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NEW COLUMN: *Take me home, @IslandRoads* In which I weave tale around a trip to @mayflower to see #mentalist @DerrenBrown, with eternal gamble of catching the last @RedFunnelFerry #RedJet, plus added frustration of pesky road closures on #IsleOfWight. countypress.co.uk/news/25878029.…

@N1kky8 @anon_opin I had a colleague who would deflate anyone's boast of an encounter with a member of the Royal Family with, "Four handshakes from Hitler, mate."

@anon_opin You can do this with Hitler on Wikipedia. Hours of entertainment.

I've invented a game called Seven Degrees of Doctor Who. Pick a British actor, male or female, any age, working from 1950 onwards. Then count how quickly you can find a connection with Doctor Who. I have never ever got beyond three degrees of separation. Mostly it's two.

@ConfessionsPete 🤦🏻Graphic designer: "Oh fark! I'd forgotten all about the deadline for that Rentadick poster." <splodges own fingerprints on quad sheet and panic-doodles over them> 💁🏻GD: "Ta-da!"

Underwhelming quad poster for a fun little film - what a cast

@TheSimonEvans I wrote about this very subject for @iwcponline. Rebel without a course. 👇🏻 naturenet.net/blogs/2022/07/… cc @ayeejuju

Desire lines, and their thwarting.

@anon_opin See also photos of cushions, a vase of flowers and a coffee pot on Air BnB listings. SHOW ME THAT THERE IS A FUNCTIONING TOILET.

If your tourism advert just contains generic shots of people drinking cocktails in a nondescript bar that could be anywhere in the world, you're basically advertising the fact that there is nothing special or unique about your destination.

@GeoffNorcott Just caught myself laughing again at the term "nonce-adjacent" from yesterday's show! 😹

Thanks to tonight’s tour show crowd in Pompey. I trust you were able to get vapes/peri peri chicken after the show.

Shame @iwcartipper is no longer a presence on this channel. Finally an April Fool made just for him!

"Aspiring rapper"

Looks like this manufactured #FuelCrisis might be great for the environmental movement. #SustainableTransport news.sky.com/story/public-t…

@SaucySeventies I always do the @theBobbyCrush flick when pressing return on my laptop keyboard.

Happy Birthday to pianist and composer Bobby Crush. What an entertainer!

@crimsonavenger Nothing wrong with living in your own reality tunnel, as long as you are content. But there are many joys to be found beyond our comfort zones - if we can take that first step... 😽

Whats the age when you just give up? I’m 58 this year and don’t feel like giving up yet. I still wear the vans and listen to punk and metal and enjoy a drink. Don’t think I’m embarrassing myself to be honest.

@SaucySeventies Thanks for this. It's been my earworm since you posted it! 😺

Happy 80th Birthday to Timothy Dalton. In 1978 he was singing a love song to 83 year old Mae West in the astonishing film Sextette. Dear old Mae can barely stand up let alone sing. Stay to the end for a Keith Moon cameo!

@FishHutBlackDog @GolfPerthert @anon_opin Check out the price of my Stranglers tickets! Doesn't really count for getting into them after the fact tho.

@FishHutBlackDog @GolfPerthert @anon_opin That I'd pay to see! And I'm with you on Shelley, and The Stranglers too. Saw Pete on his solo tour at Portsmouth Poly Students Union back in the day. Look at the early doors ticket numbers - I was a MASSIVE fan of his.

There is something life affirmingly wonderful about discovering a well established cultural phenomenon years after the fact, on your own terms. That moment where you go, "actually, fucking hell, this is really bloody good, I want more". And there is more. I love it.

@anon_opin Don't forget the excessive packaging.

Supermarkets are evil. Their obsession with cheap food has broken our agricultural system, ruined our environment and fueled obesity. The food isn't even that cheap as you end up paying extra via taxes that subsidise broke farmers and fund benefits for underpaid shop workers.

@mokofil @ConfessionsPete Oh yeah. You are undoubtedly right - I wasn't paying attention. No Christophe Lambert tho! #ThereCanBeOnlyOne

@WightHot @ConfessionsPete And Michael Caine for Lazenby 😳 I assumed Ford was there for Last Crusade, and Caine for The Man Who Would Be King - but who knows? Maybe one of them is the new Bond? James Bond - The Care Home Years.

I mean, AI has its critics, but look at this truly heart-rending image I’ve just found on facebook 😂😂. I’ll take questions now

@mokofil @ConfessionsPete He's represented by <checks image> Harrison Ford. 🤷🏻

@ConfessionsPete Dalton left out in the cold. Again.

@anon_opin Wire a plug???

There should be a mandatory GCSE in Life Skills. By the time you leave school you should know how to change a car wheel, wire a plug, stop a dripping tap, how to wallpaper and paint, being able to cook simple meals from scratch, alongside financial skills like budgeting.

Every euro, dollar or pound that is spent on weapons and war is a dollar, euro or pound not spent on health, education or housing.

@M3WDD @anon_opin Did you see The Lunchbox too? Great film!

@anon_opin "In the Indian city of Mumbai and the Pakistani city of Karachi, there is a complex and efficient delivery system that regularly delivers hot lunches packed in dabbas to city office workers from their suburban homes or from a caterer."

Takeaway and delivery restaurants should use proper stainless steel containers and collect them, so they can be used again. If there was a national standard for the containers they could be returned to any restaurant, or even supermarkets, for recycling.