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The "f" in "Middle of the road"
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Hi-Fi twat
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Hi-Fi twat
Made a rare trip into the office today to pick up a new laptop and I don't know who exactly Dell think they are but the bastards have switched the HDMI connection from left to right and that DESTROYS my cable management infrastructure.
Absolutely livid*
*not actually, but still. Bastards.
Absolutely livid*
*not actually, but still. Bastards.
February 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Made a rare trip into the office today to pick up a new laptop and I don't know who exactly Dell think they are but the bastards have switched the HDMI connection from left to right and that DESTROYS my cable management infrastructure.
Absolutely livid*
*not actually, but still. Bastards.
Absolutely livid*
*not actually, but still. Bastards.
@raphlife.bsky.social I was just idly wandering back from town in the UK with some shopping.
Heard some crows and instinctively started looking for a corpse or carcass. What has your game done to me?! 😅
Heard some crows and instinctively started looking for a corpse or carcass. What has your game done to me?! 😅
February 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
@raphlife.bsky.social I was just idly wandering back from town in the UK with some shopping.
Heard some crows and instinctively started looking for a corpse or carcass. What has your game done to me?! 😅
Heard some crows and instinctively started looking for a corpse or carcass. What has your game done to me?! 😅
I'm ambivalent about going on holiday and made the mistake of assuming my wife would generate a lot of hot air about wanting to go away but would ultimately fail to book anything.
She didn't.
Costly mistake.
I can't remember a week abroad costing North of £5k before. Is this new or am I an idiot?
She didn't.
Costly mistake.
I can't remember a week abroad costing North of £5k before. Is this new or am I an idiot?
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I'm ambivalent about going on holiday and made the mistake of assuming my wife would generate a lot of hot air about wanting to go away but would ultimately fail to book anything.
She didn't.
Costly mistake.
I can't remember a week abroad costing North of £5k before. Is this new or am I an idiot?
She didn't.
Costly mistake.
I can't remember a week abroad costing North of £5k before. Is this new or am I an idiot?
If I have to explain to my CFO even one more time that the things they're looking for me to isolate and reconcile are not mutually exclusive, I will let out a sad little whimper.
May just have to invoke the use of my favourite custom Excel function: SMOKEANDMIRRORS and make things balance.
May just have to invoke the use of my favourite custom Excel function: SMOKEANDMIRRORS and make things balance.
January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
If I have to explain to my CFO even one more time that the things they're looking for me to isolate and reconcile are not mutually exclusive, I will let out a sad little whimper.
May just have to invoke the use of my favourite custom Excel function: SMOKEANDMIRRORS and make things balance.
May just have to invoke the use of my favourite custom Excel function: SMOKEANDMIRRORS and make things balance.
One (the only?) perk of having no fashion sense and giving no shits about that stuff, is that I feel like the three tops I bought from Fat Face at 75% off represent astute acquisitions.
I can't say that I especially like them, but I am no longer cold. No more clothes shopping required until 2028 😎
I can't say that I especially like them, but I am no longer cold. No more clothes shopping required until 2028 😎
January 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM
One (the only?) perk of having no fashion sense and giving no shits about that stuff, is that I feel like the three tops I bought from Fat Face at 75% off represent astute acquisitions.
I can't say that I especially like them, but I am no longer cold. No more clothes shopping required until 2028 😎
I can't say that I especially like them, but I am no longer cold. No more clothes shopping required until 2028 😎
Have entered a Ten Mile road race in 11 weeks time.
Prep isn't going well - currently on a fourth Kronenbourg and wondering what to watch on TV next.
#running
Prep isn't going well - currently on a fourth Kronenbourg and wondering what to watch on TV next.
#running
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Have entered a Ten Mile road race in 11 weeks time.
Prep isn't going well - currently on a fourth Kronenbourg and wondering what to watch on TV next.
#running
Prep isn't going well - currently on a fourth Kronenbourg and wondering what to watch on TV next.
#running
Isn't the Iceland logo at least partially orange too? Seems a perfect fit all round.
could work, tbh
Trump's speech suggests a compromise. We could sell him Iceland, the frozen food company. Tell him it has the strategic reserves of burgers and fries on which the US depends. On current form, he won't know the difference
January 21, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Isn't the Iceland logo at least partially orange too? Seems a perfect fit all round.
