Michael Batey (@mbatey) · DIRTY

Michael Batey

@mbatey

Content Director at If Collective. The written word; house, disco and Balearic vinyl; active travel, running and cycling; Sheffield United

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Michael Batey@mbatey· 21d

I know the World Cup has only just finished, but the rest of the month looks like slim pickings 🥱

Live football on TV for the rest of this month looks pretty unexciting

Michael Batey@mbatey· 25d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

The final scene of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment – Shirley MacLaine tells Jack Lemmon to ‘shut up and deal’.

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jul 5

Hannah Ingram-Moore being introduced to the crowd at Wimbledon in 2023

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jul 1

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English footballer Tom Ince, son of Paul Ince who played for Manchester United in the 1990s

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 29

I’m still obsessed with this one from a couple of years back

Japan ‘Sakura Horizon’ special edition football shirt

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 25

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

The Moorfoot building in Sheffield – ziggurat vibes

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 21

#HydrationBreak

A distasteful meme featuring Slobodan Praljak drinking poison at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The caption reads ‘Hydration break’

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 19

Hydration break, Ange?

Alison Steadman as Beverley in Abigail’s Party

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 18

Hydration break

Jude Law wearing a denim jacket, drinking a smoothie through a straw and looking cute

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 17

Image from The Young Ones TV show – Vyvyan is apparently pregnant

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 10

Facebook wouldn't let me add this in the replies to your post over there, so I'll just leave it here:

The Peep Show 'Four Naan Jeremy' meme, repurposed to reference the angry replies to any post about new active travel infrastructure

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jun 3

A take on the 'Batman slaps Robin' meme. Robin is crapping on about AI attaining "machine consciousness". Batman reminds him – violently – that it's no more than "spicy autocomplete".

Michael Batey@mbatey· May 29

Not his first time there's been a whiff of scandal about him

A still from the episode of This Time where Alan Partridge attempts a sting to catch Monty Don accepting bribes

Michael Batey@mbatey· May 20

Hartley Hare from Pipkins

Michael Batey@mbatey· May 14

Michael Batey@mbatey· May 13

Alexei Sayle playing a South African vampire and shilling for Pot Noodle in the Young Ones episode 'Nasty'

Michael Batey@mbatey· May 5

A plain white t-shirt with black text ‘DON'T CRY BECAUSE IT'S OVER - CRY BECAUSE IT HAPPENED’

Michael Batey@mbatey· Apr 17

Michael Batey@mbatey· Apr 8

@garmin.com Did you see a cat while you were writing this subject line?

A promotional email sent by Garmin with the subject line ‘Must-try Connect IQ store spps’ (sic)

Michael Batey@mbatey· Mar 27

Michael Batey@mbatey· Mar 26

Google: 'YouTube is not a social media site' Gemini:

Gemini responds in the affirmative to the question 'is YouTube a social media platform?'

Michael Batey@mbatey· Mar 22

‘Who needs cup final victory *more’ #LiteracyCrisis #AlwaysEditing

A BBC Sport headline reads ‘Who needs cup final victory most - Arteta or Guardiola’. It should of course say ‘more’ instead of ‘most’ - as only two things are being compared.

Michael Batey@mbatey· Mar 13

I’m starting off on a mellow tip

Cover of the Freddie Gage LP ‘All My Friends Are Dead’

Michael Batey@mbatey· Mar 10

When you don't know what a restrictive appositive is, so you just scatter commas at random

BBC iPlayer promo content with the phrase 'Conspiracy thriller, The Capture, has returned' – the commas are incorrect

Michael Batey@mbatey· Mar 3

This event isn't till October, but I'm posting it because I absolutely love both the name and the design (AI could never)

Artwork to promote the upcoming Sheffield Comic Arts Fair (SCARF) – a drawing of a person reading a comic and wearing a huge scarf

Michael Batey@mbatey· Feb 27

OMG it was available physically!

Jim Bowen – Walk The Dinosaur physical release CD single

Michael Batey@mbatey· Feb 17

Michael Batey@mbatey· Feb 10

Limmy's Show: Dee Dee goes to the Moon

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jan 28

The keyboard player from Spinal Tap, I forget his name

Michael Batey@mbatey· Jan 28

Time to pull out one of my favourite bits of showbiz trivia: the 'cover star' from 'How Soon Is Now' also played 'the priest with the very boring voice' in Father Ted.

Sean Barrett as Father Fitzgerald in Father Ted