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Can't imagine

BBC2 Bottom slide

#OnThisDay 1995 : The final new episode of Bottom was broadcast on BBC2. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson would continue Bottom as a stage show.

#90s

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Not been there in a while but it's an excellent pub, and the beer /was/ good when I went.

It seems a bit shonky and laggy.

Facebook post from Spotted Ilkeston. "Is there any where local to go fisting? New to the area and would like my husband to go and enjoy."

Meanwhile, in Ilkeston.

what3words is an abomination.

Happy Easter, one and all! Hope the bunny brought you nice treats...

Actual footage

Two black and white cats lying in an old potato box, on a broken chair, in a scruffy urban garden.

Cats: "We must have the finest commercially-available beds and playthings."

Also cats: "Bring us an old potato box, and leave it on a broken chair."

A meme showing a photo of an Easter lamb-shaped moulded aspic. Two peas form the eyes and some pickled red pepper forms the nose. There are also cauliflower florets, hard boiled egg slices and cold cuts in the aspic. The aspic is propped up by three toothpicks, two right below the head and one at the back. Looks as if it was shot with arrows. The Caption goes: Therapist: Polish Easter food isn't real, it can't hurt you. Poland:

Way to go, Poland!

Crushed traffic cone

You're a roadwork Harry!

friendly reminder: lots of people don't have this weekend off, specifically so you can enjoy your weekend off, be very fucking nice to pub and restaurant and retail staff we are Not Having A Good Time and do not have a four day break coming up

Dyson - a man who took his wealth abroad to avoid paying taxes, moved his manufacturing from Malmesbury to Singapore to avoid UK taxes or employees, promoted the disaster that is Brexit, now trying to lecture on how the UK is struggling.

He can fuck off.

56% German, 36% Autistic

"I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and I'm apparently just German. Kant would approve. german.millermanschool.com "

Morning Kitten

He said this with a totally straight face. We took his advice.

Once, many many years ago, @marybartram.bsky.social and I, in the company of my sister and her husband, walked into a pub in Ilfracombe that advertised scrumpy.

I approached the bar.

"What's your scrumpy like, mate?"
"I wouldn't give it to my fucking dog mate, stick to the Strongbow"

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

Curse of private equity

This is an interesting story of how private equity turned UK care homes for vulnerable elderly people into cash machines.

Govt privatised care service. PE hiked prices, councils forced to pay

PE loaded companies with debt, cut wages/staffing, asset-stripping, poor service

Tricky times for the content creators, life coaches and right wing journalists who left Britain shrieking claims that it was becoming an authoritarian state

The LaGuardia Crash Will Be Blamed on One Controller. That's Not the Whole Story. 3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system.
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School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

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Don’t ban Freddie please! Tesco gets petitioned Petition launched to allow much-loved moggy back into Skegness Tesco store

Don’t ban Freddie please! Tesco gets petitioned

Petition launched to allow much-loved moggy back into Skegness Tesco store | Sophie Molly
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A novel brush with the law.

In total it took 2 charges of both batteries and multiple recharges of me.