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Bryann Thomas

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Becoming ever more left wing as the years progress. Woke remainer who wants his EU nationality back. Father of three, so there will be puns and dad jokes. Sorry, not sorry.

created November 13, 2024

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All cats like a belly rub (and tug).

2/9/2025, 10:04:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Altogether now by The Farm leaned quite heavily on it.

2/9/2025, 5:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, but they did live in a villa.

2/9/2025, 5:16:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This tv career is small, that tv career is far away.

2/9/2025, 4:00:42 PM | 36 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It just looked very familiar. IMDB should have the details in a day or two.

1/9/2025, 8:26:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The cottage on the beach in the final episode is the same one that was used in Torchwood isn’t it?

1/9/2025, 8:11:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The flag of Saints George, Bungle and Zippy.

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1/9/2025, 7:24:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Didn’t Robin Banks go on Dragons Den with some bizarre parcel or gift wrapping based opportunity? Or was that just a bad cheese dream?

1/9/2025, 7:18:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m old and still refer to it as the Manchester Wanker.

1/9/2025, 5:27:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who was the mystery guest at the Downing Street ABBA party during covid? Was there a future queen dancing that night?

1/9/2025, 11:52:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perfect for removing ear wax.

1/9/2025, 11:49:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember olive oil being something you only got from the chemists in the 70’s.

1/9/2025, 11:46:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 11:06:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This needs a Trigger warning.

1/9/2025, 10:33:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What time did it happen? Just after 10 past 9:00 maybe?

31/8/2025, 10:27:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 10:21:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did Catweazle wear lipstick? He’s got the crazy looking part down at least.

31/8/2025, 8:39:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A&E nurses have seen it all and aren’t judgemental. No need to make up a far fetched excuse for your sexual fetish injuries.

31/8/2025, 4:42:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surely he took the picture?

31/8/2025, 4:38:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was basically that Johnny Vegas coach driver murder mystery series with a bigger cast budget.

30/8/2025, 10:14:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cms or inches?

30/8/2025, 8:54:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A head of department who taught fluid dynamics by talking about the salmon ladder at Pitlochry. And salmon psychologists (?). I can’t remember the equations, but while I was in Scotland I had to detour to Pitlochry and see the ladder.

30/8/2025, 8:53:17 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His one and only weakness.

30/8/2025, 8:47:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hanging a magic tree air freshener around your neck is no replacement for deodorant though.

30/8/2025, 6:28:25 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone got confused between the National Trust and the National Front?

30/8/2025, 6:20:41 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was one in Harlow until a few years ago. My eldest used to work there on Saturdays as a teen and he donated this to their collection. It was pride of place at the entrance for many years and I often wonder where it is now.

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30/8/2025, 2:35:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Make the car a Honda so we can have the Jesus ‘I have not spoken of my own Accord’ meme.

30/8/2025, 2:13:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The absence of potholes on most European roads always amazes me. Do they have better tarmac than us? Or councils that actually care?

30/8/2025, 2:04:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Give him a second term you swine!

30/8/2025, 1:54:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Went to Iceland with 2 toddlers in the middle of summer. Hotel curtains were not blackout and it never really got dark so they refused to go to bed. 4 days with no sleep. I was hallucinating on the flight home.

30/8/2025, 1:33:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wasn’t Shaun Ryder on some kind of government back to work arts funding scheme when Happy Mondays took off? Such schemes are all plumbing based these days I bet.

30/8/2025, 1:29:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This TV series could have been a tapestry.

29/8/2025, 10:54:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sterilised milk is from cows that have had an hysterectomy.

29/8/2025, 9:04:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can’t give booze t’baby.

29/8/2025, 9:00:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She was more concerned with taking sovereign tea than reclaiming sovereignty.

29/8/2025, 7:43:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I almost saw it happen. Heard the lorry brakes squealing behind me and people screaming. Was shocked when I found out who it was.

29/8/2025, 7:35:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was it these two?

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29/8/2025, 7:24:16 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ballykissangel was a guilty secret of mine at the time. Visited Avoca while on holiday in Ireland. Had to convince my wife that we were going there ironically.

29/8/2025, 7:20:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you like penis cola? And getting caught in the rain?

29/8/2025, 7:16:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No man is an island. But that island is definitely male.

29/8/2025, 7:15:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are ‘serious questions’ the same as ‘legitimate concerns’?

29/8/2025, 7:12:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Either we went to the same school, or it’s a common problem. I guess they’re both jobs where you can watch kids change clothes.

29/8/2025, 7:11:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why do the Scots pronounce Menzies in such an odd way? Because that isn’t really a z in the middle.

29/8/2025, 7:07:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mahler lip synching again. #totp

29/8/2025, 7:01:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why do I not recognise most of these 1998 songs on the countdown? Oh, yeah we’d just become pregnant so I had other things on my mind at the time. #totp

29/8/2025, 6:57:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a swift tailor based in Hong Kong. Will do you a new suit in 24 hours.

