Aidan Cook

@aidancook.bsky.social

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Not the actor from Star Wars, Dr Who, or The Tweenies - asking me trivia on any of these risks fabricated replies. Open to exchanging opinions on Leeds, music, politics, Age of Sail navy, and vague memories of the 20th century.

The auto-confessional from the film THX 1138
Thatcher holding a football and looking confused while keegan & hughes kiss her
England bringing on a player with a fucked up arm
Proposition Joe, character from The Wire: “Look the part, be the part,motherfucker”
Private Driscoll
Marge: C’mon Homer, Japan will be fun. You liked Rashomon. Homer: That’s not how I remember it!
It was only when a fast food company later wanted Batty to feature in an advert campaign making light of his penalty miss that he showed his feelings. The angry Yorkshireman did not want to profit off the disappointment of those who had travelled out to the World Cup
A fish tank
Poster for film Dead Calm with Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill and Billy Zane.
Watched a herringull attempt to devour a pigeon yesterday whilst a distressed drunk man questioned it on what it was doing with its life
BBC website story “England into semi-finals - what is their path to the final”
Presidential portraits at the White House with weird swirly gold decorations that look like they belong in a Thai restaurant above each one.
Watched a herringull attempt to devour a pigeon yesterday whilst a distressed drunk man questioned it on what it was doing with its life
Actor Christopher Guest: Count Rugen in The Princess Bride and Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap
A big dead plane thing from the background of the video
A detail of the original photo showing a wonky football
A picture of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a newspaper and rifle
My timeline - this post’s fallen hero appears above the next post, referencing the movie “Falling Down”.
Metallica playing in London - a big stadium with lots of people and lots of flames.
Historical picture of the layout of humans crammed into a slave ship.
Four waters, one Metallica
A yacht with its hull ripped open lies beached on its side while a barge with a mechanical arm prepares to mash it up.
BBC Sport story opening paragraph: England were 15 minutes from one of the most abject humiliations in their World Cup history until Harry Kane's late heroics helped them overcome DR Congo to face Mexico in the last 16.
Robbie Coltrane as Det.Sgt Troy in “Supergrass”, walking across a breakwater in a gale, carrying his chainsaw in a case.
Bollywood film with English subtitles that use “Ben Stokes” as an exclamation/swearword
A pigeon on a rooftop silhouetted against the evening sky
A very companionable cat who decided to sit with me for half an hour this evening.
Two posts, one expectant of death’s cooling release, the other updating that she is undead, by way of uncharacteristically celebratory emojis
bollock in each pocket, a exclam. Said of a fellow whose trouser frontage might be considered somewhat too well-fitted. Squirrel cheeks. Jesus, them jeans are a bit tight. You look like you're carrying a bollock in each pocket, it you don't mind me saying so, Mr Plant.' bollocks in a sack phr. A crude variant of "peas in a pod". 'Have you seen them Jedward twins? They're like two bollocks in a sack.' bollockules n. Microscopic clockweights. 'Okay, Mr Straw, I'd like you to cough for me whist I've got my hand under your bollockules. bollonary n. medic. A sort of mild heart attack suffered whilst emptying an over-full pod purse. A hardiac arrest
A lightning strike map showing a thunderstorm absolutely battering North Yorkshire.
Sherif Ali tells TE Lawrence “This is the sun’s anvil”.
Met offices weather map showing intense storm over Leeds at 7.30am
Quarry House aka The Kremlin aka The Ministry of Fear - Leeds, UK
Something nailed to a gate that combines a football, flag of St.George, WW1 soldier silhouette, “2026” and “Supporting England”, “Supporting Veterans”.
Inaccurate dart player from the opening scene of American Werewolf - an angry pointing man points angrily
Real-time lightning map of Philadelphia
A bar chart showing how little training time US police receive.
The Dentons prepare a glass of ‘aqua vita’ - TV show The League of Gentlemen
Map showing ships’ course from UK to N.America
The Fight for the Standard, a painting by Richard Ansdell depicting Ewart capturing an Eagle at Waterloo.
Jesse Marsch
John Sitton talks his team through today’s specials.
Football fans in this video wave the flag of Iran, the one that the current repressive Iranian regime is happy to have waved. The flags being confiscated are of the pre-revolutionary, US backed monarchy that was installed in 1953 when British and US interests overthrew the legitimate, democratic government.
Marcelo Bielsa album cover “Never loved Ispwish” Not available in shops