Gerard (@groverxv.bsky.social)
WAFR INDEED Can still see them shining through
I come from a land next to a land down under … Interests - rugby, rugby, cricket, cricket, cricket, beer, wine, SNARK. Unalloyed support for all things Kiwi. https://bsky.app/profile/groverxv.bsky.social/post/3kzlszkke7m2v
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WAFR INDEED Can still see them shining through
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Damn straight. WAFR. @tasminarcher.bsky.social sure had the pipes and the zeitgeist … Memories of a certain summer (it came out in Spring 1992, other-side-of-the-world New Zealand seasons)
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Weekend at Bernie’s White House
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JD Vance as Admiral Karl Doenitz.
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That is the dictionary definition of Too Much Information
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Of course I meant Ivana!!
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Yes, I meant Ivana. Easy to confuse
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Next to Ivanka?
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Labour Day at Bernies
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THANK YOU FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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That would be the first one of those in recorded history, dating back to when Grok winked at Nok in the geothermal steam room on the ancient plains of the Rift Valley
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Los Angeles - a city of near FOUR MILLION PEOPLE - wouldn't be standing if a few hundred Nat Guard and other assorted troops hadn't been assigned to patrol a few downtown city blocks for a few days. Batshit. Fucking. Mental. Josef Goebbels would be ashamed to say this shit.
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Wake up to find Big Ole Rudi G has done a mini-Chappaquidick to distract from the DedDon rumours ... #WorldIsABizarrePlaceRightNow
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Only a dead person would bloot like this Time for some apt 80's music (this is a noted big choon when you are a teenager and making moonface* at the hottest girl in class) *Unsuccessful moonface. Don't think she knows I exist even now. But I'm over it, I assure you. youtu.be/KQBoeBgb0uk?...
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"That's some mighty fine blooting you got there Brent, some mighty fine blooting indeed"
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Speaking of chancers. This turned out to be an outright lie. ⬇️
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100%
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For the love of fucking God. It’s the EXACT opposite of this, you fucking ghoul.
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Apropos of something … one of the unexpected benefits of living in the tropics & being many hours ahead of London on the ole 24-hr global clock is being able to listen to the chillout sessions on #BBC6Music (just after midnight Fri & Sat in UK) over a morning coffee out here in the humid zones.
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The industry’s pretty much done that ya daftie
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Should be *goes into cellar with a kleiglight and a flamethrower*
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Patience.
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Putting the absolutely fucking bananas into Banana Republic
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Ha ha ha … that’s very good … but surely he should be heading in the other direction?
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Pavlova report. It made it without breaking structure. And we were hosted by Aussies so there was the inevitable “who created the Pav” discourse for a lengthy time.
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That garage has seen things.
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Telegraph Road is a stone-cold classic. WAFR. Oh my word. Same for Private Investigations
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That would be a fitting end.
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Come on man … this used to be a family show (You don’t got to come on man. That was very funny)
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I know it’s not the main point in this shitty timeline, but why (Aliens Earth this time) has no-one learnt in the future that you don’t enter a spaceship without a searchlight that would light up a football stadium. Can buy them for c.$250 from Home Depot. Not in space apparently. #DumbAsses
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Data from Star Trek
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US veteran @charlotteclymer.bsky.social laying down accurate heavy fire here ⬇️
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Good luck getting a submarine and an aircraft carrier (cos those are the things he really wants to see) down Pennsylvannia Avenue
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Each one worse than the prior too. Like a game of Snake and … Snakes
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“Key parts” = “all 44 days or however long it was”
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Yeah I like that one too
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Mrs G-XV is about to embark on a journey on foot across the hot humid tropical city in which we live now with a freshly made pavlova, fully creamed, blueberried and strawberried. #IPredictATerribleOutcomeAtTheOtherEnd #BloodyThingIsGonnaMeltBackIntoEggWhites
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Butter?
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Strewth!
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He’s been wrong pretty much every day for the last 12 years … but still the DT continues to employ the silly sod.
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I actually thought the post above mine was about Man U 😳😳😳
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Is this about Starmer?
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Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title Tom Clancy's Joy of Sex
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Aaaaagh now ... Sweet Baby Jesus yes ... WAFR. Still fills every dancefloor 50 years later. And this mix was 30 years ago.
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I'm no expert but no you fucking can't. That's fucking impossible. This is total fucking nonsense.
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New Zealand's Finest. Sadly, lead singer Pauly Fuemana passed away at too young an age.
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YEEEEEEEEESH. Come on ... Try reading it like this and see how badly it lands "Rebuilding Dresden is an opportunity for European companies" Fuxxake. Some things ... you just don't say some things out loud ... or in print .... or at all ... or even think them ...
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"Sure ... but what kind of firefighter are you?"
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Oh my word … I posted this yesterday and had no idea it would be so apt within hours …
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I studied 20th C history. I'm not making any direct link (I am really) and am absolutely not making predictions ... but I am struck by this thought ... For the people under the fascist regimes of the 1930s/40s in what are now 3 huge economies to see the light, they had to see the fire.
