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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 18h

I wish I'd been saving my food allowance

A photograph of a men's clothing store window with some vibrant patterned shirts on display.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 20h

They appear to have made a funfair ride out of the end of Enter The Dragon and called it "China Town" 🧐

Photograph of a brightly lit and colorful funfair ride which is basically a big rectangular room full of doors some of which are mirrors

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We used to have a maglev

Photograph of a derelict carriage from the Birmingham Airport Air-Rail link maglev that was in service from 1984-1995. It is sitting next to a shed in a small paddock with green grass.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you bike frames and F1 circuits and a number of good guesses for 31/210 on #UniversityChallenge this week.

My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For the Rover 75 driver in your life

A green t shirt on a white background with a head-on image of a Rover 75 car

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My most popular Instagram post in a long time is about... toast.

Screengrab from my Instagram story post which is a photograph of two slices of toasted bread. One has been through a hotel toaster - you know the ones that are a conveyor belt under a grill - one time and is barely visible toasted. The other piece has been through twice and is so toasted it is borderline burnt in places.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was very horizontal and fighting off sleep just before tonight's episode of #UniversityChallenge, but mustered myself for an average 21/130

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Giving myself Tchaikovsky at the gong (not a euphemism) for 20/135 on #UniversityChallenge. Those kids were quick and put on a great contest.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wish I was on holiday again

Photograph of a black first geney Renault Twingo in a carport which has greenery growing on it.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not now, large wasp spider species

Screengrab of a news feed with a story posted by the BBC which reads "Large wasp spider species arrives in the West Midlands" with a photo presumably of an example of the large wasp spider species that has arrived in the West Midlands.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Giving myself puffin at the gong (not a euphemism) for 22/155 on #UniversityChallenge this week.

My list of correct answers on University Challenge this week

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Always keep your camera sensor and kitchen window clean. Probably should've moved the houseplant out the way too. #photography #lightning #thunderstorm

Photograph of cloud-to-cloud lightning streaking across a grey sky, with a the top of a tree in silhouette and also a pointy leaf of the houseplant that sits on my kitchen windowsill.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Brain was generally in gear tonight, though had forgotten something I'd read about only a few hours earlier. Decent 24/170 overall though #UniversityChallenge

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've just discovered that sidecarcross exists

Photograph of a sidecarcross motorbike and sidecar. So it's a rugged motorbike with big suspension for riding on dirt and over jumps, with a very basic sidecar attached. This one is in mid-air with the rider and passenger holding on.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

At what point should we stop saying "El Niño" and start saying "El hombre gigante que nos destruirá a todos" ?

Graphic of ocean surface temperature anomalies showing lots of orange and red and a massive stretch of very dark red along the equator for much of the width of the Pacific

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A slow slog for 21/155 on #UniversityChallenge. Would've gotten a few more if it wasn't for those pesky kids generally being way faster.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Anyhoo, here's the best view I got before the cloud came and covered things up #photography #partialsolareclipse #solareclipse

Photograph of the 2026 partial solar eclipse viewed from the Clent Hills just south of Birmingham, UK. The moon covers about 70% of the sun leaving a crescent. I've processed it to be a yellow/orange colour rather than white.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Landed a fair few guesses for 21/150 on #UniversityChallenge this week. Warwick look like a good team that will go far.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wasn't far from where we were staying this weekend in London #Spaced

Photograph of the house used for exterior shots in the sitcom Spaced.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Feels like a new PB could've been on the cards here, but several times I was just too slow or making the wrong (but hopefully sensible) guesses. Can't complain about 26/160 on #UniversityChallenge this week though.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yep, it was the Big Ride for Palestine

Photograph of cyclists gathered outside the Birmingham Library ahead of the Big Ride for Palestine

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Big Ride for Palestine!

