Bellend Sebastian

Wild few days for the tech bros

I spent most of the day assembling an IKEA PAX wardrobe that's big enough to hide a Bigfoot in and to be honest I'm now very tired

Are you sorted? Not my speciality but I work with people that should be able to answer pretty much anything on the subject. Let me know if you still need any help

I consider this good value FOR NOW but I should remind you this is a tap I can and will turn off if I should ever feel our interests are....no longer fully aligned

...although most folk seem gloriously unaware of this. It's one of those things though that you can actually get buy in from people; saying that funding and influence from overseas, foreign ownership of UK media etc are less than ideal isn't something I find that anyone really argues with. I think it's an angle that should be made more of - nobody likes being exploited but it's also important to let people down gently as they don't readily admit to it either. "I fell completely for a grifter's nonsense" is not something you hear to often is it?

Here's an interesting one, not so much about the offence itself or sentencing but that you can get £1,400 a month just for posting right-wing stuff on Twitter. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3gre3y9yo Once again I find myself wondering of the extent to which people really actually have genuinely extreme views, and how much of the stuff they come out with is to curry favour with those they think also have these views (basically trying to get into Club Racist), or gain £££

Mad to see incredibly dour Polish decorator's face light up when he finds I've made the effort to learn one f***ing word of Polish. Probably helped that it was "thank you" and not an insult

Fun one for your kids

The only thing I'd say about buying used is to still try and buy as recent a model as you can as the software on modern tellys isn't supported indefinitely. Even so, you can always buy a Fire stick if you find its functionality falling by the wayside

I agree with this, it does come across a bit sometimes as the three of them reveling in all the insight they have, which in fairness, they do have a lot of

I've listened to every single one of the main podcast episodes which has probably turned me into the ultimate centrist Dad or something

If you want your tweets to be taken seriously, don't start them with the word "BREAKING". In most cases it might as well say "WILD CONJECTURE:"

I say this as someone who tends to be naturally suspicious of people with strong opinions, it's all a bit overwhelming isn't it? 99% emotion with virtually no curiosity for what this is actually about

If you want to read some seriously unhinged stuff check out the responses (mainly from Americans, it would seem) to this I was tempted to politely add that these convictions are actually quite popular here but I bottled it

It's weird, I'm never on it, I can just see it happen and it makes me feel proper sick

Bloody hell. I have dreams sometimes where I see a plane falling out of the sky like that and I wake up all stressed thinking it's ok it doesn't happen like that in real life

All garments remained firmly in place, I'm pleased to report. It's a long time ago and I don't recall anything especially contentious being said, but they were both clearly quite unusually opinionated and forthright characters and, I'm hopefully not being impolite here, I would say more than a little eccentric. You might have even been there, Dr, for some of it anyway. This may even be the day from which I still owe you a pint, so only about 17 years. That's probably two pints with inflation

I met him in the Swan on a day when you were going to come but sadly couldn't make it. Councillor Col was there as well and we really could've done with you to balance things out a bit

It was a lot of fun for about 5 minutes when it first emerged, about 15 years ago. Worn slightly thin since then

I was invited to take part, but they wanted me to be the horse for some reason and I simply wasn't comfortable with it

Currently hiding upstairs while my wife gets cross with my father in law who has apparently just declared that the country is "full". Not quite as dramatic as when she called him a c*** for his climate change denialism, but I'm staying out of it. I'm not suggesting people take sides in this but for context this man was telling us earlier about the protracted eBay spat he'd gotten into with a seller who hadn't sent him the "disc" he'd ordered when it was perfectly clear from all of the correspondence that it was a digital download that he was buying, and this it not his fault and there's no way he's apologising for the negative feedback he's given out

Yeah, it became too much of a habit in lockdown and ended up being weekly for us. The timing of us getting sick of it was fortunate really as it coincided with the cost of living crisis, as knocking it on the head was pretty easy by then. I can still make myself feel terrible by buying shite food with no nutritional value from the supermarket AND be quids in, ha ha wheeeee etc

I can't imagine the people of Dorset getting up to stuff like this, it's all far too nice for that. They just need to cut these stupid high hedges down a bit

The blooming roads themselves. I'm staying in deepest darkest Dorset and you cannot get to the accommodation without driving down the narrowest lanes I've had the stress of ever driving down. They really are something else - I have a rule that if there's grass growing down the middle of the road, or loads of stones in the middle of it, you've gone wrong. Every road is like that here

I'm always pleased to hear about a repair being done properly. I've had/seen so many that have been shite that sometimes you begin to wonder if it's possible for a good job to be done