Honestly, this guy is a total jackass. What a raging tosser 😅
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Honestly, this guy is a total jackass. What a raging tosser 😅
Absolutely honking day at the football yesterday where the only real highlights were the pre, during and post-match beers, and one of the guys I went with falling asleep early in the second half 😅
January 18, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Absolutely honking day at the football yesterday where the only real highlights were the pre, during and post-match beers, and one of the guys I went with falling asleep early in the second half 😅
Deep into week 3 without a Fridge / Freezer and things have become so bad that I'm actually having to eat my daughter's Food Tech "frittata".
January 16, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Deep into week 3 without a Fridge / Freezer and things have become so bad that I'm actually having to eat my daughter's Food Tech "frittata".
Sometimes the fact that defection is just one letter away from defecation makes me titter to myself.
Seems especially relevant here.
Seems especially relevant here.
BREAKING: Nigel Farage confirms that Robert Jenrick has defected from Tories to Reform UK - the most high profile defection yet.
He says Jenrick wasn't planning to join Reform UK any time soon and "might not have joined at all... you never know until the deal is signed".
He says Jenrick wasn't planning to join Reform UK any time soon and "might not have joined at all... you never know until the deal is signed".
January 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Sometimes the fact that defection is just one letter away from defecation makes me titter to myself.
Seems especially relevant here.
Seems especially relevant here.
Probably my favourite Christmas present.
"God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies was just so different to everything else I was listening to when it was released.
#NowSpinning
"God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies was just so different to everything else I was listening to when it was released.
#NowSpinning
January 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Probably my favourite Christmas present.
"God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies was just so different to everything else I was listening to when it was released.
#NowSpinning
"God Shuffled His Feet" by Crash Test Dummies was just so different to everything else I was listening to when it was released.
#NowSpinning
Look at this little beauty! 😍
Who can forget the dread when it came to the 1500m in Daley Thompson's Decathlon? 😬🕹️
Who can forget the dread when it came to the 1500m in Daley Thompson's Decathlon? 😬🕹️
January 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Look at this little beauty! 😍
Who can forget the dread when it came to the 1500m in Daley Thompson's Decathlon? 😬🕹️
Who can forget the dread when it came to the 1500m in Daley Thompson's Decathlon? 😬🕹️
Making a two-hour round trip this evening to take my daughter (15) to an "interview" at a college which is mandatory to attend or they remove you from the admissions process.
It's a 5-minute chat. I'm not quite sure what the point is and can't remember having to do this myself *some* years ago.
It's a 5-minute chat. I'm not quite sure what the point is and can't remember having to do this myself *some* years ago.
January 14, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Making a two-hour round trip this evening to take my daughter (15) to an "interview" at a college which is mandatory to attend or they remove you from the admissions process.
It's a 5-minute chat. I'm not quite sure what the point is and can't remember having to do this myself *some* years ago.
It's a 5-minute chat. I'm not quite sure what the point is and can't remember having to do this myself *some* years ago.
Ah yes. The annual charade of my wife trying to book a Summer holiday after one week back at work after Christmas.
I give it 25 minutes before she's swearing about websites, the internet connection, "how complicated it all is" and then I have to sort it all out.
I think I'll go for a walk.
I give it 25 minutes before she's swearing about websites, the internet connection, "how complicated it all is" and then I have to sort it all out.
I think I'll go for a walk.
January 10, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Ah yes. The annual charade of my wife trying to book a Summer holiday after one week back at work after Christmas.
I give it 25 minutes before she's swearing about websites, the internet connection, "how complicated it all is" and then I have to sort it all out.
I think I'll go for a walk.
I give it 25 minutes before she's swearing about websites, the internet connection, "how complicated it all is" and then I have to sort it all out.
I think I'll go for a walk.
Latest and possibly even *final* addition to the downstairs Hi-Fi is in situ. Swapped out KEF LS50 Meta for a proper pair of British made Neat Petite Classics to benefit from the oft vaunted Naim / Neat synergy 😎
January 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Latest and possibly even *final* addition to the downstairs Hi-Fi is in situ. Swapped out KEF LS50 Meta for a proper pair of British made Neat Petite Classics to benefit from the oft vaunted Naim / Neat synergy 😎
TIDAL comes up with some brilliant recommendations and this might be the best yet.
