I don’t know much about Rugby-ball but that looked more convincing than Leicester did last night
#ENGvNZL
“Manchester City, we’re coming for you,” came the ironic chant from crestfallen supporters before the final whistle. "
RT @CFCROYALBLUE: Liquidator by Harry J All stars entered the UK charts 50 years ago today. They couldn’t have imagined how popular it woul…
It turns out political ad’s on Facebook may be even more dodgy than stuff from a #DowningStreetSource
A senior Downing Street source says read this now!
:)
RT @weirdwalk: Archer Sanderson takes a deep dive into the megalithic musical mutations of Stonehenge during rock’s classic era, in the nex…
Marvellous! twitter.com/ChelseaFC…
RT @RachelRileyRR: She’s forever in my timeline, quote tweeted by people who hate her & hate what she stands for, inadvertently helping spr…
Very, very tricky twitter.com/YouGov/st…
A Downing Street source says calories don’t count when you’re working from home t.co/vQG45YBXa…
RT @chunkymark: Oh my god!! 😱 t.co/pw5nSCk5O…
RT @PSSouthampton: Join us and @Dan1el42 tomorrow to learn about the build, deploy and management of applications with Chef Habitat & #Powe…
RT @tompeck: In “Take Back Control” latest, the EU will now have to decide how long the latest Brexit extension will be, because our actual…
RT @guyrleech: Handy! Too remove the copyright symbol:
$yourstring = $yourstring -replace [char]169 , ''
Good old (extended) ASCII chara…
#TodayILearned this bit of Powershell strips out the ‘Registered Trade Mark’ (little R in a circle) symbol from a string.
In this case the string was the caption for the Windows OS in Server 2008).
[string]$RegisterMark = [char]174 $Caption = $Caption.replace($RegisterMark,'')
#TodayILearned how to handle quotes when generating Powershell
foreach ($Name in “spider stacy”,“cait o’riordan”) {
$Name = $Name -replace "'","''"
$String = @"
get-ADUser -filter {Name -eq '$Name'}
“@
Invoke-Expression -Command $String | select name
}
My techie Twitter list is full of the Canadian elections and Star Wars.
I’m not sure coming off worse Mr Trudeau or C-3PO
#TodayILearned that until the 1880s a mountain range called the Mountains of Kong appeared on maps of Africa.
The mountains didn’t exist
A retrospective of #PeopleIWouldRatherHaveAsPrimeMinisterThanBorisJohnson
- Mr. Bean
- Frank Spencer from Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em
- Blakey or Butler from On The Buses
- Mickey Pierce from ‘Only Fools and Horses '
- the kids from ‘Outnumbered’
- Lorraine Kelly
- Joe Lycett
- Siegfried and Tristran from All Creatures Great and Small
- all the people that completed the Great North Run in 2018
- The cast of ‘Are You being Served?’
- the receptionists at The Travel Inn where Alan Partridge stays
- the cast of ‘The Greatest Showman’
- James Bond
- the Queen
- Nathan Evans
- Manny Pacquiao
- Julia or Liz from ‘Motherland '
- Skeletor
- Patrick Kielty
- Angela Merkel
- Suranne Jones
- Claudia and Tess from ‘Strictly Come Dancing’
- Tommy Tuchel and/or Pep Guardiola
- the cast of The Good Place
- Jo, or Tom, from ‘Extra Slice’
- Jackie Weaver
- Kevin from the American Office
- Patricia Carmichael from ‘Line of Duty’
- Basil Brush
- Holly Willoughby and/or Philip Schofield
- Clare Grogan and/or Toyah Wilcox
- Barbara Windsor and Sid James
- Rachel Riley and Suzie Dent
- Bing Crosby and David Bowie
- Harry and Ron
- the Snowman
- Robert Smith
- The ticket inspector from ‘The Polar Express’
- Shane MacGowan
- Rudolph the Reindeer
- Mr Bean with a Turkey on his head
- Billy Mack
- Scrooge and/or the ghost of Jacob Marley
- Father Christmas
- Raymond Brigg’s Father Christmas
- Saint Nicholas
- Bad Santa
- The ‘Soldier & Lady’ from Quality Street Tins )
- Harry and Marv from ‘Home Alone’
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Roy Wood from Wizard
- The Two Ronnies
- Doctor Who
- Kermode and Mayo
- The Elf on the Shelf
- Valerie Singleton
- Slade
- Monty Python
- Michael McIntyre
- Mark Ellen and David Hepworth
- Nancy Sinatra
- Dean Martin and Jerry Lee Lewis
- The block of ice that stood in for Boris in the Leaders Debate
- Charlie Brown
- Michael Portillo
- Bob Monkhouse
- The couple that do the funeral plan adverts
- Holly Willoughby
- Pete from ‘Gavin and Stacey’
- Any of the Chasers
- any of the hosts of ‘Homes under the Hammer’
- Bob Dylan
- Hattie Jacques or John Le Mesurier
- the Hair Bear Bunch
- Any of ‘The Big Bang Theory’
- Mo Farah and/or Usain Bolt
- the Twickenham Streaker
- Victoria Coren-Mitchell
- Ant and Dec
- DS Steve Arnott, DC Kate Fleming or Superintendent Ted Hastings from ‘Line of Duty’
- the Tate and Lyle Sugarcube Man
- Kiosk Keith
- Emily Maitlis
- Gaston from ‘Beauty and the Beast’
- Sandie Shaw
- Richard Nixon
- Caecilius
- The Prisoners in Cell Block H
- Captain Pugwash
- The Monkees
- Toyah or Mick Fleetwood
- Gabrielle Drake
- Nick Drake
- Handy Andy from ‘Changing Rooms’
- Patrick Moore
- Any of the Carry Ons
- Josh, Adam or Alex from ‘The Last Leg
- Little Richard
- Beetlejuice
- Winnie the Witch
- Count Duckula
- Elvira
- the cast of Rentaghost
- the Joker
- The Addams Family
- Bewitched
- Scumspawn from ‘Old Harry’s Game’
- Maleficent
- Casper The Friendly Ghost
- Herman Munster
- Claude Greengrass from ‘Heartbeat’
- Timmy Mallett
- Old Man Steptoe
- Dolly Parton
- any of the people from the ‘jealous girlfriend’ meme
- Serge Gainsborg or Bridget Bardot
- Onslow from ‘Keeping Up Appearances’
- John Cooper Clarke
- the Honey Monster
- Jim Bowen
- Bully
- the Cheeky Girls
- the Three Degrees
- the mother from ‘Sorry’
- Bomber from ‘Auf Wiedersen Pet’
- Frankie Howard
- Ma Larkin from ‘The Darling Buds of May’
- Prince Harry
- David Bowie
- The monster from ‘Quatermass and the Pit’
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Mr Tickle
- Benny From ‘Crossroads’
- Rasputin
- Boney M.
