Tom Sykes

ribcage 2006!!

ribcage initially came in 4 colour ways : black , pink , daisy yellow , grey!!

the black design was reprinted in 2007 to glow in the dark.

i can't remember last night, i can't remember anything—

july 2008 🍸

"Friends" of Kate Middleton talked to Tom Sykes of The Daily Beast about all of her struggles.

Friends of Kate Middleton have blamed “intense stress,” including the fall-out from the various royal dramas involving Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, as being at least partly responsible for her absence from public life, and her need to spend several months recuperating from abdominal surgery. One aggrieved friend said it was outrageous that Kate was being “harassed by the media over fuck-ups made by other people.”

I guess a certain someone needed to learn the hard way about paying attention to the quality of work the people who work for you do. Perhaps if a certain someone wasn't always going on vacation for multiple weeks at a time throughout the year, then it would be more obvious you've hired multiple failures for your office!

They predicted that William and Kate would move to “clear out” Kensington Palace staff who had made mistakes later this year after an extraordinary meltdown in royal communications triggered by Kate publishing a photo in which she was not wearing a wedding ring. Kate subsequently admitted in a social media message that she had edited the photo, but the friend said it was wrong for her team to have permitted Kate to have been landed with the blame. The friend told The Daily Beast: “She has been under incredible pressure for several years, and is now being harassed by the media over fuck-ups made by other people. How her office could have put out a picture without her ring when it was clearly going to be one of the most scrutinized pictures of all time is just unfathomable. And she is to blame? Sorry, no. That was their failure and they should have accepted the blame. They will clear out all those people when the dust settles.”

Oh, really? Is it really "they will clear out" or will it be the new "CEO" of Kensington Palace? Aren't Will & Kate still looking for that take-charge leader who will manage the private secretaries instead of themselves?

But also, if Kate is mad that she had to take the blame for the photo, then why take blame for it in the first place? Why is it that everything is everyone else's fault, yet when the perfect opportunity comes to fire the people responsible, she and William failed to take that action. Firing people who cannot do their job is a basic function of being the person in charge. No wonder Will & Kate need to hire a CEO to do the job they can't do. They're too incompetent to do anything but have their "friends" complain to reporters about how incompetent their staff is. Dick Cheney is still alive, William! He might be able to fly over and do your behind-the-scenes job for you even if he's surviving on an empty tank. Don't miss your chance in case he suddenly croaks before Jimmy Carter does!

Also, I have to love the hints of mental breakdown in this piece. Right at the top it's "intense stress" while later on it's "incredible pressure for several years." So...building the case for a mental breakdown?

Earlier this week, a source who is a friend of Kate and William’s and part of their wider circle of friends, told The Daily Beast that that they and their friend group were “completely baffled” as to why Kate put out a picture which showed her without a wedding band when it seemed “guaranteed to get people asking questions about the state of the marriage.” The friend said: “They are often seen together at school events, and really it is remarkable how one and often both of them will always be at every match, every music concert and every prize giving. The relationship has always seemed incredibly strong despite the immense pressure they are under, so it’s fair to say we were all completely baffled when the picture came out with the wedding ring missing, especially as it was photoshopped. It just seemed guaranteed to get people asking questions about the state of the marriage.”

Duh!

But everything is supposedly okay because William (allegedly) took the photo and Kate (allegedly) photoshopped it. Britain's finest, ladies and gentlemen!!

Another friend of the family also told The Daily Beast that they believed the stress of the last few years around all the drama surrounding Harry and Meghan, and the pressure of a whole raft of changes that came when the queen died, had triggered a stress-related illness in Kate. The source said: “She and William have been under intense stress ever since Harry and Meghan left the family. They spent three years just waiting for the next horrific media interview. On top of that they have moved house, the kids have moved school, the queen died, and she became Princess of Wales. It’s not surprising she got ill, and it’s not surprising she needs a break from it all to get better.”

