I guess they need to try announcing his emotions in advance, otherwise everyone picks ‘surprised’ or ‘bewildered’

If you support the abc, you support this.

4,358 days for me!

Robin Williams’ ‘Popeye’ Had the ‘Most Coked-Up Film Set’ and ‘Everyone Was Stoned,’ Says Former Studio Boss: ‘They Were Shipping’ Cocaine in Film Canisters Former Paramount Pictures boss Barry Diller says "Popeye" had the most "coked-up film set" he's ever seen.

The guy who was CEO of Paramont from 1974-84 says ‘Popeye’ was the most coked-up film set he ever visited.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

“There are hints of Orwell’s 1984 in this sort of manipulation of language, manipulation of the truth… The whole thing reads like a scenario for, on the 1 hand, a sort of new movie, & also a new blueprint for a kind of militaristic religion…”

JG Ballard, 3/11/03

We miss you Jim x

Lessons in comedy.

I was at college during our last recession. Now I’m 10 years off pension age.

34 years for Australia. People are going to lose their frickin’ minds when we get one again.

❤️ Horace

❤️ Clarabelle.

I have, over some years, formed the opinion that John is a polite and respectful fellow, and would ask permission before defacing other people's property.

Thank-you!

I'm a bit boggled that there's only 3800 people 'like me' in SW England. (but I've just read that the city of Wells has a pop of 11k, which seems to stretch the demographic idea of 'city' beyond breaking)

A few years ago I started living with & walking an elderly Pomeranian dog. My first time living with a dog.
Two things I've really noticed.
She is *so* choosey about *exactly* where she wees, and
She v. rarely 'rolls in it' but when she does, it is a strange & memorable performance.

Five years at uni with no degree but I have a Graduate Certificate and a Postgraduate Certificate. Questions like this aren't good for imposter syndrome 🤷‍♀️

White men aged 55-64 from the South West, who live in a mortgaged home in a city, are in work and were educated to A-level There are about 3,400 Britons like this

I'm not from the UK, I was just playing around, but this statement about my settings seems absurd on its face. Are there really only 3,800 people out of 69 million who match this? Is the South-West largely unpopulated?

Do you have to show your driver's licence or something before they let you sign books?

Like those cylinders of spiced meat they shave off for a kebab. I think the shine is a trick of the light, the beige tray and the brown mush.

A couple of us military people I’ve seen reckon it’s a slice of kebab/doner meat.

I mean, a friend owned a manufacturing firm that won a contract to make plastic tubes for fracking, but classing all his staff as ‘mining’ seems wrong.

I was trying to say that taking all of engineering, surveying and testing out of ‘professional and technical’ and putting them into ‘mining’ would still appear to leave most of professional and technical as non-mining

Where are your figures from?

There's a *lot* in there that isn't mining, even if you include all of engineering, surveying and testing as 'mining'

That doesn't quite seem right. Mining in total employs about 300k and Electricity and Gas supply about 120k, while Professional, Scientific and Technical services employs 1.4M and Education & training employs 1.3M. What am I missing?

Inked horror cover of a group of alien scouts camping in the (to them) giant skeletal remains of a human astronaut.

Recent EC cover: “shelter”

Don’t forget appropriating money without the consent of Parliament like Charles I.

Most old-man thing so far

Sounds like an NZ Labour thing

I think my dog is the local senior, but she’s a 13 year old Pomeranian who sleeps 18 hours a day but will try to take a piece of any non-human who gets too close. We have a little stroller we can push her around in.

Turned 85 in Feb! Older than Paul McCartney!

Short profile of PHANTOM artist, Sy Barry. He's 98 years old but until last year he was still teaching a weekly painting class: www.chroniclechamber.com/post/sy-barr...

Another day, another circle of hell…