Lucy Darbyshire

Writer type. Loves blow dries, words, heights, baths, books, and subtitles. Hates noise, bottle bags, dilly-dally, and people who eat crisps on trains.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@elmo The horrors persist but so do I.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@VikkiRossWrites *blinks once* 🤣

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

Just uttered a sentence that no self-respecting person working in copy should ever say: “Right, I think I need a spreadsheet”

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

Do you know what, after a deluge of appalling news stories, this one was welcome 😃

[Blackpool Gazette @The_Gazette]

Complaints about Lancashire county councillors show they are 'generally well-behaved' https://t.co/6LlC7uEdnT

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@SavLocal I feel like I’m in a minority of 1 here but I thought it was quite cute 😂. Although maybe that’s more to do with it was a welcome break on a feed of otherwise general unpleasantness.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

Probably time to hang up the pencil when LYNN THE BIN gets ranked higher than the three actual puns you submitted as your entries.

Yes, this is the hill I’m dying on. I’ve given up on everything else already.

[Fylde Council @fyldecouncil]

Annndd the winner is….. 👑

Forrest Dump!

Our runners-up were The Bincredible Hulk and Lynn The Bin.

Thank you to everyone who got involved!

#ForrestDump #WinnerWinnerChickenDinner

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@Nina_Gregory6 LYNN THE BIN

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

You can just say Blackpool like you���ve said elsewhere, huns. Report the news or go home.

[BBC North West @BBCNWT]

A man has been arrested after a woman was stabbed in the abdomen at a property in a seaside resort https://t.co/LUAYllGBQy

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@anon_opin Sorry she won’t let you buy an air fryer, Keith.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@hannahbell609 Jocelyn is an absolute bitch

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@bencoates1 Who on Earth finds church bells annoying?

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

Can’t really explain it, but, sometimes I need a stronger option than a capital letter. You know?

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus spilled its load leaving New York Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, surprised, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, confounded, astonished, and numbed.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@gibby9790 Probably the sort of crime that would be taken seriously tbf

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

I’ve become a sparkling water person.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@hannahbell609 @ANNELAMOTT Beautiful. Just what I needed I think.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

@Nina_Gregory6 It’s a visitor from heaven is that. Might be Granny. She loves a garden.

[Lucy Darbyshire @JukeboxDarby]

Reader, I followed him. So fast.

[Tim the Shitposting Linguist @LinguisticsShi1]

As a linguist I insist people find a different acronym for that beer

We ain’t renaming the International Phonetic Alphabet. Not for you. Not for anyone.