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Ian

@roget.bsky.social

Retired Scotsman living in France. No DMs please.

created November 9, 2024

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That place has some serious serial killer vibes.

1/9/2025, 1:43:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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60% of people shouldn't have dogs then.

1/9/2025, 1:32:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've been driving since petrol was 75p a gallon. £5 a litre is only a matter of time. People will still drive. Some don't have a choice.

1/9/2025, 12:55:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is when we all know what we're talking about. Some people call it a spare wheel, some call it a spare tyre. The inclusion of the wheel is implied in this context. Nobody is imagining fitting a tyre to a rim on the roadside. So, yes, pedantic.

31/8/2025, 7:52:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Have we entered pedants corner?

31/8/2025, 7:17:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's always money for London-centric projects. Maybe HS2 should have started in Thurso and headed south from there.

31/8/2025, 7:12:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've never read the books so I'm coming at it fresh. I thought the acting was stilted, possibly bad direction. The script was poor and the lead actors had little charisma, if any, with each other or anyone else. The story was weak and full of plot holes you could drive a truck through. Shame really.

31/8/2025, 6:40:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I was surprised by how bad it turned out given such a cast.

30/8/2025, 8:14:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a latecomer to Shameless I thought that very thing. The resemblance is uncanny. It would be brilliant casting.

29/8/2025, 8:20:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's disgusting!

28/8/2025, 8:05:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately you actually must accept it. No elected government in the USA, Democrat or Republican, will introduce a satisfactory level of gun control. Won't happen. Ever.

28/8/2025, 7:30:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently not.

28/8/2025, 12:49:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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All lagers are pretty much the same. You might be able to tell the difference in a side by side comparison but even the most committed knobhead would struggle to identify a particular lager. Buy cheap, buy often.

28/8/2025, 12:42:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Indeed.

28/8/2025, 12:29:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lightweight.

27/8/2025, 7:43:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A mate of mine spent 35yrs working in IT for a major UK banking group and ending up as a senior project manager. He's now retired on a phenomenal pension. Not a single project he worked on ever went live.

27/8/2025, 7:23:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For someone who considers themselves middle aged, I'd have to live till I'm about 140.

27/8/2025, 4:22:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As a Scotsman I fully support independence for England.

27/8/2025, 4:15:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every man shaving on screen cuts himself.

27/8/2025, 4:12:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't shit on the stairs on the way up. You'll step in it when you come back down.

25/8/2025, 5:51:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Has nobody in Mexico got big ladders?

25/8/2025, 3:14:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Only if we can also ban screaming children.

25/8/2025, 3:06:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I used to think that but I'm not so sure these days.

25/8/2025, 6:10:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Being in Scotland helps. There's loads there. Come over, you'd love it.

24/8/2025, 7:16:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not as rare as you might think. www.thistleshoes.com/women-in-the...

24/8/2025, 6:32:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Still easier than playing the pipes while marching through a battlefield under enemy fire.

24/8/2025, 6:24:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Most of what I eat is vegan although I usually have a steak on the side just to make it palatable.

23/8/2025, 8:23:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're just waiting for you to go out so they can move in for the winter.

23/8/2025, 8:17:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In America, New years refers to new year's eve. The New Year is what comes after midnight on the 31st Dec. If you're partying before midnight it's Hogmanay then at 12 you wish everyone a Happy New Year. Or, like me, you could just get stinking drunk and not give a fuck what anyone calls it.

23/8/2025, 9:06:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The greatest film as a warning about the future is Idiocracy.

23/8/2025, 8:59:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bicycles are for children and chickenshit middle aged/old men whose wives won't let them buy the motorbike that they really want. That's why they're angry all the time at car drivers. Because they are slow as fuck.

21/8/2025, 8:24:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You're doing good work. Well done. Could I suggest that everyone should wear a t-shirt with the Mexican flag on the back and a Ukrainian flag on the front?

21/8/2025, 1:19:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet you're regretting the whole 'free will' thing now. You've still got smiting and the wrath of God to use so get on with it.

21/8/2025, 6:57:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Mostly dead.

