David Strathdee
@David_Strathdee
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Scientist, amateur comedian and general nerd from Bothwell, Scotland. Gaming, quizzing, tennis, puns, music. Only Connect alumnus, formerly @DVDSmith . (He/him)
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Now that we have a king, these sorts of events will all take much longer, since he can only move along the floor one square at a time.
#queensfuneral
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DVD commentaries and special features were a golden age for film trivia nerds, and the streaming era should have helped that flourish instead of eradicating it entirely.
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Spotted this in a village hall.
RIP Liz, lived to the ripe old age of –4.
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Okay I know it’s after 1am and this is a super-long image of a Reddit post, but the comment that immediately follows it at the bottom is a goddamn bloody masterpiece
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This is a sad sight.
#SportsStory
launched last week, and has been panned for glitches, bugs and unplayable gameplay.
Now someone has found a secret room, only accessible through hacks, that suggests the developers were overworked and the game got too ambitious for its own good.
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Congratulations Egypt on winning the African Wordle of Nations
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Egypt have knocked out Ivory Coast after a dramatic penalty shootout.
#AFCON2021
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Bet San Marino are well chuffed to be included on this list.
Imagine having a population that could fit into Wembley Stadium three times over, and the biggest country in the world considers you a threat.
The Russian government has approved a list of countries unhelpful to Russia. They include:
- Australia
- Canada
- EU
- Iceland
- Japan
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Taiwan
- San Marino
- Singapore
- S Korea
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- UK
- US
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So yeah, that happened. 😅
No matter the outcome, doing
#OnlyConnect
marked a big step for me. As someone who’s battled with issues of self-confidence, self-image, and self-esteem, having the courage to do a TV show was something I could never have imagined ever five years ago.
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Each time this happens, it ought to get the levels of hype and fanfare that are usually reserved for new Star Wars films.
Bob Mortimer returns to Would I Lie To You? | The week's best comedy on TV and radio
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@Rainmaker1973
Sorry Massimo, but this photo is from the big heatwave of last summer, hence why so much of the land is scorched and brown. Normally England is as green as Ireland.
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I know it shouldn’t be, but even as an objective viewer – the combination of the coffin disappearing into the floor, the bagpiper walking away, Kirsty Young’s voice breaking in her closing monologue, and (as ever) the final BBC montage… my god, that was deeply moving.
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Kate comes out in a beautiful polkadot dress, one dot for every drink she had today.
#WimbledonFinal
Kyrgios complaining about a specific spectator.
"She's drunk out of her mind in the first row, talking to me in the middle of the game... The one with the dress, the one who looks like she's had about 700 drinks, bro!"
That's no way to talk about the Duchess of Cambridge, Nick.
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Every time I read this fact it still blows my mind:
Both the UK and US versions of Dennis the Menace, created completely independently by different people who had no knowledge of the other, both debuted on the same day – 12th March 1951.
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@Alpharad
Here in the UK we’re about to have our two hottest days in recorded history and there are still people going “that’s not hot, THIS is hot” from countries with no humidity and AC everywhere
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@Ethelmonster
@fil5000
Reminds me of the immortal typo at the bottom of this takeaway menu, which still makes me laugh myself silly.
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This looks amazing, but I still can’t forgive them for what they did to Julia Sawalha.
The chickens are back and bringing the chaos.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, a sequel to the classic 2000 animated film, hatches December 15.
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BTW, in case anyone missed it last night – here’s a closeup of the card
@rhysjamesy
gave
@daraobriain
on the final
#MockTheWeek
episode.
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Mathematician friend went to see Mean Girls. Said it was average.
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I still remember when Colourblind went to number one in 2002 – he was interviewed and said:
“My dream was to have a number one single by the time I was 35. Well I’m 21, so that’s fourteen years ahead of schedule!”
#Darius
Holy shit, Darius Danesh died! I always liked him. Never forget he went on national TV and said he was going to be a multi-platinum selling artist before he was 35, became a laughing stock and then went and FUCKING DID IT.
