Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

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May 6th, 2010

@Jorence Oooh, not sure I remember that one. I had the audio version of many of them, but I think they skipped bits that were very visual.

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Hmm. BBC1 now seem to be using a large Apple-style device, presumably called the iGuess.

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daev I can’t wait to see the results of the British election. I hope Susan Boyle wins this time. /via @MWhi

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Eric Pickles appears to be spontaneously forming a Twitter fanclub.

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@Jorence That’s only because you get four years to forget what the last load of coverage was like :)

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One thing’s improved: I remember when we actually had to listen to the ditchwater “thank you” speeches from the winners.

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Giant. CGI. Dominoes. And yet @MitchBenn doesn’t get a cab home from The Now Show. The BBC is spending its money in all the wrong places.

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@chris_j_hughes Didn’t see much of Brooker. Like his writing, but never even knew what he looked like until a couple of days ago…

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@chris_j_hughes I put up with that shite as long as I could, but I had to switch it off in the end.

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@goswoppit Funny you should say that. No matter who gets in, if they break the BBC and Radio 4 in particular, I’ll sodding kill ‘em.

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Hmm. Trying BBC1, but the annoying paving stone graphic is just making me wince.

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@djelibeybi_meg Possibly not. If I get any more Amazon stuff delivered to work this month they’ll probably give me a pay cut :/

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@djelibeybi_meg Fantastic stuff. Should really buy the DVDs; had them on video at one stage…

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Well, I stayed with the Channel 4 alternative election coverage until the first ads. Maybe I’m not in the mood, but that seemed dreadful.

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What? All these extra channels now and they’re not showing that Blackadder election episode?

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Who’d have thought there’d be this much anger in Clifton Village? http://flic.kr/p/7Z7dzR

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@tsunimee Hmm. Looks like the first hit on that search is “grumpy old men”! Is that a deep observation on gender politics, d’you think?

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@seengee Yeah, but I have to get to the results page before I can use the “pages from the UK” option now. Which slows me down.

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@ratsass Well, so do I, but I don’t want every bastard doing it.

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@xlearn http://twitpic.com/1lklqb - Hah! Go back and get a really good quality photo of this while it’s still li

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RT @jamesclay: RT @xlearn: Voting instructions http://twitpic.com/1lklqb <— Hah!

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Luckily, I had good training in elections from my parents. Who, erm… met when they were in the Young Conservatives.

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@TheLloydClan …so I don’t think I could accuse her of being underhand.

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@TheLloydClan The only one at our station was wearing so much orange she could’ve been a Lib Dem Hari Krishna, plus a rosette…

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I don’t mind poll station tellers per se, I do mind really shifty ones that persistently evade simple questions (vid): http://bit.ly/a0U2Ps

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@ilovetypography Erm… Did you try calling them up or mailing them? Normally find them pretty responsive on issues like that…

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@bexxi shame you’re not here. Sure one of my local candidates would nip to the garden centre for me if I said it would secure my vote.

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@tsunimee It’s not really a shortening. Tories were around before Consevatives, it’s just a historically-based convenient abbreviation.

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@AlasdairStuart Oooh, forgot I’d videoed Luther. Something else to look forward to.

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@hannahnicklin I thought about it, but just assumed it would be illegal, so didn’t bother. Probably wouldn’t have posted it anyway, though.

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_Please_ tell me that UKIP plane crashed because they ignored a European health and safety rule…

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@dailybooth Will the RSS feeds be back with them?

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@Stephanie_Gunn Hmmm. Are you stroking a White cat? Because my first guess would be that you live under a volcano.

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@Dichohecho I nearly got in and started looking for the coin slot!

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@bexxi The BBC World Service will be covering it.

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@BradleyLaw Democracy? Fairly strongly, yes. I believe it’s generally held to be better than the alternatives, anyway.

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@gary8345 It’s a website I should post to a couple of times a month, but manage a couple a year. Maybe next year…

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Aww! Didn’t realise the council had started buying their rubbish trucks from Duplo! http://twitpic.com/1lgk9j

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@tsunimee Ha! Never knew: “The word derives from the Middle Irish word tóraiche; modern Irish tóraí: outlaw, robber”!

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@tsunimee Yeah, my day is rather crawling, too. Sigh.

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@kshack22 Oh, is _that_ what they’re doing? I honestly didn’t realise.

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@hayles Hmm. Without getting them help for their self-esteem issues, it’s probably impossible.

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Well, they didn’t make that easy. But I have now voted. http://twitpic.com/1lgdgp

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@Jorence Only because the Monster Raving Loonies are no longer so popular.

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Morning all. It feels like a nice day to go and put a cross in a box.

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@libbymiller Tired as a newt, to quote Sir Humphrey.

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@Pockless Yes, well let’s enjoy it while it lasts. I may go to bed now, because it’s going to start getting depressing soon.

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@benjohnbarnes I turned up without a ballot paper because I never got one. Then they took a good few minutes to sort it out. Grr.

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@Pockless That’s Sinn Fein and the DUP.

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