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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 29/09/2026

If I was wearing Doc-Martens and a pork-pie hat, this would have potential to be a good photo, but I’m not

Madness, they call it madness. Walk of theme thing in Camden.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 29/09/2026

Not making a political point but just saw this pic and thought: I recognise that expression

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 28/09/2026

From left to right: Benny, Frida, Vortran The Merciless, Agnetha & Bjorn

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 26/09/2026

It was bugging me what the vibe was, then it hit, it's a similar production to East 17's Let It Rain. I'm now congratulating myself on my excellent ears because it's the literally the same people making it

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 26/09/2026

You are jealous that you’re not me

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 26/09/2026

So it’s free and possibly a bit shit but you shouldn’t complain? I am unconvinced anyone at Lloyds understands common idioms.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 24/09/2026

I'm hearing this as a call and response song like Ghostbusters

Who will service your Sinclair C5?
HOOOVER !

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 24/09/2026

One of the most dad albums of all time, well I mean, my dad liked it

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 22/09/2026

Haha, just asking for trouble. The Wikipedia page is pretty interesting, hostages! Bomb threats! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Go...

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 21/09/2026

Just got my old camera out of the loft and apparently five years ago I took this profile picture for my cat to go along with his Telegraph column where he’s only saying what we’re all thinking

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 21/09/2026

I know writers aren't really stuck for ideas, they're more stuck for people to invest money in ideas, but on the off chance someone is listening, I think a slasher movie where the killer righteously targets twee users of English would have an audience and the title is right here

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 21/09/2026

Oh there's a whole Kraftwerk double album I didn't know about. I think I'd seen it in the list but just glossed over it thinking it was The Mix, but of course it isn't, it's something else.

Kraftwerk The Mix - you know your fav german dudes making music

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 20/09/2026

Go on. Fill in the clickbait for funs.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 20/09/2026

Running fesshole is a small insight into conspiracy thinking in that I get exposed to mental conspiracies about how I run Fesshole that are completely, what the fuck around you talking about mate? One is that I run a series of reply bots to it, on a platform which I don't even regularly look at.

I see I rumbled your 5p a day bot scheme for Fesshole, so you retired the first one and now have 3! Enjoy your 15p a day, cunt!

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 19/09/2026

This is correct but more importantly all the Planet Of The Apes films, original and reboot, are terribly named, except the initial title "Planet Of The Apes" which is perfect. Good luck knowing which ones are which.

The first two of the recent Planet of the Apes movies were named the wrong way round. "Rise" shows how it started, but "Dawn" shows how it gained momentum, which is objectively wrong. Ruins the films for me.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 18/09/2026

made me look up the article and I don't hugely want to defend the telegraph but the subhead pivots its to making a point that is virtually up the social revolution for them

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 18/09/2026

Public service information for anyone like me, whose wardrobe rail fell off at 2 in the morning. IKEA have a free spares replacement service for small parts.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 17/09/2026

Whatever industrial flavouring they stick in this stuff, it’s the same flavour as pineapple cube sweets I had as a kid and therefore quite wonderful. It’ll probably make your hair fall out from radiation sickness, but it’s highly recommended.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 15/09/2026

No, you are skim reading, and if anyone quizzed you on what you read in any detail you'll have missed a lot of it. And if you'd ever read anything properly you'd have probably have heard of skim reading.

My superpower seems to be reading books. I can read a whole page in seconds by simply looking at it and sort of “absorbing” the page. Whereas everyone else seems to slowly read line by line. I was born with it, not something that I learned. I might be carrying an evolution gene.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 15/09/2026

This complaint crops up quite regularly but really, if you want anon comments, you have them: open another account without your name on them. That's too much work you say? Well, me moderating tens of thousands of additional replies, as well as the main posts, is also too much work for me.

The whole point of Anon Opin and Fesshole is to be anonymous, but yet we have use our name to comment.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 14/09/2026

Just to join the cool club - it's that there's UTM guff on the link to give it that real personal touch

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 14/09/2026

if they were being historically accurate it would be piccadilly circus

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 13/09/2026

Misread this title and was briefly excited by the idea of a very British Planet Of The Apes, where the apes took over only the UK, and the other countries had to come to terms on how to manage relations with this insane country. Apes smashing up parliament and going on the Now Show, please make it.

Untitled Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes sequel (2027)
Asbell announced that a sequel to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is in development. It is planned to be released on May 14, 2027.[132] In May 2026, it was reported a new film unrelated to the previous film will be directed by Matt Shakman and written by Josh Friedman.[133]

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 12/09/2026

It IS anonymous and what you don't understand is moderation, and that I have no interest in running a project that would be the confessions of murderers, rapists and peadophiles, as that would be horrible.

