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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃

@joescaramanga.co.uk

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Weird and pissed off. All manner of retro pop culture references to baffle anyone under 40 and occasional rants. May make uninformed comments about the football. #totp #coys #forgotten80s

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · Feb 16

Random Shit in My Head Productions Present:

The meme featuring the two guys from American Chopper arguing. I've replaced their heads with aliens from Mars Attacks and they're cries of "AK AK AK!" become louder and more distorted in each frame.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

What a handsome chap!

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

OH MY GOD!

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

You just had to remember it though, didn't you.

Or keep a collection of travel cards with numbers on like I did.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

He Man

Jason King

All of the A Team except Murdoch.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

Everyone of my generation can still remember their home number from childhood, and the number for Saturday Superstore.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 8h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

Not too much unless you're watching Netflix outside all weekend or downloading huge files.

I've managed with a plan of 20gb a month for years. I don't think I've ever gone over 5gb in a month.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 6h

Lower Decks is the best Star Trek since the original series. IMO.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 8h

Only half Italian, but that's enough.

The supernaturally gorgeous Edwige Fenech in a b&w photo from the early 70s.
She climbing the stairs to an aeroplane and glancing over her shoulder. Wearing knee high white boots and a white mini dress which b
Is struggling to cover her bottom.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 8h

Yes x3

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 10h

Tyrannosaur... Christ, yes.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 10h

It's the texture.
I've tried so hard to like chickpeas but can't get on with it.

Everyone else in the house eats hummus but even the smell makes me heave.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13h

This is a huge moment in linear broadcast TV. When I began my TV career in 2005, even history documentaries were expected to get 2 million viewers

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 14h

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 12h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to wat, one movie you'll never watcha again and one song you can't stand...

Hummus

Salo or 120 Days of Sodom

Summer of '69

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 13h

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

Octopus (that’s like eating a dolphin!)

also Requiem For A Dream (a rotten, rotten film)

Rude by Magic (embarrassed that this even exists)

Jamie @vinnycrackers.bsky.social · 13h

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand"

MASHED POTATOES (and even worse with gravy)

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

can't stand STAND by REM

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 12h

Yeah, Tig needs to go a bit higher up the Bristol channel.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 13h

I've had a Freddo.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 17h

What a crappy old monday.

One of those days I really wish there was loads of chocolate in the house, but I'm glad there isn't because I'd scoff the lot.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 15h

Yeah, I'm good thanks. Just monday blues.

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 16h

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 17h

Haha! Not a problem for me.

I used to like him but not now.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 17h

Have some of my mutuals sold their accounts to hate spewing sock puppets because I'm unfollowing a whole bunch of people this morning.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 17h

What a crappy old monday.

One of those days I really wish there was loads of chocolate in the house, but I'm glad there isn't because I'd scoff the lot.

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 17h

I've just been having a listen to the Beat Surrender show from sunday nights. THAT'S much more my bag.

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 19h

This is a better idea than my battery one, looking forward to it @monkeon.co.uk

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 18h

Can't find the actual clip.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 18h

On what would have been Lenny Bruce's 100th birthday, I've just skipped through three episodes of Alexei Sayle's Stuff on YT trying to find that very short skit he did about Bruce's death.

Something along the lines of "He was killed by intolerance, by oppression... that and all the drugs he did."

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Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 18h

"Currently playing: Simply Red "Stars""

a man is covering his face while looking at a clock that says 6:00

Alt: Bill Murray smashed his clock radio in Groundhog Day

media.tenor.com

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