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I am watching Rocky for the first time and I feel like a lot of men take the message of like idolising Rocky for the boxing but they should be idolising him for following his heart and falling in love with the shy quiet girl

WIN STUFF It’s not out till February but I’ve got a couple of these samplers of The Far-out Five to give away. Type your middle name in the comments to enter - if you don’t have a middle name unfortunately you are ineligible (or you could just make one up it’s not like I’m going to check is it)

Saturday afternoon wrestling on ITV was a weekend highlight for everyone I knew. We need a return to watching two enormously fat men in silly nylon costumes slamming each other around the ring on national TV. Let's normalise athletic obesity again.

35yrs ago my friend Helen and I travelled across the Soviet Union, into Siberia, across Mongolia and all the way down through China on trains closer to the top pic (then a boat to Japan) mostly with only dodgy hand-written black market tickets which in retrospect was youthful insanity (but exciting)

My coworker has been unknowingly saving his Harry Potter fan fiction to a document on a shared drive. It's well written & our weekly highlight, as it includes a porn mag called the 'Hogwarts Sex Press', a magical AIDS epidemic, and a very profane Ron Weasley. I'm not reporting it

Dipped into ep.4 of the Liz Truss Show for no more than a minute (using mirror site that does not boost numbers or revenue yewtu.be/channel/UCpI...). Quite aside from the INSANITY of what she says, camera is focussed on background, not her, THROUGHOUT. And what's up with the candy cane on the books?

‘Incredible [Bardot’s] compassion for animals didn’t extend to people’ - my mum nails it as we watch the 9 o’clock news on RTE

No. #BetteridgesLaw

Two brothers in their 80s have died following a house fire near Easkey, Co Sligo

People who say "I was today years old" when sharing a piece of new information to them should be prosecuted under the Online Safety Act.

Christmas is RUINED and there’s some plum in the comments suggesting they consult a human rights lawyer.

The storm could bring snow and high speed winds to parts of the northern Midwest on Sunday and Monday.

Trump has long threatened to fire Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, raising fears about a non-independent Fed.

We know what Putin will have said. Peace - but only on his terms and to his advantage. Trump is a weakling getting played by a tinpot dictator.

‘You know what I like’: Epstein files reveal disgraced financier’s routine abuse of girls Released documents detail the assembly line-like process with which Jeffrey Epstein procured underage victims www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We got out an old jigsaw, and then I saw the name — I’m assuming the product prices vary depending on tariffs

The men who built America risked their lives outrageously to scrape a living in the New World, writes Declan Lynch. Meanwhile, the most serious risk encountered daily by the AI overlords is that they might somehow be crushed in an avalanche of their own money — or perhaps other people’s money

Early 90s Xmas eve drinking with mate. Ran out of money for booze but enough for a coffee. Found table and bag full of board games under table. Receipt in bag. All went back to HMV for cash refund. Back on the piss up. Sorry but nobody wants board games for Xmas anyway.

This is a collection of teddy bears dressed and made to look human.

Bit OTT to set the table for a McDonald's order

Adults who spend fortunes on Lego are gullible fools. For a mere pittance in comparison, nothing can beat the joy of interpreting the instructions, building, painting and completing a good plastic model kit

Been in the centre of town. Lucky to get out alive from what I've read on threads. You can see what has happened to this city under Sadiq Khan.

Fredville Park - the Kingdom of Kent The home of real Ents Photo: Simon Pettman

Many episodes available worldwide! Play ‘em to your kids 😁👇

More than 100 illuminated trucks have recreated the iconic Coca-Cola Christmas truck advert in a local charity drive in Co Galway.

The Kingdom of Kent is a dual Kingdom of Kentish Men & Men of Kent, separated by the Mighty Medway Everyone lives in these funny pointy houses, own oak woods, play cricket (a game we invented) & fly Spitfires over the White Cliffs of Dover

My mum, brought up in Suffolk, used to use this diminutive on her children, and call me Peterkins, my sister Jackiekins… Boy, how I miss her

With the death of Bardot, the world's racists have become significantly less attractive.

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW Quizmas Crackers It's the Eye Quiz of the last year! Adam, Helen and Andy get out the sleigh bells and the silly hats, and quiz each other on all the biggest, smallest and stupidest news stories of 2025. Listen: pod.fo/e/36e712 YouTube: youtu.be/iEGhU8bgZNQ

Watching a show in which Maya Rudolf plays a feckless billionaire and I was amused to see her handbag, which #SpeirGorm will recognise as the bag that helped sink a feckless presidential campaign

My wife said she's impressed at how restrained I'm being with the Christmas chocolates. I've got big tubs of Heroes and Quality Street hidden in the garage.

