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Irreplaceable! Made in Northamptonshire before they fled to S.E. Asia. 12 quid was a lot of money in them days! (Sorry channelling an old fogey for a friend)

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 4h

I am inclined to think that Mr Goodwin is not the academic he is cracked up to be. What does he think she should swear by? I note that was she was able to get into the position of having to take the oath, unlike Mr G. Good that the UK electorate can occasionally show wise judgement.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 4h

This swearing by something sacred to you strikes most atheists (me) as a bit daft. But clearly if you are religious and it has meaning for you, it would appear reasonable to swear by something reflecting your faith. It also makes it more reliable for us in receipt of the oath.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 4h

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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 5h

She was, like so many Today a staff, a Tory supporter as a student.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 5h

Or be sacked!? The Labour Party thought it would finish with Starmer's departure. But the Sun seems to set the Mason agenda. The BBC should be setting a more balanced agenda. Emma Barnett was blowing the embers on this nonsense with the ghastly Mason on "Today" this AM

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It is an odd tendency of racist nationalists to assume that people contribute to the nation in racial groups. They do this without self awareness, without thinking what would be expected of their contribution to the nation. Or is being of the the nation enough so they don't have to do anything?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Britain needs you but St George is patron saint of England; an elaborate Freudian slip, perhaps!?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At my age I can't always be absolutely sure, it might be tinittus.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A case for the RSPCA, perhaps!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Go to the Musée de Beaux Arts and you'll find a bunch of Kunst.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The schmärzen beer, apparently from smoked märzen, would be a homophone for Schmerzen 'pains/sorrows' in German. Just saying!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have you been to the Mort Subite yet?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grand Listrac used to be the house red of SNCF and and very fine drop it is. Luckily you can still get it.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Correction. As you were, it is Jesus dishing out the content for the gospel to St Mark.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do stop me if I am explaining too much, but the winged lion is the symbol of St Mark, so that's him dishing out his gospel.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You are perfectly safe, women were expected to cover their heads in churches until recently. Whereas men were expected to take hats off. (Of course you were perfectly safe anyway, smiting is not all that frequent, I have been told off in a Spanish church when I forgot to take my hat off.)

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He is wearing his priesting kit, he doesn't wear headgear in church.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Domed forehead man St Vincent de Paul, I don't know who the bishop is.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Easy mistake to make really, not enough folk vike these days.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Parents of children at Uppingham school may want to reflect on their choice, Mr Tice's English Language competence is at best dubious. He appears to be seeking to re-purpose a range of words in the language not least "confirm".

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...and watch something else?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reached "fuck'ems" razor very early in the thread.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hannan demonstrating the breadth of his intellectual grasp by approving an obvious non sequitur. "Beautifully put" my foot.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sorry, I thought you might have. I gave into a weakness to identify it, and then a further weakness to share.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A square spot rustic (Xestia Xanthographa) to be precise, it won't eat your clothes.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is also worth noting that though AfD took 32 (38% of the) seats in the Landtag in Mecklenburg Vorpommern, the SPD against the national trend, took 29 seats (35% of the vote) and will probably form a coalition with Die Grünen or and Die Linke.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excursion or on your way to Spain?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"All is for the best in this best of possible worlds" Leibnitz according to Voltaire

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are difficulties in identifying offenders' origins which would make statements like those of Zahawi impossible to sustain. www.listenersguide.org.uk/bbc/podcast/...

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More or Less - Are refugees more likely to commit crime?

Are refugees more likely to commit crime? is a BBC Radio podcast episode from More or Less

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

PS Comb from Anglo Saxon Camba, proto German Kambaz. Probably best to leave things as they are?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good question, interestingly (or not) etymology of bomb goes back to Greek Bombos meaning booming noise so boom would be appropriate. Tomb is probably pronounced thus because it derives from Latin tumulus, womb derives from indo germanic wamba meaning belly, wamb then?

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iansayer @iansayer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

OK. This appeals to my juvenile sense of humour.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

a more appropriate demographic for the Captain, I was 27!

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It seems there was a whole album of the stuff, I had just started my first proper job in 1977 after buggering about for 8 years, so I was busy and missed it.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I vaguely remember Cpt Beaky but not any owls. I will look it up.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Shouldn't that be Owly, Owly , Owly from Cockney Hymns Ancient and Modern?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Clearly a hoopoe, may not be shit enough.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is there a penalty for using the hints, I haven't used them so far?

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We had a nest in our bedroom chimney, they lived happily through the summer and weren't very hostile. Weirdly they did smell bad after a while, they dumped detritus out of the nest. They cleared off in the autumn and experts tell me they never return to the same site.

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Alan Jones @faustajj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Viscous like snot, oil (snake in this case). Sounds like a description of NF himself rather than a campaign against him.

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