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Mike

@harrogatemike.bsky.social

Digital designer based in Harrogate, UK.

created November 14, 2024

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Tan lines are, in fact, a current fashion trend.

23/9/2025, 4:31:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How do *we* speak about Led Zeppelin?

17/9/2025, 11:29:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish you’d used the correct capitalisation in order to avoid reader confusion.

15/9/2025, 5:23:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ohhhhh 😹

12/9/2025, 11:37:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This just made me think. Why *are* they called unicorns? They don't have one corn, they have one horn (the prefix "uni-" means "one" or "single". It comes from the Latin word ūnus, meaning "one".). They should be called unihorns.

12/9/2025, 10:53:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Travelling to a new place... I've never come this way before.

12/9/2025, 9:21:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Biggest band on the planet? Nah.

12/9/2025, 8:45:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😹😹😹

11/9/2025, 2:15:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TBF, they should be called things like Plumber’s Van Close, Fridge In The Front Garden Street and Weird Neighbour With Curtains Always Closed View - just so they are more realistic.

11/9/2025, 1:02:18 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And here’s how 4DX cinema was invented.

11/9/2025, 11:31:49 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I understand the reference :)

11/9/2025, 11:01:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And Nanna's.

11/9/2025, 11:00:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A bunch of new-builds have sprung up near our house. I laughed when the roof of the Showhome blew off one windy day.

11/9/2025, 8:55:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's worse when someone grabs them off your face as they say 'ohh, can I try them on'.

10/9/2025, 1:02:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do You Want To Play A Game?

10/9/2025, 11:30:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pause populating. Repopulate. Think. For. A. Minute.

9/9/2025, 9:45:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TBF, ‘Speed Bumps’ is a shit name. Perhaps ‘make the Corsa wankers slow a little bumps’ may be more appropriate?

7/9/2025, 10:23:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shirley it depends on the road and the conditions. Shirley?

7/9/2025, 7:59:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😹

7/9/2025, 3:32:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Adjustable spanner? How bloody tight are the shower heads that you encounter? They are usually just hand-tight.

7/9/2025, 2:39:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t think that article excuses the use of 10’s though - it is perfectly readable and understandable as 10’s or 10s (depending on the correct context).

7/9/2025, 2:22:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have fun 👌

7/9/2025, 9:30:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Michael”. Mum, is that you?

7/9/2025, 9:29:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, no, the packet would belong to 10.

7/9/2025, 9:18:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, do you know belongs to 10 that fish fingers come in?

7/9/2025, 9:08:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10’s what?

7/9/2025, 9:01:18 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The carcass of a dead rat? Do I win?

6/9/2025, 7:32:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An unexpectedly weird response. You either need to stop drinking, or have a beer and chill.

6/9/2025, 4:22:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have you got a power tool that can drive spaces in between your full stops and the subsequent letters?

6/9/2025, 4:15:45 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope they enjoyed it. Did they give any to dad?

5/9/2025, 9:50:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feal your pain.

5/9/2025, 9:34:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have read and re-read this a few times but, nope, I have no idea what TF the author is trying to say. Doesn’t FessHole have any kind of sense-checking on posts?

5/9/2025, 9:32:21 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, yes, obviously.

5/9/2025, 8:59:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No wonder they think beans on toast is wrong.

4/9/2025, 6:43:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The sauce would be coloured with whatever E Number Vermillion Red is.

4/9/2025, 6:21:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah - that’s the point!

4/9/2025, 6:20:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There were some classics - I liked 'Name something that is red' (my jumper), and 'Name a type of ache' (Fillet of fish).

4/9/2025, 4:30:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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But then have wireless headphones...

4/9/2025, 4:27:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😃

3/9/2025, 2:18:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Or a very small city where everything is in walking distance, such as Ripon. However, Ripon is devoid of culture - it just has Friday night pub fights and kids in Corsas driving like dicks.

3/9/2025, 12:31:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank god the kids are back at school today.

3/9/2025, 7:47:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is possibly the first time I have seen “they’re” being spelt correctly on social media. All is not lost.

3/9/2025, 7:41:58 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Try them. You may be surprised.

2/9/2025, 5:44:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hate Stag Weekends. I've never been on a Stag Weekend. 🤷‍♂️

2/9/2025, 2:02:43 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😔

2/9/2025, 7:10:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*chilli

2/9/2025, 6:29:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pulled pork chilli is a food of the gods - slow cook the pork for around eight hours, pull, then cook with other ingredients as a normal curry. Much nicer than beef.

2/9/2025, 6:29:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Perhaps he’s fallen off the wagon, eaten half a pig, and is now in a meat-coma.

2/9/2025, 6:26:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Dysentry? I am sure they headlined Download in 2019.

1/9/2025, 3:10:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used to do similar as a spotty teeenager, but it was Cheddar and HP Sauce (no butter).