US President Donald Trump has said diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine war were in the "final stages", as he sat down to talks today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Must Watch will be out on Monday as usual with our TV PICKS OF THE YEAR. Podcast out on BBC Sounds, but it’ll also air on 5Live at 1pm as usual.

The Takeover of Crimea - and What Strelkov, Surkov, Bannon, Trump, Farage and Johnson Were Doing in 2014 Halfway through Book 6, I've now got to the post Maidan turnaround, and we're back with many of our main players in the UK and US open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

The Takeover of Crimea - and What Strelkov, Surkov, Bannon, Trump, Farage and Johnson Were Doing in 2014 Halfway through Book 6, I've now got to the post Maidan turnaround, and we're back with many of our main players in the UK and US open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

YouTube Shorts are fucking shit, if I wanted that sort of bollocks, I would install ClipClop, or whatever it's called.

Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.

Was out, so I’ve got home and watched the Spurs game on 2x speed. Oof, a low quality game! But a desperately needed win. Annoying that both disallowed goals were moments of actual skill — we really need a creative midfielder and left winger in January, it’s just so dreary to watch #COYS

If anyone ever invents a game show that has half the tension, drama and nail-biting suspense as playing hide and seek with a 3 year old, it’ll be a total winner.

The Yesterboys compare Christmases and Max talks teabagging. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/w...

He is as real as the day

Amazing work CE(NTO)

The new Bylines Network gazette is out! Theme is Environment - with a hefty dose of George Monbiot. Have a quick look! 👇👀

What's that, you say? Christmas is over, and there's nothing to look forward to? Well, I've got a treat for you! Coming up on 5th January on BBC Two it's VICTORIAN MURDER CLUB. And here's the trailer to give you a glimpse! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

The books of Christmas. Yet to make anything from the Rambutan but it’s one of my favourite places in London. Pereira Maintains is a real gem, set in Salazar Portugal. So far the Bureau is McNamee’s finest since Resurrection Man. Empire of AI is terrifying, frankly

Emergency service worker. Working all Christmas this year: Xmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Eve & New Year's Day. Partner moaning about it, saying I'm caught every year & it's unfair. I actually volunteer. Prefer it to spending Xmas in their grim home town with their dull family

The James Cameron blockbuster has now grossed about $760 million at theaters worldwide.

We keep being told we're in a golden age of TV, but it very much depends upon what sort of TV you enjoy. If you love comedy, especially British sitcoms and sketch shows, it's far from a Golden Age.

“This Indian restaurant has RUINED Christmas by not serving Christmas dinner on Christmas Day,” said no-one ever. Until this guy.

crystal palace’s yeremy was named after his parents’ favourite song by pearl yam #thefootball

Fire crews have rescued a paraglider who crashed into the roof of a Co Fermanagh hotel

Give this a go, it’s good fun & you discover pictures you haven’t seen before!

The cold is pretty nailed on now from end of coming week but the chances of snow remain uncertain. At present Northern areas at highest risk of snow. Forecasting snow in Ireland is notoriously tricky even a day or two out so bear that in mind when the headlines start talking about a dump of snow

congratulations to young archie gray on scoring his second professional goal!

Two men, aged in their 80s, died in a housefire in rural Co Sligo this morning

Why has Donald Trump cancelled brutalism? www.channel4.com/news/why-has...

Legendary French actress and activist Bridgitte Bardot dies www.channel4.com/news/legenda...

New ‘life changing’ asthma drug approved by regulators www.channel4.com/news/new-lif...

‘The prize for Trump is peace and lifting sanctions on Russia’ – former NATO ambassador www.channel4.com/news/the-pri...

Zelenskyy ‘open to dimilitarised zone’ amid Mar-a-Lago Trump talks www.channel4.com/news/zelensk...

A very interesting setup to start 2026. Winter is coming!

Thanks to them being shitbags and me being frustrated with them, my stepchildren are now convinced that Elf on the Shelf has the propensity to bite them. It hasn't yet, but could any day now. They fear the little plastic monstrosity.

Spent today on Gran Canaria.

⚡ U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a "productive" telephone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ahead of a planned meeting in Florida with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky.

Two men in their 80s have died following a house fire near Easkey, Co Sligo

US President Donald Trump said he held a "very productive" call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this evening

People make fun of the names from Dune: Paul, Jessica and Duncan Idaho all seem weirdly out of place, but not enough is made of the fact that Frank Herbert was sat there going “I want a planet that’s Iraq-ish, Iraq-ish, *snaps fingers* Arrakis! And Paul’s family are traders… hmmm, Atreides!”

Republicans have used the allegations to target the state’s large Somali population.

