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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 30m

Personally, I try not to grade genocides.

Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 32m

I worry it's a bit "best of the Beatles" to say this but I love the song God's Away on Business on quite a profound level. It's like a song the house band in purgatory would be playing.

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1h

Well this has been lovely. Keep going!

Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 20h

This week is Tom Waits. Go.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 46m

Oh I bloody loved Berkoff in the late 80s. I was such a cliche angry drama student type. Just wanted to do Pinter and Beckett. None of this musical pish. I was a young Ollie Plimsoles.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 49m

Wow.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 51m

When I was trying and failing to get into drama school (19 times I auditioned) I was in complete denial that I would have to learn to do things like dance, pretend to be enthusiastic about some fucker bursting into song - that kind of thing. Grumpy sarcasm though I had a real flare for.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 55m

A thing about Seinfeld for me though was while I found it funny the constant never-ending arseholery of them got to me in the end and what is it, 9 seasons about 20 episodes each? It wore me down.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 58m

I was trying to become an actor at the time, slowly realising that this wasn't going to happen because I couldn't pretend to be in a good mood even for money.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 1h

Post you from a different era.

1990 pouting sullenly in a kitchen in Fife. I was going to post a picture of me doing stand-up but realised there aren't any. I stopped around the time everyone had a camera on their phone. (a coincidence, not the reason)

A slightly blurry photo of me in a bleak kitchen. I have a great deal of hair. I am 19 and not wearing glasses like I do now.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

I think it was desperation to watch something during lockdown that made me choose it one night.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

It's cleverer than it looks I think. It grew on me and l love Paul Ritter. He was brilliant.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

I actually put off watching Friday Night Dinner because it looked too Inbetweeners-y to me but I was an idiot. I love FND.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

Oh yeah we had one of them. Said he had seen a special version of Jaws before they'd cut all of the porn out of it. Jaws?

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

Same here. There was a point where I felt like the only person who didn't like it. People assumed it was because I'm a prude but I'll laugh at a good wanking joke as much as anyone but I just didn't find it that good.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

A thing that bothered me about it was it felt oddly out of time with when it was set - The History Boys also had that problem - but at the same time, I was Inbetweeners age in the late 80s and still couldn't relate to it.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

I couldn't relate to it at all and I think I was meant to.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

It felt to me like they were trying to do a British sitcom version of American Pie or There's Something About Mary and just trying to shock. Peep Show by comparison felt much more organic.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's for a very specific group. Straight South east England millennial boys.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I was being generous. People I either knew a little through comedy or even people I just generally liked the work of normally seemed to be involved and so many people I knew loved it but it left me completely cold. My late school/post school days were nothing like this.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 3h

I tried so hard to like Inbetweeners. I concluded I was too old. (like the cast) Or perhaps I can only take so many jokes about wanking.

Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 7h

Inbetweeners set for a comeback

New deal signed over comedy's rights

dlvr.it

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 3h

I was talking to someone about the Riyadh comedy festival and as a non-comedy person they had only heard of the 4 British acts and none of the Americans. Then my friend said "Does America know other countries have comedians?" I suddenly felt very online.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4h

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece.

Feel free to add your own.

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 6h

I saw a thing somewhere where you turn a switch and the glass goes black (not sure how it works) but even if it does that that’s a million noes from me. I need wall.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 6h

I like to imagine them explaining to cellmates what they’re in prison for.

David G-P @davidjgp1983.bsky.social · 7h

I’m shocked that people are shocked that some Doctor Who fans are sending death threats to a charity.

Appalling behaviour which I sadly expected. In the realms of missing episodes, some fans see red and lose all perspective

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Andrew @andrewatkinson.bsky.social · 6h

Firstly a huge thank you to @dylannardini.com for the amount of time he puts in to running #sharemondays2025 for the benefit of the photography community

My entry this week surprisingly is from the Isle of Harris

A square black and white image from the Isle of Harris. It has dark rock in the foreground surrounded by white calm water with a hill in the background

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 6h

I realised last night it’s actually the first time I’ve watched it from beginning to end. But it was just curiosity that kept me going.

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