20/8/2025, 3:51:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@roget.bsky.social) reply parent

Well. That explains my entire life! Although, I'm no Einstein.

20/8/2025, 11:08:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is what happens when you get all your information from corrupt media and self serving politicians.

20/8/2025, 10:11:45 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm not sure that 30 mins of video played to a disinterested audience is quite enough, but it's a start.

20/8/2025, 10:07:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of course it is. Who the fuck else can afford it? There ain't no plumbers from Bolton working remotely out of the back of a VW camper in the middle of the Serengeti.

20/8/2025, 7:33:49 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@roget.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure what point your trying to make.

20/8/2025, 7:15:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damned if I know who the fuck is watching it. 5mins of one episode was enough for me to know it was shite. And don't get me started on Mrs Brown's Boys with Brendan O'Carroll. The unfunniest stand up in Irish history.

20/8/2025, 7:13:42 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, but, it's a journey, innit.

20/8/2025, 6:44:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The rich have you balanced on a knife edge between poverty and prosperity, just comfortable enough to do their bidding without the discomfort of actually doing anything about it.

20/8/2025, 6:40:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@roget.bsky.social) reply parent

No shit! You've just noticed that stuff is getting more expensive? Here's a little word to the wise, it's never going to get better. Prices never come down. If you want to afford life, you have to fight for it.

20/8/2025, 6:40:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If the police are now truly the 'fashion police', the t-shirt is fine but those socks are definitely committing some sort of criminal offence.

20/8/2025, 6:17:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Could've just declined the invite and saved yourself a lot of trouble. They probably didn't want you to come anyway, you sound like a complete twat.

20/8/2025, 2:37:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a French dinner too. Quiche, a selection of cheeses, salad and a baguette. At home in France.

20/8/2025, 2:29:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Heaven forbid that should happen. If they had universal healthcare then more of them would live longer, have some disposable income and use it to travel to other countries. And we don't want that.

20/8/2025, 2:23:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Menu-settings-edit channel list-highlight GBN-delete.

20/8/2025, 2:18:59 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How is painting it going to change that?

20/8/2025, 2:04:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's weird that we've normalised being scared to death of breath, spit and other bodily fluids. I assume you require a notarized certificate of cleanliness, rubber gloves and a scuba mask before going down on your partner. Because we all know where THAT'S been!

20/8/2025, 2:03:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which Specific ocean?

20/8/2025, 1:51:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bunch of entitled little fuckers who want everything on a plate without working for it or think they can solve the worlds problems with a fucking TikTok video. Yes, I'm a boomer. Fuck you.

20/8/2025, 12:15:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Epstein Files should be released as a double bill with The Putin Files.

19/8/2025, 3:38:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Aye, that'll help. Might be a better idea to arrest the protesters instead.

19/8/2025, 3:35:47 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My mate knew him in Dublin back before he became famous. Apparently he was a dickhead then too.

19/8/2025, 3:33:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's not mid-awake-day. It's midday. You know, 24 hrs in a day, half way through is 12hrs. Not tricky to work out. Midnight is the one that's wrong. It should be either startday or endday.

19/8/2025, 12:21:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Life gives you cancer. It's a little known fact that if something else doesn't kill you sooner, you will eventually die from cancer.

18/8/2025, 5:12:31 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a Pulmonary embolism in 2021. Emergency service were called, 4 paramedics arrived, ambulance to hospital, 2 days in intensive care, 2 weeks in a private room, 24/7 attention, all food and drugs provided. Total cost. €0. I live in France and pay my taxes. Always happy to do so.

18/8/2025, 5:08:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I loiter in your garden and shit on your lawn will you feed me KFC every night?

17/8/2025, 7:54:41 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some don't.

17/8/2025, 7:51:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've had people on social media complaining about my excessive use of the C word. You know, cunt. I mean, it's just a fucking word. If you're going to be offended by anything then there's plenty to choose from other than words.

17/8/2025, 6:56:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes, and much better for it.

16/8/2025, 7:44:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It doesn't actually cost much to have a dog put down. New dogs are readily available.

16/8/2025, 7:42:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The fish have already been caught. They're in a fucking barrel.

