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Improved, convalesced, slightly less unpleasant
... featuring the lovely Gina #DogsOfBluesky
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As emperor Caligula had four years
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(prompted by this horrible web page)
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campaigning against Bercow, 2010
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Cleveland pain dealer
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That crowd has a certain ratio.
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photo from a New Yorker profile, from some time last century:
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"Where I come from, when you call someone 'friend' you don't necessarily mean they're your friend. Know what I mean, friend?"
(Scouse git tankie who turns out to be undercover MI5 and home counties posh, Alan Bleasdale's GBH, 1991)
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Jedburgh!
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Doctor Atomic was terrific. Can't speak for the libretto but the audience was whistling the tune to 'Batter My Cod' on the way out.
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I'm sure it'll all be a big success.
Airbnb: Hope You Enjoy Our New Direction
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How he sustained this pace is a mystery.
Anyway, here's video of him from last year, gacked out of his brain and repeatedly brushing crumbs from his nose.
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He told Wired: “I was basically going from room to room just pouring out this stream-of-consciousness manifesto, like Jack Kerouac writing On the Road" ... By Friday he had around 10,000 words, “incomprehensible to anyone but me.”
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This second pillock is called Brian Chesky.
"In a frantic typing spree at the dining room table, on the couch, the bed, and at times in his office, Chesky specced out how he would redesign the Airbnb app."
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Turns out there's a completely different absurd pillock at Airbnb, and Wired has a story about him out today.
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Shit is the word
It's the word for a turd, it's got move, it's got meaning
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Mandelson was good enough to throw him for a minute or two. He felt he had to claw back some ground on the Bigness of the deal. Its Conclusive nature.
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Counterpoint: this sort of thing encourages their worst tendencies
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He touched the Queen!
They strung up Paul Keating for that.
(obviously, and for everyone, #NotMyQueen )
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Rubio is now National Security Advisor (acting) as well as Secretary of State. A job that can only be done from the west wing and a job that requires constant foreign travel.
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