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@JonComms
Sure sex is cool but have you ever switched off a Gamecube, opened the tray while the disc is still spinning, and put your finger on the central button to slow it down
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My vote to whichever party makes it a law that Ticketmaster has to tell you how much the tickets cost *before* they go on sale.
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The best
#OnlyConnect
final I've ever seen. Incredible performance from both teams.
Bloody hell, sixteen years in and the standard keeps on climbing.
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One of the best
#WILTY
episodes ever tonight. I love when something happens that sends everyone into tears of laughter, and they stop being professional comedians on a panel show and become just a bunch of mates having a laugh at work.
Oh, and stay for the post-credits scene.
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@qikipedia
From the TV show: that slavery was only made illegal in England in April 2010. (Any fact that makes the audience audibly gasp.)
From the Twitter account: that the Finnish version of “grammar Nazi” translates as “comma fucker”.
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“I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962…
Ain’t it funny how the night moves,
When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose,
Strange how the night moves…
With autumn closing in.” ❤️
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I think we need a special shoutout to
@MattRobertsTTP
for spending 5 hours in the
#Wimbledon
library, verifying the stat about Novak’s record Centre Court winning streak, putting it in
@TennisPodcast
newsletter, leading to Sue Barker delivering it to Novak himself today. 👏👏👏
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When you’re late to the start of Djokovic-Nadal and it’s already 5-0 in the opening set…
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Imagine being the proud parents of the choir boy on the right, waiting to see your little one sing in front of billions, and then this happens
#queensfuneral
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Was 100% not expecting this, after they’ve used the same anniversary logo for the past two decades. Showing they’re serious about the celebration.
Yeah, this blows the
#Mario35
logo out of the water.
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Would 100% watch a series of Victoria and Alan solving Zodiac Killer-style mysteries together.
With Victoria as the Sherlock Holmes figure who does everything and Alan as the tagalong partner dressed as Charlie Chaplin.
#Taskmaster
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@ThreatNotation
During a big concert at school, our trombone player got the end of his instrument wedged into the chair in front of him, so had to play the rest of that song by moving *himself* forward and back to play the correct notes.
He nailed it. The rest of us watching him, not so much.
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I want to buy a drink for whomever at
#OnlyConnect
had to come up with answers for the category “things that contain bones” and wrote down “The Starship Enterprise”.
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I support this in principle, as long as it's properly regulated to prevent people from doing increasingly dangerous and risky stunts in the hope of winning an Oscar.
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A CHERYLCOLE lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
A NIDICOLE lives in a nest.
An AIGICOLE lives on a beach.
A PRATINCOLE lives in a meadow.
A TERRICOLE lives underground.
A PALUDICOLE lives in a marsh.
An ANCOCOLE lives in a canyon.
A LIMICOLE lives at the shoreline.
A NEMORICOLE lives in a wood.
A LATEBRICOLE lives in a hole.
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So good of Andy to mention the rest of the
@BritishTennis
achievements this year. Such a class act.
#SPOTY
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Alright, who had Keith Urban and John Legend on their “
#Tokyo2020
Olympic opening ceremony” bingo cards
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For context, this is 7mph faster than the fastest serve ever recorded in women’s tennis.
And Serena handled it like a champ.
#Wimbledon
#SerAndy
ONLY SERENA WILLIAMS RETURNING A 138MPH SERVE FOR A WINNER !
#SerenaWilliams
#MurRena
#wimbeldon2019
#murraywilliams
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It’s hard work down at the computer keyboard factory. They’ve got me putting in a lot of shifts.
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Just voted. I was the youngest person there by about 50 years.
Young people, please turn out. Don't let your future be decided by people who won't live to see it.
#EUelections2019
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Hope Andy Murray’s got Emma Raducanu’s number. She’s going to need all of his career advice about how to weather the monstrous rabid hyenas that are the British tabloids.
#Wimbledon
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Just tuned into Sam Ryder and his Queen medley and the lad is killing it. Fantastic stuff.
