Champie

@champierth.bsky.social

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Gamedev & okayish bass player. Follow for "Daft social media bollocks" Assume any post is sarcastic and you won’t go far wrong. A like doesn’t mean I agree, or understand. May contain British spellings, and Oxford commas. Pic:@beancurling.bsky.social

"The Incomplete Framley Examiner" book, stood on a music stand, and zoomed in enough to try and hide what an utter tip my office is.

screenshot of an EVRI tracking page where the stages are "We're Expecting it, We've got it, It's on it's way, Out for delivery, and Thrown over a neighbours hedge" That last one being an edit by some wag who thinks editing HTML code in 2026 is novel and funny.

Cover from The Who single Won’t Get Fooled Again. Mostly a black and white photo of the band sat and looking slightly off camera.

Slightly shortened version of the meme of a guy celebrating who turns out to have come seventh.

Bad News, the fictional heavy metal band from Comic Strip Presents, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Ade Edmonson, and Nigel Planer, dressed in "heavy metal" gear and long hair, leaning over a desk possibly in an airport (haven't seen the film for a while, this is all from memory).

An Image of Vladimir Putin (or is it a lookalike?) wearing mirrored sunglasses (in which it looks like he might be holding a mobile phone like device on a desk) and with the meme text above "In soviet Russia" and "wank has you" below.

Buff Doge vs. Cheems meme (If you wouldn't have got it from that title, like me, then it's two dogs, one with a bodybuilder physique on the left and a normal looking one on the right who looks to be crying. Above the left is the title "Old Phones" and above the right is "New Phones". Under the left is the text "Throw what you like at me, I will go on for weeks" and under the right is the text "It's damp, and I'm almost out of battery"

The Hammersmith Odeon / Apollo / Whatever it's called now, a shot of the stage from about 3/4 way back, on stage there is a projection of a photo of "Weird" Al Yankovic in the pose from the cover of his Mandatory Fun album.

Ned Kelly's armour on display at State Library Victoria. The helmet, breastplate, backplate and shoulder plates show 18 bullet marks. Also on display are Kelly's Snider Enfield rifle and one of his boots from the siege.

Pic and description from Wikipedia.

Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring and Philip Madoc as the Germain U-Boat captain whose seen writing on a notepad, with the overlaid text "You name will also go on zee list".

Bluesky screenshot, showing my notifications tab. I'll save us both some time by pointing out the only relevant bit in this case is that there are zero notifications.

The top half is three overlapping pictures of Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean, against a white background, and the bottom half is a much darker photo of Matt Berry and Toast of London. Yes, it really is that stupid.

Bluesky screenshot of three posts, one from Jo Wolff on top, one from Otto English on the bottom, and one from Blerrpapalotl in the middle saying "the person above me and the person below me are secret lovers"

Will Poulter as Kelly from We're the Millers, with meme text "You guys use the discover tab?"

The Simpons' Has Moleman "That's too much..." meme image, of him an a phone booth being attacke by birds, with the top meme text "Send me the biggest irony you have." and the bottom text "No, that's too ironic".

A black desk, with considerably more dust on it than there should be for an active working environment, on which can be seen the bottom of a monitor, the side of a MacBook with a couple of black USB cables coming out, a mysterious white cable cutting across everything, and most importantly, a rubber duck with a white shirt and red bow tie, black glasses, and holding a laptop and a phone.

Google translate of the original post from this thread from English to Dutch, except that it left the bit in quotes in English, thus defeating the whole reason for translating it.

A "this is your brain on..." meme image of a brain in the top half and an egg in a frying pan on the bottom. The top meme text reads "This is your brain on Bluesky" and the bottom meme text reads "This is an egg". I could probably have saved us both a lot of time by just writing this ALT text as "This is drivel".

"Ape together strong" meme, from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie, but with the new meme text "Bots together strong", and yes, I did spend way longer than I should have trying to decide if I should go with "Bot together strong" to match the grammar mistake of the original. But at least I didn't waste even more time explaining that in the ALT section that hardly anyone will read (Hi Steve).

Monty Python argument sketch image of Michael Palin and John Cleese sat at a desk in suits. Meme text above reads “X: I came here for an argument” and below “Bluesky: No you came here for a thoughtful discussion”

As you've guessed, it's a blank image, hopefully will work in both dark and light mode, but I won't known for sure until I've uploaded it, by which time this ALT text will be cast in stone (#GiveUsEdit) and the likelihood of me bothering to repost, or even just delete this are pretty slim. If you've bothered to check this ALT then I think I you can consider yourself clever enough to not have fallen for the "joke".

