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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The most subversive TV detective is Inspectors Barnaby from Midsomer Murders. No trauma nor dependency issues, happy family life, professional and neurotypical.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Hello BTP? I want yo report something suspicious on the train. There is a man on this train wearing a green suit."

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was once an Air Raid Warden in Guildford. In the early 2010s.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tuned into "A View to a Kill" at the absolute highlight of the film. The theme song.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Well lads, it's 1982. Punk is dead. If we are to survive as a band, we need something of the moment. Something in the Zeitgeist" "How about a harpsichord song in 13/8 time!" "...." "What if we made it about heroine?"

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Walked past this amazing pub sign

Vulcan Arms pub sign showing Spock

Another sign underneath that says

Lunches
Hot Meals
Bar Snacks
12 noon til 2pm
Evening meals

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The lack of a distinct second person plural in English has never bothered me, as one can always use the third person with the impersonal pronoun to gets ones point across.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oddly, the first example I jumped to was a good book. Just the film was great: LA Confidential

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Guess what this genius just did (though substituting pinhole shoebox device for collander)

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

M. Before (s)he became head of MI6, (s)he was a spy. Because of the fucked up Bond timeline, it is set in the 17th Century. Starring Tom Holland and Thomasin McKenzie as the title character in alternating scenes.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Red and green together are by far the stupidest colours to use for any serious application, and the fact we do so is largely because it is very difficult to make blue with a yellow flamed parrafin lamp (a blue filter just makes a green light).

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Canadian are on the cusp of being as inconsistent as us Brits. We need to increase our lead. I suggest that UK needs to start giving the weather temperature in Gas Mark, and cook in degrees DeLisle. If that doesn't work, we'll have to start selling petrol in quarts.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was once asked to come up with a colour to represent diversity. Perfectly normal thing in my line of work, except I was the only straight white male in my section. And I am colour blind.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Not being particularly interested in football, I can still tell when England score by the howls of despair emanating from my Scottish wife.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The uncancellation of the Shanghai International Settlement based sequel to LA Noire

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The caps worn by the characters on Peaky Blinders are nothing like the caps that were popular in 1920s working class communities.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Finally we will see a song about a boat what sunk in Eurovision

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Anglican theology question: would I be correct in thinking only humans have souls, and without a soul one cannot be considered human? Writing a letter to the Transport Secretary about HS2, so I need to get this correct

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As a Sussexian, I will be indulging in our famous tradition of cutting the legs off Housemartins to make Martlets. Paul Heaton hates Sussex day.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A View to a Kill You Know My Name The Living Daylights (Hon Mention: OHMSS)

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Don't most people stream in the evening? They should be wearing dinner jackets and evening gowns.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Still playing First Light. Honestly, it is growing on me. It is a bit weird - from a gameplay standpoint it is clearly better when it is being more on the Hitman side of "Hitman meets Bond". I quite like the villain's motivation - it makes sense but is also somehow funny.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Playing the 007 First Light (because I cannot afford the Omega I want to really indulge in my middle aged Bond fantasies). So far pretty good, but there are so many annoying little nit picks in some of the dialogue and story elements.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Currently wearing two neckerchief to beat the heat - one around my neck and one around the noggin. I look like some sort of awful clothing experiment that occured when someone put Quentin Crisp and Tupac Shakur in the Large Sartorial Collider.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Oh, God, Youtube has looped back round to showing me watch youtubers again. This means I once again I now have several tabs open for high end watch companies selling watches I cannot quite afford nor justify the need for. And also a tab open with a list of nearby Post Offices with poor security.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It looks like my plan for HS2 (steam haulage) might also help resolve the CalMac problem.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Never in my life would I have expected everything to hinge on a Bulgarian Lara Croft dancing in a dentist office in the outskirts of Plovdiv

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Lewis Miller @lewgmiller.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Clip from the Death of Stalin of one character saying “Geronimo the Alpaca would be loving this”

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Once again, I am saying: complete HS2. Make it steam hauled. I promise there is logic to it. Admittedly, some of it is "Adam West's Batman solving a puzzle left by the Riddler" logic. But it makes more sense than the current plan.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I have to admit, this is pretty cool; these islands are bloody blustery, and Tristan is very easy to miss (and they seemed to have managed to pinpoint the landing somewhere sensible - not, say, on top of Queen Mary's Peak or something)

bbc.co.uk

Army parachutes onto Tristan da Cunha to help Briton with suspected hantavirus

The specialist team parachuted onto Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory, to treat them.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

QTP with a cartoon with an awesome theme song. (Not just an awesome theme song. The finest song ever written. Frankly, all song writing since then has been pointless. The artform has been perfected.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTH...

youtube.com

♫ The Littlest Hobo song ♫ (original video opening) - Terry Bush

YouTube video by cancionestv

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Rewatching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I remembered it being damned good, but forgot just how good it is. It's always better than I remember it being

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Tinker Tailor Smiley's People Clochemerle Air Crash Investigation Star Trek TOS TNG World at War Civilisation Blackadder The Great War Columbo Monty Python Expanse Look Around You Community

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I think one element here is that E&W actually does the separation pretty well. Up to & inc. KS3 the general idea is to teach kids important milestones in an age appropriate fashion, whilst encouraging interest. After that it becomes an optional subject, and focusses on the historian's skills element

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Wonderful Life - Black Hurt - Johnny Cash Walk Away - Franz Ferdinand Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan Caribbean Blue - Enya Glorious - The Pierces Sh-Boom - The Crew Cuts While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles Battlefield - Blind Guardian Maybe Tomorrow - Terry Bush*

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Wonder how the street was able to maintain a consistent numbering scheme for so much of it's length

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

(Looks at comments) How is that this Brit knows that these are the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, and not some inappropriate thing that the current President invented? They wear red, as per the old tradition that musicians wore coats of facing colours and facings of coat colours.

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's scary to think if they had chosen Osborne, there would probably be no scandal. Starmer could have continued his programme, making Jack Straw Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Michael Gove the Commander of 617 Squadron RAF, and David Blunkett the Chief Medical Officer of Guy's Hospital

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Honestly, mine were pretty mild. Wasn't allowed to read superhero comic books (Beano/Tintin/etc. were fine) and wasn't allowed trousers with turnups (I won this argument by the time I was 13).

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There is no marimba in this song...#totp

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Don't tell the Americans about this one. Actually do. Geri Halliwell needs to feel consequences. #totp

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

As someone who was living in LA in 1999, I can categorically state that it's car centric culture and lack of public transport made the premise of this song impossible #totp

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

They should have put all the Ibiza bangers together, with an instruction beforehand to take an ecstasy tablet, so they can be enjoyed in the manner expected. #totp

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I don't dislike Texas,but this song is causing all the neighbours dogs to congregate in my front garden #totp

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"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

*sigh* After Texas and Supergrass, the streak of decency was bound the end, wasn't it? #totp

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

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