janeduke.com
Fine art printmaker from York, England. Dapple scrumper. Sometimes found loitering in a medieval hall and talking to strangers.
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I think that about sums it up *nods*. (Very restrained of the BBC not to use 'These people are idiots' as the headline, tbh).
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If you made that noise I would think you were doing Scooby Doo.
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They've posted this article to their Instagram. They must think it makes them look good??
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I've never even noticed that so maybe not...
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If someone is having that sort of anxiety then there are probably better and less monumentally selfish ways of resolving it than removing one child from their home, friends and family and abandoning the other.
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And, having discovered there are already several accounts with variations on that handle they just stuck a number on the end instead of coming up with something else 🤦
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Thank you for summing up my own appalled reaction, but you've just made me read it AGAIN, Rhodri... and spot more bits of self-indulgent stupidity that I missed the first time, like the fact that the only way to stop obsessing about a bigger house or better car is to leave the country, obviously.
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Since reading this I've been trying to think who else could be recognised by just a noise rather than words - and the only additions I could make to the list were also all vintage performers: Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Sid James.... People just don't make noises like they used to.
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Nope. Fresh flowers, lovely. House plants, no thank you.
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The only people I've ever spent £150 are family members - I can't get my head around that it is being seriously suggested you spend that on an end-of-term teacher's gift.
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I always went for something consumable/impermanent so it wouldn't be clutter that had to be got rid of.
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Fortunately no longer my problem, but honestly I would hate to be given a pot plant so I never give one either 😬
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On the contrary, our cat sometimes enunciates meow so clearly I suspect him of taking the piss.
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Yes but it's OK, I came back.
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Not in York - not even in Yorkshire 🙂
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HENRY V
HARD ❌
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
EASY ✅
LEEROY JENKINS!!
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Well on that recommendation I have just bought two titles for my own bedtime reading. The combined wonders of Kindle and Bluesky 👍
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Yes like you used to be able to do elsewhere. Of course it ended up being an awful place, but in the good old days it had excellent functionality.
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Oh I think I'd miss out on a lot and never see anyone new if I did that. There are just a few individuals who overdo it and are determined you should read everything posted by the people they follow. In fact they want you to see THEIR feed, not the one you have chosen.
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Thank you. And thank you for coming all those years ago 🙂 x
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Good idea.
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Thank you John 🙂
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It took us 6 hours.
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Oh family don't count. Unless they ask about candles. Then you're allowed to kill them.
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Tomorrow you can have a lie-in, and with any luck not have to talk to ANYONE.
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Also: do you sell the originals?
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I've been reading this whole thread out loud to husband as he drove us home on the motorway. I'm so sorry Saskia but it is possible I was snorting by the end of it 😳. I hope the day was at least worthwhile in the end.
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Who knows what corvids find offensive?
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Thanks for taking care of him Dave. I remember being told as a child that corvids gang up and do this head plucking to members of the group who have transgressed ☹️
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Happy birthday!
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I'm not sure there is a list anywhere. It's more a matter of keeping your eye out for someone mentioning one that looks interesting 🤷♀️
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Beep.
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I have finally beaten my previous science personal best which was B in O Level Physics. It's been a long time coming.
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I will henceforth choose to believe that Hokkaido is Japanese for Bumbarrel. No, don't try to tell me otherwise; I'm not listening.
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That's strength of character!