John J. Hoare
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Astonishingly potent line about Britain at the dawn of the 80s in Larry Grayson’s Generation Game: “It says here you took a Cordon Bleu cookery course but it was a waste of time as your husband only likes sausage and chips”
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Astonishingly potent line about Britain at the dawn of the 80s in Larry Grayson’s Generation Game: “It says here you took a Cordon Bleu cookery course but it was a waste of time as your husband only likes sausage and chips”
Food handling routines SUSPECT
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Food handling routines SUSPECT
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Brand new on Dirty Feed: what happens when The Dick Van Dyke Show starts questioning its own worth.
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Brand new on Dirty Feed: what happens when The Dick Van Dyke Show starts questioning its own worth.
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
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For all your Negus Needs and Rutherford Requisites there's a sale on stuff in my Redbubble shop at the moment. Such excitement! www.redbubble.com/people/aldupres01/shop
aldupres01 Shop | Redbubble
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November 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
For all your Negus Needs and Rutherford Requisites there's a sale on stuff in my Redbubble shop at the moment. Such excitement! www.redbubble.com/people/aldupres01/shop
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Giving this another post in case anyone fancies watching it this weekend - The Story of Whirligig, a 20-minute mini-documentary telling the story of one of BBC Television's first long-running, well-known children's programmes...
The Story of Whirligig
YouTube video by Paul Hayes
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Giving this another post in case anyone fancies watching it this weekend - The Story of Whirligig, a 20-minute mini-documentary telling the story of one of BBC Television's first long-running, well-known children's programmes...
Brand new on Dirty Feed: what happens when The Dick Van Dyke Show starts questioning its own worth.
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Brand new on Dirty Feed: what happens when The Dick Van Dyke Show starts questioning its own worth.
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...
Speaking as a feminist myself, it's quite difficult to write about Mary Tyler Moore when she keeps giving you an erection.
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Speaking as a feminist myself, it's quite difficult to write about Mary Tyler Moore when she keeps giving you an erection.
I have no idea why the bloody hell Wenzels SMOTHER their mince pies in brown sugar. A light dusting of icing sugar would be more than sufficient.
I scrape it all off before eating.
I scrape it all off before eating.
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I have no idea why the bloody hell Wenzels SMOTHER their mince pies in brown sugar. A light dusting of icing sugar would be more than sufficient.
I scrape it all off before eating.
I scrape it all off before eating.
I am amused that after endless buggering about, the answer to "How many episodes of Wally Who? were there?" turns out to be... there really were ten episodes all along. No repeats, no changes to the schedule.
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I am amused that after endless buggering about, the answer to "How many episodes of Wally Who? were there?" turns out to be... there really were ten episodes all along. No repeats, no changes to the schedule.
Fourth driving lesson today, and for the first time I feel like I may actually be able to manage this at some point. So much left to do, but bits finally began to click.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Fourth driving lesson today, and for the first time I feel like I may actually be able to manage this at some point. So much left to do, but bits finally began to click.
The problem with writing about a show you've never written about before is how easy it is to fall into the trap of relaying dodgy anecdotes.
I know enough about Red Dwarf and The Young Ones not to do that. But every show has a million traps.
I know enough about Red Dwarf and The Young Ones not to do that. But every show has a million traps.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The problem with writing about a show you've never written about before is how easy it is to fall into the trap of relaying dodgy anecdotes.
I know enough about Red Dwarf and The Young Ones not to do that. But every show has a million traps.
I know enough about Red Dwarf and The Young Ones not to do that. But every show has a million traps.
Working on an article about The Dick Van Dyke Show today, and never forget that the point of footnotes is to have arguments with people you disagree with online, but from a safe distance.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Working on an article about The Dick Van Dyke Show today, and never forget that the point of footnotes is to have arguments with people you disagree with online, but from a safe distance.
Ooof, just had my first AI-written spam comment on Dirty Feed.
Not too difficult to spot, and it never came close to being approved and going live, but slightly annoying it came only three days after publication of the article. Hope this isn't the start of a flood.
Not too difficult to spot, and it never came close to being approved and going live, but slightly annoying it came only three days after publication of the article. Hope this isn't the start of a flood.
November 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ooof, just had my first AI-written spam comment on Dirty Feed.
Not too difficult to spot, and it never came close to being approved and going live, but slightly annoying it came only three days after publication of the article. Hope this isn't the start of a flood.
Not too difficult to spot, and it never came close to being approved and going live, but slightly annoying it came only three days after publication of the article. Hope this isn't the start of a flood.
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BREAKING: This was well worth getting to see. Yes, it's not great, but definitely interesting to see how many of the longstanding rumours about it were - and weren't - true.
At last, for the first time ever anywhere, the most sought after holy grail in television comedy - Oh No, Not Them, the 1989 unseen US pilot of The Young Ones. patreon.com/posts/143210147
Oh No Not Them - The Unaired US Version Of The Young Ones - 1989 | Nigel Planer
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November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING: This was well worth getting to see. Yes, it's not great, but definitely interesting to see how many of the longstanding rumours about it were - and weren't - true.
