I always prefer standing still when I'm on a call
Posts by Ben Brignell
Posting a client’s MacBook back with that “Oh man sometimes they just let you keep ‘em” feelin’
I’ve never really understood where iPads/tablets fitted in. Everyone has one but every product and website I’ve worked on, tablet usage has been the tiniest percentage of users.
imagine getting back from the moon and then having to immediately go to san diego
Have you tried getting your iPhone to cut out carbs or sugary snacks?
When I was a kid I had a pack of roast chicken flavoured Walkers crisps and thought that:
A) They were the best crisps I had ever tasted.
B) One day I would be old enough to buy myself a pack whenever I wanted.
Anyway, today was that day. I bought a pack and they’re really horrible.
A man from the north just asked for chips and gravy at the fish and chip shop and everyone gasped. He has settled with curry sauce.
Oily, delicious friends!
7yo holding up plastic garden toy in supermarket: Dad can we get this?
Me: No, because it’s a plastic piece of tat that you’ll get bored of within 5 minutes, leave on the lawn, the grass will grow over it and it’ll end up crushed & shredded into microplastics by the lawn tractor
7yo: Fair point
When I’m in the supermarket I read the prices of things out loud in disgust as I walk past the aisles like a grumpy old man
Me next to some tins of sardines giving a thumbs up
@hicks.design
Me in hull
Me use AI do thing me need no do myself but me still write me skeets keep using brain
Boxing would be much better if they had to wear glove puppets
Is the moon made of cheese tho
If I have a decision or problem to solve I sometimes walk around the block, I always attributed it to a change of context and environment and a bit of exercise but wondering if it’s as simple as some fresh air
Did you check 100% it was your son and not that escaped Dartmoor convict axe murderer hitchhiker?
They should make illegal raves illegal
Klek de Poitrine’s eyes visible though the mouth of their mask
I’ve only just realised that Klek de Poitrine’s eyes are in their mouth
You could sell the same amount of dimensions with the inclusion of ads
A cup of tea next to an open pack of fire lighters that look like shortbread biscuits
This is the worst shortbread I’ve ever had
When you see the energy bill
We have waited years for a Storm Dave
@mooseallain.bsky.social I hope you’re getting ready to eat your glut of magnolia petals
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad.
I founded this company when I last picked up my electric guitar
Could it be that one by Bloc Party?
Both is a weird word when you say it too many times. Both.
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