ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Puss in Boots is already the plural of an unfortunate infected blister-related hiking injury - Pus in Boot. 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Whenever something is declared 'officially' to be a thing, it loses any value. It's a bit of a Trumpword, used to try to make whatever follows seem more significant or true than it actually is. If the thing is true, it didn't need to be officially true. 040
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's not 'funny' as such. Kind of like a subversion trope. The writer looks to be setting up a familiar topic (less vs fewer), reader assumes how the rest of it will go, writer subverts the expectations (goes on to 'more' rather than 'less'), reader is confounded by the wit of the writer. 150
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026English speakers often confuse 'fewer' and 'less', e.g. "Joe has fewer apples than Ann" and "Ann has less money than Joe" are both correct. Often people will explain the difference in online posts. The gag is that this post starts with 'fewer' and then contrasts it with 'more' rather than 'less'. 241
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"I'm on holiday. If you were on holiday, you wouldn't be seeing this reply. I would sympathise, but I'm just having too good a time to think of anyone else's crappy life." 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Spurs defence basically just watched it all happen. It actually looks weird on the replay, seeing how little movement there is. 030
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I thought that was quite a harsh BBC summary, but I misread "shire". 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Meanwhile, India and large parts of Africa start to prepare their invoices for the cost of colonial damage. 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I remember when Trevor Francis was the first million pound transfer. That seemed a lot back then... 130
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026For quite a lot of British people Leeds is, of course, already quite far south... 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Does it get harder to find subjects? It feels like you must end up going with increasingly obscure topics, but then history is a very big place. 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 27/07/2026And if they did well they could win a speedboat! (For game show viewers of a certain generation...) 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Just rename the Downing Street office as 'No 10 South' and all the problems go away! 🙂 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I don't think Scotland needs/ wants a branch of No 10. My point is that to call a Manchester office of the UK govt 'North' is to say 'This is the govt of England'. It has always been this way (name the Scottish, Welsh, and English secretaries), but this is a missed chance to be more UK-inclusive. 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The problem I have is with this is the labelling. "North" here refers to England, so "Number 10 North" is a signal to Scotland that "Number 10", i.e. the seat of UK governance, is actually only interested in England. Anglo-centric language does nothing to help bring the UK together. 140
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Indeed! It took me a long time to get "Ipipourax" - it needs to be said in French! 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Which reminds me of my 45 year old Asterix book, in French, that my parents got me while I was at school, learning French. Lots of good stuff in there! 160
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026In the factory there is a machine that fills the cans and another that places the tops onto the cans. When the first machine runs out of liquid to put in the cans the second machine carries on for a short time while the production line shuts down. So a few empty cans can get through to packaging. 110
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Well done! Not sure I'd have the patience for that. 110
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"mapped", not married. One benefit about carving inscriptions in stone is that there's no predictive text. Though here's another question - are there any famous spelling mistakes on inscribed archaeology? 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026#AskAnArchaeologist When I've seen digs on TV, each little bit of pottery gets married, catalogued and stored separately. Does there come a point where you just chuck it all in a bucket labelled 'random bits of meaningless pottery'? 421
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"So this insane foreign guy comes running up with his trash, no shoes on and still in his PJs. No idea what he was saying, I guess he was drunk, but I figured the best way to calm him down was to empty his trash. He went away happy, but I tell ya, I'm swapping that route with Chuck next week!" 290
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Feels like a game too far for Messi, who just looks tired, and a game too soon for Yamal, who looks a bit out of his depth. Meanwhile Argentina recognise that penalties are their best hope. 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Don't forget, Spain have only lost one goal in the entire tournament (to Belgium in the QF), which can only happen with a superb work rate and structure. France's dynamic style of play is easy on the eye, but very hard to do against a defence and midfield organised like Spain's. 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Your head appears to be powered, train-like, by overhead cables. 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Would be nice if the TV producers had a bit more imagination than to have a posse of cameras following Ronaldo around at the end. 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I don't know any Scottish people who would stay up for an England game kicking off at 2am. Doesn't mean they are anti-English, just that if doesn't matter much to most folk on side of the border. 020
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Scottish, so no skin in the game (we have challenges enough in our own group), but England will struggle against France, Spain, Morocco, etc. if they can't be more clinical. But then those teams won't be so defensive so maybe the Ghana result doesn't really mean anything. 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Sweden have a tricky group, but the Netherlands are not what they once were and there's always a chance against countries like Japan and Tunisia. It could work out fine. But I can't see Scotland taking any points from either Brazil or Morocco. 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Mostly what I'm taking from this game is a feeling of dread at the knowledge that Scotland have to play both of them... 🫣 120
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026'Lightly Swims The Swan', possibly written by Phil Cunningham but certainly performed by him and Aly Bain. But played by me in this instance. youtu.be/tJ5g_6ZnABoyoutu.beLightly Swims The SwanYouTube video by Colin M 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026402 / 500, which was rated "Very Good" even though I got none right! Closest guess was two years out. 110
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's certainly going to be a media sensation when droves of international footballers at the world cup declare themselves lesbian over the next few weeks. 030
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Every "legitimate concern" comment, every time Reform was given a platform, every "both sides of the issue", every concession to the right wing, has all led to this, because nobody in government had the sense or guts to draw a line and say "No more", for fear of losing votes. Shameful. 29513
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 09/06/20265. Rejoin the EU to permit free trade without the punishing costs and delays we now have. 6. Any media organisation can be prosecuted and shut down for publishing provably false content. 7. Adopt the French healthcare model for the NHS: free for those who can't pay, while the rest pay something. 020
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 09/06/20261. Proportional representation. 2. Utilities and infrastructure should be in public ownership or have tight governmental control. 3. Parliamentary voting should be remote & fully transparent. 4. Replace the house of lords with an elected body (also PR) that has a limited & specific oversight remit. 120
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026All they need are a couple of trapeze artists sitting on the shorter crossbars. 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Hegseth on a beach in Normandy, taking about dangerous ideologies on beaches! The irony is thick enough to stop a tank! 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Remember, whatever happens, it's not about winning, it's about taking part. What's important is that everyone took part and enjoyed themselves. 000
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Would the flask have been filled with something, refreshment for the journey to Elysium or something like that? 100
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Faststone Image Viewer (www.faststone.org/FSViewerDeta...) for photo processing. Excellent and capable tool for photo editing, including bulk processing. I've been using it for years to adjust exposure, colour balance, cropping , straightening, etc.faststone.orgFastStone Image Viewer - Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter 010
ColinM 🏴 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Went back to it this evening, and found a whole new (working) puzzle has replaced the broken one. And my streak is intact, which is nice. 000
