Twitter Twatter #79

January 2020 on Twitter:

It's 2020! Let's see what's in store for us... uh, it's not good. @Davetweetedthis https://t.co/wqo52SYLtF

— Will Potter (@Hero_Collector) January 1, 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR! #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/6gFVEoHYWP

— Happy New Pip (@pipmadeley) December 31, 2019

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." BILL VAUGHAN

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) January 1, 2020

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— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 1, 2020

wait, we're cancelled? https://t.co/fefzkJFi60

— alan tudyk (@AlanTudyk) January 1, 2020

2020 is cancelled pic.twitter.com/aGDZCTTQmb

— Mark Smith (@marksmithstuff) January 2, 2020

Just when you think certain corners of DW “fandom” can’t sink any lower.... pic.twitter.com/nClWmwi33W

— Gary Russell (@twilightstreets) January 2, 2020

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— Star Trek Minus Context (@NoContextTrek) January 5, 2020

I'm fascinated by that painting.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 9, 2020

No, you aren't.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 11, 2020

10am: Lee Hurst
11am: Black & White Minstrel Show
12: Roger Daltrey (solo set)
1pm: Morrissey (w. Black & White Minstrels)
2pm: Jim Davidson
3pm: Puppet show
4pm: Public lynching (guests TBA)
5pm: Two-minute hate
5.02pm: Jay Aston’s Buck Fizz
6pm: Military curfew https://t.co/zW1YiPxwYk

— Paul Carnahan (@pacarnahan) January 11, 2020

The Long Game

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 12, 2020

Thanks

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 12, 2020

Exploration Earth

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 14, 2020

#SeduceSomeoneInFourWords pic.twitter.com/XTxacIa8Sa

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 16, 2020

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— Richard (@richvsworld) January 17, 2020

#DCEBAF https://t.co/vNMEToRebR

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 17, 2020

#FADEGBC #FindMyTwin @richvsworld & @stumorrison69, I want to compliment you both on your discerning film tastes. I feel this is an opportunity to be seized with both hands. We can recommend cinematic experiences to a receptive audience.

Have you guys seen Dude, Where's my Car?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 18, 2020

In all honesty, no it's not. Life is too short.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 18, 2020

It's been quite a week for the Royal Family... https://t.co/KCSJpPfJvr

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 18, 2020

It's from their stoner Jay and Silent Bob phase...

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 19, 2020

Father's Day and These Are The Voyages were broadcast on consecutive days in the same week in 2005. And if were counting the films The Name Of The Doctor and Into Darkness were released the same week in 2013.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 23, 2020

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— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 23, 2020

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— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 23, 2020

Same energy. pic.twitter.com/cWdOlQzOHq

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 26, 2020

This is how I choose to remember you... pic.twitter.com/tNkZTcKvAN

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 26, 2020

Rod Liddle. Next week: how the BBC turned Middlemarch into a study of life and social mores in a provincial midlands town pic.twitter.com/Qpi9Do2daV

— Stuart Maconie (@StuartMaconie) January 26, 2020

But a post-Troughton Doctor would probably know what a sonic screwdriver was.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 26, 2020

A reality with no shelves.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 26, 2020

You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 27, 2020

@RichardOsman, don't let them change this cover. pic.twitter.com/GMsVLONoux

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 30, 2020

Years from now, as you carve your chlorinated chicken, raise your glass of non French or German wine and spare a thought to those people too young to vote in the referendum.

Happy Brexit Day.

I truly hope this will be a magnificent turning point for the country, but I doubt it.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) January 31, 2020

General Strike 1926

The next show I was involved in was another of the New Factory Of The Eccentric Actor's mass cast historical epics. As the name suggests this one concerned the General Strike of 1926.

It was presumably intended for performance in 2006 on or around the eightieth anniversary of the strike, but it wouldn't be staged until September the following year.

I played a journalist and Charles, a toff turned bus driver who was enjoying the strike enormously.

This show was enormous fun and the cast were fantastic. There were 68 members of the cast. Here are just two of them: the late, great and much missed Matthew Eggleton on the left and the phenomenal Annie Firbank to the right.

Over the course of three nights there were somewhere in the region of 450 people in the audience. On the last night, just days before her hundred-and-second-birthday, Hetty Bower, a real life general striker, in the audience. She stood at the end of the play for her own rapturous round of applause.