29/8/2025, 6:51:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 3:08:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 10:51:05 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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William Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzwilliam.

28/8/2025, 3:52:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the opposite of proroguing. Anti-roguing?

28/8/2025, 2:48:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So anything in the bin would only be a few hours old at most. Sounds cunning to me.

28/8/2025, 2:45:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think my Naan lives near there.

28/8/2025, 2:44:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My neighbours ring camera got ripped off and thrown into the field during a row. They are evil things that widen rifts in relationships.

28/8/2025, 1:31:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sounds like too much of the old wankel rotary engine.

28/8/2025, 12:38:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But then who would the NHS pay rent to? What would happen to the assets of people who died intestate? How would the victims of paedophiles get paid?

28/8/2025, 12:34:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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His correct title is King Prince Charles.

28/8/2025, 12:31:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I noticed him in the audience of a play once. He was sat right at the back and I so wanted him to pull out some bird watching binoculars and use them as opera glasses. Alas, he didn’t. Rula Lenska scrounged a ciggy off me during the interval. It was a real c-list celebrity day!

28/8/2025, 12:21:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious.

28/8/2025, 12:14:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A favourite tune used by many Pole dancers.

27/8/2025, 9:55:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sainsburys? Not (Rowan) Morrisons?

27/8/2025, 9:51:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 6:51:48 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ironically fascist comes from the Latin ‘fasces’ which was a bundle of sticks. The idea being that there was strength in unity.

27/8/2025, 5:22:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I once saw a Wizz Air person make a small child choose between her teddy bear and her juice box. They were both classed as hand luggage and only one item per person according to the rules.

27/8/2025, 3:49:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why is Fry hanging around with Ghislaine Maxwell?

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27/8/2025, 3:43:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pasting into notepad used to be a great way to strip out all the formatting.

27/8/2025, 12:40:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Daily Mail supports and promotes immigration then?

27/8/2025, 12:20:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, but strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

27/8/2025, 12:15:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 12:12:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can Paddington escort 3 people at the same time? Or is it like the fox, chicken, and sack of corn riddle?

27/8/2025, 11:27:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 7:40:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vyvyan is a girls name!

26/8/2025, 7:39:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Kudos for playing with the format. But this time it really didn’t land.

26/8/2025, 4:33:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 4:09:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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One of the directors of ‘good afternoon’ is listed as David Bellamy. Not *the* David Bellamy? (And by that I don’t mean the kid I went to school with who got teased a lot.)

26/8/2025, 3:11:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My thoughts on House of Lords reform can be found on noosepeer.

26/8/2025, 2:42:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump and Vance thought they were buying 10% of incels.

26/8/2025, 2:29:35 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Someone send in Liz Truss to meet with him.

26/8/2025, 12:54:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We’re having a scarecrow festival. Not a Skaro festival.

26/8/2025, 12:14:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I misheard a trailer on the radio and though he was in Paddington.

25/8/2025, 9:54:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That would be the end. But the moment has been prepared for.

25/8/2025, 9:52:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 9:33:16 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We had a family tragedy where the bad guy was called Moriarty and the good cop dealing with it was called John Watson. Was terrified that the media would be all over it. But a scary police PR woman shut down all inquiries and allowed us our privacy and dignity.

25/8/2025, 9:25:50 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don’t you need vampire semen to make magnets?

25/8/2025, 5:46:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used to work near St Paul’s Cathedral. I feel your pain.

25/8/2025, 4:54:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watching it right now. Please avoid spoilers for about 90 mins or so.

25/8/2025, 3:41:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s a jigsaw puzzle. Try finding all the corner pieces and the bits with sky on them first.

25/8/2025, 1:55:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A long list of TV and movie productions in the area. But no mention of the Ongar railway porn shoot.

25/8/2025, 11:54:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They did it once: www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

24/8/2025, 10:50:32 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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No one ever paints a Zippy or Bungle cross these days.

24/8/2025, 10:48:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The BBC need to make the 3rd season of ‘The Tripods’.

24/8/2025, 9:52:07 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What was the final scene in Trafalgar Square all about? 15 minutes of self congratulatory pretentiousness. Was it supposed to invoke an emotional response other than boredom? Made me really miss the pigeons.

23/8/2025, 10:26:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Somewhere in France a Citroen engineer was scribbling furiously after seeing this.

22/8/2025, 10:50:36 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Isn’t that Mrs Doubtfire?

22/8/2025, 10:47:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can’t form a bubble with your neighbours.

22/8/2025, 10:27:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s total bollocks!

22/8/2025, 10:21:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking through Gary Wilmotts eyes. #totp

22/8/2025, 9:28:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Thames Tandoori near Waterloo station had signed photos of all the celebrities that had eaten there. It was just 2 different pictures of Shaw Taylor.

22/8/2025, 7:03:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jayne Middlemiss using her real voice for once.

22/8/2025, 6:59:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Smoking.

22/8/2025, 6:43:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I cried for days after seeing this aged about 6. Really traumatised me.

21/8/2025, 7:05:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view