David Allsopp

@doublehelix

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David Allsopp@doublehelix· 25d

Meme in which a man angrily addresses a rather small crowd and shouts "there are dozens of us", except that this has been struck out an amended to "a dozen", then amended further to "several"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· 26d

Rincewind, Conina, and Nijel The Destroyer, by Paul Kidby

A painting by Paul Kidby of several Terry Pratchett characters from his book Sourcery.

Conina (daughter of Cohen the Barbarian) has long blonde hair and dangly earrings, and is wearing an improbably white dress, given that she is wiping the blood off her rapier and standing with one booted foot atop a pile of dead bodies of massive barbarian foes. Rincewind the wizard, dressed in red robes, is sat on the ground, clinging cowardly to her leg. Behind them stands Nijel The Destroyer, a skinny ginger teenager wearing thermal underpants, and armoured codpiece, and casually holding a massive and ornate sword, point resting on the ground.

David Allsopp@doublehelix· 26d

"accidentally"

Sketch from the Little Britain TV comedy show. In front of an old timber-framed English house, Sir Norman Fry reads out a wildly implausible explanation for some hugely embarrassing incident to the press as his wife grins nervously alongside him.

David Allsopp@doublehelix· 27d

The old "art decider" twitter account, saying simply the word "art".

David Allsopp@doublehelix· 28d

The Blues Brothers in their car saying "I hate Illinois Nazis"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· 28d

Chris Morris standing in front of a Venn diagram with two circles, both labelled "drugs". Their intersection is labelled "kids".

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 11

I think the prequel "Five Shades of Grey" was ill-advised

Snippet from a book:

"Well, we'll want to dig about when we're hunting for a way down to the dungeons," said Julian.

"Ropes", said Dick, "we may want those too."

"And torches," said George. "It'll be dark in the dungeons."

"Oooh!" said Anne, feeling a pleasant shiver go down her back at the thought. She had no idea what dungeons were like, but they sounded thrilling.

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 10

'owever will we identify the suspect if they change gender marker? 'ow about using the photo on their photo ID?

A frame from the Inspector Clouseau cartoon; Clouseau is talking to Chief Inspector Dreyfus who is sat at a desk

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 10

That neighbourhood being... most of central London?

An estate agent's map of central London, centred on Kensington Gardens, showing dozens and dozens of properties on sale from upwards of 5 million

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 10

Hot Rat Summer, a guerrilla mosaic public artwork installed in Cal Anderson Park in Capitol Hill, Seattle. In an arched alcove, it shows a rat standing in its hind legs, with a golden sun with radiating beams behind its head acting as a halo, a red heart against the blue sky, standing on land graduated from green to red, and the words "hot rat summer" at the bottom. On the shelf formed by the base of the alcove there are six candles in glasses, some bearing the image of Marsha P. Johnson.

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 10

It's a hot day for a fur coat

A white pet rat sleeping on top of a fabric hammock in a green jungle pattern, her face towards us, eyes closed, long whiskers glowing from the backlighting

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 10

Amused to see that Evo-stik decide to make a sanitised version of their "Sticks like sh*t" adhesive, presumably for builders of a sensitive disposition

A cylindrical cartridge of Evo-stik "Sticks like shit" all-weather adhesive

A nearly-identical cylindrical cartridge of Evo-stik all-weather adhesive, but this one is just called "Sticks like"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 9

This is true, but it's important to note that she would be committing a different offence with the same maximum sentence: (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/4...)

Screenshot from part 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, showing the definitions of 1) Rape and 2) Assault by Penetration, both of which carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 9

A cat in a painfully contorted posture, legs askew, lies on a shop counter as the worried owner looks on. The shop owner, with a jeweller's loupe in his eye, inspects the cat and says "It'll be about 2 weeks if I can get the parts". Several calm-looking cats can be seen on shelves in the background. From the inside shop window, we can see the reversed text, "Cat Repair"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 9

Spriggina zoolanderi

Derek Zoolander wear a sweater and a matching headband in an angular abstract pattern, pulling his famous "blue steel" supermodel stare and pout, and saying "I can't turn left"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 9

That can be a risky assumption! A traditional cider like Westons Vintage is 8.2% ABV, for example

The label on a bottle of Henry Weston's 2013 Vintage cider, marked 8.2%

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 9

Meme: two small children backed into a corner in fear, the younger boy in tears, labelled "conservatives".

They are staring in terror at a placid pet rabbit, labelled "things that don't happen"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 8

Never forget the time he messed with The Pogues

Lawrence Fox tweets: "Here we go again. The cultural commissars at the @bbc are telling you what is and isn’t appropriate for your ignorant little ears. Wouldn’t it be nice if we sent the (proper) version to the top of the charts? #DefundTheBBC"

Minutes later, the Pogues official account quote tweets him, saying: "Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite"

David Allsopp@doublehelix· Jul 8

The statement about rally length does not appear to be true, these days at least - the numbers are almost identical: (braingametennis.com/2024-us-open...)