#NowStreaming a bit of The Aristocrats
#NowStreaming a bit of The Aristocrats
January 7, 2026 at 3:42 PM
TIDAL comes up with some brilliant recommendations and this might be the best yet.
#NowStreaming a bit of The Aristocrats
#NowStreaming a bit of The Aristocrats
Day 11 without a fridge/freezer and now British Gas are saying they have the part they need to fix it!
And they'll do that in another week FFS 😅
I'm shopping on a meal-by-meal basis which is carnage but peculiarly enjoyable. Zero food waste but that's just because we're eating EVERYTHING.
And they'll do that in another week FFS 😅
I'm shopping on a meal-by-meal basis which is carnage but peculiarly enjoyable. Zero food waste but that's just because we're eating EVERYTHING.
January 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Day 11 without a fridge/freezer and now British Gas are saying they have the part they need to fix it!
And they'll do that in another week FFS 😅
I'm shopping on a meal-by-meal basis which is carnage but peculiarly enjoyable. Zero food waste but that's just because we're eating EVERYTHING.
And they'll do that in another week FFS 😅
I'm shopping on a meal-by-meal basis which is carnage but peculiarly enjoyable. Zero food waste but that's just because we're eating EVERYTHING.
The biggest thing I conclude from this latest rambling Trump press conference, is that he is an utter, utter fuckwit.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The biggest thing I conclude from this latest rambling Trump press conference, is that he is an utter, utter fuckwit.
New Year, Same Twat.
A long-term Hi-Fi itch has been scratched and arrives in the middle of next week. KEF LS50 Meta's move onto pastures new, and the spunky wee Neat Petite Classics take their place on the stands 😎
These are genuinely made by hand up in the North-East of England and I like that.
A long-term Hi-Fi itch has been scratched and arrives in the middle of next week. KEF LS50 Meta's move onto pastures new, and the spunky wee Neat Petite Classics take their place on the stands 😎
These are genuinely made by hand up in the North-East of England and I like that.
January 2, 2026 at 5:33 PM
New Year, Same Twat.
A long-term Hi-Fi itch has been scratched and arrives in the middle of next week. KEF LS50 Meta's move onto pastures new, and the spunky wee Neat Petite Classics take their place on the stands 😎
These are genuinely made by hand up in the North-East of England and I like that.
A long-term Hi-Fi itch has been scratched and arrives in the middle of next week. KEF LS50 Meta's move onto pastures new, and the spunky wee Neat Petite Classics take their place on the stands 😎
These are genuinely made by hand up in the North-East of England and I like that.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
God Shuffled His Feet from 1993 is an all-time classic for me. Got it on vinyl for Christmas and it was just so different at that time.
God Shuffled His Feet from 1993 is an all-time classic for me. Got it on vinyl for Christmas and it was just so different at that time.
December 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
God Shuffled His Feet from 1993 is an all-time classic for me. Got it on vinyl for Christmas and it was just so different at that time.
God Shuffled His Feet from 1993 is an all-time classic for me. Got it on vinyl for Christmas and it was just so different at that time.
One of the first things I saw on Christmas morning was my cat flinging a dead robin around the garden, with what looked like a detached birdy eyeball stuck on his stupid anti-festive, furry head.
He's since barfed up a lot of bird and the last meal of said bird on the carpet. I love cats.
He's since barfed up a lot of bird and the last meal of said bird on the carpet. I love cats.
December 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
One of the first things I saw on Christmas morning was my cat flinging a dead robin around the garden, with what looked like a detached birdy eyeball stuck on his stupid anti-festive, furry head.
He's since barfed up a lot of bird and the last meal of said bird on the carpet. I love cats.
He's since barfed up a lot of bird and the last meal of said bird on the carpet. I love cats.
I do not know how my kids are still eating.
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I do not know how my kids are still eating.
Safe to say that the annual logistical battle of managing the bin collection day with commensurate booze consumption has been woefully lost.
One week to go and we're in a world of pain. Tipsy, but ouch.
One week to go and we're in a world of pain. Tipsy, but ouch.
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Safe to say that the annual logistical battle of managing the bin collection day with commensurate booze consumption has been woefully lost.
One week to go and we're in a world of pain. Tipsy, but ouch.
One week to go and we're in a world of pain. Tipsy, but ouch.
Sustaining this Christmas socialising schedule is going to be a slog.
December 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Sustaining this Christmas socialising schedule is going to be a slog.