I think this is just your payback for all the times you have to listen to them stress-eating the microphones. Not a job where you can have misophonia, I assume :)

Screengrab from the UK Season of Jet lag The Game. Ben is browsing on his phone while saying “I’m just looking at pornography”. It makes comic sense in context, trust me.

Where else would you find this quality of closed captioning? ;)

“Over posting” + “cat pics” = impossible :)

TV advert for holidays in Turkiye with a slogan saying “a piece of art” but the spacing of letters makes the last word look a bit like “fart”. Highbrow, I know…

Is it just the way my childish brain works or does this travel advert need better kerning on the font?

Intriguingly cryptic! <Bates breath>

No, no, it’s just that the kids these days don’t want physical clothing as a souvenir, they want his “E-shirt” in Fortnite or Roblox ;)

I was just about to ask if you can ever remember a Starting player A -> Sub B -> Sub C -> Sub D chain before?

I’ve never been prouder to be from this sceptred isle…

Quiet over there! I’m trying to build the world’s tallest house of cards to impress an Irish stout company :)

Stock photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger being shown the inside of a Chinese train driver’s compartment

“I need your clothes, your boots, and your jaunty train driver’s hat…”

Screengrab from a YouTube clip of the long forgotten 1990s ITV sitcom Not With A Bang, where Judith Hann cameos as herself, accidentally knocking over some chemicals during a TV show which comedically turns everyone to dust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_with_a_Bang

I still blame Judith for bringing on the end of the world in Not With A Bang :)

youtu.be/lQ-J9aEw6YA

@quizzydan.bsky.social today’s impromptu version of Hide And Peake was a bit easier than Westward Ho! :)

Tom Scott on stage recording the Lateral podcast.

What better to do on a Sunday afternoon than watch Tom Scott and chums record a live episode of Lateral Podcast?

Excellent news, thanks!

Although I’m now imagining the two of you trying to narrate an entire UK road atlas, arguing over who gets to read the nice straight Roman roads and who has to describe the Snake Pass.

I normally prefer audiobooks, but given it’s all about maps, are there lots of images inside the normal version that I’d miss out on by listening to your dulcet tones?

Too good a post for this time of night, when there’s nobody here but us chickens…

Lightning Seeds - This Is Radio Goal View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 Cassette release of "This Is Radio Goal" on Discogs.

I was a big fan of this one…

www.discogs.com/release/6909...

youtu.be/Of9-GRivOUU?...

How many 90s magazine cover CDs have you uncovered?

Photo of the floor plan for Gamescom, which occupies multiple halls of a large convention centre.

Adam’s European tour arrives in Cologne, Germany, where there’s a small little videogame convention going on. I’m sure I can see the whole thing in half a day, right?

Montage of 6 different Olympic torches from recent summer games. Sydney 2000 is white, Athens 2004 is brown & silver, Beijing 2008 is silver & red and has a traditional etched pattern, London 2012 is gold with a mesh design, Rio 2016 is white with dark ribbons looking like waves, and Tokyo 2020 is a blue gold colour.

An arrow is on display in the museum, alongside an information display reading Olympic cauldron ignition arrow, Barcelona 1992 Arrow used to ignite the Olympic cauldron during the Games Opening Ceremony. The flaming arrow, fired from the centre of the stadium by archer Antonio REBOLLO (ESP), a Paralympic athlete, lit the cauldron as it flew over the top of it.

Photo of a crowded gift shop filled with Olympic merchandise

…it’s a really good job I’m on a strict budget here otherwise I would be spending a fortune in the gift shop!

Sign on a wall reading Olympic Museum

The Olympic flame burns in the centrepiece of a sculpture, while in the background is a podium with the Olympic motto Citius Altius Fortius Communiter inscribed on the wall

A sculpture in the garden of the Olympic museum of two judokas participating in a bout, with a sign reading International Judo Federation, Budapest 2017

Looking up at the gardens of the Olympic museum with various sculptures and floral displays themed around sport or the Olympic rings. Three flags are hanging down from flagpoles, but the lack of wind makes them unidentifiable.

As a sports nerd, it would be rude not to visit the Olympic Museum in Lausanne…

Frontage of Lausanne train station, with an analog clock showing the time as just before 1:30pm, and a sign saying Lausanne Capitale Olympique accompanied by the Olympic rings.

(Out of thread note, seems like my posts didn’t upload yesterday. Stupid tech!)

…exactly on time, the Swiss rail network delivers me to Lausanne for an evening’s Diamond League athletics.

Winterthur rail station map showing the location of platforms, toilets, etc

View of what seems to be a small allotment for townsfolk to grow flowers or vegetables. In the foreground is a small garden shed next to some tall sunflowers and a pole flying a Swiss flag l. In the background are a large number of trees.

My first time in the Swiss city of Winterthur, famed for being one of the locations in season 9 of YouTube show Jet Lag the Game.

But no time to hide in the woods - it’s 10:30am and I need to be on the other side of the country in 3 hours, so I’ve got to go go go…

Sign at the main entrance to Vienna train station, reading Wien Hauptbahnhof with an analog clock face showing a couple of minutes past 2 o clock.

…although even an hour of sightseeing was a luxury compared to the couple of minutes I had in Austria’s capital at lunchtime while changing trains.

If only there was an apposite musical reference I could make to remind me that Vienna Waits For Me…

The Church of St James in Brno Old Town. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._James_(Brno)

Petrov, aka the cathedral of St Peter and Paul in Brno old town. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._Peter_and_Paul,_Brno

Špilberk Castle, a large white building with a red roof, sitting on a hill overlooking Brno

Made it across the Polish border too late last night to do any sightseeing, so my planned half-day trip to Brno, Czechia had to be condensed into a 60 minute speed round…

Close up of the Pinball Wizard branded machine themed around the 1975 movie Tommy. It shows a map of the British Isles with labels for various major cities. However, the word England is written in large letters diagonally across the top of the map, overlapping both Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Wide angle shot of the entire pinball table, with various flashing lights and motifs from the film.

…where I noticed the artists on this 1990/ Tommy / Pinball Wizard-branded machine had taken a few liberties when choosing where to place the word “England” on a map 😬

A small van parked in a Krakow street, advertising Krakow Pinball Museum, Stradomska 15.

The entrance to the pinball museum, in a brick lined basement. On the right is the ticket kiosk, on the left is a coat rack, and at the back people are playing various pinball machines underneath a neon sign.

A large number of pinball machines and vintage coin op arcade machines lined up in the museum.

Five pinball machines lined up in the museum.

…but this nerd was happiest in the Pinball museum 🤓

Panorama of Rynek Główny, Kraków’s town square, featuring the large Cloth Hall building.

A typical street in Old Krakow, featuring three storey buildings on either side of a cobbled street.

Part of Wawel Cathedral in Krakow - a tall set of spires with ornate gold plating on a couple of domes.

The courtyard of Wawel Castle.

Spent Monday afternoon wandering around in Krakow. Lots of important historical and cultural sights, of course…

A Czech railway carriage booth for six people, but all the other seats are empty.

I can currently relate to that, with the added quirk of being in a country where I don’t speak the language, in an otherwise empty carriage, and where the app just sent a notification saying we’ve arrived at our destination when Google says we’re still 10 miles out :)

A protein supplies store in a shopping centre in Krakow. The store name is KFD, just one letter away from a certain chicken franchise.

Screengrab from an old Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum answers the phone and says “no you got the wrong number, this is nine one (pause) two”

No, you got the wrong protein supplier.
This is KF…D.