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The TV Show Database on ITV used a set of lines in the corner to broadcast software, which you read using an optical read you could build yourself. vhistory.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/m...

Mike Thorne and a Commodore microcomputer, with a telesoftware patch flashing in the corner of the screen

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 25/09/2026

We had a lovely trip to the Natural History Museum today, but all I could hear in my head was the theme to Nationwide.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 25/09/2026

I'm not imagining it, am I? You can all see it?

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 07/09/2026

Funny you should say that. Here's the interviewee in his time before Reform, and other young conservatives...

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 07/09/2026

Here he is. A young computer programmer called Jonathan Smith who had written a game called Pud Pud and brought it to Ocean Software in the seminal BBC documentary Commercial Breaks. vhistory.wordpress.com/2022/12/10/c...

Programmer Jonathan Smith demonstrates his computer game Pud Pud on the BBC documentary Commercial Breaks.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 26/07/2026

New Dr Who behind the scenes documentary just dropped.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 25/07/2026

Here's a screenshot. I was hoping it might be earlier, as my tapes go back to 1984, but no.

A woman in pigtails is smiling and definitely doesn't wear braces on her teeth.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 05/06/2026

This picture always makes me cry. Today I'm crying more than usual. RIP Anthony Head. And thank you.

Anthony Head as Rupert Giles
Looks at a rose and smiles.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 03/04/2026

Surely an honourable mention for Tooth (2004) featuring The Easter Bunny (voiced by Jim Broadbent) in charge of all the Tooth fairies in Fairytopia. Oh, and they also pay for Christmas. (It's a bit of a mash-up, to be honest.) I only mention it because I just watched it yesterday.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 30/03/2026

A question for my helpful followers. Who's this? It's from Newsnight in December 2009, he's a journalist. I won't say who I thought it was so as not to lead you wrong. I genuinely don't know so any help would be appreciated.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 15/03/2026

Search your camera roll for 'Hell'. (Am I doing this right?)

Cover of a magazine called HELLOOO! with a picture of Barry Chuckle and the subhead 'From Rotherham to the Riviera The Barry Chuckle Story'

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 06/03/2026

Hullaballoo and Custard according to a quick search. No idea if they influenced the name, though.

BBC2 Mascots Hullaballoo and Custard, two kangaroos.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 27/02/2026

In my bathroom right now. Slightly later vintage than the picture above.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 18/02/2026

This was genuinely in an episode of the flagship BBC technology programme Tomorrow's World, with presenter Shahnaz Pakravan holding up a calculator that reads 'BOOBLESS' upside down. It went out in 1995. vhistory.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/t...

Shahnaz Pakravan holds up a calculator reading 55378008 which is 'BOOBLESS' upside down.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 01/02/2026

His name doesn't appear to be spoken in dialogue, but come the end credits, it's listed as Ivan Korshunov. This isn't quite as bad as when Bonnie Bedelia's character name is misspelled in Die Hard as either "Gennero" or "Gennaro" in multiple places (and also in the script).

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 01/02/2026

Because when Oldman's character first appears, his identity is confirmed by a fingerprint scan. But the display says He's Egor Korshunov.

Secret Service Identity Check
Name: Egor Korshunov
DOB: 3/12/58
HEIGHT: 5'11"
WEIGHT: 155lbs.
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Light Brown

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 22/01/2026

Amazon Prime seem to have attached the description and metadata of Alex Garland's "Men" to Nic Cage's Dream Scenario. Most odd.

The Amazon Prime title page for the Nicolas Cage film Dream Scenario, which has the description for Alex Garland's film "Men".

"In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories in visionary filmmaker Alex Garland's feverish, shape-shifting new horror film."

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 15/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

A screenshot of the Commodore PET game Pick-Up.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 24/12/2025

Search your first name then 'glamour shot' and post a photo

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 20/12/2025

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

An image from The Exorcist as a possessed Regan levitates as Merrin and Karras perform an exorcism.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 27/11/2025

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 05/10/2025

Something seems to have broken iMDb's reference view. All I get for any film is this. It's annoying because the other view is far too cluttered for me. Anyone else seeing this?

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 21/09/2025

@happytoast.co.uk I came across an advert from March 2009 (for a text service) and I wondered if it was your work?

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 16/09/2025

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

John Woodnutt as the thin man from The Boy From Space.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 15/09/2025

If you see this, quote a post with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 23/07/2025

Remembering my mum today.

A young married couple holding a baby. Both are smiling.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 21/06/2025

They definitely had rapport.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 15/06/2025

Happy Father's Day. This is from 2016, but I just got back from visiting dad, and he's in fine form.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 15/06/2025

This has clearly always been a problem for minor TV people. (From Nov 2008 TV Burp). I only post this because I happened to be watching this episode earlier today. That, and I initially misread Lebensraum as as Leprechaun.

A picture of the X Factor judges, with Louis Walsh making what looks a bit like a Nazi salute. Caption: No. 6 - Hitler

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 28/05/2025

Really enjoying Larry David's character in this 1975 Horizon documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgN...

Bing Muscio, President Muzak Corporation

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 23/05/2025

Show a moment from TV/Film that broke your heart.

Rupert Giles smiles as he looks a a rose, before he makes the most shocking discovery of his life.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 22/05/2025

I enjoyed the most recent Doctor Who. It's good to see Rani back on our screens.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 05/05/2025

This was February 1981. The death of programming has been predicted on and off for longer than I've been working as a programmer.

The cover of the February 1981 issue of Personal Computer World magazine showing a programmer looking worried while behind him a ghostly hand is pressing keys on the keyboard. The headline at the bottom reads "PCW World Exclusive! At last - the end of programming?"

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 04/04/2025

Just came across an episode of Chucklevision in which the boys do some baking, and I noticed they're wearing the uniforms from Dinnerladies. How brilliant.

Paul and Barry Chuckle do some baking while dressed in uniforms taken from Victoria Wood's show Dinnerladies.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 29/03/2025

Watched the original version of Star Wars on a DVD bonus disc and discovered that the bonus feature is a demo of the Lego Star Wars PC Game. You don't get this from Disney+.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 29/03/2025

My very quickly improvised eclipse picture.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 27/03/2025

As my friend Tim used to say, if he's that miserable why doesn't he just go and roll around in the room filled with money until he feels better?

Sam Altman tweet:
>be me
> grind for a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever
›mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything
›wake up one day to hundreds of messages: "look i made you into a twink ghibli style haha"

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 19/03/2025

Since everyone's doing the Top Albums on their 16th, here's the top two on mine. Not too shabby.

1: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps - David Bowie
2: Never For Ever - Kate Bush

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 14/03/2025

Name a show you’re positive no one remembers but you 📺

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