Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 23hNice Station Zebra, like Ice Station Zebra, but it's a resort in the Maldives 130
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I have the same with the "keep the baddie talking on the phone for <amount of time> so we can triangulate his location" as which cell site the phone connected to isn't instantly recorded the moment the handset starts dialling 080
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026In "Zulu" Michael Caine is shown as leading the defence of Rorke's Drift, but Michael Caine wasn't born until 1933 191
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Also the road is wrong for a cart track. The strip of grass down the middle is what the horses/oxen would have been walking on, roads only started looking like that when cars became common 0110
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Also called the foxglove tree. I saw a fully grown one in bloom in central London last year and stood there gawping at it for about 10 minutes 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026...while throwing even more taxpayers money at subsidising house prices, thus ensuring they remain unaffordable 000
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He really didn't, other than the fact that his failure terminated at Alamein 110
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026By any objective measure, he was a disaster 110
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There is little evidence that he learned anything from this and was still basing his plans on the boxes and columns that had served him so spectacularly badly at Gazala 120
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The sum total of Auchinleck's command of 8th Army was to be pushed back to marching distance of Alexandria at the low low cost of ~100,000 casualties, and thousands of tanks and vehicles lost 120
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Boomers would scratch music into a wax disk that would play music when you stuck a needle in it 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026youtu.be/6A8WjGP9SQE?...youtu.beDogging Song - Fascinating AidaYouTube video by Christopher Parvin 000
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026When I complained that my headphones were not working, they gave me a replacement set. This is the replacement set. 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Your occasional reminder that British Airways hates you personally 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes, my Grandmother was Irish so I was eligible It's a bit of a faff to obtain all the documents and get everything certified, but absolutely worth it 020
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026See also any number of rent-a-gob retired police officers commenting on things they vaguely knew something about twenty years ago 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's *necessarily* young against old because the triple lock means that by definition the young have to pay increasingly large amounts of their earnings to the old 041
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Raka is fast becoming one of my favourite wines. This is outstanding. Must pay them a visit next time I'm here 020
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There's no pleasing some people, particularly when it comes to intelligence work 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hoho, I sense someone whose never been to OR Tambo before 110
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026None of them, they disappeared from the market completely. The whole story is a fabrication made up by a shyster selling get rich quick advice to the gullible 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Also isn't the Canada/US border going to be something of a problem? 100
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I always found "we commit lots of atrocities" a particularly weird flex 020
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Disappointing but not surprising to learn it bashes Montgomery. Ho hum. 000
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The casting is so awful I have no intention of finding out how bad it actually is 100
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Imagine if we'd spent the money on housing instead of defence 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you get hit by a cyclist you'll probably be less seriously injured than if you were hit by a car, which makes it alright. 030
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Must be talking about a different Beevor 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's not just that they're the worlds dominant power, it's also that their Independence isn't really an Independence in the sense of eg. India gaining independence, but more akin to Ian Smith's UDI or Verwoerd's Commonwealth exit 110
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Nothing quite matches the feeling of being called 'colonizer' by a white American 140
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Is Burnham a northerner? Like are you sure? He's never explicitly said so. I wonder which city he's from 🤔 220
Reposted by Sir Fatuous PauperMighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn, 6277072029
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I don't know how they're able to market it as mackerel when it's a completely different species, as if words don't have meanings Here, have some rat steaks oops I mean jack beef 111
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You've got one chance to guess what their election slogan was back in '94 110
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026...and all the same size and colour too! 010
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Haven't seen this in ages, amazing how it's aged like a 2016 Château Mouton Rothschild 050
Sir Fatuous Pauper @fatuouspauper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh yes. Also, I'm suddenly reminded of the horror of buying something in the US and then finding out that the actual price is not in fact the actual price 110
