Nic

@supernicebob.bsky.social

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Geriatric millennial in Birmingham (UK). Posting non-sequitur brain spam, bad jokes, and photos of things. Interested in music (mostly instrumental), movies games and videos, nature, space, weird stuff, hash browns, motorsport, cycling. He/him.

My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Photograph of cyclists gathered outside the Birmingham Library ahead of the Big Ride for Palestine
Photograph of cyclists gathered outside the Birmingham Library ahead of the Big Ride for Palestine
Photograph taken from the front row of a cinema theatre because it's hot as fuck and everyone wants to spend the afternoon indoors watching a big ass film
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Screenshot of a a Strava cycle activity map which, as best as the roads and paths of south Birmingham will allow, resembles a cat.
Photograph of a telemark skier getting the back leg down
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Screengrab from F1 live timing showing that Perez was 2.1 seconds off 1st in the Q1 session of qualifying for the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix whereas Stroll was 4.3 seconds off, and therefore 2.2 seconds behind Perez.
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Another screen grab from a spreadsheet of metrics for two nerds who play along to University Challenge
Screen grab from a spreadsheet with a bunch of metrics for two nerds who play along to University Challenge
Passage from the Wikipedia article for the Norwegian sports commentator and journalist Bjørge Lillelien, who delivered the famous line "Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? ... Maggie Thatcher, your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!" in jubilation after Norway's 2–1 victory over England in a World Cup qualifier. The passage reads "Following Manchester University winning University Challenge against the University of Cambridge Pembroke College in March 2012, a commentator for the Manchester student newspaper observed "We have beaten Pembroke College, Cambridge! Cambridge, birthplace of giants. Rab Butler, Clive James, Ted Hughes, William Pitt the Younger, Eric Idle, Peter Cook, Bill Oddie! Bill Oddie, can you hear me? Your boys took a hell of a beating!""
Excerpt from an Adrian Chiles column for the Guardian. I was famous once, and I’m quite sure I let my ego race ahead of any talent I had and became insufferable. But even in my prime – if that’s the right word for it – had I happened to get married, it would not have occurred to me to book out the Crystal Leisure Centre in Stourbridge and flash the happy tidings up on big screens for the interest of bewildered drivers on the ring road beside it. Speaking of Stourbridge, as I sit writing this in a coffee shop here, I recall that the band Pop Will Eat Itself were formed in the town. Did pop eat itself? Will it? Swift seems to have her knife and fork out. I’m waiting for the moment that the world has enough, when enough people look up at that billboard and say: “Yeah? And?”
Apropos of nothing, a photograph of a slice of arctic roll on a dish
A very colourful image that looks like abstract art, but is a sample of rock that is presumably illuminated so it looks a bit like stained glass too.
Screengrab from an AI video doing the rounds of a domestic cat facing down a pair of lions at a zoo. Both lions at some point have their heads pop through metal railings which they absolutely could not fit. Could a domestic cat be at a zoo? Maybe. Would you have lions that accessible? I'd hope not. Again, it's just all so much bullshit but it's "funny" so who gives a shit right? The post currently has 5.8k likes and 1.6k reposts.
Screenshot from the Strava app saying my fitness score (which I'm fairly sure is a made up concept) has increased by 6 after today's bike ride and is now 69. Nice.
Photograph of Lewis Hamilton on the podium after the Barcelona-Catalunya grand prix, throwing the winner's trophy into the air as second placed George Russell looks upward and third placed Lando Norris looks a bit awks
Generated Panini world cup sticker of Thierry Henry being shocked
Ok it's a better version of a Panini world cup sticker of Thierry Henry making a shocked expression after someone called James Corden a full kit wanker on live tv
It's actually a photo of a personalised sticker made within the Panini app, which is shockingly bad by the way, which has Thierry Henry appearing on Fox Sports looking utterly shocked after someone called James Corden a full kit wanker.
Video taken at Birmingham Moor Street station during a heavy hailstorm. It pans up from a platform covered in hailstones and water to show two window cleaners abseiling down an office tower, probably having a pretty sketchy time.
Made up Star Trek: The Next Generation episode title screen which reads "Darmok 2: Electric Boogaloo at Tanagra"
Screengrab from a video of a Tesco cleaning robot
Close up crop of the side of the Tesco cleaning robot, where the text should read "Excuse me while I whizz round cleaning".
