docmcgraw.bsky.social
much too old to be joining a new social network but here we are
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this is the reply I came here for
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thank you for your engagement
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a Canadian friend once told me it’s weird seeing the Queen around cos they don’t have old people out at home
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Simply tie helium balloons to the bridge until the pressure is relieved
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*opens curtains*
*closes curtains*
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Can’t believe anyone would conceal a proud Armenian surname like that
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absolute banger though, proper golden age of sitcom themes stuff
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was not expecting the trans widow line
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which he almost certainly did
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“served” me think he lifted up a silver cloche to reveal the papers with a sprig of parsley
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don’t worry, they will ask sensitively, possibly in haiku form
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did a bigger boy do it? did he run away?
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spoilers btw
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yeah but he tried to take the ring off frodo
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you went outside without any pants on?
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a Last of the Summer Wine education right there
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how much and where?
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ah yes their chromatophores do this in a fascinating example of sexual selection
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I used to work in an evolutionary genetics lab and my old boss told me about getting Jehovah’s Witnesses asking “do you believe in evolution?”
“actually I’m a professor of evolutionary biology”
“oh well that’s good because you’ll know evolutionary biologists don’t believe in evolution any more”
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I actually *am* the protagonist of everything and am far too busy getting chased by pirates, wrongfully thrown into prison, fighting dragons and getting chased around London with a big bag of money to spend time on here.
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There’s what I used to think was a very unconvincing animatronic robin at the start of Mary Poppins. Turns out it’s a (still pretty unconvincing) American robin!
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and it would tapdance, right?
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Yeah, my sister’s cat hurt her paw and for a while after when she did something naughty and got told off she’d lift up her paw and limp a bit for sympathy
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Are dinosaur bones allowed? End to end diplodoci.
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I kind of think Hollywood has given people a false idea of how cool being a teenager is by having them all be played by 28 year old underwear models
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you should write song lyrics
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in general there’s a whole thing where everyone acts as if the three trilogies were 500 years apart rather than about 20
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MANchego
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regarding fragmentation, brings to mind that we don’t have the likes of John Grisham these days
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and arguably TV is a more novelistic medium than film (depends on the novel tbh)
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How much of that is genre becoming more widespread/acceptable? Are the people who would’ve read, say, Silence of the Lambs reading Game of Thrones instead?
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well my 10 year old nogodson is into the mountain goats
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how old is she?
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They made Jimmy Carter give up his peanut farm
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I know that holding up Sunak’s PMship as a victory for diversity is kinda weak and lame but fact that nobody (beyond a fringe that is considered lunatic even by Reform supporters) had a problem with him really ain’t nothin.
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not quite back and forth level
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okay that is an Error
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which one how wrong was it
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well it’s a question of how long it takes to train a therapist vs how long it takes to train a hypnodickwizard
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tbh if you could hypnotise men to think their dick’s bigger you could solve some problems
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stakes, lol
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a gentleman would never read another man’s letters
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oh for fucks same that resolves my one annoyance with that book!
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oh really? I need to reread it! Is the guy the same one who talks about god the father cos he’s too old for Jesus?
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there’s a Robertson Davies novel where a priest goes in deep on this during a sermon and then later says “oh that? I made it up. It gets people to turn up and donate”