Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1mMy mum had the album. It got played a lot in the car. Which is why I'm singing along to this ... #TOTP 000
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 7m"And it boils with every poison you can think of" Tell us you grew up by the Tees without etc #TOTP 120
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1hCouldn't even be bothered to write one this time. No wonder we lost to Romania. #TOTP 000
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 1hI should just, on behalf of my lovely home city, point out that "York" are actually German... #TOTP 020
Reposted by Matt SimpsonMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9hno offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill 57973202
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 10hAll I'm saying is that there's a readon we refer to Benny's Whiskas as "CAT FUD", or mutter "Midvale School for the Gifted" to ourselves when we push a pull-only door... 2100
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Unless people are being asked to pee in the basins in one of them 020
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026York Theatre Royal has a reasonably spacious ground floor loo, and an extremely tiny 1st floor one. Previously, the former was the women's and the latter the men's. But for a couple years the former was redesignated unisex. Because it's just cubicles and sinks. Quickly got changed back again. 140
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"When did Mötley Crüe become 'classic rock'?" - Bowling for Soup 010
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026My understanding is that there's a small amount of people who are passionately either for or against trans rights - I don't have figures but say 5% each. The other 90% generally don't care that much. More pressing concerns. But the 5% antis have a lot of money and a beloved author. 120
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Which of course you can do with a newspaper or magazine which someone might buy to read about Harry & Meghan but end up reading about fiscal policy too. It's a lot harder when the primary interaction is with individual articles shared on SM. 000
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Because for the most part, particularly with alcohol, it doesn't cause you to say something completely opposite to what you actually believe, it just lowers inhibitions enough for you to actually say it out loud. It's just that they really believe "everyone thinks like this, we're just saying it" 080
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Didn't the tabloids try and make "Bin Liner" happen as a nickname for a while? 010
Reposted by Matt Simpsonit's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 15/10/2026a field guide to Skarsgårds: if silver fox he be, that's Stellan you see unsettling but hot, Alexander you've got only dread doth you fill, then behold, that is Bill 1612184
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 14/10/2026AND THE THING IS that NaNoWriMo had always taken the attitude of "*shrug* whatever. there's no prizes here, our validator will accept 50k words of loren ipsum. There is no meaningful "win" other than finishing" If they'd taken that tack with LLMs, it would have been fine. "Only cheating yourself". 020
Reposted by Matt SimpsonDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I know I say it a lot, but it needs saying, and I will continue to say it until there is a real reckoning. The Legitimate Concerns paradigm has been one of the biggest public policy disasters of the c21st in the UK. And we certainly haven't paid the full cost of it yet. 219065
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Honestly, I haven't seen it since broadcast, but I remember thinking it was really obvious CGI. 100
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A lot of this sort of thing I take the Battle of the River Plate approach. That film gives on-screen credits to the warships as if they're actors playing roles. You can do the same with a lot of war films - "T-6 Texan AS Mitsubishi Zero", "M47 Patton AS King Tiger" etc 010
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I'm sure my dad, the bus nut, would have been outraged. I was just busy going "Is it just me, or is this a bit shit?" 010
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 13/10/2026There was a Peter Capaldi episode of DW - the one with the graffiti monsters - that prominently features a green Class 117 DMU running urban services in modern Cardiff. I assume that's what the FX team had access to when building the CG model. Headcode says A113 which is a Pixar reference... 361
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The period is right, but there's a shot or two in the "Orient Express thunders through the night" bits of From Russia woth Love where the OE looks suspiciously like a Jubilee and a rake of maroon mk 1s, but they've recoloured them green. Also, apparently this exists railwaymoviedatabase.comrailwaymoviedatabase.comAn A-Z guide to British and Irish railways on film - British Railway Movie Database 181
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Two weeks' worth, and two weeks' worth of t-shirts etc, then wash on alternate weeks... 000
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026*Proudly* good BRITISH supermarket fridges can fail ALL BY THEMSELVES when it gets a bit warm. 060
Reposted by Matt SimpsonMuskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Gourd-fucking-DAMMIT. 10884347
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The linked article (from 2021) FWIW retroxp.beehiiv.com/p/retro-spot...retroxp.beehiiv.comRetro Spotlight: Phoenix Wright: Ace AttorneyOn the eve of the release of a long-awaited, new Ace Attorney, let's look back at where the franchise all began. 000
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Greg Jenner's book he refers to, "Dead Famous", is great, and he reads thr audiobook himself if you need it as audio. 000
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Apologies for the lack of pixels, transcript in alt text... 0100
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Kate Fox, in Watching the English talks about the "ingenious use of props and facilitators" method of the English meeting each other. We have to pretend we're actually there for the books, or the acting, or the modded cars, or whatever, and that meeting people and making friends is a bonus 050
Reposted by Matt SimpsonWeird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Okay so we're reaching a time of year where I think you could broadly set British discourse on fire with this: 11562126
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You would think that about gruesome murders with still-living relatives but *gestures at entire True Crime Industry* 110
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 11/10/2026My kid's A-level Physics teacher (and head of 6th Form) was all about the AI generated "revision materials". The kids called him out on it and he kept on with the AI, but now as a "your homework is to find all the mistakes" exercise. 010
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"Eats Boots and leaves", as I saw someone put it on here the other day 130
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not been my experience with M&S out here in the Provinces, but certainly Boots look like WHS did - everything held together with parcel tape. It's the classic vicious cycle - revenues are down so you cut costs and put up prices to compensate... 120
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 11/10/2026There's a certain EMP effect with lightning, I think, but I see your point. 100
Matt Simpson @brickie78.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I used to work in travel and let me tell you... I do think too that breakfast is the most susceptible to this. We had people who wrote in afterwards to say how much they'd enjoyed trying all the local food, they loved this or that restaurant - then complained they couldn't get bacon for brekker. 020
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