Malcolm McKenzie

I’m not saying our last cat was big, but here he is on Google Earth.

@DFrankcom @P_J_Betting *foul dammit!

@DFrankcom @P_J_Betting This drive me mad in The Americas! Like, just say wgat it costs and charge me that, don’t muck about with all this tax nonsense. No wonder so many fall fowl of/interfere with the IRS

The tipping culture in America never fails to baffle me I won’t lie. A pint is around $9 (just under £7) which includes an 18.75% service charge (so around $7.50 for the actual pint itself, which isn’t too dissimilar to UK prices) and I’m fine with that. But then they give you a pen with the receipt to write an extra tip on and it’s so bloody awkward. So many questions going through my mind every time. What do you want me to do here? What was the 18.75% for? Are you not getting paid by the hour? How much are you getting of that service charge? How much more are you expecting? Do I look a tight bastard if I just do $1 more? I’d say I’m a very generous bloke too with my time and my money but it’s just mind-blowing stuff how this is a normality. Can’t beat just buying 3 pints in the UK (well Europe, let’s be honest) in a pub for around 18quid… and just giving a 20sheet to the barman and letting them keep the change 🍻

@harrygalow @DFrankcom Can’t get a pint here for less than six pounds you should count yourself lucky wherever you are.

@DFrankcom Not sure why you’re buying your pints at the ritz mate but looking at £4.50 / £5.50 max here 😳

@CatArthurian @just_my_tweet Thought this was UK initially and couldn’t see the problem. Switzerland tho… my ex-girlfriend’s mother there was taken to court for wind chimes in her garden. Yeah, this doesn’t go down well in Switzerland.

This is Switzerland. They have VERY specific rules about noise at the weekend. Even on agricultural land (which this is). It's not essential. She could have done it tomorrow. And she could have done it quicker with other, less noisy machinery - but she is obsessed with these damned things.

What's happening? This shit, right outside my house. On Whit Monday. I'm sure this is illegal. They've been at it for hours. If it was due to rain, I could understand it. But the weather forecast is for fine weather tomorrow. Do it then, please. My ears are bleeding. Rant over.

@VinWolters @crockpics You have no idea what you’re talking about. Prove me wrong.

@crockpics Kurt was just a junkie

Sub Pop founder Bruce Pavitt took this photo of a very exhausted Kurt Cobain resting on a ledge in Rome in November 1989. Nirvana was grinding through their very first European tour, playing small, packed clubs to support their debut album Bleach.

ABSOLUTELY……. IT’S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE It didn’t happen in 1968 while LBJ was in office and Iran signed the NPT. It didn’t happen in 1975 when Ford got them to sign a comprehensive peace treaty woth Iraq It didn’t happen in 1985 when Ronald Reagan got them to officially sign a peace agreement with Iraq And it DIDN’T HAPPEN in 2015 when Obama, Xi, Putin, Hollande, David Cameron and Jean-Claude Juncke representing all 28 European Union coontries got them to sign the JCPOA. SO. You’re right………TRUMP IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN GET THEM TO THE TABLE. He’s also the ONLY one that had to spend $60B dollars, kill 1300 Iranians, get 13 American soldiers killed, over 300 injured, lose most of our bases in the region, cause a global energy crisis and kill 165 little girls to sign a deal we alreay had!

Thought this was @TheOnion at first.

Searching through old photos and screen grabs and came across this job interview one which always made me laugh.

@obsessafilma @MadelaineLucyH @VasilisWins @madzkills789 @PeregrineT49351 @brittany_guy_rl Enjoying this conversation but horribly aware I’m This Guy.

@MadelaineLucyH @VasilisWins @madzkills789 @PeregrineT49351 @brittany_guy_rl "Dimitri, you were there the day that nice doctor won the Nobel Prize of Medicine for his groundbreaking research on Kostas and whether or not his completely lack of intelligence means he can be considered braindead."

Don’t worry guys they just care about ethnically accurate depictions of people in the Balkans, this definitely isn’t racism

He’s not smart enough not to boast about the fact West swing staffers are making him do cognitive tests.

Watched The Pitt and then the AI tellybox shows ER and it’s remarkable how not busy the wards and corridors are.

Bus home after gruelling shift. Brighton nightlife is a good grounding and reality check. More vibrant than picking up the night bus in The Cut when I worked at Tommies, surprisingly. Colleague said I should spend some time in the sun tomorrow. Instead we’ve booked an escape room

♫ In the shops there was a magazine And a fine fine magazine was he And in that magazine there was some drawings And from those drawings there was some balloons And in those balloons there was some words In the new Viz, new Viz, new Viz, new Viz ♫

@CallMeMoNow Should read, “your next job could be in AI”

The US Department of Education may have proved a low level of competence here but the replies are truly the best of humanity.

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

Five fox cubs playing in the garden. Bold enough to approach me but fled when I moved. Climbing fences which was something I didn’t realise they did particularly.

Dammit. Got a West Wing theme earworm. The opening obviously, not the jaunty ending which always sounds like that bit in Jaws where it’s all optimistic for thirty seconds.

@cafreiman @DinaPomeranz Confused how this data is cited as from 2005.

Markets have actually made milk dramatically more affordable: