Gary Bainbridge

@garybainbridge.bsky.social

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Owner-operator of Liverpool's premier bijou editorial services provider, Bus Stop. Occasional bus traveller. Used to be a small deal.

My results are 78% woke/22% chud, 41% techbro/59% neo-luddite, 70% hope pilled/30% doomer, and 91% Davos/9% Dubai. My closest match is Sanna Marin.
A road sign. It says Burnham Road. I’m sorry you’ve had to go the extra mile to read this.
A long stretch of pavement lined with trees. The branches are so heavy and have bent so much that only hobbits could walk along upright.
A woman beating a rug on a line with what looks like a low poly-count badminton racquet.
Extremely rough lettering produced on an iPad with Apple Pencil saying: "It works!"
Superman tells President Kennedy: “I knew I wasn’t risking my secret identity with you! After all, if I can’t trust the President of the United States, who can I trust?”
The sign for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts on the side of the building. Above it, the words "The Donald J. Trump and" in a different and smaller serif typeface.
Steve Cram commentating on the curling on the BBC Sport site saying, “The pendulum shift just took another notch towards Great Britain.”
Absolute dozens of copies of Pagans by James “Alistair” Henry in the window of Waterstones in Newcastle.
A YouTube screenshot with subtitles which misspells Kristi Noem’s name as CHRISTY GNOME.
This is the same as the previous picture, except that I have highlighted a vertical line of paint of roughly the same proportions as a cartoon worm.
A low brick wall surrounding the car park of a late-80s, bog-standard, Essex barn-style Tesco. On the wall is spray-painted "rip worm" in block capitals.
An on-street litter bin wrapped up with a bow.
A screenshot of two posts, one from Mersey Mal including a caption of Steven Toast saying, “You can fuck that sky high”, and the other directly below in which Alistair Coleman (Scaryduck) tells Facebook that it can “eff” its proposed $14.99 subscription charge “sky high”.
A Pret A Manger shop.
A message from me saying: “Paid with a bit extra for Christmas. All the best!” Underneath, my window cleaner’s reply, saying: “Cheers mate all the best u and fambo.” FAMBO!
A tweet on the microblogging website Twitter from Elon Musk reading "Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human."
The former newspaper columnist Gary Bainbridge on Town Moor in Newcastle before he stupidly runs to South Shields as quickly as he can. In the background, hundreds of similar idiots.
A church noticeboard which has in the top right a logo of a church with the legend “St Michael In-the-Hamlet with St Andrew”.
A street sign saying “Melly Road L17”. In the extremely tempting gap before the word “Melly”, a wagging imp has scrawled the letter S.
A sign for an Italian restaurant called Rosa & Matteo’s. Look, I know it’s not your fault but writing this caption has really underlined the pointlessness of this post.
A high street former WH Smith shop, rebranded as TG Jones.
The cover of Action Comics 414 from July 1972.
I am 32.7% Goth, 41.8% Nerd, placing me in the True Nerd category.
A poster for Avanti West Coast showing a picture of the grimmest, greyest lift doors imaginable, with the speech balloon “My life is empty without you,” and text below saying “Please use the lift.”
I am in the Golden Seat on the bus.
An Australian politician looking genial and then furious. He looks like David Moyes. This is funnier if you can see the pictures. I apologise for wasting your time.
A can of the British carbonated beverage Tizer, circa 1984.
An advertising poster for “birthday cake” flavour Yazoo milkshake.
An IG ad post reading “Ibis Hull City Centre. Save on your next dreamy hotel stay! Get up to 10% off in Europe and North Africa as a Member of ALL.”
A box of Brew Tea Co English Breakfast Tea. It's a yellow box with the name of the product in black with a thin black border around it. It looks like the Old Fools Podcast logo, which is the only reason I'm writing this down for you.
My Wordle stats showing a 1,000-day streak with 100% wins.
The Old Man Yells At Cloud newspaper headline meme from The Simpsons.
White text on a black background saying "Poorly explain what you do for a job."
An extremely pale sausage in a too-small bun with a splat of mustard, and some of those fried onions you can buy in packets.
The cover of James Lee's Sleeping In The Ditch with Slobodan Milosevic overlaid on a Bosnian landscape. Text on the image reads "Out now. Available in paperback and Kindle."
Hervé Villechaize as Tattoo (right) with Ricardo Montelban as Mr O'Rourke from Fantasy Island
A sign over a Tesco chiller cabinet reading “Butter and ingredients”.
Gregg Wallace’s Instagram profile. Instagram is suggesting visitors to this page follow Phillip Schofield and Jamie Theakston.
A croque madame tartine with a grilled tomato garnish
A red ball floats on some water. A smiley face is drawn on the ball. Next to the ball is some text. It reads: "Tell us a true, one-sentence story from your life that absolutely opens more questions than it answers and demands further context."
Dear, oh, dear, where to start? The author of this alt text wearing a faux-leather jacket WITH THE SLEEVES rolled up, a green shirt, a black tie, and Black Watch tartan trousers (the trousers are cropped off the picture, but I don't see why you shouldn't know about them). He's cradling a three-quarter size acoustic guitar and playing a C chord - one of the three chords he ever learnt. And he's got what I can only describe as a bouffant hairdo. He was fifteen. He knew nothing.
Gary Bainbridge next to the sign for Bainbridge in North Yorkshire. He is technically the owner of this place.
An untouched display of Boris Johnson’s books in Tesco.
The Fourmiles from George & Mildred
Carol Leader with a hula hoop. Not the crunchy potato snack. An actual hula hoop.
Elon Musk with his hands pressed together under his nose.
A picture of the poster as a 15-year-old boy. He is wearing a faux-leather jacket, a green shirt, and a black tie. The sleeves of the leather jacket are rolled up. Oh, and he's playing one of the four chords he knows on the acoustic guitar he bought from a catalogue.
The new Conservative poster with an old man, a woman, and a child holding up their hands over their heads, but now underneath the hilarious slogan "It's fun to stay at the..."
It’s what I can only describe as a dot-to-dot picture of a bike doing a wheelie stamped into a metal door. You will just have to trust me when I say it looks like a mouse wearing a Santa hat.
Keir Starmer in the sort of clothing deemed acceptable in the 1990s, during the 1990s.
Top deck, front seat, driver side. The, if you will, Golden Seat.