1/9/2025, 9:58:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eddie Izzard did this as a sketch (but with pears) a good 20 years ago.

28/8/2025, 8:26:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike (@harrogatemike.bsky.social) reply parent

Or just think about how you pack.

27/8/2025, 9:25:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TBF, if they said it was some ergonomic mousepad/wrist lifter I might have entertained the idea that is was based on truth, but yeah, my pillow is a keyboard sounds bollocks, and, if they rolled over, it could actually spell out b0llOck5z

27/8/2025, 7:31:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Esc.

27/8/2025, 7:28:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😹

27/8/2025, 5:00:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah, there will be interns being paid disgracefully low salaries for the 'prestige' of getting to work for some International MultiCorp.

27/8/2025, 4:31:59 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well I have seen quite a few films featuring plumbers and bored housewives...

27/8/2025, 4:10:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You hear odd noises that you suspect to be a burglary taking place, so, rather than call the police (after all, surely you'd want to ensure your neighbourhood is safe), you immediately post on Fess Hole?

27/8/2025, 2:27:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Poppycock

27/8/2025, 2:07:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1: Why would they get a ticket? 2: What does insurance have to do with it? (based on UK law).

27/8/2025, 8:48:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So you make up a few hundred metres and end up in the same congestion?

27/8/2025, 8:47:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have a coffee.

27/8/2025, 7:33:56 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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*Bad rap (and, besides, they are not wrapped).

26/8/2025, 3:03:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If there is any kind of cream in the sauce, then it isn't a proper carbonara, and he should be immediately dumped.

26/8/2025, 12:32:08 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was a Bad Boy.

26/8/2025, 12:30:21 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Any exam, in any subject, requires a degree of critical thinking. English. Mathematics. Art. Geography. The list goes on.

25/8/2025, 8:43:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, he is pretty hot. I get it now 😹

25/8/2025, 9:23:53 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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EngFish

24/8/2025, 10:21:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fish?

24/8/2025, 10:20:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It depends on the depravity of the shopper…

24/8/2025, 10:19:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Billy Connolly wants a word. Or is it two? Fuck off. Fuck off off off.

24/8/2025, 10:17:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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‘Caught’ is playing a tough one here.

24/8/2025, 10:16:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bono is so insignificant that it doesn’t matter how we pronounce his name.

24/8/2025, 9:32:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ehh?

24/8/2025, 9:30:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m sorry, but Holiday by Green Day and Somebody Told Me by The Killers are *TWENTY YEARS OLD* What the actual fuck! When I was a kid, twenty years ago was black and white old shite.

24/8/2025, 9:29:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Christ on a fucking bike - you are a retired psychologist, yet you spout this bollocks. I assume the psychologist career wasn’t too successful. (Deliberately no question mark at the end of the sentence).

24/8/2025, 8:20:21 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stop. Think for a minute. You may surprise yourself.

24/8/2025, 1:18:15 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hope you proofread the reference.

23/8/2025, 12:07:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Full humans”. Ehh?

22/8/2025, 10:06:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😹

22/8/2025, 7:28:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, the Opin does actually make it clear with how it is written (with a lower-case “u” and “n”).

22/8/2025, 5:54:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bravo!

22/8/2025, 2:03:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ahh thanks, I didn’t realise you’d noticed 😘

22/8/2025, 2:00:45 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vinyl is vinyl. An album is a collection of songs.

22/8/2025, 1:30:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They said physical albums, not physical vinyl. I can only assume they meant CDs.

22/8/2025, 10:37:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Until winter.

21/8/2025, 9:50:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You lemon.

21/8/2025, 9:49:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, which brand? Henry or Hoover?

21/8/2025, 10:54:56 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes of course they will. 👀

20/8/2025, 9:23:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Switch on VPN. Search 'BBC'.

20/8/2025, 4:05:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're taking all this far too seriously 😘

20/8/2025, 2:14:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A moo-ving suggestion.

20/8/2025, 1:59:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Raleigh have I read such an evil Fess.

20/8/2025, 1:57:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We've barely had a drop of rain all summer, there's plenty of skiing in Scotland (the whole of the UK can expect snow most winters), and we have several (temperate) rainforests. Ohh, and Big Brother is filmed in the UK. (IACGMOOH is 4th in the all-time list). Ohh, and it's "your', not "you're".

20/8/2025, 1:52:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What is the difference between Australia and yogurt? Given time, a yogurt will develop a culture.

20/8/2025, 1:31:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Post of the Day

20/8/2025, 1:28:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Genius, well done.

20/8/2025, 9:20:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do you really think that ‘Fess’ was true? Good luck in negotiating life if you did Captain.

19/8/2025, 11:00:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, they made up the diagnosis, but I know what you are saying.

19/8/2025, 7:22:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And just like GB News, this Fess is all bollocks and lies.

19/8/2025, 5:32:32 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view