Headline: World’s biggest condom maker set to raise prices due to Iran war

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

why is it giving peasant meme

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An hour of fantastic Top 40 hits that may have fallen between the cracks of the memory sofa.

"The Other One" with me, Friday morning at 11am, @noiseboxradio.com

Sad news for Alistair.

Festive Episodes Of All Your Comedy Favourites! It is actually possible to make it all the way through a box set of seventies and eighties ITV sitcom Christmas Specials without hurling it at a blazing yule log…?

There used to be three or four sitcoms on ITV every evening well into the nineties. Mostly they weren't very good but it's still difficult not to miss the fact they were there. To investigate this conundrum, I watched twenty of them in a row. Even On The Buses...

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SPARKY PLUGG ANDY SERKIS

It was on this date in 1989 that the first episode of Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors was shown on BBC 1.
Unsure whatever happened to the guy who played Sparky Plugg

Gromit
Scooby Doo
Tony Blackburn's Arnold
Pickles who found the World Cup
That tiny sausage dog of Patrick and Pippa's that Victor picks up thinking he's a phone

Historic male relationship?

Mills fucked Henry The 8th?

Global Hypercolor - rave-adjacent heat-sensitive colour-changing clobber brand beloved of E-scoffing revellers trying to get a frug in before the coppers showed up and canoodling teens who reckoned without its hue-shifting grassing-up potential alike.

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One VERY IMPORTANT thing to note about Confessions of a Pop Performer: Jill Gascoine telling Askwith to “kiss me where it counts” and then forcing his head under the covers is one of the sexiest moments in any 70s British grot film.

I never had a Master System, so I found it especially interesting to hear about getting into gaming via that route, and I’m already a fan of Noisebox!

I recently binged all the podcast episodes, enjoyed it a lot, especially Richard Shaw-Wright and Tracey Binnie!

Count Duckula 2! Bring it on!

Lots of opinion pieces about whether the UK would take to the SNL format. Why not? Other than some topical material in the middle, its the same variety format the likes of Mike and Bernie Winters were doing sixty years ago. And christ, there were two of them.

If you ever need to hide something where nobody will ever find it, a good place would be The Programme On ITV Between News At Ten and Live Overnight Casino. The place nobody ever looks.

If you're looking for a playlist to sum up the diverse listenership of @noiseboxradio.com, try this thread, and these three freewheeling hours of radio www.mixcloud.com/NoiseboxRadi...

(And yeah, Madoc/Tarmey, perhaps not Recordiau Sain's finest release. Clearly @pantosplaining.bsky.social's fault)

Happy birthday to Dennis the Menace!...

Wait, whaddya mean that's the wrong one??

From this week's special anniversary edition of Beano, out today! Script by me, art by Shannon Gallant.

#dennis75

The Ed Winchester bits were genuinely my favourite bits of S1 of The Fast Show, but in my defence, I was only 15.

Happy St Pat Wicks Day

The Big Recommendations Sort Out A collection of enthusiasms over a handful of podcasts and mailling lists that I both enjoy and felt deserved a little more exposure, with apologies extended to ALFSplaining who were next on the li…

Some stuff I enjoy reading and listening to, and why you should be reading and listening to it too including @alfsplaining.bsky.social, @drunkwomenpod.bsky.social, @bigsort.bsky.social and @mrphilnorman.bsky.social's newsletter.

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One interesting thing about the amazing BBC Gladiators is that it’s directed by the same person as the awful Sky version.

I loved this comparison of the two Menaces.

Put your money away. For today ONLY! Three of my favourite phrases to hear and say FOR ABSOLUTELY GRATIS FREE 😎🤫

Tony C Western

Pete Beresford's Band

And people say all the good musical names have been taken!

Top 3 posts of February 2026, #2...

When Lana Del Rey sings about her boyfriend playing video games I like to imagine he’s playing Chuckie Egg on a Spectrum.

Been a busy weekend so late getting round to this but the new STARBURST is out now! I wrote the history of DAREDEVIL, the story of MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, a Telephemera on Stan Lee's STRIPPERELLA, and more! Plus, my good pal @krismoyse.bsky.social gushes praise on POSSESSION! Essential reading!!!

Wonderful!