benstanley.eu
Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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Was anyone arrested for hampering the police investigation of this crime?
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got.
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I long for the day when you don’t have to spend your weekend chasing down this shit.
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We can also send our finest music journalists to explain to the US Army the meaning of the lyrics to “Fortunate Son”
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They looked like teenagers who’ve had to go to the garden centre
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Nope, it’s just people using a word wrongly. Like when they say “you’re so bias”.
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I just refuse to engage with this word at all when used as an adjective. “Cringeworthy”. You mean “cringeworthy”.
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And there‘s a point here?
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have they considered emigrating to Poland and becoming academic historians
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This does feel very much like the plan.
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Why would I let you know anything, when you clearly understand nothing?
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On that topic, the NRA has been very quiet on the need for well-regulated militias to push back against state tyranny.
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Would absolutely buy a T-shirt with this design
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Well, thanks for letting me know.
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Next, the Sovereign’s Escort dismount and whirl about on rollerskates to prove that “the time of the month is no barrier to you being the person you want to be” while the Mounted Band bellow “WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHH BODYFORM, BODYFORM FOR YOOOOOOOUUUUUU”
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I mean jury’s got to be out on “dentist”
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If they’re plummeting from that altitude it really is a moot point what condition they were in when they started.
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And this parody was made 15 years ago…
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But that’s…exactly the energy we want you to bring to the assignment.
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Have never quite recovered from learning why they have those train seat patterns.
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Somehow this is pleasingly on brand. The only time I raised with her the prospect of Joining The Civilised Folk in the Nice Place, the scorn prickled in the air like imminent lightning.
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I remember reading the sadly unBlueskyed* Duggers’s tribute soon after Agnes’s death, and thinking “my life is the poorer for not having known this evidently magnificent woman”. And that is also how I feel after reading this beautiful piece.
*this must be fixed
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The only bit I found actively objectionable was the standard-issue unappetising description of the pork pie, which, as a God-tier foodstuff, requires much more reverent prose.