The "Apes together strong" meme, of Neo from the Apetrix telling Morph "Freaks Together Strong"

Random static image, i mean static as in the sort of thing you used to see on TVs before they all went digital, and it wasn't tuned to a station, not static as in the image is stationary, most images are stationary, well apart from GIFs I guess, but you know what I mean, you probably knew what I meant when I said static, rendering the last few sentences a waste of both your and my time. Still at least you'll know to stop reading my ALT texts in the future.

Leonard Nimoy as Spock from the original series of Star Trek, seen here doing his famous "Live long and prosper" hand gesture.

Simpson meme of Hans Moleman in a phone booth with birds outside, and the text "No, that's too much sport".

Two cans and a bottle of double diamond beer, from Ind Coope

Philip Madoc and Arthur Lowe in Dad's Army, with the text overlaid "Your name will also go on zee list"

The arch from the Freedom 250 State Fair, which looks like it's made from a stack of cardboard boxes painted white with the odd detail to make it look like it's marble, and some presumably fake gold plated statues on top.

Clipped from the image below, this has a headhot of a gentleman with a medium long grey beard in a suit and tie, with his name, Christopher Howse, beside it, and the boi text underneath saying "Christopher Howse" has spent years visiting high streets all over England. See more" and an arrow pointing down.

Three pint cans of Hobgoblin Ruby Beer, stood next to each other on a white table.

A hand and lower arm making a fist of making a fist. A number of bruises can be seen.

Title screen from "Oh No it's Selwyn Froggitt" TV show.

A black Logitech MX Ergo trackball device, sat on a mousepad next to a keyboard just on screen on the left.

The "Change my mind" meme, with the text "I need a brain transplant".

The "I'm tired boss" meme of Michael Clarke Duncan
as John Coffey from The Green Mile, except in a masterstroke of comedy genius, the text has been changed to "I'm hot boss". This will have them rolling in the aisles when they come to read this in six month's time and we're in the middle of a mini ice age.

screenshot of a widget showing the translation from virgola in Italian to comma in English.

A montage of acts who appeared at the Banbury Pride festival. The first clip is of Roughcut Ruby, featuring somer blithering idiot on bass who doesn't know how to look cool when being filmed.

Bluesky screen shot of the post this is a reply to, but with the translation from Italian “If you see this post a mail. Or a zibibbo to catamaran you better.”

The billboard saying "Ice officers are: Fathers, Brothers etc. but with the added text "Victims of" before "Ice officers".

Screenshot from intheweights.com for “Champie” guessing that they are an electronic/ hip-hop artist.

A bruised and battered hand wrapped in a splint moulded to the first two fingers, looking very slightly like the mask from The Phantom of the Opera.

another iphone home screen, this time showing no notification badges for the Mail icon, which previously showed (1).

an iPhone home screen, shown in this case to highlight the Bluesky icon not showing a badge with notifications.

screenshot of an iphone folder with several communication app icons, only one of which has pending notifications, but that is 10,000 for Bluesky

iphone screenshot, very similar to the one posted previously, except the Bluesky app icon now has 10,000 notifications.

iPhone screenshot, the highlight of which is the Bluesky app icon showing 9,999 notifications waiting.

Clipping from a TV magazine for "The Wizard of Oz (8-10pm, TCM)" with the description "Transported to a surreal landscape, a girls the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again" with what looks like credit underneath for "Inquired Television Writer Lee Winfrey".

Pong arcade cabinet. Probably the first videogame I ever played.

A rainbow coloured knitted willy warmer in packaging, which features a red star with the word hot in it.

Paul Whitehouse (no pun intended) as the 13th Duke of Wynbourne from The Fast Show, saying “with my reputation”. If you don’t know the character, the reference will be list on you anyway.

A Corgi model of the SPV from Captain Scarlet

Stanley from the US version of The Office in the meme usually used for "Did I stutter?", but this time with the text "Did I Starmer?"

A bald man in combat-ish clothes is running away from the camera down what what looks like a country lane near a farmhouse. Astute viewers will know that this is John Culshaw on The Impressions Show, doing a spoof of Kemp on Gangs just after he has uttered the words "I could see things were about to kick off, so I got out of there"

screenshot of a Bluesky post, where the only relevant detail is the number of likes on the post being 69, which will amuse those of a juvenile nature.

Screenshot of Bluesky post, but truncated so you can only see some of the icons and the cut off text "do not know anything about it except" on one line, and "..ial media bollocks." on the next.

Full-time angry pumpkin and part-time President Donald T Rump looking like he’s about to yell the F word, which he probably thinks he came up with.

The right hand of some old white dude. Wrapped in a white gauze bandage, hiding a cast underneath, with some darker tape wrapped around it. The cast is holding the hand in the same position as if holding a sock puppet.