| 单词 | bloke |
| 例句 | I recollect—oh, donkey’s years ago—I used to sometimes go to ’Yde Park of a Sunday afternoon to ’ear the blokes making speeches. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said Harry, suddenly irritated, “and she’s seeing someone. Jealous type. Big bloke. You wouldn’t want to cross him.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah, the bloke from Magical Maintenance,” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “If it was even half decent, this bloke would’ve got away now, wouldn’t he?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “The bloke who may or may not have been eaten by a hollow—do you know where they’re keeping him?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Amycus, the bloke, he teaches what used to be Defense Against the Dark Arts, except now it’s just the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “But I'm not, you know. I’m a perfectly ordinary, harmless bloke. And I think you are behaving splendidly over all this, perfectly splendidly. I take off my hat to you, I really do.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Why would you prefer to stay with three positively pointless blokes and a filthy dog? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “People from all over. Loads of foreigners. And not just foreigners. Weirdos, you know? There’s a bloke walking ’round in a kilt and a poncho.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Yes, I daresay the bloke might be a bit put off by you running away in terror and all....No, definitely don’t go back and apologize...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But I was curious, because when w ere we ever going to get the chance to sail around the Ligurian Sea on some bloke’s private yacht? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Drove straight over to Tewkesbury to have it out with the bloke who’d sold it to him. Problem is, the man’d vanished.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “If your mum weren’t the president and you were just a normal bloke living a normal life, what things might be like? What you’d be doing instead?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s the way he writes, I just know the Prince was a bloke, I can tell. This girl hasn’t got anything to do with it. Where did you get this anyway?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I know—well, I don’t really know much about it, but Scott ... I know that he seems like a perfectly decent bloke, but you can’t be sure, can you?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Truth is, I’m not really shagging Haley I like her, but I don’t know how to tell her. The other day I went round her house and there was another bloke there.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “All right, let’s kill these blokes” is the general consensus, and the side runs on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I shove the half-lemon in, shove Grandma out, tell myself the English bloke has glandular fever, cold sores, and tooth decay, the trifecta of unkissability, like every other hot male in Lost Cove. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “There were these blokes in black shirts. And they were unloading cargo from Corporation boats.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And there was one bloke—well, I couldn’t give you ’is name, but a real powerful speaker, ’e was. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “But in disguise, like you just fell down and then borrowed some bloke’s clothes.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Dad got a video recorder off this bloke in a pub in Tewkesbury.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I thought this belonged to that bloke Perkins at the Ministry?” he asked, starting to disentangle the tent pegs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The Englishman says, “I’m going to my club to smoke my pipe, sip some sherry, and chat with the blokes.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “All right, let’s say, for the sake of argument, we accept this protection. I still don’t see why we can’t have that Kingsley bloke.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And then, beside her, I see the biggest bloke I ever saw. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “You didn’t know anything about that, did you? About another bloke? She didn’t confide in you about another man, did she?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think that Oscar is the most brilliant bloke I’ve ever met, not to mention, way hot, and ladies and gentlemen, what a lean he has.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My bloke can’t be missed because of the sheer size of him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “That Slughorn bloke might not want to stay long-term. Moody didn’t.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There are many more opportunities for women now, but you are up against some very competitive blokes. Women make up only 20% of solo radio broadcasters, research reveals 2013-07-11T23:05:01Z Got to choose the best bloke for the job, ignore the Tory press. Modern tribes: the brocialist 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Many times, I've either chased or been chased by a bloke who, afterwards, I think "what was all that fuss about?" Pregnant pause 2011-06-03T07:50:38Z He saw his captors as “nice blokes, who looked after me and stuck up for me”. My brother was held as a slave for 26 years 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z He even gets a bloke in a full-face union flag skinsuit up to bark the glam chants of Know Your Enemy, unconcerned that he might be inadvertently giving a platform to the EDL. Green Day – review 2013-06-02T13:45:53Z Even the bloke who played Bond baddie Dominic Greene in Quantum of Solace, the one with the fatal taste for motor oil, loves them. New band of the day ? No 843: Fortune 2010-08-09T16:30:00Z And then the bloke who was running the whole thing ran on and said: 'You've got to get off the stage. Music festival season: there will be mud 2013-06-18T17:58:53Z He's also the kind of bloke some men aspire to be. "Ted Lasso" has a message for everyone: Get you a man like Roy Kent 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z When the blokes decide to have a parley, the woman is automatically chucked to one side. Can an all-women Julius Caesar work? 2012-11-19T19:18:27Z A friend commiserates, and the bloke says, "Yes, I'll really miss him." The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z Charlie is the earnest bloke trying to save his late father’s failing shoe company because the jobs of people he has known since he was a child depend on it. Review: A Faithful ‘Kinky Boots,’ With All Its Pizazz and Pitfalls 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z When she’s playing with “three northern blokes that like to play loud” that really comes across. See Emily Play: New Band Up North #31 2013-06-17T11:48:00Z He is a dependable, professional, unemotional bloke who had been about to supervise the pouring of thousands of tonnes of wet cement into the foundations of new building in the Midlands. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z As Johanna works in an industry dominated by bloke culture, we see her swimming upstream from the beginning. Review | Caitlin Moran is back with more hilarious, sexy adventures in ‘How to Be Famous’ 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z And as a viewer you go, "For God's sake, she's on the trail of a killer … " This new bloke her mother's seeing has a nut allergy. Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier build the perfect TV detective 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z "I'm still amazed that girls find it romantic, this big hulking bloke in a dated suit, that there could be anything even closely resembling a sex symbol," Graham says. Ashes to Ashes: co-creator Matthew Graham says goodbye to Gene Hunt 2010-05-21T21:00:00Z Somber, heartbreakingly lyrical melodies may seem self-sorry, but Elgar was a melancholic bloke who did, despite all, like a good day at the races. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Lots of blokes "feeling it" in straw hats – and a cluster of girls going wild down the front. Review: tUnE-yArDs 2010-06-25T15:03:00Z “That poor Spanish bloke didn’t know what hit him!” How we met: ‘I rang her doorbell at 2am, but she didn’t wake up because she was drunk’ 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Because the Three Chumps are indeed chumps, no wittier than anyone's uncle or the bloke at the bar in the pub. Top Gear; Michael Bublé's Day Off – TV review 2013-07-01T06:00:14Z It’s oddly very moving to see these blokiest of blokes joking about cancer. Breaking the taboo: the director who has filmed the moment of death 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But, you know – blokes: we get over things like that. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z On the other hand, he does say: "That's what all these loony laws are for, you know: to be broken by blokes like me." On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z "I played every single part on the first record, and I said that numerous times in interviews, and people still wrote he's the keyboard player because he's a … bloke," she said. After a five-year absence, La Roux returns with 'Trouble in Paradise' 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Anthony Bourdain was often described as a “rock star” of the culinary world, but his defining characteristic was being a thoroughly decent human bloke. Anthony Bourdain's greatest TV moments 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Just as 50 years ago, the five-minute broadcasts consist of a bloke in a dark suit droning on. Budget statements and responsesm | TV matters 2010-04-01T05:45:00Z At least you have to admit this bloke knows what he's doing. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z "I just kept thinking, I'm going to die, there's no way to get this bloke off me," Edmondson told The Echo. Hero dog rescues owner from knife-wielding mugger: 'My little lifesaver' 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z “Ordinary blokes” and “speaking normally” are both pretty vague terms. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z It's moody and forlorn, the sound of a bloke bleating about his troubles over sadly surging synths, but, counter-intuitively, it seems to be capturing people's attention. New band of the day - Sir Sly (No 1,434) 2013-01-18T15:25:35Z The first shot you saw of me was opening up the pub with two blokes complaining. Experience: I won a pub on TV 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z I've never played on stage with such a buoyant, upbeat bloke. I can't believe Frank's gone 2010-06-22T08:45:00Z Featuring dozens of Ralph’s giant puppets and masks – and a bloke in a seven-foot-high lobster suit, borrowed from a Sam Shepard play – the Village Halloween Parade was officially spawned. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z "The closest equivalent I can muster was seeing the Stone Roses reunion in Manchester – you could sense what might happen if 40,000 blokes were in a field and things turn nasty." Shakespeare on the battlefield: the Globe theatre step out 2013-07-09T19:00:00Z Act II: The opera house The cleaners: Look at all these bloody flowers / Those posh blokes / Don't half like Emilia Marty. Digested opera: The Makropulos Case 2010-10-01T15:08:00Z "The Doctor is aware that some people regard him as a hero and legendary warrior, but he knows he's just a bloke in a time machine bluffing his way from one adventure to the next." Peter Capaldi strikes a confident note as he takes on 'Doctor Who' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z And an action movie with just blokes slugging it out is, of course, unthinkable. Stolen: Why all the father-daughter action films? 2013-03-21T19:31:01Z On The Durrells, set in 1930s Corfu, local blokes who wolf-whistle women are immediately “called out” on their comments by a strong independent woman. Not in this day and age: when will TV stop horrendously airbrushing history? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Halfway through, I sidled up to my friend Mel and whispered: "You see the bloke in the Santa suit, who do you think he is?" Emma Freud: David Cassidy, my No 1 dreamboat Santa 2012-12-22T00:05:56Z I hope he’s that smiley bloke at the bar. Blind date: ‘He kept my attention even when Hugh Grant sat next to us’ 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z As in the previous two films, The World's End features hopelessly immature blokes increasingly unsure about this frightening world – at one point they're called man-babies or "maybes". The World's End – review 2013-07-18T14:30:00Z Michael described himself as a "very awkward, slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke" who walked into his first day of school with a mop of curly hair and wearing "sodding great big window-frame glasses." "WHAM!": The 6 biggest revelations from Netflix's documentary about the '80s pop duo 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z I asked the bloke next to me if I could borrow a newspaper. Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z Five blokes in mod coats, only Nash destined for the pantheon. He Won’t Stop Taking Pictures Until He’s Partying on the Other Side 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z There are the solid, reliable blokes you enjoy spending time with, and there are the ones that introduce themselves as glam attractions that turn out to be bad pennies. "The L Word: Generation Q" wants us back, but we'd rather hang with "Work in Progress" 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z There is a lovely bit of business when the old bloke's smoking, swearing robustness invades the life-phobic space of the liberal middle class. Men From the Boys by Tony Parsons 2010-05-08T23:10:00Z It may be naive of me, but I think that Bishop is every bit the genial, self-deprecating, ordinary bloke that he appears. Comedy gold: John Bishop's The Sunshine Tour 2012-11-29T13:45:44Z I have these blokes from university; I think if we put them together, we might get something interesting. 'It is fantastic, better than travelling to the moon' – David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z “I started to question all the archaic ideas of what a bloke is supposed to be.” The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z "One bloke had two mobile phones and two chargers inside his rectum," a young policewoman told us, "Well I was going to say comfortably, but I don't think he was comfortable, really." Grace Dent's TV OD of 2010 2010-12-18T00:07:24Z Here, an American bloke posts MP3 files of the sounds recorded on random cassettes he finds in thrift stores and garage sales. Alexis Petridis on random music finds 2010-12-01T22:00:00Z One aspect of his appeal was that he was more like the bloke behind the counter of a DIY shop, or a harrassed minor local government official. Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:46:45Z But in the main this is a river of middle-aged white blokes, and so I, a middle-aged white bloke, join it. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z Black and Gass's presentation as two ordinary blokes also has a certain charm, and the duo deserve chops for acknowledging their failures. Tenacious D; Poliça – review 2012-06-09T23:05:54Z As Vashti says: "This job is about being liked by blokes; but men don't like women who act like blokes, and to be taken seriously as a surgeon you have to act like a bloke." Tiger Country - review 2011-01-20T09:43:53Z One bloke doesn't participate at all, presumably on the basis that it's humiliating and pointless. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: The Naked Office 2010-05-14T23:37:00Z The effectiveness of this was reflected by the makeup of his crowd; teenage girls, middle-aged connoisseurs and quite a few fat blokes with beards. Edinburgh comedy notebook: It's official ? Dave loves Nick 2011-08-25T11:37:04Z “We didn’t. It was always a young bloke who turns out to be right for it.” Peter Capaldi Goes From ‘Doctor Who’ Fan to Its Star 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z "It was just a hand with a sword, pulled out of the water on a pulley system by a few blokes out of sight," he said, apologetically. Lancaster's Dukes theatre: the great outdoors 2013-07-04T14:13:02Z Apparently some bloke called Charles Stross has written a science fiction novel called Rule 34. What is Rule 34, you ask. Let Charles Stross explain 2011-08-11T11:25:12Z Or when Geri is seen talking to an awkward bloke at a party, using the F-word itself: it was the first time I’d seen a woman I aspired to be labelling herself a feminist. Spice World: the feminist movie? When girl power hit the the big screen 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z But since the biggest new pop star in Britain was a bloke from Brixton pretending to be a gay demagogue from outer space, all bets were suddenly off. Alexis Petridis on glam rock 2012-06-17T19:00:04Z “You can have incredible effects and create a Leni Riefenstahl-esque set where the broadcasters are dwarfed by their surround,” Bennett says, “but there is something refreshing about sticking two blokes in a panic room.” Men in Blazers: America's Soccer Stars 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z I'm ordinary bloke from Hackney been in real world for 63 years. Lord Sugar targets Evans and Morgan in latest Twitter spat 2010-12-09T11:04:00Z Turns out a Spanish bloke had just gone for a lengthy toilet break, but the film is a clear-sighted, logically argued illustration of where we're at with nuclear bombs. Cannes round-up by Jason Solomon 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The fly-on-the-wall – previously, in practice, a bearded bloke with a North Face fleece and a hand-held camera – is now as near as dammit an actual fly on the wall. Fly on the wall has become surveillance TV 2010-11-21T22:16:00Z For example, where's the option to decide that Jane is pregnant, but with one of the other blokes from Kris's lame stag do? The Hard Sell: BT 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z Actors are generally happier playing specific characteristics: an ex-footballer whose career was ended by a broken leg, rather than just a bloke with an unexplained limp. Ricky Gervais' Derek: cruel, or just unusual? 2013-01-31T07:00:06Z The reason Clegg is such a gift to draw is certainly not to do with his physical appearance; he's a pretty ordinary-looking bloke. Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z “Setting informs plot,” is how Harper put it, when asked about her skill in conjuring up a familiar type of Australian bloke, at once taciturn and tender. As a Reporter, She Wrote About Business. As a Novelist, She Writes About Murder. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z And then some bloke will roll his eyes back and start to strangle himself for absolutely no reason whatsoever. 11-11-11, I've got your number 2011-02-16T09:14:46Z I think they are saying: "That's the blue door from that film where the bloke comes out and poses for the photographers in his grey underpants." Emma Freud: David Cassidy, my No 1 dreamboat Santa 2012-12-22T00:05:56Z The bloke in front of me at the tube gates had his ticket refused. Simon Hoggart's week: biffed by backpacks borne by zombie hordes 2013-06-21T17:59:09Z Ms. Waters had a boyfriend who, she notes, “was a nontraditional bloke as well” — he turned out to be gay, too. ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters, Looks at 1920s Britain 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “This bloke goes: ‘Oh, we don’t want any of that. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Stepping off the stage one evening, a bloke came up to me. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z What emerged over 90 minutes was how different they were: intense, transgender Antony, consumed by gender and feminist issues, and George, the down-to-earth bloke from south-east London. Boy George/Antony Hegarty – review 2012-08-09T16:08:14Z He still considers it a "holiday for blokes" but humors me. For Canadians, Thanksgiving Is a ‘Quieter’ Affair in October 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Not just because she was the second female character of the week to be bludgeoned by a bloke. Westworld recap: episode seven – it's Ford vs the board! 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Some bloke trying to kill himself on a mountain bike. What the Guardian TV critics watch every Christmas 2010-12-24T08:00:04Z This bloke of yours, why isn’t he watching sport on TV? How can I stop my needy boyfriend from barging into my room? 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z At the beginning of the film he's cleaning somebody's car, and the bloke is rude to him. My TV hero: Rebecca Front on Jack Rosenthal 2011-08-15T20:30:02Z Instead, Kevin spots the marketing power of using an ordinary, likeable bloke to conceal the vast profits beneath, and offers him the chance to become the face of the company. Have you been watching ... Undercover Boss? 2011-08-03T10:48:22Z ‘On one raid, we found six blokes living in one room, with one toilet. It stank’ ‘I thought it was a miracle. Then I started shaking’: the danger of buying diet pills online 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z "It's just a bloke talking and telling stories and jokes and things." John Lloyd makes Edinburgh debut 2013-07-26T07:03:01Z Mark Strong, top actor, top bloke, but mate, you can't wear a bloody jumper to a gala. Trailer Trash by Jason Solomons 2010-10-16T23:07:00Z At a friend's wedding, a very elderly woman came up to me and said, 'I was in hospital next to an old bloke and he just wanked all day long. Getting On: deadpan with bedpans 2010-10-18T20:07:00Z There is one much older bloke, who chuckles: “I used to deal with my frustrations by wrapping a pool cue round someone’s head.” ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z He's incredibly physically strong, a muscly bloke, not a willowy thing. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z Somehow, the discovery that Bowie's most famous backing band weren't from outer space but were ordinary northern working-class blokes with Yorkshire accents didn't break the spell but strengthened it. How the Spiders from Hull changed rock 2013-05-22T15:59:17Z Did anyone else notice the look on the face of a bloke in the crowd in the Trafalgar Square scene, a look that I think said "Bloody hell, it's Tim from The Office"? TV review: Sherlock, Alan Titchmarsh's Walks of Fame and Come Dine with Me Down Under 2010-08-01T22:00:00Z The bloke from The Big Wedding combined with the guy from Old Dogs. Killing Season trailer: look who's stalking – it's De Niro and Travolta 2013-06-11T11:30:53Z I think that very attractive women are more likely to date regular looking blokes than vice versa. ‘Do they really think I'm his mother?’: life with a younger, hotter boyfriend 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z It needed telling, the time for earnest hairy blokes indulging in ten minute guitars solos was over, The Pistols helped define the teenage nihilism of today and the message is almost more relevant now. Readers' panel: Sex Pistols 2012-06-01T10:32:26Z There is also a healthy array of blokes with incredibly soporific-sounding jobs, like, investment bankers, former investment bankers, insurance agents, international auto shipperzzzzzz. 'The Bachelorette' Recap: New Season, Crazy Twists 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But the changes led to criticism about the lack of female representation at the station, with some radio critics dubbing 5 live "radio bloke". Derbyshire joins BBC News Channel 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z No, I am holding hands with the bearded bloke. 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z There's a sizzle, an explosion of shadows, before he emerges utterly changed into a trim, slick sort of bloke bent on particularly 21st-century mischief. Feast; In the Beginning Was the End; The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-02-10T00:05:37Z Gervais's character takes aim at the French and the Arabs; Anne Reid's grandma talks about "the blacks" being "pretty when they're babies"; a bloke in a club smirkingly describes a black girl as "a monkey". Cemetery Junction's gay-baiting is not funny 2010-04-21T14:49:00Z The first morning’s batch included an anxious-looking bloke in the Midlands who wants “a traditional wife” and three Americans, one a big tattooed biker who lives in Nebraska. My dating site matches seem absolutely random 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z "I did lots of research and found in Jamaica, these white British blokes would get these slave women pregnant and accept the children because they had no other children," said Hughes. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Being the easygoing bloke that he is, Cooper agrees to undergo the “small medical procedure” required to participate in the test, and things get pretty scary from there. ‘Black Mirror’ is the perfect show for our tech-obsessed world 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z One of the great joys of becoming a priest has been the opportunity to encourage the blokes in my flock to open up a bit about such things as infertility. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Sadly, Lucas didn't kill Chelsea, and neither did Elstree take up my script suggestion of Lucas pushing Libby's vile sex-pest bloke Adam at hurtling, breakneck speeds into a vat of boiling lemon curd. World of lather 2010-07-30T23:03:00Z Which makes even weirder the fact that the bloke with the beard is pregnant. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z The Stones began, Watts said, “as white blokes from England playing Black American music” but quickly evolved their own distinctive sound. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z After eighteen months of him being “a nice bloke”, she decided they should date. How we stay together: 'When something bad happens, it doesn’t mean everything is bad' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Suddenly people started going, “Who’s this bloke? He’s all over the place.” Eddie Marsan: ‘My wife says Twitter is my midlife crisis’ 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The first I heard of it was when Statesman George – Top bloke! Digested read: Tony Blair A Journey 2010-09-01T17:49:00Z Two silhouetted blokes down steins of beer at a table. Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z I saw these two blokes with their girlfriends – one of whom was this young Japanese girl who didn't speak much English. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Or I can read about an old bloke or a dead fish - it doesn't matter. 'A surprise and a risk': Reaction to Booker Prize upheaval 2013-09-18T18:25:17Z Dad’s a tough bloke, a farmer, but he wasn’t prepared for what he saw. Experience: I skied off a cliff 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z I liked the idea of playing him because I liked the bloke. One last thing: Vic Reeves 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z As with England football managers, so with Bonds: whenever there's a new one, we want him to be the polar opposite of the last bloke. My favourite Bond film: The Living Daylights 2012-10-05T09:48:12Z "It's the bloke from the hot-dog stall isn't it?" Emma Freud: David Cassidy, my No 1 dreamboat Santa 2012-12-22T00:05:56Z I could have just waggled a DVD at my webcam like that chunky bloke from the start of the trailer, but no. Grave Encounters 2: a sight for really sore eyes - trailer review 2012-10-10T16:29:45Z He doesn't have a boyfriend and walking down the street he looks like an average bloke. Does "Weekend" mark a new direction for gay cinema? 2011-09-21T22:01:00Z At the back of the venue, behind the wall of blokes, there are girls shouting, moving forward, trying to barge through. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z Invite a bunch of blokes round for afternoon tea and cake in the garden. 50 things to do when you’re 50 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z "When we look at YouTube we get that there's a substantial amount of young girls watching her and a fairly high percentage of older blokes," he laughs. Buzzdeck could tell if you're gonna be a rock star 2011-01-27T17:01:54Z Fertilisation can still take place without the bloke mantis's head, though. Sex secrets of the animal kingdom exposed 2011-02-05T00:05:27Z When he was just a friend, instead of being sought by women, he was a very nice bloke. Interview: Elizabeth Sigmund, dedicatee of The Bell Jar – Reading group 2013-01-18T17:16:43Z And about a third of them draw a pay cheque from the blokes they end up with. Behind the scenes of Comic Relief’s Love Actually: Andrew Lincoln’s creepy cards return 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z “The butt of my joke? Or am I just some post-coke, average, skinny bloke calling his ego imagination?” The Year Pop’s Men Dismantled Their Masculinity 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z It would be terrible to be trivialised as the bloke from the Premier Inn adverts. Lenny Henry: This Much I Know 2012-10-13T23:06:00Z Or how about throttling a bloke with her thighs? Only God Forgives: Kristin Scott Thomas and other big-screen Barbies from hell 2013-05-30T17:00:01Z The next morning, the conditions on the mountain were perfect but the little bloke was still very ill. My worst holiday: Guardian writers on breaks that nearly broke them 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z So he started a weekly group in his home town of Halifax, to provide an environment for ordinary blokes to share their thoughts and feelings without it being, you know, weird. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Schütte has drawn himself repeatedly in a shaving mirror, seeing only a stranger like so many other artists before him – but in his case a badly-drawn bloke who never gets any closer to his subject. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z A bloke in a Stetson sits in the corner, hand-rolling cigars and handing them to passers-by. SXSW music festival: Iggy Pop, Haim and The-Dream 2013-03-14T15:15:59Z Jaime Murray, formerly of Hustle and the daughter of the angry bloke from the injury lawyer adverts. Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena v The Crimson Petal And The White 2011-04-01T23:06:00Z So is the problem the blokes, or is it the choirs? Why don't men join choirs? 2013-06-13T14:46:00Z If an ordinary bloke riding his bicycle round Essex could write something like that I thought then anything is possible. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Generally it involves four middle aged blokes, paunchy and smug, moist of brow from all the back slapping and banter. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z So we go on stage and start to play, and we're halfway through our first song when suddenly this huge bloke appears on stage and shouts out: "Bloody rubbish!" The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z The two blokes first met at the New York wedding of a mutual friend in 2006, on the same day as the World Cup final. Men in Blazers: America's Soccer Stars 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In 2007, I got booked to play FWD>>'s birthday party, expecting the club to be how I left it, which was 15 blokes scratching their beards. Disclosure and Zed Bias: dubplates, DJing and the sound of the suburbs 2013-02-15T14:00:00Z “I suppose you’re only blokes, stuck out there a month at a time; some of that might have gone on.” Gulls, buckets and masturbation: a lighthouse keeper on The Lighthouse 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z "Before, it was, 'You're that bloke off the telly' or 'Haven't I seen you in something?' And now I get, 'Oh, strange to see you sitting down. I thought you'd be serving.'" 'Downton Abbey' cast hits a period of quiet anticipation near finale 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z We really don't need the piss-on-boots sight gag to understand the hysterically overstated message: these are not dancers, they are workmen, regular blokes, real guys. Tap Dogs 2010-06-30T21:15:00Z “It’s the sort of chaos you get with blokes in claustrophobic situations,” he said. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z He gets a new secretary who has a thing with the American bloke from that rubbish BBC2 adaptation Of Money by Martin Amis, who doesn't like Missing Dog Guy. Mad Men guide and history lesson 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z They prefaced their performances with short, demystifying films in which they appeared as ordinary blokes with cheeky senses of humor. Review: BalletBoyz Get Ready to Rumble 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The doorman hugged the bloke — a rare New York sight, for sure — and granted him entree, after which Mr. Kelle went back to his Bette Davis stories and Anne Frank jokes. The (Door) Man of the Hour 2014-03-21T20:19:23Z Also, with such a distinctive name, that Zarnecki bloke would surely be easy for me to find in the phone book. Destination Titan: Mission impossible? 2011-04-08T16:21:00Z Here he’s played by a black British bloke from Forest Gate in London, and we’re told he’ll be a more benevolent character. Marvel's Doctor Strange: Does Benedict Cumberbatch have you under his spell? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z A bloke stumbles on the roadside verge to avoid a passing truck. Susan Hiller: Voices from the sky 2011-01-31T21:30:01Z He seemed a regular sort of bloke, given to constant talk and frequent shouting, if not roaring. My night with Gérard Depardieu: pipes, poems and a skinful ... of haggis 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z It's a shtick that certainly strikes a chord with other young blokes, and has the potential to win him mass appeal. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-29T00:06:19Z He did come across as a nice bloke and, beneath his bumbling exterior, is probably quite bright with it. Something for Nothing; The Route Masters: Running London's Roads; Iain Banks: Raw Spirit – TV review 2013-06-19T06:00:10Z My employers have been so supportive since Helen’s death, but clients will reject a global bloke who fails to fly and doesn’t deliver. My kids are more important than my career – so to hell with the job 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z And a couple of blokes hanging about on a video. Eddie Peake: from naked football to giant giraffes 2013-05-09T16:51:49Z Like the good Aussie bloke that he is, he likens that drive to that of a grand final winning footballer. Shane Jacobson: 'I feel I’ve got to constantly prove myself' 2013-07-26T04:43:04Z I remember him being very modest, a really lovely, normal bloke, and very much a family man. My TV hero: Rebecca Front on Jack Rosenthal 2011-08-15T20:30:02Z Don’t miss Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film, “Frenzy,” about a deceptively cheerful serial strangler and the sulkier bloke the police mistakenly suspect. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Celebrating London on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T11:00:53Z Cars stuck in traffic jams; people watching screens of cars stuck in jams and trying to find a slightly less congested detour; and blokes putting out traffic cones. Something for Nothing; The Route Masters: Running London's Roads; Iain Banks: Raw Spirit – TV review 2013-06-19T06:00:10Z He quotes Sean O’Mahony, who once published fan magazines for both bands, saying, “The Beatles were thugs who were put across as nice blokes, and the Rolling Stones were gentlemen who were made into thugs.” ‘Beatles vs. Stones’: Which side are you on? 2013-12-13T21:49:48Z At the library, she gets a “recording of a bloke reading Chaucer in the Old English.” Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z Imagine that, being taught about the finer points of songcraft by one of the blokes responsible for Groovy Train. New band of the day – Dan Croll (No 1,390) 2012-11-08T16:38:00Z My antenatal teacher claims the best description of labour in literature was written by a bloke. Can fiction give life to childbirth? 2011-03-03T15:22:49Z Like every parent — no, more than most — he is fixated on what he will leave behind when he meets “the bloke with the scythe.” Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Drenched in strings the size of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, it's a gigantic anthem about an ordinary bloke looking for answers, man, which seems destined to storm Glastonbury in June. Detroit Social Club: Existence 2010-05-27T22:50:00Z Barceloneta beach is right in the centre but often packed with city dwellers, tourists and blokes selling tat. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z "The blokes there had a really rough do, and it was time people knew about it," he says. Korean war: a British soldier's memories of a forgotten conflict 2013-07-24T13:56:37Z He was a Chinese bloke and asked if I was "Mr Occupier!" Author, author: Adrian Mole, aka Sue Townsend 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z When asked why he’d asked her to marry him, Anderson answers in that typically Aussie bloke deadpan: “She’s the only one stupid enough to stay yes.” How we stay together: 'When something bad happens, it doesn’t mean everything is bad' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z They look at the other women and try to guess what their blokes were banged up for. Last night's TV 2012-12-10T22:00:01Z Was that more damaging than Spitting Image's TV puppet version of a grey bloke eating peas? Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z The idea of a sex worker who prefers books to blokes is perfectly valid. It's Raining in Barcelona ? review 2011-01-13T22:31:00Z Though why she should want to is, again, beyond me, as he's quite the least attractive bloke currently appearing on TV. TV Review: Mistresses and Natural World 2010-08-06T05:45:00Z So they put me in with the nastiest, most horrible bloke you could imagine. Pete Doherty: the challenge of making a film as a heroin addict 2012-05-24T20:00:02Z She is strong and hard-working and receives the highest accolade from her male colleagues of being "a good bloody bloke". All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld – review 2013-06-30T09:00:01Z At the same time this was a federal election where it was one bloke versus another bloke versus another bloke, and women barely seemed to get a mention. Feminism, politics and death: my mum died the night Hillary Clinton lost 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z But this bloke doesn't know anything at all. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z This was a deal-breaker for Larson, too, who added tenacity to a victim narrative in Room and will next be squaring off with a warehouse full of gun-toting blokes in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire. Welcome to Skull Island: on set with Tom Hiddleston and the biggest King Kong ever 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Dyer seemed desperate for a close encounter as he investigated crop circles and the like, concluding it can't just be a "bunch of blokes larking about". Chalk and cheese: the baffling marriage of TV presenters with their subjects 2011-07-07T09:57:43Z Tom Burke plays a charming bloke, recently released from prison, who comes in for a benefits claim and ends up asking her out. ‘True Things’ Review: Escape Routes 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z This bloke was chatting me up, the banter was good, so when he asked if he could take me, I said yes. I’m a relationship virgin: I’m 54 and have never had a boyfriend 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Enjoyable, but could've done without the hokey exposition from old blokes in tunics. TV highlights 29/05/2013 2013-05-29T06:00:08Z Bush got a bad rap from some music journalists for being a dreamy middle-class girl rather than an angry working-class bloke. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z I call someone: not a doctor or a sage, not a mystic or a physician, just a bloke like me, another alcoholic, who I know knows how I feel. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z “So I’m going to be a bloke,” Ms. Weisz says, excitedly. Rachel Weisz Has a Big Surprise 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z A sad loss, but he seems to have been a genuinely contented bloke. Jim Carrey takes aim at NRA – and Rowan Atkinson's brother isn't amused 2013-03-26T17:02:03Z A lot of girls see it as a career for blokes. Women in engineering: the girl gap 2013-06-26T18:30:01Z Granger is the Platonic ideal of an Aussie bloke: perma-tan, blond, friendly in a low-key way. The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z One bloke lost his wife last year and is just starting to date other women. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z In those days, you met people in pubs, and if you got some fizz going between you, generally the bloke would ask you out. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z “Obviously he’s quite an imposing figure musically, but he’s a really nice bloke, really funny.” Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z C27 has the tricksiness of jazz metal, and you start to imagine Ben the bassist pulling contorted muso faces like that bloke from Level 42 when he was in maximum dexterity mode. New band of the day ? No 803: Civil Civic 2010-06-08T15:15:00Z "It's a football club," he clarified, "It's been taken over – some bloke walking past with a fiver." A week listening to ? Key 103 and BBC Radio Manchester 2011-07-13T13:53:37Z Followed by pitying nudges for the bloke whose partner catches the flowers, as he's clearly now irrevocably caught in the harpy's iron grasp. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z But since it began to move towards being an entertainment supermarket, the selection of material on offer for a bloke such as myself began to shrink. HMV: A tragedy or fresh start? 2013-01-15T14:35:33Z “It’s not just five blokes in bluejeans going on with a lot of amps, you know what I mean?” How the Rolling Stones Became Fashion Icons 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Quickfire bedtime chopsing about current affairs is all very well, but sometimes 10 O'Clock Live is like being in a pub at closing time with a bunch of blokes who all think they're the funniest. Catch-up TV guide: from Scott & Bailey to 10 O'Clock Live 2013-05-18T05:00:06Z “The bloke sez, ‘Go ahead and strike,’ and here we is. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z But here I have six major characters to play with, and it's not just a 50-year-old bloke writing about a 50-year-old bloke. A life in writing: Mark Billingham 2012-08-03T21:55:08Z The material is textbook stuff: Bauhaus and a dogmatic Swiss bloke called Le Corbusier, Braun and a "young idealist" called Dieter Rams, Charles and Ray Eames, right up to and personalised computing. The Genius of Design: TV makes the plastic fantastic 2010-06-02T14:07:00Z Namely, behind a modesty panel with thwarted looks on their faces, and the prospect of a quick but heavily medicated go with some bloke with a perm the only thing to look forward to. Scratch that: HBO’s Vinyl is a Jagger and Scorsese stinker 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z On a colourful kitchen set, they grouch about cellulite, housework and "blokes" – all slobs, apparently. Grumpy Old Women 2010-04-28T22:20:00Z Even so, watching a chubby bloke fix someone's faulty boiler does not make riveting TV. Have you been watching ... Undercover Boss? 2011-08-03T10:48:22Z It's much easier for blokes – the wife usually takes care of the children, while he goes off on tour. Petula Clark, singer – portrait of the artist 2013-01-29T16:00:01Z Let's have a laugh at the mad bloke, Richard Wallace, who lives like a rat burrowing in tunnels in a rubbish dump, that kind of thing. TV review: The Churchills; Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder – The Big Clear Out 2012-07-26T21:00:03Z Gainsbourg, yes, but this time on her feet, topless, and sandwiched between two similarly unclad blokes assessing her waistband with lechy intent. Von Trier's latest tease sees Nymphomaniac reveal another still 2013-02-11T17:23:53Z "This is a disgrace to the great man's legacy!" tweet indie blokes of a certain age. Forget 6 Music ? what happened to John Peel's Radio 1 slot? 2010-03-22T15:27:00Z The desire to reward such a good bloke for helping out another good bloke when he was about to be like, just totally stitched up, yeah? TV review: Murdoch, Cameron & the £8 Billion Deal; Britain in a Day 2012-06-11T21:30:01Z Or perhaps the premise – five middle-aged blokes on a pub crawl – appealed principally to the original fans and didn't offer enough to broader and younger audiences. Monsters University stays on course for decent box-office total 2013-07-24T10:39:14Z “You couldn’t choose a better family for a random, short, ginger English bloke to marry into,” he says. A Brit and an American celebrate July Fourth with a Jefferson Memorial wedding Neither would this be a forum predicated around the assumption that "bloke = violator; female = violated". Pornography is far too complicated to distil into a smart T-shirt slogan 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Would a show called Loose Men only last for five minutes tops cos blokes have much more rational minds than women? One last thing... Loose Women 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Of the 12 trailers I watched, none of them featured women – apart from a mention of "gals" accompanying their blokes through the wilds of Indonesia in the film Tracking. The best of the London Surf Film Festival – in clips 2012-10-08T10:42:02Z A rock documentary can be a dull thing – pompous blokes talking about the days they were less old, the good times, a load of names, Woody this, Chuck that … But not this one. TV review: The Killing III; Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane; The Secret of Crickley Hall; Him & Her 2012-11-18T22:30:02Z She had never heard of him, and initially thought he was just another dodgy bloke making comments. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Piers Morgan, for example, called it “rubbish”, and asked if it means she can’t “get a bloke”. Move aside Emma Watson, here are four new ways to be single beyond ‘self-partnered’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Even McGlone, despite that 1950s upbringing, on a walk through the park, was tickled to see a “big rugby player type bloke” offer his wife and then him a hug. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Then there is the issue of spotting a statue, only for it to move after a few minutes – just some bloke in the distance admiring the scenery. Antony Gormley poses lofty questions in the Austrian mountains 2010-07-30T16:35:00Z He’s a “country bloke,” he said, who likes the outdoors. Gerald Stratford Knows How to Garden 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z He was attractive and funny, and just a regular bloke like me. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z I can remember asking somebody about him when we'd decided to do a band: `That Lee bloke, can he sing at all? Dying guitarist Wilko Johnson rocks until the end 2013-02-04T11:16:03Z Gents and chaps and blokes better worry — I’m not here to make ’em less furry. Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies In pregnancy, Barker mostly passed “as a fat bloke”. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The Stones began, Watts said, “as white blokes from England playing Black American music” but quickly evolved their own distinctive sound. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Back in the 1920s, Etonians like Orwell hadn't learned how to bloke it up when mixing with the less fortunate and didn't throttle back the top notes of their accents. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z In fact, there's very little "act" to speak of at all – just an extremely nice bloke telling a succession of very dry jokes, before strapping on a guitar and performing some inspired comic songs. This week's new live comedy 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z This guy comes out of the undergrowth, this big geordie bloke who's just been on his belly watching seagulls or something, and he says, 'David Gray! David Gray: 'I'm trained to wash up' 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z "The girls are hot, the boys are cool and the bloke from Bolton is on fire!" said the announcer at the start. TV review: Take Me Out 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Local resident Bray said Prince Harry would be “just another bloke on the street” in Victoria. Tea rooms and double-decker buses: Prince Harry may find home in Canada's royal city 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Rather than just some bloke who'd popped in from the pub, Rob, it transpires, is Robin Coudert, keyboard player for Phoenix. Maniac is still nasty but it's a cut above most horror remakes 2013-03-15T13:00:00Z People only care about the time he got a dodgy dye-job and shot lasers out of his hands at the bloke from the Virgin Media adverts. John Simm should beware the wrath of Doctor Who fans 2013-05-29T11:29:51Z Behind her, on the bed, a bloke is out cold; someone has wrapped him in gaffer tape. American pie-eyed: Ed Fornieles's Animal House 2011-01-21T11:08:41Z Token "nice bloke at work" Rob is embarrassed when Janet pinches his bum, and she is mortified when Gill has to get involved. TV highlights – 08/05/2013 2013-05-08T06:00:04Z Normally I would admire the no-nonsense vibe of a man quite literally called “Guy”, but this bloke is absolutely doing my head in. From the time Trump's tweets disappeared to David Davis's Brexit diary: satirists take on the news 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z "I am a bit trepidatious about having to take my jaks down and go, 'I'm a bloke.'" Jane Turner: 'It's a love story ? with no kangaroos' 2010-05-02T21:00:00Z Say the first guess were "bloke," and L and E were in the correct position, while B, O and K didn't appear in the solution. Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first guess 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Would Louis Walsh be anything other than the befuddled bloke on the end? The X Factor: what did you think of the new judges? 2011-08-22T11:18:52Z Put those three blokes behind our desk and it'd be rubbish. One last thing... Loose Women 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z He was a nice bloke, a very good actor and had a real social conscience. Roger Lloyd Pack: Your memories 2014-01-17T12:16:06Z What they say is, ‘Isn’t he the bloke off the telly?’ Burt Kwouk, the karate-chopping manservant Cato in the ‘Pink Panther’ comedies, dies at 85 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Havers, as unruly as ever, lets fly at Lynley an occasional backhanded compliment such as, “You’re a decent bloke for all your fine ways and your family silver and ancestral portraits.” Inspector Lynley returns in Elizabeth George’s ‘A Banquet of Consequences’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z As Sawyer noted five years ago, he "works hard to be a stereotypical bloke", playing up his interests in women and in football. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z You will get blokes who start a website, pretend they're reviewers and then slag off your show. The insiders' guide to the Edinburgh Fringe 2013-07-30T07:35:47Z Which is weird, because I thought it was that bloke who looks like Lyndon Johnson crossed with Deputy Dawg? Passnotes No 3,198: Selina Meyer 2012-06-24T19:00:03Z There was another bloke in a little van driving the equipment. Led Zeppelin: 'There was a swagger – we knew we were good' 2012-10-11T16:35:00Z The whole band was on different drugs; I was an uppers bloke. How we made ... Public Image Ltd's Metal Box 2012-02-13T21:46:01Z Finally it was time to shake things up even more, and I was waving goodbye to my bloke at Salt Lake City airport and picking up my Thelma. