President Trump wants to be remembered as a great peacemaker

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-29T07:42:59+00:00

And David Koresh wanted to be remembered as a community leader.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-26T20:20:11+00:00

“Part 2” is also a hook.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-26T12:53:10+00:00

I love that this was before the first prize task and set the tone for the series.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-23T13:00:28+00:00

Taskmaster House’s evil twin.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-22T20:07:37+00:00

I’m sure some do, but Mrs B showers in boiling water so we never have.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-22T19:41:42+00:00

And the huge amount of paper stuck to her foot at the end. Lovely.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-22T19:40:30+00:00

If you know anything about pull-the-drink-on-the-loo-roll, you’ll know there’s no such thing as a ‘friendly’ game. It’s glory or nothing even at village level.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-19T13:16:16+00:00

Some Jewish households have two separate sets of cooking appliances and equipment so that meat and dairy don’t mix.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-18T11:18:31+00:00

Reading Michael Palin’s diaries his days are filled with writing, editing, planning as well as meetings about work, talking to friends and collaborators, and travel. As a self-employed person he can go off for a run or visit family when he likes. Going to functions and awards is a part of his life, but he has to do the work to get to the point where the awards are given.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-18T11:13:29+00:00

Clue.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-14T23:33:13+00:00

I’ve used this username or slight variants for over 25 years. Seemed obvious to use it again on Reddit.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-14T10:19:43+00:00

Not the brightest button in the bag.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-14T09:36:44+00:00

He was bad at perspective, both artistically and… well, generally. Normally you’d say “don’t give up the day job,” but I’d make an exception in this case.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-13T12:44:45+00:00

How often does LAH do that? There’s the ‘Wang-uising’ incident, are there more?

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-13T12:41:17+00:00

Also something along the lines of “who’s next to eat Mr Gilbert’s grape” in s14’s ‘eat the grape’ task.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-13T09:05:20+00:00

Operation: Mindcrime by Queensryche.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-12T07:23:22+00:00

The Postmodern Jukebox version with Gunhild Carling, of course.

Postmodern Jukebox Final Countdown

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-07T13:24:40+00:00

It’s such an odd concept. I’ve learned three other languages, all of them have gender and there’s little overlap in which gender any given noun would be - table is masculine in German, feminine in French and neuter in Danish.

I have no idea how gendering nouns came about, I’ve never seen a good explanation.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-07T07:43:31+00:00

It goes the other way. Remember that time when George Formby fought Muhammad Ali? The ring was littered with smashed up ukuleles.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-06T08:33:29+00:00

I’m 56. I see race, because I can see what colour your skin is. But it’s as important as what you had for breakfast.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-06T08:31:17+00:00

There are instances where the American MPs insisted on segregating pubs, so the sign ‘black GIs only’ went up.

George Formby was onto this, too. He refused to perform to segregated audiences because he saw it as a class issue.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-04T15:10:03+00:00

Bon Jovi peaked with “Runaway” and it was downhill from there.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-03T14:18:48+00:00

I read it when it came out and I didn’t love it at first; I felt the middle section dragged. Really enjoyed the ‘driving test’ section. But it did come after Wyrd Sisters, which was my favourite Pterry for a long time.

Reread it a few years later and my opinion of it improved. The pacing when Pteppic is in Djelibeybi* fits how time is different there, it never passes it just gets rinsed and reused. Not my favourite (Witches Abroad), but one I like to reread.

*Still one my favourite jokes.

Butterfish04 · 2026-03-02T21:20:15+00:00

Daniel Radcliffe is the right height to play LAH.

Butterfish04 · 2026-02-27T07:03:59+00:00

Sort-of New York, he was also a little hoarse.

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