Am I really supposed to believe Kate did not have a mental/emotional breakdown? Because these two paragraphs sure do hint at it! Along with the other previous statements.

The Queen Mum put the fear into Hitler so much he referred to her as "the most dangerous woman in Europe" while little mouse Kate can't even handle a few years of Markle living overseas! I guess it's a good thing London isn't going to get blitzed anytime soon! The Princess of Wales ain't ever going to be an inspirational figure in the public eye.

A friend of King Charles’ told The Daily Beast that he and the queen would be “wholly sympathetic” towards William and Kate over the debacle. “The only answer is for her to get better and get back to work,” the friend said. Riffing off a reputed maxim of the late Queen Elizabeth II, the friend said, “Now more than ever, they will have to be seen to be believed.”

What?! Will and Kate work? Did Charles's friend not realize the kids are going on break again starting next Friday, 22 March? That's going to be a solid 3.5 weeks of no proof of life of The Prince of Wales! Who knows? He might even make it four weeks given that he might not attempt to start working in the middle of the week. And did Charles's friend not see the "expert" who said it could take Kate six to nine months to recover? Kate isn't going to be opening any hospitals soon. There definitely isn't going to be any emulating QEII happening anytime soon either.

Kensington Palace did not return a request for comment.

I'm so not shocked.

Did Tommy Sykes not realize KP only gives comments to People magazine on the regular?

While I’m here I think it’s beautiful that BMTH has been friends for this long….like the fact that Oli and Lee have known each other since they were kids!!! The fact that even tho Curtis left the band Vegan wished him well even tho everyone else was upset about it!!!! The fact that Jona only joined the band because he was friends with them and Matt even let Jona live on his couch when he didn’t have a home!!!! The fact that Tom and Matt were roommates and best friends and are still close to this day even after Tom has moved on from working for his brother and for dropdead and being the drum tech for BMTH!!! The fact that when Jordan joined the band they all became friends so quickly and even to this day they’re still so close they all hang out outside of just making music together, they celebrate each other’s birthdays and go to amusement parks together and travel the world together like its just so!!!!!! Not to sound like a MLP episode but friendship really is the binding glue that brings everything together and allows people to make beautiful art knowing they have someone by their side…. :-)!!!

SKYKES BROKE 10 RIBS? AND 3 OF THEM ATE BROKEN IN 3 PLACES?

Jesus no wonder he wanted an out of his leathers

hey does anyone know what happened to arlo8guro?? they deleted a bunch of stuff off their insta a while ago and i could only find on of their deleted pieces online, did i miss something or did they just disappear??

Shit Happens... Tom Sykes /Kawasaki ZX10R

ALL GUTS NO GLORY!!!!!!! built for sin 2005

this tee along with a couple of other popular ones i've seen associated with drop dead that were worn by oli between 04/08 were actually from sj whiteley's brand 'built for sin' (which no longer exists)

they both often modelled the pieces for the earlier stages of each others brands whilst the 2 were together.

it came in 3 variations; a short sleeved white top , a tank and also a 3/4 length sleeved baseball style shirt (which came in 2 colours ; black/white & blue/white)

modelled by sj , tom & oli!!

Oblivion (2013)

Nigel Cawthorne, a biographer of Prince Andrew who wrote the book Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace told The Daily Beast: “It all seems to keep coming back to this whole thing about whether the photograph is fake. It is not. It was given to the FBI for goodness sake. All the legal minds say he hasn’t a hope in hell of overturning this settlement with Virginia Giuffre.

“I suspect that the real motivation may be to discredit Virginia ahead of the gagging order on her expiring next month. They may be getting their retaliation in first.”

Thinking about these pictures….Hi Tommy….

Wow Sykes has finished 3 races in a row!

GUESS WHO'S GOING TO MEET BAD OMENS IN FEBRUARY

FUCKING GUESS

Evan Almighty (2007)