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BrianMcG

@brianmcg1.bsky.social
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Boring, middle-aged white guy who pines for his youth and an ability to emerge from a beanbag without groaning. Amazing self-promoter.

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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s complicated. It a homophone for a crude Irish slang word for a part of the human (female) anatomy. It’s not an especially “harsh” word… in fact (despite the meaning) it’s one that makes people giggle. Still: you wouldn’t use it in polite company. It’s very difficult to contextualise.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As an Irish person, I find the word “ghee” inherently hilarious.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Read this as “… three sentences … about Jews…” and I either need to admit these new varifocals aren’t cutting it or take a break from social media and go and read a book or something.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Haha. I thought I was amazingly witty for doing this.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love love love responding to the waiter’s query about my potential allergies with a chirpy “yes - ampicillin” which is not simply hilarious but is also true.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m sorry you had that experience. I wasn’t aware this was a bullying thing for you and it wasn’t my intention to downplay the impact for your daughter. Random internet musings is all.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 my 16 year old regularly uses in the car when conversing with his buddies on the way to training of an evening. I despair but then they usually follow-up with a “but he’s pretty sound to be fair” and my existential dread recedes a little.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Today I learned the word “solipsism” and I feel better as a direct result. Thank you.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s stuff like this that makes me welcome our new AI overlords and the doom they promise.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m enjoying the knitting together of “bog average” and “bang standard”.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We don’t want him over here. Yours sincerely, Ireland
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Read a good one recently: “Ana and Din Mysteries”.. good characters and original setting. Detective mysteries but set in quite an original world. 3 books so far… each one a page turner. In the last one the sheer size of cast list was a challenge but hadn’t heard of them & was pleasantly surprised.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Farts in church” is good but Billy Connolly still has the lead with his “as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit”
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Loved it but I think the writey dude has writer’s block or something and it’s unlikely he’ll ever finish the series out?
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And you’re just going to let Rooney get away with it??
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
World Cup vibes feels a bit of a let down when you don’t have Vegedream saying “kimpembe…kimpembe…kimpembe…”
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They’ll be dancing in the streets of Deportivo tonight!
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Must do a bit of reading up on Spanish - Argentinian relations… do they get along? Is there a colonial oppressor - oppressed dynamic? At the end of the game it looked like they wanted to slap the heads off each other.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Ah. Gotcha. Apologies. There were quite a few “questionable” attempted murders.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Intrigued to know which one you’re referring to… Mac Allistair in the first half?
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
They’re not listening
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Nuttin wrong with that. The fix is in.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don’t have an Argentinian jersey so instead I’m going to punch a football into a goal past a goalkeeper who’s about 3 foot taller than me and in doing so guarantee Irish people a moment of unadulterated joy that will last generations. (Apparently there was a second goal which was quite good also).
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Just watched a clip of newsnight where the presenter dude appeared to think he was in line for a journalism award for a gotcha moment based on him having spotted that Binface might be wearing a costume. You guys are not being particularly well-served by your media.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I yearn for a time when I had no clue who the Director of the FBI was.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It’s actually been quite therapeutic not having to watch your president be all presidential for a few hours. His flooding of the zone with excrement has become a little bothersome. I miss when you guys were a functioning democracy. Still: big fan of your work.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’d go and pay to see the metal rod. I’ll pass on the atom and its frequency. Paris, you have lost my business!
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Ah here now. Let’s not overreact.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the complications of living in a modern, and much more progressive and self-confident Ireland is that my teenage child who I’ve taught to believe in diversity, equality and inclusion for all, is now extremely confused when I tell him it’s his civic duty to cheer for anyone playing England.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I read somewhere that the original kilo is kept in some sort of climate controlled vault in Paris but is degrading and is no longer a kilo.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On behalf of my countrymen: stop doing that appallingly bad imitation accent. Stop doing it immediately.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Two-Shea.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A lack of critical thinking or ill-informed? In McGregor’s case, there’s totally an element of MAGAwashing going on… Trump had him in the White House (to compare rapey notes?) on Patty’s Day - an occasion usually reserved for our Prime Minister. Also, Bannon backed him for President (ludicrous)
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Regularly astounded that Americans don’t realise how much of a horrible human being we’re dealing with here.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I’m not sure I’ll be allowed into a Raisin Caines ever again after this but I’m starting to think your president is deranged.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Serious “many Bothan spies died trying to infiltrate this base” vibes. Acquired taste architectually.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Why is my instantgram full of swivel eyed middle aged loons who give off strong “only allowed see their kids at weekends and under supervision” vibes shouting about how WE NEED TO WAKE UP AND THEY’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE? Oh..and a 50 year old guy who collects He-Man toys?? (I prefer him).
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wait til he hears about Rhode in football…
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
**Birr GAA has entered the game**
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@maxrushden.bsky.social as a fellow suffererer…
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Shouldn’t my sports subscription service put their investment into offering me a discount rather than trying to convince me that there’s pay to view sport worthy of my attention during the summer months?
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Shame he didn’t pick Agent Grealish.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ellipse?
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I must be doing it wrong. My biggest concern is the almost constant bombarding of my feed with formula 1 related content (driving cars in a circle is apparently a sport now… cars go “vroom”). Oh and Bluesky wants me to witness the decline of US democracy - which I am willing to accept as a sport.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m with BG and not just cos he’s a BIFFO. Yerman has - on more than 1 occasion - impacted the opposition’s ability to maintain attacking momentum by slowing down throw-ins etc. Also, his eyes are too close together. BG’s comment about firing cruise missiles at him was a little over the top but ..
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Coincidentally, I’m meant to scatter my beautiful late wife’s ashes off the back of a boat this weekend. This morning, I was informed that the beach we intend to moor off to perform said solemn ceremony is home to very busy hot tub business. This is not a complication I was planning for.
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Oh my God. The Halloween turnip!!! Brilliant!!!
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The "Mayo Curse" is a legendary GAA tale claiming a priest cursed the Mayo football team for failing to stop for a funeral while driving back from their 1951 All-Ireland win. It states Mayo will not win another title until all 1951 players pass; all had died by 2023, yet the 70+ yr drought continues
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Algerian departments of France? Didn’t they stop being a thing in the 1950s?
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BrianMcG @brianmcg1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Was it one of my fever dreams or was the Bosh lad granted an audience with the black hole of charisma that is the current vice president of the United States of America??
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