callmac.bsky.social
Professional responsible traveller.
@calmac on the foto app.
I'll read your...blue skies? Tweets? Anyway, I'll read them, but can't guarantee I'll understand them.
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Rather than trying to win them to her cause, trying to kill the soldiers, one by one, in broad daylight is exactly the sophistication I would expect of her coup.
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Kemi: Yes...and?
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You're doing god's work.
That voyeur perv.
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The thing with toxic masculinity is that there will always be another self proclaimed 3d chess grandmaster to fill this role of "person who does not see the people he is standing on while he makes awful decisions".
Must be useful for the PMs to have that queue of sociopathic scape goats.
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As this came up first, I thought it was rhyming slang, and there was news about failures at Thames Water again.
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Yes, but we would have said this showed how "authentic" he was, or something equally vapid.
There's nothing redeeming in him, but I don't mind that he's angry about breaking a cease fire, even if he's part responsible for the firing. Especially as he was angry with Netanyahu too.
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I was on a kitsch tour of LA years ago, and the guide said "on the left is the toilet where poor innocent George Michael was arrested for being gay. So unjust, they don't arrest Ben Affleck and Matt Damon!"
To this day I refer to him as Poor, Innocent George Michael.
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I assume you are holding most of it back for the publication of "It's All One Book: Dating For Good Boys, Raising Good Boys, Nudging Good Boys and Starting a Business For and With Good Boys"
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Lovely to see a photo of someone exercising their telekinetic super power as well.
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It's such a low bar. Excuse the pun.
I concede!
I might politely laugh at whatever horrible tasteless joke they made, then feel gross at myself. But I wouldn't feel the need to call out their genocidal ways, like I would with Goebbels, Netanyahu and Putin.
Which would spoil that pint.
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Oh I did, and I totally agree with the last para.
But, I just feel like I have met these types, and my reaction is not based on their political views, but their personalities, and it is "don't make eye contact, don't engage, coyote ugly myself out of talking with them"
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Really, no offence meant. But I have never understood this idea.
I may spend too much time in the pub, each of those are the types I know instinctively to avoid.
Farage - loud, obnoxious, blowhard
Boris - toff, psuedo intellectual a-hole
Trump - firstly, doesn't drink. Secondly, rapey idiot.
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The guy looks like daredevil, how could he not win?
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It's great.
I wouldn't be surprised if you get several letters threatening to sue you as people just assume you are talking about them.
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I'm back to Madagascar* on Sunday, and feel exactly the same way.
*fully saying this as an opportunity to boast
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In order to argue with my dad, I listen to the Speccies podcasts, incl their out loud articles.
The content is really poor. It's a mix of woe-is-me, under attack landlord style stories, and faux-proustian, over written, cutesy filler.
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"Anglofuturist" is a word you could 100% be convinced there is a silly swear word hidden within.
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I know it's not even close to the point, but his suit is getting weirdly close to this
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What I like about this, is that he sounds 1 part Brad Pitt from 12 Monkeys and 1 part Linkedin profile.
It's nice to see both these so seamlessly melded.
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The interesting juxtaposition of this usage.
The use of "whey", almost a homonym to the enthusiasm of "Wahey", followed immediately by "pipette", with the feminine suffix.
Clearly showing the character putting an overtly proud facade onto his concern over his own masculinity.
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Also, everyone is wrong about the talking thing.
It's not bad to speak to people on public transport, it's bad to be spoken to. That's what we really don't want.
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I think, if you ride a bus in London regularly, then you are a londoner, and should be offered citizenship.
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Yeah, but then we're progressives.
They want things to be shit for more people again, and better for them. You know, the good old days.
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Everyone forgets that stilton is actually a noble gas, and brie has the same atomic weight as palladium.
Classic.
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That is the single worst thing I have ever read.
Congratulations, David Frost.
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Thought this was an @theonion.com headline
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The heat in my house
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There was SO much idiotic right wingery.
But there were some smart people being evil and corrupt behind it all.
This time it seems to be dumb people being evil and corrupt right up front.
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"The pyramids were built on a smaller budget and no one worried about bats or newts. It's all woke!"
"Sure, mum. Still on facebook eh?"
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I get my flu shot every autumn from mine too, and travel vaccinations/meds.
I'm always impressed by their knowledge.
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Just whatsapp them to colleagues or distant acquaintances, they'll love em.
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Do christians believe they actually hear god's voice? But an actual voice?
I always thought that it was more like a conscience type thing, rather than actual speech.
Follow up q. Is it a conversation? And if not, why not? Or is it like the annoying friend sending voice notes on whatsapp?
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Pharmacists are seriously impressive.
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The inarguable one is the plug.
The other things I imagine I will get push back on are...
Toilets
Supermarkets - not the produce, the set up
Airports - I know we hate them, but they are good here
Pubs
Museums and art galleries - we just stole so much stuff, and so many are free.
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This sounds like the highest compliment someone like him could offer.
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It's weird because the yanks are actually pretty good at both parades and marching formations.
When they send people to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo they are pretty freaking impressive. Why didn't they rope them in?
Where's all the military marching bands?
youtu.be/jIzIKjWibJI?...
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But...but the Spectator says...
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I'm going to bang the drum for a newer writer for children's books, Katherine Rundell writes an effin good book.
The kid and I have read a few now, and I'd put her right up there.
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I think there's something on this.
I do feel HP got a huge amount of kids reading HP, and hopefully many went on, but I have met quite a few adults who are really still just into HP.
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This just gave me a flashback. I think I was really into Jack Higgins as an 11 year old.
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Vindicated.
It's too late for me, save yourself.
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Since I've been working from home it has felt like my fridge is out to get me.
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Or wine
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I think it's on purpose.
Part of trying to appeal to Reform voters.
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Give the guy a break. He's not a multi tasker, and he's busy oppressing his people.