Jay Foreman

New #MapMen episode!!! 🗺️ How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.) youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc Share and enjoy!

Not saying this map with very welcome very good news is *complete* bullshit, but can anyone explain how Heathrow somehow reduced its aeroplane emissions at a very very similar amount as the car emissions that were reduced specifically because of the Ultra Low Emission Zone?

Wouldn’t it be easier (and less distracting) just to tell the traitors “please don’t wear watches” instead of blurring out all their watches in the edit?

Shouldn’t it be called war of tug?

Timeline cleanser! Stan Laurel leaves a room.

I forgot to tell you! I'm headlining the final of the @musicalcomedyuk.bsky.social Musical Comedy Awards in the Bloomsbury Theatre on Saturday 17th April 2027. 🎸 www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2027/0...

World’s Most Boring Photo competition. GO!!!

Bah. Imagine there was an edit tool, and I've put the word "thousand" where it belongs.

I’ll bet none of you can figure out the secret location of where our pilgrimage is from this photo….

Guess what I’m doing RIGHT NOW!!! www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Legoland, 2007: Boss: “Bad news, lads. The enormous lego model of the Eurostar terminal at Waterloo in lego London with little trains going to lego Paris has gone out of date.” Model railway guy: “On it…”

Any native Irish speakers fancy getting in touch and helping us quickly translate/pronounce something? 🇮🇪 

WANT!!!!!

Hello! We’re doing a thing for the next episode of Map Men. We need someone who speaks both Mandarin AND Cantonese. Is that you? If so, please get in touch!

@captaindisillusion.bsky.social May I DM you about something?

@jonnelledge.bsky.social This is your sort of jam, this is.

Excellent news that this is a thing! So so many brilliant people in this!!!

“Dinner table” a thing. “Breakfast table” a thing. “Lunch table” … not really a thing..?

Happy to be wrong about this. Thanks for all the replies. Turns out, the name change isn’t actually *official* yet. So it’s hard to see Google rushing to change their maps as anything other than enthusiastic support for Trump. Pathetic all round.

Blaming Google Maps for going along with Trump’s pathetic Lake America name change is like blaming your phone for displaying it.

@herring1967.bsky.social @politicanimal.bsky.social Great minds

Thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly enjoying this book by @jonnelledge.bsky.social !

@geofftech.bsky.social Have you still got that list of great people who are reassuringly still alive?

Every vintage gameshow:

This took me ages to realise too. And that might be because I grew up in, what turns out, according to this map, to be the ONLY part of the country (north west London) where roads can begin with pretty much any number.

Spotify should have an option where the next song is based only on the previous song, so playlists gradually drift wildly off course.

Mba'éichapa! 🇵🇾 We need someone who speaks Guarani to help us write a sketch in the next episode of Map Men. If that’s you please get in touch!

@thisismikehall.com Finally stuck this up on the wall where it belongs! :)

It’s René Goscinny’s 100th birthday, so here’s me and @jayforeman.bsky.social talking about the indomitable Asterix. pod.link/1614879928/e...

How come this place on the eastern extremity of Catalunya with flat land, a nice river, excellent access to the Mediterranean and a really satisfying very very long gently curved beach that would be an excellent tourist hotspot is NOT the location of a massive city?

I used to think He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands was about an otherwise normal man who had absolutely fucking massive hands.

Stay still! Don’t move your phone. Reply with a photo of your camera’s view right now.

Nothing ever goes “ding bong”, does it?

This is sort of fascinating but also sort of meaningless. This is actually a map showing which countries consider suburbs to be part of their cities. Hence Britain having “2” and Australia having “5”.

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

Short looping portrait videos with big chunky one-word-at-a-time subtitles might be absolute brain rot destroying our attention spans and ability to regulate dopamine and might be responsible for an irreversible enstupidification of our species… But they’re reeeeally good for learning a language!

Go to the BBC News website and watch the top video. Did Laura Kuenssberg forget to switch Andy Burnham’s mic on?

On this day in 1798, City Thameslink Cathedral was renamed St Paul’s Cathedral.

Took me 35 years since I first heard the Gaston song to suddenly notice the incredible internal rhyme hidden in “as a specimen, yes I’m intiiiiiiiimidaaaaating”