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Gerard

@groverxv.bsky.social

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

created May 12, 2023

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WAFR INDEED Can still see them shining through

1/9/2025, 10:02:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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)

1/9/2025, 10:01:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Weekend at Bernie’s White House

1/9/2025, 9:11:48 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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JD Vance as Admiral Karl Doenitz.

1/9/2025, 7:29:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That is the dictionary definition of Too Much Information

1/9/2025, 7:04:45 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course I meant Ivana!!

1/9/2025, 6:54:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, I meant Ivana. Easy to confuse

1/9/2025, 6:54:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Next to Ivanka?

1/9/2025, 6:53:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Labour Day at Bernies

1/9/2025, 6:51:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bit rich from the South African?

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1/9/2025, 6:50:05 AM | 234 55 | View on Bluesky | view

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THANK YOU FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

1/9/2025, 3:52:22 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

1/9/2025, 3:44:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

1/9/2025, 3:21:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wake up to find Big Ole Rudi G has done a mini-Chappaquidick to distract from the DedDon rumours ... #WorldIsABizarrePlaceRightNow

1/9/2025, 2:22:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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?...

1/9/2025, 2:20:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"That's some mighty fine blooting you got there Brent, some mighty fine blooting indeed"

1/9/2025, 2:16:02 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Speaking of chancers. This turned out to be an outright lie. ⬇️

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31/8/2025, 6:59:51 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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100%

31/8/2025, 5:47:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For the love of fucking God. It’s the EXACT opposite of this, you fucking ghoul.

31/8/2025, 5:37:54 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

31/8/2025, 2:30:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The industry’s pretty much done that ya daftie

31/8/2025, 1:54:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Should be *goes into cellar with a kleiglight and a flamethrower*

30/8/2025, 9:21:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Patience.

30/8/2025, 4:02:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Putting the absolutely fucking bananas into Banana Republic

30/8/2025, 3:59:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ha ha ha … that’s very good … but surely he should be heading in the other direction?

30/8/2025, 3:56:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

30/8/2025, 1:39:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That garage has seen things.

30/8/2025, 12:28:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Telegraph Road is a stone-cold classic. WAFR. Oh my word. Same for Private Investigations

30/8/2025, 12:19:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That would be a fitting end.

30/8/2025, 12:15:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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)

30/8/2025, 12:14:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

30/8/2025, 12:00:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Data from Star Trek

29/8/2025, 11:50:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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US veteran @charlotteclymer.bsky.social laying down accurate heavy fire here ⬇️

29/8/2025, 11:38:58 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

29/8/2025, 10:38:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Each one worse than the prior too. Like a game of Snake and … Snakes

29/8/2025, 10:35:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Key parts” = “all 44 days or however long it was”

29/8/2025, 10:34:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah I like that one too

29/8/2025, 10:32:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

29/8/2025, 10:27:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Butter?

29/8/2025, 9:52:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Strewth!

28/8/2025, 1:33:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

28/8/2025, 1:10:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I actually thought the post above mine was about Man U 😳😳😳

28/8/2025, 10:26:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this about Starmer?

28/8/2025, 10:09:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title Tom Clancy's Joy of Sex

28/8/2025, 8:05:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

28/8/2025, 7:27:36 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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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28/8/2025, 7:04:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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New Zealand's Finest. Sadly, lead singer Pauly Fuemana passed away at too young an age.

28/8/2025, 6:47:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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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28/8/2025, 4:17:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Sure ... but what kind of firefighter are you?"

28/8/2025, 4:12:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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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28/8/2025, 3:37:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

27/8/2025, 8:49:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

27/8/2025, 8:41:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh my word ... I'd forgotten this. HOLY SHIT. How could I forget this?

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

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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”

27/8/2025, 7:45:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This sort of vibe youtu.be/Ugp8XNiEJBo?...

27/8/2025, 7:29:59 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

27/8/2025, 6:40:16 AM | 22 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Use it as a hammer.

27/8/2025, 6:10:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I may sir … if I may bsky.app/profile/grov...

27/8/2025, 5:21:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

27/8/2025, 4:46:20 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

27/8/2025, 3:11:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Bear seen in woods. Foul smell nearby” according to area raccoon.

26/8/2025, 9:10:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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' ?

26/8/2025, 7:50:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

26/8/2025, 7:11:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blowing Man amirite www.instagram.com/reel/DNutMN2...

26/8/2025, 6:10:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If only he hadn't painted that bloody great yellow arrow there ...

26/8/2025, 6:08:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

26/8/2025, 5:57:19 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 4:04:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Old enough to remember Cabbage Patch Kids and Ty Beanie Babies. Diss be dat.

26/8/2025, 2:33:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lunch of World Champions

26/8/2025, 2:25:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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?"

26/8/2025, 12:52:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Blu-ray. The best format of the G-O-Ds * *Good Old Days

26/8/2025, 12:24:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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100% agree. Just the worst.

25/8/2025, 11:45:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That’s a cracker. What a scene.

25/8/2025, 11:17:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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INCLUDING WEARING THEM PAIRED WITH A DARK SUIT

25/8/2025, 1:29:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Can I introduce you fellas to “Hostage”? God almighty … it’s TERRIBLE.

25/8/2025, 1:24:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tell them “if you’ve got flagstones, that’s enough. Henry VIII had flagstones”

25/8/2025, 12:31:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It might be one of the worst things I have seen

25/8/2025, 12:21:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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SO BAD. SO SO BAD

25/8/2025, 12:18:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh my word. No spoilers but holy shitballs what a TURKEY this is.

25/8/2025, 11:54:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😂

25/8/2025, 11:50:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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 …

25/8/2025, 11:17:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

25/8/2025, 11:13:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

25/8/2025, 11:11:35 AM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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DOUBLY strong agree

25/8/2025, 10:59:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you like that you will enjoy Libra by Dom de Lillo. Same subject matter. Almost a bit too plausible.

25/8/2025, 10:57:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh what the hell… may as well have it https://youtu.be/bjrOcrisGyI?si=0O_1fSrd1OVeZbqI

25/8/2025, 10:52:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A witty, regretful address over Zoom from his refuge in Dubai

25/8/2025, 10:49:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A classic of the Fess genre ⬇️

25/8/2025, 10:26:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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100% - Ryan Gosling and Danny Glover.

25/8/2025, 9:26:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bloody LOVE Explorers On The Moon

25/8/2025, 8:44:46 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

25/8/2025, 8:43:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Am convinced I saw exactly this while I was at Glasto* #MightveBeenTheLampInMaYurtBro #WhatYurt #YurtYourself #NoImVeryWellThankYou

25/8/2025, 8:39:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

25/8/2025, 8:36:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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.

25/8/2025, 8:36:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not sure my mother knew I was watching Miami Vice either

25/8/2025, 8:29:07 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It really is

25/8/2025, 6:45:13 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

25/8/2025, 6:24:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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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?...

25/8/2025, 6:18:33 AM | 360 61 | View on Bluesky | view

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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

25/8/2025, 6:12:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not entirely clear to me how you take on and control an ocean

25/8/2025, 5:55:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view