It was featured in The Guardian's theatre blog.

Twitter Twatter #78

The end of November and all of December 2019 on Twitter:

WATCH 🎥 - Matt Hancock Loses His Cool At Haverhill Hustings

Audience Boos & Chants 'Liar!@MattHancock really doesn't like being challenged on the 50,000 nurse lie. pic.twitter.com/XOaGkAm9Nx

— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) November 30, 2019

Accurate. https://t.co/sCapLvHxA4

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

America: only guns can keep us safe.

Britain: pass me that Narwhal tusk.

— Satbir Singh (@SatbirLSingh) November 30, 2019

Who’s the person stood behind the Doctor? pic.twitter.com/NSMqR8HVU1

— Jimmy (@ProductionsJAW) November 30, 2019

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— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Word of the day: EUCATASTROPHE – a happy ending to a story.

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) November 30, 2019

It's good to see you can keep an open mind.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

I'm full of questions, but well aware that the answers won't come until the show is actually being broadcast.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

Oh, I'm sceptical, but "this show is doomed" isn't healthy scepticism, it's arrogance. He may be right, it may well be awful, but deciding so now does no one any favours.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

I would agree with you that it's premature if it were not for the bad track record of Georgiou and S31 on DIS that very clearly determine the direction of the show. There's no way to redeem Georgiou, no way to save S31, they should be buried for good and not further pollute Trek.

— Ex Astris Scientia (@eas_trek) December 1, 2019

I was certain DIS would be terrible and I was right. Still after two seasons. So please leave me my opinion. Referring to TNG and DS9 doesn't help your case because the criticism about them died down soon, which obviously doesn't happen now.

— Ex Astris Scientia (@eas_trek) December 1, 2019

I'm all for criticism of episodes, but not before they exist. That isn't being a critic, that's being a gatekeeper. @eas_trek has a fantastic site and may well be "the world's leading Treknology resource", but with that comes a responsibility not to attempt to control the show.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

That's entitlement. This pre-emptive criticism gets us nowhere. You have a platform and I would regard this as an abuse of it. It comes from the same place as never having a made a movie but claiming you could make a better Star Wars film than Rian Johnson.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

It comes from the same place as telling people that Jodie Whittaker isn't really Doctor Who and that they are wrong to enjoy it.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

I'm not suggesting that being a fan has to be a passive experience, and criticism and nitpicking are absolutely valid after broadcast, but criticism of a concept that has yet to become a TV show needs to measured, "the very idea is appalling" is not measured.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

Very funny. Have you ever watched Discovery? Do you honestly expect more morality from a series that is even more about illegal and totalitarian people and operations?

— Ex Astris Scientia (@eas_trek) December 1, 2019

It could be a morality play like Star Trek used to be. Georgiou could a villain or a victim. Anything could happen.

Yes, it could be awful, but I'll reserve judgement until broadcast.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

You're warning me? You really have taken Roddenberry's evolved ideals to heart.

Breaking out a bit of fancy Latin doesn't reduce the validity of an argument.

Are you threatening me?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

I think you probably should block me.

It'll prove me right.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

Out of it, surely?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

"I think you can probably park wherever you like..." pic.twitter.com/CKApBcW9MY

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

“It’s all Labour’s fault” says man whose party slashed police numbers, devastated the prison and probation service through cuts, and said there was no money for deradicalising terrorists. #Marr

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 1, 2019

If you will write bits and pieces of racist hate then yes Prime Minister people will bring it up.

— Jess Phillips Esq., (@jessphillips) December 1, 2019

For those that say the Tories would not sell our NHS - they’ve already begun.https://t.co/ESHwsjU8zf

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 1, 2019

8 MONTHS AGO: Jeremy Corbyn warning against the privatisation of the probation service, something Boris Johnson supports.