Uncanny

If I had murdered someone and then Miss Marple turned up to stay in the village where I’d done it I would simply kill myself on the spot

If neither you, nor your parents were born in a country, or if you do not live there, you cannot be "from" there. Your great Uncle spending 3 weeks in Cork does not make you Irish. Yes Americans I'm looking at you. Get a grip.

‘I … read in recent weeks …of FARAGE’s … racist and antisemitic bullying … It seemed that Farage’s behaviour was much worse than I had been aware. … described him … acting alone, singling out & pursuing specific pupils repeatedly, solely because they were Jews, or because of their skin colour’.

My daughter likes chess, and The Simpsons: both things influenced by me. For Christmas I found her a quite hard-to-acquire Simpsons chess set online. Great gifting, very pleased with myself. Want to guess what she got ME? That’s right, yes.

Prompted by a "your memories on FB" thingy today to recall that eleven years ago The Times chose Nigel Farage as their "Man of The Year" for 2014 and reacted to criticism like this. A good reminder PM Farage has been a much longer and more sustained project than we often credit.

It’s always fascinating to see what Abramovic is up to. All other contemporary conceptual artists follow in her airstream. Her body art is of a superior & exceptional character to others. An artist who is a force of nature. She explores bodily autonomy in particular.

One of my favourite things is when people say “you couldn’t make that today without complaints” when there were complaints at the time. TBF most people who say that sort of stuff to me are saying it in a “and rightly so” kind of way.

My wife is proud of her Christmas tree. She certainly has some incredible decorations for it and it is beautiful. For a laugh I've hung a tatty old sock on it, alongside the finery. She hasn't clocked it yet, and it's been a week so far.

Whilst Mrs Beth is at work over Christmas I’ve been watching a bunch of Bob Fosse dance routines on YouTube and I wish I didn’t have dyspraxia, and had some ability at fluid movements. I love the insane hyper 1960s stuff he was doing

Will high pressure hold on for the week ahead, or is there a change on the way? The week ahead video below gives all the details 👇

Got the most recent series of FROM THE OASTHOUSE for Xmas and it’s making me laugh so many times per minute, just wonderful, brilliant writing. Then I saw some bad reviews on Amazon from people who don’t think it’s funny and it made me sad

The president claimed the U.S. is the “REAL United Nations.”

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Fruit in cheese should be made as socially unacceptable as crapping in the street.

One from 1989, which was just a couple of years ago, right?

nah i'll post as many things with replies off so i don't have to read shite patter as i like

2025 was the year climate scientists agreed it would be impossible to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels

Just discovered a saxophone is under £300 for a beginner one.

Was mad enough to go on Celebrity Mastermind. Against a Gladiator. You can watch for yourself, tonight, 730pm, BBC2. And I thought sitting through a @jonsopel1.bsky.social anecdote was tough.

Oooh, Murder On the Orient Express is on BC1. Fabulous in every way, especially Richard Rodney Bennett’s score which includes one of the greatest pieces of cinema music composing: the accelerating waltz for the train’s departure from Istanbul. Bliss.

The least any of the shysters selling AI like Altman, Musk or Bezos could do is be entertaining about their con like Lyle Lanley in The Simpsons, or Harold Hill in The Music Man. Ya got trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool!

I can't use bar soap as I'm traumatised from the 1970s. Mum used a 'soap saver' - putting the dog-ends of soap bars into a compressor to make 'new' soap. Only it wasn't, it looked grey and contained a variety of stray pubes. Liquid soap only for me.

Made French Toast but I didn't have any brioche so I used tiger loaf and I didn't have any cinnamon so I didn't use that and I didn't have any vanilla essence so I used franjelico and it was amazing cheers highly recommend.

Into the void: how Trump killed international law www.theguardian.com/law/ng-inter...

Back in the days when it was called Ye Olde Infernos in Cloppaham

Second one today. This one is even blocking anyone who so much as likes anything I post. Is there a shortage of prozac currently?

If you like this map you should follow @mattfromlondon.bsky.social as he made it; a detail Mark neglected to highlight.

Got tickets for London’s NYE fireworks celebrations? ✅ Tickets: Download on the Ticketmaster app on your phone (make sure it’s fully charged) ✅ Photo ID: You need it for entry ✅ Check which station you need to arrive at for your viewing area

A chilly night and start to the week. Yes tomorrow is Monday

Skiers took advantage of the Christmas holiday season by ski mountaineering on the slopes of Mount Etna, while Italy's most active volcano continued to erupt unabated.

My first novel was called The Marble Kiss and when it was published in 1994 I received various gifts with a lip motif to match the cover. Incl this ring commissioned by my wife. The silversmith later told us that the only reference he had to hand was a pic of Brigitte Bardot’s lips. They live on.