Peter Scandrett

Why do forms always ask you to enter your email address twice, but not your phone number?

I could spend the rest of my life analysing this feedback sign in the local Home Bargains. Did 'not happy' break from overuse? Was it taped over to ensure 100% positive feedback? Is the green 'b' in 'feedback' some kind of subliminal nudge? Is the duck tape indent because people still keep pressing?

Thinking up game mash ups for B3ta and why doesn't this exist? Does it? It feels like such an obvious fit. P1 is the Lemmings P2 is Worms, P1 has to escape while P2 tried to destroy them all? Or a three player version where the Worms are also fighting each other/protecting lemmings.

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Just listening to The News Quiz on BBC iPlayer Sounds and it has an advert in the middle of it! How long's that been a thing? Argh.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Don’t think anyone’s made quite enough fuss that they had the Holy Grail on Antiques Roadshow last week.

Something delightful that I spotted whilst watching an episode of Keeping Up Appearances on iplayer earlier whilst doing something else... I love this sort of thing. No doubt many people already know about it...

This is excellent!

And on this note, surely signing the petition to save Radio 4 Extra can't hurt: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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I fail to understand how Tesco's commitment to sustainability squares with the fact they print out an extra 15cm of receipt with every purchase to inform me that they've entered me in a competition. That must be thousands of metres across the country wasted every day.

Everyone is told to wear their poppy with Pride.

It occurs to me that a small pride badge on University Challenge is neither a brand nor a slogan, regardless of the Strictly case.

Anyone going on BBC this month should order one of these beforehand and let them sweat www.poppyshop.org.uk/products/pri...

Hope do I stop Android auto updating? I normally do it manually but this is twice now it's taken upon itself to do it overnight itself, which means it reboots, gets stuck and doesn't play my alarm clock that's set on the phone in the morning.

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

The risk here is that Radio Comedy - a distinct art in its own right with its own discipline and method - is relegated to another layer of television's development substrata.

This man who didn't know PHP existed until yesterday morning has been covering the CyberSecurity beat for 12 years, according to his public speaker profile that he has because he's a member of the weird elite class of pundits who don't actually know their beat that journalism substitutes for experts

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Amazing. This is what happens when you take humans out of the equation. Funny here, but terrifying to think about other mistakes it's making in more serious contexts that aren't caught or obvious. Just Eat apologises for AI food mistakes after social media ridicule www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love Radio 4 Extra and it gave me some of my favourite jobs including Newsjack. I am gutted to hear this news, not least because it is my almost constant companion in my car. I want to be able to stumble across programmes that I might not have chosen to listen to - please sign the petition

Bad news: the BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a huge blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save it 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Here's my summary of why websites are offline right now, and why nerds are laughing at the number 4. I've attempted to explain the jargon in use, so those interested but not working in tech have a chance at understanding what's going on.

Hmm, can anyone get to tvlicensing.co.uk? I get 'This request was blocked by our security service' and an error 'We are sorry, our website isn't available at the moment. We are working hard to get it back up and running. Please try visiting us again tomorrow" Does anyone know what's happening?

OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄 They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!! And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷‍♀️ But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓 🧵1/20

This chap will always be my favourite.

The approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

I have terrible insomnia, but on the plus side, only 5 more sleeps ‘til Christmas