For every awful thing that has happened in the last 30 years, there is footage of Jeremy Corbyn trying to stop it. pic.twitter.com/X5LBKyHDs0

— Mike #VoteLabour 🌹 (@mickeyfinnlad) December 1, 2019

AMAZING - the Tom & Jerry Museum In Japan has remade models of all the times Tom has been crushed into funny shapes 🤣🤣🤣
(H/t u/AmerBekic) pic.twitter.com/wOFJqUavPf

— Lee Trott (@MC372) November 29, 2019

Who wore it better?#DoctorWho #Torchwood #Cyberwoman #Cybermen @bigfinish pic.twitter.com/DM5oQhppSe

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

So Boris Johnson just said that Queens speech was blocked by Parliament. I must have been in a different room or he's lying. https://t.co/pUTNNZEJft

— Jess Phillips Esq., (@jessphillips) December 1, 2019

I just finished reading Life And Death by @VincentAbnett & @MoritatArt, which was an absolute masterpiece from start to finish. If they ever manage to get an AVPCU off the ground, this is the blueprint. #Aliens #Predator #AVP #Prometheus pic.twitter.com/g5FNjHdLjU

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

Time And Relative Dimensions In Sound https://t.co/bXoRtWWkEP

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 1, 2019

The average British person will lose 384 pens, 192 items of clothing and 64 umbrellas during their lifetime.

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 1, 2019

"I’m Andy McNab, I’m Andy McNab, I’m Andy McNab, I’m Andie MacDowell..." https://t.co/4faaTrBBDZ

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 2, 2019

The world's oldest social housing project is Fuggerei, in Augsburg, Bavaria.

The rent has not been raised since it was established in 1521; a year's rent is just £0.75.

(Image: Martin Kluger.) pic.twitter.com/vBOa9Gb3A6

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 2, 2019

▪️Cut police by 20000
▪️Slashed and wrecked probation service through privatisation
▪️Devastated prison service through cuts
▪️Closed 300 courts
▪️Endangering security cooperation with Brexit policy

But sure, the Tories are the ones you can trust to keep us safe. https://t.co/jMfFKhhmzq

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 2, 2019

Ambulance call out? $2,500. Childbirth? $30,000.

Our NHS is not for sale, @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/q9z4r6Ni6g

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) December 3, 2019

But remember: it’s Labour who can’t be trusted with the nation’s finances. Not the Tories whose policies have created record debt and whose Brexit will knock 4-6% off economic growth. https://t.co/Fc9dgPYUGs

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 4, 2019

2016 - The Return of Doctor Mysterio
2017 - Thin Ice
2018 - Rosa
2019 - Resolution

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 4, 2019

I kept thinking about it and a number* of you were clamouring for it, here's the Sixties

1963 – An Unearthly Child
1964 – The Dalek Invasion Of Earth
1965 – The Romans
1966 – The War Machines
1967 – The Moonbase
1968 – The Mind Robber
1969 – The War Games

* That number was zero

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 5, 2019

“It is not too late. We have an interview prepared. Oven-ready, as Mr Johnson likes to say”

Andrew Neil issues a challenge for Boris Johnson to commit to an interview with him, to face questions on why people have “deemed him to be untrustworthy”https://t.co/daHLxEYn4r pic.twitter.com/oQ21uDdtJe

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 5, 2019

1970 – Spearhead From Space
1971 – The Claws Of Axos
1972 – The Three Doctors
1973 – Frontier In Space
1974 – Invasion Of The Dinosaurs
1975 – The Sontaran Experiment
1976 – The Deadly Assassin
1977 – The Robots Of Death
1978 – The Stones Of Blood
1979 – City Of Death

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 6, 2019

1980 – Full Circle
1981 – Logopolis
1982 – Kinda
1983 – The Five Doctors
1984 – The Caves Of Androzani
1985 – The Two Doctors
1986 – The Trial Of A Time Lord
1987 – Dragonfire
1988 – Remembrance Of The Daleks
1989 – The Curse Of Fenric

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 7, 2019

1990 – Search Out Science
1991 – The Pilot Episode
1992 - The Time Meddler (this repeat was the first story I saw)
1993 – The Paradise Of Death
1994 - Whatever Happened To Susan Foreman?
1996 – The TV Movie
1999 – The Curse Of Fatal Death

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 8, 2019

“We received no Russian money for this campaign” says party that received £489,850 from Russian donors in the past year, £3.5m since 2010 and suppressed Russia report pointing that out. pic.twitter.com/RgVMArVwEO

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 8, 2019

The reality of the NHS under the Tories: a 4-year old with suspected preumonia forced to sleep on the floor.

