ambeggar.bsky.social
Bald punisher of miscreants and weak-limbed ancient loon. Occasionally wonders if the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand would be a system of government worth trying out for a few years.
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Be fair, there might be a couple of desperate billionaires there looking for brutal tax cuts
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Why do so many politicians seem to have a resting, “I don’t know what the grown ups are talking about” face?
So. Many.
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That’s “Brigade Leader” to you, you Royalist scum…
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I'd love to read his memoirs...
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This “resistance to purported Federal officials showing contempt for the rule of law must end”. Fixed it for them. Liberty < security = neither.
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Abe Lincoln approves these semicolons. Useful little chaps.
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OBEY. CONSUME. REPRODUCE. NO THOUGHT.
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....the very. special. hell.
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A Fell Beast would be the Groke, and maybe for “Fell” read “misunderstood and lonely”
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Still and all, I do remember them fondly
And hope it will be proper and respectful
To keep your people in mind in my holy places
And ask that the same kindness might be on me.
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Apparently Midwich has been making headway as an aspirational model for village school success with many councils interested in learning by their example.
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Um, ackchully I think it’s GGGGGMILF rights…
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Hopefully it’s going to be repurposed as an ode to Sir Pterry. I make out Rincewind’s hat, Twoflower’s glasses, Errol, Dontgonearthe Castle etc etc
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Well worth reading Hellboy comics for the church history insights.
Sometimes…
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Wasn’t St Dunstan also famous for grabbing the devil’s nose with his forge tongs and then trying to re-shape his head until he promised to be good?
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If you shoot him does it leave a shiny metal dent that buffs right out and then he stabs you to death with his arm spikes?
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On a list of things that Mr Trump is "too".... I am not sure that "old" even makes it into the top five.
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Doctor Stephen Maturin
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Political or bacterial?
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You can't re-open it; Harry Callahan blew it up
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Why then Ile Trump you; Hieronymo's madde againe
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His audience doesn't understand. Explain as you would a child.
He pretended.... he lied.....
Ah, yes; they understand that, don't you?
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Voyage is Stephen Baxter’s least depressing novel and seems credible on the technical front of getting to Mars.
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Either a very cute Mi-Go or else about to give an Elder God a disastrous felching session
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The American Revolution, that was enjoyable by and large: watching England’s free descendants busy defeating German Jarge (Flanders and Swann, The War of 14-18, probably translated from the French)
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Just let Private Eye and the Greens loose on the Reform local authorities, and make sure the mess in Birmingham gets sorted quickly before Reform gets in there too. Don’t do this advance compliance with race hatred nonsense.
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Well, it's better than being a milkman
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Basically it should have been made sixty years ago with George Formby
Now I go punching Nazis
To earn an honest bob
For a Nazi hater it's an interesting job
Oh, it's a job that just suits me
A Nazi puncher you should be
Come and punch Nazis just like me
When I'm punching Nazis
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Absolutely. Though maybe I also detect a little Capt. Foulenough or Maison Katzphur?
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In the belated justice sense or the Bomber Harris sense?
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I’m not crying, we’re all crying…
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I will be there today, International Organ Day permitting
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Is this an English reskin or derivation of the classic Australian game "Squatter"?
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There’s no need to be unpleasant.
That was no reflection on her, unless of course she made it bigger.
With everlasting respect to The Master…
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Room 40 has entered the chat, only so sneakily you haven’t noticed, and is smiling gently.
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Not gone from my bookshelves. Genuinely deep and moral young adult works. I still think kindly of Lord Tom in Smith, who took the other decision from Lesley.
“Blue daylight!” roared Lord Tom, and fired…
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Looking for Porco Rosso and not seeing him makes me sad.
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String, or nothing…
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Leaving the oceans was probably a bad idea in the first place…
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Also you need to watch the Cruel Sea to understand what Stanley Baker was really doing in Zulu.