Steve Holt!

Sad thing is, he's not talking about a Yorkie dog, but instead a native of Yorkshire. It rather ruined his evening out in Wakefield.

I'm currently sunbathing whilst working from home. I'm pale as fuck, so I can only do 15 minutes anyway, but I miss nothing, and it's good to read a book or do some doodling, or just let my head go somewhere.

In the end I put it in my bio. See how many I could weed out with the reference "I'm 6 foot 1 and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a T"

Oh, sure. But don't initiate that. "Funny, I was googling you, and you work next to the woman who broke my heart and who I pined after for years. Small world, innit?"

Ended up weird, funny peculiar rather than funny haha, and frankly a bit too bleak to be put out for entertainment.

Here's a weird one: one of my friends had set up a new podcast (it's called do you remember the first time) and it's about teenage crushes and first loves and heartbreaks and so on.

But Cornshuck, Iowa is just one family and… Oh, I get it.

Don't bring it up. I can't see that being anything other than weird.

Was the symbol… Sexual? If so, you may want to send it to the "go ogle" imaging service

An (x) asks if it's OK to out (y) to (z).

Until I was on Tinder I never knew how much women valued tall men. Because I'm 6"1 and it seems like most of society, from bus seats to every bed I had in student accommodation to most showers are not designed for me

I can imagine many reasons why "no bi men" would be on a dating profile (had a bad experience with one, someone claiming to be bi to set up a threesome, misspelled 'no binmen') but the most likely is that women get so many messages on dating apps that it's a pre filtering thing.

If you don't think Russian high command weren't villains in world war II, you've obviously been reading some different history to me. I mean, obviously the Nazis are THE villains, but it's not like Stalin wasn't in charge.

The Siege is a great novel about the Siege of St petersburg. It goes into all the things they did to keep alive, like boiling book bindings then skimming off the animal fat to eat. Or queueing 5 hours for bread that was 60% sawdust

Enemy at the gates is such a great film. The bit where he picks off the 4 guards around the officer shaving is amazing.

Pitch Black dumb? Gladiator's action scenes incoherent? It's like I don't even know this column any more

His interview on Comedian's Comedian podcast is one of the best. They really get into it.

He's sort of dominant of the alt scene, which is almost as big as the mainstream to the point the distinction is pretty much useless. He's probably the bigest touring act who does 1000 seater venues.

Yeah, but the UK scene is so crowded, that for every act that this is true of (and it is by no means an exaggeration. "a bit of mental illness" has replaced "a bit of feminism" from 2 years ago and "dead dad" from 5 years ago as the go to driver of one man shows), there's also a bunch of acts who don't do anything of…