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z What is Radio 5 Live, if not an entire station for blokes? How Men's Hour might sound 2010-07-01T21:33:00Z What I actually spotted was a quite funny workplace-based sitcom starring the politically incorrect bloke from Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show. The Office ? still doing the business 2011-07-08T10:12:30Z In your longer letter you elaborate on her weekend activities, which last summer involved hotel nights with a bloke she was then dating. My sister is making our parents and me babysit so she can pursue her single lifestyle | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z “It’s not the standard way a bloke deals with his feelings, sitting down eyeball to eyeball and being asked: ‘Tell me how you feel.’” ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z “They were a good bunch of blokes,” says Hargreaves. Gulls, buckets and masturbation: a lighthouse keeper on The Lighthouse 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Leech’s Roland, dressed in baggy khakis and a gray vest, is an ordinary bloke whose kindness leaves an extraordinary impression. The astrophysicist's rom-com: 'Constellations' at the Geffen 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Then a cocky, creepy bloke who manages a youth hostel, hits on female residents, and marks them on his "conquest map of the world". TV OD with Michael Hogan – Cherry Healey: How To Get A Life 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z So how does a performer distinguish himself from some other bloke who says things to himself like, "Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" 'Hamlet' lovers can feast on live broadcast, plus Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi on DVD 2011-01-06T00:08:04Z Yep, suitably intriguing for the bloke that had a couple of irons in Uncle Jimmy’s campfire last week. Cleverman season one, episode two recap – black sites and beasties 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Behind us are blokes sneering obscenities, poking their fingers in our backs and yelping like dogs. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z One bloke in the row behind me was laughing so much, I don't know when he found the time to draw breath. Reader reviews: your take on Three Kingdoms, Snow White and Henry IV 2012-05-18T09:56:45Z His background is the zenith of dependable dullness, he tells us – convincingly, because he does seem a well-adjusted, unexciting bloke. Stuart Goldsmith 2010-08-22T15:49:00Z I met an effects bloke in Essex, he drinks in my local coffee shop. Jupitus 'avoiding' Star Wars trailer 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z A bloke is charged with stealing two cans of lager from a supermarket. Simon Hoggart's week: how tickled we are, missus 2012-07-20T16:44:08Z Who could forget the episode where sushi of questionable quality was served off an almost-naked body, not of a lithe female lovely, but a pudgy bloke of greige-ish complexion? Why Come Dine With Me is a gem 2010-06-03T09:40:00Z In June, pioneering theatre company Coney brought together a small audience to watch and take part in a show about a bloke called Gavin who could draw the future. Digital theatre: 'A new sort of artform' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z It was manned, back then, by two blokes,staff sergeants Andy and Tom. Home to Roost (extract) 2012-11-09T22:55:04Z Produced by George Martin in 1962, just a few months before he met those Scouse blokes with the hair. Readers recommend: Songs with great opening lines 2010-03-26T00:01:00Z Even Captain Marvel used to be a bloke. Not the future after all: the slow demise of young adult dystopian sci-fi films 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Think of your colleague James Bond in his screen incarnations: Connery, Moore, that grumpy bloke in The Living Daylights. Do men really care about fashion? 2013-01-12T18:00:01Z Eventually, in light of Cherie's reported comment, he came up with a very funny line for the speech: at least Tony could be sure his own wife wouldn't run away with the bloke next door. The enemy within: how Machiavelli would have dealt with Gordon Brown 2010-10-09T05:59:00Z Find me one dad who doesn’t believe his daughter should earn the same as the dreary bloke on the desk opposite. My partner lives in my home - but what is fair financially? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Jackman, whose electric aura challenges our acceptance of him as an ordinary bloke, is all concentrated modesty. Review: 'The River,' with Hugh Jackman, is a wisp of a fish tale 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Having learned that it's a woman playing the part of a bloke, Figgis asked if the trouser part could be a skirt part – and got his way. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z “Jagger has elite status – he’s not the bloke down Aldi. If you’re 75, an ordinary bloke, and you have a baby, you will get a different sort of attention.” Male childlessness: 'You think, If I’m not reproducing – then what am I?' 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z I notice that it's almost uniformly white blokes of a certain age who are getting excited about this. The new My Bloody Valentine album – love it or loathe it? 2013-02-04T13:14:45Z The Labour frontbencher Cat Smith, who was with Corbyn, tweeted that at first she just thought there was “some loud bloke who stunk of booze yelling at us”. Does Boris Johnson’s government have a women problem? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Ounce for ounce, bloke for bloke, Britain produces better designers and design impresarios than anywhere else. The Details: In Praise of British Design 2012-09-26T22:11:26Z SW: The usual with a sprinkling of non-whites and youths and unlikely burly, beardy blokes, to prove – prove! – that baking isn't just done by Mary Berry types. The Great British Bake Off review – the great British nod off 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z With their casual duds, streetwise moves and Crocodile Dundee accents, they seem like Down Under versions of the working-class blokes in “The Full Monty.” Spare Times: For Children, for Nov. 25-Dec. 1 2011-11-24T20:05:50Z That mouthy bloke you suffer because you rate his girlfriend, but with whom you always end up getting sucked into a two-hour debate about identity politics at someone’s birthday drinks? 'We tenderly drop the vibrator into the bin': how I Marie Kondo'd my whole life 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z At some point later, I remember fumbling to light a match and a girl explaining how to, in her words, “Strike it like a bloke.” My God, I miss smoking 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z "Irony seems to be a lot harder to get across if you're an Asian bloke," he says, dryly. Paul Chowdhry: 'I just want to make people laugh' 2012-12-18T19:00:01Z A lot of it stems from his uncomfortable dealings with the realities of everyday life, both as a cricket-loving posh bloke and as a husband and father. This week's new comedy 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z But what started out as a carefree laddish jolly for four middle-aged blokes soon hardened under the baking sun into something more sinister and troubling. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z In contrast to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the DC5 appear normal backstage: no funny faces, no moodies, just average blokes. Pop at the pictures: the Dave Clark Five 2012-12-17T16:25:00Z "They're not going to wonder what he's up to with his secretary or what the new bloke in accounts is like," she points out. Til musical differences do us part 2011-02-10T21:29:00Z “I’m not proud of the before pics but I’m really proud of what this pudgy, man-booby 48-year-old bloke was able to achieve.” Fat-shamed reporter reveals his new six-pack abs 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z "Great bloke, charismatic, but I suppose he has been a bit like an African dictator in that he has had lots of money but dubious taste," he cackles. BBC's Shane Allen: 'I'm doing the job of comedy gods' 2013-03-24T18:15:01Z With admirable wit and panache, Smith goes on to address the “chauvinistic, pigheaded blokes who feel emasculated by the fact that we, three small, fairly feminine girls, are stronger than them.” Zoe Smith takes on everyone 2012-08-01T15:40:00Z "Being at a girls' school and being tall, you always get asked to be the bloke," she says. These Very Important People: who do they think they are? 2012-05-22T19:00:00Z He presented The Great British Weather, which essentially consisted of him standing next to the cheruby bloke who won Strictly that time and pointing at a cloud for an hour. Pointless view 2013-03-22T12:06:00Z “Honestly,” she fumes at one point, “if I was still a bloke, I could get on with the job and not have to waste time defending myself!” The regeneration of "Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker's Time Lord proved the naysayers wrong 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The Little Englander of The Blood Donor is the kind of person whom you’d hear on a local radio phone-in today: a misinformed, suspicious bloke who can’t admit he’s wrong and pontificates about everything. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Another bloke stepped over me into the house. Experience: I was kidnapped by my lodger 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z "Have a seat," says one bewildered bloke when Taylor cuban-heels her way into the whips' office: "She's a woman, not an invalid," growls another. This House; Scenes from an Execution; Damned by Despair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:27Z Buckley even argues the four teenagers "could just as well have been four blokes down the pub" and so it could continue: "I don't think The Inbetweeners will ever change 'cause men don't really." The not-bleeding-likely lads 2011-07-14T20:19:01Z He’s also highly observant, carefully studying a bloke doing crosswords at a bar, making Sherlockian deductions about a girl in a maroon coat with high leather boots. The coldly brilliant crime novel, ‘GBH,’ by Ted Lewis 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z He seems like a good bloke, and he's making changes within the church. Frears tells tragic Philomena story for humour 2013-09-08T11:09:41Z A load of blokes running up a hill and roaring at each other. 300: Rise of an Empire trailer – coming soon to a stag night near you 2013-06-25T13:55:00Z When I got a book deal, the reaction from everyone - strangers, other authors, family - was completely different from being just some bloke who'd stuck his own book on Amazon. Mark Edwards on self-publishing 2013-06-25T15:01:33Z As she begins making her views part of the public discourse, the men start calling her “Wollstonecraft,” like she’s one of the blokes. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z And when my friends have forgiven that as a negative trait, but ultimately argued that “they’re good blokes otherwise”, I have found it an unacceptable cop-out. I'm on a lads' night out and my friend's just been homophobic. What do I do? | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z And as we wait for the chairs to open on that powder day at Seki, an alarmingly chiseled bloke offers to beat the salt out of one of our guys over some perceived slight. The slopes, the powder and the prices make Japan a worthy ski trip 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z I lost my temper in Domino's pizza the other day and ended up pushing the bloke behind the till. Alternative Christmas jokes 2012-12-21T16:00:00Z He was also, “a working-class bloke,” Mr. Cox said, and one whose renegade instinct manifested itself early on, when he stitched an antiroyalist imprecation into a suit sewn for the Prince of Wales. 2010-02-11T21:45:00Z If the bloke had the remotest qualms, then they must by now have blown up into squirming, crimson excruciation, given that they now appear during every break in every major football match. The Hard Sell: Bet365 2010-12-04T00:06:00Z After all the dates the dog has to choose which bloke it likes best and then he goes on a date with the girl. Dogs, hypnotism and full-frontal nudity: how dating shows got weird 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “The last thing I expected was that I’d become an actor, though but then I made my way to the Live Theater in Newcastle and began meeting these blokes.” Unlikely Path: Carrying Actors From Newcastle 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z Stonewash all round … the blokes of Top Gear. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis ? the television shows that won't die 2011-08-12T23:11:04Z “And I’m not just saying that because I’m a bloke,” he added. Julie Maroh, Author of ‘Blue’ Novel, Criticizes Film 2013-06-05T22:38:32Z I was playing football and a bloke made a comment in the heat of the moment. Young Londoners on the street - in pictures 2013-04-21T14:53:00Z And who but an aristocratic British bloke would decorate the space with chandeliers, armchairs, Oriental rugs, lacquered chests, flickering candles and other drawing-room accouterments? 