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I love this. It's so utterly useless as information.
CONSONYMS are different words that share the same order of consonants—like ‘SPoNGe’ and ‘eSPioNaGe’.
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I refuse to go and see
#FastX
purely because I’m still annoyed they didn’t call it “Fast Ten: Your Seatbelts”
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Why did they call it compulsive hoarding and not Stockhome Syndrome
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“Stand back, stand back, there’s been a terrible accident!”
RIP Tim Messenger.
#STORMEUNICE
It's a miracle that this sizeable & very heavy spire tip, with windvane & lightning conductor, didn't hit anyone as it came crashing-down at St Thomas Church in
#Wells
,
#Somerset
around noon. Video captured by Matthew Hodson (many thanks for sending to
@BBCBristol
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Wonderful gesture from
@Herring1967
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#RHLSTP
interview available for free online.
Set aside an hour and just bask in Baz’s storytelling and joke-telling.
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And huge shoutout to
@MattRobertsTTP
for a tennis eye like almost no other, spotting the greatness of Alcaraz back in 2017 when Carlos was just thirteen years old.
This is worth a listen.
#USOpen
Matt discovered Carlos Alcaraz when he was 13.
(Alcaraz, not Matt. Although
@MattRobertsTTP
wasn’t much older).
Re-live what we said about Alcaraz on the pod two years ago. Full story on our Instagram
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LGBT
With Qatar's appearance at the 2022 World Cup, there are now only 4 letters which haven't been represented at a World Cup Finals. Which 4 letters?
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Dear Tennis Twitter: as all this Djokovic furore grabs the world headlines, please please remember to never stop asking
#WhereIsPengShuai
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29 months later…
I’ve missed live music so goddamn much. Tonight was such a catharsis.
@KeithUrban
was incredible.
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What a comeback; they came so close to taking the lead twice!!
No
@UniStrathclyde
team has ever gone that far in
#UniversityChallenge
before. So incredibly proud of the boys.
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The idea just popped into my head for a Pink Floyd-themed restaurant called “Comfortably Nom” and I think it’s the worst idea I’ve ever had.
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I still can’t believe “comptroller” is a real word. I swear someone just misspelled ‘controller’ 200 years ago and everyone ran with it.
…except that is exactly what happened. Holy shit
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It should have been Old Habits Die Hard. You had one job, guys.
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Bloody hell Jacob Warbrick!! One of the most dominant Missing Vowels I’ve ever seen.
#OnlyConnect
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New pet peeve: 'quirky' puzzle-themed greetings cards that don't follow the goddamn rules
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Reports of an older man with a guitar on the run from the Scranton Police Department. Last seen in London, telling funny stories, playing wonderful music, and generally being an all-round legend.
@creedbratton
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Rowan Atkinson’s performance at the Olympics was comic perfection. To be that funny on your own in front of an audience of billions and absolutely nail it - he’s a superhero.
#GrahamNorton
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@TennisPodcast
Horrible. 12-12 was an excellent compromise after Anderson-Isner, and I’m annoyed they’re shelving it after such a short time.
Meanwhile women are still playing best of 3. It’s like they’re trying as hard as they can to stop epics from happening.
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Ahhhh the story of the McCulloughs on
#TheButton
is an absolute fairytale. Failing task after task every week until today, when they win three tasks in one day and win the episode. I actually cheered in my living room. 😄
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@watsoncomedian
I know this sounds like a forgotten episode of Doctor Who, but… justice for the Zutons.
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So is it time I acknowledge that my silly not-that-original chess joke went a bit viral? I’m glad so many of you liked it.
And hello new followers! I usually tweet about trivia, games, comedy, tennis, and lots of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad puns. You’re very welcome.
Now that we have a king, these sorts of events will all take much longer, since he can only move along the floor one square at a time.
#queensfuneral
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Favourite quiz question of tonight:
“Assuming the wives take their husbands’ surname, name all the Harry Potter characters to have had the surname ‘Weasley’. There are 23 in total.”
