Richard Butcher

Broken dreams and custard creams

[No Such Thing As A Fish @nosuchthing]

A 2019 study found that people drive more carefully if they have a pavlova in the car than their own child.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A reminder, as if anyone needed it, that a 'snaccident' is the inadvertent eating of an entire packet of biscuits [etc] when you meant to have just the one.

[Richard Butcher @RichB1995]

@jondharvey @ameliaa_rr

[Netflix @netflix]

To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘respair’: a 16th-century term meaning fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

(I know this is a repeat, but we need as much respair as we can get).

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Pythagorean Theorem Day is a holiday that is celebrated when the sum of the squares of the first two parts of the date equals the square of the last part. The last Pythagorean Theorem Day was August 15, 2017 (15² + 8² = 17²), the next will be December 16, 2020 (16² + 12² = 20²).

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

You can really feel autumn shaking hands with winter today.

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Currently reading a lot about cameras and lenses and yes, I know AF stands for AutoFocus, but I still think phrases like “Fast, precise AF” sound unnecessarily aggressive.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

This summer, a fox in Berlin stole more than 100 shoes from people’s porches and hid them in a thicket. His favourite seems to have been crocs. Most people are now keeping their shoes indoors.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Danish monarchs from 1513 until 1972 were named Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian, Frederick, Christian and Frederick.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Great Ormond Street Hospital have recreated their site in Minecraft to help kids who want to explore the building so that it’s less scary when they arrive.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

74% of British children spend less time outside than is mandated for UK prisoners.

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

Mind you, I also once gave £1.5bn to the theatre industry, when I bought a gin & tonic and a programme at 'We Will Rock You'

[LADbible @ladbible]

This lad wanted to make his cows extra happy, so he set up a cow brush in the field to see how they'd react! 🐮😂

🎥: Tom Pemberton Farm Life

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

I wonder how my iron is doing?

[LADbible @ladbible]

Who will cave first? 😂😂

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Hey, it was only a year ago that the world LOST ITS MIND because the Game of Thrones final episode wasn’t quite as good as some had hoped. Still, eh? Important at the time.

[Richard Butcher @RichB1995]

@Ameliaarrrr11 where abouts?