36 Hours in Chiang Mai 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The pope is a little beardy bloke with a heavy Scouse accent. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z This, with the greatest of respect, seems a slightly overheated reaction to a bloke with a beard singing Morning Has Broken. Kid Sister: Ultraviolet 2010-04-29T14:30:00Z He slurps, stumbles with the equipment and generally gives the impression of being a cack-handed work experience bloke let in to the studio for a mess-around. Daniel Kitson; I've Never Seen Star Wars: radio review 2013-01-24T17:30:01Z Who wants to be that bloke who’s always banging on about diversity? Idris Elba: ‘If I'm going to watch TV it wouldn't be a period drama, put it that way' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z After we did that, I met this bloke, and he said, 'Well, it's basically about domestic abuse, isn't it?' Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z “She realised that I was the kind of bloke that needed someone else to look after him,” he laughs now. How we stay together: 'The secret is just not leaving' 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Raised as a working-class “bloke” in his frequent telling, Brand had long angled to amplify his voice on the left, infusing early appearances with sometimes deliberately shocking allusions to global affairs. Russell Brand’s Alternate Reality 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z "Phenomenally sharp and intelligent, and a genuinely good bloke," Woolley tells BBC Sport, having previously apologised in advance for his gushing praise of McKenna. TV on a golf buggy & Man Utd effect - inside McKenna's Ipswich 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z "At the end of the day, it is a little bit different over here than the NRL and it is something our blokes need to adjust to," he said. Tonga comments gave England 'massive motivation' 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z "Actually he was an incredibly shy bloke, who shunned any kind of social engagement," he said. Disco lights and dark arts - meet South Africa's 'scientist of rugby' 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z "Bobby was a belting bloke, he really was - my son wasn't the greatest player but Bobby looked after him and said he was enthusiastic. I still have the picture with him at home." Sir Bobby Charlton: Fans gather to remember Man Utd legend 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Bell said he responded: "I'm sorry, I don't understand," and the reply from the desk was: "Jewish bloke; pound of flesh; antisemitic trope." Steve Bell sacked by Guardian after antisemitic row over Netanyahu cartoon 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z We've heard from fans monitoring flights from Sydney, one bloke is cycling from Glasgow, while another smooth operator has arranged his best pal's stag weekend to be in Dusseldorf on the opening weekend. Scotland are going to the Euros... so what now? 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z "Once we broke the ice, we have been best mates ever since. He's a real solid bloke, the sort you can go to the pub with or ask for advice." 'Batted, Chef - Cook retires as last of his kind' 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z “No one has done more than this bloke and I am very pleased to welcome him here at Uluru,” Albanese said. Man runs almost 9,000 miles across Australia to raise support for Indigenous Voice 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z "I remember telling the blokes there, 'I'm going to have a go at that, I'll be back next year' - and I was." Barry man grows world's heaviest cucumber 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z "I was the only girl entry so it was win by default, but I insisted on going in against the blokes. I said 'I'm not getting a title for not surfing'." Linda Sharp: The pioneer woman surfer in a sea of men 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Isaac’s smiling affability lends the piece a different tone than Donahoe’s bashful bloke demeanor. Review: 'Every Brilliant Thing' at the Geffen Playhouse counts the joys that make life livable 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z And a “Top Critic” on the site, Richard Ferguson, wrote, “ The Idol doesn’t work. It’s lurid and sleazy. And it looks like the blokes are to blame.” 'The Idol' will not get a second season after 'much thought and consideration' from HBO 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z "I feel a little bit embarrassed at times, you know, because I'm just an ordinary bloke in a sea kayak paddling around Scotland." Nick Ray: Kayaker inspires hope with journey around Scotland 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z "I know what's wrong with Australian rugby and part of you blokes are the problem," Jones told a news conference. 'Thanks for the worst press conference I've had' 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z They are top blokes, we need to learn something from them. How Russia’s youth see their lives and their future 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In the aftermath of his third round, Harman had the look of a guy who'd just done rather well in his weekly medal rather than a bloke on the cusp of golfing immortality. Hunter becomes hunted... but can anyone stop Harman? 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z As with Blur's Wembley Stadium shows a fortnight ago, it's a reminder that Britpop wasn't all about beers and blokes. Pulp: Jarvis Cocker celebrate the band's comeback at Latitude 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z "People are worried about these young blokes," Mr Richards says. Migrant barge: Portland is a dumping ground, residents say 2023-07-15T04:00:00Z The next day, I read in the news about how a “couple of blokes” had been using a hollow steel pipe for launching fireworks. Risk, Regulation and Personal Responsibility in Australia’s Last Frontier 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The same thing kept happening in relation to Gary Dobson - the other man jailed in 2012 - with various people casting doubt on his conviction and saying he was a nice bloke. Stephen Lawrence murder: How I found the new suspect 30 years on 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Australia's prime minister says the diplomat was no threat - he was "some bloke standing... on a bit of grass". Russian diplomat squats near Australia parliament in embassy lease row 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance, saying a “bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security.” Suspected Russian diplomat is occupying the nation’s vetoed embassy site in Australia’s capital 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Posting on behalf of his family, the Carlton Park Surf Lifesaving Club described Mr Symons as "an amazing athlete... a great bloke and a mate to many". Hunter Valley crash: Bus driver going too fast, police say 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z "I did the typical bloke thing and got cold feet," said Joe, who is now 34. First-time entrants win award at Chelsea Flower Show 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z The Saddle Inn had flags and signs up, but Eurovision was on one screen in a back room, muted, with one bloke half-watching. Eurovision euphoria on the streets of Liverpool for host city's big night 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But Durkee casts doubt, wondering why those closest to Shakespeare would select this cartoonish picture — “the bug-eyed bloke with the pecan head” — for such a worthy tribute. Review | What did Shakespeare really look like? One writer’s quest to find out. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z "So only 'proper blokes' can enjoy beer? It's 2023!" said one. M&S accused of 'ripping off' pub brand name on new T-shirt 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z “I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn’t be too bad if the weather warmed up,” he told the Guardian in 2008. Nigel Lawson, who shook up British economy in Thatcher era, dies at 91 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Describing Richards as a "fantastic bloke", Skinner said he had been booked following an initial "rubbish" pilot for the programme 14-years-ago. Comedian Gareth Richards dies after car crash 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Having left school at 16 to train as a stonemason, Russell admits he has never been your typical rugby bloke. From burger and chips to Six Nations' top fly-half 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z "He is obviously a fantastic player with heaps of experience. He is missed in camp, but we have however many other blokes ready to step up. There is fierce competition." England's Slade and Lawes out of Scotland opener 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z One of the lines reads: "Proper good beer... for proper good blokes", which received an angry response on Twitter. M&S accused of 'ripping off' pub brand name on new T-shirt 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Julian Sands is one of those blond, fair-skinned, blue-eyed English blokes who plays a twit as well or better than the next classically trained British actor. Actor Julian Sands identified as one of two missing hikers in San Gabriel Mountains 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Friends have paid tribute to avid cyclist and surfer as a "truly kind, fun, energetic man", with one telling local media he had "never met a more genuine bloke in my life". Nepal air crash: Who were the victims? 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z "One year we had a bloke turn up with a shopping trolley full of eggs to throw. We confiscated the lot and donated them to a food bank." Boxing Day raft race organisers ask crowds not to throw eggs or flour 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z "He's an absolute legend. Rob's probably the most inspirational bloke in the UK at this time," said Sinfield. Sports Personality Mead targets World Cup return 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z "I'm a working-class bloke who's elected by the ordinary men and women of the railway to articulate their case and represent them," he tells the BBC. Mick Lynch: The union firebrand accused of stealing Christmas 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z "He was a magical human being. Just such a loveable bloke," he said. Trailblazer Doddie Weir's MND legacy 'will live on' 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z “To keep all the guys up, because he’s one of the most fantastic blokes you’ll ever meet,” Arnold said. Australia’s emotions run high after rare World Cup win 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z "He had an amazing zest for life and was a wonderful bloke to be around," he told BBC Look North. Geoff Wonfor: Tributes to Beatles, Band Aid and The Tube director 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z "There's plenty of blokes who come into Test rugby and make a mistake and just don't want to make another, but he's not like that." Jones thankful for 'magic dust' in dramatic finale 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z "Jack came in and he was a great bloke," Sheedy added. Welsh-born Sheedy's 1990 World Cup adventure 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z It was a tough changing room, with some emotional blokes. 'I felt sick when the drop goal winner went over' 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z It was really physical out there - and we're obviously giving away a few kilos in every tackle, especially me and Jack as we're not the biggest of blokes. 'We shut a few people up with Samoa World Cup win' 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z He is steeped in Conservative politics, has held high office and is widely seen within the party as a decent bloke. Chris Mason: Many Tory MPs are doom-laden - what will they do next? 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z "I think it's refreshing to hear two blokes talking about how they feel." Parenting Hell: Beckett and Widdicombe podcast 'redressing the balance' 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z "He knocked the bloke out in two minutes in the first round so I didn't have much chance to get pictures," he said. Boxer David Pearce: 'Newport's Rocky' remembered in exhibition 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z He's a tough bloke but he's in tears too. 