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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 1d

If you're bored this Sunday, you might like some of my recent Fawlty Towers writing.

The cut ending to Gourmet Night: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Fawlty Towers parodies over the years: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/herr...

Behind-the-scenes of Basil the Rat: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Polly with a pencil in her hand, taken from The Builders

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 22h

Who would have thought that Ron Mael not only has immaculate taste but immaculate reasoning too. This is a beaut of a read from start to finish.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 22h

"The Who were charming to me when they were writing more situational songs. They didn’t necessarily concern world shattering issues, but instead really beautiful, miniature statements. [and] I love the artwork with the Heinz Baked Beans."

#RonMael of #Sparks on #TheWho Sell Out

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The Who Sell Out album cover. Pete Townshend has a giant deodorant under his arm and Roger Daltrey is sat in a tub filled with baked beans whilst holding a Heinz can. He also has baked beans on his face, clearly indicating that he has been eating them.

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 1d

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 2d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Rik pic

a man in a suit stands in front of a window with quirkymerky written on the bottom

ALT: a man in a suit stands in front of a window with quirkymerky written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 1d

The moment that always springs to mind is this from Godfather 2. The heartbreak and total fear she shows without saying a word. Just perfect. What a loss.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

if you think The One Show is batshit, then consider In Town Tonight from 1955, where the guests were the leader of a Trinidadian steel band followed by an SS officer who was Hitler's personal valet. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

In Town Tonight - 29/10/1955

First transmitted in 1955, this is all that's left of this edition. It includes an interview with former SS officer Heinz Linge who was Hitler's personal attendant.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

This is just to say

I have eaten
3kg
Of cola bottles

Which was
Medically
Ill advised
And bunged me up
Completely
With gelatin

Forgive me
I had a hankering
And also
Ate a carvery

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 1d

To paraphrase our dear King; “Whatever safe means”.

Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 1d

I can count about seven separate red flags in this one letter of recommendation (from Peter Mandelson about Jeffrey Epstein) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 1d

One of the perks of having spent nearly half my life in the Netherlands over the past year is having access to the 0% variant. I’m hoping it catches on more in the UK so they bother launching it here.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

I don’t want a surprise.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 2d

From the local FB group. Hoping to meet this little devil out and about.

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting to read this alongside this on world cup ticketing in terms of the entertainment/hospitality sector increasingly seeking out 'Dubai Man' as a customer (shedloads of cash to buy 'high end' experiences rendered soulless and disconnected from their original joys).

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

For the past few months, for the @ftweekend.com essay, I’ve been digging deep into the phenomenon of premium restaurant brands going global: the risks, the benefits, the way almost all of them end up serving takes on the same ingredients.

on.ft.com/3KS1Enr How high-end restaurants went global

How high-end restaurants went global

As a new generation sets out in the footsteps of Nobu and Zuma, Jay Rayner examines the rise of ‘luxe’ food chains — and whether it has come at a cost

on.ft.com

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 2d

I still find it hard to believe that a party which has dominated British politics for centuries is dying. And the most extraordinary thing is that one charlatan, who has never held significant power nor any kind of vision, is destroying it.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 3d

We once met a young Tory who looked a bit like the guy in the middle and claimed he'd been offered a threesome at conference but turned it down on the grounds "I'll just end up getting bummed all night while she watches".

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 2d

A British street name sign in Leeds surrounded by a hedge.
Cavalier Approach

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 2d

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 2d

Evening repost for this!

John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 3d

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"?

Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one.

Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

Fawlty Towers, "Basil the Rat": the Major spots the offending creature in the bar.

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Lord Beestonia @beestonia.bsky.social · 2d

Eight years ago today I went to Southwell Minster to interview a bookshop owner and took this pic in the graveyard. Stuck it on Twitter, and it went viral for years in various forms. I still see it, shorn of connection to me, doing its stuff, living its best life out in Internetland.

Tombstone in Southwell Minster graveyard with the bas relief 'WTF 1620'

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 2d

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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The Girl Who Was Death @bohaynowell.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve noticed with interest that representation of the West Country (a large region of the UK) is scant on British TV. I guess the likes of Tom Kerridge and Josie Gibson are at least allowed broad accents…

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 2d

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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