is nicknamed The Prince of Darkness”
“WHAT NOW”
I don’t know whether it’s press, MPs, leaders themselves etc but there’s this desperation with him, Cummings and Mandelson to create these Svengali type genius figures out of people who would constitute the office weirdo almost anywhere else.
SHAFT!
Who‘s the impeccably dressed guy who nods
New reality show in which Olly Robbins has to appear supportive about contestants' terrible new boyfriends while dropping increasingly less subtle hints they're awful.
I always felt like they gave Chris Addison’s character in The Thick of It that name to point out that he was immature.
There’s no rhyme or reason as to who presents the trophy on #universitychallenge It‘s been Will Self and Camilla before now.
It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson
A middle aged couple on a cruise to save their marriage. She takes the steering of the boat and her husband’s so proud and she says that all she ever wanted was to be recognised for her talents. They kiss, interrupted by the Iranians shooting and Celia Imrie calling: “There’s time for that later!”
One of those light British comedies starring Timothy Spall and Olivia Coleman etc. is bring written about this as we speak
Just remarked to my mother that I was in Seodaemun prison a year ago yesterday and the next table all looked around.
*Visiting*.
Southend. Small child next to me in cafe: “But I didn’t eat dirt intentionally, someone threw it into my mouth”.
Akub
Yes, it’s lovely.
”No, no, carry on, don’t mind me”
Waiting for bus and I’d love to sit on the bench but there’s a very young couple passionately kissing on it and I’m in sufficiently evil to sit next to them.
What disappoints me is that when a waiter asks “Are your familiar with our restaurant’s concept?”, the concept always turns out to be ‘small plates and they’re delivered when they’re ready‘, as opposed to Vorticism, empiricism, deconstructionism, cultural hegemony or even Marxism.
Particularly when Trump and his circle adored Karen Pierce so there was no need for a change.
I think Meg White is a good drummer just by the standards of being a good drummer but I think she’s an exceptional drummer by the standards of having her extremely strange husband come home one day and say that they were starting a band and had to dress alike and also she’s his sister now
All these Bluesky technical issues must be why my posts have been chronically under appreciated for months.
All of pub quizmaster’s questions about Gillian Anderson buff.ly/NzEhVlC
Really enjoying my first day as head of tech at Bluesky.
If you’ve read David Sedaris’ piece in @newyorker.com this Wikipedia entry is very cute. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It’s from a cafe on Buckingham Gate which is called Crumpets and has this crumpet mascot and serves crumpets with all different toppings and it feels like when you once mention to your mum that you quite like frogs and then suddenly every Christmas, birthday and Easter all you get is frog stuff.
New affirmation just dropped.