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Can confirm, albeit I am too tight for Champers so it is a Moscato that is chilling.

Helga Anders, who died young

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The double act between him and Thatcher wrecked the US and the UK for the foreseeable future.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 20h

Learnt to drive in a manual and the majority of my cars were.

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🤮 Guarantee he is far from alone although 10 years might be stretching. Many time I've been using the toilets in bars or other public places I am washing my hands and I've seen people come out of the closets after a crap and go straight out the door.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 22h

I reckon the Greens ensured that with the Zionism motion, 100% correct morally but politically naive, it is going to cost votes by giving the opposition a stick to beat them with.

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I did by a bottle of fizz and it is chilling in the fridge, definitely not champagne.

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TBF that's what sprang to my mind too.

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If the pint sized pillock gets 10 years I might well raise a glass in celebration.

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I got a few days on the naughty step for posting something similar. Against T&C to threaten violence.

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Lowe really does attract the best minds 🤦🏼😅

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The deer is visiting and you're owned by the cat right?

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Been having my batteries expanded in anticipation of installing AC when it comes off back order. Decided if I was springing for more capacity I'd go for EPS too. All HW in, everything looking good except the inverter doesn't want to communicate with the new battery <sigh>.

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I worked in Paris for a major telco and some other major cities in France for 6 months in 1999, all I had to do was turn up, wouldn't be so easy for a young tech now.

💯 it would be madness to remove working generation, should keep it going as long as is practicable but also planning for new with its 30 year timescales is equally mad.

By the US of course, basically nominated himself via proxies

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I 100% agree with the motion (I'd not have voted for it) at the same time realise it was the utmost political naivety to give the MSM and the reich wing parties such a huge club to beat them up with.

Shows how much Bozo Johnson hollowed out the tories of any talent when she's the best they have got as leader.

The existence of billionaires

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Some of them, others ended up working for security services, NASA etc. and a swathe of Japanese war crimes went unpunished.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Revoke the citizenships of dual nationals that have served in their military as well.

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Once again I am too young for the NHS COVID jab, got my flu from the Docs on Saturday. Meandered down to the local pharmacy this morning, £100 FFFS.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pint of cider, used to be 14p when I first went out to the pub.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Youngest stepdaughter is gone after her temporary stay between gaffs. Put all the stuff she's left into the loft out of sight and taken the trash to the tip. Just need the contractors to finish the battery upgrade on Tuesday and it will start to look tidier.

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I have an EV was discussing this with an old friend who has a diesel estate, reckons he gets 50mpg running around and closer to 60mpg on long trips (he does Scotland from Surrey every 6 weeks or so)

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Got contractors in fitting extra batteries, their diesel transit at only 60k miles I think it was appears to have lunched its engine. They considering each EV van to replace it.

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I'd have to assume she's had surgery to cut the olfactory nerves.

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Yes it is terrorism 100%, and totally reckless anyone walking past would be dead.

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I'd say the criteria is met. If damaging factories, daubing planes and holding signs is terrorism then actually blowing up infrastructure definitely is.

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Not bothered with a licence since we came back. I get regular letters for the recycling and once a Serco droid with a clipboard. Now I might be willing to subscribe for the drama etc. without the biased news and current affairs that can get in the bin

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9/10 when I wake at that sort of hour it is do I really need to pee or not.

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My mother is super keen on tracing ancestors I am a bit meh so I know from her both sides have a swath of Irish 4 generations or so is that too close for Sue?

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First 1/2 of the year updating SW on telecom switches in France. Second 1/2 developing mini GSM base stations in the UK.

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I am somewhat older, I grew up in the 60s/70s. 1979 was the first election that I could vote in. I recall it well the Grantham witch was in power throughout my 20s as I bought my first gaff, got married had children. He's full of shit.

IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I personally would be onboard for € and Schengen and a mechanism for no backsies to make sure a future Fatrage stand in could not reverse it again

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1979 was the first election I could vote in, most of my mates were voting tory I did not albeit living in what is now Surrey SW it made bog all difference.

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IanB @obbgf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've family there, my wife has renewed her visa, given she's obviously not pasty white like me we're giving it a miss at least until the risk of her being disappeared into a concentration camp is gone.

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I recall it being mobiles with the advent of TACS in 1983 and the first widespread handheld devices. Before that System 4 and its predecessor System 3 (no idea about 1 & 2) were called radiophones and were vehicle mounted. Side swerve, used to live in Malaysia there most people call them handphone.

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Got bought the DVD box set a few years ago to relive my childhood, now residing on my NAS.

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Never wanted to leave so yeah but we'd have to 100% guarantee not to dick about again before the EU would allow England back[1] there's have to be a cast iron lockin somehow. [1] Assume that an independent Scotland would be in and a reunited Ireland, Wales?

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I dare not write what my then teenage daughter suggested for rapists or I'll get another bluesky ban because it upsets the moderations sensitive souls.

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"He is, without doubt, the thickest man in a suit that I’ve ever had a conversation with. There is nothing going on behind the eyes. It’s like trying to get through to a mollusc in a coma."

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I don't really use it day to day other than occasionally making use of the AI summary of searches. Even then I am wary of something that is so confidently wrong sometimes.

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Better choices than going after the already derisory state pension.

Most of that is property that's gone up over years and it is not as if you can knock a couple of bricks out of the wall and pay Tesco for groceries with them though

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My Mum's is currently £1850 a week, and there's still a few extras on top like dentist (+wheelchair taxi to get there) etc. She's burning through the proceeds of the family home. Neither I or my sister have the funds to afford that when she runs out.

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100%. My Mum's care fees are a smidge under £100k a year.

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