hakusanlad.bsky.social
Brit, bibliophile, gin drinker, jazz aficionado, sumo fan, choral singer, student of classic movies, Japan old hand, amateur Sinologist, and would-be Korea watcher. 🇬🇧🇯🇵🇨🇳🇹🇼🇰🇷🇺🇸
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😳
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Bona!
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They can do wonders these days.
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The Japanese reads “Memories short-cut” but you could plausibly say “Short cut to memories” which would be 「思い出への抜け道」which would be more a descriptor than a propped noun.
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So are you pregnant or not?
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How I arrived on Bluesky
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Katsu just means cutlet.
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The former manager of that store is a good friend of mine.
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White male privilege.
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Sorry to hear you’re unwell, but the tea, books and movies sound like just what the doctor ordered.
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Pics or it didn’t happen 😊
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Rolling back the years!
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Are those actually transfers? I remember my aunt having sheets and sheets of this for her college graphic design course when I was a kid. She always let me have the last few on a sheet and I loved playing with them. Maybe my interest in fonts dated from then.
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Ha! If could do that there would be no problem.
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Always admired the courage of women (and some men) who wear expensive white garments on the Tube.
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On one episode of QI they said that the air in London Underground was 27 times more polluted than at street level.
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In Friends, Ross couldn’t get Delaware.
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A similar thing happened recently to a friend of mine who is a cosmetic surgeon. One of his patients asked him to quote for the enhancement of both of her breasts.
A Sale of Two Titties.
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I remember Mrs Thatcher become leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. Probably because at the time we lived on base next to a family of Thatchers and the mother was the only Mrs Thatcher I knew.