15/8/2025, 10:08:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, he isn't. The Muppets are funny.

15/8/2025, 11:56:59 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The festive taint.

15/8/2025, 11:54:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The world's largest car park is the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, which has space for over 20,000 cars so you could probably fit every single satellite in orbit into 1 car park with loads of room to spare.

15/8/2025, 11:51:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm broke. Can I drive as fast as I want?

13/8/2025, 3:39:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Proxy Music.

13/8/2025, 6:08:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cheaper than firewood I suppose.

13/8/2025, 5:13:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn't surprise me if Charlie was in on it too. He was a big chum of Savile.

13/8/2025, 5:04:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately The Borders keeps voting for the bloody tories.

13/8/2025, 4:50:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So calling a stranger a dipshit and a fucking idiot is better? Yes, you are a stupid cunt.

12/8/2025, 6:02:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm assuming you object to the use of the word cunt not the word centrist. Or do you have a problem with both? Feel free not to read it. And he called me a fucking idiot first.

12/8/2025, 5:54:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian (@roget.bsky.social) reply parent

I was comparing 2 breakfast options. Nobody said we were having a party.

12/8/2025, 5:50:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If the two choices were shit and vomit, would you still chow down on one or the other? And you're calling me a fucking idiot? Stupid cunt.

12/8/2025, 5:09:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If either one would make you ill, then why would you eat them?

12/8/2025, 4:16:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Owen! Stop fucking about with the subtitles. They are distracting and unreadable. Plain text please, we do mot have to follow the bouncing ball. It's not a victoriana music hall.

12/8/2025, 1:48:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I ignore all football already. Its not difficult.

11/8/2025, 8:12:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Idiot idea. If you finish your tasks in half a day they'll just give you twice as much to do the next day.

11/8/2025, 8:07:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Overblown, I agree, but if you call yourself 'an influencer' or 'a content creator' then I know 100% that you're a useless, self obsessed cunt.

11/8/2025, 7:55:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately not clever enough to know that no other civilisation, if they even exist, will ever find Voyager. It's a microscopic needle in an infinite celestial haystack.

11/8/2025, 2:07:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Give it time.

7/8/2025, 3:59:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, look up Scottish uses of the word cunt.

7/8/2025, 6:01:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And who the fuck are you to police my fucking language? I'll call a cunt a cunt if I feel like it. Feel free not to read it.

7/8/2025, 5:48:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes?

7/8/2025, 1:09:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Racially profiling people and rounding then up, taking them away in cargo trucks, sending them off to concentration camps. Wise up Americans. They're coming after YOU next.

6/8/2025, 11:08:37 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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A big soft shite. It's also more pleasant to be around.

6/8/2025, 10:59:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Headline: "Unhealthy Fat Cunts Eat Chips". And before anyone gets offended, I'm an unhealthy fat cunt with type 2 diabetes and I don't eat chips.

6/8/2025, 10:57:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I once was watching a comedian in a cabaret style venue. He was shite but people were laughing politely anyway. I wasn't, so he picked on me and said what's up with you, are you deaf or something? I just took out my hearing aids and put them on the table in front of me. It threw him right off. Twat.

6/8/2025, 3:16:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nor seen mine for years without the aid of mirror on a stick.

5/8/2025, 8:10:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If anyone was firing torpedoes at you in the office you might be justified in asking for free rum.

5/8/2025, 2:56:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Moobs.

5/8/2025, 2:29:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of only socialism wasn't such a dirty word to Americans. Maybe a few more of them should learn what it actually means.

5/8/2025, 2:20:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No waiter or chef would take that order.

5/8/2025, 8:32:31 AM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, it's not like he's using his own money.

3/8/2025, 2:49:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Depends how remote you need to be. You could always chuck marker pens from the back of the room.

3/8/2025, 2:43:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You might find that, over all, talking is the best form of communication ever invented.

3/8/2025, 7:12:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, basically, you didn't like your boss so you resigned.

2/8/2025, 7:17:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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For full effect you should have caught it and taken a bite.

31/7/2025, 8:13:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view