- the Cerne Abbas Giant
- Gina Miller
- Bleep from ‘Bleep and Booster’
- Barbara Castle
- Catweasle
- Brian Moore
- The Brotherhood of Man
- the narrator on ‘Gogglebox’
- Lene Lovich
- Jockey Wilson
- The alien robot things from the Smash advert
- Sergeant Bilko
- Jo Swinson
- Steph McGovern
- Mick Jones or Paul Simonon
- Nicola Adams
- Mason Mount
- Arthur Daley
- the Speaker of the House of Commons
- Michael D Higgins
- or Leo Varadkar
- the frog from ‘Flushed Away’
- The Grunwick strikers
- any of the judges from ‘Strictly Come Dancing’
- Laura Kuenssberg
- The Birthday Party
- Luciana Berger
- Jim from ‘Friday Night Dinner’
- the Lone Groover from the NME
- Maggie Smith
- Coco The Clown
- Stan Laurel
- George or Mildred
- Desmond Dekker
- Sophia Loren or Peter Sellars
- Howard and Hilda from ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’
- Mel and Sue
- Villanelle from ‘Killing Eve’
- Hong Kong Phooey
- Jeremy Clarkson
- The KLF
- Emma Thompson
- Henry Cooper or Kevin Keegan
- Bananarama
- the cast of ‘Call My Bluff’
- Esther Rantzen
- Harriet Harman and/or Kenneth Clark (who were the Mother and the Father of the House at the time)
- Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith
- Andrew Flintoff
- Andy Capp
- Lauren Laverne
- Meghan Markle
- Vera
- Keith from the UK Office
- Bucks Fizz
- PiereLuigi Collina
- Frank Cannon
- The Disney version of King John
- Count Binface
- The TMS team
- Naga Munchetty
- Hank Marvin
- Krusty The Klown
- Nicola Sturgeon
- Dickie Davis
- Cruella da Vil’s henchmen
- Neil from the Inbetweeners
- Dennis Nedry from ‘Jurassic Park’
- A Golden Retriever
- Shane MacGowan
- Eden Hazard
- Wayne and Waynetta
- Patsy and Edina from ‘Absolutely Fabulous’
- Larry the Cat
- Tight Fit
- Jack Harper from ‘On the Buses’
- Harry Hill
- Cacafonix
- Dot Cotton
- Stanley Johnson
- Timmy Mallet
- Jeffrey Archer
- Sasquatch
- Screaming Lord Sutch
- Frankie Howard
- Alan Turing
- Beverley from Abigail’s Party
- The Siddiquis
- Kerry or Kurtan from ‘This Country’
- Seth Armstrong from ‘Emmerdale Farm’
- Peter Crouch
- Lux and Ivy from The Cramps
- Uri Gellar
- Francis Urquart from the British ‘House of Cards’
- John Major
- The Swedish Chef
- Professor Branestawm
- Tommy Cooper
- Andy Murray and/or Serena Williams
- The Lionesses
- Una Stubbs
- The Spivvy bloke from Dads Army
- The Specials
- Dave Hill from Spade
- Alfred E. Neuman
- the Dursleys
- Steve Claridge
- David Cameron and/or Theresa May
- The ‘Fifth Housemate’ in ‘The young ones’
- Jar Jar Binks
- the Sweeney
- Jim Davidson
- The Major from ‘Fawlty Towers’
- the Penguin
- Fi and Jane
- Psy
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Wally from ‘Where’s Wally’
- Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie
- The child catcher from ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’
- Maurizio Sarri
- the Crazy Frog
- Shrek and/or Donkey
- The Spice Girls
- the bloke from the Go Compare adverts
- Big Daddy
- Mrs Slocombe
- Clippy
- Rupert Murdoch
- The Chuckle Brothers
- Bernard Manning
- the Master from Dr Who
- Jedward
- Diego Maradona
- Grouty from ‘Porridge’
- the Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz
- Alan B’Stard
- Mr Bean
- Frank Spencer
#TodayILearned that “The Australian Psychological Society’s congress heard a study of 261 senior professionals in the US, which found 21% had clinically significant levels of psychopathic traits compared to one in 100 in the general population.”