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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 5h

Italy hasn’t made a good large car since the Fiat130 in about 1971….

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 5h

Those Kompromat piss videos must be *really* filthy…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 8h

Well I hope the paper is soft and tears off easily. I hate wasting things.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 8h

I truly believe the saxophone is a honking nightmare, designed to be played outdoors in marching bands and not fit for human ears anywhere else. However, in Jess Gilliam’s hands it turns into something joyful. The woman is a genius.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 8h

In the UK it started as a freeby sticker sold with baby products. New parents couldn’t not share their joy, so stuck them In their car windows. How many people actually pay for those little signs I wonder - not many?

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 11h

Make sure this twat is known far and wide…..

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you’re proper left, it’s ‘arsehole’. ‘Asshole’ suggests you’re American - and ‘left’ simply means you don’t want to marry your pickup truck.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Those piss videos must be *really* messy…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think it was the Tories who gave them all those seats, not Ed Davey. Just as with Starmer, there wasn’t anywhere near enthusiasm for the man - what people really wanted was to be rid of the Tories.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, I think I might baulk at the blatant antisemitism, even if it is, as you say, good for the clicks.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I once walked out of an Italian restaurant because the lighting was so bright and harsh. It set me on edge immediately and after a couple of minutes I said “I can’t bear this” and walked out.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They are truly the work Of the devil. They have no place outside of a mortuary.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He’s at the end of his political career. There’s not much more for him there. They’ll be paying him staggering amounts - it’s not hard to convince yourself of the merits of their case when life-changing money is on the table…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I still see her as intensely unlikeable, which is a problem in politics. Plenty of right wing Tories are probably quite decent company (Gove is probably a giggle if you’re in the mood), but she always seems spiteful, mannered and charmless.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It wasn’t your comment I was saying was inaccurate, btw. It was the one telling us that each *beneficiary* has a tax free allowance of £325k.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who’s “we”? I accepted it decades ago and so did all but one of my mates. He took a while but he’s got there now. There are an awful lot of ‘hair systems’ on telly I’ll grant you - and yes I know there are arseholes out there who don’t but they’re no one’s problem but there own…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I die there will be a massive IHT bill, thanks to house prices and the fact that my pension pot will be counted as part of my estate after 2027. I couldn’t give a shit. I won’t need it anymore. I’ll leave a bit to family members and beyond that, I’m quite happy for it to go to the exchequer

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s not accurate. Each deceased estate can pass on a total of £325k free of IHT to one or more beneficiaries. Anything in the estate over £325k is taxed at 40%. A married couple can each benefit from the £325k allowance and there are some additional allowances in some circumstances…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The absolute fucking idiots. The most sensitive and high profile raid in years, and between plod and the courts they fuck it up on Step 1. What total fuckwits.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

AI didn’t just post the image. It’s carefully noting who is stupid enough to believe it and reply with some soppy shite: you’ll all be the first to go.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don’t be silly. Every British person knows that’s Mackenzie Crooke. What he’s doing in the Shite House is a mystery though…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And yes - W1A was absolutely a documentary. The script practically wrote itself…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Clearly what’s needed is for someone called Hugo, fresh from Oxford, to present these ideas (as his own, obviously, because that’s how privilege works). No one will sneer then. (Not saying you’re sneering, Mark - but I do think the OP is more than a little erm, lofty in his account…)

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah. He won’t be. America is incapable of standing up to barefaced corruption at the highest level. Even places like The Philippines look at modern America and think “Christ, I’m not trusting that lot”.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The parliamentary standards commission is likely to be issuing its report soon…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Had it never occurred to you that treating your parent (because you can) is a valuable symbol of growing up and getting on in life? Quit patronising her and eat the bloody cake.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The only time I’ve seen someone with that expression, they were trying to hide the fact they’d just had a huge bump of ketamine…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who’s the chap in the red dress?

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nonsense. They’re students and those are bollards from outside a funeral home….

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s better be some of your stockpiled water, because there’s no way those midterms are going to happen. All hell is going to break loose before then…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anyone who thinks he will meekly follow the will of the people has been hiding in a cave since 2016. Of course he’s going to cheat - if he actually allows a vote to take place which I very much doubt …

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Watch now as the BBC says ‘Nothing more to see here - let’s move on.”

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Certainly not when your arms are full of lethal fluid that was meant to kill you… I can’t imagine what a total mindfuck this must be….

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very true. My partner and I often observe that if we always listened to each other as politely and carefully as we listen to random strangers we meet at a party, we’d have far fewer squabbles….

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The old people she’s talking to will remember British Leyland. They probably all bought a Maxi in 1974… as for the young and middle-aged voters she needs to woo, they’ll not have a clue. Or care.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why would anyone *not* care about a decline in basic manners? Life’s crowded, rushed and hard enough, and simple courtesies like a smile, a please and a thank-you are more important now than they’ve ever been. So you carry on caring, and I will too…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not sure that’s ivy. It looks more like Virginia Creeper to me…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hopefully he’ll end up dead in a bunker too…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

God yes. I *knew* I was right to follow you.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’d be happy with that selection. Let me guess - are you in your mid-50s, maybe 60?

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Me too. I can only cope by believing Andrew Scott’s character was already dead and so they’re both ghosts so can now be together forever.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator. Every single one will crush or oppress his opponents. And this bastard knows it.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At heart, most of us are little people who just want to be liked and respected, aren’t we? Most of us try being nice and decent and diligent to achieve it. He’s a rabble-rouser - and they are driven by a need for control, not respect. So fuck him.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The next election should be at roughly the time when a parade of liars, cheats and cowboys are in court over the killing of 72 innocent people in Grenfell Tower. So I’m sure deregulation of the building industry will be a hugely popular move by then. They really are that stupid, it seems…

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’ll be the same stretching of the truth that Tories use to claim an “ordinary, hardworking’ heritage by finding a great-aunt who wasn’t a lawyer or accountant. There’ll be a grain of truth there, surrounded by a load of exaggeration and mythology.

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Adrian Lenard @adrianlenard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My Mum used to be like that with her friends sometimes. I used to bemoan her terrible listening skills, but wound my neck in when she often recounted precisely what her friend had been saying. It really doesn’t work for me, but it seemed to work for them…

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