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Train stations, James Bond, telly, general nonsense. He/Him/Twat. 🏳️‍🌈 http://www.merseytart.com

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 8d

New blog: The Dutch Cap - www.merseytart.com/2025/10/the-... - where I return to Amsterdam to finish what I started two years ago, and get annoyed again about the state of the UK.

The Dutch Cap

A couple of years ago I went to Amsterdam in search of the stations on this map. Those coloured lines form the five lines of the Amsterdam ...

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5h

Right, so, someone saying immigrants should have “A-level English” is someone who doesn’t know what the subject “English” is, which is learning to recognise and understand deeper meaning and symbolism in a text, to be able to analyse and deconstruct and get their own reading on a text

Ron Swanson ignoring the symbolism in Moby Dick which he thinks is a book about a guy who hates an animal

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 2h

(gay caveat: also Noddy trying to kiss his mate in the pictures)

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 2h

and all people will watch is PJ getting shot in the face

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 5h

Every episode of Byker Grove will be on ITVX from November.

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Dan @danofthewibble.bsky.social · 3h

I’d prefer beef.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 5h

a teddy bear wearing a red hat and a blue coat

ALT: a teddy bear wearing a red hat and a blue coat

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 8h

Realised that one of the reasons I'm pretty happy with my social media experience is I only follow people who can punctuate properly.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t understand the fit on this shirt. #GBBO

Aaron from Bake Off, a nice man in his 20s, wearing a peach shirt that’s about three sizes too big with a collar halfway down his back.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 18h

“I was born in 2004!” Yeah, and I was three months old when the last series aired, I didn’t immediately scrub it from my consciousness.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 18h

After the first episode.
My mum: “There’s one I really hate already.”
Me: “Same.”
Mum: “Is it Tom? I bet it’s Tom.”

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 18h

They weren’t even embarrassed.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 20h

Even if Renee and Meryl are playing duelling ham hocks.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 20h

Selina Gomez is a nice enough actress but putting her in a scene with Da’vine Joy Randolph, Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and Dianne Wiest underlines her - let’s say - limitations.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 20h

I should unsubscribe from the Box mailing list because their pants are rubbish but… you know.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 22h

Literally just shouted at a Bluesky post if you’re wondering about my mental state.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

Get that coin where you can. JK Simmons is the yellow M&M, even though he’s got an Oscar!

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

Americans get Brian Cox. www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9e...

‘Succession’ actor Brian Cox is also the McDonalds voiceover guy

YouTube video by New York Post

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

A screengrab from the TV show Gamesmaster, showing a 20 something white man called Dexter Fletcher in a boiler suit.

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Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

The trauma of seeing these ads right after Children’s BBC ended while I was eating my dinner.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

😔😔😔

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

Checked the time to see if it is lunchtime yet. It is not.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

(Sean Lock was by all accounts a lovely man who had no time for the fash whatsoever but he's dead now so they can say what they like)

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

Because he was WORKING CLASS and COCKNEY and STUCK IT TO THE MAN and used to dominate that little PUSSY BOY Jon Richardson who was all clever but it WASN'T ENOUGH cos he was a PROPER BLOKE like we don't have any more because of WOKE.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

Specially bred hens with massive anuses.

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

James Bond only in the last frame is very like that Viz comic about Ringo Starr that entirely skipped the Beatles.

archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 1d

Roger Moore profiled in Buddy (31st October 1981).

Scott @merseytart.bsky.social · 1d

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