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Ace-of-Thorns @ace-of-thorns.bsky.social

Aided, of course, by the Scottish martial art of Ballistic Swearing.

jul 26, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0

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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

Not a patch on the English martial art of scone-making.

jul 26, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ace-of-Thorns @ace-of-thorns.bsky.social

Must beg to differ. A profanity delivered by a Scottish school teacher will take your ---- head off...

jul 26, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

So will a scone if you aim it right.

jul 26, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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jeffersonguinea.bsky.social @jeffersonguinea.bsky.social

Just don’t ask if the jam or cream goes on first, that usually results in violence (cream should be first though)

jul 26, 2025, 2:45 pm • 1 0 • view
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

Er... as it happens, I live in Cornwall, near Truro and, er...

jul 26, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
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jeffersonguinea.bsky.social @jeffersonguinea.bsky.social

We train them from a young age, was so proud when my 2 year old came out with “fucks sake daddy” when I dropped something. His mum wasn’t quite as impressed though

jul 26, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

One of my daughter's first words was 'bollocks'. The first time she did it, her mother and I were absolutely delighted and couldn't stop laughing. This, in turn, delighted my daughter who promptly started yelling it over and over and over again. Then we remembered my mother was visiting at the...

jul 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

... end of the week. One of the most difficult aspects of parenting is encouraging a child to do something, turning on a sixpence and then trying to convince that child that perhaps it's not such a wonderful thing after all while theyre at the holophrastic stage of language development.

jul 27, 2025, 1:26 pm • 2 0 • view