Very much enjoying The Dick Van Dyke Show deconstructing a pretentious intellectual.
VONITA: Hasn’t he a marvellous mind?
ROB: Marvellous.
VONITA: He has the gift and the ability to say things that…
ROB: …seem vague, but are in reality meaningless?
VONITA: Hasn’t he a marvellous mind?
ROB: Marvellous.
VONITA: He has the gift and the ability to say things that…
ROB: …seem vague, but are in reality meaningless?
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Very much enjoying The Dick Van Dyke Show deconstructing a pretentious intellectual.
VONITA: Hasn’t he a marvellous mind?
ROB: Marvellous.
VONITA: He has the gift and the ability to say things that…
ROB: …seem vague, but are in reality meaningless?
VONITA: Hasn’t he a marvellous mind?
ROB: Marvellous.
VONITA: He has the gift and the ability to say things that…
ROB: …seem vague, but are in reality meaningless?
Just seen someone criticise the quality of the instrumentation on a demo version of a song - “I’m glad they went down the orchestra route on the final version” - and not for the first time I question whether people are as media-literate these days as I often see claimed.
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Just seen someone criticise the quality of the instrumentation on a demo version of a song - “I’m glad they went down the orchestra route on the final version” - and not for the first time I question whether people are as media-literate these days as I often see claimed.
I have felt like shit for the past 36 hours with the sniffles and I want one of you to FIX IT
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I have felt like shit for the past 36 hours with the sniffles and I want one of you to FIX IT
The whole of this looks great, but the first two minutes especially is an absolutely sublime piece of comedy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTM...
Bob Monkhouse Hilarious One-Liners! | Des O' Connor Show
YouTube video by Des O'Connor Tonight
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The whole of this looks great, but the first two minutes especially is an absolutely sublime piece of comedy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMTM...
Here's the advert for The Dick Van Dyke Show which featured in the Los Angeles Times on the 3rd October 1961, the day it premiered.
Not sure that picture does the show any favours, Of course Dick has aspects of Stan Laurel, but you don't want the show looking like a rip-off, especially as it isn't.
Not sure that picture does the show any favours, Of course Dick has aspects of Stan Laurel, but you don't want the show looking like a rip-off, especially as it isn't.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Here's the advert for The Dick Van Dyke Show which featured in the Los Angeles Times on the 3rd October 1961, the day it premiered.
Not sure that picture does the show any favours, Of course Dick has aspects of Stan Laurel, but you don't want the show looking like a rip-off, especially as it isn't.
Not sure that picture does the show any favours, Of course Dick has aspects of Stan Laurel, but you don't want the show looking like a rip-off, especially as it isn't.
This is terrible compared to everything else in this thread, but I still hold a grudge against Spar for the most REVOLTING cornflakes I have ever tasted from a family holiday in Norfolk in the early 90s.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is terrible compared to everything else in this thread, but I still hold a grudge against Spar for the most REVOLTING cornflakes I have ever tasted from a family holiday in Norfolk in the early 90s.
Doing my first ever piece of writing about The Dick Van Dyke Show. I always get antsy about things like this, as though I somehow feel I have to do the show justice. You don't worry about that when you're on your 11th article about something.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Doing my first ever piece of writing about The Dick Van Dyke Show. I always get antsy about things like this, as though I somehow feel I have to do the show justice. You don't worry about that when you're on your 11th article about something.
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The hidden chemical attack that forced the Northern line’s extraordinary repair
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
The hidden chemical attack that forced the Northern line’s extraordinary repair
Thirty years ago, an entire section of the Northern line had to be replaced because it was under attack from acid, and hardly anyone noticed that it was happening.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
The hidden chemical attack that forced the Northern line’s extraordinary repair
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
I'm calling the Coast Guard.
I just found this old picture of a poster that was on the wall at the school my friend taught at and there’s some incredible stuff in there
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I'm calling the Coast Guard.
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Exactly 75 years ago today, BBC Television began regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes with the very first episode of Whirligig, one of its first well-known, long-running children’s shows.
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
Whirligig
A tribute to a much-loved Saturday teatime children's favourite, 75 years on.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Exactly 75 years ago today, BBC Television began regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes with the very first episode of Whirligig, one of its first well-known, long-running children’s shows.
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website.
But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)
All these stories remind me of the time when I was an active Tumblr user, and I got an email - along with many other people - warning me that I had been interacting with a load of accounts linked with "Russian activity".
And I thought I had been REALLY CAREFUL about who I interacted with.
And I thought I had been REALLY CAREFUL about who I interacted with.
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
All these stories remind me of the time when I was an active Tumblr user, and I got an email - along with many other people - warning me that I had been interacting with a load of accounts linked with "Russian activity".
And I thought I had been REALLY CAREFUL about who I interacted with.
And I thought I had been REALLY CAREFUL about who I interacted with.