Simes80

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Subsea engineer, mountain biker, hard rock fan.

Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. Panel 1: Calvin & Hobbes reading a newspaper. Calvin says “The TV listings say this movie has ‘adult situations’. What are adult situations?” Panel 2: Hobbes says “Probably things like going to work, paying bills and taxes, taking responsibilities.” Panel 3: Calvin says “Wow. They don’t kid around when they say ‘For mature audiences’.” and Hobbes replies “I never understood how these movies make any money.”
Animated gif from Ghostbusters. Dr Venkman (Bill Murray) forcefully telling the mayor “Dogs and cats, living together. MASS HYSTERIA!”
Animated gif of a beer bike being pedalled through a city street.
Animated gif of a scene from the Disney movie Up. A dog is being distracted by movement offscreen, with the text “Squirrel” at the bottom of the gif.
Cover artwork for Iron Maiden’s single “Women in Uniform”. It is a pencil/nk drawing by Derek Riggs. On the left is Iron Maiden’s ‘mascot’, Eddie, arms over the shoulders of two young women. On the right , hiding behind a wall, is Margaret Thatcher in British military uniform, holding a sub machine gun.
Snip of a Donald Trump Truth Social post. The post is a photo of a billboard saying “If no one goes to jail for election fraud what incentive is there not to cheat“.
Photo of Michael Gove. Text alongside the photo says “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts”
Photo of Mandy Patinkin as the character Inigo Montoya from the film The Princess Bride. Text on the photo is a quote from the film “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Below the photo is more text: “Inigo’s guite to networking success “1. Polite greeting “2. Name “3. Relevant personal link “4. Manage expectations”
GIF of Renton, from the film Trainspotting, staring maniacally through the windscreen of a car after having been hit by the car (filmed from the car driver’s point of view).
Photo of a bearded man holding an extremely large Daim Bar (chocolate bar).
Still photo of Robert Lindsay as the Willie Smith in the BBC comedy “Citizen Smith”.
Photo of the view down to Loch Torridon from the Four Lochs path. A heather covered mountainside slopes down from left to right with the blue water of a loch in the background. A rocky path can be seen snaking its way down the mountain into the distance.
GIF of Jeff Goldblum doing a chef’s kiss.
Still from the Dave Allen comedy sketch where Dave Allen is smuggling allied POWs out of a German prison. The punchline is the POWs are being smuggled not in the back of the cart but as pantomime horses pulling the cart.
Animated gif of Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in the film “300”, yelling “THIS IS SPARTA!” And kicking the Persian messenger into a pit.
Daily Telegraph headline for an opinion piece by Ysenda Maxtone Graham “Spotted dick gave me the strength to survive school”.
Cartoon frame of Grampa Simpson (from The Simpsons) sitting on a tree stump, telling a rambling, incoherent story to a group of children, including Bart Simpson and Martin Prince.
GIF of Jeff Goldblum scrolling on a tablet and then giving a chef’s kiss.
GIF of man tapping his head in a “See? Clever, eh?” sort of way.
Camper van parked in front of a road sign for Lost.
Excerpt from a No. 1 Substack article: The logic, insofar as there is any, goes like this: the war has crashed the global oil market so hard that the administration needs the enemy’s oil to keep gasoline prices from eating the midterms. They are unsanctioning the people they’re bombing because the bombing is working too well at the thing they didn’t want it to do. The sanctions were necessary to stop Iran funding the war, but the war made the sanctions too effective, so the sanctions had to be lifted to fund the war effort against the country that no longer needs sanctions because the oil revenues that sanctions were preventing are now required to prevent the economic damage caused by preventing those revenues, which is itself a consequence of the military campaign designed to make the sanctions unnecessary by making Iran the kind of country that doesn’t need sanctioning, which it would be, if the sanctions hadn’t been lifted to pay for making it that.
Stock photo of a 10ml pot of Taya red paint for their models.
View southwest from the top of Green Hill at Pitfichie in Aberdeenshire. A heather covered foreground with a couple of small pine trees on the right of the photo. In the background, the hills are looking washed out under a setting sun in a blue sky with some light clouds.
Photo montage of Pete Hegseth drinking champagne directly from a bottle, with champagne spilling from his mouth onto his white shirt, drenching it. Text at the bottom of the image says “Armageddon outa here!”
Online advertisement for chain mail underpants, “battle ready”.
“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” “It’s a lot more complicated than that…” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.” “Oh, I am sure there are worse crimes…” “But they starts with thinking about people as things…” From Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
Screenshot stating that adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist." - Mark Forsyth, quote from The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Photo of a red, foldable ruler, stuck into snow on top of a table. The ruler is showing 44 centimetres of snow depth (17 inches).
Standard sign on the entrance to a COSHH store, detailing the classifications of substances hazardous to health, their associated symbols, and the safety precautions to be taken for each classification.
Photo of two television remote controls lying on a cream carpet, each with the vast bulk of their buttons covered over with masking tape. For the remote controls on the left, the on button, channel up/down buttons and volume up/down buttons are the only buttons visible. Text underneath the photo is “Helping grandma with the controller”
Photo of a highland cow, hiding behind a road sign on a grassy verge at the side of the road on the Applecross peninsula. Fields roll down from the verge to the sea on the left side of the photo. The sky is clear, light blue with some small white clouds on the horizon.
Moody photo of mountains behind a Scottish loch. Background left is Beinn Alligin and background right is Liathach, two Scottish Munro’s. The sky is cloudy and the clouds are hovering on the peaks of the mountains. Mid picture is Loch Torridon and foreground is a grassy field in the Beinn Damh estate. All in the Highlands on the Scottish west coast.
Photo of safety information notice in an elevator. Notice black text against white background and is mounted on a stainless steel panel.
Reuters headline from 2023. “UK Finance Minister says era of ‘trickle-down, trickle-out’ economics over”
Independent newspaper article headline. “Keir Starmer calls trickle-down economics a ‘piss-take’ as he slams Tory tax cuts”
Tweet from David Lammy from 2022. “I have a joke about trickle down economics. “99% of you won’t ever get it.”
Tony Hancock talking to the nurse in a scene from “The Blood Doner”
GIF of Marty McFly in Back To The Future saying “He’s a peeping Tom.”
Photo of guitarist Jason Becker, seated on a stool and holding a bare wood guitar with multicoloured numbers on the fretboard. He’s wearing a distressed denim jacket, very light coloured jeans and a white T-shirt.