Zoomed in view of an image claiming to show a Tesco supermarket cleaning robot heading into Canterbury. The text on the side looks garbled and should read "Excuse me while I whizz round cleaning" which even allowing for some loss of clarity with compression I don't think this says.
Screengrab from The Guardian website with the sub-heading TV tonight which then reads "Richard Madeley enters El Salvador's terrifying mega-prison". There is a picture of Richard dressed in all black next to a prison guard.
Photo of a Jenny Holzer postcard with "protect me from what I want" in capital letters, a small plastic pig mascot of the Icelandic supermarket chain Bónus, and a multicoloured plastic cube placed on the base of an angle poise lamp.
A generated Star Trek: The Next Generation title which reads "Ah shit, it's a holodeck one"
Photograph of a basic but multi-coloured plastic wrist watch made by Swatch
Genuine screengrab from TV coverage for the 2026 Nurburgring 24 Hours motor race with a shot of two racks of ribs on a barbecue grill being basted by someone using a spoon and a pretty funky mug. Timing/position graphics for the race are overlayed on the left.
Photograph of an advert at a station on the London Underground for the Disney Cruise Line with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse peering through portholes with the slogan inviting you to "get closer to your best friends".
A big rag doll cat sat on top of a suitcase
Birmingham council electoral map showing an absolute mish mash of all the parties and independents represented
It's the Burger King logo generator and for some reason the phrase from the Scots twitter classic "Aye Moira yer spot on am oan the protein" came into my head
Photograph of a person dressed as a stormtrooper from Star Wars running down a road in Birmingham with a group of playful children running around them.
The only way I could think of to share audio on here was to make a video, so this is just an in phone screen recording of the VLC player
Video capture from Gran Turismo of a massively overpowered Renault Twingo burning past an assortment of high end road and race cars at Le Mans.
Photograph of several gannets diving into the sea off the coast of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. They are in different stages of sweeping back their wings before entering the water, with one having already gone in and a splash of water marking where it went in.
Photograph of Mathias and Ariel from The Burning Hell on stage with Carsie Blanton and her bandmate Joe
Photograph of musician Colin Stetson on stage at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire playing a massive bass saxophone.
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Photograph of musicians Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore on stage at EartH. They are both backlit by bright lights.
Photograph of a painting by Mark Rothko at Tate Britain. A vertical rectangle of mostly yellow with some pinky purple at the bottom.
Photograph of eight Canadian musicians who comprise post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor, playing their instruments on stage at Troxy in London with two images being projected onto a screen behind them. One of them shows the Wonder Wheel Ferris wheel of Coney Island.
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Promotional image of a box of McVities Jaffa Cakes and for some unknown reason beyond tapping into the current food trend for having "hot honey" on everything they've filled the goddamn jaffa cakes with, yep, hot honey.
Photograph taken outside an establishment called Lemonworld. It's an industrial looking building with metal stairs and a sign which says Lemonworld and a picture of a smiling lemon.
Photograph of a mock Tudor house in the background which sits on a canal and they've got some sort of boathouse integrated into the bank and it looks like a fort but with a corrugated shutter
Photograph of a massive sculpture of the beithir, a mythical Scottish water beastie, with my bike propped up against it
My list of correct answers and this week's episode of University Challenge
Photograph looking upwards inside a dovecote, located in Moseley, Birmingham. It's a hexagonal brick building with wood rafters in the roof. A pair of sculpted divers are in flight.
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Photograph taken from a train of a green meadow with many Friesian cows packed in to the middle part, beneath a clear and mostly blue sky with the fringe of the sun's halo coming in from the right. I hope the cows are happy to be out again.
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge
Photograph of a Ribble road bicycle up against a brick wall on a sunny morning. The frame and wheels are grey and black, with flashes of red from the bar tape, bottle cages and manufacturer logo on the wheels.
Google image search for "Turbostar" revealing the most unexciting commuter service trains you can think of.
My list of correct answers on this week's episode of University Challenge