We can start fixing this on Thursday by voting them out. https://t.co/KCuBhkRZZT

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 8, 2019

Dad level: Master. pic.twitter.com/0Y2b5Kwfxo

— Only In Asia (@Crazyinnasia) December 9, 2019

2001 – Death Comes To Time
2002 – Real Time
2003 – Scream Of The Shalka
2004 – Oh Mummy!
2005 – The Long Game
2006 – The Girl In the Fireplace
2007 – Human Nature
2008 – Midnight
2009 – The Waters Of Mars

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 9, 2019

Who in the name of hell is voting for this sack of shit? https://t.co/Lr2tuNwUMd

— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) December 9, 2019

Because Donna turned left, this bloke became Pope. His story is the only spinoff story in which I'm interested.#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/dVUB7JzgTP

— 🎄Simon⛄Threadgold🎅Frankincense🎁and❄Myrrh🎀 (@dimwittedly) December 9, 2019

It’s December, which means it’s time to bring back the best BBC ident of all time:

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— The Women of Who 🌈❄️ (@TheWomenOfWho) December 9, 2019

Astounding.

I know this isn't the most important facet of this, but how does he know she has a vagina? I mean I can't imagine it's been mentioned on screen. We didn't even know the Doctor had a belly button until 2005.

For that matter, maybe the Doctor has always had a vagina. pic.twitter.com/KF2PLElCJT

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 10, 2019

A labour government. https://t.co/RGbA8k94O7

— Ronke Lawal (@ronkelawal) December 10, 2019

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— Whedonesque (@whedonesque) December 11, 2019

If you're not sure who to vote for, watch this. pic.twitter.com/rBCBLzfoRp

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 11, 2019

#DontVoteTory https://t.co/ssDS77M212

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 11, 2019

Wondering why A&E waits are now the worst since records began?

The Conservatives have closed FORTY PER CENT of NHS walk-in centres since 2010.

That's 95 centres that are no longer available.

Please RT if you think everyone should know before they vote.https://t.co/QkVEk0wGuT

— NHS Million (@NHSMillion) December 11, 2019

Let's make Jake's Christmas wish come true tomorrow...#VoteLabour #VoteLabourOnThursday #VoteForALabourGovernment #DontVoteTory @UKLabour pic.twitter.com/yXE73NcnTf

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 11, 2019

The only reason to vote Conservative is because you hate patients, doctors, nurses, children, teachers, the elderly, the homeless, the disabled, the police, the armed forces, the environment, those in poverty, WASPI women, the BBC, social mobility & foodbank users to name but 16.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 12, 2019

Imagine being such an appalling human being that you care so little about your fellow man, woman or child...#DontVoteTory

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 12, 2019

#DontVoteTory https://t.co/VK3yozTJUh

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 12, 2019

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— Whedonesque (@whedonesque) December 12, 2019

Get back to your lessons.#VoteLabour. pic.twitter.com/dDwPH1TWRX

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 12, 2019

Jarvis said it best.https://t.co/WD7yZ9ivg5

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 13, 2019

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— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 14, 2019

The Dalek Invasion Of Earth
The Invasion
The Time Warrior
City Of Death
Kinda
Vengeance On Varos
The Curse Of Fenric
Dalek
Midnight
The God Complex
Listen
Rosa

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 16, 2019

Which one?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 16, 2019

You get put in the House of Lords pic.twitter.com/0SsOvYIxR4

— Vinay Patel (@VinayPatel) December 17, 2019

Cor! They must have used one of those newfangled “writers”. Ooh, fancy. https://t.co/dtEZxqAbSn

— Lisa Holdsworth 🌹 (@WorksWithWords) December 18, 2019

There's always a tweet https://t.co/dW48KUQ7lJ

— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) December 20, 2019

The Wild West of Sci-Fi. @Davetweetedthis gets trigger happy over gunslinging genre: https://t.co/vJXjP1uV5e

— Will Potter (@Hero_Collector) December 19, 2019

As #TheMandalorian, #StarWars' Wild West spin-off, approaches its finale David Black gets trigger happy about the sci-fi-western crossover.https://t.co/geIz0hZFoH

