Under no circumstances shall any chef make… (via passive-agressive notes


Under no circumstances shall any chef make… (via passive-agressive notes

The year is 2000. Happy hardcore is about to die. Scott Brown saves the day again!

Scott Brown - Elysium (via meppelonline)


The year is 1994. Hardcore splits into jungle and happy hardcore. Scott Brown is on the case.

Q-Tex - Equinox, Celebration, Essence, Integrator (via craigkore)


Super Mario Brothers will be to the eighties what Second World War was to the forties, except good.
The New York Times reviews Mario and more (via Video Games Bigger Than Jesus: The Cartoon Lounge : The New Yorker)

…though this rascal storm has drenched and muddied our clothes such that peasants would not exchange their rags for ours, we will be welcomed at yon Waffle House
Come Now, Let Us Take Refuge Inside This Waffle House - The Onion

Among the words to which Speakers have objected over the years have been blackguard, coward, git, guttersnipe, hooligan, rat, swine, stoolpigeon and traitor.
Traditions and Customs of the House of Commons via Andrew Sullivan

I’ve been thinking this through, and I’ve come to the the amazing realisation that Al-Qaeda are working on the Father Ted model - one schemer, one blubbery drunk and one ignoramus. Obviously, the schemer does the plotting, the drunk builds the bombs that don’t go off and the idiot is in charge of fucking everything up beyond belief so that the lot of them spend the next two decades fantasising about virgins in a prison cell.
Flying Rodent

Some people don’t realise our hills and moors can be serious places and we’ve even seen one walker going up Thorpe Cloud in flip-flops.
Derby Mountain Rescue Team’s Kevin Corcoran

Yes, you’re in a car and it has wheels, but it’s powered by a literal horse. (via Coolest Gadgets)


Yes, you’re in a car and it has wheels, but it’s powered by a literal horse. (via Coolest Gadgets)

Archaeologist extraordinaire Ann Hall talks to High Peak Radio about her team’s Iron Age finds at Fin Cop near Monsal Head in Derbyshire. More coverage here, here and here.


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