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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 15h

What I find annoying is that all I can think of are the sketches that everyone always mentions (Dead parrot, argument clinic, fish slapping, cheese shop, confuse a cat) while KNOW there are some great obscure ones but I can't for the life of me remember them

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 19h

Leonard Rossiter - a witty little knitter.

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty Things

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly he wouldn't even be the main villain - he would be a guy mentioned on like page 10 in a witty aside about a bunch of 'tech disruptors' fell so in love with a predictive text machine they starved to death in their emergency concrete bunkers - then the book would go on without even naming him

Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 1d

I could easily rant for an hour+ about how Elon Musk fundamentally does not understand the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and how Adams would have found him the most boring, mind numbing idiot that the series was making fun of

You're not cool, Elon, you're the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't actually - I think because I was so attached to the radio series. I might seek it out though!

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 1d

Found the transcript

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 1d

I remember it because I think it was the most horrifying thing Douglas Adams ever wrote in that series, like its Twilight Zone levels of corporate-automated-robot horror

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 1d

I sometimes remember listening to an episode of the Hitchhikers Guide radio series where a ship is perpetually awaiting a delivery of lemon-scented handwipes in a post-apocalyptic wasteland so keep their passengers in perpetual suspended animation who occasionally wake up screaming to feed them

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 2d

GHOSTS fans - a 71yo woman is being evicted from her home on the estate where the show was filmed, so her home can become a holiday rental. If you're as outraged as I am, email info @ westhorsleyplace . org

'It's going to break my heart' - woman faces eviction from Ghosts estate

Baschea Walsh says she feels

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 2d

Evicting a woman who has been there 20 years for the sake a TV show all about fighting to stay in a house is so tone deaf #BBCGhosts

I know Change petitions rarely do anything but hopefully it'll convince them to change their mind

c.org/qjqjRDcmMF

Sign the Petition

Stop Eviction of Baschea Walsh

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 2d

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 2d

Logically La Voix should have been in the dance-off but I'm so glad she wasn't #Strictly

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Keep Dancing Podcast @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

innit #SCD #Strictly

The Drake meme, but with Shirley Ballas, and 'Shirley when a young woman dances well' and 'Shirley when a mediocre man dances poorly'

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely no shade on Chris, its a shame he had to go but compared to Balvinder I was baffled that the judges were split #Strictly

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 2d

And ANTON??

Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 2d

Shirley voted for Chris?? #Strictly

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 2d

What's Moriarty and Grytpype done now?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Louvre closed after robbery, French culture minister says

Rachida Dati announces robbery had taken place at world’s most-visited museum The Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, has suddenly closed for the day after the French culture minister said there had a been a robbery. “A robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum,” Rachida Dati wrote on social media. She used the French word braquage, which can mean robbery or hold-up. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen.

The cover of a BBC Records and Tapes catalogue, featuring an alarmingly creepy illustration of Basil Fawlty.

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Barleybap @barleybap.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I'm a defender of traditional British cuisine. I think it's unfairly maligned, and feel a lot of it is perfectly good, hearty food that isn't hugely different to that of many countries with similar climates and crops. But how the fuck do you grow up in the UK and never once eat curry?

Hughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 3d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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MaxPoetic @maxpoetic.gay · 3d

need all the Americans who spent like a whole year talking shit about "British food" to really internalise this idea because a lot of you would say "curry doesn't count" because it's "not British" due to a very narrow idea of what that meant and you were all saying shit Reform would LOVE you to say

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 3d

It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 3d

Between this and everyone putting food in aspic, the 1970s were a crime against food everywhere wasn't it?

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 5d

this was about a Tiktok video where a British woman explained that Brits in the 70s were putting apples and bananas in their 'curry'

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6d

The crimes of Britain follow me wherever I may roam

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 3d

I've also seen people claim curry being a staple British food is due to colonial theft, which bothers me because it disregards the influence of immigration on culture - and also implies second generation immigrants aren't British

We did steal A LOT but takeaway curry was thanks to immigration

Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 3d

It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".

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Gef the Mollygoose @gefthemongoose.bsky.social · 4d

I'm loving the occasional cutaways to the mid-show podcast between the two Joes in what I'm calling Joe Talk #Traitors #CelebrityTraitors

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Rob @robsnottweeting.bsky.social · 5d

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