— Hero Collector (@HeroCollector_) December 19, 2019

It’s almost as if the UK’s problems are not caused by the EU at all but by the UK government itself... https://t.co/H9zUEUdrNK

— Barnaby Edwards (@BarnabyEdwards) December 21, 2019

Made a new person. pic.twitter.com/Xg8HNzUxzJ

— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) December 21, 2019

This may be the best example of finding the local angle that I've ever seen:https://t.co/ZCgFxZWsh3

— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) December 19, 2019

The Irish parliament recently spent €808,000 on a new printer, and when they discovered it didn’t fit they spent another €236,000 moving walls and reinforcing the building. It remains unused as staff refuse to operate it without a pay rise.

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 21, 2019

These are known as ”Ghost Apples”. They are created when freezing rain coats rotting apples, and when the mushy rotten apple falls out, it leaves a shell of ice
(https://t.co/0IAF5x0wBe) pic.twitter.com/XjkMnCS3CB

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 21, 2019

Not sure where to start in your #PicardPrep (re)watch? Here are a few episodes to get you started

- the first three minutes of Emissary (DS9)
- Time's Arrow, Part 2 (DO NOT WATCH PART 1)
- Phantasms (watch this twice)
- Fair Haven (Star Trek: Voyager)#StarTrek #StarTrekPicard https://t.co/tIH4u3pYha

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 23, 2019

Last night, Bill Maher went on a rant about comic books & those who love them & the generation (it rhymes with Schmelennials!) that uses words like #adulting & doesn’t want to give up the things they loved as kids or grow up

Well my name is Miss Valente & I got something to say

— A Cat In The Lonesome October (@catvalente) January 26, 2019

Calling all Bloggers & Tweeters:
Join us on December 28th for the #TweeniesBlogfest. Choose a favourite thing from each year from 2010 to 2019: film, TV, radio, theatre, book, comic, song or something else entirely, and then tell us what you love about it. https://t.co/eX8iSlgKwW pic.twitter.com/i3HPKV0loA

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 24, 2019

"Peter's hair grew more bouffant as the seasons wore on..." pic.twitter.com/qzDpddUg7W

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 24, 2019

Merry Everything.

There's a Christmas soon.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 24, 2019

Harper Lee’s friends gave her a year’s wages for Christmas in 1956. She took the next year off and wrote To Kill A Mocking Bird.

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 25, 2019

Beginning of the apocalypse, humanity almost extinct, fascist religious orders... So much to look forward to in 2020, as @Davetweetedthis reveals: https://t.co/wqo52SYLtF

— Will Potter (@Hero_Collector) December 30, 2019

As a decade is a period of ten years, a LUSTRUM is a period of five years.

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 30, 2019

I also discuss the finest things this decade had to offer: https://t.co/9dAwZNkRuL, but in more of a rush despite it, sort of, being my idea... https://t.co/ztnAEr0L6m

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) December 30, 2019

Carruthers Ten Years On; February 2010

February 2010 on the Carruthers Blog. It was a particularly moribund time. Some of the Sex Therapist posts have not aged well.

I suppose I still quite like the silliness of Stool Sample and Brushed. It was also nice to see these reviews of our videos.

Twitter Twatter #77

Some Twitter nonsense from the last days of November 2019:

Season One...

An Unearthly Child
The Daleks
Inside The Scissors
Marco Polo
The Quays Of Marinus
The Gaztaks
The Sensorites
The Reign Of Tara

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Two...

Planet Of Gi-Ants
The Dalek Invasion Of Bedfordshire
The Rescue
The Romulans
The Web Plant
The Crusade
The Space Museum (last admittance 4:30pm)
The Chasers
The Time Pedlar

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Three...

We're Not In Galaxy 4
Mission To The Unknown
Mythtakes I've Made a Few
The Dalek's Master Plan
The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew's Birthday
The Ark (In Space)
The Celestial Toymaker
The Ballad
Jeff
Doctor Who Is Required

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Four...

The Smugglers
When I Was Your Age Pluto Was A Planet
The Power Of The Daleks
The Kilties
Nothing Above The Surface Can Stop Me Now!
Moonbase 3
There's No Such Thing As Terror
The Poker Faces
The Evil Of The Daleks

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Five...

