David Quantick

@quantick.bsky.social

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. Hon. VP of Philip Larkin Society, Visiting Prof. at Sunderland Uni. Author of QUANTICK'S QUITE DIFFICULT QUIZ BOOK. Emmy (Veep). www.davidquantick.com.

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

Well, now I'm Team Biden all the way.

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:13 UTC

It's amazing how much of Ver Hits writing house style evolved from Tennant's writing.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:49 UTC

My mind is going. I sat down and suddenly thought, "Fuck the Horse of Limoges."

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

The glass is half full. -The Optimist The glass is half empty - The Pessimist. I drink it. What happens? -The Gamer

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:07 UTC

QUANTICK'S QUIZ IS BACK, BABY!
www.electricpalacecinema.com/whats-on/dav...

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:40 UTC

This Looks so Legit (x)

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Santiago Jones @santiagojones.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:38 UTC

Reading this as: “I’ll rip up rules on planning in days, Reeves”

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

I’ve just added these artworks/drawings to my website. Though literally as I type these words, I just sold the fox. Sorry about that!

www.chloecumming.com

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

I once had to apply at very short notice for a visa that would allow me to transit through Russia and thought that was the most stressful and Kafkaesque bureaucratic experience I’d ever have, but I just had to pay for 20 minutes’ parking with RingGo and that was worse.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 11:33 UTC

Oo did not know of this.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 11:30 UTC

Purchased.

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 09:57 UTC

Hold my bee

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 09:42 UTC

Ruin a meme by changing one letter. I'll go fist.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:09 UTC

I was explaining to an English coworker how there’s a different Tayto crisps in Ireland and Northern Ireland with a different Mr Tayto. He said, “I get it. When you eat the Irish crisps, you’re eating the body of Mr Tayto. When you eat the Northern Irish crisps, it represents the body of Mr Tayto.”

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

Because what you *really* want when you choose to go the theatre on the night of a big England match, is to watch the football.

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MJ Mackenzie @redheadmuppet.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 14:46 UTC

This made my morning

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:13 UTC

Do you know this? A novel about a North Korean kid who accidentally discovers D and D via a handbook a diplomat leaves behind.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:59 UTC

Vive les papas centristes!

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

Ha!

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

God, I hate comedy horoscopes.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

I interviewed her. It made a roller coaster ride look like Stonehenge.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 11:53 UTC

Innit.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 09:48 UTC

Nice to speak to you, Jon.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 09:44 UTC

Fungosnakes.

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Simon Threadgold @dimwittedly.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 09:23 UTC

I hear Corbyn is Labour’s worst nightmare, the oncoming storm, the bringer of darkness, the one who waits, the girl in the fireplace, maybe give him a go?

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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

Lindsay's Nebula doc Yoko and The Beatles is so wonderfully poignant and human, I love it and I'm so glad she's made a cut of it for YouTube so it can reach a wider audience.
youtu.be/SMOABV_zgrk?...

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 08:26 UTC

Kind Hearts & Coronets (1949) - with David Quantick

Join Tyler & @quantick.bsky.social as they discuss arguably the greatest Ealing comedy of them all, a darkly amusing satire on class, sex and serial killing - starring Dennis Price and a bunch of Alec Guinnesseses: www.patreon.com/posts/kind-h...

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Simon Threadgold @dimwittedly.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:21 UTC

‘Starmer scraps Rwanda policy’ But I was told Starmer’s Labour and the Tories are the same. It’s almost as if anyone saying that is some kind of cretinous buffoon, so emotionally hung up on not getting their precisely exact perfect version of Labour, they dismiss anything else as being Tory. Huh.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 07:30 UTC

Just sqw the face of William Hartnell in a mortar.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 19:14 UTC

Not the famed punk act Pansy Division?

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:55 UTC

That's a tortoise.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

I only know one of those names and she's horrific.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

That's weird, a load of people spent yesterday telling me Labour was an evil terf spearhead. They seemed very sure about it.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:27 UTC

"We are out of Colin the Caterpillars but that's no excuse to abuse our staff, sir."

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

Considering it, my favourite line of the night was probably @cooraysmith.bsky.social describing Penny Mordaunt as looking like “Catherine Deneuve, if she worked in a big M&S.”

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:02 UTC

Best ever single om Two Tone.

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Simon Threadgold @dimwittedly.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

I always liked that bit in the 1997, when Kinnock and Callaghan had a chummy chat across the BBC studio. Glad Kinnock is still with us to see this win, too.

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Simon Threadgold @dimwittedly.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 12:03 UTC

They never mention No.10 regenerates with every new PM. Starmer right now:

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Stephanie Merritt @stephmerritt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:13 UTC

This from @stephenmcgann.uk on the other place can’t be said often or loudly enough. It’s why ideological purity on the left makes me grind my teeth to dust

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:56 UTC

7.3 Yards.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:36 UTC

Beans and toast.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:34 UTC

Peter Tosh got it right: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcRA...

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:58 UTC

Friday.

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Stephanie Merritt @stephmerritt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:58 UTC

Holy God. Show this to the young people in your life next time when they say their vote doesn't count 😲

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🪲 Dr Racheal 🪲 @drracheal.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:50 UTC

Do I have to go to work? This TV show is the best thing that's been on for weeks!

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:14 UTC

And I won 50 quid on Premium Bonds!

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 06:12 UTC

YAY! GO LABOUR! WE WON!

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

Some good news then.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

Yes, so wound up. Frothing and swearing. Sorry you lost.

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