The best thing about AI chat sites is that they allow you to ask stupid questions in a stupid way.
Mark Thomas's Pet Hates
I thought these were funny. Comedian Mark Thomas’s pet hates, from The Irish Times , quoted by Colin Murray on Midnight Meets Midnight Meets
The way Desert Island discs doesn’t play the full song.
The smug class-ridden blather of [Radio Four’s] Today programme.
Anything that involves Piers Morgan and an absence of violence.
Harley Davidson motorbikes and the over 50-year-olds that ride them.
Anyone who has been in a gymkhana.
Any film with Josh Grogan.
Litter and the people who complain about litter.
The Proms.
Christmas markets.
Dyson, the man not the machines.
Ageing.
The BBC notion of balance and inpartiality that invariably sides with the overdog and the establishment, but still manages to say “well we’ve had complaints from everybody, so we have probably got it about right”.
My children ‘borrowing’ my clothes.
News about the Royal Family.
S**t coffee that costs £2.50
Buying water in plastic bottles.
Macaroni cheese.
Having to throw away half of the weekend papers.
People talking about their piercings.
Garden centres.
John Lewis Xmas adverts and the coverage thereof.
Q and A’s
(NB: Tories, capitalism, sexism and racism come under serious hates.
15th of January, here in the Shire, is halfway through winter, by some calculations….I’m looking forward to Spring
Another thought from last night ⚽
I really, really, really want this car
I wonder if any of Bob Dylan’s LP’s have ever been advertised on a poster this big? In Andover?
Thoughts on Chelsea - Bournemouth
-
lovely to see Reece score
-
the first goal was sublime.
-
Not entirely sure how Jackson wriggled free of three of their players for that goal
-
our confidence is so fragile…it felt like it evaporated in the half a minute after that Sanchez’s misplaced pass
-
Maresca could probably have made the changes earlier
-
all 11 of our players seemed to be making mistakes…whether that was Bournemouth playing well or us playing badly I don’t know
-
I really need to nail down the best way of getting back to Waterloo
-
I’m far too old to be running up escalators to make the 22.50
Nice story about Brian Clough in the Telegraph today, from the Liverpool player Phil Thompson
Thompson views that rivalry as one of mutual respect rather than among the most hostile in English football. “I knew how much the Forest lads loved Cloughie from the England get-togethers and experienced a little of his man-management myself,” he says.
“There was a game at the City Ground when I had a bad ankle injury and it needed stitching up. I was on the treatment table and in a bad way with the doctor working on me, pulling the skin over my ankle. Cloughie popped his head in and could see what was going on, so started talking to me and telling me what a great player he thinks I am.
“He just kept talking away and it dawned on me later how he was taking my mind off the injury. Не went up in my estimation after that.
Reasons I’d like to be famous
- to be one of the VIPs on a half-marathon (because they get very well looked after)
- so I could get the people on the Who Do You Think You Are show to do my family tree (because I can’t really be bothered )
Watercolour skies in the Shire this morning
Currently reading: Blue was the colour by andy hamilton 📚
Currently reading: Blue was the colour by andy hamilton 📚
This won’t be a popular view amongst football fans, but the Third Round of the FA Cup does make me think more kindly of VAR ⚽
Are the Gooners cos-playing Real Madrid because they’ve won the Champions League so many times 😆 ⚽
Wise words can come from various sources
Really enjoyed ‘Better Man’. Worth seeing at the cinema, if you get the chance, if only for the Rock DJ bit
The final, rather grown-up, joy of Christmas is when the binmen take all the rubbish away
I’m very fortunate to be #ChelseaFc….but I wish it wasn’t so ruddy difficult to get tickets
I wasn’t planning on doing a lot of politics on here….but I think Jess Phillips is a good person
There was a very ‘Radio 4’ exchange on the radio just now
-
what was the last gig that you went to?
-
it was one of the Gallagher brothers…but I can’t remember which one
The Christmas Radio Times is now defunct…..goodbye old friend