The Tomb Of The Kaftan
The Abominable Showmen
The Martin Invasion Of Earth
The Enemy Of The World
The Piccadilly Line Is Closed (a replacement bus service is in operation)
Fury From The Weed
The Wheel In Space

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Six...

The Dominators
Any Resemblance To Persons Living Or Dead Is Purely Coincidental
The Cybermen Invasion Of Earth
The Krotons
The Seeds Of Death
The Space Toaster
The War Games

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Seven...

Recyclable In Some Areas
Doctor Who And
The Embassy Of Death
Boring

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Eight...

Terror Of The Autons
The Mind Of Evil
The Massive Frog Of Axos
Claypit In Space
The Mound Of Evil

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Nine...

Dave The Daleks
The Referendum Of Peladon
The Eocenes Or Something
The Mutants Again
Wait, Did The Master Just Get Married? Is He Like A King Now?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Ten...

The Two Doctors Watch Another On Telly
Honey I Shrunk The TARDIS
Banged Up Abroad
The Thals Are Back
The Green Mycoprotein

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Eleven...

Probic Vent
Invasion Of The Fascists
Space Plague For Everyone
The Second Referendum Of Peladon
So Many Vehicles, So Little Time

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Twelve...

Where's Pertwee?
It's A Bit Like Alien
The Sontaran Experiment (Show Your Method)
Genocide Of The Daleks
Fragmentize This

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Thirteen...

Tentacles Of The Zygons
CSO Fringe
Old Age Osirians
Goodbye Kraal World
Sacred Fire, Sacred Brain
When Does Amelia Ducat Arrive?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Fourteen...

The Impression Of Norman Jones
From Paris To Houston
The Most Dangerous Crisis In Their Long History
The Doctor's Boat Race
A Whodunnit With Only One Suspect
The Squeal Of Greel

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Fifteen...

Horror Of Pebble Mill
Hardcore Prawn
Wanda Ventham's Eyelids
Differing Fiscal Opinions
This Probably Looked Better Before The CSO
The Invasion Of The Swimming Pool

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Sixteen...

A Nice Time In Ice Time
The Empty Planet
The National Trust Will Be Livid
The Four Romanas
Swampies!
The Longest Countdown

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Seventeen...

Daleks Don't Fly
So Many Questions About Their Marriage
Is He Blowing Into Its Cock?
Mandrels! Mandrels! Mandrels!
Back To Black And White
Not Canon

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Eighteen...

He's Old Now
He's A Cactus Now
Thank God For George Baker
Vampires! Vampires! Vampires!
Shooting Off The Set: A Lament
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Slowgopolis

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Nineteen...

I Wish Castro Was In This
Who Thought Cricket Could Be Even More Dull
So Much Nudity
What A Great Fire
He Thinks Nyssa Is A Child, But He's Married To Anne?
Well Prepared Meals Of The Cybermen
Time-Flight

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Twenty...

Amsterdamned
Clunes
My Brig Is Brigger Than Your Brig
Slipback
Avian Milinary
This Robot Is A Surefire Hit

The Three And A Half Doctors

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 29, 2019

Season Twenty-One...

The Underwater Menace
Stoneface
Diggers
Resurrection Of The Daleks
How Do You Get A Shapechanging Robot Wrong?
Bat's Milk And Bandits
We Could Have Gone To Lanzerote!

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Season Twenty-Two...

Attack Of The Continuity
Vengeance On Video
Treehugging
The Too Doctors
Tinseltown
Tasembeker's Revenge

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Season Twenty-Three...

Look It's really one long story, OK? And none of the words you just used ever appeared on screen so take your Mindwarp and your Terror of the Vervoids and shove them up your Ultimate Foe

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Season Twenty-Four...

Time And The Rani
High Rise
Hi-De-High
Film Theory

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Season Twenty-Five...

The Polycarbide Profumo Affair
Time And Relative Dimensions In Pink
Nazis! Nazis! Nazis!
Thank God For Car Parks

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Season Twenty-Six...

Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Merliny Werliny
It's Not As Complicated As Everyone Pretends
Is There Anyone Here Not Related to Ace?
Perivale Looks Quite Nice Actually

OK, I'll stop now.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 30, 2019

Behind The Bike Shed

The first Behind The Bike Shed was held at Cafe 1001 on the 17th of March 2007 and with a repeat performance a week later.