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100% agree Nobody learns. That's what Nobody eats. That's what. Nobody cleans. That's what. Nobody cares for the sick and the dying. That's what.
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Oh my word ... I'd forgotten this. HOLY SHIT. How could I forget this?
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I am almost curious why it’s beyond the wit of 10 Downing Street staff to call Tony B and say “Dude - can we have an afternoon of your time please? We really need to write ONE BIG SPEECH”
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This sort of vibe youtu.be/Ugp8XNiEJBo?...
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I know it’s not the main point but Sarah Vine was a pretty big part of the tin-eared clique that drove Britain in to the ground
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Use it as a hammer.
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If I may sir … if I may bsky.app/profile/grov...
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If I might make a slight amendment … the richest man in the world (allegedly) speaks Russian. Apartheid Space Karen is at best, second.
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Ina very crowded field, this is way up near the top of the list of the dumbest fucking shit I have ever heard a public figure say. Absolutely. Batshit. Mental. I'm going back to watching old videos of music clips from #MiamiVice
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“Bear seen in woods. Foul smell nearby” according to area raccoon.
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Completely agree. I don't even know what the right phrase for it is - maybe 'the Zimbabwe-isation of the world's largest economy' ?
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Holy nosebags! The horse named Unpopular Boomer bolted from the stable so long ago it was last seen somewhere near Pluto.
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Blowing Man amirite www.instagram.com/reel/DNutMN2...
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If only he hadn't painted that bloody great yellow arrow there ...
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There was a very similar thing in the UK - the Gatwick Drone. Closed London's second biggest airport for near 48 hours just pre Christmas 2018. No drone was ever identified. No drone operator was ever identified. Very very strange.
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Old enough to remember Cabbage Patch Kids and Ty Beanie Babies. Diss be dat.
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Lunch of World Champions
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I know what you mean but why does it matter any more? Why does that matter in the era of convicted sex offenders in the Oval Office? The ghost of Gary Hart 1988 must be haunting the Senate screaming "WHAT THE FUCK? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"
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Blu-ray. The best format of the G-O-Ds * *Good Old Days
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100% agree. Just the worst.
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That’s a cracker. What a scene.
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INCLUDING WEARING THEM PAIRED WITH A DARK SUIT
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Can I introduce you fellas to “Hostage”? God almighty … it’s TERRIBLE.
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Tell them “if you’ve got flagstones, that’s enough. Henry VIII had flagstones”
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It might be one of the worst things I have seen
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SO BAD. SO SO BAD
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Oh my word. No spoilers but holy shitballs what a TURKEY this is.
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😂
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I’m no expert but I reckon there’s a wee chance they predate that by at least couple of dozen centuries …
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You have to go back to the first season of Coronation Street to have even the remotest chance of understanding season 3 of ‘Enders
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Old enough to remember when Emily Thornberry was forced to resign for posting a photo of a house draped from chimney to threshold in the sodding things
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DOUBLY strong agree
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If you like that you will enjoy Libra by Dom de Lillo. Same subject matter. Almost a bit too plausible.
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Oh what the hell… may as well have it https://youtu.be/bjrOcrisGyI?si=0O_1fSrd1OVeZbqI
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A witty, regretful address over Zoom from his refuge in Dubai
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A classic of the Fess genre ⬇️
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100% - Ryan Gosling and Danny Glover.
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Bloody LOVE Explorers On The Moon
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Dude needs to nip across the Tasman Sea. Specifically Wellington. The ole girl is a bit down on her uppers but man alive the coffee is GOOD.
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Am convinced I saw exactly this while I was at Glasto* #MightveBeenTheLampInMaYurtBro #WhatYurt #YurtYourself #NoImVeryWellThankYou
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I mean, a STATESMAN might've spotted the direction of things and said "Holy shit - the atmosphere in the UK is too febrile to hold a poorly-designed non-binding referendum. We will delay it until things calm down" But not David Cameron. Least Astute PM since Lord North.
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Fokken A it did. That correlation is 1. That Venn diagram is a near perfect circle, especially when you load in the Boomers in the chocolate labrador owning, Landrover Defender/Discovery driving, mustard corduroy wearing shires around parts of the M25.
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Not sure my mother knew I was watching Miami Vice either
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It really is
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More people in a single tube train at peak hour on the Northern Line. Look forward to that getting wall-to-wall coverage on all 5 RW (3 of which are increasingly far RW) media sources in the UK
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Old enough to have seen this broadcast live into our rural New Zealand lounge int he 80s and distinctly remember being blown away by the creative art of it all. #MiamiVice youtu.be/-aMCzRj3Syg?...
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WAFR (As an aside, the first record broadcast in FM by renowned 1980s Palmerston North NZ radio station 2XS) #Manawatu #MoreManawatu youtu.be/d4-1ASpdT1Y
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It's not entirely clear to me how you take on and control an ocean