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Simon Brown

@niceredtrousers.bsky.social
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Tired dad of 3 teens. Slightly warped geologist/geophysicist/geographer. Unfortunately the Red Trousers no longer fit.

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𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐨 @agnes-guano.bsky.social · 18h
Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*performs oral sex on Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards* Michael Caine: you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From the boss.
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Whilst having a bit of a clean around our room, I found an old, old bookmark from the late 80s. My favourite second-hand bookshop in Torquay used to give them away with purchases. I had a *lot* of these bookmarks in my teens. I used to doodle or write things to remember on them.
A card bookmark with "The Book Barn" printed on it.A teenage doodle of a generic classic Ferrari-type car on a bookmark.
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Each day stranger than the last.
The Distracted Boyfriend meme, but the boyfriend is now Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, his girlfriend is a furious Hitler and the object of his attention is Ed Sheeran.
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Manamana..."
A partially unwrapped iceberg lettuce, with the wrapping looking somewhat like a puppet going "Do doo de doo doo"
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake’
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The first rule of Norman Collier club is ou alk ut orm er club.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 07/09/2026
The Tale Of Tantalus
Four panel comic about how Cookie Monster consumes cookies eternally but cannot swallow them
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is such fun!! #ReformUK #Nigelfarage
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fantastic (and surprising) stuff for those of us who used to watch The A-Team. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T
He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
this is one of my favorite visual jokes of all time. i think about it several times a week.
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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Right, that's the safety briefing cards done, next job.
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 31/05/2026
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026
😻😻😻
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
(Had a few requests for prints of this one so I now have a limited edition print of it available in my shop. Link in my bio.) #comic #cartoon #comedy #sketch #language
Print of a comic strip by Stephen Collins. Script is as follows:

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[Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter]

MAN:
Please can I have a sausage roll.

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GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT:
Certainly sir 

[She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor].

Whoosh 

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[The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]:

Welcome, friend

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[We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache]

COMMANDER:
You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”…

So now you're one of us. 

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MAN:
W-where am I ...?

[We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc]

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COMMANDER:
You've joined the resistance…

...against people saying things all American.

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COMMANDER:
We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”.

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LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]:
Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir

COMMANDER:
Very good

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[Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc

COMMANDER:
You may have heard our name... We are...

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COMMANDER:
...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English!

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[Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]:

F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.

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MAN
You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack'
 
COMMANDER:
We didn't spot the acronym 

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com
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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Hey, why that sounds like Gabriel's trumpet. You know that means, kids." "Yay! Judgment day!"
Season 6 / Episode 2
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Beaver Bones Robertson @darickr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.
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Normal Guy @guy-normal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Michael M 👽 @michaelmisrubbish.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The blockbusters hand jive but every time it loops it gets faster and gradually more terrifyingy
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 17/06/2026
Well now here's something pretty spiffy. New out today from the New York Vocal Collective, a choral arrangement of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." The first two and a half minutes are fine, but then it becomes…something else entirely. (You know the THX sound effect?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot...
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New York Vocal Collective - Blackbird
YouTube video by NYVC (New York Vocal Collective)
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The best ever interpretation of The Thing. Always worth posting. #Thingu
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Roses are red Thoughts are thinky Something Something Something
FISHTITS WINKY graffitti
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
As someone who avoids confrontation at all costs, have twin 16-year-old AuDHD daughters going through their GCSEs is....challenging.
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Teddy Ruxpin's Stunt Double @ruxpinsdouble.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Just saw this on FB and it made me chuckle
A meme of Farage saying it is good to drink urine and a sad looking specimen having a right good glug of the stuff
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone
Ron the ginger 6 month old cat/kitten, reclining shamelessly
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"What do we want?!" "More foreign language classes in schools!" "When do we want it?!" "Pamplemousse!"
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Pundamentalism @pundamentalism.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I didn't believe my wife when she said she'd joined a Moroccan tribute band for The Monkees. And then I saw her Fez.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here’s a poem called ‘What Don Corleone Did Next’. #worldotterday
What Don Corleone Did Next 
 
upon retiring 
from the mafia,
 
he wove aquatic mammals 
out of raffia 
 
let me tell you 
how I learnt this news: 
 
he made me an otter 
I couldn’t refuse 


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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Glad I sold my soul to geophysics in the 90s then.... www.science.org/content/arti...
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Murder, monsters, occupational hazards: Why movie geologists die so often
Cinematic geologists are usually good guys—sometimes gals—but they have a one in three fatality rate, a film analysis show
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 28/05/2026
It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work
A page of parodic mail online headlines by Craig Brown from the current issue of Private Eye. Buy Private Eye it’s only £2.99.
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
And this is why we wear gardening gloves, children
A broken garden fork that went "sproingg!", and a plaster covering a finger with some skin missing
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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Jesus Christ, from the size of that cat I’m guessing it’s lard
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Something...something....Cool for Cats.....something
A ginger kitten in a coolbag
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why have Albania entered a musical version of Freud's case studies?
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
massive pile of blood and flesh and broken bones with just a pink snout poking out, someone's dropped a clanger
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A big adventure for Ron today: Outside!
A ginger kitten watches a garden A ginger kitten stalks a rhododendron A ginger kitten and a yellow poppy A ginger kitten tries desperately to relax on a garden stepping stone
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
‘I’ve just flown in from England and boy are my arms tired!’
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Most of the reaction I got to my Rush Hour Crushes was my pals laughing, but occasionally they'd go mildly viral. And then there was this one, which has never stopped. It's been shared without attribution well over a million times by this stage, which makes me very happy because I really do love it.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"My wife got hurt after annoying the marsupials on our trip to a Malaysian zoo." "Kuala Lumpar?" "No, a kangaroo kicked her up the arse".
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
this is like how Aubrey and Maturin met
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Share a GIF from a western you live
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a man wearing a cowboy hat sits on a couch
Alt: The Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) snooze...
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This might not translate globally, but for UK people, this is like seeing the Beatles reform
Packets of all four flavours of Nik Naks, together in a shop
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/04/2026
I didn't know Google could do that
A google map showing Nigel Farage is currently in Twatt on the Shetland Isles
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Simon Brown @niceredtrousers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Look at this idiot
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