One of my favourite things in The Death of Stalin is that they actually lowered the number of medals Jason Isaacs wore when he was playing Zhukov because the amount he wore in real life just looked comically absurd.
Love how we argue about the Mediterranean diet, or Japanese supercentenarians from a remote village in Kyushu who do callisthenics at sunrise, and yet the oldest man in the world is a scouser called John who has fish and chips once a week.
Liverpool-born John Tinniswood is officially the world’s oldest man at 111 years and 223 days according to
@GWR
The previous title holder died in Venezuela on Tuesday aged 114.John who lives at The Hollies rest home in
#Southport
attributes his longevity to his Friday chippy tea!
I do like when Greece was under the junta they literally did the Hearts of Iron thing where they just make the normal flag a shade darker to show that the country is evil now.
Japan will have a political party set up by an ultranationalist author who wants to restore the divine right of the Emperor and invade Korea whilst having the 😌 emoji for a logo.
I say this a lot but there’s a small but very vocal (almost exclusively online) section of the left who think that socialism means getting unlimited free stuff and having no public obligations whatsoever.
If anyone is upset about their A-Levels, don't worry, mine were brilliant and thirteen years later I'm a mid-ranking civil servant living in a creaky shared house with a collection of anime figurines.
Hi Carole. I work for Dominic Cummings and Arron Banks. NHS Nightingale is actually a top-secret research facility where we are killing the patients and harvesting their stem cells to create the first tranche of British Evangelions. Boris can’t stop us because he’s dead.
Still can't believe I've lived in central London for fourteen years and I have yet to bump into a team from The Apprentice flogging shit halloumi fries for £9 a punnet.
Wetherspoons are opening up a massive pub at Waterloo Station, one floor up from the equally massive Brewdog. This unfortunately represents the only two types of pub that will exist in two decades and, with regret, I have to support Team Spoons.
WATCH IT ALL HERE ALL OF THE TIME FOREVER! IT WILL NEVER STOP! THE BREXIT IS OFFICIALLY GOING ON FOREVER! IT WILL NEVER BE FINALLY DECIDED WHO HAS WON THE BREXIT! THERE IS STILL FOREVER TO DISCUSS FOR AND FOREVER TO DISCUSS IT IN!
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You absolutely will not be able to begin how odd this gets.
I can only assume that somewhere through the making of season five of The Crown, Peter Morgan was hit on the head by a small toffee hammer.
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There are known drones; there are drones we know we know. We also know there are known undrones; that is to say we know there are some drones we do not know. But there are also unknown undrones - the drones we don't know we don't know.
Historians on twitter need to stop being whiny bitches and just rediscover the 'awsome' factor when learning/teaching history
Yeah maybe knights and castles is a better way to approach history than a grim depressed "everyone suffered and hated it" approach.
The platform: We must rebuild the indomitable spirit of Yamato, eradicate the corrupt and yellow bellied cowards of the body politic, cast off the pathetic injustices of the post-war constitution and reclaim our birthright in Manchukuo.
The person:
BREAKING: Greggs has emerged victorious in a legal battle over their ability to serve late-night sausage rolls and steak bakes to Londoners at their Leicester Square flagship.
The fetishisation of thrift as a moral positive rather than a response to a lack of growth and policy failure isn’t unique to the UK but it certainly seems more acute here.
Sometimes I think British car crash death rates are horrendous... then I remember how grisly the situation is in the US, where the incentives are all lined up for it to get ever bloodier
Karen Bradley looks like a mid-ranking police officer from Malmö who is having to give a statement after the sixth torso that month has been found bobbing around the canal.
"The Rest Is History" is allowed to do this because that's actually a thing people say. You're just too lazy to come up with your own tenuous pun you boring centrist maniacs.
"THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF BREXIT, EACH MORE CLIMATIC THAN THE LAST! CONTANT, DIZZYING, TWENTY-FOUR HOUR, YEARLONG, ENDLESS BREXIT. EVERY PARLIAMENTARY VOTE OF IT MASSIVELY MATTERING TO SOMEONE, PRESUMABLY."
Look, I love high-spreed rail and the Shinkansen in particular but even I think it would be a waste of money to built a railway bridge that randomly stopped in the middle of the North Sea.
I like all the lads going “oh, if conscription was brought back, I’m quite techy, I’d probably go in the Intelligence Corps” when the reality would be “here’s a saucepan and a Lee-Enfield. Now stand in this field and draw artillery fire away from other, more important soldiers.”
I know she's just being stupid on purpose now but even by her standards this is literally as dry and traditional a piece of research you could possibly get?
Love the idea that there’s a little control room in Scotland Yard where expert Vexillologists are doing VAR-style analysis of whether or not a flag is dodgy.
We often get asked about different flags on display at protests and what their meaning is.
Our experts look out for offensive or proscribed flags belonging to banned groups.
The below flag seen this afternoon is a Pro Iranian Monarchy flag & does not support a proscribed group.
Automatic ban for British people who use “y’all” in tweets. You are not from Antebellum Georgia, you work in marketing and have annoying views on brownfield development.
I should hate influencer TikTok but there’s a growing tendency of people on this site to just actively hate people who look to be having any sort of fun whatsoever.
Unbelievable news item this morning: Philippa Langley, who led the search for the bones of Richard III, now presenting credible evidence that he did not actually kill the princes in the tower and that Edward IV's sons were smuggled off to Europe alive