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am about to W A T C H The Odyssey

Photograph taken from the front row of a cinema theatre because it's hot as fuck and everyone wants to spend the afternoon indoors watching a big ass film

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

20 at the gong for me on #UniversityChallenge this week. Fast paced once again. I'm glad that watching speed running videos on youtube hasn't been a complete waste of time though.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

When I finished my bike ride this morning, I turned around to head home and saw the most majestic cat I've ever seen. A huge, medium haired, cream and ginger beauty - which completely ignored me. A Ghibli-esque feline deity. #StravaArt #Birmingham #Cycling #Cats

Screenshot of a a Strava cycle activity map which, as best as the roads and paths of south Birmingham will allow, resembles a cat.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

According to my headphones I just had an incoming call from a suspected telemark

Photograph of a telemark skier getting the back leg down

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Delayed #UniversityChallenge watching due to James Acaster. Probably should've got a couple more? Birmingham tap water is the best tap water because we steal it from Wales.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The gap from 1st-20th was smaller than the gap from 20th-22nd in Q1... #F1 #BelgianGP

Screengrab from F1 live timing showing that Perez was 2.1 seconds off 1st in the Q1 session of qualifying for the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix whereas Stroll was 4.3 seconds off, and therefore 2.2 seconds behind Perez.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Opening the account for the 26/27 #UniversityChallenge season with a possibly below par 20/125. Need to get my brain up to speed!

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Somewhat interestingly, this was a near mirror image of the outcome from the series before that in which Sam won by 29.

Another screen grab from a spreadsheet of metrics for two nerds who play along to University Challenge

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

But I had a stronger finish and ended 27 clear at the ultimate gong. Not much in it for number of correct starters, but apparently the bonuses were more to my liking.

Screen grab from a spreadsheet with a bunch of metrics for two nerds who play along to University Challenge

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist

Excerpt from an Adrian Chiles column for the Guardian.

I was famous once, and I’m quite sure I let my ego race ahead of any talent I had and became insufferable. But even in my prime – if that’s the right word for it – had I happened to get married, it would not have occurred to me to book out the Crystal Leisure Centre in Stourbridge and flash the happy tidings up on big screens for the interest of bewildered drivers on the ring road beside it.

Speaking of Stourbridge, as I sit writing this in a coffee shop here, I recall that the band Pop Will Eat Itself were formed in the town. Did pop eat itself? Will it? Swift seems to have her knife and fork out. I’m waiting for the moment that the world has enough, when enough people look up at that billboard and say: “Yeah? And?”

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Section from a stone found by a guy called John at the epicentre of the Tunguska event (30 June 1908), that he thought might be a fragment from the meteor. Turned out to be of terrestrial origin but is still pretty cool.

A very colourful image that looks like abstract art, but is a sample of rock that is presumably illuminated so it looks a bit like stained glass too.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I don't know which is worse. That people can't tell, or people don't care.

Screengrab from an AI video doing the rounds of a domestic cat facing down a pair of lions at a zoo. Both lions at some point have their heads pop through metal railings which they absolutely could not fit. Could a domestic cat be at a zoo? Maybe. Would you have lions that accessible? I'd hope not. Again, it's just all so much bullshit but it's "funny" so who gives a shit right? The post currently has 5.8k likes and 1.6k reposts.

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Delayed celebratory post for Lewis Hamilton winning his first grand prix for Ferrari, and 106th overall! I thought it might be time for him to hang up the helmet after last year, but his recent run of form is quickly changing my mind #F1

Photograph of Lewis Hamilton on the podium after the Barcelona-Catalunya grand prix, throwing the winner's trophy into the air as second placed George Russell looks upward and third placed Lando Norris looks a bit awks

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I wish Panini could actually make this

Generated Panini world cup sticker of Thierry Henry being shocked

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sorry not sorry I found a better way of doing it via some random person on reddit rather than the panini app

Ok it's a better version of a Panini world cup sticker of Thierry Henry making a shocked expression after someone called James Corden a full kit wanker on live tv

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Nic @supernicebob.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Ok, fine. But even allowing for some loss of detail through compression of the image, there's no way that text matches up with other shots of Tesco cleaning robots. Just because an actual image of Canterbury has been used as the start point doesn't mean it's been made up.

Screengrab from a video of a Tesco cleaning robot

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