My favourite novel of all time.

It is an absolute belter. Possibly my favourite so far.

Thinking of the classic t-shirt reborn for the 21st Century: I like the woke pope, the woke pope's woke.

v.good

I'm sure Georges would have been delighted about these Banana chocolate pretzels named in his honour.

Certainly a watershed reading experience for me.

I couldn't agree more. I think about that book so much, and the translation is sublime.

I'm staying in a hotel. Was genuinely shocked to find GB News on in the bar. They changed it when I asked, but still...

Because I've not thought about it! Do I send direct to you?

I was born in 76 and knew of Liza and Dusty really, really well.

I'm very excited for this.

We decided that it must have been done simply to annoy.

This is an London underground advertisement for a company that deals with IT leasing. The text reads: Make IT smile, balance the CFO, Keep HR Zen. IT teams love the choice of laptops. Finance gets one simple monthly bill. HR's chilled; as its all under control. There is a semi colon after HR's chilled, which seems to make no sense

Dear @bcdreyer.social My wife and I recently spent an entire underground journey discussing the last line of this advertisement. We could not find a legitimate reason for the use of a semi-colon and we wondered if there is any grammatical justification you can think of for its use.

I'm off to Milton Keynes this week to do the same...

Sending you all the best to get it done. When I get to a stage like this I like to go to a travel tavern style hotel and lock the door until I'm done. Though as you're on/just been on tour I expect you've had more than enough of that.

EXACTLY 100%. I hated HATED the first series. Then it was like it was written by an entirely different person.

Hey Hey 16K YouTube video by MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Topic

youtu.be/-d8UfQn3BEg

If I had a billionaire's money, I would put on a one-man show. It would star a well-respected actor playing a much-loved children's character in an East Coast venue. I would introduce the show by saying: "And now, live from Buffalo, Mark Ruffalo IS The Gruffalo." And my life would be complete.

I wonder when the word Prat fell out of favour with the British public. Like Flock of Seagulls, it seems locked to the 80s. Did it have a life into the 90s?

I couldn't agree with you more. When you find she is not alone, it's like an explosion. And what we've become accustomed to suddenly is upended, and anything could now happen. I didn't expect it, but it feels like it had to happen.

Feels like cheating

That's the rub. Annoying.

Tonight I finished writing my first short story in about three years. It has the perfect title, but it is the same as a 1980s Delillo novel. Does that matter?

My guess is when his career cannot be compared with astonishing detail to that of Chris Evans by my father.

But Ant and Dec did a better impersonation of you, so it's swings and roundabouts

The interview with David Lammy on Today is one of the most potentially dangerous things I've ever heard. It's obvious that Lammy is uncomfortable with the Iran situation, but the interviewer keeps pressing in the hope he will say something that Trump will be upset by. Utterly irresponsible

Occasionally you see an actor on stage and they just utterly have you, no matter the quality of the play. Eli Gelb is one of those actors. His performance in Broken Glass (at the Young Vic) is breathtaking, as it was in Stereophonic. Whatever he is in, I will watch.

Churchill getting booed in Walthamstowe in 1945 YouTube video by Maz H

Thanks to @ottoenglish.bsky.social for posting this video of Winston Churchill getting booed in E17. There is something reminding me of Stewart Lee at the end. I can imagine SL reacting in the same way: by playing two sections of the audience against each other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJni...

Was at the Hospital and saw this. Made me laugh and my son asked why. Ended up having to explain The Magic Mountain to him. He failed to see the humour.

This kind of thing always makes me laugh. What, the actors who played roles 40 years ago don't look the same now as they did then?