'I felt sick when the drop goal winner went over' 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z “It seems I’m the oldest bloke in the field almost every week these days. While I’m playing good, I’ve got to take advantage.” Adam Scott says LIV Golf not ‘pure evil’ for the game 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z And then there's a bloke you may just remember: Boris Johnson. Chris Mason: Many Tory MPs are doom-laden - what will they do next? 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z “We’re a million miles away from an invasion hypothesis—it’s not a bunch of blokes getting in boats with weapons and conquering territory,” he says. Migration, not conquest, drove Anglo-Saxon takeover of England 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z "There's a camera there and a crew. You're not on your own in a hotel room, you're surrounded by a bunch of blokes, mostly. So it's not a comfortable situation full stop." Dame Emma Thompson defends intimacy co-coordinators after Sean Bean remarks 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z We will lose some senior blokes through retirement, so we will see what happens. 'I felt sick when the drop goal winner went over' 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z “As a bloke, I’m not really interested in it, but I appreciate it,” he replied. In Virginia, a weekend full of ‘Dirty Dancing’ 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z “He’s really grounded. He’s such a nice bloke — always has been — very giving of his time to both the members and the juniors,” McKay said. British Open win makes golfer THE Cameron Smith in Australia 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Rather, he’s a lunch-pail-toting bloke from Liverpool trying to take a blue-collar approach to climbing each rung of his sport’s coaching ladder. Perspective | Wayne Rooney is a megastar. More importantly, he wants to coach. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z "That happens in every game of rugby I've seen. Because they're nice blokes, referees. I'm not criticising the referees, I'm not using it as an excuse, that's the reality of rugby." We didn't throw a punch against Australia - George 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z "I've never seen it or felt it this good. Stokesy has confidence in his decisions and also in us as 11 blokes." I've never experienced anything like it - Leach 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z His platoon sergeant - "Big Mo, lovely bloke" - let him sleep instead on the tank deck, where he spent the night playing cards with friends, Carl Smith and Steve Jones. Falklands War: The bombing of the Sir Galahad 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z "I appreciate a bloke wandering around with a cat is a bit unusual," he says. Court fight looms over Sainsbury's cat ban 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z He knows what his fans want, and he gives it to them — not an ordinary bloke dropping f-bombs on the sidewalk but an uppercase Movie Star. Opinion | Do you feel the need for speed? I know I do. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z “I pushed a bloke. He went over the edge,” White said in recorded police interview in 2020 that was played in court. Sydney man admits pushing gay American off a cliff in 1988 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z "He's a decent bloke. A decent fella and he's got good morals," Fury said. Fury & Whyte set for blockbuster world title fight 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr Morgan was described by his colleagues as "a popular employee - a really good lad and a really nice bloke". Snapchat drink driver Meirion Roberts jailed for death crash 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Warne often described himself as just a knockabout bloke, an ordinary Australian who liked a drink and a joke and who happened to discover a talent for spinning a leather ball. Thousands to commemorate Warne, cricket’s ‘box office’ star 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z In clubs across the country, she added, “the changing rooms are still full of urinals, the honor boards are still full of blokes’ names. A Gender Revolution Is Brewing in New Zealand Rugby 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “They had no idea what they were doing. Big fat blokes who were like 50-odd years old. Blokes who have been in the army, but 20 years ago.” Foreign fighters looking to join the fight in Ukraine find hurdles, seek their own terms 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z “And they have picked this bloke, the leader of the opposition, as their candidate.” An alleged Chinese interference plot stirs fears — and smears — ahead of Australian elections 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z "That hand that's turned the wrong way around, one bloke, he's got two right hands, no-one's going to notice which side his thumb is - I did," she said. Bayeux Tapestry: Wisbech teacher fretting over famous embroidery errors 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The camera panning to that bloke with the Newcastle tattoos on his belly. Burnley v Manchester United: Premier League – live! 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z And now if I move house I've got five blokes to help. 'Firefighting is not all about saving cats in trees' 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z One British news report from the era featured an interview with a bloke on the street who described it as “an abortion — it’s an excrescence.” For Pompidou architect Richard Rogers, Los Angeles was inspiration and cautionary tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z PC Dutton said: "The bloke with the samurai sword turned around and looked towards us, but carried on with his hacking, sawing motion just as though if he didn't care." Bravery award for West Yorkshire PCs who disarmed sword killers 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Loan sharks are not always big burley blokes with shaved heads, they can be another mum in the playground, a friend of the family, or a neighbour. 'I borrowed £50 and we ended up homeless' 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z I do think that if two blokes had gone to a game a decade ago, they’d just talk about the football. Liverpool v Southampton and more: Saturday football clockwatch – live! 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Still, it is time to dispense with any sort of surprise when New Zealand succeed, as if being good blokes or coming from a relatively small country is prohibitive to being an excellent cricket team. Australia come good - just in time for the Ashes 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z "Four blokes bundled me outside and one of them beat me up, so I was lying on the grass covered in blood," he said. Bristol priest loses faith in police after assault response 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Fellow Essex MP Mark Francois called him "the best bloke I ever knew". Sir David Amess: MPs pay emotional tributes to former colleague 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z "I probably made a mistake. I'm a pretty fair bloke," he eventually concluded. I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped? 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Mr Blair was able to defuse the situation with a quip at the start of his speech, telling delegates: "At least I don't have to worry about her running off with the bloke next door." Carrie Johnson: How much influence does the PM's wife have? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z "Then the bloke behind asked me where the nearest petrol station was. It just beggars belief." Fuel supplies: Mortar tanker tailed by drivers looking for petrol 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's knighthood makes many people assume he is "a posh bloke", his director of strategy has said. Labour conference: People assume Sir Keir Starmer is a posh bloke - top aide 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Some rather handsome British guys kept asking to buy me a drink, but I demurred, as I thought it in poor taste to be drinking with some other blokes when my date walked in. L.A. Affairs: This is why I stood him up on our very first date 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z "I'm just a 38-year-old bloke that didn't find time to get the vaccine and nearly died," he says. 'I didn't have jab and thought I was going to die' 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z After questioning Mr Adams about the tax increase, the MP responds: "I'm really not interested in talking to an odd bloke with a top hat on chasing me down the street". MP Nigel Adams filmed swearing at Mr Stop Brexit Steve Bray 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z At one point, he calls the couple “the most woke bloke and his feminist bride.” Lifetime’s new ‘Harry & Meghan’ movie has a lot to say about the royal family feud — and vicious tabloid media 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z I don’t know — it seems to me the blokes from Hoboken are making out like bandits because they didn’t buy all the negative hype that we too often believe about ourselves. The opposite worlds that make up Seattle continue to orbit far, far apart 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z "He was run over trying to escape on foot and he looked like the first bloke hit by a chariot in the film Ben Hur - there was blood everywhere." Blackpool police shootings: 'Armed robber's bullet lodged near my heart' 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z When he started on Twitter a decade ago, he was an anonymous bloke with a chip on his shoulder, a history degree from Oxford, an inherited farm, a small herd of sheep. He is Britain’s famous shepherd-author-influencer. He wants to transform farming to save the planet. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The Stones began, Watts said, “as white blokes from England playing Black American music” but quickly evolved their own distinctive sound. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z This bloke once fought to protect so many, not just brits, but coalition forces, and more importantly - women, children, and his own countrymen for a right to a life. Afghanistan: 'Race against time' to rescue interpreter's family 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z We are a bunch of very fit blokes, and that is what shone through. GB reach quarters with late comeback 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Kenny Everett was a former DJ, and in the middle of his show, he would have a band like the Police play, and a bloke named David Mallett would direct it. Forty years ago, MTV changed music forever. These four rock icons remember all too well 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Tributes paid to Mr Keenan described him as "a top bloke" and "a real gem". Covid: Bradford's Matthew Keenan dies despite changing mind on jabs 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z "He was very, very good - a proper gentleman, a proper bloke." Escape to Victory: The Ipswich footballers who made a cult classic 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Former Supermoto racer Will More, who travelled the world with Mr Coster when he was a mechanic, said he was "one of the nicest, genuine blokes you could ever meet". Manchester Arena bomb hero Darron Coster dies in crash 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z "It was some bloke who was a bit like me crying and swearing and chucking paint around a few months ago. But looking at them, they're probably alright." Timothy Spall: 'I was crying, swearing and chucking paint' 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s hard not impute the kind of person someone is from the way that they play, and Tsitsipas is everything his tennis says he is: an obviously and straightforwardly top bloke. Novak Djokovic v Stefanos Tsitsipas: French Open final – live! 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z "It's delightfully nutty, a normal bloke who's done something extraordinary," he said. Secret garden of mini Italian buildings to be conserved 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z This, coming from someone who is a big bloke with a loud voice, very right-wing views and who makes wild assertions that are almost always wrong. Brentford v Bournemouth: Championship play-off semi-final, second leg – live! 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z "United talked to his parents, persuaded him to return and he never looked back. He was brilliant, he trained sensationally. He'd beat three or four blokes, then beat another three or four blokes." How a Man Utd legend left for Dunstable Town 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z "The bloke was towering above me, absolutely towering. His shoulders literally filled the frame of the door," he said. Dalian Atkinson: Murder-accused PC 'was absolutely petrified' 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Pass the time by reminding yourself about Ben Mee being a good bloke. Fulham v Burnley: Premier League – live! 