The cast were Hilde Drevsjomoen, Raif Esendagli, Michael Everhard, Anna Sulan Masing, Verana Meneses, Joanna Strong, Sarah Wills, Nicola Young and I. All the scenes were written by Anna and myself.

Among the dozen or so sketches was Generic (the same script played three different ways as an experiment), Planet Of The Apes (now people would probably compare it unfavourably with Gogglebox), Bacon (about meaty confusion) and Jock (a riff on a Trainspotting obsession that came ten years too late).



It also included walk and faces, although sadly the links to the videos no longer work. They are probably lost forever...

The second performance was the better of the two, after we had learned how an audience might react to each scene and help push future shows in a more comedic direction. It set the pattern for later Bike Shed shows: venues other than theatres, multiple sketches and a mix of lighter and darker humour. Looking back, Anna clearly intended it be a more serious endeavour, but the scripts we were providing were only ever an attempt to make each other laugh.

Twitter Twatter #76

November 2019 on Twitter

pic.twitter.com/AuLdoGgaYi

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 1, 2019

pic.twitter.com/jfcI6VOXhm

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 2, 2019

"Carleton Bonfire & Fireworks"
After a long rainy day on Skipton Market I really wasn't in the mood to stand outside yet again, but I changed my mind last minute and popped over to a local bonfire and fireworks display to try and find some unusual angles. pic.twitter.com/DWfsfF91G3

— Tom Holmes (@TomHolmes_Photo) November 2, 2019

Remember when Theresa May's resignation went terribly wrong?#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/t0BFeaKhJt

— spankybackpack (@spankybackpack) May 25, 2019

Absolutely incredible to watch this @jacindaardern video be pinged around the world. In the last 48 hours, it's seemingly gone everywhere from the UK to Pakistan, and has even gone viral in Lebanon - becoming another tool for protestors to push for change pic.twitter.com/7RyJvywHjJ

— Ashleigh Stewart (@Ash_Stewart_) November 3, 2019

So much respect... https://t.co/Y9Pgs9oXZZ pic.twitter.com/6R8JkmPFuP

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 5, 2019

What's the worst tagline in Hollywood history? @Davetweetedthis has suggestions for the shoddiest: https://t.co/YjTzsGqF0u

— Will Potter (@Hero_Collector) November 5, 2019

Taglines are an important tool in the movie marketing arsenal. If a good tagline can clearly help sell a film, then surely a bad tagline could contribute to its financial failure. David Black picks ten of the best and ten most dreadful. https://t.co/TRw6FqPtLp

— Hero Collector (@HeroCollector_) November 5, 2019

https://t.co/FwdbbSnpJV

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 6, 2019

If you've got it, flaunt it. https://t.co/FRNifjrTbX

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 6, 2019

Hey @BarnabyEdwards this guy ↓ just called you twerp, what do you say to that? https://t.co/jQXMurjArV

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 6, 2019

A brief timeline of foodbanks:

1997 - The Trussell Trust is founded. Labour comes to power.
2004 - UK has 2 foodbanks.
2008 - Global financial crash. UK has 22 foodbanks.
2010 - Tories come to power.
2017 - UK has 2,000+ foodbanks. #VoteLabour #jc4pm #ToriesLie#ToriesOut

— Axel Billingsley (@AxelBCreative) November 5, 2019

Boris Johnson's Promises v Truth:

"20,000 extra police"
Truth: 20,563 fewer police

"Biggest NHS investment for a generation"
Truth: 15% lower than the average annual NHS investment

"£14b for schools"
Truth: £2.6b

"40 new hospitals"
Truth: 0 new hospitals

The man is a liar.

— Barnaby Edwards (@BarnabyEdwards) November 7, 2019

Fake promises to get Brexit done
Fake numbers of hospitals being built
Fake NHS stats
Fake promises on schools
Fake Brexit deadlines
Fake statements on free trade and free ports
Faked videos
Faked adverts
All in front of a fake large crowd.

Welcome to the Tory Campaign Launch. pic.twitter.com/XOtV8LgRd9

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 7, 2019

Fake promises to get Brexit done
Fake numbers of hospitals being built
Fake NHS stats
Fake promises on schools
Fake Brexit deadlines
Fake statements on free trade and free ports
Faked videos
Faked adverts
All in front of a fake large crowd.