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Fun fact of the day: Andre Agassi used to be able to read Boris Becker’s serve every single time because of where Boris pointed his tongue, like a poker tell.
Boris had no idea he did this until many years later. “It’s like he’s reading my mind!”
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT
OZZY OSBOURNE AND TONY IOMMI
THEY FUCKING DID IT
#Birmingham2022
#CommonwealthGames
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Really woken up by this comment from the
@TennisPodcast
US Open review show last week:
“In 50 years, kids will read about this tournament and players/spectators collapsing in the heat, and how those same people then unified to boo climate change protesters disrupting the play.”
Our
#USOpen
review show is up!
Available now for Friends of The Tennis Podcast.
To become a Friend -
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I know she’s only 18 and we shouldn’t overhype her too much, but my god Emma Raducanu feels like a household name in the making. She’s SO good.
#USOpen
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Why the hell would they pick the Johnny English sequel when the first film revolves around the villain plotting to get himself crowned King in an actual British coronation ceremony.
Would have been such a baller move from Channel 4.
BRITISH TV THIS SATURDAY.
BBC One: The Coronation of The King
BBC Two: The Coronation of The King
ITV: King Charles III: The Coronation
Channel 4: Johnny English Strikes Again
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Facebook: a website whose only purpose is to tell you that 12 years ago today, you became friends with your sister.
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Think I’ve found my new favourite trivia question.
“In the canon of theatrically-released films, which Disney Princess has the highest confirmed kill count?”
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Fun fact – as if she wasn’t Scottish enough, Eve Muirhead has also competed at four World Bagpiping Championships.
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I don’t think any
#Taskmaster
contestant has ever showed their true personality more than
@IvoGraham
inventing an imaginary friend who quietly leaves him.
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And if you're wondering if something else popped into my head when Victoria asked "can you give me an example of something with one cup", ...yes, yes it did.
And it took every fibre of my being not to say it.
#onlyconnect
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Doesn’t get tighter than that. Two superb teams. Can’t wait to see them both again.
#UniversityChallenge
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Nothing sexier than organising Dungeons & Dragons games in the middle of an ice rink. People are always sliding into my DMs.
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Fifth single Valentine's Day in a row. Gonna spend it with my guitar and my favourite film (Breakfast Club). A good night awaits.
#joinin
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Still think the Hydro in Glasgow has a stupid name; why would you build the biggest entertainment venue in Scotland and not call it the MacArena
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My Edinburgh Fringe wishlist is already 50 shows long and half of them start at 8pm. 🙃
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Favourite thing I learned today:
Bonnie Bedelia, who played John McClane’s wife Holly in Die Hard, was born Bonnie Bedelia Culkin. She is the aunt of Macaulay and Kieran Culkin.
What an amazing bit of Christmas movie crossover trivia.
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Thank you Reddit for introducing me to the greatest Wikipedia article photo of all time.
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For anyone trying to play Goldeneye on the Nintendo Switch this weekend, here’s a great bit of Reddit advice if you have issues with the archaic single-stick control scheme.
#Goldeneye007
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Most astonishing thing I’ve learned so far from
#TheyShallNotGrowOld
: because Germany was still a relatively new country, their soldiers often hated each other more than the British. The Saxons would send the Brits messages going “Prussians are on duty next, give them hell”.
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Fun thing to do today: go on Twitter and search for people supporting England by tweeting the flag of Georgia.
#ENGPAN
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My favourite thing I've learned today: in Scotland, the peeping cry of a duckling is called a queeple. (
@HaggardHawks
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@MitoRequiem
@PG_ESAM
@KirbyMastah
When Joker and PT are on the same team, changing between Pokemon would do something to Joker's meter (fill it up IIRC?)
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Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses there, doing Slither by Velvet Revolver, a cover of a song by the band formed by the rest of GNR after they left GNR because Axl became too much of an ass.
A unique occurence in music?
#Glastonbury
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