chaudman.bsky.social
Politics, chess, books, mufc, and music nerd. Basically just a nerd. Seeking refuge from twitter's blasted heath. Here for the cheese & wine. Bag of crisps wouldn't go amiss either.
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I have eaten
the leeks
that were in
the moonlight
and which
you were probably
saving
for ken dodd
Forgive me
they were delicious
so intersex
and so racist.
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la recherche des doigts perdus
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Marriage or Elite?
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We had a lab tech at school known as Igor (obvs) who was legendary because he was the only person we knew who was elite at Elite on the school's sole BBC B.
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The new cold war
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In the Umbrellas of Cherbourg to be very specific!
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It's Catherine Deneuve
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I'm genuinely sorry you've been forced to burn your own house down and move abroad and live in a medically sealed shipping container where you shiver in the corner and battle against the nightmares that sleep inevitably brings. That's a bummer.
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Think it's interesting that science fiction writers (themselves often not taken as seriously as "proper writers") have written the most interesting stuff on the intersection between games and society. (Reamde by Neil Stephenson being a great example).
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Badges. Points. Leaderboard. Progress from Party Intern to Chief of Staff. Unlock minor physical rewards along the way. Drop shipped t shirt etc. essentially kudos.
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To an extent didn't musk paying large cheques to registered voters etc nudge into that?
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If something once happened on Merseyside then it's definitely still talked about on Merseyside. That's a cast iron rule isn't it?
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I also think that UK Hospitality and Kate Nicholls are phenomenally effective as a trade body in getting wins for their members.
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It's similar to the "ah but why do people on benefits have flat screen TV and netflix" critics. Because it's vanishingly cheap entertainment.
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They still win IMO.
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"Kalimotxo" to give props to its Basque origins.
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Ikr
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Rolling a cig in my 40s and the penny dropping that the Nick Drake album title "Five Leaves Left" was not just an elegiac reference to the passing of time.
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She has no moral compass and is boundlessly evil. (So, yes, obviously).
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So I came to it rather sniffly and very late but Jeeves and Wooster man. Have lost count.
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Ideally placed for the Nook too.
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So I think genuinely in my lifetime AI could win the booker. Because I think for all the chat about human creativity we all write (including me) by reading and recycling bits that lodge somewhere in our brains. (And if AI did produce a great novel one day I'd read it because the text is the text).
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Craig Charles is literally unlistenable. Only time I switch over to KEXP.
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As an early weekend waker I often hear Amy Lame and therefore all the rest basically seem okay in comparison.
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Best night since big jet day.
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Hmm. Not sharing this because he's been the victim of a whispering campaign for years.
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It's a classic white swan event.
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It's a bit like mowing the lawn. Tens of millions of Britons regularly do this yet on some days in summer literally none of them do. Which then means on the next sunny day more of them do!
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Damn Deighton already is. Frederic Forsyth then.
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Clive Cussler and Len Deighton should be in the mix too
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Totally agree. He's been great but he's not the future. Just pull the plaster off and deliver more change. Only way to shift the culture and mentality.
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May I draw your attention to the current half man half biscuit single.
open.spotify.com/track/4YKKyJ...
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Hold on. I'm so offended I'm actually getting a book out... Paul Hollywood recipe. Literally the best pie ever.
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Yes the Magnum is eaten on the walk back from the shop as an amuse bouche.
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To what extent has the decline of the greasy spoon been driven by wetherspoons grabbing a massive part of the presumably finite market for very cheap (tho not great) breakfasts?
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Agree. There's absolutely no rules about liking stuff. It's why I totally hate the concept of "oh, it's my guilty pleasure". People should be allowed to like what they like.