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Jeremy Beadle, he of the unfeasibly small hand, neat beard and psychotically cruel candid camera trick is no more:
From Game For A Laugh, to the unimaginably popular Beadle’s About and final retirement on You’ve Been Framed it’s yet another piece of my childhood gone forever - here’s a clip from BA where someone else is [...]

“Oompa-loompa, oopity do….”
I mean at what point is enough, enough? What are those girls thinking? Well the one on the far right appears to be planning to take a bite out of the girl in front of her (Braaaains!) but you know what I mean.
The Internet. Preserving stupidity for future generations since 1997.

I rarely bother with TV these days as there’s just so much dross on, what with ‘reality’ shows, celebrity dancing/ice skating/formation minefield dancing (I can dream about the last one) that I just give up & read books instead - how retro! - but having actually seen the first episode of Reaper, I might try [...]

I don’t care if you do write hand-crafted comments that are actually relevant to the post contents: If you sign your name ‘inflatables’, ‘pistons’ or ‘Caribbean holidays’ instead of a real name then I’m tagging you for the spammer that you are.
The way WordPress works, then pretty soon any comment you leave on a WordPress [...]

Look, it’s Mark Twain! Or is it Colonel Sanders? It’s a close run thing, but there’s more to see here and Donald Trump is a triumph, though Louisa May Alcott it a bit to much like Princess Leia for my liking…..

So, no change there then…….

Is it nearly Wednesday already?
We’ve been having some interesting weather this week, heavy snow that didn’t settle, lashing rain, sun & a hard frost and now back to rain and gales again. Fortunately when we headed for Scolty Hill on Sunday it was a day of blue skies and white frosts:

Here’s Pat [...]

Charlie Brooker, ace cartoonist of the halcyon days of PC Zone magazine, writer, programme maker and the man we cynics worship as our God:
[On 'High School Musical'] As an embittered cynic, I should be programmed to vomit all over the screen at the mere sight of this, but instead, I find it strangely moving. You [...]

Ooh look, it’s 2008. Yay. Woo.
Anyway, how was Christmas for yourself?
Too much food? Check.
Never want to see chocolate again? Check (Well, until the weekend anyway).
Gone back to work and can barely remember what you should be doing, or what people’s names are? I’m there…..
The boys had fun anyway, with altogether far too many presents, sweets [...]