Welcome to the Tory Campaign Launch. pic.twitter.com/XOtV8LgRd9

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 7, 2019

https://t.co/Zokoog2NvT

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 8, 2019

"Inappropriately dressed man makes big deal about going to work in a chauffeur driven car" https://t.co/EtNSmAuPlH

— Otto English (@Otto_English) November 9, 2019

Really hoping @SamiraAhmedUK and @NewswatchBBC are going to be all over this. Old footage edited into new footage in a way that apparently benefits a PM during an election campaign. So many questions need asking... https://t.co/ldhmmFkNcG

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 11, 2019

£100m on Brexit ads
£8bn on No Deal prep
£13.8m on ferry company with no ships
£600m a week in lost investment/growth
Record £1.8 trillion debt
Lowest growth for a decade
PM who said "fuck business"

But, Tories, do keep telling us how Labour can't be trusted with the economy.

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 12, 2019

Tories, July 2019:
“Boris Johnson is a proven winner and a great campaigner. People love him!”

November 2019: pic.twitter.com/CmBeAfRG7p

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 13, 2019

#BeMoreFrazer https://t.co/dBAZ4LYh5s

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 14, 2019

Why do tweets of this video keep going missing? pic.twitter.com/8u8YPUUt1s

— Robin Wood 🌹 Free Range (@WOODHEAP) November 14, 2019

Try imaging Boris Johnson being in this video, instead of Jeremy Corbyn.

Nope, nor can I. pic.twitter.com/n4EagkQSMI

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 15, 2019

Tories:
“There’s absolutely no need for everyone to have broadband. It’s a stunt!”

Also the Tories:
“The only way you can get Universal Credit is to apply for it online.”

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 16, 2019

After yet another fire likely caused by poor cladding, what will it take for this government to take fire safety seriously?!#cladding #GrenfellTower pic.twitter.com/WTQtWp1BJC

— Momentum (@PeoplesMomentum) November 16, 2019

2007

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 16, 2019

Did Sarah Ferguson marry one of the Osmonds?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 17, 2019

Genndy Tartakovsky's 2D Clone Wars is the pinnacle of achievement in the Star Wars universe. Everything else pales in comparison. pic.twitter.com/oL3cGmAXtf

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 18, 2019

Liz Truss having trouble remembering the number 0.#politicslive #GE2019 #LabourManifesto pic.twitter.com/fSgfCAjaxq

— Haggis_UK #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) November 21, 2019

We own https://t.co/OQ5hfKpVXw. Farage and co have sent us a long legal letter demanding we give it to him. Well, he can have the website... for a million quid, all proceeds to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (price goes up £50k a day)

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) November 21, 2019

Britain has had enough of Michael Gove.

— Ken Clarke (@MrKennethClarke) November 20, 2019

Earshot

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 22, 2019

Russ is a great guy. Be more like Russ. https://t.co/t2FR954OlT

— Vicky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (@vicsto382) November 23, 2019

You appear to have disenfranchised John Hurt.

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 23, 2019

This is getting ridiculous @newswatchbbc @SamiraAhmedUK https://t.co/Ce4K0UvUf1

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 24, 2019

Meanwhile in the Tory Party... pic.twitter.com/yhNCVOsctT

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 24, 2019

South Dakota has recently made the news for its new anti-meth campaign "Meth: We're On It".

This is not South Dakota's first tagline in the news. In 2015, South Dakota tourism used the tagline "why die on Mars, when you can live in South Dakota?"

— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) November 24, 2019

How can you have a politics-free adaptation? HG Wells was a socialist, who made many political points in the original novel. Have you read it, James? (Can't @ him because he called me fat and blocked me after I called out his lies about climate change).

— Joe Cushley (@TalentlessJoe) November 25, 2019

Our ex-landlord upped the rent from £800 to £1000 pcm just before Christmas with days notice. https://t.co/LPcZ8JcOIf

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 25, 2019

Is it me?

— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) November 28, 2019

There comes a point in the history of a nation where stupidity is indistinguishable from wickedness. That's where we are now.

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) November 28, 2019