I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
1. She's right, politics IS life. Whether you like it or not.
2. End Times Pop Dungeon is a fuckin great concept
3. Charlotte Church is a legend
4. I love how every time I read subs by a Welsh person I hear it in my head in a Welsh accent
Episode 11 of Kevin Eldon's Speakers has arrived.
The talking and the noises contained herein are all new this month.
Do stay tuned for the explosions and the barking dogs. You'll like that.
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Introduce yourself by listing ten acts you made up:
Prong
Voles
You Jackals!
Sanitised Interiors
The Cat Uncle Durian
Cheesecake Explosion
Horrendous Snare
Two Toast
Gnome Tchotchke
ADHDigger
Moths Do Astronomy
Hot Take: every content creator having high quality mics on their lapel is making the internet insufferable.
I do not need to hear the back of your throat, and this ultra clear audio combined with that weird punctuated inflection is the aural equivalent of stones in your shoes.
Everyone has their own introduction to Tim Curry.
Mine was the Halloween Song from the 1980s film version of The Worst Witch (feat. Dame Diana Rigg as Miss Hardbroom), which one of my cousins had on a much-loved and much-played VHS.
you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without.
Or you can be Dolly.
All these things are choices. She made good ones.
If there's one good thing about being middle aged it's filling your elderly mum in on all the hot gossip about your friend she met once 15 years ago but still constantly asks after.
I take the point about upsetting loved ones, but has anyone checked to confirm that anyone did indeed love him? Because I’m thinking we may be in the clear in this one.
I am genuinely worried for the survival of the human race. Not (only) climate change etc., but just how fucking stupid we seem to have become.
Imagine looking at these photos and believing they're real.
Don't ever ask me if I've watched something. I have never watched anything. I am not even looking at you right now. My eyes are painted on the backs of my eyelids and I have been asleep this whole time.
1980s unemployed, I wrote scores of letters to Simon Bates' Our Tune. Every day I'd wake up to tune in to another miserable tale; sorry if you were moved by any of my stories of broken hearts, cancer, amputation and early death. Thanks to the dole office for providing the stamps.