brianmcg1.bsky.social
Boring, middle-aged white guy who pines for his youth and an ability to emerge from a beanbag without groaning. Amazing self-promoter.
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Let’s not ignore the attempted murder by the centre forward at the start
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Holy shit. Armchair porn.
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Sorely missed in my view. Such wonderful jeopardy.
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No white pepper?? No finely diced onion??? No tomato???? Jesus Christ. Thousands of years of evolution and we find ourselves here…
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Gonna require a subtitle or two on that. Double yew tea eff?
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I meant aesthetically… before I read the context. Still… that’s cool.
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Oooh. That’s cool.
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Interesting to see the right-wing citizen journalists can’t even get the Cote D’Ivoire flag the right way round anymore.
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Duluth! Like in Fargo!! I never realised it was a real place! Watch out for Billy Bob Thornton being incredibly sinister.
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What do you guys export to China? Animal feed, is it? (They’re hardly knocking back Jack Daniels while zipping around on Harleys?)
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I love you, but you’re not serious people.
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If there’s a silver lining, you’ll be really well prepared when you discover Yellowstone.
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I considered seeking an intervention from loved ones when I learned there were spin-offs but luckily I was able to self-cure.
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Haha. I did that too. It became somewhat vocational towards the end.
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On a topic not related to the deliberate destruction of western civilisation: I’ve never seen that room from that angle. It’s very beautiful. Lovely high ceilings. You’d need to have the funds to pay for cleaners to come in and dust fairly regularly though.
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Read that a few times now. I recognise all of the words as having meaning in their own right, just not sure what’s intended by placing them in that particular order. Still a fine paper, even though I resent subsidising Breda O’Brien’s lifestyle of epic small mindedness.
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Squeeze the tube against the edge of the sink to force the last bit up to the top. Then blow into it like it’s an icepop wrapper and repeat the first step. Then slowly wind the tube up from the bottom until you’ve absolutely squeezed the last bit. Only then are you allowed cut the end off.
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Saw a video of someone doing something massively complex & labour intensive with egg shells rescued from boiled eggs and upcycling them into a powder they stored a salt cellar so they could sprinkle them on their cornflakes as a calcium supplement thereby avoiding spending € in Holland & Barrett
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Didn’t the Simpsons already do this…? “Mr Burns, you’re exceptionally inspiring. How do you maintain these levels of exceptional inspiration so consistently?”
Fellatio in the form of a question.
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Really?? Matt Groening really hit the heights, didn’t he?
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Given recent events, I’m not sure I can handle a re-read of all those bank runs/ collapses / threats of debtors’ prison / penury.
“The Wine Dark Sea” is a title that has few peers though.
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My dad’s 83 and it’s slacks all the way. Have yet to see him wear a shirt minus a collar. Wait: once in hospital he wore a t-shirt.. jarring… presumed it was an emergency bag-pack by mum. The same woman tried to sneak red wine into his overnight bag (“he might like a glass with his lunch”).
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Perhaps “pint” is code for a really huge quantity not normally covered by the term “pint”.
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Slot OUT!
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Sneaky Feckers. Maybe I deserve to have to worship them as my overlords (always lords; never ladies).
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Ah. I think I get it. It’s not what you own… It’s what you gamble against in terms of loss / gain in value.
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There are going to be entire sections of Waterstones dedicated to psychological analyses of the MAGA movement. (Once future generations reconstruct society from the ashes after “The Fall”).
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Can’t help but think that “chlorinated”, “hormone-injected” and “mechanically-rendered” chicken all need a little bit of a rebrand.
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That’s what I’d love to know. With my undergraduate (lack of) understanding of sexy-businessy-stuff, do the billionaires make enough money buying up equities at depressed prices to offset the losses of the drops in the value of their equities?
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Batman Forever?? Is that the same Val Kilmer who played Iceman in Top Gun? Maybe I’m thinking of a different icon.
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Bonus onion ring… is there any better feeling??
(Actually: I once got an Easter Egg where they forgot that it was meant to be hollow … so I’ve answered my own question…).
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Is there a valid explanation for involving the nice man that comes on every now and then and says things like “not a penalty for me” or “that’s just a coming together” or “Joelinton’s done a casual grab of Harvey Elliott there”? Is he someone’s grandad?
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Nice to see mrhenrymorris of the rather wonderful “Papua New Guinea Courier” get a mention in the article.
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Picture the scene: you’re invited to meet your new partner’s family for the first time and you wander into their kitchen and realise the love of your life, Azrael, is the quiet Burke who nobody knows about… awkward. “Hello, Mrs Burke. Nice to meet you. Hello, Mr Burke. Bellerophon, Agamemnon - hi”.
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I read somewhere that Saab provides leasing options on their fighter jets. Who’s with me???!
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Genuine question from an ill-informed European: I thought he was one of the better ones?
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To be fair, that’s only about 12 dozen eggs.
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Awesome scare jump from nodding-off lady in the back row
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Intrigued how members of your government can declare war on another independent nation state on national TV. At least - back in the good ol’ days - when that Austrian Housepainter did it, he had the style to pay cheering locals to line the streets and throw flowers at his troop convoys. #propernazis
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If I had a dollar for every time…
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Not a question but… intriguingly (for me at least), Ethan Pinnock - who to date, has existed only in my life via Barry’s lifelong friendship with him - turned up on Match of the Day last night playing for Brentford. It turns out he’s an actual professional footballer. (Which is nice).
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Why didn’t his parents pick just one first name?
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Does she smoke much cannabis?
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My Irish mother is still alive, and undoubtedly destined for an eternity in paradise (she’s really a genuinely decent human) but she’d like a word too.
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My mum still keeps a bucket full of plugs that she’s cut off broken appliances. You never know when you’ll need to fit a plug.
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I think phrases like that were employed by angry pub bores back in the day and their small surrounding circle of bottom-of-pint-glass-starers would chuckle and ruefully raise their eyes to heaven. Unfortunately, pub bores now have twitter accounts and YouTube channels and Elon platforming them.
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I looked it up. It’s real. I’m sorry for doubting you.
(Unleeeessss: Google is playing 4D chess with us).