No one really believes this is anonymous. Otherwise we would have murderers, rapists and peadophiles spilling the beans.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 11/09/2026

Looks like I'm on IMDB three times but the records aren't joined together. Left is me and a GREAT credit. And right is me and not such a great credit (which is what I think you're referring to, it was the one that loads of b3tans rightly took the piss over)

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 11/09/2026

Ha - yes I was in these films because Ashens is an old b3tan but I think that's the first time anyone has called me an actor. Thank you IMDB.

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com › name
9 Feb 2018 — Actor Rob Manuel is known for Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild (2013) and Ashens and the Polybius Heist (2020).

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 11/09/2026

The Duran Duran stamps thing is slight own goal in reminding people that they've only got one fantasic album cover.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/09/2026

Actually, for sale in local shop today, so I thought why not

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/09/2026

I think it's a comment about their outfits rather than the lyrics

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/09/2026

Been wondering if the UK is going to get a kicking from the US over the West Bank sanctions stuff. Nothing on Truth Social yet and thought I'd check an Israel paper and fucking hell, Trump has as good as backed it (not to say he can't change his mind) www.timesofisrael.com/trump-briefe...

While Rubio noted that the US would not join the UK in the move — which was also backed by 11 other Western countries — he avoided criticizing it.

“We were made aware that they are gonna make this decision. We heard their arguments as to why. We share the goal of stability. We don’t want to see an uptick in violence or tensions in the West Bank in a tenuous time in the region,” the top US diplomat said.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/09/2026

AI's job is to agree with you, because AI a product, and there's little financial model in telling people they are wrong. Remember this if someone tells you "I asked AI and they agreed"

Listen, I like Oasis’s Wonderwall as much as anyone else. But can we all agree that Liam is off pitch and sharp while singing the song?

Yes—with one qualification: Liam isn’t simply “singing the wrong notes,” but his pitch placement on “Wonderwall” is noticeably sharp in spots.

Listen, I like Oasis’s Wonderwall as much as anyone else. But can we all agree that Liam is off pitch and flat while singing the song?

Yes—with a qualification. Liam Gallagher often sings parts of “Wonderwall” slightly under the center of the pitch, and his delivery includes a lot of downward scooping, nasal placement, and deliberately slack intonation. If you isolate the vocal against a tuner, there are absolutely notes that register flat.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 09/09/2026

Nah bollocks. Barnes does a lovely characterful, smooth delivery of a poorly written rap. It's New Order/Keith Allen who can't WRITE rap. Barnes saved it.

John Barnes can't rap. World in motion is a terrible song and the fact such a legendary player is forced to recite the awful rap is shocking. He deserves better

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 08/09/2026

The RNLI has some cuter planters and today would be the day to spend some money in their shop shop.rnli.org/collections/...

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 07/09/2026

These things are always arguable BUT in terms of streams Teardrops wins, significantly.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 07/09/2026

1970s soft rock was the peak of recorded sound. Currently listening to a playlist that's all these names and it's the sound of your dad's hi-fi and thick carpets.

Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Eagles
James Taylor
Jackson Browne
Boston
Carly Simon
Daryl Hall & John Oates
Bread
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Andrew Gold
Glen Campbell
Eric Carmen

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 03/09/2026

I don’t think we can even blame AI for this

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 03/09/2026

Just been reminded of this slightly odd campaign, did it actually help sell Macs? You'd choose Mark to do your admin and accounts over Jez.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 03/09/2026

No. The whole format is there to encourage you edit and be concise. It's not an accident of platform restrictions either, the first version had no text limit and I wrote the code to thread it all and... I didn't like it and cut it all down to a single post.

Have a few funny fesses that just can't be contained to post length without losing the humour, heart or half of the story. Give us more space.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 02/09/2026

The repair tarmac is clearly much stickier than the road tarmac

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 02/09/2026

I can't stop picking. Interestingly Patternson has history in doing unexpected collabs. Dolly one was well received but it also makes a bit of sense: Dolly supplied the intel on Nashville, Patternson made it a thriller. Maybe the better Beast collab would be a story on murky world of influencers.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 02/09/2026

Yummy, my favourite type of mint

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 02/09/2026

AND FINALLY - the premise of the book is just so similar to Squid Game. Yeah everything is a version of something else but I just don't see much of a hook - I've heard many versions of this story before, what's the unique twist to make me want to try this version? www.ign.com/articles/you...

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 02/09/2026

This pick’n’mix is very chewy

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 02/09/2026

People asking me to sell these - unlikely I'm doing that. It was more an urge I got to join in. In my head it was art impulse to make a small gesture of support - I left a few in a tube station to be picked up. You can make your own if you have an A4 black & printer and a badge kit (£70, Amazon)

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 01/09/2026

I can make some more badges and this time actually leave them somewhere useful as I live nearby - couldn’t actually be arsed to go to Clacton

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 31/08/2026

New name for social media has just dropped in this typo

You know how gambling companies are legally required to block your account if you ask them to? We should have the same rule for venting machines.

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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 29/08/2026

Figured I better emulate something in response, and I couldn’t think of anything that was painterly, then I spotted a dog toy

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