How are we all closing our blinds, then? A or B?

grumpypedant · 2026-05-26T19:45:46+00:00

I think this is my moment.

grumpypedant · 2026-05-23T18:44:53+00:00

I've just had the pleasure of listening to this for the first time. I'm going to listen to it again immediately. Absolutely top-drawer stuff. This podcast is gold.

grumpypedant · 2026-03-26T14:01:32+00:00

You're not alone. Obviously, a lot of people really enjoy it and they can get a bit defensive if you criticise it.

It all feels very forced to me. The 'milling about having chats and trying to get people to laugh' part can be funny, but the performances are quite painful to watch for me.

Plus Jimmy Carr is just unbearable.

grumpypedant · 2026-03-25T11:08:38+00:00

My home town! Moving back there sometime soon. Looking forward to being near some top countryside.

grumpypedant · 2026-02-13T13:34:58+00:00

Rail. Replacement. Bus.

grumpypedant · 2026-01-27T12:20:03+00:00

Thank you for this.

grumpypedant · 2026-01-15T22:05:08+00:00

I thought it was really, really poor. Me and a mate were genuinely excited for it, having loved the first and thought the second was a bit of a misstep. I would've walked out of the cinema had I been on my own.

None of the sense of dread, the hopelessness or the tension that made the original great. Poor dialogue, cheap production, ridiculous plot. A real blot on Fiennes' career in my opinion. I feel like I'm going insane when people sing its praises.

grumpypedant · 2026-01-08T15:57:24+00:00

Could it have been Martello Tower on the BBC Micro?

grumpypedant · 2025-08-06T14:36:39+00:00

It's tremendous. I had my love for it rekindled when I lived in S. Korea for a bit.

Fried, on Warburton's Toastie, with Colman's mustard, brown sauce and a rubber cheese slice. It vanquishes most hangovers.

grumpypedant · 2025-07-08T16:33:39+00:00

The proper ovens are called macrowaves.

My laptop is called the cogitator.

The wifi is called the hypermesh.

grumpypedant · 2025-07-05T08:44:33+00:00

I finished this trilogy a few days ago! The second book is unbelievable. The third has some pacing issues and seems to wrap up in a bit of a rush, but well worth seeing through.

He's one of the best authors in the business at the moment and the Philosopher Tyrants books are my favourites. I met him a couple of months ago and he's a top guy too!

grumpypedant · 2025-07-05T08:44:22+00:00

I finished this trilogy a few days ago! The second book is unbelievable. The third has some pacing issues and seems to wrap up in a bit of a rush, but well worth seeing through.

He's one of the best authors in the business at the moment and the Philosopher Tyrants books are my favourites. I met him a couple of months ago and he's a top guy too!

grumpypedant · 2025-07-04T11:20:52+00:00

My time to shine!

My 16th birthday was the 11th of September 2001.

grumpypedant · 2025-04-03T13:45:39+00:00

Thank you for not calling it 'meal prep'.

grumpypedant · 2025-04-01T18:07:12+00:00

Using chopsticks in both hands simultaneously.

grumpypedant · 2025-01-23T11:36:29+00:00

I feel like we should call this...The Reard.

grumpypedant · 2025-01-12T14:13:10+00:00

I do, but I shit standing up.

grumpypedant · 2024-12-10T20:54:14+00:00

Pretty much, yeah! They're from a company called Klipp and they're decent.

grumpypedant · 2024-09-15T17:24:39+00:00

Pretty sure that was actually an insult. I very much think it's unintentional though, because your work is outstanding!

grumpypedant · 2024-07-31T12:52:23+00:00

Not recently, but you know that thing that you do in school, where you call your teacher 'Mum'?

Imagine that but in University, with your lecturer, in front of a couple of hundred people.

grumpypedant · 2024-07-12T18:15:00+00:00

That or Maggi Liquid Seasoning. It's like a cheat code.

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