docmcgraw.bsky.social
much too old to be joining a new social network but here we are
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guys got balls*
*where pee is stored
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the best bit of the MCU was when the hulk couldn’t pick up thor’s hammer
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he’s either a 13 year old who looks 50 or a 50 year old who looks 13
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the whole thing feels like someone breathlessly recommending a show that is a bit of a slog at first but gets great in late season 3
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“not now gilded goose”
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is that a gender-nonconforming haircut?
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I was talking to a friend once about what we’d do if we won the lottery. Her dream was something like this- less weird pseudoscience but still centred around gym and low carb food. Mine was much more “beer and crosswords” focused
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off to do the shopping at B K Blorpiss
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That happened to me once in Waterstones when I couldn’t figure out why the queue was so long and slow and it was a Jacqueline Wilson signing.
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please tell me what this is from
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No, I’m Pope Gregory XIII
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and tbf I think some people are a bit “oh shit a kid is talking to me… what do you say to kids? what did people say to me when I was a kid?”
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There’s a Pratchett bit contrasting Magrat (wants to be Good With Children) with Granny (basically treats them as adults) that I often think of
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I absolutely find it nuts that people do this kind of thing to kids without seeming to realise that kids are actually people undergoing an intensive “learning how to exist in the world” course rather than props for you to be twee about
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endorsed by Lord Pickles
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all right sis!
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Diana Wynne Jones needs to be on here. Archer’s Goon in particular is just fabulous.
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off to wikipedia… Not Just A Witch!
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Which was the one with the animal witch and the stone witch who had a feud? There were a couple of bits there I found p upsetting (in a good way)- depiction of a battery farm and a family being victimised by racists.
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I got a friend’s nearly-10-yo Which Witch (among others) for his next birthday.
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oh when he was a kid he was one of them! he used to tell us about the rich neighbourhoods, where you’d get a couple of pence, vs his area, where you’d get a glass of something good
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(this sounds like I am wailing about an abusive childhood but my dad was mostly cool and chill he just kind of sucked at conflict resolution and picked some weird hills to die on)
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my dad had a problem with trick or treating- thought it was “begging”. obviously the way this manifested was him going into a screaming rage at 6pm on 31st October and making us cry, then going off to sulk while my mum took us out. productive!
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send guns
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okay I’ve bought a stamp and an envelope, you’ll have mine just as soon as I get this printer driver installed
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It reminded me of The World According To Bensenhaver, a fictional book within The World According To Garp, that one character describes as “a pornographic soap opera”
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Grange Hill, to the original tune
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omg I reread that a while ago and 100% read Veppers as Trump but looking now, yeah it’s Elon
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I name a de meatball
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I don’t really think it looks particularly strong. Still looks like garbage to me any way you slice it
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if it’s a still photo they could be either eating or extruding the pastry
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yeah that should do it too
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reassure prospective employers that your cv was not written using ai by not including obvious factual errors
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reassure prospective employers that your cv was not written using ai by including a joke about three different religious leaders with an antisemitic punchline
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reassure prospective employers that your cv was not written using ai by saying “everything I say is a lie, I am lying”
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reassure prospective employers that your cv was not written using ai by breaking off to explain what this thing is called love
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*second clue
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Used to know a banker. The first clue he was a cunt was during the Jerome Kerviel furore when he was making jokes about French bankers not working hard enough.
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my favourite one of those was when a director’s phone rang, he shouted OH for FUCKS SAKE then answered very charmingly and had a conversation that ended with “…I must admit when I saw it was you I shouted oh for fucks sake”
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wait is a monster hearse a hearse for monsters? their community needs to grieve too gabby!!!
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Brings me back to coming back from the Fringe about 15 years ago, went into a shop with my Scottish notes.
Guy: “what’s this?”
“Scottish money”
“Can you spend that?”
“Yeah”
“Okay fine”.
Next time I gave him Welsh money
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the ape avatar, of course
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yeah I don’t care about *pause* wait how microscopic is this octopus? is this a ratatouille thing?
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that is literally what all corporate websites were like in the 90s
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It’s the idea that he Must Be Clever Deep Down Or How Did He Get All That Money?
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please can I have this on a T-shirt I had to throw away my doctor whos as owls one because it was too old and tatty and this would bring joy into my empty life once more
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Big Boys. Man On The Inside is the most gloriously low stakes thing I’ve ever seen.