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z "I heard firing and I saw a bloke in a hoodie fire a bullet, and I saw a bloke lying on the ground," he told BFMTV. Manhunt after 'execution' shooting in Paris 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “It was like a game these blokes were playing with just the most intense level of scorn,” she told Ms. Ellis for her book “Sex, Lies and Question Time.” ‘The Most Unsafe Workplace’? Parliament, Australian Women Say 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z "The Americans probably think I'm some bloke who's played the game all his life. Imagine if they knew they were getting beaten by a skinny cricketer from Brighton who only recently learned the rules." The England disability cricketer who has become an elite-level gamer 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z "He was a right bloke," she says admiringly of the adviser at the service who helped her get her debts back under control. Covid inequality: No vaccination for poverty in a pandemic 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Some bloke called Bob Dylan played in the afternoon. 'I've been listening to 300 vinyl records to get me through lockdown' 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z "He was just a genuinely nice bloke," Compton recalled first meeting the duke. Prince Harry’s army pal speaks out after royal loses military titles: ‘Hopefully it’s worth it for him' 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Fine goalkeeping, a tribute to the bloke up the other end’s father. Leicester City 3-1 Liverpool: Premier League – as it happened 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Poor bloke must be knackered already and we’re only in the second round. Australian Open 2021 day four: Tsitsipas v Kokkinakis, Barty makes hard work of progress – live! 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z He would not disclose his name but he sent me a picture of himself and it was just some random bloke. 'One of my favourite people' - Richards on Milner 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Paul McNamee, a former top-ranked doubles player and former chief executive of the Australian Open, described Brett as “a super coach and great bloke, a true blue Aussie who never changed.” Bob Brett, coach to Grand Slam tennis champions, dead at 67 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z "He’s a genuinely nice bloke. And I’m sure he’ll do right for his family." Prince Harry’s army pal speaks out after royal loses military titles: ‘Hopefully it’s worth it for him' 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z "He was such a lovely bloke an such a bundle of fun." Gerry Marsden: Liverpool anthem singer 'made his mark on Earth' 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z ‘Oh, a bloke who played footy for Melbourne shared a last name with him, and that was that.’ Australia v India: first Test, day one – live! 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z This bloke — named Wally — got away from his owner in LaSalle County. Wayward wallaroo rescued from river after chase in Illinois 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z And by all accounts he was a thoroughly good bloke. Belgium v England: Nations League – live! 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Some bloke wants 90 quid to doubtless fail to fix it. I've been forced to become a hoarder – by an acute case of landfill panic | Adrian Chiles 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Sure, there are the airborne droplets, but there is also the fact that for months now no random bloke has told me: “Cheer up, love. It may never happen.” There are dark times ahead. We have only one weapon: hope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Suddenly he wasn’t just the ambitious prime minister but a plump middle-aged bloke fighting for his life. Boris Johnson, who almost died of covid-19, wishes Trump a ‘speedy recovery’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z "He is a bloke who is just so passionate about what he does - it does not matter whether you're the most talented or least talented, he will treat you equal," he said. Suspect's background probed over police killing 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Bournemouth, on the other hand, just have a bunch of blokes who weren’t good enough for the Premier League. Lincoln City v Liverpool and more: Carabao Cup third round – live! 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “I’m really confident our blokes will be able to maintain those disciplines to keep us playing.” Langer ready for sacrifice, compromise to keep cricket going 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z "The other day there was a bloke off his head throwing parsnips at people on Fore Street. It's never ending," he added. Town 'exasperated' with open drug use 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z It told the tale of a bloke who'd lost a bagful of cash and, in attempting to retrieve it, some friends and a girlfriend along the way. Mike Skinner: 'Music is genuine chaos' 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z You’re a nice bloke and all that, but you couldn’t arrange something in a brewery, you know the saying?’ From Bowie to Beyoncé: Glastonbury's 50 greatest moments 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z But that bloke who walks out on the pitch, and you see from the stand, is nowhere near what I was, or am now.” Will Carling: 'I didn't open the curtains for a year, I was so battered' 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “How can she? Her bloke’s just an electrician at the base. I’m not being funny. He’s not a diplomat, she’s not a diplomat.” 'Dominic Raab must resign or be sacked': Harry Dunn's parents on their long fight for justice 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z I suggest to Connor that if Love had been a bloke with handfuls of drugs, bowling through life all mouthy and opinionated, then she’d have been treated like some hero from a Kerouac novel. Courtney Love in Liverpool: the Scousers who taught the grunge icon how to rock 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Jimmy Greaves had watched on television and likened Madrid to something from another planet, leaving “us English blokes” thousands of light years behind. 'We marked an era' – 60 years on from when Real won 7-3 at Hampden | Sid Lowe 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s a bloke in Cardiff who might introduce you to the right people for the job. Confessions of an art critic: 'I have been known to go about on all fours' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z For those too young to remember, Men Behaving Badly was a light-hearted 1990s British and American sitcom about silly blokes doing stupid things. From Trump to Erdoğan, men who behave badly make the worst leaders in a pandemic 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z He’s a middle-aged everyman bloke struggling to get out of the virus ward alive. Love him or hate him, Britons want Boris Johnson home from the hospital 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s like he put away his clubs, took off the spikes and became a regular, affable, somewhat insightful bloke. Who had the better career, Nick Faldo or Phil Mickelson? - Golf Digest 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z "I realised it was the same blokes she was talking about from six years earlier and it was then I realised the extent of the offending," Mr Morton said. How the net closed on Oxford's grooming gang 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z I’m not entirely sure what’s going on here, but I suppose this bloke couldn’t find a face mask and wasn’t very good at making his own. Lask v Manchester United: Europa League last 16 – live! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The effect was less radical emotional transparency than the album-length equivalent of the meme in which girls in clubs look bored out of their skulls while blokes chew their ear off. Musical notes: how male pop stars are making love songs all about them 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z When I went to college in Huddersfield, a bloke I shared a house with confronted me because my mum sent me a letter addressed to “Jean-Jacques”. The Stranglers: how we made European Female 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z His daughter Fiona said he was "an average bloke" enjoying his retirement. How in-car technology helped catch crossbow killer 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Third year at university, the bloke I was flat sharing with played Ghost Town by The Specials every morning as his alarm. 'I want to scream when I hear The Specials': readers on the songs they can't listen to any more 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Teammate Danny King tweeted he was "a great bloke" and "great for the sport." British Speedway star dies suddenly 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z I was met first by a big bloke in a union jack T-shirt amplifying God Save the Queen through a bullhorn and challenging me to prove myself a patriot by joining in. Flags and fever dreams: London's morning after the Brexit before 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z “I can see a lot of parties with Harry standing in the corner and people saying: ‘There’s the bloke who used to be in the royal family’,” says Bates. Royals for rent: will Harry and Meghan become the world’s biggest influencers? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z “Harry seems like the kind of bloke you’d like to have a beer with,” he said. Harry and Meghan plan a future in Canada, long seen as ‘friendly environment’ for the royal family 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Other U.K. citizens took to Instagram blaming Meghan for tearing Harry away from his family and, in turn, calling Harry a "bloke." Team Meghan and Harry, or Team Royals? Celebs rally behind 'Megxit' as opponents slam couple 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z "I asked one bloke tackling the embers how he was going and he just sort of flashed a thumbs up, that sort of stoic nature." A close call: Stories of survival from Mallacoota 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z A certifiable lineup of blokes ranging from flaky to cruel blows through as sure as the Santa Ana winds – yet she sings with unimpeachable poise. The best albums of 2019, No 1: Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Honestly, has any sports star been written off more times than this bloke? Sportwatch: USA win Presidents Cup, W-League, A-League and more – live! 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z “What I am is a bloke in a panic about the precipice we stand on in this country.” Hugh Grant Is Living His Best British Election 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “What I’ve got on me was given me by a bloke.” The Wales striker with more criminal convictions than caps 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z I was going, “Look at that bloke, whatever-his-name-is — he was bloody good and he’s probably never going to work again in his life. There’s the injustice of it all.” Matt Damon and Christian Bale on why you don't need to love cars to love 'Ford v Ferrari' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z He is a friendly bloke with a deep tan and a placid manner. Faking it: could I go from being an introvert to an extrovert in one week? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z "The bloke's prepared to die of electrocution for a ticket that costs €1.90! He should thank the inspectors for saving his life by cutting the power." Man flees Paris ticket inspectors on metro track 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “It is a similar threat to New Zealand and as you saw on Sunday they are very big people but then again we have a few big blokes on our team,” said Vunipola. Billy Vunipola tells South Africa to ‘bring it on’ in Rugby World Cup final 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “They are very, very big people but then again we have a few big blokes on our team,” Vunipola said, relishing the challenge. ‘Bring it on’: Vunipola relishing brutal battle with Boks 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z He was Prince Hal, the riotous royal without a role, a wayward but essentially likable young bloke who seemed to react to his weighty birthright with an irrepressible instinct for rebellion. Can Prince Harry escape his sea of troubles? 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Jones added that the “busiest bloke in Tokyo this week” will be Gilbert Enoke, New Zealand’s mental skills coach. Jones says spy filmed England training, piles pressure on NZ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “There will be a bloke in the sky who will be quite excited about Michael and I coaching against each other this week,” Jones said with a smile. Cheika vs Jones: Former teammates, now bickering coaches 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z |
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